skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And 4chan theoretically is better still, because the anonymity means posters are not rewarded at all for their contributions. Even the same poster, posting twice in the thread is not identifiable on most boards, allowing the discussion to be the primary focus. On the other hand, the culture of most *chans is to be abusive and confrontational, so who knows if it is any better.
You know, I wonder if the advice I would give a younger me, circa 20 years ago, is don't do what you enjoy for a living. Get your satisfaction at work out of doing something that needs doing and that other people appreciate, but don't do what you enjoy for itself, because that only makes you a target for exploitation, and you won't get to do it in a way that you like. Be a janitor and not a prostitute.
> death by cad

How does this work in practice? I mean, what is it about CAD that gives this kind of result?
WWII by the Week in Chronological Order
Ask HN: If you had millions to invest, what sectors would you bet on?
Heyo,

I am genuinely curious to hear what sector(s) HN readers are currently interested in. Assuming you had a large amount of capital and you were allowed to only bet on 1 sector for the next say 5-10 years, what sector would you put your capital into? and what innovation(s) are you currently seeing within said sector that makes you excited about it?

Cheers
| How about we put the reactors in the middle of the desert,

How are you proposing to cool them? Remember, 2/3rd of the fission energy in an LWR goes out as low temperature waste heat.
CCP lead by XiJinPing now is the new NAZI. It is the enemy of the whole world.
This is often a good thing, as it can add some valuable functionality, but it drives me nuts when it goes wrong. I've had to deal with washing machines where the mechanical bits were perfectly fine, but the electronics fried. That can be expensive to fix, to the point that throwing it out and buying a used one off Craigslist is the more economical option. Same with modern stoves. I have never in my life gotten any benefit from fancy electronics on a washing machine, and the only sensible reason for non-mechanical parts on a gas stove is a timer, but I'd honestly prefer a simple pure-mechanical one that is going to last forever.
Ownership rights include the right to enjoy the benefits of ownership. The more rights another has to the profits, the more ownership rights they have.

Therefore, the more taxes that are extracted, the less ownership one has, and the more "communal ownership", i.e., socialistic it is.
They're expensive because of certain design features, yes. But their cost is predictable and we know how to build them on schedule. Those are the key skills that should be just as usable for civilian reactors.
The resistance is from those being asked to pay for it.
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp05/cse101/JeffEdmondsBook.p...
Jeff Edmonds' "How to Think About Algorithms: Loop Invariants and Recursion" is a nice book.
assuming 15 years for 100% fleet turnover and a target of zero carbon-emissions from gasoline/cars in the US by 2040, new ICEs will need to be banned in about six years.
If it’s “working fine” then why are all of the newspapers struggling with digital except the ones that are actually charging customers?

https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/newspapers/
Yes with VSCode being the poster child of that movement (I.e. towards web tech for desktop apps)
I bought a pack of blades 5 years ago that I'm still working through. There are no plastic bits to throw away, which is a positive IMO.
Bingo. This is simply a political problem and nothing else. FUD and "not-in-my-backyard!" reigns supreme when it comes to the final approval process.

As things currently stand, no group of politicians could survive the political fallout of getting a reactor build in their district. How can anything get done if doing so buys you unemployment from the ultimate cushy job of being an elected representative?

Also, no one, not even the most ardent supporters, really wants a reactor built anywhere near them or their kids playgrounds. The anti-nuke-power crowd has just done too good a job on the older generation to ever hope things can change for them.

Let's hope the Millennials can do a better job getting these things built.
This is so true. I just replaced the screen on my x230; the new screen cost $75 on ebay, the benzel came off with two screws, the screen itself with 4 screws (all normal philips) and one easily undone connector. 5 minutes to do the whole job.
> Fuck these people and their moralistic bullshit. It is our moral responsibility to...

I admit I chuckled, as someone who finds moral arguments pretty shallow because they tend to depend on what each person thinks is the right thing.
Because donating money directly to the school benefits other students who use the dorms, the building, the research facilities. Straight up bribing the coaches just enriches the coaches.
Any recommendations on the specific Pyrex/Tupperware set?
I'm not dissing anybody, but I believe that there are more ways something can go wrong than we have tried yet. Luckily, our progress is not only dependent on hindsight.
Nothing. I just said that it looks like her incentive to present herself as a male is to be able to join the army. There is no mentioning of her still portraying a man after she was exposed.
The chili-garlic paste is good, but I don’t like Sriracha; too sweet.
> my personal view is that they tried to become too big, and I don't think the wearables market is really that valuable

I think you're spot on here. They had a perfectly viable 20-30 person company going in a nice stable little niche, and then the smartwatch hype cycle reached its peak and VCs threw a ton of cash at them along with a mandate to become the Next Big Thing. And so they hired way too many new people, churned out too many new models, and collapsed when the market just wasn't there.
Yes, and they moved specific means of production to Jersey in order to sell their services from there.

Now there are complaints that Apple actually owes more taxes to USG (and other govts).

So which one is it — does Apple own the means of production (and thus what they did is totally legal) or do they not own the means of production (and thus this is socialism)?
Fats are cheap, because Americans have vilified them. But they are a great source of calories at 9 kcal per gram.

Would be a good opportunity to reduce expenditure while increasing caloric intake.

Ofc, I’m talking good fats only. Animal fats mostly. No oils.
Indeed. I'll point out, however, that the Error Cascade began with the loss of the underground backup generators - hydrogen would not have been a problem if the backup generators were operative.
Not technically, but politically. Look at the demonstrations against castor transports in Germany.
Should we also get rid of hydro? Because the worst power plant accident in history was Banqiao Dam, which killed 26,000 people by drowning and another 150,000 in the aftermath. The entire area was devastated.

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

There have been a fair number of other serious hydro accidents as well. In the U.S., Teton Dam wiped out two towns, and Oroville Dam just recently prompted the evacuation of 180,000 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...
In my experience 4chan has more attention seeking behavior than IRC (inline images facilitate it moreso than nicks), and on IRC users tend to be more friendly and aware of each other's humanity.
Unfortunately, the actual agreements generally aren't public information. I can't provide mine without risk of loss of anonymity.

Yes, this is a lame answer, but any viewer who has Lyft stock or has friends that do can verify for themselves.
> I've outlined above

No, you didn't.

If anything, you supported my line of reasoning - if the insane push against nuclear didn't happen, then the plants would have been modernised or rebuilt and there would not have been a Fukushima.
[Roadrunner citation missing]
I believe it refers to assembling things digitally without thinking about how an actual human would work with the same things in the physical world.
You've touched upon something that made me find work a lot more bearable as well. Ultimately, it doesn't matter what your designated "primary" task is, as long as you tell yourself that your primary task is to do whatever the business requires.

I used to get extremely frustrated whenever I got bogged down by inefficiencies, grunt work, or bad technical/business decisions made by others. Until one day I came to the realization that my employer isn't paying me to do things I enjoy. They are paying me to provide them with services they need. I certainly speak up if I think there's a better way of doing things, but I recognize that big corporations by their nature are bureaucratic, political and inefficient. If I dislike my work so much, I can certainly leave and work for myself, or find a different employer. Until then, they are certainly paying me extremely well, so I have no reason to complain for having to do some grunt work.

This subtle shift in attitude has made work so much more enjoyable. Every time I find myself frustrated by something, I remind myself this is precisely the reason I'm getting paid the big bucks. My job isn't to solve all the company's problems, it is simply to do the best job I can within the work hours agreed upon, so why complain. Having low expectations truly does make you happier.
I'd disagree. If anything, Gattaca was a movie that shows that naive ideas of "that buddy was screened at birth and deemed a failure" are bullshit.

If anything, I have a feeling that modern hiring goes in exactly the opposite direction, trying to de-bias the process.
Poor argument. Even if the government robbed money (which is most of the time not true), it would be better to have the money robbed by my government than by some rich dude that I never saw in my life to maintain his wealth in some foreign country.
In fairness, they’ll last much more than 50 miles if kept inside and properly lubricated.

However, they use notoriously non-standard parts. So, if you want to fix your $100 bike, you’re looking at paying for someone to custom machine the replacement part.

You can’t even just find an old huffy and scavenge parts off those, since the geomoetries / threads / etc change constantly, so you’d need to find one made in the same production run as the one you are repairing.

They are disposable kid bikes. They don’t even make frames big enough for 6’ tall men. (and it is not even close; not sure what the cutoff is. 5’9”, maybe?)
As a counter argument to keeping everything open there's a bunch of things you want encrypted. Radio controlled things. This is even a problem for the people that are trying to create HAM internet connections. You can't use any SSL. Though it'd be slow, I'd love to see a world wide internet that could be accessed by HAM. I can't think of anything more world changing than having an open internet that everyone can reach with a $10 device.

So I think there are cases where being able to use encryption would be nice. But there are also plenty of cases to keep things open. So maybe we need to talk about some compromise. Maybe keeping certain bands open and others not.
As a person who worked in a genetics lab for a while, those who are concerned about privacy should do the following: find a smaller lab and tell them from the get go you want all the data, and for them to delete it after sequencing, then find a third party to do the data analysis.

With sequencing at less than 1k these days, you should be able to do it for sub 3k with the analysis while protecting your privacy.
Ironically, the discoverability reddit provides was originally as a link sharing site. Says a lot about how reddit has changed that this isn't considered as true anymore.
what do generics have to do with making it longer?

If you want to argue 'usually' then you could consider all the build scripts and XML files, class boilerplate and exception code of Java to be 'usually longer'.

Please don't troll.
So that got me interested and after some digging: both are ok. Actually, legal documents have to use the original surname, without the traditional change of suffix. Wikipedia also claims it's not incorrect to use either form in casual context, but there's no reference for that.
Are you really here to argue semantics?

Also I'm a pretty hard core capitalist myself but plenty of people aren't actually afraid of the label "socialism", especially those outside the US, so you won't be able to convince someone by just labeling something as socialist.

If I had to generalize, the problems at hand are growing the pie and distributing the pie, and the two are often at odds.
This includes known-to-be-misleading microbenchmark tools.
Luxury car owners typically lease a new vehicle every 3 years. They couldn’t care less what happens to it in 5.
Open a bag of Fritos. Dump in a cup of melted Velveeta, some pickled jalapeños, half a can of black beans. Mix it up and eat it out of the bag. Then, loathe yourself and wonder how it came to this.
Poor quality arguments get downvoted here universally.
> in a world where we can build out solar and wind as cheaply as we can gas plants and handle the grid buffering with batteries

I notice you left the batteries out of your cost comparison with natural gas. Building enough battery for a carbon-free grid without fossil backup is not so cheap.
The book "IBM's 360 and Early 370 systems" by IBM Press goes DEEP into the development of these systems, and is one of my very favorite technical books. I paid $50 for a used copy more than a decade ago and it's well worth it. (also: "IBM's Early Computers" from some of the same authors, covers pre-360 stuff).

https://books.google.com/books/about/IBM_s_360_and_Early_370...
How many times do we have to hear this "1 in 10,000 year accident!" Argument (3? This guy wants 4!) Before we realize that the idiots designing nuclear power plants don't understand probability?
Nokia's maemo phones were great, both of them.
> PWAs make sense today, but back then, they just came too early in the game.

Seemed to work well enough on webOS for the Palm Pre.
The relationship with Apple products only stop at their look: Apple products were never meant to be repaired.
I use exactly the same approach but for convenience I use the following script as wrapper for git: https://gist.github.com/hectorm/8891f7f1916a4379f84dfaccc6fa...
A few winters ago I played so much of The Long Dark that I began cozying up with chicken and beef broth prepared and consumed like it was tea.
Is this using dokku in the background?
Can you stop cryptocurrency? No? Then probably not much.
And this why ads are a problem. From your own article.

Options include continuously changing domain names and server-side ad rendering.

People clearly have expressed their intent not to want ads, yet you want to have systems to force it on them. If people have signaled that they don’t want to ads, do you really think it is your target market. Who exactly is it serving?

Ads, especially on mobile with limited real estate, slide shows, etc makes web pages unreadable. I specifically don’t use the Facebook app or any other app that doesn’t use the SafariViewController (which supports content blockers) to display external links.

Btw, no I didn’t search for your name on the internet. I just went to your HN profile. I thought anyone who so vehemently defended the adtech business must have a business interest in it.

Most content producers want nothing more than to diversify from a dependency on ads so I knew it didn’t come from anyone on the content side.
Pittsburgh yinzers are particularly afraid of it.
Gowalla.

Using geographical location to find digital items way before Ingress and Pokemon Go. The design was gorgeous too.
Not to downplay the issue, but global warming is a much more urgent issue. It's expected to cause far more disasters a lot sooner than any potential disaster from our nuclear waste.

To answer your question more practically though, our nuclear waste would fit into a building the size of a football field. There's even a proposal to put it in some mine/cave in the western United States.
I don't think the problem is that Apple purchased an office on an island. The problem is the use of that to not pay taxes to the USG.
France always also consumes 80% of the known uranium reserves in the world. we just don't have enough uranium to have two Frances!
Cool. Reminds me of the original W3C Core Styles [0]. Created long before Boostrap, YUI or Eric Meyer's CSS [1], the stylesheets providing the web with free stylesheets and looked great back in the day. Simpler times when you could understand most web dev by reading a spec or two.

[0] https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19980703153940/https://www.w3.or...
I got as far as this:

"1 (10½oz) can of cream of chicken soup"

and quit.
I guess that comes down to "because my EarPods came free with my phone; they're a high-enough quality experience for free" as opposed to having to actually go out of their way to research and pay for audiophile stuff.

I mean, most people are listening to pop music, heavily-crunched podcasts, and 32 kbps audiobooks; there aren't any subtle nuances they're missing that are worth spending money for.

Even when people do go for things like AirPods instead of some nice, high-quality Grados as you own, you have to weigh up the complete difference in experience outside of audio quality, so that if people do happen to drop money on headphones that aren't to your taste, you still understand that their preferences are different to yours.

Except Beats, those are rubbish. ;-)
possible there's some destructive interference in there
In our case the other smell is the sugar beet plant
Seems like it'll hit the courts eventually and then we'll find out if there's a loophole or not.

Lyft is certainly claiming there isn't one, and the S1 says the same. If the S1 is false they might have a securities fraud case on their hands.
I see it as a version of telling people something you're trying to do so you feel more pressure to do it, a classic trick to force yourself to start habits.

This sounds a bit extreme though, and I'm not sure if it actually reinforces the bad habit of needing someone watching you in order to do any work.
Yep I’m definitely considering others, not only myself, as best as I can. But I don’t see these things being attractive to even non-technical users. Or not enough of reasons to keep them on the Apple ecosystem. It seems like basically up-sells to me to increase revenue off the existing customer base because they know they cannot keep increasing iPhone sales YoY.

I do think News is probably the best bet. It’s something I’ve wanted for a while because not many people are going to pay 5-10/month for numerous news sources that are often regurgitating the same news. But I doubt it would keep me on Apple. And isn’t this something that could eventually easily be replicated by others?
This was built over a "few weeks" with what seems to be Heroku compatibility, I believe this is using Dokku in the background
Not completely related, but... I always wanted to try an experiment: Don't buy any dishes. Adapt whatever packaging that you buy your food with to use as dishes. So a yogurt container becomes a bowl. The styrofoam trays that have meat on them become a plate (don't forget to disinfect it first...) Plastic drink bottles become cups (you can make a surprisingly nice wine bottle out of the top of a soda bottle). I wonder how long it would take you to kit yourself out with a complete set of dishes...

I often think that even as late as 20 years ago, you could go to your local tofu maker here in Japan with a container and they would put tofu in it for you[0]. If you imagine that you would only need 1 tofu container for your whole life, you could afford to have a really nice tofu container.

Out of stubbornness (and the fact that I live in a country that is hot most of the time), I wash all of my containers before I throw them out. I get sad, though, that I have all this stuff which is perfectly usable, but if I'm honest I don't want to use because it is crappy. I want that lovely $100 tofu container rather than the $0.00001 plastic wrapping. I want to look at and touch and enjoy nice stuff every day. It seems to me that it's kind of what it's like to be super rich, where you never see the garbage -- everything is repackaged into lovely containers for you.

Of course, in reality, the Andy Warhol-esq lifestyle we live, where everything is commoditised and you can't buy a $10,000 bottle of Coke that tastes different from a $1 bottle of coke is built upon the efficiencies of being able to dispose of these transitory containers. I wonder how much we lose as a society for running virtually every price to the lowest possible level.

[0] - There is a small family run tofu maker in my town and I'm always tempted just to show up with a tofu container that I could buy at an antique shop just to see what they would say. Maybe they would sell me tofu... That would be awesome.
Look at Australia. We've been very easily influenced by the coal lobby. If there's plenty of jobs and investment flowing in, we'll do the same for nuclear.
This is an important point and probably why even the US military doesn’t always elect to encrypt comms/control/telemetry.

Encryption without proper key management is security theater, and proper key management is hard. Just rolling it out into an ecosystem that has never had to accommodate its idiosyncracies is a recipe for trouble...particularly when the cost of malfunction could be life and limb.

HIPAA wasn’t designed for exceptional circumstances. Given the choice between letting a few radio nerds overhear that your kid was severely burned in a wildfire and needs immediate evacuation or letting them suffer longer b/c some certificate expired on a relay, most would choose the former.

That said, if folks are willing to take the risk, you could potentially implement some kind of key escrow system so that comms are tactically protected but still subject to scrutiny.

Lastly digital signatures employ cryptography, rules should be implemented in a way to still allow for that to occur.
This woman seems to have magically exhibited every moral failing and self inflicted difficulty that the American right wing ever made up. You should probably step back and realize that it sounds totally unbelievable - for instance, you can’t cause an entire years developmental delay in an otherwise healthy three year old simply by not playing with them enough.
Sure, I don't think many would argue that social democratic schemes are further down the scales to the left. But if we define a system that explicitly exists within the context of supporting privately owned corporations socialist, I feel we've overdefined the term to where it's no longer meaningful.
Google's monopolistic abuse is a very under-reported part of this story.

No Google app suite, which Google is absolutely allowed not to make. So Microsoft made the apps for free for Google, google said no, then Microsoft released their own brand clients (e.g. Microsoft YouTube client, Maps, etc) and Google shut it down with lawyers.

Can any platform survive without Google ecosystem support? If Windows Phone was the case study then likely not.
Wow, are we sure this article wasn't written in 1980? The idea that encrypted radio is a national security threat makes zero sense in the age of VPNs and Tor. If someone wants to get a secret message overseas an encrypted HAM transmission is probably the single hardest way to do that short of trying to train a carrier pigeon with a portrait of Vladimir Putin.
You have to wonder if the warranty in the US extends to second purchasers. Most US leases are 3 years and 8-12k miles, meaning that the typical off lease vehicle will not exceed 36,000 miles.
Yes! I miss turntable. They nailed social listening and built a really awesome community. It would be awesome if they could bring it back using Spotify or something similar.