skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear proponents bring this up, but it's not an argument that saves nuclear. Nuclear is quite horrible at providing backup power, since it has large fixed costs.

In a cost optimized no-CO2 system, you'll see renewables providing immediate power, short term storage (batteries, pumped hydro) carrying over shorter outages, and some sort of peaking capacity for longer lulls in sun/wind. Overcapacity of the renewables + longer distance transmission will help, as will end-user storage of heat/cold. The peaking capacity will be used only a small fraction of the time, and will be powered by hydrogen (either from electrolysis from excess renewable output, or from NG steadily reformed to H2 and the H2 stored for use during the peaks, and the CO2 from the reformers sequestered). Simple cycle plants are ~40% efficient and cost < $400/kW.
I like the fact that apple published the contacts for further inquiries related to this debacle (found on the bottom of the article). Their openness and transparency in providing these information deserves an applause.
Also, Seymour Papert's Mindstorms.
Guatemala and El Salvador attempt to reinstate amnesty laws
If 2% of the workforce is comprised of artists, would it suffice to cap student loans to art majors at 3% or 4% of the student population?

At what point does a student loan become unviable to the lender, given real world statistics? Why isn't it a factor in actual loan issuance. Further, why is there massive rhetoric around student loan forgiveness, if the economy has no need for certain professions beyond a threshold (which is apparently 2% for arts). Do we want to educate people in certain majors on tax dollars, when the labor market has no demand for it?

Also, do we want to encourage kids going into degrees, without a thorough cost:benefit analysis of what they are getting into?
You can't forget Poe's law, though
Lonely Without You Quotes
> I work 8 hours a day in an office with a computer. At home I usually spend about 3 hours a day at the computer (social network, programming, side projects, HN, ...).

> Someone has some tips to avoid eye problems?

1. Stop doing that.

2. Make sure that lights are appropriately bright around you.

3. Stop drinking Diet Soda or similar drinks.
For anybody that cares, much of this process has its origins in Taiichi Ohno's work in the '70s. His original "Toyota Production System" book of 1978, which is still in print, is short, accessible, and enormously enlightening. Likewise, a comparative study of why the Toyota system works in comparison with other manufacturing approaches is the 2nd edition of Womack's "Machine that Changed the World". Also, other books by Shingo, Imai, Deming et al. have lots of good information.
Robot valets are now parking cars in one of France’s busiest airports
To my mind, Mark Zuckerberg fits here. (He wasn't "given" power, but the end result is much the same.)
Look up the Tom Lehrer song with that name. I'm a mathematician who followed a long and nonstandard path into the field and I agree with 100% of what you've said. In my experience, it's "cool" to be bad at math -- typified by that Tom Lehrer bit
> A woman cheating with a game journalist in exchange for positive coverage on her game.

Which was false: he never covered that game. https://kotaku.com/in-recent-days-ive-been-asked-several-tim...
'typically-seen-as-sexy "hacker" scene'? By who?

His association with At The Drive-In gives him more street cred than any tenuous relationship with hacking.
On an unrelated note when did FAANG before a thing? I don't recall seeing this used anywhere a mere year ago.
So... a station wagon?
Time-lapse visualizing a startup's codebase evolving over 4 yrs
Obama's strategy was good for his time, in 2020 I think candidates will need to be much more specific and forceful about their policy intents.
I don't really have an opinion on how efficient or inefficient their infrastructure is. AWS has lots of services and I'm sure Lyft is using a heck of a lot more of them than just a bunch of EC2 instances.
> I've seen a few interviews in my time. On the order of 5k of them)

Sorry, your "5k" doesn't pass the smell test, unless you can give some convincing reason why 20 years of one interview per day would be believable.

So, I'm calling BS. You just seem bitter about interviews that you don't like and are trying to con people into giving your opinion more weight than that of others.

Besides, if other companies are doing interviewing "wrong" as you think, then just do it "right" in yours and have a competitive edge by hiring all those brilliant coders that other companies are too stupid recognizing. That would be a reason for you to be joyful instead of bitter, no?
If you price something too high, people without money will bring their picforks and broom and french revolution will happen.

Someone like these tech might end up hanging, don't believe? It's already happening slowly.
Nothing ever happens for the first time, right?
However, it's worth noting that Tidal has been accused of inflating its streaming numbers: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/did-tidal-falsify-str...

Tidal's model is supposedly more literally like the proverbial "pie", where the most popular artists get the biggest cut. So if it's true that they inflate numbers for Jay Z and Beyonce, then other artists are being deprived of revenue.
It's how the establishment pushes new politicians on you. Why should this person receive any coverage at all?
And who's to determine what the purpose was?

"The street finds its own uses for things."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome

One can invent the cooking knife to help with all sorts of cutting tasks in cooking, and now they'll be held responsible if people decide to use those knives for murder? That's silly.

That's the problem with outlawing tools and tech instead of directly going after evil people. One ends up inconveniencing, penalizing, or even making criminals out of law abiding people, while the criminals just keep on circumventing.

Hey, all Internet kiddie porn is distributed using networks and computers. Time to outlaw those! Think that's silly? I don't think we're that far away from outlawing human driven cars. There are probably tons of people in government and law enforcement who would be all for it. If we're not careful, we might end up in a world only consisting of locked down DRM-laden devices. Oh hey, we're not that far away from that either!
The Non-designers Design Book is pretty good.
this seems much too brief, although cheery.. its like a tweet of info instead of a resource..
Many years being on the scale of tens to thousands of years. Cody did a great video on his channel showing confined aquifers, how they work, and why they recharge so slowly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4iCgxsZX4
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It seems unlikely that the new group would be more moral, less easily bribed, and less self-centered. There's nothing unique to the generation of politicians currently in power.
You're right, but there's a difference between journalism that attempts to be objective and present all sides of a story.... and the tabloid-level partisan garbage that is presented by major media outlets today.

For a while, The Intercept looked like it was going to be a breath of fresh air.
So in other words, it's an absolutely regular Friday on reddit.

Elen Pao tried to toned down the toxicity of the place but was turfed. At the time I was just browsing my mechanic and programming subreddits, but the sheer amount of vitriol even on those subreddits against her made me reconsider my presence on the website.

I also didn't like what was going on in /r/linux which was the grounds zero of all the trolls reacting to the adoption of CoC by Linux kernel.

This time it's Chinese trolls do the job instead of misogynist or right wing trolls.

Reddit is just the place where these things will keep happening. It's by design and it will never going to change.
> Aggression should always be acted upon, just not in a retarded way.

I think you're being optimistic. Parent doesn't mention any emotion besides aggression. No line was drawn between men shooting up schools and men not being able to cry, it was totally focused on aggression.

They point out that male-emasculation is leading to shootings, not repression of all emotions - I mean, isn't the expression of crying "emasculating"? I don't see anything but aggression in the parent comment.
No, I was using it for general purpose typing, for example on MSN messenger which was available as an app on the Zune HD
Not exactly the same, but see cases of young professional athletes getting in trouble for things they tweeted when they were 15. They're generation that grew up from the start with complete proliferation of modern social media aligning with their formative teen years. I suspect we'll see more when people born around the turn of the millennium start running for office in their 30s (or sooner!).
The government can't exactly ban chemistry textbooks, can it?

Anyway, for this type of censorship to be effective to prevent dissemination of knowledge, it would need to happen before distribution, and prior restraint is generally considered unconstitutional in the US, except in matters of national security. National security could likely include planned troop movements and nuclear weapons manufacturing procedures (although, you can figure out a lot by reading physics textbooks).
The number of gov-backed trolls is overestimated. Majority of those are simply real people using VPNs. It may sound hard to believe, but think twice about the huge size of population and high rate of Internet penetration.

Chinese population is largely nationalistic and conservative, and some hawkish groups are very active online. There is a joke that Great Firewall is not for controlling Chinese people but protecting Westerners from Chinese netizens.
(He wasn't "given" power, but the end result is much the same.)

"slowly amassed", perhaps?
We are in a world where the exact same video of Beto skateboarding was posted by both opponents and supporters and each saw what they wanted in it.

I would challenge the idea that being a “hacker” polls well for a presidential candidate. Recall that “hacking” was a bit of a problem in 2016.
It depends on "how original," stories about trolls under bridges go back a long way, but if we go WAY back, we get the word applyimng to many different mythical creatures:

"The term is used to denote various beings, such as a jötunn or mountain-dweller, a witch, an abnormally strong or large or ugly person, an evil spirit, a ghost, a blámaðr, a magical boar, a heathen demi-god, a demon, a brunnmigi, or a berserker."

I think that over time, and thanks to various "fairy tales," we have settled on Trolls as he mountain/riock/cave-dwellers who are turned to stone if exposed to sunlight.

Sadly, the Internet Troll multiplies when given attention. Sunlight does not disinfect social media.
I like the idea of a politician who doesn't need someone to hand them a Fisher-Price 'My first iPhone' and explain to them how a computer works in a congressional session.
You know what a selection is?

>So they operate on a larger scale and they're better at making and selling cars than Tesla is

You don't get it. They're better at making and selling ICE cars. Not EVs. No one is discussing the fact that established manufacturers are established, the issue here is the disruption.

Remember that Tesla is eating up market shares fast and at an increasing pace, and they already produce more than 50% of the entire battery market (including smartphones, stationary storage, EV, etc).

If you're forward looking, you could say Tesla "operates on a larger scale and is better at making and selling EVs". This reality may not be easy to recognize.
It’s a me, Luigi.... :-( Mario, you’re my brother...
That's part of the premise of that one South Park episode / season about the 2016 elections[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skank_Hunt#Plot
> there is rather more discontinuity between the Roman Empire of 200 and the Byzantine Empire of 800 although the changes were gradual and not sudden.

a discontinuity that is gradual and not sudden is a continuity, and i think you are overemphasizing the ethnicity of emperors. Justinian was just as ambitious (and murderous) as any imperial era emperor.
David Bowie said 5 years in 1972
Harvard study uncovers genes that control process of whole-body regeneration
Replacing interstates with rail doesn't work. For one thing, there is already rail running parallel to most of them, so there is no need for it.

Moreover, the usage is different. A person lives in the suburbs, they drive five miles through their suburb, then get on the interstate for 10 miles, then drive to an office park 5 miles off the interstate. If you get rid of the interstate, what are they supposed to do? Drive 5 miles to the train, take the train 10 miles and then walk 5 miles? Buy a second car to use for the other leg of the commute?

What you need is to relax the zoning/density restrictions in the city so that more people and businesses can afford to be there instead of in the suburbs. Then they can use the existing mass transit within the city, which unclogs the interstate for the people who can't, e.g. because one of their endpoints is outside the city for legitimate reasons or because they have to transport bulk material in addition to humans.
It certainly feels that way sometimes, or HNers are just as susceptible as everyone else to the polarisation that seems to affect everything today.
The president of Exelon has said new nuclear in the US would require a CO2 tax of $300-400/tonne in order to compete with natural gas. At that tax rate, it would be cheaper to completely sequester the CO2 from a NG plant.

So, no, the externalities cannot save nuclear in the US.
Lots of regulations in that area are tied to market influence. The Microsoft case was about Microsoft pushing IE through their dominance in PC sales.
r/selfhosted is pretty good also.
I was sad and surprised until I realized it wasn't the waffles I care about.
The braking system did not fail, both volvo's stock braking system, and Uber's own system were turn off. Uber's self driving software tried to command a braking maneuver over 1.5 seconds before impact, but did not have the authority to do so, as Uber engineers had turned off the functionality due to annoying (or possibly unsafe) false alarms.
Why is this comment being downvoted?

Look at PewDiePie’s twitter followers. Many are white nationalists.
Would be super fun if Apple removed Spotify from the App Store. The ensuing drama would be really entertaining.
I always remember it as ROY-G-BIV, but then maybe I played a little too much Paranoia[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
It's hard to implement unsafe patterns in safe language. It's hard like using ASM with Java, because Java is platform independent language, while ASM is platform dependent language. This impedance mismatch causes problems, which can solved by wrappers.

If we are talking about emulator, why not just make clear communication between CPU, RAM, and graphic device? Memory can be split into rows (e.g. by split_at()), so graphic device can take ownership of a single scan line at a time, leaving majority of the memory unlocked. We cannot avoid problem, but we can make scale of the problem much smaller by splitting memory into pages, so CPU can take ownership of pages, it works with right now, while graphical device can work with it own pages.
I saw here a pretty good pattern of anytime a story about Uyghurs was posted there was a post or two about: "I just traveled through there and it's nothing like the article says, it's quite peaceful."

There were even some hilariously worded posts about how: "At least unlike the US I don't have to wear my backpack on the front for fear of thieves." That almost seemed like the height of communist era type poster propaganda...

That kinda came in went pretty quickly.
The time cube was the product of a single, elderly, schizophrenic man. People in that demographic post to Facebook these days, I think.

Flat earth, I think, is caused by crazy people finding it easier to find each other with the Internet and social media, and putting together communities on the Internet.
UWP was broadly criticized because of how it operated. Every notification I got from UWP was something along the lines of "In order to rename this file, _____ program needs access to LITERALLY EVERY FILE AND PERMISSION AVAILABLE ON YOUR COMPUTER AND/OR HOME NETWORK"

Maybe if these notifications were less vague, they wouldn't be hounded as annoying and useless... Just saying.
In the context of vehicle exhaust, I think it’s pretty clear that humid waste heat is not comparable to coal or petrol fired exhaust, particularly in proximity to cities.
(To be clear, the edge USB device works with the raspberry pi, but throughput is limited to USB 2.0 speeds... Because that's the speed of rpi USB ports. It's not clear to me what the author is asking for wrt full support for the pi.)
> Increasingly often now a days you're not buying a game for $60, you're buying a starter pack which is then filled out a la carte with DLC and various microtransactions.

Not just with consoles. This sort of thing is what made me stop buying AAA games altogether, and largely to stop gaming generally. Now when I occasionally want to play a game, I pretty much stick with the ones I bought a decade or more ago, or ones that I find on GOG.
The internet sense comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing) rather than the bridge dwellers.

“Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water.”
> Also, Rust is an open source ecosystem, and people using it should feel compelled to consider writing the missing pieces they need for the benifit of the community. It’s also odd to say that Rust doesn’t have what you need, it sounds like there are C libraries that already do what you want, and Rust can wrap C.

This sounds like a great idea, but not everyone has the time and resources to port libraries from one language to another. It should be trivial to wrap C libraries, but errors do show up, and a once one day task now takes a week to iron out. If you have 4 or 5 libraries that are missing, you've now lost a month of development work that could have been spent adding new features.

Additionally, not everyone wants to maintain open source projects. There's a huge amount of responsibility that comes with being a maintainer, and the OSS community isn't always a friendly, fun place. Rachel has some great examples in her blog [1].

[1]: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/09/moat/
> I wonderfully interested that you think the DNC would allow that to happen after just two year of being shown explicitly that they will do whatever is needed to make sure that does not happen.

It's not the same DNC. While the Sanders faction didn't gain control after the 2016 election, they essentially got a power-sharing agreement and, more importantly, they've gotten a bunch of reforms, including mostly neutralizing the power of superdelegates. And Sanders is starting 2020 in a much stronger position than 2016, and doing so without an opponent with anywhere close to the establishment power of Clinton, whose partisans also were in charge of the DNC at the time.
China Is Catching Up to the US in AI Research–Fast
IMHO, the best hackers aren't forming groups and vying for "cred". They're quietly building their skills and exploring, while avoiding the spotlight at all costs.
Greeks also called (and still do) themselves "romioi". Ottomans also called them Rum.
Super simple CLI tool to transmit data (files, text, clipboard) over audio
NUMMI was sold to Tesla in 2010, and Toyota/GM had basically stopped operations by mid 2009. I’m not sure how one year of super low production is comparable to Tesla’s operation.
Chinese/political Trolls have been on Reddit forever. I noticed it in full force when Obama was running for president.

But, it only seems to matter now because Trump. I still wonder if Hillary would have won the presidency, if all of this foreign meddling with our elections would have been swept under the carpet.
This is true. However, both approaches are "dp" if we are talking about the equivalent solution implemented in these different ways.
For everything that's wrong with cryptocurrencies and the /r/cryptocurrency subreddit, I really like their approach to tagging users. Main activity outside of this subreddit? You get tagged. A lot of activity in one specific coin subreddit? That's a tag. New account? Tag. Old account with little activity before? Tag. Longer time with no activity on CC? Tag.

It feels weird at first, but it's actually a great way to recognize trolls.
What's wrong with a "conservative voting record"?
Society glamorizes hackers hard. Have you ever seen War Games? The Matrix? Live Free or Die Hard? Mr Robot? Blackhat? Any recent spy movie? What about the multitude of other movies/shows where hackers aren't the focus, but are certainly glamorized, a la NCIS, CSI, Limitless, etc. There's an entire genre of film & television about hackers and they are almost always portrayed as cool, attractive, powerful people with the world at their fingertips.
It's conceivable that renewables + fossil w. CCS will be the cheaper solution, at least until the fossil fuels run out. One could, for example, reform NG to hydrogen and CO2, then sequester the CO2 and store the H2 for use in peaking turbines. This would fit nicely with renewables. It would leave little room for nuclear.
>Owners appear to like, even love, the Model 3. It received top marks in CR’s recent owner satisfaction survey and also earned a positive road-test score. It’s a weird duality — and one the even CR acknowledges — that other aspirational, lifestyle and luxury vehicles share. Owners love the vehicles, despite persistent issues with the components inside them.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/tesla-model-3-loses-consum...
And yet we won't be building any more water storage. As a result, we have about the same water capacity to survice the next drought as we had in the 1970s. There were half as many residents then, and climate change wasn't a concern...
Oftentimes I see farewell posts like this, but the company website has already been mostly turned down. It would be helpful for folks like me who have never heard of Waffle to know what the service was. Having that tiny bit of context at the top of the article (or even just keeping the marketing site alive!) helps to put the shutdown in context.

And yes, I can search, but more often than not the first page of search results are news stories that the service is shutting down rather than resources that describes what it actually was.
Bureau of labor statistics 2016 says 856,000 "agricultural workers" at a median pay of $11.41/hour.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/farming-fishing-and-forestry/mobile/...
Cicadas have repeatedly domesticated the infamous cordyceps fungus
>The kids who appear not to struggle may be struggling at home the night before, or working on math a lot more.

One can tell the struggling child that others "may have struggled the night before" but that explanation will not remove the math anxiety because it will not convincingly explain all the performance differences the child sees.

For example, in the USA, a primary/secondary teacher will lecture on a new math concept on the whiteboard and there will often be ~15 minutes left over to start the homework assignment. The kids "good at math" get started right away without any visible struggling -- and may even finish the homework before the bell is rung. The slower kids become self-aware that they need the teacher to help them more often. There is no "previous night" to hide a struggle. The slower kids see immediately that some of their peers really do pick up on new math concepts easily without practice. It's their comparisons of their ability to their peers that triggers some of that math anxiety.