skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure I'd pick Democracy over nuclear power. Recent years have made me question our idea of the absolute superiority of Democracy. Look at the clusterfuck that is the US "democracy" vs the success of Singapore or even China. The rest of the Western world in Europe is barely better off than the US.

On the other hand, not getting nuclear power deployed ASAP everywhere essentially means the long term destruction of our planet.

So all in all, I don't think it's nearly as clear cut a decision on nuclear vs. democracy, and if forced to choose I may pick the former.
I mean, what would motivate me to betray my country?

Considering that "countries" are a naive object of belief to begin with, the premise of the question is qualitatively silly.

What's a country, but a manifestation of a military's cumulative threat of violence, organized around, for the most part, language.

So lingual zones are the root of most conflict, since animalistic urges find a wall in the inability to express thought beyond the language barrier. But diplomatic channels have long since been forged, and the keys of economic, social, and political interchange have been interlocked for more than half a century since atomic and nuclear annihilation has become well-known and understood.

So, to betray a "country" conceptually, as a means of understanding... character?

I mean come on. Get real. That's not what any of this is about.

Philosophically, social contract theory reveals that this guy was left out in the cold. While kids make millions from goofing off in front of a camera for youtube subscribers, this guy gets jail time for being old. And ain't that something?

But, if this is a problem, what's the fix? Pretty much a turkey in every pot. Something that's still not guaranteed, as some of us risk retiring from a life of flipping burgers into a life of eating cat food for dinner, in tenements and hovels, or under bridges and overpasses, in vans down by the river.

So we get ghosted. Left out in the cold by youth smartphone leagues, and for what? For being a good boy. For being convenient enough to fold up and fit in your pocket, so as not to be a nuisance, while you search for an appropriate trash receptacle in yet another liminal zone we share together for but a moment while we still live and breath.

Ah, there we are. A place to put recyclables. In you go! Wouldn't want to litter! Wouldn't want to pollute! Go quietly to your grave. If starvation is uour fate, so be it, friend.
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From what I understand, far more people have been radiated to a far larger degree by coal plants operating as designed than by nuke plants in disasters. It’s just not as obvious and doesn’t make for a good breaking-emergency headline.
You can get a commercial or industrial version of most appliances with relatively few features, and a focus on durability and ease of maintenance. One problem is commercial units are loud. The other is they are often slightly larger. For most users the cost alone means the residential versions are a better option.
Your suggestion implied that consumers aren’t getting true value because the lack of ability for the user to do this laundry list of technical offerings.

Don’t move the goal post.
Keyboards are designed completely wrong
I know last.fm entirely as a site that you get in search results for song titles and lyrics but forces you to log in. What service does it provide exactly? Was it just a very early streaming site with great seo?
Millennial Student Loan Debt Now Tops $1T
Umple was a huge amount of work. The bidirectional nature of the text form and the graphical form is very impressive. However, it is fatally flawed system IMHO because it adopted wholeheartedly the doomed OOP paradigm, and when you see how many classes you end up using, it makes it hard to understand programs. But a very powerful project, and probably thousands of hours of work to build it. I would be very interested to know how many man-years were put into the program.
N2KEdit. Yeah, that's a good one, too. Another case of an automated feature becoming too smart for it's own good.
Costa Rica installed their first public charger in 2017, and has a $10k GDP per capita. The details in this Clean Technica article are damning for this claim. It's pure post election puffery and the plan will be quietly set aside.

Norway is aggressive, but the rest of Europe is generally targeting 2030. I'm not expecting the US to even come close to the EU, as range is a much larger factor there.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/31/costa-rica-is-on-the-br...
On the plus side — and I realise I’m playing the devil’s advocate here — I think* some of this boom helped Australia avoid the general downturn that a lot of the rest of the world has seen over the past decade.

People here — normal working dudes — have money. What do they do with it? They spend it. On cars, mostly, but on houses, and TVs, and out in the pub, and whatever else. If that discretionary income hadn’t been floating round our economy for the last decade, I don’t think we’d be in the doing-quite-nicely-thank-you situation we are now.

Totally accept that this is to the detriment of specific places like WA, or Kalgoorlie more specifically. I’m not saying it’s good, just that it’s a thing.

(*I’m not an economist, I don’t work in this industry, and I live in Melbourne, so this is pure armchair economics.)
This does happen. A relative was a psychologist and related the case of a woman (I think single mother but I'm not sure) desperately wanted a girl.

When a boy was born, the boy was dressed up in "girl's" clothes and treated in every way as a girl.

The woman was mad but not mad enough to have her kid taken away from her.
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Thanks to everyone who mentioned this in previous comments. It's a fascinating bit of history.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593054
Which is why you have to use other protocols and key authentication. Whatever the current equivalent of Cram-MD5 or just plain public key HMACS. I wrote about this 15 years ago in April 2004 - https://rietta.com/blog/2009/08/17/authentication-without-en...
This is very important and much of the reason I debate online at all.
bearish on crypto, bullish on "AI"

in practice I've sold most of my index position for MCD, as the VIX (mean volatility) is trending high. Even if you're right about the sector, it's virtually impossible to predict which company will come out on top.
There are still Prius Prime and Honda Clarity.
Clean Energy- Solar, Wind, and Battery Storage tech. Longevity funds that focus on providing retirement care in the US (as we're going to be entering a period where a large part of our population will be retiring), and life extension companies that provide solutions to extend someone's life.

Other than that, Biomedical and aerospace.
Hiroshima was literally leveled by an atomic bomb and wasn’t unlivable for even a full generation.
Well, at least the Windsor mine produces or at some point produced both kinds, and so do a number of other mines (most operated by Sifto, IIRC). The salt that goes on our roads and walkways for safety in southern Ontario AFAIK comes from the Windsor mine, and so does or did some of the edible salt (though I think these days Sifto sells a lot more of the table salt than Windsor, I remember growing up with Windsor branded salt).
Exactly, people can't agree on basic stuff that will help people at a small scale. This is beyond a technical problem but more a problem with a disfunctional processes. We could solve lots of current problems if there was the collective will to.
What happened to those train batteries?
I stand corrected. WhatsApp web does communicate with phone to perform regular activities.

So the KaiOS version apart from sharing UI, might not have much common with the WhatsApp web. Then again, I wonder how much of the tech used for secure communication with the phone from WhatsApp web can be repurposed to make it a standalone application?
IMHO, Pixel Qi should have gone full-bore e-ink replacement. They’re color was always embarrassing. But, in black and white mode it was wonderful. Super crisp, 60fps and low power.
Real estate. Mostly in Eastern Europe. I'd buy up areas around Krakow and Warsaw. This is a gamble on political stability in the EU, which I believe will pay off. I believe the EU will survive, and 20 years from now Poland will be much more integrated with the EU, so real estate in Poland can only go up. Same with Budapest. And parts of Romania are worth a look.

Even in the West, there are some areas that have not yet been gentrified. In Portugal, real estate in Lisbon has already gone up quite a bit, but less so in Porto.

In Italy, much of Sicily is interesting to speculate on. Again, one is speculating on the notion that politics will become more stable, and crime will come under better control, allowing property values to rise.
> only two things that matter: ease of use and memory consumption

Those are seriously not the only two things that matter. Not by a long shot. Depending on what you are doing there are other serious concerns like security, OS Noise and other performance concerns. From the literature I've been reading security is a huge concern when deploying containers. From experience I can tell you that Dev-Ops with containers can be a nightmare and a half costing companies heavily.

Saying Ease-of-Use and Memory footprint is all that matters is serious misinformation that no research or other literature or anecdote supports.

That said, at least, ease of use is coming. There are some tools on the market right now that make Unikernels fairly easy to use Ops and BoxFuse come to mind.
There's also the celery. I drove through a valley in western Michigan right after the celery harvest, and the smell was overpowering.
active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590180
Sony tried to do the same in 2005 when Microsoft released the XBox 360, only they kept pushing back the release date. Thankfully their E3 2006 press conference was such a flop that in a bit of karmic justice it forced them to stop resting on their laurels and compete for marketshare again.
It's a fool's errand.

Buy a whole-market index. As Buffet says, don't try to find the needle-- own the haystack.
NAT killed this dream.
Thanks, I thought I had :)
Direct Lending to Small and Medium Businesses Will Exacerbate the Next Crisis
Living in Australia it breaks your heart to see how much this country has squandered a similarly historic natural resources boom.

Instead of taxing it heavily and using it to build an enormous pool of money for the common good, we've simply handed it over to private interests.

Australia has also squandered opportunity in its retirement system: 2.6 trillion in high fee individual accounts (1% given away to the financial sector in fees every year!) instead of in a sovereign wealth fund like Norway's with a fraction of the admin costs.

Every country with an interest in a wealthy, fair society should be following in Norway's footsteps.

Fun fact: Norway is mostly socialist. The government owns the majority of the country's wealth.
I'm not disputing they exist... I'm disputing that a full twentieth of the population of Beijing lives in them, which the article claims.

That number doesn't sound plausible and it's not linked to any credible source or methodology.
^^^^ Right answer! ^^^^
> in Fukushima Dai-ichi's case, for some reason (possibly financial?), it was decided that the tsunami barrier was sufficient (it wasn't) for the job,

Plate tectonics was not understood or scientifically described until 65-67. It was not a widely accepted theory until later, at least the 70s. By that point, Fukushima had already been permitted and built.

Without plate tectonics to create the plate shift earthquake which resulted in the tsunami which caused the disaster, the only mechanism to create tsunamis known was underground rockfalls from steep slopes. Afaik the builders of the plant studied the bathymetry around the area, and saw limited risk of tsunamis.

The primitive science of the time ruled out the possibility of a tsunami overcoming a tsunami wall that was X feet tall. So they built a tsunami wall that was X+k feet tall, and called it a day. When later scientific theory showed that larger tsunamis were not just possible, but inevitable, the plant was not retrofitted to deal with the new reality. Oops.
Toyota Land Cruiser is supposedly designed for a 25 year life span. If you want reliability, this would be your best bet. It's not cheap, but has good resale value.
This is just a fun thought exercise...
Wasn't there a Microsft Surface Table at one point? What ever happened to that? I had always imagined that was going to be the Microsoft-Tron crossover I always wanted.
Google's Nexus 7 might qualify. A really great tablet at an affordable price that got one minor refresh then was cancelled.

I see Palm already mentioned. Neo Geo.

Obviously everything I have done was great--too advanced for its time to succeed.
US Army shows how it will use HoloLens in the field
Democratizing high quality education.

It used to be that the best teachers were available only to a few dozens of privileged students at a time. But now we have the technology to scale great pedagogy to reach millions of learners. I also think we ought to move from a push model of education to a pull model, i.e., learners get to pick and choose from a selection of good teachers and progress through various levels at their own pace (and get accredited for their learning). Classroom learning really ought to go or be reduced to very special cases. That we all have to be synchronized on when we are prepared to learn a topic is an outdated concept.

MOOCs are an excellent step in this direction, but we really should be doing more. In education, I think we're in a stage similar to where internet search was before google or smart phones were before iphone.
Renewable energy. Excited about hydrogen fuels.
Security researcher Will Strafach is launching an iOS VPN service called Guardian Mobile Firewall that proposes to allow users to audit all the third-party services that apps connect to. I haven't gotten into the beta yet, so I don't really know how it works, but the screenshots Strafach has been sharing on Twitter look comprehensive.
Eunomia lets social media users track the origin of posts and verify credibility
Not a game but twitch chat is basically IRC. You can indeed login with irssi if you wanted to.
Include protein quality/digestibility scores for each food.
For the most part high end cars do work as advertised until the lease ends or they're traded in. At that point they become someone else's problem.
One particular instance of this I pay attention to is the placement of oil filters on motorcycles. My brother bought a Honda CBR600RR, and he wanted to replace the oil filter; I watched him spend an inordinate amount of time removing the cowling, clip by clip, screw by screw, from the bike, in order to expose the filter (which you could not get a normal filter wrench onto, because of the awkward positioning).

After that I pay a lot of attention to whether the oil filter is visible and accessible from the outside of the bike without removing a cowling, Kawasaki seems to do a good job of this.
Path. A private social network with a great UI. We set it up for our extended family and the children could use it without exposure to Facebook etc.

Path had nice UI innovations that were later merged into other platforms. I guess people prefer a bigger audience over privacy.
They filed for it in 2018-08-03:

https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/nosleep-88064058.html

https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/r-88064059.html
Yes, that's a great point to bring up. Nuclear, as it's been deployed so far, doesn't scale very well. In contrast, renewables are deplorable at basically any scale desired, without nearly as many one time costs. Transmission is the biggie, of course, but nuclear has the same issue when it's trying to connect the grid to a gigantic thermal dump like a river or ocean.
There's also a different culture in Asia. In Europe if management tells you to do stupid /unoptimal thing employee can rejoinder.

In Asia they'll just do what they're told to do without questioning. You'll notice this immediately if you work with Asian people. They never discuss decisions with the management.
For VPS, I'm very happy with DigitalOcean and Vultr both. DO also has some managed services now (hosted dbs in preview, spaces etc). I use these for hosting personal projects and backups via Syncthing.

If you want more managed cloud stuff, serverless etc I'm alright with both AWS and GCP. AWS has more stuff overall, GCP's interface is much much nicer especially for a solo developer. I use AWS for work and some personal experiments, GCP for some personal experiments only.
This is a really sweet idea. A lot of the software looks like it hasn't been updated for over 6 months though.
too long to get a code
Do you have any concrete examples of good quality clothing e-stores?
Ask HN: Ivy grad SWE Looking for a move to Europe/Canada
Due to the ever-changing Visa norms in the US, I'm looking to move to Canada/Europe on a permanent basis. I have a CS degree from an Ivy and 2-year workexp at a bank.

I'd like to know which route (Canada/EU) would be the easiest/fastest to a permanent residency and eventually citizenship. I am looking for onsite work and have no country preference.

(I am originally from Southeast Asia.)
Thanks!
> Even more naive and immature is the idea that conversations either lead to epiphany or do nothing.

Ah yes, where ever did I get that idea when forming my opinion about a site titled change my view, where you literally get a whole separate level of fake internet points for giving people deltas, cough, epiphanies?
As with most investing questions, keep in mind that the instrument (i.e. the way you place your specific bet) matters just as much as the actual sector.

Crypto, marijuana, self-driving, take your pick: you could totally nail the sector choice and still lose a lot of money if you make a wrong bet. Trade carefully, and diversify...
Do you have a document/presentation or even source code where you go a bit more into details about how you share the actors states between different computers?
Yes, refer me
All necessary clues are in:

https://globalnews.ca/news/5132802/dna-test-cancer-screening...

"One of these new cancer-screening tests can cost up to $2,000 ... Some Medicaid health insurance plans covers these tests, so they would reimburse that money to whoever conducts the test."

"Freedom Medical Labs was allegedly offering a new DNA-based cancer-screening test ..."

"... only offered the test to customers of Passport Health Plan, the local low-cost Medicaid insurance provider."

Passport being the one Freedom is gearing up to robo-bill through.

The DNA gets stored away in case of audit by Medicaid, in which case the donors might actually get their test results in the mail -- and maybe the results would be genuine, although that expense would cut into the profit margin of the scheme.
The whole used car thing is just flat out wrong. If you are a mechanic and you know how to asses the health of a car perfectly and you are able to actually find a car that she not unreliable then maybe buying a used car would make sense. But even then you are giving up backup cameras, good mileage/hybrid tech and most importantly you are giving up the HUGE amount of progress that has been made in safety that is designed into the structure of the car. And on top of that you have to drive around an old beater that you aren’t proud to be seen in. Just buy a new Toyota Corolla. It’s guarnteed to be as reliable as possible, has a backup camera and modern safety features. And it looks good. But if you pay in cash it’s only 17k so you won’t be worried about dings anyway. In my opinion thats worth ~8k.

But for the average person buying a used car will result in huge reliability problems, being stranded on the side of the road multiple times and you’ll end up paying thousands for repairs anyway. Yes, we all know that one guy who bought a used Toyota and never had problems. There’s a reason why it’s an anecdote about “that one guy I know.”
Yes, those are the ones. (out of stock everywhere, company shut down, in case it isn't noticed)
plug.dj is a close replacement, otherwise I made mashup.fm which downloads a copy of whatever you add to your playlist (in case the source got taken down, something very common with the mashup genre due to copyright fingerprinting working very poorly with mashups). The source for that is here: https://github.com/nthitz/mashupfm
The book is essentially an apologia for finishing one year late.
Wait, what? Path was one of the (if not the main) reasons that Apple added the contacts permission in iOS 6, because they sent the whole list to their servers, and then texted people.

https://www.cultofmac.com/144946/path-uploads-and-stores-you...
I did a quick glance at the recipes and the majority I would not consider to be very healthy. If you don’t have a choice, you can survive on these but it would not be my first choice.
Renewables already supply a similar amount of power to nuclear, its growth rate is higher, and its cost curve is improving faster.

As for plant capacity, the largest power plant in the world is renewable (Hydropower):22.5 GW. Compare that with the largest nuclear plant, the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (currently closed due to safety concerns): 8GW.

If you limit "renewables" to only solar and wind, there are already 1GW+ wind and solar PV projects operating, and more in the planning and construction phase. There's no theoretical obstacle to building 8GW solar PV projects, though it might be unnecessary, as they can be deployed in a modular fashion. There are several 500MW solar thermal projects operating and more planned.

The downsides of nuclear are not comprehensively understood. The consequences of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster of 2011 may be with us for decades or centuries. The interactions between radioactive material, the atmosphere, the ocean, the human body, and other organic matter, are complex.
Study - How we experience the world depends on how we remember the past
Don't forget it starts way before college. For 18 years before college they're shelling out major money (easily $50k/yr or higher) for elite private schools.

Getting them into college is just the natural extension of this 18 year spending spree.
I have lived on $20k/year when I was in grad school. I was also into body building, so my staple diet was rice, chicken, eggs, and veggies. If I was pressed for time, I would go for whole roasted chickens which I found quite tasty and full of protein. Other good sources of cheap protein I loved were greek yogurt and cottage cheese.
I use i3wm with just keyboard and I found it really difficult to use the Mac keyboard with the control key missing on one side. I use the control key on the left + the keys on the right and vice versa.

I've always wondered how people are productive with a missing key.
If I recall correctly, knuth’s volume two about semi numerical algorithms talks abou that in adequate detail.
It starts way before college. For 18 years before college they're shelling out major money (easily $50k/yr or higher) for elite private schools.

Getting them into college is just the natural extension of this 18 year spending spree.
Remind yourself daily that a better way to effect change on this matter is to choose to buy things which are not intentionally disposable.

If you have the cash, it is your responsibility to lead the way as a consumer, people will only try to make a living in industries where people are spending money.
Good communication skills and dealing with people. Good writing skills.

Make it a habit to write clean code and practice something like test driven development.

I still have code that has been running for 14 years. If you don’t put effort into making your code easy to read and maintain then your in for a world of hurt.