skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And it isn't like coal is immune from having zero-notice forced evacuation, and making land uninhabitable.

From your link:

>the spill caused a mudflow wave of water and ash that covered 12 homes, pushing one entirely off its foundation, rendering three uninhabitable, and caused some damage to 42 residential properties. [...] Though 22 residences were evacuated, nobody was reported to be injured or in need of hospitalization. [...] [T]he spill [...] covered an area of 300 acres (1.2 km2).

42 homes were damaged, 4 to the point of destruction, and 22 homes were evacuated. There was zero human injury from this incident.

Although Wikipedia tries very hard to make it sound like the spill was massive, if you look at the real area affected, 300 acres is less than half of a single square mile, and that area can be cleaned up (if it hasn't been already). People can walk on the ground affected without having to watch a geiger counter, and no exclusion zone is required.

For reference, Fukushima's exclusion zone is about 12 sq miles and Chernobyl's exclusion zone is 1,000 square miles. (both numbers from the relevant Wikipedia entries)

Are you really trying to compare this minor accident to large-scale international incidents that have made caused the permanent evacuation of entire cities? Humans will not safely be able to live in those areas for decades.

The point is not that industrial accidents never happen or that they're pleasant or inconsequential when they do happen. The point is that the cost associated with nuclear accidents is massively higher, and it's entirely reasonable to find that risk unacceptable v. more controllable risks like greenhouse gas emissions.

Even dam breakage, which is about the next-largest threat profile for industrial disasters, won't create a permanently uninhabitable radius of literally-irradiated land. Maybe the land gets too wrecked to rebuild on? OK, but you're not going to get cancer by going to check it out.

It's silly to pretend like you can't tell the difference. Nuclear may be safe while it works, but the question "What happens when it stops working?" is just as important, if not more.
I just used this guide for my Network Programming class last fall. I love it so much.
I hate sans serif, everytime I see "AI" in a headline I wonder who is Alan?
The core concept in EU law is subsidiarity. Look it up if you're unfamiliar - by treaty, the EU may only make laws where actions by individual countries are insufficient. I think you're being incredibly one-sided and myopic, if not ignorant.

Collective action problems are real. Nation states are a poor way to deal with many cross-border problems, just like individuals without a government is a poor way to deal with many problems in a community. Pooling sovereignty is a bargain: it's trading away freedom on one axis to gain freedom on another - freedom from certain kinds of problems. Whether it's war vs peace, mercantilism vs trade, security, administration of commons - there are real tradeoffs, and real wins to be had from pooling sovereignty.

The single biggest practical loss, that I feel most for the UK, is how her youth will have their horizons cut much shorter. The EU will be just another country; work visas will dissuade millions.
It's weird; I buy $30 Lee jeans from Kohls these days and they easily last a year or more. Clothing is not something you have to spend a lot of money on to get something that lasts a reasonable length of time, unless you're really being penny-wise-pound-foolish by buying the very cheapest thing you can get just to save 10%, or you're extremely hard on them.
Original author here.
It really depends on which debugging session. Several debugging sessions was across days, because we didn't understand the problem at first.
Some others were hours up to minutes (e.g. were we checked which commands we are using and optimized them).

Does this answer your question?
What's wrong with 2D? What's wrong with an open OS?

> They're asking for a million dollars or more to be invested by someone else, simply to be able to fool around with it.

And they're presumably willing to pay some amount of money for the opportunity to do so. The groups that have successfully designed, built, and sold open gaming handhelds in the past (and present, actually) seem like good proof that a product like that is something that a lot of people want and are willing to pay for.

> all for free and as open source? Not going to happen.

"Free" as in "gratis"? Maybe for the software, especially if it's built as a hardware-specific SDK, on top of already-available open libraries, like SDL. I'd expect to pay for the hardware, and pay more than something that's subsidized by the subsequent game purchases (like Sony or Nintendo hardware).
Idiomatic Kotlin. Best Practices
Good luck using a smartphone made by humans. It isn't physically possible to do.
Can taking drugs at work ever be a good thing?
The EU isn't about trade; it was never about trade. It was about peace.
Most Docker images also contain a full OS.
here is an idea. we let users make robots and pay the salary to the robot creators. whoever creates a better/efficient robot will get a higher salary.
> The Flex group uses technology to improve the range and fluidity of human expression. We invent new concepts and representations that amplify people’s ability to create, connect, and understand. We create tools that blur the line between using and creating, in order to provide a conversational medium for thinking and doing.

What the hell does this even mean? Usually I don't mind marketing-speak at all, but this is literally comical. I was expecting some art or creative related .. something. What I got was tools for building programming languages.
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Depends on the costs - 1.1M MRR for a business with 500K in costs is definitely one that will make its founders rich. Even 1M in costs would make the founder rich by most people's standards.
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Razer servers went down; users could not use their peripherals
>Germany does what you described. They are so green they emit more CO2 since they went green.

In case people are curious about this claim the reason Germany's "renewable energy" releases so much CO2 is because a large portion of their 'renewable energy' is burning wood.

Burning wood isn't "net neutral" until trees live over 100 years. Until then, it's worse than coal. http://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PFPI-Biomass-...

Most tree farms don't let trees grow 100 years either.

>Based on consumption trends in our region, using wood to generate power here or to make fuel pellets for power generation in Europe is projected to produce higher levels of atmospheric carbon(300%) than fossil fuels for 35 to 50 years. After that time, carbon levels will begin to fall as regrowing forests absorb CO2 from previous combustion, but it is likely too late to avoid irreversible effects on the climate system.

https://www.southernenvironment.org/cases-and-projects/bioma...
The $3k is for additional repairs on top of regular maintenance, correct?
There are forces, always at work, not always conscious of their goals (and often blind and overall unaware of context and even consequences), trying to destroy civilization from inside, and revert it to a primal state. Kind of like an auto-immune disease of society. The sentiments described in your comment are a prime example of it.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'm not new to the idea of non-salary, future compensation but it is very new to me personally.
That sounds like a mess but it was a U/Th, pebble bed mess. Hopefully Th molten salt method works out better.
I'd recommend this:

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

There's some interesting experimental models of computational creativity. Unfortunately, hofstadter's actual work in CS is somewhat overshadowed by his, uh other work.
> Well, you should, because both C3 and Unity using a subscription model

Similar payment models doesn't mean you're competing. Granted there will be some overlap, but generally we feel our customer bases are fairly well defined and separate.

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I assume that the "direct competitors" you're talking of are along the lines of Clickteam Fusion and Game Maker. It's certainly true that these are both 2D-focused game IDEs, but both are sold as one-time payments, much like C2. As someone who moved from Multimedia Fusion 2 to Construct 1 back in the day, I personally think C2 has already been the king of this space for years, wiping the floor with the competition when it comes to both usability and performance as well as scaling to big projects.

Thank you for the kind comments, and I'm glad you consider Construct to be wiping the floor! Shows we're doing something right ;)

We did not observe as many free edition conversions to paid as we would of hoped with C2. For this reason, we're experimenting with locking it down more than C2. We will see how this goes. Our philosophy has always been "give more" not "take away", so we're starting conservatively.

And, as you put it, we are wiping the floor with the competition so we feel reasonably comfortable at this stage experimenting with a different pricing model.

Worth mentioning is that we're planning on selling C3 for ~$99 USD per year, if you want all the Gamemaker export options you'll spend > $1,000. I feel in comparison to that, our pricing is still competitive.
By definition, it can't be first person. But if you can't tell the difference does it matter?
That's not a malfunction at the coal plant, that's a failure by the government to regulate polluters and protect the commons.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13985916.
Your reply would be much better without the first sentence. There is no need to demean or engage in such speech.
> pretty much every major builder of nuclear plants outside of China are in trouble and/or downsizing/restructuring in big ways.

The proximate cause AFAIK is lack of demand, which depends on politics, which depends on public perception of its danger. It doesn't depend on economics, or at least that's not the immediate problem.
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Summary for us no-js people?
Show HN: Build a remote Minio (S3) server gauge
This is only half the argument, though. Yes, companies charge as much as possible, but prices go down when a competitor can offer a comparable good at a lower price. Some markets clearly have features that make competition harder.
I've heard people speak about how they find meaning in nature. If a random process can manage, why not a computer?
In addition to the algorithms you mentioned git also has --diff-algorithm=minimal. This is just the XDF_NEED_MINIMAL flag to xdiff, so I'm unsure if it counts as a separate algorithm.
I'm not saying that you disagree by any means. It's clear that you care deeply about this issue and oppose Pence's stance on it.

I definitely see what you're trying to say, and how we could all be a little better at being more precise in our wording.
I didn't realize you were associated with Construct 3. I'll try it and let you know!
Hi, please take the time to self evaluate and see if your approach will lead you to where you want to be in life, whether it be having alot of money, being happy, being a great parent, etc. From your comment, I'm getting this vibe "If people don't like me, fuck it. I'm better than everybody else."

It sounds like you are a very intelligent and motivated person , so lets think about this logically.

Here's an alternative scenario: lets say you take the time and effort to get your team to like you and inspire them to improve to your skill level. If you are the 10x engineer, then produce code at 1x and spend the other 9x learning and doing what it takes to inspire the rest of the team to get to your productivity. If it takes the team 1 year to get to your productivity and the team has size of 10, then the team collectively will have 100x productivity by the end of the year. You would be able to accomplish way more than what you could have accomplished yourself. (Obviously, I generalized the math. But you get the point).

Counter argument:
"I don't plan to stay in the company for that long to reap the benefits"

Fortunately, if you inspire somebody to become 10x the person they were, you would have made a lasting impact in their lives. Companies come and go, but relationships stick around. If you leave to do your startup, chances are these 10x engineers would be more than happy to join (at various stages of success during the life of the startup).

This is all I have time to write. I hope this helps. Good luck.
It drives me crazy that PolitiFact, which publishes its work on the web, cannot manage to include citations and sources beyond Such-and-Such-Authority-Told-Us-So-When-We-Asked. It's not that I don't believe PolitiFact, but if they bothered to interview a bunch of college professors, surely they could have gotten primary or secondary sources too. I mean, that's basically a professor's job!
Obviously this is relative to your location
There's already one, actually just appeared :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink
The pricing structure has similar problems at the low end. A small (2.6mm pageviews per month is tiny) SaaS would presumably have more than one request per page they want to fly-ify so once again fly becomes a big chunk of infrastructure costs. What's worse, it's linearly-really-expensive. A lot of services targeted at the low end tend to sell some sort of peace of mind - 'give us $100/mo for capacity you don't use but should you suddenly need it, we have you covered'. Whereas Fly is priced "it's expensive now but should you experience sudden growth we're really gonna ream you". And traffic growth doesn't necessarily mean revenue growth so the fact you were on the evening news or got really popular Malaysia might just mean a big bill. For a small service, Fly pricing is practically a DOS vector.
>"a few weeks ago, we wrapped up the first six-week run."

>"We put a lot of work into this course, and while we didn’t use any developer or product team time on it, we tied up our marketing resources for several months working on it."

In that case, $120k doesn't seem so impressive unless the company didn't have many productive uses of its marketing team.
Yeah the marketing worked so well you can still read it on HN from well-informed nuke fans, even those who would deny being militarists.
Honest question. Why?
> ...realistically these days the only hard part about managing a distributed team is when they are in dramatically different time zones

Well, there are cultural issues. You need to write things down more to work remotely effectively and lots of people don't like to read or write.
Aw man I used his wonderful guides and examples all the way from middle school up through uni; I owe him a lot of my success to this day!
AWS launches Amazon Connect, productizes Amazon’s in-house contact center softwa
Free sharing of information has 2 hurdles:

- information asymmetry: to make things democratic & symmetric, you would have to open up information about those in enforcement. Historically there is a strong resistance to that (though transparency would be welcomed). Even if it were to work at a domestic level, the defense sector still primarily relies on security through obscurity. "National interest" then becomes a convenient way to hide things.

- processing asymmetry: those who have the compute and skill to better access and correlate information will have a big advantage. Compare your ability to (hypothetically) download what you want about anyone, with an organization that houses all the data themselves and deployed Splunk/Watson/Palantir/whatever to massage that data exactly how they want.
Iceland is part of the EEA through EFTA and as such needs to follow much of EU legislation without any real say in what it is. The country is actually split about 50/50 in whether they should continue talks to join the EU proper.

Edit: Replied to the wrong comment. :(
It's not so bad - you can do plenty of 3D on a GBA if you try. It just costs a lot of effort.

I'm one of the coders of a number of 3D GBA demos [0] (and there's much better works on Pouet.net still). My teammate Jacob coded the 3D renderer and a lot of sweat went into it, but the result is pretty decent IMO.

Unlike some other GBA demos out there, this one doesn't contain any precalculation to speak of, which means that all of this could've be interactive as well and run at similar framerates. That said, most scenes are pretty damn lowpoly so the game design space is limited. But hey, limits are fun!

[0] capture of our best GBA work "Unibrau" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2FjuF7l1Mk
That's called being a partner, right?
FTA:
"I would expect such a team would offer to Congress some very different conclusions regarding the human impacts on climate."

I'm all for continued research, and I'm especially in favor of funding/encouraging research that opposes common viewpoints and conclusions regardless of the subject (yeah, turns out the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth - maybe we shouldn't have been so hard on all those heretics). I look at a quote like this though, and come away thinking that this guy already has his conclusions, and his research will be solely about finding 'evidence' to support it.
Someone explain why I should fear ISPs more than Google? I can at use Sonic.net for privacy. I can't realistically opt out of Google. The lines seem arbitrary.
July 7th, 1888: Tesla Sells A.C. Patents

Tesla sells patents for A.C. Polyphase System to George Westinghouse for $25,000 in cash, $50,000 in notes and a royalty of $2.50 per horsepower for each motor.

https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/timeline/1888-tesla-s...

Some tangential history regarding Westinghouse for fun.
Are you arguing that no gender gaps have been found in any measures of intelligence, or only that none have been linked to brain volume?

There's a fairly persistent gender gap in average math ability:
https://www.aei.org/publication/2016-sat-test-results-confir...

I don't know if this has anything to do with average brain volume or not though.
We're not really disagreeing much. I think that VPNs are a fine and effective solution for the problem "I want to keep my data private and I'm willing to pay for it" but not for the problem "I think corporations selling peoples' private information is bad and we as a society should try to stop it." I don't think VPNs are a realistic solution to that, and I think regulation is, and I think the author of the article would disagree with both of those assertions.
Hell yeah, I exclusively use DDG and it kicks ass
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I've done some explorations here.

From the simple perspective, using a fixed width line in a prose markup language that is mostly whitespace agnostic like Markdown creates okay diffs in a line-based diff tool.

I did some work with tokenized diffs: https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff

That particular tool/experiment uses the Pygments tokenizer used for syntax highlighting and produces interesting somewhat semantically meaningful code diffs. I think the same principles would apply if you used something like a part of speech tagger on prose.

From a different approach, I put some effort into better line-based and file-based diffs of Inform 7 which is a prose format that is less whitespace agnostic than Markdown and also built as a single monolithic file, by converting it to an intermediate format.

The code that does this is here: https://github.com/WorldMaker/APrincessOfMoons/blob/master/i...

That works by splitting the file at things that resembles headers, converting newlines to pilcrows (the paragraph symbol), and essentially reformatting to more of a fixed width format. (All of which is trivially reversible.)

You can see the commits in that repository as an example of what the intermediate format looks and diffs like.

That format handler is written as a plugin to a venerable tool I wrote called musdex: https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex

I wrote that to better source control zip files as the contents of their zip rather than a binary blob, by letting the zip/unzip operations be automatable as a part of source control operations (pre- and post-commit hooks). This I've used for some of the modern file formats like .docx which are built as zip files of XML files and other assets. For instance, you want write the document in Word, interacting with the .docx, and source control its XML contents. That too gives more useful diffs than source controlling the .docx on its own.
> I still find it pretty strange that the definition of federal poverty threshold is based on pre-tax income.

> What actually matters for poverty (and income equality etc) is income after taxes and transfers.

The federal poverty line is used to define eligibility for many benefit programs (both state and federal), so "after taxes and transfers" would be problematic and make individual program beenfit decisions undecidable; post-tax pre-transfer would be sensible except that tax liability is settled far enough after the fact that, again, application of the FPL to things it is primarily used for (benefit eligibility) would be problematic.
I'm not sure what you mean. We do establish the costs for carbon. In some countries you (or major users) must buy a permit to emit carbon. Some establish the maximum carbon the environment can handle, then auction permits, establishing a market price.

The U.S. effectively estimates zero cost (without looking into the details); that certainly is a bad estimate.
Racism never went anywhere, it's just bubbling close to the surface and could blow up at any time if it weren't for the laws we have on the books. That's the fact of the matter. If you privately polled the deep south:

"If there was a way to liquidate all muslims and blacks from America without anyone knowing about it carried out by a secret gov't plan, would you endorse it?"

I guaran-fucking-tee you they would vote overwhelmingly to do so. That in my opinion is much more frightening than anything. The racism never went anywhere, it's just jammed beneath the surface and glossed over. It was similar to a poll I read that said: "Should we get rid of American muslim's ability to vote?" Something like 50+% of deep south supporters voted in the affirmative. Now imagine if they had power to do so. Imagine if the North lost the civil war. Remember: a MILLION americans died over the civil war. ONE FUCKING MILLION. This is not an over-and-done-with issue. We are still at war with the south. Always will be. I hope they secede, to be honest because they are continually a weak-link that drags the north down.

So much racism in this country it's mind-boggling. Just because you fucking forced a couple black kids to go to a white school doesn't mean that we now live in a post-racial society. It just means that white-flight is gonna happen and the mechanisms by which the state forces school to integrate are no longer needed because there are no black people in white neighborhoods and vice-versa. This is compounded significantly by class issues.
How do you go about making an idea into a finished website?
Indeed, it's frustrating to see it constantly said that the "decisive will of the British people" has spoken!
Britain is over within ten years, that's what today means. Scottish independence, some kind of enormous fudge in Northern Ireland, and Wales beginning to look towards the door.

Sic transit gloria mundi.
I would set up a tor endpoint on the home connection (to make the collected data as useless as possible).

Combining this with a regular VPN should be enough effective, with a minimum maintenance burden.
Infer has a thread-safety checker that identifies races in classes annotated with `@ThreadSafe` (http://fbinfer.com/docs/experimental-checkers.html).