skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a Google Compute Engine (GCE) 4-core "high cpu" unit for my personal hobby curve and surface fitting web site zunzun.com - the site requires large, irregular bursts of CPU for user calculations, mostly scipy and matplotlib. For this purpose I would rate them a 5 out of 4 stars.
Olkiluoto was not an exercise to make nuclear power affordable. The company was granted with a permission to build a single reactor, the first permit in decades, so they chose the most powerful one available, a first of its kind.

With all the overruns, it has certainly proved to be an expensive build. However, it's all been done with private money, unlike the so called cheap renewables that cost the public hundreds of millions in subsidies.
What's interesting is the idea of an income threashold where each additional dollar meets a previously unmet need, and somewhere above that line, additional dollars have a different impact.
The conspiracy theory is "China is wholesale slaughtering political dissidents in order to harvest their organs". Questioning why claims by two researchers funded by the Falun Gong cult get uncritical attention from a Tory writing in the Wall Street Journal isn't a conspiracy theory.
I never buy the cost problem. I mean look at France. That's another great example. Has some of the cheapest electricity and is 75% nuclear.
To me, a fascinating angle is when the electronics obsolescence curve runs into the mechanical one. Cars are filled with that kind of thing, but two more interesting ones are products like sewing machines and power tools. Both used to be overdesigned, now they have have additional features and underdesign enabled by built-in microcontrollers. In drills, for instance, it'll back off on the power where an earlier model needed to be able to handle an animal wielding it.
In politics there's seldom evidence available to average Joes.

They release/open some files after decades (not even everything) and you find out that they were lying through their teeth.

If people are to make any difference now, not in several decades, they should doubt most things said officially said, especially for matters concerning trading competitors, or the "enemy du jour" -- evidence or not, they should take things with a grain of salt.

(I'm also from a much smaller country. In countries where politics directly affect you, history is lived and wars are fought directly -- not 10.000 miles away --, and everybody knows everybody, being cynical of official announcements -- of yours and other governments --, and recognizing duplicity and private interests at play, is a survival skill.

In larger countries like the USA, you can live your life oblivious of politics and major historical events, except on a much larger and slower scale. Heck, your country can even be at war decade after decade, and it will only affect a tiny minority of poor folk that go a draft, 99% of the people will live business as usual.

But I digress -- and of course that's not proof that I'm right on this, just my 0.02 in why some can better recognize that "political and private interest conspiracies" are everyday realities, and not the stuff of conspiracy nuts who believe in illuminati. Try telling that to Italians, for example, who have suffered politicians in bed with the Mafia for half a century, had whole establishment programs to meddle with elections (and prevent parties with 20%+ of the popular vote to ever reach power), and even "enjoyed" government backed extremist organizations killing their own citizens -- and all those verified by courts, albeit much much later).
The WebOS that runs in your television is very unlike the WebOS that was.

That ecosystem, interface, and community no longer exist.

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Also your comment doesn’t really make sense.

Something that currently exists can still have been ahead of its time. My comment isn’t an indication it doesn’t exist.
Microsoft Courier. A dual-screen tablet that was basically OneNote in hardware form.
If things really go sour, you can have massive lawsuits. Discovery process with brokers could expose who shorted.
Also, coal mining, especially surface mining, displaces people too.
Screen time – even before bed – has little impact on teen well-being
Maybe you'd be interested in http://rebble.io/
This point about devastating huge areas of land re Fukushima is so wrong I don't even. It was idiocy and blame-shifting from top to bottom. And yes people die from other people's idiocy in rather much bigger numbers.
I always wondered why Steve Jobs waited around so long for his liver transplant instead of just getting one from China.

And before you say morals don't forget he gamed the waiting list in the US to get the too-late liver and he had no qualms seeing slave labour build his companies products.
>blu-ray on-disc software

It's shocking to me that this is even a thing. I looked it up and apparently Blu-ray players are required to execute Java off the disc! How far we've come since the Sony CD rootkit days...

A cursory read over the spec on Wikipedia indicates (among other horrifying things) that it is possible and supported to release a Blu-ray that contains no media, but instead streams it over the internet from the studio's server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J
Awful article that misses the point.

Vendors like Yaesu and D-Link have introduced digital modes that are proprietary and/or patented, but not encrypted. The NSA will have no trouble decrypting these symbols, but hams who have D-Link radios can't read the Yaesu transmissions and vice versa.

Hams are doing a lot of interesting stuff that is open in terms of "digital" modes that work like teletype -- today these are more spectrum efficient than the old Morse code and make it possible to communicate between modest stations by bouncing signals off the moon. The problem is with proprietary protocols for fitting digital voice in narrow channels.

BTW, that Rappaport guy might be the #1 researcher in the field of millimeter wave radio these days
For YouTube, you could also install NewPipe from FDroid. It works perfectly 99% of the time, until YouTube changes something in their page and they have to mod the parser.
Well there's WIPP. [1]

In Europe, Finland has one under construction, not in operation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
There is only just so many times you can reuse a cardboard box, and there are only just so many boxes you need in your life.
I receive more boxes than I need boxes, but the cardboard is still useful.

By using cardboard as mulch, I'm also not buying wood mulch. Some people do use wood mulch on top of their cardboard to give it a better look, but I just use grass clippings and raked leaves, which people typically also discard. So things that would end up being useless to me instead go back into my own yard.

Now, I suppose one could argue that the grass clippings could be used in a bioreactor to create methane fuel, but that's just more carbon in the air, when really we should be trapping it in soil and plants.

It's also a hell of a lot easier than bagging all that shit and hauling to the street.
Googling this brought me back to this comment. Do you have a source for this please?
The president of Exelon, a US corporation that operates 23 nuclear power reactors here, has stated that for new nuclear to be competitive with gas in the US the effective CO2 tax would have to be $300/ton or more.

Exelon is focusing on NG w. CO2 capture and renewables/storage for new capacity.
I grew up near Chernobyl. My parents still work on CNPP (which was closed in 2000 but still needs personnel).
In my opinion nuclear is the only reallistic solution to solve global warming. Per kw produced it is safer than even solar or wind and modern reactors are even safer.
I now live in bay area and have high end solar panels. While this is a nice thing, looking at their output - it is just not enough (covers our family consumption at about 70%, this is house plus electric cars, but, obviously, not including products consumed and long distance travel. And this is California)
Others were buried like the SSFL. No doubt many more events buried like soviet submarines. Deaths within a few weeks don’t count all the cancer deaths in the area for generations.

I’m in favor of nuclear research and improvements, but let’s be honest.
I really enjoyed the story... but find myself wondering what was the specific “magic” that made it work.

Nowadays everything is “setup” for the cooperation of public and private, but what are the key “ingredients” to make it happen?

The fact that this worked out, is it something unique to that situation, or cannot be duplicated?

The part I find most enticing is this idea of the government shouldering 50% of the risk, and industry only having to do 15%. If anyone could expand on this, I would appreciate it.
Nit pick, but "in the hands of international mining companies", mining companies don't have hands, it's never corrupt companies, it's corrupt [groups of] people.
And also Arlington didn't become a cemetery until the 1860s, during the Civil War.
By “recourse” I meant “recourse for bad behavior”.

Society must have a way to discourage bad behavior, not only encourage good behavior.
Sure, you can find the records others have shared and not share your own.

But the purpose of these sites is finding family members. Let's stop being shocked that this means the DNA info voluntarily submitted is public.
Privatization doesn't necessarily mean free market.
Social democratic redistribution (of the means of production) are in fact socialist, which is what’s going on here.
Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer
Simplifies Gmail interface to the bare minimum
Navy reactors are also designed differently due to the confined space in which they typically operate. This is why they use the much more expensive super grade plutonium, as it reduces the amount of heavy shielding required to protect crew who must live very close to their reactors.
>They probably are a horrible person

Or they observe a commonality in human nature, that signaling virtue is a real phenomenon in the competition of a certain species of social apes. And that espousing such views doesnt guarantee their feasibility nor does it mean that the signaler has actually arrived at an ethical understanding of the subject.

EX: Used to be vegan. Saw how monstrous the self-righteous were. Realized that promoting the development of "good", intelligent, ethical, and free people was far more helpful than being an individual in a society of millions of individuals. And maybe a society of such people would be far more conscientious, especially in regards to the treatment of animals, than what we have now.

Also that psychopathic/sociopathic actors could negate my puny individual protest and competing for social rank over them would probably be more helpful than being an "individual" in the liberal sense
The means of production are _not_ being redistributed via taxes and foodstamps. Apple still owns the factories, the IP, the land, the offices, etc.
Why?

I make a bunch of tiny static websites for API demos and such, and always run against the same problem: I hate the browser's default styles but don't want to spend time writing my own stylesheet for such a tiny app.

Now I can just include Water.css in my `<head>` and forget about it. The demo app will still work, it'll look good, and I won't have spent any time making a stylesheet.

Who?

Let me quote the GitHub repository:

> You might want to use Water.css if you're making a simple static or demo website that you don't want to spend time styling.

> You probably don't want to use it for a production app or something that has more than a simple document. Rule of thumb: if your site has a navbar, don't use Water.css. It's just not meant for that kind of content.

Water.css has a dark theme by default, but some users wanted a light theme so I added one. Think it's ugly? Feel free to create a pull request :D
The problem is that "taking all disaster scenarios into account" is easy in hindsight, but maybe not in planning. But I believe that modern nuclear power reactors can be build intrinsically safe. For me, the real problem begins with the treatment of the waste: It's hard to find a good place to store it or reprocess it. Not so much because finding the actual place is hard, but because using that place will face hard opposition of the locals, which leads, at least in a democracy, to a political compromise for the location (to see this in action, look at the story for long term storage in Germany). If I have to chose between nuclear power and democracy, my vote is on the latter.
> Where can I find more about how it works? Is there a VM of some sort?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Java_software_interfac...
That's for team communication, not the same niche that reddit/Hacker News fill.
I used to think that the sense of "having to look over my shoulder" with all the productivity monitoring going on was what made me miserable at work. But I'm now in a different environment, and it has been revealed to me that the issue I had was not at all what I thought. The problem was that I was formerly employed to do technical stuff and all of the administrative work was just piled on as extra stuff, theoretically required, but all metrics involved the actual technical work. Now I have a job that is just administrative, and anything involving programming is extra. Now that mentally I am in the mode of doing administrative work as my real job, it no longer seems like a burden to be doing it every minute of the day, and accounting for every minute, and I don't even mind having my phone turned off all day so I don't spend any time goofing off.

What I'm saying is that the agonizing thing for me was the contradiction, the equivocation between saying "you're employed to program, etc., but you also have to do all this stuff that interrupts your thought process, but we don't really care how you cope with it..."

Now that my primary task is the administrative stuff (working with project managers), suddenly it doesn't hurt! I'm being compensated and valued for doing it. Any programming I may do is extra.
It’s so good and I already miss it so much I’m kinda considering attempting to clone it. At least the features I particularly liked anyway.
Life is boring.

But that doesn't get you papers in journals.

The DNA will show he was a he. The skeleton looking female will just be shonky work from anthropologists, a field with no actual scientific rigor. (Or the DNA test was wrong)

And then people will have to move to more out there theories.

Watch and see.
This was the career I wanted, but I'm not willing to work in academia. I actually have a biochem degree and 10 years of work experience as a software engineer. The point should be rephrased : "We need cheap programmers in biology and biomedical research in San Diego and Boston to blindly obey senior cancer researchers with fat pockets, and we can't afford the market rate for a good programmer or data scientist in those two arguably very pricey locales, and we don't want to hire remote workers, even though the job is desk-based. Ideally they should be willing to be graduate students, that's easier on the budget."
> clean energy sources that already exist and are being built out in record numbers

What is the fastest, new renewable power capacity any country has at any time build, in added W/year/capita? In both nominal and actual power generation? Or the fastest you can see or hope will happen in near future?

Sweden built 10850MW nuclear in 20 years from 1965 to 1985. This means about 68W per year per capita. How do the already existing, and potential future endeavors in building renewal capacity compare to this number?

The number is nominal, but for nuclear I'd guess the actual long term power output is about 90% of the nominal.
Nuclear hype is timeless, it's caused by the fact that there are 2 million times more Joules in each kg of uranium than in any chemical fuel. This natural resource is astounding, and it's a very human thing to try to put it to work for the good of humankind.

Anti-nuclear media is also status quo. The industry has been dealing with it for decades. I don't think the HBO thing is going to tip the scale too much. There are documentaries about plane crashes too, yet we still fly.

The key point I don't think you granted me is that the numbers are in, and nuclear is definitively and quantitatively a very safe form of energy. Certainly the perception is not in line with this, but if you look at the numbers it's clear.

Thus we have a public education issue.
nuclear waste is not as big of a problem as most people think.
What does LGBT have to do with wanting to fight?
Is the resistance to nuclear power mostly at the state/local level or is there also a lot of federal opposition? I wonder if some western state with unpopulated land could make a lot of money by doing a huge nuclear project and sell the power to California with UHV lines.

The politics seem kind of similar to pipeline projects, but the ultimate goal would be to save the earth rather than burn it down so maybe there would be less opposition. Maybe you could even generate enough energy and wealth to convert some legacy fossil fuel businesses (and the politicians they own).
Docker's memory usage of the container is going to be pretty close to the same process running without the namespace. For the hello world they're testing, it's going to be ~ the size of the binary and libc. There's probably another MB or so hiding in Docker metadata, namespace metadata in kernel, etc. that "docker stats" doesn't account for.
short sighted how?
Renewables (and batteries) simply aren't that cheap. Even ignoring externalities like disposing of EOL solar panels.
We just need cheap batteries first so we can harvest the nodules with robots ...
Eh, I usually don't. But when I need to bang out a bunch of repetitive code, I'll throw on something intense and fast-paced.
That's not particularly accurate. Windows NT was based on VMS. OS/2 is quite different. The interfaces are related, but the same is true for all Windows variants on the grand timeline.

The good news is that if you are feeling particularly nostalgic and have a 16 or 32 bit processor (or emulator), you can relive the OS/2 glory days with ArcaOS from https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/ It'll cost you about $130 for a personal license, but if you want it, it's still there, and still supported.
Windows Phone 7 didn’t come out until late 2010. Then WP8 required new hardware. By the time they could have built any kind of momentum Apple and Google were eons ahead of them.

iPhone 4 was released before WP7.

It’s a shame, my WP8 phone is still my favorite smart phone ever.
Some dishes I regularly make:

Hamburger mush - 1 lb ground beef, beef bouillon (enough to make ~2 cups of broth), 2 tbsp flour, water

Cook and drain ground beef, add bouillon + flour + enough water to be liquidy, let it cook on low until paste like consistency. Serve over rice with vegetables (mushrooms, broccoli, cabbage, zucchini, bokchoy in any combination are good)

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Chocolate quinoa - 1 cup quinoa, 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1/4 cup chocolate protein powder, honey

Cook quinoa. Mix cocoa powder and chocolate protein powder with some hot water, enough to make a sauce. Add honey to taste, mix with cooked quinoa

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Greek yogurt alfredo - 2 tsp butter, 1 tsp garlic powder, 3/4 cup greek yogurt, 1/2 cup grated parm

Melt butter in small pot or pan, add garlic powder, mix in yogurt. Set heat to low and stir in parm until it's melted. Serve over pasta and vegetables
One is very likely to be LGBT if s/he is a transvestite.
It's working out fine. 90% of the content and services on the internet is paid for by ads.

There's also cycles. TV went through OTA to cable bundles to a-la-carte streaming and is now heading back to ads and bundles as people have reached their limit on payments. Music is in the bundle stage. New formats like podcasts are still in the early ad stage. Online publishers are at the peak of the direct payments stage and heading to news bundles next, which you mentioned yourself.

Regardless of the cycle, ads pay for the most and are almost always part of the deal because it's incredibly hard to sustain content production with rising costs at any price that consumers actually want to pay.
> we wanted to emphasize that the architecture is, in fact, defined; the definition, however, specifies the operation to be unpredictable. That is, the operation may vary among models, and on any one model may differ among instances. Otherwise someone could ask when we are going to complete the definition.

This is quite an interesting way of combating Hyrum's Law!
I think that was inevitable the moment they started taking big VC money. There's most proven way to become massively profitable is trading your user's attention for ad money.
You believe that do you? Do you have a source? Because there's a recent MIT study that says they really are much cheaper, for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with assuming low interest rates.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/10/01/3-reason...

Maybe the U.S. will keep dragging its feet, but that doesn't mean the technology is inherently expensive, it just means we're bad at it in the U.S.

(And you're still ignoring storage savings in the solar/nuke scenario.)
Ah, sorry, I looked it up myself and edited my comment. Bad habit of mine. Thanks anyway.
A camera or knowing that someone can remotely view your computer screen at any time should do the trick.
So have some requirements and make sure it builds. File any other complaints in NUL.
What's that got to do with it?

You first. What does capitalism have to do with it? You're the one who brought an unrelated sociopolitical agenda to the thread, it seems.

kibbutz dwellers appear to be reasonably environmentally conscious.

Says someone with their own 3 GHz personal computer that was decidedly not built by kibbutz-dwellers.
There are not fixed, linear relationships between quality, ease of maintenance and cost.

Consider that the cost of man years of engineering is essentially irrelevant to the cost of a vehicle.

(of course the total engineering costs are going to be significant, I'm talking about incremental costs of spending time thinking about how to make vehicles a bit nicer here or there)
Yes. D-Star is the poster-child for the kind of coding scheme that should not be allowed in Amateur Radio. If I can't access the documentation required to do a compatible open implementation, then it is a no-go.
Juggle tables to meet your use case. Switch queueing to new table, wrap up work in old table, drop old table.

Or switch to RabbitMQ if you can (you mentioned queueing, which Rabbit is designed for), which can journal to disk on a per queue basis if necessary.
I notice that sometimes non-tech people think that cooking eqipment is relatively unimportant, but having the right equipment on hand makes cooking so much easier and more enjoyable. It's also an investment that dramatically improves the quality of your life if you cook every day.
The positive thing about hindsight is that we the human race can learn from it and subsequently re-design things like nuclear power plants, amongst a whole swathe of other technology.

Situated in an earthquake/tsunami-prone land? Situate backup generators on higher ground, build tidal walls sufficiently high.

The human race is built upon hindsight. Who was the first human who unfortunately tried eating a poisonous plant? We subsequently learned which plants were safely edible and which were not, for example.

So don't go dissing those who speak with hindsight - we humans stand on the shoulders of those who, unfortunately, lost their lives for everyone else to have the knowledge to progress :/
Copyright and patents while using the Win32 API?