skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that conversion data is hard to get... but it would put a real number to explain “best” or “better results”.

Now it’s a (nice) collection of pages the OP found eh... nice/interesting/attractive (and likely to convert well, since these are actually in use - insert “survivorship bias” here), but no real explanation for why these are measurably better than others.

Appreciate the effort though. Just questioning the wording like “best” and “better”.
For a long time, I kept pushing deadlines because I wanted to write things the "right way". At the end a code that doesn't reach its destination on time or doesn't do what it should be doing is useless, no matter how well written. A good engineer knows when to obsess over code quality and when to look the other way.
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Indeed, so it would seem like the obvious solution is just to have an alternative parsing function, or perhaps for it to accept options.

e.g.

JSON.parse(str, null, { useBigint: true});
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^ this. Especially on highly sensitive topics like medicine, I tend to be cautious when reading about the findings of any single study; whenever someone tells me "there's a study that says [flavour of the day]" my immediate reaction is to go see if there's a Cochrane meta-analysis :)
I really like ReSharper, and I've bought it for my team, but it often makes VS crawl like the PC was a budget model from 2000. They must address this sooner or later.
The UX design is not something I would judge someone on, but UX as a function of UI performance definitely is. If the UI is hitching, non-responsive, or getting into strange and incomprehensible states without giving me any indication how or why, I place the fault of that on the developer who implemented it.
And there was a solution proposed.
It was a big multinational - that kind of money was literally a rounding error.
Opportunity is not evenly distributed.
That screws up when two private entities merge and discover that they're using the same RFC1918 block.

(or just want to interoperate, even)
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For someone who is not well versed in MS world, what is the C# equivalent of the Java Streams API?
The EU loves statistics:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/primary-e...

About the heavy industries: I don't know, but given that energy usage was actually increasing before the recession I would say that it isn't a large factor.

Heating is though and there's a lot of room for improvement here even given that ironically enough climate change reduced the need for it measurably.
Amusing that childish fanboyism normally reserved for things like Mac vs. Windows, AMD vs. Intel, PS4 vs Xbox, etc... has now spread to the car industry.
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If you are using PHP 7.x for your side-project or main product, what has been your experience?

- has speed of performance ever been an issue?

- how easy have your found it to deploy (and keep up-to-date) PHP apps on the server

Overall, do you recommend PHP 7.x for new web projects? Your thoughts appreciated. Thank you.
What's the point of that? Why not just get a normal server if you want it available 24/7?
Exactly.

But Noon series also show what life of these demigods can be. You are at the highest of your performance and climbing and you face problems that challenge you to climb higher from unexpected sides.
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Hasn't that been a thing with car fans for longer than any of your examples exist?
I used to be strongly opposed to nuclear energy, but I now see that as a mistake. I'm still no fan; nuclear has inherent dangers, and nuclear waste is a massive problem.

But global warming is a far bigger problem, which poses far larger threats to the world. We should do whatever it takes to cut back on CO2. We shouldn't be having any coal plants anymore. Everything is better than continuing to burn coal and oil, and that includes nuclear.

I don't see nuclear as a definitive energy source for the next thousand years, but I think we need it as a transitional energy source while we take coal offline and continue to invest in solar, wind, and energy storage.
Large corporations have a Board of Directors composed of people voted into the position by shareholders. This means that large corporations need for the most part to do what shareholders want, or else they will be voted out.

There's also a matter of business competition. If Amazon stops worrying about profits, leverage, and expansion, that leaves areas that competitors can move in _within their domain_. This is why it seems all the big organizations behave sociopathicly: it's required to be on top.

Laws are designed to create limits on corporations to explicitly express how big businesses can behave, and it's not the businesses fault that those laws haven't been keeping up with the times.
I'm not saying clean code is not desirable. Code which is easy to maintain and modify is absolutely better than messy code.

My point is that "good code" should be prioritized behind a good product. The purpose of code is to deliver a product, not to be well-factored or to embody certain principals. If your product is bad, your code is already categorically bad, no matter how beautiful it is.
I recommend you to pick up meditation, John Yates - Mind Illuminated is a great book for this. Alternatively a mindfullnes based stress reduction course.
an electric car will store 2-3 days of electricity usage

What percentage of people have their car at their house during the time the sun is providing most of its power?

On a weekday, most people drive them to work for the day.
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Measuring website popularity is an inexact science. Its accuracy depends both on what you measure (number of users? number of page views? number of visits?, number of minutes spent?), your methods of measurement (e.g, proxy metadata from ISPs, user-installed browser toolbars) and their accuracy.

You'll see on that Wikipedia page that Reddit's ranking is vastly different between Alexa (6) and SimilarWeb (23). This would be due to differences in the calculation method and the accuracy of data collection.

That said, I still think Reddit may be more popular than you realise.

I also don't know many people who use it much, but I know the people who use it, use it a lot.

According to this survey [1], 70% of its users are under 25, so if you don't know many people in their early 20s and younger, its popularity won't be so visible to you.

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/cPzlB
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That is a great analogy, just like scientific studies a defence or prosecution can argue to win, but in the end it's usually the evidence that swings the case...
CenturyLink seems to be a huge mess. They have at least 4 or 5 login pages. They seem to have acquired a bunch of smaller ISPs and not quite consolidated yet.
Pity you don't have screenshots from their mobile versions in you own mobile version.
Consecutive clicks on the number increment/decrement buttons don't work.

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Could you explain a bit why do you think it's "junk like most Medium articles" ?
Sure simple landing pages can works really well, but that's not the point.
There are risks associated with an aircraft having different operation "modes" as well. For example, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 the aircraft detected that some of its sensors were no longer working, and switched into a more manual mode of operation, with appropriate warnings to the pilots. The pilots couldn't get their heads around this, and stalled the plane into the sea.
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At the rate China is building and planning to build battery factories, it's also quite possible there will be a glut and a price crash in a couple of years.
PHP < 7.1 goes EOL by the end of the year.
http://php.net/supported-versions.php

So it's not a choice it's a requirement
> Other than communicating wiht traffic control and raising/lowering the flaps and gear (none of which are absolutely necessary), a modern airliner can take off, cruise and land entirely on its own, with no human intervention.

Yeah no. This is obvious patent nonsense.

Relevant: I am a licensed pilot
I, too, am lucky to have found him a few years ago in my late teens. It feels like I’ve just been in an internal existential crisis these past few years and his words always keep me grounded. Along with Rilke’s and Camus’s.
My experience is with an earlier MBP.

I bought my MBP in mid-2009. Early 2010 I replaced the 160GB HD with a 240GB SanDisk SSD. Speed improved markedly and it felt like the battery life became longer as well. In 2017 I had to replace the battery (can't remember the brand, just bought of the internet and it came with a set of required screwdrivers). The MBP is still going well, yup in late 2018. The replacement battery was never as good as the original but it kept me going.

The SSD is still going fine. In the last couple of months I have been using the MBP less, as I do most of my work on a fast mini-tower running Ubuntu. The MBP churns along nicely on the side, running programs which have no suitable, IMHO, substitutes under Linux.

Of course, I run regular backups with TimeMachine using three, in rotation, external USB (spinning rust) drives. Never had to restore due to system losing data, only due to an occasional fat fingered carbon interface glitch.
This also has conceptual issues:

Nuclear waste will remain dangerous much (very much) longer than it will produce energy. We might run on uranium for 200 years. The nuclear waste produced today has a half life of well beyond thousand years.

Today we do as if we can just bury and forget these things but they won't go away and they will produce cost for the public and future generations in one way or another (either we have to maintain it, keep it safe and inspect it all the time, or we loose patches of land forever or there are environmental/health costs). We speek of inspection, storage and insurance costs for multiple thousand years that are not paid by anybody using nuclear energy today.

So we can use up all uranium in the next 200 years, but what then? Who will pay the next few thousand years of dealing with that corroding, highly toxic, radioactive waste? I assume the companies who earn their money with nuclear power don't have that money laid aside. Because if they would, that stuff would not be profitable at all. These future costs should be paid with every ton of waste produced today, and not paid by the public and our grand-grand-children.
In a perfect world - yes. But phone/network providers have some weird tendency to end up being mono-/oligopolies. They like when prices are high at every provider, even without "real collusion".

For example look at roaming rates in Europe. For decades sending messages/data from another country was crazy expensive - with every single provider. Once EU ruled that roaming charges in the EU should not apply, there was no crisis or huge rise of prices to compensate the losses. Once it was forced, companies started to race each other to announce how awesome they are, being the first in the country to provide free roaming.
>The job of the market is to serve consumers

The market is created by corporations. It's job is to serve the corporations by creating the illusion it serves the consumers. That's why advertising / marketing is a thing.

Some would naively say that the market is created by the consumer, but you don't need most of what you consume, and you didn't even want a lot of what you consume until you were told it existed. (the term "you" is not necessarily referring to you personally here, but "the average consumer", on aggregate.)
All reactors generate steam.

The steam is used to run generators and provide electricity, as well as run engines that drive screws (propellers are on airplanes).

Naval reactors are smaller than civilian reactors, but are far more efficient and use different fuel.

And "evacuate and sink" isn't an option in a multi billion dollar strategic asset.
> basically everyone was corrupt, because that's how the whole system worked - and the people who were prosecuted were the ones who have fallen out with someone even higher up

This is a textbook means of social control. You may also refer to our war on (some) drugs (when consumed by certain people).
I've worked a lot with both C# and Java, and C# is so superior I never want to touch Java again. Especially since around C# 3.5, the distance between Java and C# has grown enormous. The two benefits I can see with Java is that it's a smaller language (easier to train junior engineers), and yes, the huge amounts of libraries.

Kotlin/Scala/Clojure are nice, but my experience is that just because an organization is working with Java, you shouldn't count on being able to work with some other JVM language. At my current job, we've been forced to give up on Clojure (a language I love) because the higher-ups have decided we should stick to Java.

I really hope especially Kotlin will gain more traction in the coming years, but in the meanwhile there is at least an order of magnitude more jobs in C# (where I live).
Nuclear hasn't compared at all well on cost. The planned new build in the Lake District has finally failed after a succession of business failures and others pulling out of the consortium starting with Westinghouse's failure. It was announced just this week that Toshiba had decided to liquidate what was left of the project.

Hinkley C is going ahead, and currently estimated to cost almost double wind and solar per MWh at current prices Building isn't expected to start until next year and generation some time in the mid 2020s. Wind and solar costs are still falling steadily. Not what I would call "quite cheaply". The French govt (majority owner of EDF) looks to be getting the best of that particular deal.

But I don't claim we can instantly switch to fully decentralised renewables. Nuclear is a sensible part of a withdrawal from fossil, if nothing else to buy us an extra few decades and baseload, as I've commented elsewhere. Whilst it performs poorly on cost it does well on CO2 so has a place. By the same token we couldn't go entirely nuclear without dramatically over-specifying grid capacity as nuclear doesn't respond well to transient peak demand. We'd still need a good chunk of diesel, battery or pumped hydro for shorter term reserves, and more intense demand management.

Centralised production works when it's a multi GW coal plant next to the colliery, or gas near the pipeline etc. As we adopt an increasing amount of renewables the grid becomes necessarily more localised as weather and climate will differ between regions and the grid is served by thousands of generation sources instead of a few dozen. Simple economics are driving that transition not whether they are 'hip' or not.

As for claiming a low energy house isn't cheap, well that makes no sense considering the size of bill reductions.
Authoritarian culture is well-known as a risk for aircraft safety. Japanese carriers had a poor safety record, due to the culture of authority, where a first officer was reluctant to point out a captain's errors. Following a decent amount of training in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management the safety record improved. Similar techniques are now being taught to surgical teams in hospitals, where there has traditionally been a reluctance for junior members to point our mistakes made by the senior surgeon.
If you substantially change the hardware of your computer, you are supposed to get a new licence because it's like it is another computer. It's not a bug but a feature.
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I down voted because this is (1) whataboutism, (2) I can't see the analogy.

That increased CO2 emissions should cause a temperature increase has been proposed over 100 years ago. They did not look at climate change recently and suddenly decide "lets blame CO2".

(3) the man made climate change theory, does not rest of a single study, it rests on countless ones.

(4) There is actually a scientific model explaining why we see the measurements we get. They are not digging around at random.

The case for man made climate change is pretty strong. Look at these graphs and tell me which graph correlates most strongly with global temperature increases: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
I'm no Tesla fanboy (more a fan of GM electrics) but I'm skeptical for many of the reasons others have listed but especially battery supply, and the history of VW/Audi group's handling of EVs.

I'm sure they can make a Tesla rival that sells for $23k. But I fully expect you won't actually be able to buy one unless you live in California or some other place that legislates it. That's their history with the eGolf, which is not a bad car -- but they sold less than 500 of them last year in Canada and it wasn't because of demand.
I'm complete new to C# and Java but I'm looking into them to choose a new language to learn. I'm mostly worried about memory consumption since I often use a cheap $5 VPS. Would you happen to know which one would be a better fit for my use case? Thank you.
Nope. I’ll try that out. My modem is only getting a ipv4 address right now, but maybe I can configure it.
I agree it’s not a new phenomena and never said that it was. I’d argue that our news was historically fair-minded up until the recent mass-scale polarization.
TL;DR: "a part of the brain known as the superior temporal gyrus, which is involved in auditory processing, is highly connected to brain regions involved in sensory perception and motor control. However, in patients who developed psychosis, the superior temporal gyrus became more connected to limbic regions, which are involved in processing emotions"

News should be written like emails, the most important info should be at the top, an not near the end or scattered so you have to read the whole thing to understand what is going on.
We know exactly how to reuse nuclear waste. Carter changed the rule to disallow it because of proliferation concerns. Other countries don't have the issues we created for ourselves.
Overall hydrogen's efficiency is pretty bad (I've watched a convincing yt video): production, transportation, filling stations, car engine.

Having electric plugs in supermarkets and doing some 15min breaks when using highways - that's already good enough.
Also Russian fighter jets vs American/NATO, in the 70s-90s timeframe for example mostly. I love the excercise of comparing the 2 design styles: completetly different aproaches to the same problem, both very effective and elegant. Just looking at the surface (copckits) of it gives one a very good impression of the differences.

Really a lot of russian vs american style examples.

Also technical (engineering) books for example. Generally russian books where a lot more condensed, raw, pure numbers/formulae etc. American school was a lot more colorful, pictures, graphics, plots, diagrams.
There were people that liked better the russian style, however I think the "prettier" one has prevailed.

Interesting subject I think.
Tesla has done an amazing thing by showing that electric cars can match ICE ones and even be better than them in several regards. Before Tesla we all thought electrics were much more of a compromise.

> Bolt, Volt, Leaf, i3, ELR - and is pulling away from the pack at an ACCELERATING pace

But this is way too breathless. The Nissan Leaf is the best selling electric car of all time. They've sold 350k of them and by all accounts it's a very decent small car. And that's great for everyone because it pushes the infrastructure to adapt and creates the market. I expect Nissan-Renault to keep moving upmarket and Tesla downmarket to a point where we will be more or less fully served in 4 or 5 years. That wouldn't have happened as fast without Tesla but lets not ignore the existing manufacturers that have already done incredibly well on this and give them credit over the ones that are still sitting on their hands.
"Beneath the wheel" (Unterm Rad) is a good read if you are interested in that aspect.
The PlayStation Classic uses an open source emulator, PCSX
LINQ, the IEnumerable extension methods, and IQueryable extension methods.
https://docs.libretro.com/library/pcsx_rearmed/
>a good example would be White Slave owning society in the United States pre 1860.

Wow. Ok. Setting aside the humanitarian disaster that the South was in the 1800s, here's some qualification to your example:

- The South was poor, much poorer than the North, both in economic and technological advancement.

- The vast majority of Southerners were NOT slave owners. Meaning that Southern society was extremely stratified with wealth concentrated with a relatively small number of plantation owners. So your example is more inline with a bunch of rich people hanging out together.

But your example does touch on the actual deep problem with automation. The Southerners that prospered under Slavery did so because they owned most of the capital (land and slaves), but the poor non-plantation-owning population still had to work to provide for themselves! Under a cynical (but realistic) views on automation, we expect to see owners of the automatons do great, but what of the masses? Bolting either UBI or increasing our social welfare state is not a solution, because redistribution of wealth is not the core problem (we know how to redistribute wealth - with plenty of examples from modern market economies with social welfare, to less-market/more-socialist attempts as exemplified by your traditional Soviet-style economies). The problem is we don't know how to run a society where the vast majority of people have nothing to do.