jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well if we were reprocessing all the fuel in the storage ponds of the existing reactors, then the "waste" isotopes would probably be a lot less expensive on their own.
Your isp (or any middle man) knows the IP address you’re connected to. On a public website they know everything you’re seeing anyway, if it’s encrypted or not.
This is not correct. Space is a place. And when people say send it into space they typically mean the sun. Although any uninhabitable body would do fine as well. There are plenty of those.
And yet I think he’s the closest analogue to Steve Jobs. :)

A passionate person in charge, who tries to make the things he wants to use.

I wonder if the awkward persona isn’t intentional, i.e. to project a certain image, perhaps to appear less intimidating and more approachable, the guy you could nerd out about stuff with.
Preposterous to say that "speaking out" doesn't change a damn thing. So let's ignore the history of the entire world about "speaking out". Let's ignore struggle of every country that gained independence, let's ignore Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mendela. Let's ignore the idea of free press.

I think you're circling around the main argument about authoritarian regimes and despite of evidence in front of you, some how twisting words to either avoid discussing the nature of authoritarism or subscribed to the Chinese government propaganda. Honestly, I plead you to sit down, and question the consequences of an impossibly powerful government ruling almost a billion people without representation. It is not about cultural differences, it is about co-existence of multiple cultures around the world in peace. Lately, the Chinese government is supressing free speech and using financial leverage to shut voices down - outside of China. Instead, you're arguging about what's the point of free speech which is worryingly obtuse.

Mother nature doesn't given a shit about these politicians, you're intelligent enough to not subscribe to propaganda. We have so many seconds to spend on this pale blue dot - let's do it peacefully, respectfully and with strong ideals about freedom, liberty and justice. Politicians are using nationalism to gain power over public, tapping into human psyche to rally up support. Question authority fearlessly.

We need an anti-nationalism movement on the world stage.
Oh. Okay. That's confusing.

Why aren't DAs part of the Judical branch? It seems like they are a key part of our justice system.
I'm pretty sure Elon doesn't rehearse these presentations at all. He's had trivially-correctable wrong info on slides before, and had to explain it away during the presentation.
I'd buy it. In Rocket League.
This looks incredibly cool. It's like a vehicle from bladerunner. It's going to be iconic.
I find the article and your comment somewhat disturbing. We really get into an ethics field here and I very much hope that they have ethical review panels as psychology or sociology have been using for decades.

But that aside, what I find disturbing is the economic couching of basic human questions: do you need economic long-term effects that can be proven to provide deworming to poor children? Is that what we have arrived at - wellbeing is not even a concern. A fictional economic greater good is the measure of success, the health and comfort of poor people is not?

I'd say there is really a need for soul-searching among economists - to rethink why capitalism has brought so much property but also leaves so many people in poverty, and why it has taken such radical forms that in the richest country on earth thousands starve and tens of thousands die of treatable medical issues - and millions more in a global view.
1. If you actually do your homework, the long term costs are either inline with your current utility bill or lower. That doesn’t include tax incentives or the option to lease, which is near equivalent to paying your local utility. This isn’t just for elites.

2. In certain disaster prone regions, you can only do so much to shore up a centralized power utility even if corruption magically disappeared. This is mainly because there’s only so much tax revenue even in high tax states like CA

3. It’s better than doing nothing and waiting for Superman to come.
A Delorean Hummer love child.
What makes the situation particularly bad for wannabe startup founders is that basically there is no easy and cheap access to cash, at least not at any scale comparable to the US.

Basically there are three options: you bring the cash yourself, you get a loan (either a regular, asset-backed bank loan or one of the special loans by the state's KfW bank) or you scrape by on angel/investor money which would not even cover the cash for a single developer in the Valley.

Oh, and (this is mostly valid for pure Germans, not so much for expats coming to Germany) the German culture is MASSIVELY risk-averse. Fail and a lot of your friends, family etc will only see "the guy with the failed company" in you.
That's not really helpful. IE is no longer a shitty browser; why should it be killed off?
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-mitx-6-002x
You know, I had never noticed how the Neimodians in Episode 1 spoke in that Asian-stereotyped speech pattern before, but now I can't unhear it when I think of their scenes from that movie. Seems obvious in retrospect.
True. I've been meaning to read the book Yakuza Moon for a while.
As a counterpoint: Saruman the White and his horde of orcs were about as evil as they come, there were evil humans of both light and dark skin, and that applies to many of the "good" races. That said, yes, the evil parties tended to be of dark complexion, but I think of that as less a racial undertone, and more likely a literal illustration of the classic good == light, evil == dark parallel (for instance, Sauron being called the "Dark Lord", many references to "the darkness", etc.). Who knows though, perhaps Tolkein was racist, I just never felt that his writings came across that way.
Sometimes it makes sense to start from the kernel level and work downward. With symbols and source loaded, it's often faster to fully debug a complex userspace problem. You can jump in and out of kernel space easily.
Same thing you should make of the extremely high ratings that Cassandra Clare novels get (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/150038.Cassandra_Clare). For those who aren't aware, this author is a serial plagiarist whose novels are basically ripoffs of already not-that-great books like Twilight (http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/fandom-guide-cassandra-clare-...).
Actually, I think I now understand where we disagree. It isn't exactly where I expected.

You want a New Improved Transport Protocol that is a sharp break with HTTP's past. I agree that would be a good thing. We both agree that HTTP2 isn't that.

Where we disagree is this: You want NITP to be called HTTP2. I think doing that would be the surest way to smother NITP in its crib. In my opinion, an HTTP2 that made a radical change like not supporting cookies wouldn't be a step forward, it would just be perceived as "breaking everything" and would never get adopted.

You can't just slap HTTP's brand on a radically different protocol and expect people to not notice or care about what's inside. If you want to do something really new, that's a much longer and harder path than what we see here. That's why things like HTTP2 (making improvements where practical while carrying forward the concepts and baggage of the past) are worth doing. Because while we're waiting for a bigger leap forward, we've accumulated a set of problems we can solve and that are worth solving.
OTOH, if you prove that P = NP, you can probably make huge windfalls of money, and some of it may even be legitimate!
Well yeah, if getting a haircut let people peer into your brain and possibly even see what's going on and how the whole thing works. If that were the case, the first person to get a haircut would become the center of massive scientific interest. Even someone considering it / how to do it would be worth discussing.
In "Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution" Sam Bowles notes that the customs and economics of open source software have more in common with small-scale societies (99% of human history) than capitalism:

The project that began with the "Fable of the Bees may be of even less practical relevance in the future. The reason is that the technologies and social interactions of the modern economy increasingly depart from these canonical assumptions. Direct noncontractual interactions with positive feedbacks arise increasingly in modern economies, as information-intensive team production replaces assembly lines and other technologies more readily handled by contract, and as difficult to measure services usurp the preeminent role -- as both outputs and inputs --- once played by measurable quantities like kilowatts of power and tons of steel. Danny Quah (1996) calls the modern system of production “the weightless economy.” The key characteristics of the information-intensive economy are generalized increasing returns, with near zero marginal costs in many cases, along with the fact that most information is either not subject to complete and enforceable contracts, or will be inefficiently allocated if it is. ...

The information-intensive economy of the future may more closely resemble the economy of the mobile foraging band in human prehistory, rather than the economy of grain and steel that displaced it. Pursuing good ideas with practical applications is a costly and uncertain project, much like hunting large game. Success is rare, but its fruits are immensely valuable. The private appropriation of the prize is both difficult to accomplish and socially wasteful, for the foregone benefits to the those excluded from access to the prize far outweigh the gains to the individual appropriator to be had by excluding others. A new drug or a new software application is not so different in this respect from an antelope. Thus it is not surprising that the system of prestige and norms of sharing in some parts of the modern information-intensive economy -- those involved in open source software, for example -- in many ways parallel the culture of the foraging band. (page 500)
Hmm... interesting. Can you give user-specific logins to keep track of who's changed what?
Sigh. How did a markup language get pit against a vector-based animation plugin? I know that literally it is not, and that we're talking about canvas here, but the Web is being flooded by this misinformation. I can't even think of analogy for what this is akin to.

Edit: I just thought about this, but SVG qualifies as a markup language. So it's not inconceivable for a markup language to compete (at least in part) with Flash, just in this particular case it is erroneous.
Hi, whoever you are that knows me! I was the one who plotted these.
"People" are not a homogeneous blob. I'll work 20 and live cheaply, thanks. If other people work 50 and wind up comparatively wealthy, that's fine.
The industrial automation world (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Fanuc, and so forth) has missed the arrival of the internet. Uniformly, their software is terrible-- ActiveX controls and weak, homegrown webservers, if they even support TCP/IP. Trying to build modern web interfaces that have to talk to hardware feels like inventing time-travel (but it's a one-way trip, 15 years back).
Re-read the comment you replied to. You haven't addressed it at all.

Edit: Also, UAC is basically sudo.
"Once a device is upgraded to WIndows 10, we'll be keeping it current for the supported lifetime of the device," said Terry Myserson, executive vice president of the Operating Systems Group. "With Windows 10, we think of Windows as a service..."

Most of the money that the Windows OS brings in is from corporate sales. Considering how difficult it can be to get these kinds of users to upgrade (think of how many businesses still use the no longer supported Windows XP) I think this might be Microsoft paving the way to convert more corporate users to a subscription based arrangement.

I don't necessarily think this means that home users will be switched over to a subscription to "windows as a service" because Microsoft really isn't losing any money from these customers. The cost of the Windows OS was paid by the computer manufacturer and upgrading windows to the newest version is an easy way to make sure out of date computers show their age and get replaced, aka more oem os sales.
Nadella is on the right track, but this move wasn't bold enough, the Windows clients should adopt the OSX free model while still charging for server licenses.

It's about 20% of revenue so it would be a big hit to earnings, but the mobile ecosystem game is too critical to play around with. If they don't start doing better soon they could become relegated to a cloud/server only model completely within 5 years.
Thanks for the article. It's very helpful.

Have you ever checked artTemplate other than eco? https://github.com/aui/artTemplate

It's very fast: http://aui.github.com/artTemplate/test/test-speed.html
If you haven't seen it yet, they have a nice Flux write-up in the docs: http://martyjs.org/guides/flux/index.html. (I apologize if you've already seen it, though.)
Why did try to scale when you had no customers?
Because it is very unlikely to display correctly (let alone be typeable) on all the systems where Rust development is supported.

(I left a longer version of this comment elsewhere.)
I think he's just nervous like your average spaz out nerd is
It's a rural coop and according to my last bill, the number is -- 0.14779/KWH.

Electricity is still not an option for exploring / driving extended off road trips.
Your wife drives an Audi that can't do better than 0-60 in 6.5 seconds?

Also.. tracks have turns. Low center of gravity helps, but this thing will probably weigh 3-4x as much as a sporty car. Even the Model S has weight comparable to a minivan. My guess is a Subaru BRZ could beat this around many tracks.

This is a cool truck and all, and I hope Tesla makes more exciting designs like this, but I'm tired of people thinking that Teslas are performance cars just because they have torque. Tesla has yet to make anything that interests me at the prices they charge.
neither "do" nor "let" impact laziness.
It is only asking for a $100 deposit.
The tri motor does 0-60 in <2.9
Where they have a reasonable way to avoid it, I'm all for it to be honest. Engineers go to jail if they build a shoddy bridge.

Key is to require realistic things. Not "humans must not make mistakes", but "process needs to be in place to catch human mistakes". This is not something individual contributors can usually influence.

But in cases like e.g. the VW emission faking scandal, I do think that if (and that's a big if) it can be proven that the developer must have reasonably known what he was doing and that it was part of an illegal scheme, the dev should also be punished: This changes the game from "do it and keep my job, or refuse/whistleblow and lose my job" to "do it and potentially go to jail, or refuse/whistleblow and lose my job" making the second, societally preferable outcome more likely.
Hah, yeah this is by a guy that goes by the nick Tablizer. He coined a term called table-oriented programming.

http://www.reocities.com/tablizer/top.htm

Back when he posted this, it was almost sacrilege to be questioning OO. He used to get beat up a lot on various forums. Now it seems at least the emperor doesn't seem to be wearing a jacket when it comes to OO.
Every Windows based shop bases their scheduling around update Tuesday.
I can't even count the number of times I have seen privileged information dropped onto a "presentation" laptop during a meeting. I hope they are better at controlling that than most.
> Quite literally 1/2 of the USA voted for Trump

No, they didn't.
The beauty (and horror) of a lot of Trump's incitement is he always does it implicitly as opposed to explicitly. It's not about quotes and verbage as much as meaning and intent.

That being said, his incitement Wednesday was actually pretty explicit. From the Times: Trump said "If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore" before urging supporters to go to the capital. Sounds like a pretty powerful incitement from a sitting President.
It does seem to be out of date, but doesn't change the thrust of my argument. With the advancements of battery technology by Tesla, would you say that Tesla's battery business (which is mostly IP and research labs) is worth more than entire Panasonic's business? I say that's highly unlikely: building a good research lab and coming up with a good new battery design is worth a lot, but not tens of billions of dollars. Even if it was worth as much as entire Panasonic, it would still be <5% of Tesla's market cap. As such, I can't see how Tesla's battery business would explain its huge market cap.
Counter evidence: the protesters were saying that they saw computers unlocked with email still open.
s/specific messages/& and conversations/

> I don't understand why people want to save their whole chat history

Valuable messages and conversations can happen too often that it's a hassle to save them manually. This is probably more common in group chats where lots of people occasionally share valuable stuff.
Personally I find the idea that there are any safeguards against Trump lunching nukes a comfort

Nixon's aides did likewise in the days before his resignation.

The fact that the president has the power to decide to punch nukes all by himself is terrifying and should have been fixed long ago
I actually have a really viking name for some reason and while I have tried to learn Russian my vocabulary is limited to around 20 or so :-)
Are you specifically denying that there have been nightly riots in Portland for months? (the original claim in question)
Market cap is the wrong metric for comparing the value of two companies, Enterprise Value is the right metric.

The Enterprise Value of GM is $150B. There's <4X difference between the two, not >10X.
Last submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051611

Consider using Shen. https://github.com/hraberg/shen.clj http://shenlanguage.org/
Some will forget what the government of South Korea chooses to ignore. Some will not. In my books, tolerance of chattel slavery by a democratically elected government earns the voters of that country a boycott.

It's not easy to avoid everything that contains parts by the likes of Hyundai and Samsung (Yes, that still includes Apple), but an honest effort by enough people might just make a difference.
The fundamental difference between China housing price drop and US is majority of Chinese buy properties with cash or get mortgage with very large deposit like 40%. So the risk of subprime crisis is very low.
Are you crazy?

Just asking, it's ok to be crazy. Admitting it is the first step to enlightenment. We're all a little crazy in one or more ways.
Aca analizamos los bancos con menor tasa de intereeses en Peru en abril del 2022
I think the Danish tax authorities must have taken some sort of customer service course in recent years. They are always so friendly, when I call them, that I think there must be some scam going on.
I have mixed feelings about Tarkovsky. He is certainly profoundly important. His sensuality is unmatched. Whether it's the perfect use of sound (endless dripping water, the ringing of a fallen cup), the incredible imagery or the beautiful stories (I think about the bell story in Andrei Rublev a lot), Tarkovsky is the king of making you feel the movie.

That said, I don't worship at the altar of Tarkovsky. I don't love that his movies have this impenetrable length. I don't love that his movies inevitably have some long philosophical lecture by a male character while the women stay to the sides, often silent. I will sound like a petulant digital native, but I have been bored by a Tarkovsky.

Too often Tarkovsky is used as this unquestionably brilliant artist. To appreciate him is to be a true cinemaphile, while to hate him is to indicate your pedestrian tastes. I don't agree. There should be no shame in being bored by Stalker, in not getting Andrei Rublev, in finding The Sacrifice a little too navel gazing.

If I had to explain Tarkovsky to someone who doesn't watch art movies, I'd say that he's like the Velvet Underground. Unless you have a particular taste, you probably won't enjoy songs like Heroin or Venus in Furs. But you'll definitely enjoy the music made by people who did like Heroin or Venus in Furs. You don't have to enjoy Tarkovsky. But watch some of his movies, and you'll start to have flashes of recognition in movies like Arrival, La Cienaga, The New World, etc.
I don’t think OP claimed any of this, at least in my reading.

All of these things are trade offs anyway - a weaker immunised patient might become a training ground for a variant, but a weakly immunised patient might also have a reduced risk of spreading which results in fewer cases and fewer chances for mutations.
The writer at the end refunds the money and messages Patreon to fix the issue, I think that would go massively in his favour in the rare change it ended up in front of a judge.
> but there was a statistical attempt to attune for these effects

Can you please explain how the statistical attempt to adjust for latency of "hospitalization" at days 14-21 post-vaccination would have taken place? I believe almost all people hospitalized at days 14-21 would have been infected at times we don't expect the vaccine to be effective from the trial data-- so seeing efficacy near 0 against hospitalization at days 14-21 is indeed exactly what we'd expect.

Surely if the vaccine is preventing hospitalization right after the second dose, it prevented infection some time before that, right??

Edit: Observational data is always a mess. This looks particularly bad. Efficacy is higher in the old than in the young?? This is opposite of what we saw in the RCTs. Evidence of massive betas even right after vaccination when we expect efficacy to be 0?? This effectively says the vaccinated group is nothing like the unvaccinated group.
How long then for FB to develop apps or acquire apps for the dominant use cases, and then squash out/limit the competing apps that integrated and helped build up the user behaviour to begin with? There's no way FB won't do this, that is part of their behaviour. How could they do this? They could all of a sudden require apps to use their payment, with whatever % taken that they please, and if you don't agree then they boot you and tell all of your users about their replacement app.
Temporary alternative
https://hn.algolia.com
> Click settings
> Style -> Experimental
+1, I really like it. It's cute, short and playful.
> I find it odd that no one on the Democratic side is stopping to think what a civil war in which one side has disarmed themselves because they think weapons are evil and the other already is ideologically aligned with most of the police and military would look like.

That, my friend, would be a senseless massacre. You find it odd that most Americans don’t spend their daily lives worrying about getting literally murdered by Republicans? Why? Should they?
You aren’t alone! My family and friends think I am either a closeted right wing racist, or a secret socialist. I have two friends who, like me, question the party dogma and don’t appreciate being nailed to any particular ideology. In my experience in Oregon about 5% of my family and peers are non-partisan but politically interested and informed.

Welcome to the minority!
I’ve done a few good dark mode themes recently and it looks like the reference link was asking for contributions. I’m happy to give it a go and submit probably tomorrow. The only thing I require in return is anyone who’s motivated to see it happen comment telling me to put the phone down and go snuggle my pup for the night so I’m refreshed and ready to take a look in the morning.