skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
smartphones are revolutionizing our lives in adding all sort of things in this life and completely losing it's real value on
for example, there exist all sort of communication apps in play store but yet a lot of people don't communicate with each in real life so communication has been narrowed in that little icone in our smartphone and excluded form our real life.
and the same goes for all other life aspects !
Coal kills more than nuclear.
Modern nuclear is safer and reliable.

It's similar to the fear of planes vs the actual safety statistics of planes.
And what's up with Japan's steadily rising use of coal energy?

They are still a top 5 world economy.
I use the following fairly regularly (aliased):

git log --graph --oneline

I can understand how you could see this as an advantage, but I see forcing this on the developer as more of a disadvantage. I literally never want to see in any history commits with junk attempts to fix something. After the fact, these are the least interesting things to me.
Yes. That one works pretty well, though it still lags a bit behind the efficient state machines that C# generates which can also help avoid a lot of allocations and indirection in deep task chains. One step at a time though, it'd be great to see F# get a refresh around the TPL (even though it had Async first, it'd be better to align with the platform in the long run).
> The greatest advances in drawers don't help if you still have ticking time bombs

The greatest advances in drawers don't help if you stop building new nuclear plants. The choice today is not about whether to build more outdated plants; it's about whether to build new modern plants.
> I have a question. How is it the customers data? The data is about a transaction that happened in the bakers store.

Translating this analogy back to tech inverts your argument: It's my phone, and it's my computer. Thus any data collected from or generated on these devices is mine. I'm just letting a company use these hardware resources temporarily to deliver a service.
Git makes it difficult to lose committed data. It's easy to lose uncommitted changes. Also, someone can know that changes are in the reflog but not how to recover them without making a bigger mess.
B) The article points out that the CBP has killed at least one person 160 miles from the coast.

So, that covers the “but not within 100 miles of the international waters boundary” part of your request.
any regime needs the same police.
I think the implication is that it's a seat for a Lambo. A plane seat is a lot smaller than a whole car.
Robots have not proven very successful in nuclear disasters IIRC. Radiation hardening for the computers is an issue, as are manipulators and other things.

Moreover, in a disaster situation like Fukushima, power loss would be an issue. Fukushima was fine in the immediate aftermath (24 hours?) of the disaster until the on-site batteries ran out and backup generators couldn’t start due to damage from flooding. A fully robotic installation would face similar and greater problems after a SCRAM.

It’s an interesting sci-fi idea that might be possible in a hundred years, once we master simpler robots like vacuums and folding laundry!
> So please explain how it is in my interest, as a consumer, to let my town - present and future - extort or strangle* service providers?
For a while David Davis seemed to think the UK could hold on to the EMA. See https://pharmaphorum.com/news/uk-keeping-european-medicines-... for example.
While yes, it is considered weak, that doesn't mean it is useless. Git uses Sha1 and a lot of other services do as well. Using it to validate and sign an update is probably still pretty much safe as I have only ever seen or heard of a single SHA1 collision ever. And that was in 2017. It took them 6500 years of CPU computation time and 110 years of GPU computation time to find it. I think we can consider SHA1 good enough to sign VLC updates for now.

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha...
Mining for rare earth elements also takes a huge toll on the environment and kills thousands of people.

There are many reasonable ways to deal with radioactive waste. And even if there weren't, so what? If we stay on the current trajectory regarding fossil fuels, we're all screwed within a generation or two, nuclear waste is the least of my worries.
There should also be a Latex library (?) that makes your documents look like they were photocopied, so you can use the coffee stains and the photocopy to make it look like you spent long nights working on your assignments.
> Perhaps we're trading one devil for another, but the devil we know is not sustainable

Trading the devil you know for the one you don't is wisely considered a bad idea
Coal isn't just used for electricity generation.

If you look at the 2017 BP energy report numbers the US is still about 20% above Germany in coal consumption per capita. (Not sure when 2018 numbers come out.)

I'm glad to see the US is reducing emissions. However ideally it wouldn't be due to swapping one fossil fuel for another. Makes you wonder what will happen if the prices of coal/gas flip again.
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But, there is a massive industry, employing carefully honed psychological tactics in order to get you to want their unhealthy food (and other unnecessary, unhelpful products). I'd warrant far more is spent tricking people to eat unhealthy food items than is spent on helping them to eat healthily. Companies know that once you push that button, and strongly associate their brand with the fuzzy-feel-good hormone hit, that they're on to major profits - a capitalist dream.

"Oh, but an occasional bottle of pop [soda, sugar-y fizzy drink] is fine", for sure, but $BRAND aren't advertising to get you to have one of their drinks each month; they want you to reach for 3-a-day. [Mind you the major pop brands have modified their behaviour, removing regular sugars and pushing sweetener; I think they're worming their way out of being sued like the tobacco companies were. And there's good and bad in that.]
To do this effectively, we have to change the way we edit code, so it's an editor/workflow feature rather than an scm one. Trying to solve it downstream in scm is not productive.
I've seen multiple reports of large performance improvements (like ~30%) when moving from the old .Net to .Net Core (the newer, open source version). I imagine this would be more than enough of a difference to overtake Java.

C# has a number of features (like `Span<T>` and value types) which Java doesn't currently have, which enable programs to run more efficiently, which might explain the difference. IIRC there are plans to add value types to Java, but they're not ready yet.
This is why traditional enterprise software is increasingly being sold and valued like a SaaS. A lot of the latest SaaS IPOs (MuleSoft, Elastic, Pivotal, SolarWinds, DocuSign) derive a lot of their revenue from installable software. The economic model is annual subscription (with incentives for multi-year pre-pay) rather than big perpetual deal followed by 25% maintenance annually in perpetuity.

Wall Street likes this model, understands this model, and it's less prone to boom/bust and aggressive sales tactics.

The result has had a huge positive impact on making enterprise sales more driven on actual results rather than schmoozing. It leads to more sustainable, stable revenue for the software company that's directly tied to ongoing perception of value from the customer. The customer also in theory gets a LOT more attention from account teams and support than they otherwise would. Screw-ups or shelfware at worst lead to 1 year of revenue and hit the churn rate.
Apple didnt run a microchip fab manufacturing 80% of chips inside 1541, hence no incentive to sell you overpriced garbage (like C128D with 3 CPUs, 2 doing nothing all the time).
You make good points regarding insight and agenda, theoretically self-interest, agenda and collaboration can intersect and be net-positive for all involved and I appreciate your tone didn’t devolve, I couldn’t help but bring this up because I noticed your username on two different threads, oftentimes people become adversarial during meta-discussion.

I believe it was Heidegger who purposed that an important part of living was making peace with dying, and consequently, dying and having done nothing in life and being completely accepting of that fact, with no attached anxieties is an ‘enlightened’ state that we should all strive to embody. I suppose this channels Camus’s notion of absurdity and life devoid of any inherent meaning.

Maybe this article resonates with readers here because our work is so detached from Gattungswesen, we work in abstract, complex and mathematical realms, for corporations who purport that they “make the world a better place through SaaS data-science, blockchain, machine-learning analytics” and request from us labor performed with feigned enthusiasm. I argue that the nature of high-technology work is inherently alienated, we aren’t farmers or mothers or teachers and oftentimes the most satisfying activities are inert ones like meditation and sleep, doing anything at all can feel alienating and laborious because of the very human biological imperative to conserve energy.

For many people, economically-productive work itself is alienating, some would rather be artists, writers or do nothing at all, and no economic system can change that, however we aren’t in a post-scarcity economy so we work because we have to and because we wouldn’t want to work any other job.
no, I don't think so.
researches are following algorithms no matter what the word searched is but some results might be excluded form the search according to some specific settings.
The price of an Amazon review seems to be around $3 on the black market
I think it is pretty unreasonable to compare Ontario's coal industry to Germany's. [0] Ontario went from about 20% coal based electricity, whereas as recently as 2013 Germany relied on coal for nearly half of all of its electric power.

Furthermore, Ontario's economy has been effectively stagnant over that period, and the cost of energy clearly played some role in that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 (though German-extracted coal is largely too expensive to bother with now)
Not necessarily. I know people who kept older German cars forever. It’s not very possible anymore. They fall apart and parts aren’t available.

My 2003 Pilot was not a utilitarian transport. It was a well equipped car with 80% of the doodads of an equivalent Benz at half the cost. I got rid of it last year, because it had hit 300k miles and key suspension parts were worn out.
Like any solution, there will be some kinks to work through. When you are deploying updates multiple times a day, it is nice to not have to upload a new VM everytime we push a change to the CI.
According to the article, Bill Gates’ company is using a technology called TWR which is different from the fission reactors you mention.

According to Wikipedia, “TWRs could theoretically run, self-sustained, for decades without refueling or removing spent fuel.”

Agreed that the failure to finish and activate Yucca Mountain is ridiculous. Alternatively, we could be using that spent fuel in other reactors as I believe France does. Either way the current policy is irresponsible although it’s due to politics not technology.
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The car on the list would be a 2004 model.
There is also another kind of metacircularity that does not bind meaning with letters but with the enunciation context.

Two examples coming from underground 90s hip hop:

- Smoked Out Productions, Bok Bok: "Where my niggas at ? In the range of my voice". This is very faint, but it's here.

- More convincingingly, Alps Cru, Words From My Thoughts: "As my thoughts are merged, these are those words."

- Here is a poemnigma I wrote to a friend:

______Qui suis je ?______

M E V O I C I S U L T A N

N U I T I S M E V O C A L

S I L I C E M O U V A N T

I O V E N T M U S I C A L

L E V O I C I M U S A N T

M O T I N C L U S A V I E

C E M O T I V A L I N S U

L A V O U S E M I N C I T

C U L T I V O N S A M I E

S I I L V A U T C E N O M

S O N V A L M U E T I C I

Indice:

S I N U L V I C E A M O T

V U I C I S L A M E T O N

N O M C E S T V I A L U I

V A I N C U T E L O M I S

Translation:

___Who am I ? ____

Here I am Sultan !

Vocal nightism

Moving silica

Io, musical wind !

Here it is drifting

This lifetime word

This hidden motive

Here it slices you thin

Let's cultivate my friend

If it equates this name

Its silent vale here

____Hint____

If no word-vice

As seen here slams your

Name it's through it

Vanquished like this, omitted

Explanation:

All the lines are built up using the same set of letters, and every line either hints at the encryption mechanism (anagrams) or at the nature of the key (a person's name). I can't wrap my head around the "cryptographic setting" here but it looks like it's a two levels system where both the encrypted and clear forms of the message have a meaning. The encrypted form meaning relies on common sense, patience and a certain sense of observation to convey to Bob both what's the encryption algorithm (anagrams) and what kind of key it uses (a person's name), like any public algo. However, the key appears to be ... the message's true target !

Of course it's not cryptography strictly speaking, and I'm not even sure it's conveying any meaning. At most I can cause Alice to raise her hand among the crowd of message readers, but that's all. It's like cryptography, but it works at another level: it's not about concealing the meaning of the message, but concealing its enunciation context. This is about catching someone's attention by broadcasting a message among a crowd without them knowing who is targeted and without prior coordination with the target.
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> is it the browser? or another terminal?

This is generally a non-issue, but even if you are getting tripped up consistently, the OS literally tells you at all times what application currently has focus
I'm not sure whether this much nuance is possible in politics. There isn't just a choice between building new plants or not building them, but there is also one between the outdated plants online vs bringing them offline, and if there is a new push to nuclear, I's very possible that the plants will get an "upgrade" and declared safe to use while in reality they just got a new coat of paint or something equivalently effective.

Just look at coal: The coal lobby is also constantly talking about how many jobs they are bringing and so on while in reality they bring only very few jobs and those that exist are being reduced due to automation.
ok, multiple burgers and multiple side salads is not a normal meal at a fast food restaurant.
Yeah that's fortunately increasingly an option we can take, but the world would sure suck less if we weren't dealing with the compounded effects of 50-70 years of the sort of nuclear skepticism expressed in your comment upthread.

But still, even if we're going to aggressively build out renewables there's still room for a lot more nuclear in the energy mix. There's use-cases for it where solar, wind etc. isn't a substitute, e.g. shipping[1].

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/feb/13/climatec...
"git caught on despite mercurial being much superior"

mercurial wasn't superior.
I think the .net implementation benchmarked before was using mono, that's why Java was ahead before.
> Every year you wait, the more expensive it becomes to do stuff like this.

It seems like the opposite is true: Every year you wait, the upfront and recurring costs drop.

Unless you have a serious near-term problem arising from the status quo (e.g. stagnant air filled with coal exhaust), and that problem can be solved altogether at a tolerable cost, there is no advantage to moving first or early.
I'm familiar with both Java and .NET worlds and for a recent product had to pick one. I ended up picking Kotlin (JVM) only because the team I'm working with are more proficient in Java but I must admit, C# looked incredibly tempting technologically.

Java won't go away any time soon but C#/.NET seems to be under better and more determined leadership.
Compensation may be going up, but at top tech companies, software engineers still make significantly more than data scientists for the same level (twice the RSUs). I’ve noticed at non-tech companies, the reverse seems to be true: data scientists make slightly more than software engineers.
Upvoted. Every thread on unionization here on HN presupposes a certain stereotype of unions.
The US government already recognized the importance of nuclear innovation (since we lost that lead in the last 50 years)

On January 24, 2019, President Trump Signs Pro-Nuclear Legislation: make regulations move more quickly with respect to new nuclear reactors and to establish a better and faster licensing structure for advanced nuclear reactors

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/01/24/president...
Could you give an example of where it is necessary (in principle, not just because that's the way the tool works) to rewrite the detailed history in order to get the history you want?

I realize that we generally have to work with the available tools, but it is also useful to think about how things would optimally work. When I wrote that frequent rebasing looks like a process smell, that could because the tool is not optimal.
What can you actually do against this? I have exactly this problem as I live in a city with two major international companies and they get so many applications that their salaries are quiet low and bad benefits (no remote work, less holidays...).?
Nursing and trades.

The beauty of both is that you just work, and usually get paid for what you do. Work an all-nighter? Welcome to overtime.
The commenters here are missing a key point, namely that the big impact will not be the move of the agency itself, but all that is linked to it. At the basics are skilled and well paid jobs, local rent and contractors, travel and hotel costs of experts coming over, expenses of expat staff, their partners, their children, ... etc. So you right away lose a lot of income linked to this.

But what most people miss is all the indirect effects. E.g. if I'm a medical consultancy, where will I open new offices? If I'm a legal expert on the approval processes, where will I have the easiest access to any events, publications and informal chats with key experts? If I'm hosting lobby or info events, where will I reach the key people I'd love to hear about my new product/service/insight/... If I'm a researcher, which university will I use as the project partner most likely to have good access to the EMA expertise? English will still be important, but which one will be the key language to reach EMA if locally hired staff (think contract staff such as often secretaries, logistics people, admin staff, ..) speak Dutch as their first language?

EMA and similar bodies (think any kind of stock exchange, regulatory body, government agency, ...) are central points in networks that link and motivate lots of other things to happen. In the long term loss of EMA will not throw London off the map, but it will over time weigh more and more decisions in the direction of Amsterdam (or at least away from London).
I believe the article is wrong. It uses Foxconn as an example despite the fact that Foxconn is a Taiwanese company that suffers all the conditions that the author mentions: Chinese spying, Chinese sanctions against Taiwan and vice versa, etc. for years. China and Taiwan are even still technically at war. However, Foxconn has been in China since 1988 and is very big in China.

In my mind the real killer has been increasing costs, China's manufacturing decline has been showing signs since 2016, and is more related to increased labour costs and increased pollution regulations. The trade war is just another final nail in the coffin. The "China conundrum" or manufacturing moving out of China has been happening for a while, its just people haven't paid much attention to it until now. The decline would have happened even without the trade war.
Reviews on Amazon are already linked to a user. Once you find the user's profile, you can see all of their reviews. Blockchain brings nothing to the table in regards to detecting bad reviews. Amazon at least affirmatively indicates whether or not a user has purchased a certain product.

Furthermore, there are already (non-blockchain) tools to adjust a product's reviews to account for bad actors: https://www.fakespot.com/
You have to understand where Germany is at. They have probably the most precarious energy situation of any industrialized nation in the world. No oil or gas deposits of any note, almost entirely landlocked so there's no possibility of offshore drilling or tidal energy, no geothermal, no hydro, terrible solar efficiency, and almost non-existent wind. After coal they are basically left with Russian gas and domestic nuclear, neither of which are extremely appetizing in the long term. It's honestly mindblowing that they are even close to leading the pack here, and I applaud the German people for that. It's not even a close comparison to Canada's unlimited reserves of LNG, hydro power, geothermal, and wind.
> chooses to keep earning more money for their boss

But they aren't choosing to keep earning money for their boss. They're choosing to keep doing what they enjoy. That happens to earn their company money as well - why's that an issue?
https://247wallst.com/aerospace-defense/2014/06/03/why-a-boe...

For some perspective a Boeing 747 costs $357,000,000 they have a seating capacity of 416.

416 x $200,000 is only $83,200,000 so...honestly...I could see it.
I can't say I agree there isn't a word. There's been plenty of conversations about it, resulting in stuff like https://www.partnershiponai.org/

How honest those efforts are is, in my opinion, worth questioning, but they are talking about it.
The effect of this trick will diminish quickly when everyone copies it. I wonder why this bike company was eager to reveal their trick if it was so effective. Perhaps the free advertisements they gets from news reports are more worthwhile?
Quite tangential but for working toward freeing reviewing from Amazon or similar: https://lib.reviews/
The usual answer is "because Fukushima shut down the nuclear industry, duh". But this is obviously wrong as when looking at the data. Much of the increase was between 2000-2010.

I wonder if it's due to the monopoly structures of the energy business shielding them from the changes that the rest of the world has been seeing. I wonder how much of the coal is used for electricity vs steel making etc.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...
Could've been probably solved with ATTiny and a breadboard. Even cheaper and even more lo-tech.
Disagree on nurses.

Both medical doctor and attorney I agree 100%. Most attorneys hate life.
I've used C# since 1.2 (not exclusively).

The language is really good - it's one of my favourites. It's almost 2 decades old, but it's evolved naturally and is still a modern language.

Unfortunately, it's the shit around it that let it down... MSBuild, NuGet, VS - they're full featured, but very slow and clunky and hard to work with. Only popular because there's been no viable alternative.

Now, with dotnet core, there's no more reliance on Windows (for both dev and production). I can develop and deploy on my preferred OS, and there's a choice of IDE (Rider and VS Code).