skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative approach I use to combat alpha-holes, and general abuse/anger is to not answer the question 100%, or answer with a lot of ambiguity. The goal is to raise more questions than you answer (don't answer them, just throw a curve ball). Couple it with some down-talking and you're good to go.

This throws the attacker into a bit of mental confusion and their anger subsides instantly as they're trying to process this unexpected deviation from their pre-planned storyline. Example:

Ahole: Your code broke while demoing it. You're a shit dev and you should feel shit.

You: You demoed with the alpha code?! Really? Did your mom never tell you to ask before you touch? hope you learnt a lesson today. Maybe you should write some lines.... ' I shall not touch alpha code....'

This is probably an extreme example but it works in every day situations too. The goal is not to argue back at all. Just flip the entire thing on its head and leave them out to dry. If they come to battle with a knife, shoot to kill.
In short, the default is 128MB, which results in block-the-world dirty page flushes when it fills due to write activity. By going to 2G (I frequently recommend 15 when you have a lot of memory), you can buffer a lot more writes during times of peak load, and the idle flushing of dirty pages can generally keep up.

The practical effect of changing this value: a 2xlarge RDS host goes from 85% CPU utilization to 10%, with faster response times, for a moderate write load.

The downside, and why it's not the default for RDS, is that it eats your RDS storage by 2x the value set.
Yes, but that's not an effective argument for building new plants in the face of my critique. It's possibly an argument for delaying the decommissioning of older nuclear plants, but those decommissions are probably due to age-related safety concerns - the owners would likely prefer to keep the old plant running, if possible.

I've argued elsewhere for a flat-out ban on new domestic coal-fired plants. Coal is by far the worst safety and environmental offender. If we forced power companies onto a renewable-or-nothing path, we might see faster progress.
Obligatory video of Chinese workers forging a ring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWXFhdeOjMY

And Swedish ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEF2erBBVZ4
Not a single major web browser supports the font-stretch CSS property?
Author here. The list is outdated, but that timestamp doesn't reflect the last edit as the list is dynamically generated using Semantic Mediawiki.

Also - a lot of work went into this!
> Now, if only this nuclear scaremongers would go away, then we would be able to upgrade those shambling power plants with modern technology.

That's really where you want to put the blame? Don't you think that's a bit dishonest?
Nobody is stopping the operators of plants from modernizing plants, nobody except the realities of economics.

Don't kid yourself: If they can keep on running reactors with the least possible effort they will do so because everything related to nuclear involves massive investment costs.

If you had the choice between spending several billion of dollars on modernizing a plant, which you've already amortized, or NOT spending several billion dollars while still making massive profits from the plant, which of these two is the more likely thing to happen? Greed always wins out.

It's not like plant operators want to modernize their plants and are being stopped by protests, nobody is stopping them from modernizing except for their own economic bottom line.
Im not sure we could ever replace the Human element of receiving a bad diagnosis with machine.

I'm firmly for AI augmenting and bettering a Drs diagnosis ability.
> a study recently that showed that cities in Japan that ended up getting Shinkansen stations ended up almost always shrinking

I welcome you linking to this study, because a naive explanation for parts of Japan shrinking would be Japan's overall population decline (i.e. shrinking demographics). So unless the study controlled for that, I'm rather disinclined to think that the Shinkansen by itself caused areas outside Tokyo to shrink.

If anything, centralization happens because of the difficulty of transportation. Highways were what drove "white flight" to the American suburbs. Jammed highways and hellish commutes are driving gentrification.

And centralization improves walkability, if anything. If I need to take a train to get into the city, then I need the city to be walkable after I get there, because I don't have a car with me anymore.
It's not impossible that someone could make a breakthrough in Flywheel Energy Storage for domestic use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
And this too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

But then see these, which seem to acknowledge downvote to disagree is a problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716
Neat, well-written, article! Was also pleasantly surprised to discover that the author's article is also quite good at web design and frontend dev... and also a great (Quran) reciter!

Hope I had enough discipline to do all these things at the same time.
Come on, network communication and nuclear energy are different planets. I kinda agree that without national plants things might have been better, but these kinds of efforts and risks cannot exist outside of govt for a while.

It will take some guys to figure out MSR designs if possible, and then they'll be small and safe enough to access the private market.
If you click here (no need to be logged in) you get the HTML layout of the rewrite.

https://www.reddit.com/profile-beta-confirmation

https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing

Seems to be JS-heavy.
Preventing WordPress Setup Attacks is the responsibility of hosting providers
I've had serious reliability issues with every Dell or Alienware product I've bought. Yes, the specifications look great and they seem to work fine at first, but quality is simply ridiculously bad for such expensive products.

Case reports: http://news.kynosarges.org/2017/04/23/dell-alienware-reliabi...
A good overview indeed; now imagine the figures on the right are 128mb instead of 2gb, and the attendant costs/times scaled up accordingly.
> For instance, if we buy a new car, should we stress it to check if something breaks while still within the legal guarantee period, etc.. Of course, one should not stress it too much to the point of wear out prematurely (as in the end of the bathhub curve).

If it is a brand new car (and depending on the kind of car, too) - you probably don't want to do this, at least immediately.

This is because the engine has not been run much since it left the factory. There is an engine "break in" period (you can read about it in your owner's manual) during which you need to follow the instructions properly, or you can actually cause damage to the engine and decrease its life dramatically.

Essentially, it involves not running the engine under extreme loads or speeds for so many miles (500 - 1000 I think is normal). After that, you might also do an oil change and some other early maintenance. For certain sports cars or other high-performance vehicles, it can be even more strict.

It basically has to do with the frictional components wearing into each other with lubrication carrying away (and being captured in the filter) the small bits of metal scraped away. Because even despite the fine tolerances engines and transmissions, etc are machined too, they aren't exactly matched, and the wear-in period allows for this (then you change the fluids and filters to remove the contaminants). Running the engines and such hard during this period puts higher friction and stresses on the system, which actually causes more metal than normal to be removed (essentially - wearing the engine in more than needed, if that makes sense).

This is also basically the same thing you have to do when you get an engine overhauled or otherwise modified (ie - new pistons, rings, porting, honing, etc).
I'm not sure that any of these UI frameworks are going to get much traction, simply because they aren't as flexible, and don't solve web problems as well as the existing solutions. A search turned up https://github.com/qmlweb/qmlweb, but running QML from JS doesn't seem like the author's vision, or something that would be appealing to many developers.

How is QML different from XAML? XAML isn't purely a UI markup format, but it doesn't seem to have gotten traction with the web development community. Someone has created http://www.cshtml5.com/, but it's not something I've seen developers talk about within the .NET community (the most likely people to adopt XAML, if it became available for the web.)
In terms of manufacture, I agree. Further, Pu-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years so we don't currently need anything in the way of production. So, yes direct production was mostly from dedicated reactors.

However, the lack of reprocessing beyond simple plutonium exaction increased the demand for uranium ore. This lowered prices and because waste was not reprocessed early stockpiles where created, even if they where not in fact used. So, the impact would have been minimal except the lack of innovative R&D calcified the industry around this approach.

Further, there was an actual attempt to extract plutonium from civilian reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley_Demonstration_Proj... was really a legacy of this failure as it only produced 4,373 lb of plutonium vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site which produced most of the US's plutonium for nuclear weapons. Which is why I feel this is a little more nuanced than your suggesting.
Holy crap. This is going to kill Reddit. The digg moment is finally here. Where do we all go next?
> Paterson freely admits that he pulled out his CP/M reference manual and duplicated each of its API calls one by one. On the other other hand, and while it may not have reflected much originality or creative thinking, what he did was pretty clearly legal even by the standards of today.

And CP/M itself's command line interface closely matched that of DEC's earlier minicomputer operating system.
You probably meant "exorbitant."

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exuberant

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exorbitant
Excellent comparison. China's current economic and environmental woes are a good example of what 'progress at all costs' outcomes look like. There ought to be a public debate about this and what costs are acceptable.
but how is that integration monetizable?

The moment `/giphy cat` in slack returns sponsored content is the exact moment people will disable it.
As the article makes clear, this another technology that might be useful in the future, but is currently unusable thanks to the problem of the waste generated from it. There are no safe options for storing nuclear waste right now.

It really is time that we start looking at cutting back mindless generation and consumption of energy and that mostly means a big shift in lifestyle for North American and European consumers.

Either that or else you can all explain to your children and grandchildren (whom you love very much and would do anything for etc.) that you decided that living an hour's drive or more from work and commuting in every day while eating fresh dragonfruit and shrimp flown from the other side of the world was just fine.

Reduce. Re-use. Recycle. Time to start actually working on the first of those.
> like to assume the role of leader when working in groups

People who assume the role of leader when working in groups may be annoying (and definitely are to me), but they also have better careers and earn more money. If you don't assume such role nor defend turf and other colleges do, you will end up micromanaged and blamed for everything.

The above are reasons in nutshell why parents and educators shape kids to assume the leadership qualities. Because those of us who were raised not to assume them, earn less money and less promotions.

The other thing is that people who demanded better things often got better things and those of us who did not demanded better things, well, did not. Like for example, during salary negotiation. Every single time there is discussion about whether or why women get lower salaries, someone - oftentimes someone older - argue by women demanding less or being less aggressive in negotiation. Why would a parent who has this experience with this trained the kid to loose later on? Then they complain about entitlement when young people (of both genders) listen to the logic behind the argument and are demanding.

By the above I want to say that while it may be overdone in many cases, a lot of it is attempt to adjust to how world works. Overly humble people with low confidence don't build successful companies, don't win and get blamed for their own misfortunes.
India 'helpless' against fake news spreading through WhatsApp
There are so many ways to live and to be happy, even if to your eyes it looks like "wasting time."
TRIGA type research reactors, probably the most popular model, are specifically designed to be "pulse reactors" that can produce rapid power spikes of 20,000+MW. I don't see how you could argue that the main purpose isn't simulating nuclear detonations.

Same with Sandia Z Pinch machine and NIF. It's all dual purpose tech to simulate bombs since actual testing isn't done anymore.

You won't find anyone that says it outright but the government interest in pulsed power is awful suspect.
Attempt at translation from CS-speak:

Laziness matters less in a FP language because if we consider non-termination an effect (impure), all pure functions should behave exactly the same regardless of whether they're "lazy" or not (plus in FP sameness is defined as same values, due to "value-semantics" - unlike OO where every object has a unique identity, different from all others) because in the absence of side-effects order of evaluation is not important.

Of course reality is different, and laziness has very visible and important effects when Haskell programs run on today's computers :)
It IS worse than pgAdmin 3 in every possible way I can think of. It is slow, clunky and bug-ridden. Is freezes and crashes all the time. It lacks tons of features already available in pgAdmin 3. It doesn't bring anything new to the table other than being rewritten as a webapp.
This is the thing I don't get about nuclear proponents. While I'm not an opponent, we can scale sustainable energy sources now, we could have a Manhattan project type of program that, while costly, could replace the majority of our energy sources as fast as we can manufacture the panels and turbines. There is so much lead time in building a nuclear plant, it costs so much and then continues to be pretty costly in maintenance.
Only if the payment app ties directly to a bank account, rather than a card. I don't see any movement in that direction in the US, so the card networks would still be getting their cut.
I think you are saying the author should be a bit more alpha-male and partly I agree. Though not particularly alpha-male myself, I would have handled the first situtation better by instinctively out-arseholeing the arsehole.

But I would not handle all such social situations so quickly or confidently. And sometimes the moments I miss are opportunities to be nice. The point being that moving along a personality dimension can't replace a missing skill, though it can partially amelirate the effects.
All the more painful since the innodb buffer pool size is 3/4 of the available memory, which in low memory instances means you're going to put something either into swap or killed by the OOM killer.

The OS needs about 2GB of memory to do its thing sanely; if your instance only has 4GB of memory, don't assign 3 (closer to 3.5 with the constant memory costs) of it to the DB.
Write a Plugin for Kong API Gateway
Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers, outpacing Apple
You joke but I think there's something more at play here. Sounds like the guy cannot multitask at all. Maybe on the spectrum.
What is wrong with you?

He was asked to provide a reason why he thought Thiel was unlikable and he answered. You proceed to blatantly and outrageously twist his words. Nobody said he was evil or terrible. Don't pretend it was implied, either.
I don't care much either way about sponsored content - just relevance. I attribute Digg's downfall to when it started adding professional sports content to the front-page.

I'm looking at the Archive.org history and it's pretty telling what happened:

2004 - https://web.archive.org/web/20041214033211/http://www.digg.c... - Pretty much the same content as Slashdot, but with a cleaner UI.

2005 - https://web.archive.org/web/20050609031143/http://digg.com:8... - No significant change

2006 - https://web.archive.org/web/20060615092431/http://digg.com:8... New "Web 2.0" site design - less industry news, but still technology-centric.

2007 - https://web.archive.org/web/20070613060232/http://digg.com/ - Slight redesign, but note the addition of the Sports and Entertainment categories - but at least an article on the Double Slit experiment has six times as many diggs as a Sports Illustrated gossip piece.

2008 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080730182035/http://digg.com/ - Zero pure technology stories or industry pieces on the frontpage at all - it's all general interest - the site's content is unrecognizable from four years prior.
2009, 2010 and beyond continue this trend.

Notice the similarities with Reddit - albeit Reddit progressing at a slower pace: Despite similar ages, Digg took five years to go from niche to mainstream, Reddit's mainstream appeal came after eight or nine years.

Reddit has the advantage of making it easy to opt-out of irrelevant interest areas, but it can't keep everyone happy. HN is my go-to for news because the content is relevant even without me having to log-in, but Reddit's default homepage is no interest to me unless I login, which I'm less likely to do from a computer I don't own.
> renewable is the way to go

Everybody agrees with that. The question is whether we choose nuclear or coal during the transition to 100% renewable (if it ever happens).

> we don't know what to do with nuclear wastes, and we start to have a lot

> you have to dismantle old nuclear plants, and it appears the cost is totally exuberant

I don't know if it's that bad. But again, is this worse than coal?
>there needs to be a shift in the way we engage with information and debate before that will make a positive difference.

What do you think is going on while, as you suggest, entire population of the country updates its capability to deal with information presented? Are we not being influenced?

Is that an achievable goal? Why in a highly educated, highly liberal, highly resourceful society like USA we still lack this capability? Is it because at the end of the day we are emotional beings, not rational?

>What I'm suggesting is that if big business and mass media can can effectively control the population, it doesn't matter if they have to control 500 or 500,000,000.

They would try to control as many as they could for their benefit. Do you think we should make it easy for them by asking them to influence 500 or should we band together and use our numbers as a deterrent to mass influence?

"If they can effectively control...", but you are assuming it to be foregone conclusion. I think the battle is still raging on and more people we have on our side that they must influence the better, instead of just 500.

>In other words, the priority should be sorting out the news media first.

Will it ever be completed sorted out to be fair all the time, to all the parties?

I believe we have created this current phenomenal prosperity, not by assuming people doing right thing all the time, but despite there being bad elements. Hence, I appreciate what we have much more.

Anytime I hear, "and, over here all of us do the right thing.", I bet against that solution being successful.

If there is one thing that I agree with bible is that humanity is fallen. We must work with that assumption as we design or evaluate solutions.
On the contrary, such competition drives business to hyper-specialize, in order to carve out its own market niche. There was so little competition in Ye Olde Medieval European Village that you didn't have a choice what kind of meat or metal you could buy - there was a guild-protected artisan, and what he made was what was available for sale. Now you have a choice between organic and free-range (usually both) and between Game of Thrones replicas and Lord of the Rings replicas.
what are you doing on GH all day? you are supposed to _write_ code.
Oregon does 100% mail-in. In most other places it's only used by a very small proportion of the population if it exists at all. But yes, any time you enable mail-in you've thrown away a big guarantee of a voting system.
I agree, I have no idea how you use Reddit without it. If there people out there clicking on URLs/pictures, then going back to see the context/comments, I would love to hear how long this process takes you. This is my main negative to using Reddit on mobile, which I almost never do because it would lake about 200 taps to view a small amount of content.
Warrior here. It took me some pretty embarrassing red flagging in relationships with good Magi to realize what I was doing wrong. It's so easy to roll over people without meaning to. I'm sad and embarrassed to tell you there are a few people from early in my career who won't return my calls or blocked me on twitter. These are people I deeply respect.

It's so easy to fuck this up when you are a decisive competitive extroverted energetic person.

I cannot stress enough the importance of a soft touch around quiet creators.

If I could humbly recommend a trick that will warn someone like me of the damage they could do. Send an email after the first "stun lock". Explain how the interaction made you feel. If the person isn't toxic they will realize what they've done and apologize immediately. If they don't you're dealing with a grade A asshole and there's honestly nothing you can do short of learning to be a bigger asshole which would probably violate your integrity.
It's all subjective, of course, but if a Material app starts getting more complex the bare bones nature of the UI actually starts making it more confusing to use in my opinion. Maybe I just haven't used it enough, but every time I look at a Google Cloud Platform console or something it takes me longer than I think it should to find what I'm looking for.
It doesn't kill many people, because even when there's a disaster, there's time to evacuate. But you lose an entire city once in a while.

Major reactor disasters so far:

- SL-1. Steam explosion due to control rod lifted too far during maintenance. Small experimental reactor, built in the middle of nowhere (Idaho Reactor Test Station) for good reason. Inherently unsafe design.

- Three Mile Island. Meltdown due to cooling water failure due to instrument confusion. Contained by good containment vessel. No casualties. That's what should have happened at Fukushima.

- AVR pebble bed reactor. Pebble jam, radiation leak into ground. Contained, but too much of a mess to decommission.

- Chernobyl. Meltdown and fire due to operational error during testing. Totally inadequate containment. Entire region evacuated and contaminated for decades.

- Fukushima. Loss of coolant and meltdown. Containment vessel too small, reactor cores melted through in three reactors. Containment problem well known in advance; Peach Bottom PA has same design.

A big, strong, containment vessel can keep a meltdown from becoming a major disaster and has done so at least twice.
Size matters; a large containment vessel faces lower pressures when all the water boils to become steam. But a good worst-case containment vessel can cost as much as the rest of the plant.

Some of the recently-touted small reactor designs try to omit a containment vessel on the grounds that their design couldn't possibly melt down. That's probably not a good approach.