skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, hilarious man. I'm looking forward to two years of total gridlock in the U.S. government. No one is in a mood to compromise on anything at all, least of all a fringe issue like Net Neutrality that motivates, like, fifty people to the polls.
Nice! Always happy when my crazy theories are backed up by engineers actually working the problem :).

Honestly, I think for the LWRs in the US, it's more of a financing and risk problem than anything. As I understand it, the two South Carolina LWRs failed mainly because the fracking boom created a glut in natural gas prices. Now no one is willing to make any bets on energy prices 20-years out [2]. Note that I'm not sure if these were Gen-II.

At least from a cost standpoint, building LWRs the way we used to is akin to Space Shuttle launches: Awesome idea 30 years ago, but they match the finance risk profiles of energy markets today.

Re: construction. Funny enough, there's actually a industry-wide skilled construction squeeze in the US right now [1]. After the '07 crash the number of new workers going into construction dropped precipitously. Now when we need skilled project managers there isn't enough to fill demand.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2018-06-15/t...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/climate/nuclear-power-pro...
Yup I eventually found that. Not for static websites and things but still really cool. I wonder if your app writes to std out would that be a way to format logs yourself?
Since Skype left its p2p roots, has it ever had enough bandwidth?
> we know we'll need

Do we? Everything points to renewables like wind now. Of course there are problems to overcome but they’re not bigger than with nuclear power.
Export to the sahara?
Why not Manhattan? The sidewalk docking might be an issue in some neighborhoods but if they managed to get street docking areas like the citi bikes it would be a perfect fit in Manhattan as well.
I'll read that. I was assuming the SEC report wouldn't have the backstory but maybe that is just the gossip hound in me.
Captain Kirk Went on Crypto Bridge: William Shatner Conveys Greetings to Buterin
Yes. I've said this before and I'll say it again -- the environment is too important to be left to the environmentalists.
Furhat Robot’s Face Can Be Changed by Press of Button
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is an accurate assessment. Acosta was LECTURING the President, not asking a couple of direct questions.
And the present...
Not necessary.
It is narrow minded to only see employees as a resource to exploit.

Actually giving people a voice and representation is good and won't hurt
Convert to what? Croutons?
Alien Space Rock ‘Oumuamua Just Keeps Getting Weirder
I've replaced UUID v4 with nanoid + base58 in the last several projects.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nanoid-base58
Ask HN: JavaScript library to highlight / focus elements in the DOM
Some time ago (probably less than a year), someone posted a JS library here, which you could use to focus an element in the DOM. When you did so, the rest of the DOM blurred out / turned darker and only this one element was emphasised.

Today I wanted to use this library but I couldn't find it anymore, although I was sure that I had bookmarked it. I used HN search, Google search, javascripting.com, Stackoverflow etc. without any success.

Since I have started to doubt my own sanity now, can anyone recall the name of this library? It's not 'focusable'.
Render Partial View in Asp.Net MVC 4 Razor
Good question. I don’t have a direct answer answer but fundamentally the connection has something to do with adjoints. Google for adjoints and constructive mathematics and Lie groups and adjoints.

This particular pair I understand only indirectly, I somewhat understand the relationship between linear logic and Lie groups and constructive mathematics and linear logic and this is a transitive relationship.

Edit: in the presentation they mention “In constructive mathematics, there can also be numbers† d such that d^2 = 0 but not necessarily d = 0.”. They are talking about alternarivity, one of the three requirements for a Lie algebra https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_algebra
The fluid mechanics of bubbly drinks
> No they didn't. Cite a source for that. Don't just editorialize nonsense.

I'm...not sure how you think attack drones work? There is always a human in the loop, at least for now. Humans pick the targets and authorize weapon release.

> Whether or not something is attributable to malice or incompetence is always relevant.

It's relevant to the discussion of how and why these things happen. It's not relevant to the question of whether or not a wrong has been committed. If you drive drunk and kill four people, you certainly didn't mean to, but you still go to prison.

> We have people who's job it is to make that tradeoff. Do you have evidence that they're doing so poorly?

Do you have evidence that they're not? They've certainly had limited success in stopping international terrorism.

We discussed earlier how extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you believe that a goal was achieved here that outweighed 50 or so innocent lives, it's on you to demonstrate that, not on me to falsify it. Do your own homework.
The YouTube situation with CenturyLink used to be laughably bad. It’s gotten a little better as of late (10mbps DSL in Ohio), but VPN is still the way to go.
Some in Germany do. For example the owners of the aforementioned mp3 patent.

https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audi...
B&H Worldwide Opens New Singapore FSL for FL Technics – Logistics
Why do we age?
Using a SIM card on a recent trip to Mexico, where net neutrality was never a thing, was really interesting.

Cell service plans come with separate tariffs for regular data and "social" data, which works only in the walled garden of Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Insta, etc., and the "social" data is much cheaper.

Even though the positive reinforcement was not as draconian as stuff like this, where they're obviously trying to dissuade use, it was still pretty creepy.
You should come write for us :)
At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
In addition, carparks in the US could be argued to be an ecological and sociological disaster.

If you could somehow have cars without carparks (maybe the car folds up, I dunno), it would be one the biggest quality-of-life improvements in my lifetime. Probably about on par with the smartphone for me personally, probably a bigger improvement for people who are very poor.
"The article you cited said we need 43,000 square miles of solar to power the earth costing 5 trillion dollars"

Neither of those numbers seem out of reach to me.

I assume a large amount of solar can be placed on existing rooftops or other pieces of the (already) built environment.

I also note with interest that the most recent Iraq war cost somewhere between 2 and 3 trillion dollars and that bill was mostly footed by a single country which was hardly impoverished as a result.

I do question the externalities and pollution and embedded carbon costs of 43k SQMI of solar panels, however - I think that's the logistical issue that's most pressing.
Walmart is building an AI lab inside one of its store
Edit: it looks like he did apply for a visa and is still waiting since his ESTA rejection said he was ineligible for the Visa Waiver Program. So I guess showing up at a land border is a non-starter.
"Everything points"

Source (no pun intended)?

See my comment elsewhere on this thread about "workers per watt", which is about solar, but the same applies almost as drastically to wind. You do the math.

https://www.energy.gov/downloads/us-energy-and-employment-re...
Java might still be faster, and that's deliberate.

The goal of RyuJIT is understandable code and predictable machine code. HotSpot aims for performance at all costs. Many HotSpot features have been moving over to RyuJIT, even more are planned. I've always been envious of HotSpot. The main feature I've been envious of is its namesake: it aggressively optimizes hot spots. .Net now has this (tiered compilation), but it's still ultimately as-conservative as the compiler a few years back.

The hill that Java has to climb over is the extreme degree of "enterprise code." ASP.Net core is designed with the predictable performance profile of .Net in mind. Java has, well, this[1].

[1]: https://ptrthomas.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/jtrac-callstac...
Naval reactors are very different. They dont, most of them, generate electricity. Thier steam pushes propellers. And they are also self-contained within ships. Getting the power from the reactor to shore is a huge task, the bigger task imho. Naval reactors are also smaller and not as efficient than a civilian reactors. They are biult for different priorities (low manning, variable power, long operation at very low power, decades between refits etc). And they have a failsafe not applicable to a civi reactor near a city: evacuate and sink it to the bottom.
Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game
the constructive mathematics reminds me the state of math before calculus, i.e. Achilles and turtle. Such step back in power and expressiveness is probably a necessary first step before the some kind of "closure" technique, like the limit in calculus, can be developed.
One problem with IRC is that everyone is using a different client. It's like how you can set it up so you receive messages when you're offline... but nobody else does that, so it's not a real solution.

Of course, the context here is a client that does indeed implement extra features, and you're right that a text format per message would be an interesting way to implement this: the client could simply hide those messages from the normal view and slot them into the thread system. People using other clients would just see some extraneous line noise like "Replying to <username>|<timestamp>: hello world".
Pubic Speaking and Self Confidence – Release Fear and Deliver Your Best
I think I was confused between "baseX" as the specific program name and 'base X' as the base of the specific numbering system.
15,000 died from the tsunami that caused Fukushima, radiation exposure killed 1 volunteer cleanup worker.
> So, your supposition is that the CIA is purposely killing civilians to deter them from giving aid to possible terrorists?

That's what I just said, yes.

> I'm unaware of any explicit campaign to target civilians, though. Are you?

There's been enough evidence presented so far that I believe it's now on you to demonstrate that it's false, if you can.

Maybe this has worked for you before, demanding indisputable evidence for every fiddly detail, hoping that your opponent takes the bait and gets bogged down in minutiae?
I can agree with this wholeheartedly. But the opposition at Amazon is not what you stated. Anyways, I concur.
Mathematics is no different. Our brains are simply computers that verify that the system evaluates based on it's rule system. In fact, you can bootstrap an empirical verification of any mathematical proof holding if sufficient human brain-computes evaluate it, and determine it holds.
If some other type of energy generation system used as much land as solar there is no way environmentalists would have ever supported it (rightfully so, I would say). I think solar was just not practical until very recently to actually be used at grid scale. So in the past saying one should stop burning coal and use solar was just a way of saying stop using power altogether and do some kind of back-to-the-land thing.
I understand your example, and feel the same. But I don't think you mean that every ad you see is spam?

I got an ad on Facebook from an online recruiter because Facebook saw from my activity that I'm in the job market. It resulted in half a dozen onsite interviews, and made my job search so much better.

I got many useful ads from Google, for example about apps and games that come out, related to my interests.

I hope you don't mean to ban those?

Then how do you distinguish good ads from bad? And you can't just say it's obvious: the government regulator would need a clear rule to decide what's legal and what's not.
Don't we have foldable monitors and keyboard yet?
Sprint is legit garbage, but it is worth noting that even under Wheeler, Net Neutrality rules have never applied to mobile networks. It’s a big reason many of us were disappointed with the legislation even when it was passed. I’d rather have something than nothing, but mobile carriers have always been expent from NN.
The 10-year-old #GitHub now has a whopping 100M repositories
I often wonder about the kind of research done in computer science--how much is it influenced by the kinds of things that easily get you a Ph.D., versus the kinds of things that are useful but less apparently flashy.

A lot of the PL students at my school are extremely wary of doing any follow-up work on ideas that have been published before, even if the implementations of those things are obviously shoddy and don't really demonstrate that the idea works. There's a lot of novelty chasing, which is part of what's pushing people to include deep learning in their work, since it often allows them to claim novelty, even if their results aren't very good.
There's actually not that much of it. In fact, over the past 4 decades, the entire industry has produced about 62 500 metric tons of waste. You could probably put all of that in the space of a football field.
The habitable land area of Earth is about 40M sq. mi. So we're talking on the order of .1% for solar power. It's not insignificant, but I hardly think it qualifies as "huge".
Woah...why? How? I'd be interested to hear more details. There were more interested students, but they were deterred?
https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor
Your remark finds difficulty in satisfying clear and present danger.
Without conversion data it's impossible say something meaningful about the effectiveness of the showcased landing pages.

The author gives several reasons why he likes the examples (creating curiosity, layout, using case studies, ...), but without data it's more about personal preferences, current best practices and common sense. No real secrets.
Do African-Americans living in rural areas have the same "rural mindset" which causes them to fear crowds and carry concealed weapons when visiting urban areas?

If yes, do you have any evidence? If no, is it really a "rural mindset"?
That supply chain ramp up is going to be more damage done, and at this point to stave off climate change every new plant would need to be primarily used for some sort of carbon capture technology
Frankly, Medium killed objective analysis. Even though that site is not hosted, on Medium, it's junk like most Medium articles, based on confirmation bias. I can bet +1 that you can have a plain HTML page, that explains what your SAAS does and still make a killing, if you build a product that the market wants/needs! Without all landing page gimmick.
Q: How competent Disney is in terms of technology: content distribution over internet, multiple form factor of devices, taking care of scale, latency, slow network, and then algorithms for big data analysis - devising content strategies, customizing as per consumer taste, preference...

Can we see equivalent of this from Disney https://medium.com/netflix-techblog

Or, it is that Disney just uploads their existing content on web with some kind of delayed release logic along with a payment gateway.
It's really odd to bash a flagship phone with great reviews, only to say you're waiting for a phone that nobody will buy or support.
irccloud.com ($50/year) is a good option for people who don't want to run their own server. Only costs $13/year more than your solution.

Though paying money to receive messages while offline (or fiddling with ZNC) is one of the reasons IRC getting its lunch eaten by everything.
> Would you consider drones and smart bombs bad when the alternative is carpet bombing?

That's the only alternative?
Do they or is it just indirect via a consortium? Looking at this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3 it doesn’t look to be directly managed by Sprint.
> 3. Rosleyn: being able to compile and potentially be as fast as C++

Roslyn is the C#/VB compiler and analysis tool. Yes, that allows you to compile C#. No, it doesn't have anything to do with performance. That's where other things come in, like RyuJIT, or .NET Native.
Never attribute to malice...
Or, you could run it on the same server that you're running your database on.

If you're not running the database server yourself, is it so unimaginable that the service provider might have already configured PgBouncer on top of the database as an optional way to interface with it?

Regardless, "serverless" has never meant that there are no servers involved, it just means that for the serverless pieces of your application, you don't have to concern yourself with where or how they're run, only with the application logic itself.

If you want to go 100% serverless, then you're obviously going to have to choose a DBaaS that works with your connection pooling strategy, especially if that strategy is "I don't have one." Supposedly, based on comments on this thread, DynamoDB works pretty well for that scenario. Obviously Postgres doesn't scale with an increasing number of connections very well, which is why PgBouncer exists, and it works well.

Finally, PgBouncer is relatively stateless. Its main pieces of state are a static config file and the pool of open connections it holds. This could be deployed in a serverless fashion, and any time it is destroyed or recreated, it would be trivially reinitialized just from the config. It doesn't have to have any attached, mutable storage.
Germany's rate of coal burning went up after Fukushima and the accelerated nuclear retirements, but it is now back below the rate of 2010. See chart "Gross power production in Germany 1990-2017, by source":

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

There will probably be another (hopefully temporary) increase in coal consumption following the shuttering of the remaining German reactors in 2022.

It's fair to say that Germany has surrendered several years of progress on CO2 cuts with its move away from nuclear power. It's not accurate to say that Germany is burning more coal now than before Fukushima, or is currently increasing its rate of coal burning.
Google voice does this perfectly. No use in doing something like ssh that may or may not work.
1) As a static language C# is extremely weak. You have a minor edge over Java due to reified generics, but in terms of a type system saving your ass C# is miserable.
2) Err... You just came to the party a few years ago. JVM has been running on Linux and MacOS and a host of other operating systems for nearly 20 years.
3) JVM?

I like C# but know where it stands.
There isnt really any information on how you chose the crypto currencies in the index. Why are these coins trustworthy? Why 20 coins? What does "project" mean in the scores?
This article isn't about objectivity. It's an opinion piece by someone with an entirely transparent agenda.
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The Disney Streaming Blog is relatively new: https://medium.com/disney-streaming

Also check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech for more info on the team behind the scenes.
We had failed incarnations of this many times. WPF/Everywhere. Silverlight. And now Blazor - albeit this is a little better as targetting Wasm, but embedding the Mono runtime, I still don't get it..
I really wish things like this wouldn’t call themselves “a superset of X”.

It’s a different data format, that happens to overlap JSON, and while technically that makes it a superset, that’s not what the actual result is.

For example: is calling a plain text file a “superset of xml” a useful claim to make?

I’m also not sure I understand the purpose of this or what it is trying to solve - everything it has clonked on to “Json” already exists in a much more clearly standardized way in xml. XML also has numerous production quality parsers, and a huge ecosystem. The only thing it’s missing is a compact binary form - that would be a reasonable argument for a new structured data format. But instead what they’ve done is published a new “plain text Json superset” that /just happens/ to have a binary serialisation.
I hope you’re joking. People living under hostile government rule are also humans just like you and me, and deserve to be happy and healthy too. If anything, they might need more help because of their hostile environment.
That is a good article, but it doesn’t seem to address several of the concerns raised in my redo article. In particular, it looks like the final output is still in a nondeterministic order, it doesn’t print output from a given target incrementally while it runs, and you can’t query the log retroactively to look for clues in a very big run.

It’s a big advantage to not have to change tools, of course. Although redo happily interoperates with makefiles (which is how the buildroot patch works) so there’s no need to convert everything to get most of the advantages.
A year apart, some country music fans face 2 mass shootings
Do you actually use it though?
What tyranny and who's cheering for it? No one here wants anyone's constitutional rights violated. Pro tip - if there was brazen constitutional violations arising from this tech, Amazon lawyers would probably be the first to sue the government over it

This is all about the letf's power tripping political opponents out of a platform. It's a 180 phase shift of a scenario where some employers deny insurance coverage of birth control on religious or moral grounds.

I do not agree with either side on this behavior, and frankly find this a hole in the Constitution where a company can simply deny a legal transaction because they disagree with the recipient of the service
A Solar Storm Likely Detonated Dozens of Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
The way to have legacy nuclear power plants in 2050 is to build them in 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine

Says that the reactor also powers other systems. And sometimes the motor is electric.

Makes sense. Why would you build a nuclear reactor and then only use the steam to power the motor?
Microsoft's offering here is Xamarin Forms. If you're an application developer that's probably enough and useful. Otherwise, given that Microsoft is now a cloud and services company there doesn't seem to be much of a push for cross-platform desktop applications. Personally I'm still hoping for Avalonia to be picked up officially, but perhaps that's just me liking WPF too much and hoping in vain.
Roku expands its free streaming channel with entertainment and live sports
Human Evolution
Ehh, give ‘em a few more years, they can do it with one rocket over the course of a few days.

Only a little 
.

Imagine a business plan for 4,400 satellites being sane. What a world.
This was a lot more interesting for me than I expected. I usually don't talk to random recruiters. I have very high expectations from a recruiter and usually try to keep in touch to a handful (less than 5) recruiters that I know are good. Generally, to grab my attention you have to show me you're better than them somehow.

However, the concept of inviting recruiters to "apply" for my attention is fantastic. I'm not so sure about the bot idea... but a quick and dirty web page that says, "If you want to attract my attention, leave me relevant information here". I could even keep track of the applications and blacklist the worst offenders (who just spam people indiscriminately).
If you have remote (and non-seismic) enough area, and build a large enough nuclear plant, it won't matter how lossy your battery or carbon-capture-into-dense-fuel or hydraulics or whatever your favorite storage technology is. Any inefficiencies will be overwhelmed by the fact that you're producing what's essentially arbitrarily much power.

Or -- let's start building these colocations today, and let the market determine which piece is more worth R&D dollars to improve.
I've always thought Atticus Finch as the most ideal father.