skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's interesting (in a "train accident" sort of way) how many downvotes without any counter-argument you're getting...

Not only that. If you look at the replies, there is a "core group" who are repeating the SAME THING over and over again. The same debunked lies.

I'm not a fan of gawker. I'm not that sad that they aren't around. But what I am shocked by is that it was taken out by a vindictive billionaire with an agenda. It's surprising how a select group of accounts are attacking me for pointing that out.

There were TONS of websites that published all or parts of the sex tape before gawker. And yet, thiel went after gawker.

Apparently, a site being attacked and bankrupted by a vindictive billionaire is a praise worthy thing in a free society to a select group of people on HN.

It's a very strange thing to behold.
Or that the documentation can be improved, or the API could be improved, or a number of other things. But really, JSON encoding/decoding in Elm boils down to specifying what the type of an object's field is. If that is difficult, interfaces and classes must be a nightmare.
Can anyone explain to me why "deaths/tWh" is even a meaningful measure?

Of course nuclear energy has one of the highest Wh outputs, no-one is disputing that. However, what does that have to do with the risk of use? That seems like a measure very skewed to make arguments in favour of nuclear power.

I might as well argue that car drivers are safer than pedestrians because the average deaths/horse power is vastly lower.

Also, why did they leave away hydro, water and wind power in those "deaths per x" charts?
> If the database blows up on any attempts to store invalid data, I'm protected from having to ask these questions.

I'm always surprised when people fight using constraints. During dev, I see them as a godsend for spotting problems - I don't know how many bugs having self-enforcing data structures has caught.

I will say that I have, under protest, turned them off in production once for performance. A particular heavily-used flow was annoying due to a large number of FK checks on an intermediate step. But never during development, and given the number of FK-violation errors I've seen in production code, preferably not even then.

Fixing code is almost always so much easier than fixing data.
It's odd that the article mentions two or more examples for every topic (e.g. VHS vs. Betamax, English vs. Esperanto, Macintosh vs. Microsoft, gasoline vs. steam vs. electric car). But for keyboards, only QWERTY was mentioned, with an allusion to "half a dozen other keyboard layouts that are said to permit faster typing". So here are a few alternatives: Dvorak, Colemak, Arensito.
I believe the politicization of nuclear energy (the resulting lack of investment & innovation) will go down as one of the major blunders in human history.

We'd be in a far, far better situation with greenhouse gasses if we (as a human race) had continued to invest in nuclear energy. There would have been mishaps along the way, but at a much smaller scale than we're experiencing now with deaths from air pollution and looming risk of a warming planet.

We'd have much, much safer systems with modern reactor designs.
I think the better question is: Should we really be taking real-life advice from cheesy action movies?
Author here. I agree with your points, and in my article I specifically mention that there are benefits to some of the "hardness" of certain tasks in Elm (type-safety in the case of JSON decoding).

But to claim that JSON decoding in Elm is not significantly more difficult than it is in JavaScript would be misleading. A front end developer that has only written JS will be surprised when he/she cannot just drop in the equivalent of JSON.parse() and get an Elm value out of it. I call it "hard" because there is a bit of a learning curve, and it does require some thought, and quite frankly it takes quite a bit of time if you have a large application like we do.

Moreover, I am not complaining. And I do not think people should be. As I said in the article, the tradeoff is worth it.
Apart from the waste.

We really don't know what to do about it other than bury it and leave it for a few tens to hundreds of generations in the future to deal with with the hope that they will know what to do.

So it's the safest option. But only for now. We might just be dooming our descendants to deal with the mess and they might be in a worse state than we are now.
What If Marx, Friedman and Smith Founded a Startup? Coinless This Is Their ICO
Now my question is: who programmed the rogue AI? We should be even more afraid of him. /s
Huh, interesting. In Greek, we say "(this) Wednesday" (whichever one comes next), and "next Wednesday" (the one that comes after the next one). Weeks don't factor into it at all.
Coinless emerges as a response to the world speculative ecosystem of the cryptocurrencies, which adds value to what in essence has “no value”.

COINLESS breaks the paradigm of the “Great Bubble Pop”, being the only currency capable of overcoming the limitations and obstacles of the scheme, because it doesn’t belong to a regulated economic system, bringing security and stability to all those who understand the project of the founding fathers, three great economists that besides their contradictions, always really wanted to bring economic freedom to the people.
The values of the brand and the team are explicit. Our users will have an exchange currency which will always have the same inverted value, and will be able to generate revenue, even though this will be directly linked to the participation of people for such growth.
Our objective as a brand is to present a cryptocoin with free convertibility, allowing investors to participate of this concept.

Founders

Karl Marx: Tired of being confused with a money hater, Marx helped develop Coinless on the base of a decentralized organized community owning their own means of production, as a revolutionary idea. “A ghost is haunting the internet, the ghost of Coinless”.

Milton Friedman: Milton loves money. For this reason he helped conceptualizing Coinless, pseudo-money with no sense and no controls. “The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is an unreliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B , without A knowing B or B knowing A, without reason at all, to do nothing with it”.

Adam Smith: He knows a lot about money, banks and debts, but it is the love for dutch tulips that makes him the most tasteful of founders any currency could have. “Whoever derives his revenue from a fund which is his own, must draw it either from luck, or from Coinless, this is the way it is meant to be”.

Coinless.io
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Doesn't oven treatment induce slight deformations?
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As others have mentioned, zip codes might not have any geometry at all (point zips), and they are frequently updated/changed. In addition, zips do not follow standard constraints that other defined region types do. For instance, counties are entirely contained by their parent state, but that is not the case for zip codes, as they frequently cross county and state borders.
And if the went so busy putting as steering wheel on the skateboard they might have some time to thing about how the seatbelt fits and bumpers. Speed Kills.
My experience: I worked part time (3.5 days/week) for a startup early in my career. The reason was so I could go to school part-time also (for jazz performance).

I've since employed many folks part-time and a lot more full time. From what I've seen, it's almost always an option, but you have to ask for it, it's not just going to be offered.

It's also trickier to manage, if you have a handful of people that work 15-20 hours/week, and are paid hourly, vs full time folks who are salaried, and managing support/on-call schedules, etc, and it can create a strange dynamic on teams sometimes.
In Defense of Cheap Data Science
These are still 200 million pairs of eyes every day on their product. VC funding has looked like a joke recently, but 200million daily users at $600M doesn't seem ridiculous, regardless of how silly/bad the product is.
We found it in the ground, we're just putting it back in the ground when we're done with it.
Well, they tried that in the Fallout universe, everything was running on nuclear power... it didn't ended well ;)
Sure, for desktops.

Poor thermals means that this line of GPUs will find it's way into exactly 0% of the laptop market, which is unfortunate.
4 furnaces per printer... reminds me of factorio
After working for almost 7 years for the same company, I had a meltdown for many different reasons a bit more than two years ago. I have a fairly nice job and work with fantastic people. But plainly speaking I was getting tremendously bored. I looked for a different job and found several options, but my boss suggested me to work part time.
I have been doing that 22 hour/week and could not be happier. I wanted to do lots of extra things and personal projects. I am not doing much but I appreciate the extra time to think, read and wander. I used to have heavy insomnia, it is a 100% gone, there is almost zero stress, and money is more than enough. I am not married and have no kids but I warmly recommend it.
The best argument that someone gave me is that it is a very easy decision to roll back.
Friendly neighbours to the north[1]. We don't like tooting our horn enough, but America gets the bulk of its energy raw materials from us.[2]

[1]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=2150

[2]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
can you give a source for this insight? tell me more.

It does explain so much. for example all this work was put into a ridiculous, animated, moving, flashing new gmail sign-in page that was pre-announced for weeks (our sign-in page is changing!) and after all that work does not include even seven and a half minutes worth of improvement by a developer. For example, I had to laugh and laugh after I realized it wasn't accepting my password because my caps lock was on.

I would expect a popup warning if you have your caps lock turned on while typing. Because, you know, that is one of literally like 3 things you can do to improve a sign-in page that is that dynamic and moving and flashing. There's just not much to improve.

All that flash and it doesn't do anything at all. Your comment gives a lot of insight as to why so I would like to understand this cultural shift.

how does management work at Google now?
Ex-Amazon and Microsoft Employees Building 'Alexa for Businesses'
It's very bare-bones, but the solution that works most reliably for me is still https://awwapp.com (has been around for ages)

That still leaves a lot of room for improvement. I'd love to see something that has a native iOS app with great Pencil support, as well as clients for other platforms (anything that people tend to use with a pen, like MS Surface), and also a web-app as a fall-back, at least read-only. Low-latency is a must. There are a bunch of solutions I've tried, but most take something like 20 seconds for things to shop up on all the clients (or longer, like a shared One-Note notebook). That just doesn't work for a video conference.
Try as I might, I just can't be bothered to care if someone wants to know what I've been buying so they can show me advertisements relevant to my interests.

But I'm weird, I don't think advertising is inherently evil or annoying.
That's why a lot of people see it as the lesser evil and a good stop gap before we move to 100% renewable.
We really don't know what to do about it

Another myth. Of course we do: breeder reactors.

Hint: why is nuclear waste dangerous? because there is still loads of energy in it.
Ah, nuclear fans downvoting again. Can't stomach simple facts.

Chernobyl: 56 direct deaths, estimated 4000 killed by cancer caused by it, economic damage: $235b Radiation of the disaster still detectable all over Europe.
Fukushima: 6 dead, estimate of 1600 more people killed indirectly, economic damage so far: between $10b and $100b Radiation detectable on California beaches. No solution for the radioactive waste (other than dumping it into the pacific where it can mingle with the Great Pacific Garbage patch)
I don't see the implication at all. The culture of the company can be "bro" without every single employee being "bro". By your logic all the women working at Uber would also have to be "bro".
YCombinator was investing in nuclear energy recently, so an update may be nice here, both at short and medium term level. Thanks in advance.
Waste is a miniscule problem. Put it in the ground. Or, perhaps, in the side of a mountain...

The only reason waste is an issue in the United States is that the Congress decided that nuclear waste repositories have to last for 10,000 years uninterrupted. As far as we know this is just about impossible. 10 millenia ago we were in the caves.

Placed at the bottom of a pool, it's perfectly safe. This is a solved problem. The issue is political (especially from uneducated NIMBYs) rather than technical.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
This is the biggest disappointment for me, blower Nvidia cards are basically unobtainium because of miners, I was hoping we'd get a second source for the Ethereum bubble boys.
My claims are based off of the stackoverflow survey : https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology
Author here: If the article above has you excited, come and join my team at Apple. We're hiring Go and PostgreSQL developers in Shanghai, China right now. Relocation is possible, just send me an e-mail to find out more about this role.

My e-mail is in my profile.
Lmao, you forgot to mention it costs couple hundred dollars less than the counter-part
Show HN: Hall Monitor, easily monitor the apps and services you use everyday
A fair question, but Terminator™ is germane to the subject matter.
Well because in the end the amount of power is what matters? I'm not sure I understand your point.

If you replace nuclear with renewable (or the other way around) you'll have to produce the same amount of power, all other things being equal.
You put your money in a ""smart" contract." You discover there was a bug and all your money has been moved to a "better" programmer. You contemplate why they didn't give you an environment harder to make "safe" programs in.

This is has some nice language theory stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4p0gq3/why_turingcompl...

This is why you might prefer bitcoin to ethereum if you're just value routing: https://medium.com/@richardheartauthor/9-reasons-you-should-...
Web service is not like ad on a paper or a public billboard.
If service is being scraped by other companies who makes or not makes money for it, or prevents the owner making money with it (filtering out the ads) this service is most likely to cause extra costs as bandwith and processing power. They are not free.
So you should have right to block anybody from your site as you wish!
People and their egos crave control. With something like driving, you feel at least somewhat in control of your own destiny. Coming face to face with a shark does not afford the same sense, same with an unstoppable chain reaction occurring deep in a nuclear reactor and the ensuing fallout.
Why do you think it's not meaningful? What would be the alternative?
I have not skimmed but didn't see wind, solar or hydro?
1,700,000% more likely actually :)
"In fact most are doubling down on building teams to build and support Salesforce."

I'd sooner attribute that to Stockholm syndrome, in much the same way that Oracle shops tend to double down on Oracle products - not because Oracle products are actually good, mind you (they're absolutely abysmal, in my observation, and even the ones acquired from Sun are rotting corpses at this point, Java being perhaps the sole exception), but because it's cheaper to keep buying in than to break out of the vendor lock-in.
India’s Snapdeal Ends Talks to Join Flipkart in Battle with Amazon
I thought "watching" anything (or even having a Netflix subscription in the first place) wasn't obligatory part of the activity "Netflix and chill".
$120k for the prototype printer, $360k for the production printer... still about two orders of magnitude away from being practical for me to set up a microfactory in my garage. Maybe by the time my car is self-driving and earning me money instead of sitting in my garage, I can get that microfactory set up affordably.
Court Rules Against Politician Who Banned Access to Her Facebook Page
Agree. "this" thing in JS can be really inconvenient for beginners.
Australia has plenty of Uranium.
popular belief is full of people below average intelligence
Even if the waste starts to leak, it will be just local problem and not big catastrophe. Compared to global warming, burying nuclear waste is more responsible solution for the future generations sake.
I really wanted to love this machine but couldn't find one that wasn't a lemon.

Went through 3 of them. A well-specced model with 4k screen, 16GB memory, and 512GB SSD.

First had a bad screen, second had sticky keys, and third had faulty video card.

Third time I took it back, I was still willing to get it repaired but the support staff wouldn't do it. They told me they've had so many XPS 15s returned for service that they just recommended getting a totally different machine...

But it was a brilliant machine when it worked.
Very functional site. It's easy to read and I already was several pages into learning Elixir!
I use Venmo at least weekly, but I didn't think it was owned by PayPal. But then I looked it up and saw that Venmo was bought by Braintree in 2012, and Braintree was bought by PayPal in 2013.

TIL.
Not in the same state and not in the same concentration. I'm not anti-nuclear in the least but let's not spread disinformation (or "fake news" in modern parlance).
Actually, I'm under the impression it's way more common to migrate language or framework than data storage. I externalize most of my business logic to postgres for that reason (plus, it's incredibly performant, especially since you don't keep requesting connections from connection pool for each single part of the computation). My backend app handles request sanitizing, providing endpoints, etc. All data processing is made in the database. Love it.
I don't actually accept "the current state of affairs is bad" as a justification for new regulations.

The entire point of e.g. the cookie example is that often regulation is not only annoying but ineffective. You don't get to say "this is bad, self-enforcement doesn't work, therefore we have an obligation to pass a law that also won't work".

I agree that self-policing won't work, but it's entirely fair to say "all of the options I see are unacceptably bad, we need to talk about finding a new path instead of choosing any of these".
I've used both Typescript and Flow, and this breaks down in practice. At least, it did for me.

Problem with both Typescript and Flow is that it requires discipline from you, your team, and those who provide third party libraries. If someone was lazy and inserted `any` at a key location, you can start having familiar bugs even if the type checker tells you everything is fine.
How is it skewed? It's a cost-benefit analysis. tWh is the benefit, deaths are the safety cost. In other words, if your country needs X amount of power, and you know the deaths/tWh for each energy source, then you can figure out how many people would die if your country used that energy source to produce its power.
Wikipedia has some numbers. Hydro has caused the largest single-event catastrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
Nuclear waste leaking into an aquifer or the ocean will not be a local problem.
I don't know much about how Desktop Metal works; how does this compare to things like ExOne?
The way they "injected themselves" into the case was by funding the legal fees. Gawker lost in a court of law. If your contention is that the jury was wrong, then your issue should be with the court system, not with the fact that someone paid to take Gawker to court.

Gawker had a fair trial in a US court of law and it lost. If that didn't happen it couldn't go out of business.
Lattice (YC W16) Raises $6.4M to Fix Performance Reviews
Austrilia is #1 by reserves, Kazakhstan is #2 and Canada is #3.

US as of 2012 buys about 25% of it from Canada and the rest from a variety of places.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...
I'm only aware of two deaths specifically caused by wind power, when two engineers were caught on top of one when it caught fire. It's likely such a negligible number that it wouldn't even show up on the graph.
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I always tell people to do pushups. It's the simplest exercise to do just about anywhere with your height in floor space. I guarantee that will clear up 99% of your back issues, especially those from excess time spent in a computer chair. Every hour or so, get up, bang out 10-20 pushups. You'll be amazed.
what about thorium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7baTdyHv8g
Typescript works fine even with all the libs written in js/es6 from npm ?
Deaths per capita within 100 miles of generation.
So females are incapable of being sexist?
And then we put the breeder reactors into abandoned mines.

Breeders aren't the solution, they have waste products too, and those waste products are also radioactive.
The fact that the company shipping them wants to be in the news?

More seriously: the main innovation here seems like accelerating the print volumes and decreasing the per-item cost to the point that this could be used in production rather than just for prototyping. That's a kind of "mainstream", though still on the high-end business side, not consumer.
What about systemd timers[1]? I use them all the time, even at user level. After learning about them, I completely stopped using cron.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers
The older we get, the less fks we give about privacy.
Here is what people are comparing it to, in terms of difficulty:

json.loads('foo.json')

I spent 3 days about 6 months ago, off and on, trying to figure out json decoding in elm, and gave up on the language entirely. It wasn't a matter of simply specifying types. The syntax is confusing the compiler isn't any help. I had very little difficulty working with anything else in Elm, so I think there is a lot of work to be done there.

If there were a more painless way to do it, there are a lot of api's I'd love to write front ends for in elm.
You may be on to something. Have we checked how far North Korea is able to launch sharks and cars? /s I think nuclear can't be compared to cars and sharks.
The GTX 1080 is actually $500 MSRP. The Vega overclocking is surely inferior to the GTX OC. The OP is unfortunately right I think, trying to enter the Radeon ecosystem at this moment is foolhardy.
> Each production printer can produce up to an incredible 500 cubic inches of complex parts per hour.

That is 124 iPhone 6 sized solid blocks per hour. Incredible indeed!
LOL, perhaps in its most basic form.

Do you breathe using your chest or your stomach? How deeply? At what cadence? Through your nose, or through your mouth?

All of these things really matter when learning to run comfortably.
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Tricky to use breeder reactors in a way that doesn't upset the non-proliferation balance
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No it is not. It is a movie made for entertainment. We are in reality.

It really irks me how much debate and decision-making in technology is based on bias gained from mindless entertainment and not from anything based in reality.

(I am not besmirching the good name of Terminator, that movie is a true classic)