skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may all very well be true, but it still means that the power plant was unsafe.

All the time nuclear power fans tell us that "this time we've learned and current design are safe".

And all the time bad things happen and they have to admit "well, not when X happens". Or "not when A and then B happens".

Just as you did here. It's nice that Fukushima could have survived an earthquake, but the tsunami isn't a freak accident, it's actually a common cause thing.

It's nice that Fukushima could have survived both the earthquake and the tsunami, had it been built differently.

But it hadn't. And that's why all this "This time everything is safe" is just as unbelievable as over the last decades.

Now, you can certainly say that decarbonization is worth the risk, and I might even be on the fence about it.

But please don't insult the general public's intelligence by ever telling us again that nuclear power is safe and it was only those stupid Russians who totally mismanaged their power plant.
Ask HN: How do you make a big life change?
Throwaway account. I’m 31, gay male, single, live in SF. I’ve worked in tech in various non-technical roles for a few years and managed to save $1m getting lucky being in the right place at the right time.

I’m not really a career person and career has gone sideways for some time. I don’t see myself being a VC-backed founder or VC or tech exec anytime soon. I don’t really enjoy the SF tech scene. I’m also terrible at networking.

I don’t have any particular need to stay in SF but feel adrift and unsure what to do with myself.

I’m aware I’m in a privileged situation.

Anyone face a similar situation? How did you decide what to do next?
I wonder why Chromecast wasn't killed...
I didn't mean to imply I thought mass transit was a conservative policy. I was trying to highlight another example of bias in the mechanics of the game. I failed to do so.
Markdown themes are also a great starting point.

You only have to set the margins/width of your document and maybe some sort of header & footer and you're done with the CSS your very basic but also very readable website.
Yeah, shouldn't the same logic apply to Chromecast?
Note, this is about HTTP/1.1 Pipelining being removed not *nix Pipeline.

HTTP/1.1 Pipelining was badly supported by curl for a long time in the sense that we had a series of known bugs and it was a fragile feature without enough tests.
Can anyone provide a link to the visualisation software they used?

Seeing at a micro scale of 'per city' is useful to motivate but I'd love to see a World view of what we have coming in a 1, 2, 3°c and more rise
That would be geoblocking.
Ask HN: How to start your own software/ML/Web consultancy company?
I am 22 years old. I have good knowledge of systems, web development, and backend development. One of my friends is good at ML and AI. We are thinking to start our own consultancy company to help other companies to build their products. Any advice I can get from HN community? How to get the first client? How to make new connections for our business?
Hello, sorry I don't have your solution but I'm in your situation with not quite understanding linking. I have a lot of issues with linking/calling C++ and C libraries from each other or other low level languages. My background is in web stuff.

Could you please point me to the resources you used to get to your present level? Thanks :)
>> Fun fact: Norway is mostly socialist. The government owns the majority of the country's wealth.

This is not the definition of socialism.

"The Nordic model refers to the economic and social policies common to the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Sweden). This includes a comprehensive welfare state and collective bargaining at the national level with a high percentage of the workforce unionised while being based on the economic foundations of free market capitalism."
> what has been burned into my mind as a child

How was this done?
Ask HN: Why Do Mailbox and Protonmail Have to Use GoogleCaptcha?
Isn't there a privacy-respecting Captcha? Tutanota doesn't use GoogleCaptcha, why can't they?
You are right.

In fact tips like yours are what is most useful to learn for me from here.

However, in primary school I learned a little bit about content sectioning. Stories had to have a beginning, a middle and an end. Titles were important too.

These concepts of 'header', 'main' and 'footer' with 'sections' are not a million miles away from how writing was taught in the olden days to primary school kids.

Just because the grown ups can't be bothered to structure their HTML as per the spec with these logical groupings I don't see why 13 year olds should get a free pass. I don't want the web to be stuck in a sea of div tags styled with floats forever.
Medical science is so cool. Brilliant and unique solution. I wonder if this same technique can prove useful for other viruses in the future.

All the best to their future research.
> Whilst I now would never buy a smartwatch

Why?
A city building game will be political as it's at least partially simulating politics. However, I regret mentioning Republicans by name. I was trying to warn more broadly about adding the biases of the developers into a seemingly objective simulation. See this later comment I wrote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19588287
It is a complete myth that Norway is "mostly socialist". Norway is a market economy with a strong focus on regulation and welfare for its people. If it was Socialist, it would have nationalized all private property by now - which it haven't, and in fact it is in the process of privatizing even more previously state-owned products and services. Heavy taxation does not imply Socialism, although the Sovereign Wealth Fund can certainly be attributed to the Labour movement of Norway.
Remember that the marginal cost of one more digital copy of a game is really low; most of the cost is in the fixed development costs, which means that what matters is their total sales income. So the whole reason they can sell at a lower price to some countries is precisely because they're selling at a higher price elsewhere and making back their development costs that way. If they can't do that, they're almost certainly going to have to sell at the higher price everywhere.
Add the code as a snippet or associate it with a keyboard shortcut in your text editor. Then it's literally trivial to add it to an html page regardless of the URL.
What, you mean you don't live in California??

Get with the times, gramps! Internal combustion engines, are, like, totally last century.
I'm not saying there aren't situations where these aren't viable options. I'm personally an immigrant and would be happy with about any sort of job. I'd be fooling myself thinking said job makes me rich, and I don't have to work two of these jobs to make it. I also don't have to support a family. Luckily, I don't really have to work either, it merely affords us a different lifestyle. Lots of folks are motivated to work such jobs, and make the best of them. However, none of them are rich nor do they have the options and luxuries of the rich.

I'm saying no one would do these jobs for "love of working" if they are rich enough to avoid such labour. For example: You might open a restaurant, but you'd not likely be a cashier at McDonalds with no health insurance, vacation, nor agency over one's life. You might own a hobby farm, but it is highly unlikely you'd be a migrant farm worker if you are already rich. And so on.
Not sure how new this is, but I buy whole chickens frequently, and that is how every brand I’ve seen packages them in the US.
> survived the 4th largest earthquake in record history, a tsunami,

You make it sound like this is unbelievably improbable. Like "multiply the probabilities of an earthquake and a tsunami".

In fact, this is a prime example for a common cause failure.
Thanks for that! I got a real fright!
This. I don't have an answer to what could save quality Journalism. But $5 spread between hundreds of publication from Gossip Magazines to Fashion and Entertainments don't sounds too reassuring.
Housemates from hell – me and my 23-year-old son
I wish, though, that people left it out the same way the HN guidelines encourage deleting the "Didn't you read TFA?!" from otherwise substantive comments. It adds nothing and annoys at least two HN readers.
So why Europe and not the East Asia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing_in_East_As...

I personally like the theory that it was constant war and conflict which propelled the scientific revolution. The need to compete and outdo others which went hand in hand with the industrial revolution and the politics and economics of the time that led to the french revolution.
Tokenization Will Change Our Economy
Speaking is the only one on that list not generally considered a technology. Every human civilisation we know about has developed spoken language. It seems to be built in to us.

Writing has only been independently invented a few times in history, as far as we know. Some historians reckon that map-making came before written language and it was that which had the largest impact.
Looks like the Qualcomm 205 is a pin compatible replacement for the Snapdragon 210/212, whereby they figured out they could trim out a few hardware chunks (H.265 decoding & 8MP camera support) and save on manufacturing (smaller dies) and licensing costs.

Plus, this cheaper chip can be dropped into phone designs from 2014 (Snapdragon 210) and 2015 (Snapdragon 212) with little to no engineering or software work. Seems like a great way to reuse tested cheap phone designs without additional cost or delay in getting products to market.
No, it's nothing like that - although it might be like refusing to fly in a 737 MAX.

First, any coal analogy is out of date. Only the coal lobby wants to continue burning coal. Everyone else is like "No, that's stupid and self-harming, let's just not."

Secondly, plane crashes don't make entire areas uninhabitable for long periods.

Third, the problem with nuclear isn't the engineering, it's the management. The nuclear industry has proven time and time again that it can't be trusted with nuclear technology. The long list of smaller accidents, cover-ups, and outright lies make it clear that trust has not been earned.

Four, the waste problem still hasn't been solved. I'm not sure how a technology that creates waste that remains toxic for thousands of years can be considered "clean", but the very curious pretence that is somehow clean - or that it can always be buried under a "Keep Out" sign that will somehow remain in place for many centuries - is a handy example of the toxic rhetorical pollution the nuke industry generates.

Fifth, if you remove all subsidies and include end-to-end clean-up costs, nuke power is actually uneconomic, and becoming more and more so.

Apart from that, it's a great idea.
Spoiler alert: Not aliens
Nonetheless, plenty of EU driven rules apply in Norway.
So gp’s statement could be true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway–European_Union_relati...
While this is certainly clear for media like cartoons, action movies, Mortal Kombat, and Doom, SimCity was touted as an educational tool for children and an accurate model of reality throughout the early to mid 1990s. I was in elementary school at the time. Parenting magazines and journals as well as the broader media claimed as much. A friend of mine growing up who absolutely loved SimCity is a real life city planner now. I have fond memories of playing SimCity 2000 with my father.

If you really want to know when I realized that the real world doesn't work like SimCity, it was when I was in college and I started actually paying attention to the news and what was going on in the cities and towns I lived in.
That is the thing, the architect should have a proper understanding of is-a and has-a relations and apply them appropriately.

Initially, VBX only allowed for composition as well, COM introduced interface inheritance with delegation, when one wanted to override a couple of methods, but not the remaining several ones.

And now UWP offers mechanisms to do implementation inheritance in COM, because everyone got tired to write delegating code for is-a relations.

Inheritance and composition are both tools, it is up to each one to learn how to use them appropriately.
That exact same argument was made back then.

You need to accept that all trust is lost. You cannot take backsies every few decades and expect people to trust you that this time you really know what you#re talking about.
https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/human-verifica...
You can see the economic and political differences increasing in when you map the locations of the prints and look what happens within next 100 years when the number of printed books and pamphlets increases.

Scotland had eight printers by 1700, Russia had two and there were heavy controls for what could be printed. Within 100 years Scotland became a center for engineering, and many famous self taught inventors came from Scotland.
I'm always baffled by the idea that we need to get people living in space for the human race to survive climate chance or other catastrophes. What do you think we could possibly do to the Earth that would make it less habitable than space? Even in the worst, worst case scenario, the Earth's gonna be left with some amount of oxygen-containing atmosphere, arable soil, gravity, and survivable if possibly uncomfortably hot or cold temperatures. Any station we could possibly build to withstand the temperatures and vacuum of space would be much more easily built on Earth.
There’s less and less about AI/ML on Hacker News: is AI winter coming?
The Cost of Computer Latency
Can't a new president quickly overturn such regulations?
When I felt a bit in a similar situation I jumped ship. I moved country (Easier for me, since I live in Europe) and I changed everything. New friends, new hobbies. The amount of things you learn when putting yourself in "uncomfortable" situations is incredible. I am aware this is not an easy change, but for me it was easier to do it jumping in with both feets. I did it 3 times, and I always jumped in the unknown. I always landed better off than I left.
I agree with you that I don't think we can make nuclear safe. But if the choice seems to be between millions of deaths from global warming or thousands of deaths from nuclear, isn't the latter vastly preferable? Shouldn't we set out and build out nuclear to steer us away from the edge, and then worry about better solutions once we're safe?

I suspect the reason people don't buy this argument is that they don't truly believe global warming is as bad as they say. We have a history of solving problems in the past, so we'll solve this one too. There's no need to panic.
Still no answer to the question : what do we with nuclear waste...

Only answer I get is : more money will solve it or one day...
Imgur comes to mind.
If you look at the Nazi program, up to 50% is clearly Socialist in nature, while the rest is Nationalist and Nationalist-Socialist. Thus it's fair to say that there are more similarities between Socialism and Nazism, than differences. Critics use the fact that Hitler "cooperated" with the big companies, rather than fully nationalizing them, as a way to claim that he wasn't Socialist, however that is misleading. While Socialists would send the Kulaks to their deaths in the Gulags, Hitler kept his business leaders alive as long as they cooperated. Thus Russia threw away expertice, while Hitler kept it. This lead to great economical advances in Germany, though at a terrible human cost. Meanwhile the more traditional Socialist approach in Russia didn't really lead to much ecnomical progress at all, while having a comparably terrible human cost.
We see these consequences all the time. Many items sold in sold in Bay Area are also sold for same price in Detroit for example. I'm not sure that trying to fudge it by restricting sales is the best way to fix.
No. He explained that there is a huge societal movement behind that. OP made it sound like Merkel decided on a personal whim.
Disclaimer: I am not really pro- or con- nuclear energy but try to keep an open mind.

How does what you are saying not apply to any other technology? Cars are “save” but kill more people than all nuclear power plants and accidents combined. Still we say to ourselves we can deal with the risk, which is obviously the case for lot’s of cases but might not be in some exceptions.

I think your reaction seems a little bit too emotional to an interesting and seemingly informative (haven’t fact checked his claims) personal perspective. The problem with discussions about nuclear energy is that there is a strong dogma towards openly thinking about the costs/risk/benefits in the political sphere. In Germany postponing our nuclear exit could buy us some time to get coal offline earlier and provide some stability to the grid. Ironically, the green party would never consider such a move due to ideological (and historical) reasons.
please correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the climate have so much inertia that NYC will be underwater no matter what we do?

i mean, we could go all renewable at this very moment, and NYC will still be submerged, along with most of humanity.

at least that's my understanding from this paper:

Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for
multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

https://www2.bc.edu/jeremy-shakun/Clark-2016-NCC.pdf

so what's the point of these discussions?
shouldn't we start building-out Mars or something?
*nix pipes are part of POSIX and the OS/Shell implements them, if the app takes input and produces output it can be a component of a pipeline.

In short, the Curl developers couldn't remove pipes without crippling the app.
The time and place for those is the interview stage.
Say you have 5 workers making 10 units of value each year. The cost of a product is 1 unit of value but you spent 100 units getting set up to sell said product, designing it and so forth.

In theory if you want default on all your bills and go live in the woods you can afford to always sell your product at 1 or 2 units until you go out of business but in reality you are out 150 units before you start.

So in insert rich market you sell 30 units at 5 units each

in not so rich market you sell 20 units at 4 units each

in poor market you sell 20 units at 2 units each.

You come out with 200 units or 50 units profit!

So if you can sell for 2 units in the cheapest market why can't you sell it to everyone at that price? Because it wouldn't pay for the sunk cost of developing the product in the first place.

Nothing is priced based on the cost to create its just the lowest possible floor for the price in the absence of other costs.

Software has a floor so close to zero it might as well be zero but a high cost to create the initial copy.
Sounds like a false dichotomy to me
So here is what I have learned over the years from working for, dealing with, starting my own, and studying consultancy companies. It really quite simple.

Every successful consultancy company I know had several things in common.

1) The founders weren't concerned about money. The could afford to spend time bootstrapping the business because they had some source of fallback that most people don't have. For example, their parents/brother/sister may have been very well off and they knew that even if they "blow it all" it wouldn't mean starvation.

2) A guaranteed client. Most startup consultancies I have encountered had a guaranteed client. That is, a client that is already willing to work with them and throw contracts their way giving the company time to bootstrap itself while paying a few salaries.

3) Sales. Your consultancy is not different than any other consultancy. The only difference is nobody trusts you (see 4) and most prospects will likely go to a more established consultancy. You are going to be spending most of your time doing sales. Don't get discouraged, get some cheap email campaign software, get some cheap lead generation software and keep doing sales. Going to conferences and networking doesn't work in the boutique software consultancy game. It just doesn't.

4) No body trust you. You have to build the most professional web site you can afford and make yourself look trust worthy. Don't build something you can't afford but you need something.

5) (Warning: unethical) Most boutique software companies I know have some unethical gimmick. Basically if you are a white male you can hire cheap labor from India, China, South America, eastern europe and market yourself as the white western world's interface to cheap 3rd world software development expertise. You can hate me for saying that so bluntly, but google it and see how many consultancies ACTUALLY DO THAT. I know of software consultancies (several) that completely bootstrapped themselves this way thriving off of the cheap labor of the 3rd world for years to undercut competitors. This is such a popular technique that new startups are actually giving away months of there cheap labor for free in order to compete with other cheap labor selling consultancies whose prices they can't match and whose name is more well established. Please don't get hung up on the fact that I mentioned this point - its a reality.

6) Don't listen to others who tell you that you can't do it just because they can't.

7) See point 3. If you are not willing to do sales more than you do software than you should just stop right now. If you don't have enough money to pay for a sales then you have to do it yourself.

8) Don't think you have a software consultancy if you've just settled on being an independent contractor. You don't, and you are will likely just be a cog in the engine that I've described in points 1 - 7.

Hint: Nobody uses ML (I'm assuming you mean ML like in Standard ML or the like). Don't get hung up on a particular language or framework. You will just be limiting yourself to a very small segment of the market if you choose some niche language.
Greenpeace has been known to fight nuclear power, as have far left green parties. It really saddens me.

Reaching good power output with renewable energies is laughable. I keep hearing that germany generated a lot of power with wind, like 80%, but it lasted one week, and it makes me really wonder about the accuracy of that news. Wikipedia is moot about germany wind energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Germany

The amount of solar panels, dams and wind turbine you need to reach the power output of a nuclear plant is ridiculous. I wish we would consider the cost of kWh for each non carbonized energy.

A french consultant showing cost graphs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuzGG9W7obs
> Not really sure how ORM solves anything here. That said, your old and new solutions both sound wrong to me.

The new solution does what you talk about, I guess I didn't explain it very well.

The use of an ORM is abstracting away a lot of the technical debt in the schema and isolating it so we can concentrate on fixing that debt without the worry that it continues to spread. It's much looser coupling than continuing to litter the codebase with manually written SQL.

Edit: reading more of the replies to your original comment - there is btschaegg's comment that having a narrow scope is what you should aim for[1]. There's also a reply (first one) on stackoverflow that talks about not leaking the abstraction[2]. Finally the key to our use of an ORM is that the ORM is not our model, we do not leak the abstraction, and we can drop down to manual SQL when we need it but that is still in a narrow scope.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592042

[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3045...
I've been wondering where this trend to use the system font came from. I understand that web applications want to use a system font for common operating systems so that they look a bit more native. But that doesn't necessarily make it a good choice for body text.
If an employer needs to see a resume first and what you apply with is not a resume, you won't even get past the first and most basic filter of the hiring process. There is no good reason to ever do this.