jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, the .88 deaths per GWyr is just for Fukushima. If you're talking about all nuclear power you have a lot of reactors that didn't have any problems but also Chernobyl, which was really very bad. So the global number is actually .1 for nuclear in general, historically. In the long run I expect both nuclear and coal to get safer.

I would say that in general we shouldn't be blind to the fact that nuclear power has serious problems, but we should also be aware that coal and oil have even more serious problems. In the long run we ought to be thinking of ways we can get by on renewable energy.
I really want to address this in more detail than I have time at the moment to do so. I am a dissenter on this topic, though, so I would like to ask you to elaborate on your view of the trade-offs.

> cost of time they're not producing but drawing a salary

How many false positives do you know of who didn't produce anything? What is the actual chance that someone is going to be a net drag if they don't work out? Of course it can happen, but I get the impression from the more paranoid that it is likely or expected. I don't see that.

> eating dev time for training, etc.

This, I feel, is highly dependent on company and codebase. At my previous employer, I worked on real-time radar signal processing code which was very complicated and math-heavy. Someone who did not know what they were doing in that code could have easily cratered the productivity of one or more software or systems engineers. Simpler codebases would not be as bad.

> + cost of firing

Depending on your local laws and corporate structure, I can understand this issue. It takes an act of Congress to get fired from a defense contractor, though they have enough small layoffs to prune the dead wood once in awhile without a full-blown firing. I would like to know what the issues are for a smaller company though, since I really don't know the process. I get mixed signals as well. It seems like the employers and managers here speak of the difficulty in actually getting rid of people, while most of the individual contributors I know are worried about losing their jobs at the drop of a hat.

> Maybe this is from the perspective of a company that has no shortage of applications, but rejecting an applicant that would've been good costs basically nothing (dev time + travel if they got through phone screens).

If your company is finding the people it needs more or less when it needs them, then I understand this view. However, if your company is also one of those that complains about how hard it is to find "qualified" people and how understaffed you are, then your false positives are costing your business far more than that, though the true cost is very difficult to quantify (as is the true cost of a false positive).
Thanks Michael. We live in same city, but how does taking off a day help in project management?
It has nothing to do with being able to recover. It's about not continuing with unknown state.
Once the post is there, the damage is done. It'll stay in its position for a while before being modded to invisibility. If it makes our hypothetical user think twice before posting, game's already over.

And if using a threaded system like HN,/.,Reddit, etc, if the threatening post is the only response to a comment, downmodding it doesn't accomplish anything.
It wouldn't surprise me if that dude found this discussion, actually.
They are demanding not wishing.
I assume the complaints about "the internet" are mostly referring to the parts of the web people interact with most frequently, which would definitely not include HN comments. facebook.com alone probably serves more page requests in an hour than ycombinator.com does in a year.
It never, ever time to "regulate" technological progress. If you look at the course of history, you see that every time someone has tried to slow humanity's adoption of some new capability, all he's done is delay the modern world and its support for billions. There is no such thing as a bad new technology. There is no place in policy or law for forbidding a certain kind of math.

The intent of the author of the article is clearly to outright ban the technology, not to "regulate" it.
Thanks for your reply! As I use NoiseTorch, it already knows the previous configuration, which is always what I want, so the only thing i need to do is press 'load'. I risk being terribly naive, but it seems like a flag (`noisetorch --autoload` or `--loadlastconfig`) could solve this as well. Then I could just run it that way on session start. Would that be possible?
Keybase was a passion project that always had very limited development time. They churned out a lot of proof-of-concept grade features, but never really polished any of them. And then some of the features only would be really useful if they either were backed by a proper commitment or had a selfhostable plan B.

The wallet is just one of many parts of keybases focus thrashing.
I don’t really care if an algorithm can tell someone why it concluded x about me. There are some x for which I don’t want any algorithm concluding about me and there isn’t any context that could be provided that would justify it or make me comfortable with it.
We were considering moving from Keybase to Element for a group I’m part of, but the iOS client is bad. Lots of UI bugs that make it borderline unusable. The Android client seemed fine, but iOS is the lion’s share of our membership so the state of the iOS client makes Element a hard pass.
Signal is really just another in a long line of siloed messengers. Eventually the people running the system do something obnoxious. Such things do not have a future.

Any system that has not reached the point that the bits and pieces are controlled by different entities should be considered just a technology demonstration. Signal has never even been close to "the best app we have out there".
These also allow for deductions at Tesla's applicable plain vanilla debt rate, which would be much higher than the cash interest rate on the notes (by using a call spread on top of the embedded option). So there's a tax arbitrage as well.

Source: I used to structure and sell these for a living

"In connection with the offering of the notes, Tesla intends to enter into convertible note hedge transactions and warrant transactions, which are generally expected to prevent dilution up to approximately 100% over the common stock price at the time of pricing of the notes due 2019 and 120% over the common stock price at the time of pricing of the notes due 2021. Tesla intends to use a portion of the proceeds from the offering to pay the net cost of the convertible note hedge transactions. In connection with establishing their initial hedge of the convertible note hedge and warrant transactions, the hedge counterparties or their affiliates expect to enter into various derivative transactions with respect to our common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the notes, including with certain investors in the notes."
I always wonder about that. My active github projects are private, so I guess my "streak" isn't going to look so hot.
20 fun facts about hex grids:
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/HermanTulleken/20140912/225495/20...
One minute from now, someone is going to hit you in the head. You have the choice of whether to put on a helmet first, or not. Which would you choose? Thus the benefit of wearing a helmet is demonstrated.
You mean, the original System 1.0 of the 1984 era? Did not support threads, no.

There was a thing called "Desk Accessories", sort of single-window mini apps (think Calculator), that were implemented as a special kind of device driver. But IIRC even these were serviced by periodic calls to SystemTask() which would make sure every running device got some time.

To get around this, we hacked the OS in crazy ways. For example, all of the system APIs were in a big address table. So if you had loaded some code and wanted to get a little slice of execution time to yourself, patching your function's address into the table in place of SystemTask() was a common technique (not forgetting to call to the original SystemTask() address before finishing, of course)! Since everyone did this (including Apple), you can imagine the long sequences of hacks patching on top of each other would lead to a really unstable system. Hence the classic Mac OS reputation.

I once wrote a driver for a custom-built hardware keyboard which plugged in via the serial port. The keyboard driver was basically a Control Panel (CDEV) with an INIT resource that patched something (I'm guessing SystemTask() but my memory is hazy...not sure why I didn't just make it a straight-up device driver) to check for bytes from the keyboard, which it would post into the event queue, and they'd show up in the running application.

Another common technique for getting time slices was to use the interrupt manager, although that was dicey because calling into system APIs at interrupt time wasn't safe.

Caveat: it's been a long time.
A house in SF might cost around a million dollars. The same house in Columbus, Ohio, might cost 100k. Are you really going to argue that "roads, bridges, water, and sewer systems" are 10x as expensive in one place as in the other?

No, "what you are paying for" is the artificial scarcity created by restrictive zoning codes and NIMBYs. If the city council let me build on one of the many open fields around I-280 tomorrow, I could get it constructed for a pittance-- and then turn around and sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

PS: There is a completely reasonable argument that building a new house or apartment complex should pay their fair share of existing infrastructure ~10k-50+k/person in most areas. That this does not happen is simply a form of corruption as zoning becomes a quick way to massively change the value of land after purchase.

Do you understand how "the existing infrastructure" is funded? It's funded by taxes. And developers pay taxes like anyone else. What they do isn't cheap.
To be fair, nobody really complains about the CDC or the local water treatment plant, and none of that stuff consumes an inordinate amount of tax dollars.

Most of the things people complain about are at least nominally legitimate. We spend too much money on healthcare (and thus medicare), and too much money on the military, and in consequence the taxes on the middle 80% are too high. The Department of Education micromanages local schools excessively. There is too much bureaucracy in general. These are legitimate complaints.
Interestingly enough, there is at least also a "nutella" (not capitalized) for Nutella bought in Germany:
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/4008400401621/nutella...
A CEO who treats people badly and who's a relentless self-promoter? Are we talking about Marissa Mayer or Steve Jobs?
I have come across lots of jerks selling bad old tubes ("but my tester featuring unknown principles of operation pointed the needle at the GOOD sector, not the BAD or "?" sectors!" (What kind of instrument has a "?" on the meter face?))

I wonder how the counterfeits would be done today, since the phenolic bases on the old octal tubes probably can't be matched by any material around now.
It's called "Orange is the New Black" and you shouldn't expect a tech company to be a parent for you.
I don't have a source as reliable as Wikipedia. I base my definition on how it is used in the field of reverse engineering which I've been in for a long time. In any case, people can stick with the wiki definition. Not important.
> scientists have studied if it is possible to become "addicted" to sex and other normal sexual stimuli. It doesn't happen.

Dude, what planet are you living on? Sex addicts (people who compulsively seek sex to a harmful degree, and wish they could stop) are extremely common, as are e.g. food addicts.

Porn is also hardly a "normal" stimulus (i.e. comparable to stimuli that would have been found in the evolutionary environment). Cf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

Honestly, it seems like you are saying things that are very obviously untrue because you've read some (probably methodologically and epistemically poor) papers. You should significantly reduce your (unwarranted) confidence or you are likely to get burned.
It's become more difficult.
They've already said that they're going to open source the client (http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html)... they just haven't actually done anything about it yet.

They'd better get a move on though, otherwise someone else (http://www.enrupt.com/index.php) is going to do it for them: http://www.enrupt.com/index.php/2010/07/07/skype-biggest-sec...

The trouble is that Skype is so closed and has been seemingly uninterested in open source and Linux, it's hard to find open source dev's who are interested in developing Skype related stuff.
The most obvious webspam is made more difficult by the fact that newly-created webpages are heavily penalized in Google's web search engine. Weighting for accounts and applications, and letting comments from earlier versions carry over ("here's what people thought of earlier versions of myapp:") would help. Probably.
Better yet, why not install Google Chrome and replace their Internet Explorer link with a link to Google Chrome? Just make the link have IE's icon so that they don't wonder where the internet has gone.

They will marvel about how you "made their internet faster." I like to make it even easier for people by making two different links: one called "Internet" which takes them to Google, the other called "Email" which takes them to their web email. The results are instant simplification, security improvement, and general betterment of the web by migrating more people to the Webkit rendering engine.
EDIT: Here's another fun stat: america has
more black people in prison than in college:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/
americas/2223709.stm

This claim is a little misleading - the absolute numbers are true (or close enough depending on your source) but it compares blacks in all age groups in jail with blacks going to college. If you limit the comparison to college-aged blacks, there are far more blacks in college then prison.
Perhaps. Yet, I see nothing wrong with remaining in control of my software's future (at least in some way: I can make sure it remains free). And I see nothing wrong with having a smile over my face when I see people realize they can't take that freedom away from others.

My priority is that what I've created to remain free, available to others, just like the huge amount of software I learned from. If someone wants to take that freedom away, and can't, I can't help but feel glad that freedom has been preserved.
Yeah, it's so funny to see a kid's life ruined. Ha ha. Good comedy all around.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, I hope you enjoy your perch.
It's not often I come across a new language that I can't just read by looking at it.

And that's not a good thing for the language, as far as I'm concerned.
Please post the original links, instead of this link-bait.

Original: http://vimeo.com/17091905
Microsoft is providing an institutional scaled solution to solve institutional scale problems. Students don't just search on school computers. They search from home, and often their school's website serves as an entry portal - eg. the student fires up the browser on their home computer with a link to a school or class web page. This provides a familiar starting point for continuing the lesson from home.

Why? Well that's a reasonably safe way for parents to allow computer use with less supervision. It's not quite a walled garden, but at least there's a shared interest among the adults.

In other words, Microsoft is helping school districts solve the problem of solving problems for parents - and without having to stipulate which browser people use at home or in the classroom - many mobile browsers do not allow plugins.
Perhaps some of them not crimes, but most are certainly abuses of the government classification system.
it happens after a resume from sleep?
Or it could be that a cocaine addiction is a huge avenue for coercion, and pot is still grouped into the same schedule as cocaine etc.
Or live in the UK and get all of those, plus Amazon and ubiquitous online grocery shopping. On which point, I'd go for a button like this that added items to my Ocado basket.
Are you trying to play victim, or are you just using your holier than thou card?
I say he wins the bet. Those prices are ridiculous.

How does a docking station cost as much as an entire media PC?
> It's like OCD, but more efficient.

This implies that OCD is efficient. Like, "Hey guys, don't just be OCD about things, be OED!" I wonder if he has OCD, or he understands what it's like living with OCD. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but it feels like the diminishes those who suffer from OCD. Basically, it's not anything like OCD, and implying such shows a complete lack of understanding of OCD, and he is merely using it as a buzz word.

I half expected a comment like "LOL I'm so autistic in my brilliance sometimes."
They may share a camera (say, in a digital photo agency) but would love more storage cards.
Actually GME is a perfect example of how the future profits expectations keeps stocks grounded in reality, otherwise GME would have kept going up. It was just a few gamblers that put it as high as it went, but ultimately forces brought it back down. Just like gravity, you cannot escape the fundamental forces grounding all objects.
Facebook posts can be edited. It's not a problem. Everything on social media is fake anyway, so who cares.
Analogies
I wouldn’t characterize Insteon as this in the same way as most Alexa controlled WiFi stuff. My Insteon devices continue to work fine because I have the USB controller that works through HomeSeer completely offline and didn’t utilize their Internet services.
Unfortunately, it is a proprietary protocol that did not get licensed broadly the way zwave has. While the communications were reliable and there was an enthusiastic base, they probably couldn’t compete against the cheap Internet of shit being pumped out to the Alexa crowd.
If this question became popular how would you change it so that people who were prepared wouldn’t have an advantage?
Yes, I know, that's why I don't have to 'pick my poison' I know that better options exist.
I've been using Vim for over a decade. I love it. But I feel more and more anachronistic every time I have to hunt down some Vim plug-in for whatever IDE I'm setting up.

I'd love to see a fresh take on hyper-efficient text editing in modern GUI environments.
Certainly possible. Comes down to how much control content creators are willing to give-up, and what partnerships Dropbox forges with software developers. For example, will Adobe want a user's entire photo library synced with Dropbox? What's in it for them? How do they handle the transitional period where some users want that and others don't?
Have you read a protocol document before? Before that section there are very standard stuff like framing, protocol identification, how the headers are laid out, etc.

Section 8 is specifically about the semantics of the 'conversation' between the client and the server. It's important to actually know how to form the messages themselves first!

Think of it as if you were writing a specification of the English language. You might think it's all about conversations, but first you need to know what the letters are, how you form them into words, then spelling, grammar, etc.
The page you linked to is very pleasant to view. The colors, spacing, and layout are remarkable. Your tutorial is great, too.
Thanks justincormack, that looks promising.
I think you're reading the chart wrong, it's listed as just short of 100k. (As read from the top scale. - It's not a very clear infographic at all, xkcd ones using area squares tend to be a lot more clear!)
I prefer the hosts file way of redirecting ad/tracking domains to localhost. There are some nice hosts lists already compiled, which you can download to make your own. The resources problem simply went away when I started doing it this way.
Is this a first world problem? maybe that's why i don't get it. In most parts of the world, makers are the ones who are perceived to have less value, get pay less and have less recognition than the business types, the managers, etc.
This assumes that internet radicals are working class , which they are really not. Not even the majority. Isn't it mostly college kids and older boomers?
I can't wait to see the faces of war on drug proponents when clinical practice will prove psylocibin has no adverse effects and no addiction potential.
I'm sorry my question wasn't clear, but I was not trying to ask one thing and know something else. I will try and restate my question.

Were you given an opportunity to disable the sponsored top sites before they were first loaded and your data sent to advertisers?
It's funny how this turned out, because in Sydney (at least the part where I live), any generic supermarket brand is referred to as "homebrand" instead of "own brand".

Also, don't forget about "Woolworths select", which was no better than homebrand but the tubs oats came in made really good pantry containers, and so in my kitchen anything loose like rice or almonds goes in them.
Bitcoin is never down
I'm referring less to active maintenance and more to the tech involved. Pre-57 Firefox, which is what Pale Moon and Waterfox Classic fork, had several design choices which all major browsers, including Firefox, moved away from and are, IMO, inherently insecure (also slow). It used to be a playground for security researchers. I count building shinier versions of 2000's browser tech as outdated.
1) Almost every fighter is now "multi-role." So the word really doesn't add any meaning.

2) Stealth is now table stakes for fighting a peer or near peer opponent. Modern A2AD systems are extremely difficult for non-stealth fighters and bombers to counter. Sure, you can soften them up with Tomahawks, but even those are starting to be less effective. (which is why the US has been developing JAASM and LRASM).

3) While stealth does add costs, especially in maintenance routines, compared to software and systems costs, it's not as significant. And stealth generally doesn't affect performance; the F-35 is an excellent aircraft in terms of range and maneuverability, as is the F-22, the Chinese J-20 and FC-31.
> but remaining 20% can held up for a variety of reasons ranging from fraud investigation, AML, or OFAC. For those 20% the banking system as it is right now, is a problem.

AML, OFAC will absolutely take time and no interbank transfer would bypass it in any US chartered bank as they are triggered during a match in the FedWire or any other system that uses the Fed.

KYC and fraud investigations are triggered by the originating bank, most likely because the account has been flagged. Until the account is cleared any transfers out of the account would trigger them and delay them.

KYC-type and fraud investigations could also be triggered by the receiving bank if the account is either flagged or the activity is matching certain parameters - it is less likely but possible. Should that happen, no matter what is the method that was used to credit the account is likely to trigger it.

> For those 20% the banking system as it is right now, is a problem.

That makes it 1 out of 5 wires. It is extremely unlikely to be the case.

> That may have been true/acceptable before, where time span between order and payment was greater. If it is a feature, it is a feature for the bank, not the user.

It absolutely is a feature to the user - it allows for an easy rollback of journaling mistakes.
I haven't used it much, but it does allow you to not have to pull a tab out for youtube or the like if you want to watch something on the side while doing something else, and it does it with zero extra interface, which is nice (it's always annoying when I want to resize a video in the window to take almost all the window size and there's useless padding I can't easily bypass).