skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, adequate cooling is actually a big deal with LEDs, and the problem is compounded in cheap bulbs with minimal cooling and lower-quality components all around. These things are supposed to last decades. http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/print/volume-11/issue-7... talks about this with a specific focus on the fixture, since it affects thermals so much. The LED automotive headlights I purchased recently have substantial aluminum fins and cooling fans ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WVJQO58 ) plus external drivers also with aluminum cases. There are tons of cheaper options on Amazon with less thermal consideration. Given the 80w rating (for the pair) compared with the kind of heat sinking you need for a CPU with a ~80w TDP to keep it happy and below 90*C, these looked to be at about the lower end of what would do the job. The fans definitely spin fast and move a bit of air; you can hear them quite well with the ignition on and the motor off.
Pushing changes on Monday morning... way to ruin everyone's week!
> People are scared of nuclear energy for the same reason that they're scared of taking an airplane. Even though it's technically and statistically very safe, the perceived risk appears much greater. [...] I'm more worried about global warming than Fukushima and I'd gladly trade even a dozen of Fukushima-type incidents in the next decades (highly unlikely) if it could stop global warming and its dire, hard-to-revert consequences.

I could not agree more, but unfortunately global warming suffers from the exact opposite effect. The perceived risk appears very low to most people, because it is not very spectacular on human time scales. Even though it is by far the greatest existential risk we face.
That is such bullshit. If the machine can't keep up with its own hardware running at 100% then it shouldn't be in there.
Past couple of startup jobs I worked part time (80-85% time), and before that did consulting part time.

Some takeaways, and you'll see this in other stories here:

1. It's much easier to negotiate part time at existing job.

2. It is possible to negotiate part time at new jobs, but it's much harder. Easier if you already did it at previous position, and if you're very experienced, have in-demand skills, and have negotiation skills.

My experience (again, echoed by others) is that I am now a much more productive programmer, since I've been forced to focus, to prioritize, and to make sure limited time is used effectively.

(I'm actually writing a book, The Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek, to be released real soon now, which talks among other things about how to get to a shorter workweek if that's your thing. https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ if you want to be notified when it's released.)
Nope. Unless we start importing uranium from off-planet, there just isn't enough material to make the whole planet significantly radioactive.
Newly introduced errors in site code are only one of many sources of failure for a site like GitHub, and probably a fairly rare one.
This article coincidentally is an exception! A ton is the right order of magnitude:

The US Treasury says that $1 million in $100 bills weights 22 lbs[1].

The $115 million that they raised in the last few months would weigh about 2200 lbs.

[1] http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=441929

edit: grammar
Maybe we'll get universal healthcare at some point and people will stop rolling out this tired argument.
I bet Fukushima was pretty damn safe, maybe one of the best nuclear power plants designed. The best designs cannot account for everything. There is always a risk of an accident, and you need consider not just accidental but intentional mishaps (dirty bombs).

Very low risk of something happening is not the same is the damaged caused if that risk becomes a reality.
I'm told the metal powders are still more expensive than equivalent traditional materials, and that in some cases (Ti) can be explosive. Anyone know what the real economics are in terms of materials and energy costs?
The virtual teas are fantastic is you make a habit of them! We just started using DonutAI to link people up across the company. It's also a great way to build cross-team empathy, since it's easy to forget how much everyone contributes when you don't see their work every day.
It's hard to say which of two technologies is better when they're not substitutable. For example, you can't replace a gas-burning truck with a lot of carrying capacity and a long range with a small electric car with basically no carrying capacity and much shorter range. They don't do all of the same things.

You can argue that nobody needs the truck, or at least that the person you're talking to doesn't need the truck, but that's a "you're holding it wrong" or, at the extreme, a "you're living wrong" argument, and it comes down to moral arguments in the extreme case.

> The irony is, that Apple eventually triumphed because it invested in more intuitive design

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yeah, apparently even "10x cheaper" would still require me to take out a mortgage for a printer.

Still, doing so and offering "3D metal printing as a service" (3DMPaaS) might actually be a useful investment.
HBO has been hacked and a 'Game of Thrones' script may have been stolen
All I can say is I'd rather be spending time catching fish on a lake created by a hydroelectric system, then cooking those fish at night in the camp site by the lake, than doing the same anywhere inside the Chernobyl 30 km Exclusion Zone or the Fukushima 20 km Exclusion Zone.
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>we stopped innovating in fission power plant design decades ago.

No work on new better designed as continued, we just stopped building many of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
Relevantly, some nuclear plants are paired with hydro schemes, in order to make the flat output of nuclear plants economically match the bumpy daytime peak of consumer demand.
How is one supposed to browse these files once un-zipped? I will be honest and admit I am ignorant to XML and had trouble finding a solution after some quick googling. Any help would be appreciated.
In general, why should someone's higher risk lifestyle be subsidized by other insurance customers?
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> This is the year 2017 - This article deliberately skips over any consideration to Wind, Solar, etc. What kind of BULLSHIT excuse for journalism and scientific study is this? Who in the nuclear industry paid for this?

Wind is hanging rapidly rotating turbines on thin shafts 100-200 meter off the ground. Are you seriously going to claim installing and maintaining those things is a safe occupation ? They are referred to as grinders, which relates to what happens to a technician who trips while inside the machine room (which is tiny and suspended 100m off of the ground, the gears are exposed, so you can imagine exactly what happened to get the name grinders).

Likewise, most solar is rooftop solar. Rooftop solar ? That is essentially placing large and heavy glass slabs high up in the air on sloping surfaces. Likewise, if I had that job, I might neglect to mention it to my life insurance, as this is not a particularly safe occupation either.

> "While the negative health impacts of modern renewable energy technologies are so far thought to be small, they have been less fully explored."

Installations for both power sources are demanding a steady stream of human life, as is extracting the materials needed for construction of either wind or solar power. Construction of them is powered by coal (in the case of wind turbines by necessity, as coking is still how we produce steel). Also: China's mines are deathtraps, this is a LOT of human lives.

> Maybe in the short term nuclear does kill fewer people, in the short term compared to recent history. If nuclear plants are maintained safely - thats a pretty big if - and no other disasters befall a plant, maybe there current status is true.

As can be seen, even if you count Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear is still safer than most other forms of power. But that's a bit like chalking kills by a soldier that takes a nightlight powered by solar battery up to solar power.

For obvious reasons, any power source can easily be turned into a weapon.
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Are there any other major sites that are down?
The energy of the radiated γ-photons has to come from somewhere. In the first approximation the fission reactor is device for releasing this energy faster while converting it into more mamageable form.

(Pure fission and Teller-Ulam bombs are about releasing said energy as fast and as completely as possible)
The problem is not the files, it's the project management stuff (issues and PR tracking). That is a SPOF. If they could decentralize that, then nobody would care if they are down half the time.
They did embrace it: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3204149/components-graphics/a...

The problem is their core audience (gamers) gets cranky when they can't buy cards at regular prices due to the huge crypto demand. It negatively affects their image and they would rather have their fanboys than the disloyal miners who would happily switch to nvidia if it meant a greater ROI.
Even if only the price of the prototyper comes down a bit more, it'll improve things significantly.

The ability to rapidly prototype in low cost, low latency iterations will be a boon across many industries - regardless of whether or not you end up outsourcing production.

And of course, you may just end up outsourcing down the road.
Can anyone help me understand the pricing on this one. An Inspiron with core i5 / 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD costs about $500, whereas a similar spec'd XPS 15 retails for more than twice.

Is the "premium" really worth the extra $500-$800 or Dell is overcharging because there's hardly any good Windows machine in this space (except maybe Thinkpads) ?
your link didn't provide any numbers as far as i can see, so i'll add another one. This one is very long though, my quoted numbers are from the appendix and are merely estimates. Read the article if you want to know more about it.

> Regarding bare plant costs, some recent figures apparently for overnight capital cost (or engineering, procurement and construction – EPC – cost) quoted from reputable sources but not necessarily comparable are:

* EdF Flamanville EPR: €4 billion/$5.6 billion, so €2434/kW or $3400/kW
* Bruce Power Alberta 2x1100 MWe ACR, $6.2 billion, so $2800/kW
* CGNPC Hongyanhe 4x1080 CPR-1000 $6.6 billion, so $1530/kW

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-as...
> Turn off solar+wind remotely (often very expensive to retrofit to existing installations as the Germans found out)

If we're talking about problems that show up when wind/solar becomes an order of magnitude more prevalent than it is now, why would you care about the cost of retrofitting anything?
No one seems to think disposing of nuclear waste is a problem until someone tries to dispose of it in their backyard.
I reject your rehashing of "I've done nothing wrong, so I have nothing to hide." This thread is full of examples of things which many may find innocuous now, but some may also disagree with, and may use as grounds to persecute in the future.
Also, whenever Netflix spends money to produce content they are creating IP assets that are much closer to fungibility than any IP most software companies ever create. A bank will be much more willing to consider the rights to the House of Cards remake as a collateral than your awesome build configurations, an in-house web framework or even the entirety of the Oracle RDBMS sources.
Because of network effects. Venmo is easy enough to use, and most of my friends use it. In fact, I was introduced to it by a friend who doesn't work in the tech industry.

You have to understand that for most people, learning a new system is a hassle that they would rather avoid. If Venmo continues to just work, I doubt people would switch to anything else for their payment/ money transfer needs.
At the same time, it wasn't predicted that solar power would be this viable, was it?
As a fellow developer, I purchased a xps 15 with the 1080p screen. The keyboard is top notch, minus the fact it doesn't have a dedicated end key. The touch pad is good enough as I don't need it very often in the IDE world. The windows 10 touch pad gestures work great. I would highly recomend it.
95% would mean it would have over 18 days offline!

I wouldn't even put it in the 99% (3.7 days) uptime category either.
That would be 18 days out of a year. I'd be amazed if it was that low. I'd expect closer to 98-99% (7-3 days per year)
With LinkedIn's current policy, are they the owner of my data? What if I scrape my own profile?
I have an odd thought - Netflix is going about its new commissioning process all wrong. lokking at Netflix from the POV of "innovators dilemma" they are the low end upstart coming to steal the studio / broadcasters lunch

But having the broadcasters lunch on its lips it is now trying to copy the studios at their own game - creating high quality must watch content.

I think that's the wrong game.

One of my favourite discoveries on Netflix was "chaos on the bridge" where Shatner narrated a documentary on the first few years of Star Trek NG. It was fun, had almost zero cost apart from some talking heads and the researcher time.

A similar one on Atari, and the rise of Compaq all made me think that documentaries would be the new magazines - something for everyone's interest and dirt cheap to make - and with not much skill will eat up 50 mins of my time as easily as a GoT episode

Just wondering if they are not getting above themselves?
I had to change a username from capitalized to uncapitalized and use my updated remote afterwards, apologies if I broke it for everyone.
Yep. Installing solar arrays at ground level is even safer than building a fission plant.
These are already hacked systems where someone has been trying to perform a "symlink attack" to access other users files with the httpds permissions.
175 rejections while fundraising and we were considered successful
You'd think they'd use localStorage...
Malware trained on OpenAI Gym can avoid detection
> I would suggest to try using different DisplayPort cable.

It has nothing to do with the cable. I've had this issue on every single 4K monitor I've used with these laptops - which is at least three different monitors, with different cables - and it even manifests with HDMI 4K output (at 30Hz). All of these setups work perfectly fine with my XPS 13 running at 4K on Linux. I don't understand why you think that the OS's inability to scale the system UI or applications in a reasonable way would have anything to do with the cable.

Try it with a Linux laptop running Unity, and you'll see the difference.
They DID skip it for a reason. I'm telling you there is most likely an ulterior motive for this article. There is mention of biomass (which is burning of wood) but no mention of power generated by dams. The history of Solar and Wind are short and has grown astronomically. Maybe you could weasel out of doing any real analysis on it.

But what about hydro power? Why is that omitted. And the title says it all;

"It goes completely against what most believe, but out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest"
Thanks, I never looked into the technical reasons behind this.
Fukushima was safe, by all standards. This was not related to corruption. It was simply not designed for the rarity of a magnitude 9 earthquake and the scale of the tsunami that followed. Your house in a five hundred year floodplain is not unsafe for lacking stilts. Safety costs money, this wasn't corruption.
I'm skeptical of the potential of dark scrapers at scale. You'd need to simulate too much human behavior to be unidentifiable, and humans are slow.

You would need real-looking bot accounts that you'll use to scrape. You'd need a realistically randomized rate limit, sampling from some distribution conditional on the type of the source page. You'd need realistic mouse/keyboard movements. Realistic hours of operations. Can't be scraping at 4AM and 4PM, and all of the hours in-between. Occasional noise operations, such as searching for a job, or getting salary estimates. You'd be geographically constrained. You wouldn't want your bot from Boston to be looking at too many individuals in Houston (regularly). Maybe you'd use a Markov chain to have the bot make decisions? I doubt the blackhats would have good training data for a neural net. You'd need tens of thousands of these bots to cover the linkedin user base in reasonable time (say, once every week on average), and these bots would have to either overlap or seriously underlap on who they cover.

Best use case would scraper-API that you can use to look up batches of specific people, with your bots looking at others only to look realistic.

(Or maybe not? It's a fun question, but I know fuck all about this. Not my area of expertise.)
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I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.
Remember that you have been using it for the last couple years only, which were a bull market for bitcoin.

If you hold during the bear market, you might have had a different opinion about the slightly deflationary nature of the beast. x10 return in a couple years is not slightly deflationary by any measure.
Fukushima was a boiling water reactor, which is not a good design. A good design would be passively safe, which more or less means that you can turn off the plant and walk away without a disaster occurring.
Wind works so well in places like Santa Monica the utilities were able to make it illegal to use wind power for your home. Fortunately they were not able to do the same to solar. We have home owners in california generating more energy than they use with their home solar panels, like my parents they generate more than they use even at the height of the summer.
What a flawed comparison. Take the water from the pool and drink it and give it your livestock to drink and water your plants with it and see how that works out over the span of a few decades.
Would likely be illegal if you continued to do after the store asked you to leave...
Well you all know to commit your vendor libs so you can still deploy when Github is down, right? RIGHT?!
Related: I've been impressed by the quality of PCem recently:

https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/

(Windows, Linux. Runs well on Mac via Wine.)

It emulates lots of specific pieces of historic PC hardware. Not cycle-accurate, but it's good enough to get roughly the correct speed for the CPU, graphics card you pick, etc.
It's starting to work again for me. I was able to approve a PR and merge it.
It's kmfrk's fault! Get them!
Nice! I heard about you guys on a producthunt newsletter (I believe) on neat remote working tools!
It's not a perfect measurement, as Nuclear is similar to solar in that it provides power to it's own schedule. Normally this will mean gas or coal being throttled below their capacity. It's possible that this affects their deaths/TWh negatively, though perhaps not as maybe the sourcing of the fuel is the big problem with those plants, but e.g. if it's 5 people who die building the nuclear and gas plant, and then the gas plant throttles down overnight because the nuclear plant can't, then the nuclear plant wins unfairly.
In the face of a lack of information, HN comments begin to throw around unfounded speculation & tongue-in-cheek jokes run rampant. I suppose that in the absence of information, many stay silent, & the remaining see a thread lacking comments

& now we've got this meta one in the mix
don't worry about waste, you could bring that here in italy, for little money.
This is a mere personal anecdote so it doesn't mean much at large, but I'm pessimistic about the advent of sponsored {thing} not necessarily with Giphy. To me this is just another %thing% that advertisers have leached a tentacle into for the sake of getting me to buy something.

I get it, it's the game we play now with content that is ostensibly or otherwise "free", pandora's box is open but the internet has become such a frustrating place for me personally every time I see "Sponsored tweet" or "sponsored post" or "sponsored ________" that tries to blend itself into the rank and file of non-sponsored content I would otherwise enjoy.
Okay, how would you like your purchase histories to be used to determine your wealth and companies charge you more for goods and services because they know you can afford to.

"I'm sorry sir, our system says your wealth rating is 600, our discounts only apply to people with 400 or lower."
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, ...
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
-- From Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Chapter Two, 1876.

http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_tom.html
Please retitle the article to as follows;

"It goes completely against what most believe, but EXCEPT FOR SOLAR AND WIND AND OTHER RENEWABLE RESOURCES BECAUSE WE COULD NOT BE BOTHERED out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest"

This is the real title of this article. And if it was, then it would not be #1 top of the list on Hacker News.
1. The world's available hydro resources are nearly tapped.

2. Hydro power generation is only second to coal in the number of people it killed. [1]

3. Hydro power generation is complete hell on the environment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...
I've been consulting about 25 hours a week for the last couple years. Sometimes a little more (there was a month where I was doing north of 80 hours a week--and it was time-and-a-half overtime-billable, which is something I don't expect to ever see again), sometimes a lot less when business is light.

It's probably kept me from leaving tech entirely. I was in a weird middle-ground spot in my career where I had pretty much topped out on what I was going to be able to accomplish as a purely technical developer at companies of the size I enjoy working at, but at the same time I was basically too young (and still look very young) to be in a managerial role over senior developers. So consulting has been a great outlet where I've kept technically very sharp but been able to generate the social credibility to work with management on a peer level rather than as an employee-employer level.

I'm idly thinking about going back to FT (but not aggressively, I don't need to) for the consistency, but at the same time, I'm always looking for more gigs either in application development, as I'm pretty comfortable across many languages and frameworks, or in devops/infrastructure consulting, because I build cloud systems that are fault-tolerant and secure. (Looking to boost your team? Email's in my profile.)
Beware: I also have a User Agent Switcher extension installed and was surprised to hear about this malware. Looks like the one I've been using safely is called "User-Agent Switcher" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...) and is only 23KB (whereas the "... for Google Chrome" is at 350KB).
Err, it's not clear that EU law applies to US companies online, nor should it. There are many things illegal in the EU that are quite allowable in the US including a lot of freedom of speech issues.

One of the issues anytime we have legislation on the internet is how it applies. If XYZ company is based out of the US, markets itself to the US, but has a generally available website, does EU law apply to it at all? Even if an EU citizen uses it?

Alternatively, can every country force their laws on websites based out of the EU?