skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>even natural gas and rooftop solar have higher rates of death per year than nuclear.

the difference here is that no event can significantly change the death rate from gas or solar whereis one wrong cough by nuclear power plant worker and we have Chernobyl with thousands of deaths (in particular in Belarus which took the majority of the Chernobyl hit - about 5000 extra thyroid cancer cases (normally a rare cancer) in the people who were children at the time plus doubling (and in some areas tripling) of the rate of the most frequent cancer - breast cancer (typically 1 in 7 women would get it during lifetime, so doubling means additional 15% of all the women in the affected area would get it) in the areas close to Chernobyl like the Gomel and Mogilev regions plus very significant increase in other frequent cancers of internal organs like colon,etc.)

Or counting it the other way - Russia and Ukraine both have the same - 0.0034 - incidence rate of cancer per year (despite the war and economic differences it is the same people with the same behavior/habits :), while Belarus where people are basically the same as in Ukraine and Russia and drink and smoke and eat the same - has 0.0052 incidence rate, ie. 50000 new cases per year instead of 34000 if they were to have the same incidence as Russia and Ukraine. 16000 extra cancer cases per year for several decades with mortality higher than 50% ...

>nuclear is among the least evils,

hardly so, giving the numbers i referenced above (compare it to coal - the coal's 700K/year deaths means "only" 1K/year for Belarus) and potential of any nuclear power plant to repeat Chernobyl - i'm aware about technical improvements of modern reactors, yet "stupidity will find a way"...

> yet faces the greatest overall public resistance to new installations.

still wondering why ? :)
Looks like people aren't smart enough to do this on their own (sadly). Either they need education (difficult, expensive and some people don't want to be "educated") or just regulate what they see and read.
I wonder if you could still have free to play, but just had a limit to how many different things to buy. Say, you could buy everything for $60. That way, you don’t have to worry about someone spending thousands because they wouldn’t get any more than if they spent $60.
That seems weird, since I would expect to have seen something about that in the NYT, WSJ, or at least TechCrunch. I did some quick Googling and according to the DoorDash Reddit, your tips are only shown to you at the end of the shift and they are grouped together so you can't tell how much each person tipped you: https://www.reddit.com/r/doordash/comments/6dkjjw/tip_questi...

Are you sure you weren't just looking at the $6 delivery fee and your tip would be added later?
What's with this invitation to the Western Maker Faire? The ones in China aren't equal?
Poor analogy. A calendar is obviously your choice of decoration that your colleagues will see every day. The calendar's content is on you.

Visiting a Twitter page for a few seconds in your browser and the background happens to show the woman in a bikini, is absolutely not the same as your choice of calendar. There is no nudity anyway, it's 100% legal and we see similar images in the street, shop windows, billboards, TV, everywhere.
Very true, especially since some games (cough cough besethda) benefit greatly from modding, fixing bugs in the main game as well as expanding upon it.
I promise you that New Yorkers care about this deeply.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/the-human-cost-of-subway...

Any survey of New Yorkers and government services will tell you how much this matters.

The biggest problem is that the New York government at city and state levels is one of the most corrupt, oligarchic and undemocratic organizations in modern society. I cannot begin to describe how broken it is.

Here's a good example: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/new-york-politic...

This leaves us with no levers of power over government decisions. When you take into account that the people who most heavily depend on the subway are also the poorest, we have even less power over the elected and appointed government class.
>not having even token local or female representation

Assuming you mean exactly what you say and I'm not being overly pedantic, I think token representation is not a great concept in itself. Equal opportunity vs equal outcome, if either is unequal for any reason then only one is achievable.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for helping people access resources they otherwise wouldn't have access to. But later down the time line, when they go to apply for a position, it should be done without race or sex.

>Naomi criticised Make for not having even token local or female representation at Makerfaire Shenzhen, criticism which immediately preceded Dales dummy spit retaliation.

I wasn't aware of the back story, but a lack of female representation does not equate to lack representation in general. I'm not defending Dale though, regardless it was a bad move on his part.

>you can't criticise them

On the contrary, I think white, rich males are easier to criticize than ever given the current social stirrings (in the West at least). I think all of them try to get dirt on their attacker, it's just these guys were caught and called out for it.
How about creating a open standard for social media,i.e, open API so that no matter what platform you use, you can connect to ppl on other platforms. This should introduce more competition in the market without creating a loophole to regulate internet.

so ppl would be able to choose platform based on variety of variables like advertisements, data collection, looks, usability.... just an idea
There was an interesting conference presentation on YouTube a while back with two different CTO perspectives on building services.

The first: Java-all-the-things. The second: Anything goes! But it has to be 50 lines, or fit on one screen, or some similar metric of grokkability.
Cash "fees" are $0, I just hand you a note. Nothing is every going to be that cheap.

If you're talking about credit card fees, which are generally a fixed rate + a % (Stripes fees are 2.9% + 30c) then it's a hell of a lot cheaper for everything but the smallest of transactions.

You can currently get a transaction confirmed in the next block for around US $0.60 based on an average transaction size of 250 bytes and 30 satoshi / byte. With that $0.60 fee you can transfer everything from tens to millions of dollars. If the transaction isn't as important or you can wait more than ~10 minutes you can get it even cheaper.
Luxottica also wholesales their frames to independent retailers -- so even if you're not buying the frames at their stores, or buying their sunglasses at Sunglass Hut, you're still paying for their product. They're also quite aggressive about suing the knockoff Rayban and Oakley retailers -- or so I've heard.
That assumes people have the ability for critical thought, which is usually developed in school. Schools in the US have not been doing well due to lack of funding, so it makes sense that the populace at large is a bunch of idiots.
Article from 2010. Apparently a major chunk comes from overtime.
https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/mta-police-bring-in-bi...
A Taxonomy of Internet Chum (2015)
It was my impression Huntsman spoke conversational Mandarin, but he wasn't fluent. Whenever he gives complicated speeches, he says a few sentences, and then transitions back to English.
It's a sad fact of human nature that it's really easy for us to compromise our morals when the only person hurt by doing so is an anonymous stranger on the other side of the Internet.
While we're at it, let's stop saying "client-server."

The term is client/server. It's also key/value store, win/win, and a bunch of other terms that express two sides and therefore call for a slash (not a hyphen).
He's not trying to make the whole group responsible for his mistake, he is trying to highlight that white western males are powerful over marginalized groups and hold unconscious biases both collectively and individually. When someone with large white western male following sends racist/misogynist/whateverist signals, those signals are easily amplified and overpowering to whatever marginalized person/group is on the receiving end. So no, the entire group did not make that mistake. But it is every group members responsibility to understand these power dynamics and educate/change both themselves and their peers to not abuse this power be it on purpose or unconsciously.

When a member of the group looks at a situation like this they need to reflect on if they are guilty at all and (regardless of if they are) how they can help change the culture. Your comment on "shifting responsibility" is not productive in that regard and only comes off as defensive. Not trying to say you're a white western dude possibly guilty of abusing power dynamics over marginalized groups, but something to keep in mind.

Also read this[0] blog, much more eloquent and detailed than my response here.

[0]https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046
My uncle is one of those people who sits in subway booths.
He does almost nothing.

He makes 80k a year.

My political ideology is deeply in favor of the working class. I believe in strong worker protections, in the unionization of labor in most industries, and that capital controls a disproportionate amount of wealth and power in this country.

But I must also insist that these costs are unfair and insane.
That’s entirely untrue in NYC: 55% of commuters take public transit. I guarantee you that is not only “the working poor.” And of those who do not, a significant percentage still use the subway a few times a week.

So while this would be a plausible argument outside NYC, it’s a ridiculous one given the parent article.
So, there's maybe two parts to your question? How do you structure your code to make it possible to hot load code -- and how does that help you recover from crashes.

The beam VM allows for an old version and a current version of all modules. When you call into a function with a fully qualified name (Module:Function), it always calls into the current version; if you call a function within a module only by its function name, it calls into the same version that is executing, which could be the old version. So, you need to periodically (or on demand via some message) make a fully qualified call, to ensure your process will migrate. You also need to make sure the old version doesn't stay on the stack, so you have to be tail recursive, at least sometimes. You also need to make sure you make your new code able to cope with state developed by old code, which can be challenging at times.

If your service is generally stable, but occasionally crashes with some types of requests, then you're in a good place. If something is crashing a lot, it can cascade into a supervisor crash, and it is likely that you will have a bad day. In theory, when your service starts (started by you, or if the supervisor restarts it), it has a consistent state, and will be able to service requests; but often it started crashing because some service it requires stopped working right, and restarting the client doesn't really help.

I've found let it crash is a good philosophy, but shouldn't always be implemented literally. In an http server, I'd rather catch crashes, log them and return an error to the client -- not just close the socket. In erlang server processes that don't maintain much state running in pg2, it's better to catch and log, because requests are going to be lost if you actually crash.
Don’t forget the subway lines in basically every Chinese city! Beijing has overcrowding issues, but Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou all have phenomenal metros.
i do! your pelvis should tilt forward on the cushion, which keeps your shoulders at centerline. my desk is a low bench. Ikea used to sell this [1] bench, which was the perfect height for me. any other low bench will do, but you may have to take a saw to the legs. you want your forearms to rest at 90 degrees.

[1] https://www.pinterest.dk/pin/266697609154342319/
Warbyparker couldn't get my prescription right, even after two remakes. My doctor showed me his prescription, and then showed me how Warbyparker dispensed the lenses. After giving WP two tries to make it right, I just gave up and spent $400 buying two pairs of glasses and a pair of sunglasses from my normal Optometrist (who told me that 'I'd be back' when I mentioned that I wanted to try Warbyparker).
I think the Qubes website is also quite useful for informational purposes.

Example, found through Qubes website:
http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/06/crafting-bios-from-scratch.html
The average MTA employee made $70 thousand in 2010 [1]. That’s nearly $80 thousand today [2].

In those data, one sees Mr. Arthur Harkin, a Long Island Rail Road conductor, made $195,000. ($220 thousand in 2017 dollars.)

[1] https://www.empirecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MTA-...

[2] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=69.489&year1=2...
Spammers ruined it for everyone. :-(
> Care to elaborate on this?

Elaborate on what, exactly? Qualia being phenomenal properties of experience? I think that's a pretty atomic claim.

Basically, your experience E (a headache, for example) has some physical properties attached to it (maybe being caused by blood vessels expanding and putting pressure on certain nerves), but also some phenomenal properties (the feeling of getting a headache). The instance of this feeling is a quale. It's debated whether or not qualia are the same across people[1] (but my intuition is yes). Empiricists like Dennett argue that you don't need qualia and that they are a sort of unnecessary hand-wavy magic.

[1] http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/gradmind01/newpap...
I use an Aeron and I also have a geekdesk.com sit/stand desk, which I love. If you already have a desk and want to add sit/stand functionality, get a varidesk.com Don't forget to get a standing mat.
> They don’t have expertise in finance, law, or most anything complex.

Do you know that?

Also, I certainly wouldn't agree that journalism isn't complex.
Oh...wow. This is amazing!
I don't doubt that such people exist, but it's definitely not the norm. If you start with a base salary of 70k or so (not terribly unreasonable if you've got seniority), you rack up overtime (usually at 1.5× multiplier), and you work lousy shifts like nights and holidays, making 130k isn't impossible.
Yes, I agree, that's what I meant to say.

Not so much 'surveillance' but watchfulness anyhow.
Step 1 is usually, reduce your expenses. When people say they can’t do something like that, it’s usually an economic decision. But, plenty of people live on the lesser salary. We all get used to the higher salary and rachet up spending accordingly. Otherwise, living paycheck to paycheck would only happen for a narrow slice of the country.

I’m not a minimalist, but it seems to me that the solution for many problems starts with “spend less”. We just don’t want to hear it. I know I don’t.
That's a problem for Japan, but not rich western countries which can simply accept more immigration.
Unfortunately, Tesla does not build their own batteries.
I found this via VICE's Motherboard. https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/eii - mainly focused on community Internet access, but also some digital literacy stuff.
This isn’t some controversial political literature, it’s a hurtful personal attack on someone who doesn’t deserve it.

Yet you do not show it. As I mentioned before It seems like someone won't show what they are talking about is afraid that people may come to a different conclusion then they did.

Shouldn’t you practice what you preach here? You say you see a pattern yet you don’t provide any links. Are we just supposed to trust your description of it?

I didn't really want it to be about our comments. But this is where you have directed it. You talked about a specific think and didn't want to show it saying 'I won’t link to it, because it doesn’t need that kind of help', this is the logic I was specifically replying to. That is the logic people should reject, the other context has nothing to do with why I replied. Yet you are asking that talking about a generality or pattern I have noticed needs a link. They way you are arguing any statement that I make without a link makes me 'not practicing what I preach'. Your expectations of my post are massively higher than what I was criticizing, which I will repeat was the 'I won’t link to it, because it doesn’t need that kind of help' statement and the logic that comes from it. Your criticism also expected way more from my post than yours. The holding of ridiculous expectations someone with a different opinion to you is another pattern that should be criticized by the way.

But I did have something in mind actually when I mentioned the pattern. It may be slightly embarrassing that I came across this video while using the internet, but I will link to it.

'Propaganda Games - Ethical Game Design - Extra Credits'
https://youtu.be/UP4_bMhZ4gA?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BpAzGdNmfiwlBx...

They specifically didn't name the games they were describing used as far as I remember, using the 'I don't want to give them more exposure' line, and maybe not wanting to expose people to them (but hypocritically they can). Surely people can make up their own minds about things. The video also has a tone of voice to sound 'caring' and cute graphics to try and sucker people believe what they say and that they are 'good'. You bet I didn't like it.

I have been completely honest in my previous comment when I mentioned a pattern. I have been completely honest in this comment. You saying 'Shouldn’t you practice what you preach here? You say you see a pattern yet you don’t provide any links. Are we just supposed to trust your description of it?' was completely unwarranted, I wasn't hiding anything or being dishonest, unlike your allusions.
> since fb literally have all the data, it likely needs regulation which i find very distasteful and terrifying.

Why? Do you find it terrifying that your doctor, hospital, and health insurance company have very strict regulations on keeping your health data private? I, frankly, find it distasteful and terrifying that they have essentially no regulations on the data and can do whatever they want with it. I mean look at what happened at Equifax for example.
It's not in fact against international law or the laws of war to kill people, cause, you know, war.

I guess you could think if we can't just get rid of war (which is always terrible), there's no reason to have international laws and agreements limiting certain kinds of killing and other harm as off limits and unacceptable.

Apparently our current leaders agree with you.
While it is bad, it is an insult to people suffering from true 3rd world problems to make that comparison
>I think it’s him trying to give context; “I’m the majority sort of person in this industry, so I have unexamined biases which came into play here”, that sort of thing.

Seems like discrimination in itself. "I am white and male therefore I am biased". Besides, he can own his own problems.

>As I understand it, him posting his little conspiracy theory came hot on the heels of Wu criticising his organisation, which helps explain the rest of it.

Yeah, the other comment said - I wasn't aware of that at the time. Dale was in the wrong anyway, CEOs shouldn't be shit-posting.

>He’s essentially admitting that they have a problem, and saying that they’ll try to fix it.

It's not clear to me it's that "they" have a problem from what I've read so far, just a claim that they have a problem.

Besides, the "problem" as I understand it is supposedly about representation? Representation of physical makeup doesn't equal representation of ideas. I would want to see proof that this has lead to a bias past the idiocy of the CEO.
Legality isn't the standard of behavior; it's just a minimum. Someone once said right here on HN: "Never forget, the holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal. If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed." (It was so good, I wrote it down.)

This behavior isn't mass murder or oppression, but failing to pay your share of your communities/nation's bills - which puts more burden on your neighbors / fellow citizens - isn't acceptable to me. 'I can get away with it in court' isn't a good excuse.
Ask HN: Why Does Google Finance Still Require Adobe Flash Player?
Do they really just not care about that product whatsoever?

I have not had flash installed on my computers for at least 2 years now.

Youtube made the switch away from Flash a few years ago as well.

Why does Google Finance still require Flash?

I was just trying to lookup historical Facebook prices, and was met with a bright yellow warning asking me to "allow" Adobe Flash. [0]

[0] https://finance.google.com/finance?q=facebook
How do you distrust governments and Google, Apple, Facebook, Samsung, HTC, Verizon, Comcast, etc., while still using the internet meaningfully, or really, participate in society meaningfully? In the current climate pretty much everybody understands, on some level, that by using "the internet" you are letting unknown third parties create a market out of your private life at no compensation to you beyond access to their "service". Yet we all continue tapping away on our shiny screens. In many ways it's really a deplorable, unacceptable situation.
I'm sure it has some effect but it's certainly diminished by the fact that everyone is aware of the markup and it's the same everywhere.
>The systems are in extremely similar cities, are almost exactly the same route miles, and are similarly old. Yet NYC’s system costs almost twice as much to run.

There is one fundamental difference between the two systems and that is that the London Tube stops service overnight while the New York City Subway remains open 24/7/365. Having a nightly maintenance window of several hours in which they can do preventive maintenance is likely a big factor in keeping costs down. Throw that in with the reduction of labor with limited hours of operation and I bet those two make up a solid portion of the difference in cost per rider.
I explore God's world, extracting meaning from God's creations.

A painter doesn't try to imitate the colors, lighting, subject. A food painter would try to capture the senses - taste, moisture, saltiness, spiciness, temperature. A painter of a scene would try to extract emotions; the fear and chaos of a battle, the sexual tension in a romance.

I choose to observe things in the world and extract what they're really about. I don't simply build features and observe analytics. I understand the pains of a user, the emotions, the process they work through it, their frustrations and joys.

I continually try to fix problems, and fix it a little better day after day.

Sometimes I choose myself as the subject for extracting meaning.

I wonder why my own body and mind is so flawed and what can be done to make it better. How to heal faster, to run better, what triggers emotions like fear and procrastination. I pick one thing I'm bad at and see what makes me improve on it. Or observe why I do sins even when I know I shouldn't.

I pick these flaws up, experiment and improve, or see what doesn't work. I also experiment with different philosophies and ideals, plant them as a New Year's Resolution, and see how that works out over a year.

There's a good deal of enjoyment when you successfully extract meaning from something and get better and better at it each year.

So, recursively, the purpose of my life is to get better at finding the purpose of my life.
I bought a pair of Zennis in 2013. I have a strong prescription and got maxed out UV, indexing, etc. on a (imo) good-looking frame. $75 for what would have cost me $300-400 out of pocket after my vision insurance credit. Additionally, I was able to submit the $75 as an out-of-network expense. It took some paperwork, but the return on my time was worthwhile.