skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, new realization!

When I was in high school in the 80s, one of the most popular songs on the local mixed-tapes was an early rap song-- 'The Sugar Hill Gang'. I expect this is where the song got it's name.

That music still takes me back to good times.
if they 'stole a loaf' and left the house it would be ok but they are moving in to the kitchen to have constant access to the loafs, thats what makes it a problem. once they make it across the border, they still have to maintain decades of illegal lifestyle. the legal framework doesnt let them achieve a normal life where their hard work will afford them a decent life. the struggles and difficulties continue for them and keep pushing them into illegalities. just letting them in illegally doesnt solve a problem. it starts a long chain of other problems that sometimes ends up with them being deported 20 years later.
Why is that arbitrary? Encapsulation is a core principle of OOP.

Re: there being no problem, that depends. Pure OOP has advantages and violating the properties often sacrifice some of those advantages.
I see a horizontal bar in firefox
Some non-trivial nuclear capacity is expected to make high-renewable deep-decarbonization scenarios significantly cheaper [1]. That hydrogen and battery storage stuff quickly adds numbers to the system cost. Solar alone with no storage doesn't work even a little (because of night time).

[1] http://energy.mit.edu/research/future-nuclear-energy-carbon-...
There are 36,000 organ transplants performed in the US every year, does anyone know how many occur in China?
One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea
“Indeed, tax strategies like the ones used by Apple — as well as Amazon, Google, Starbucks and others — cost governments around the world as much as $240 billion a year in lost revenue, according to a 2015 estimate by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.”

Awww poor little governments not getting their fair share...
I second this comment! My old D40 has survived also almost 15 years of use and abuse, and is still going strong. I've since upgraded to a D90, which is also already a senior citizen in tech years, and it is still as reliable as ever. I don't feel the same confidence in their new Z line, although time will tell.
I've joked in YC before that it's about time for the semi-annual mind-blowing battery technology announcement, so this was a bit of a surprise.
Running nuclear plants just at night would double the cost of that power. This would be insane.

Using nuclear instead of solar when solar was available would increase the cost of that power by a factor of 3 or more. That would also be insane.

Nuclear just doesn't have a place on a grid with a large renewable supply.

EDIT: You wrote:

"I agree that would be insane, which is why I said to run the nuclear 24/7 and build enough solar for the extra demand during the day."

This is case #2, using nuclear power during the day when you could have used cheap solar. It makes no sense economically at current nuclear costs.
Just googled up some articles from the Polish press, and they seem to hint at Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, which "[would often] involve excessive or deficient production of sex steroids and can alter development of primary or secondary sex characteristics in some affected infants, children, or adults."

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

That said, it seems everybody is talking about a paper that's not actually published yet, so there seems to be a lot of speculation and uncertainty and buzz generation around...

edit: As of 2018, the state of knowledge apparently could be summarized as:

"Was “he” born a “she”? Did Pulaski suffer from a hormonal condition resulting in female physical characteristics? Or were the remains from that Georgia plantation simply someone else’s? The answers will be revealed this summer in a Smithsonian Channel documentary."

https://today.emich.edu/magazine/article/10654

It seems we're still waiting for the documentary to be aired. And hopefully some paper published.
Hmm, yep, tools and graphics are what I'd be most interested in as well. 3rd and 3rd here :)
Why would anyone want a nuclear reactor in their backyard? They don’t even want wind turbines or solar arrays.
You can do a few things to solve this problem:

* Couple the nuke to a large thermal storage system and load follow with that

* Use steam bypass to switch energy from the turbogenerator to desalination, direct decarbonization, liquid fuel synthesis, district heating, industrial processes, and so on.
I'd argue that you can beat the market. And poor people especially.

What? Heresy? No I don't mean by stock picking. I mean by investing in yourself. Imagine if you save up enough money that you avoid having to take out a payday loan. Or imagine if you have sufficient money that you aren't in chronic stress mode, and can think about your long term future instead of worrying about the next meal. Or being able the upfront cost of bulk buying. Or maybe you can buy high quality tools and gear that allow you to do your job more efficiently.

If you can start a virtuous cycle in your personal finances that can create huge excess returns.
> The US never had the ability to build affordable nuclear plants.

Sure it has. They're just getting used by the Navy, not by civilians. There's no reason why the same methods that have been successfully used to control cost and schedule for those reactors couldn't be used for civilian reactors.
That's overstating things. Fukushima was built in the 70s. A nearby reactor faced the same challenges but was built a decade later, and it was fine. That's just a GenII, still not as safe as the GenIII+ we're building now.

Chernobyl, of course, was a horrific design that didn't even have a containment dome. Nobody builds reactors like that anymore.

And GenIV is a little more than vague plans; e.g. Terrestrial Energy's molten salt reactor has already gotten through the hardest part of Canada's licensing process, which puts them on track for a demo reactor by 2025 or so.
That's an old version, that's no longer getting updates. (It stopped being opensource a while _before_ the redesign.)
Check out the book Miracle Morning https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Morning-Not-So-Obvious-Guaran...
Thorium reactors?
+1, considering the amount of time and effort the author put in the post, outline.com draws traffic to their site, the author can't get the enough feedback and attention (sometimes the $), loosing the incentive of creating more original content, leading to the damage to the whole ecosystem.
Reminds me of one weird project as a contractor along with two clueless employees and a project manager who was not producing specs to write code for. He eventually succumbed to the bottle and vanished from view. For some strange reason, his replacement and higher manager blamed me for an inability to pull a rabbit out of a nonexistent hat and for an unwillingness to work for free.
Just like renewables getting better.

So why even bother with that old, dangerous and radioactive tech?

I really hope the lobby runs out of money soon...this artificial hype is terrible.
"Forever" may be a bit of an overstatement as we get better understandings of the health effects of low-dose radiation. Wolves are loving it in there (people were worse than radiation for them) [1].

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a22011471/c...
This is why we have antitrust law. Google has been fined for pushing their own services on Android, because they have multiple times the market share of Apple. I'm sure if Apple went far enough they would get dealt with too.
that doesn't make any sense. All the limitations you mention also applied to apps.

the whole problem is that apple shipped native apps with tons of skeumorphism and animations, so all js frameworks for webapps spend all their efforts to simulate "slide animation on page change" instead of working on hiding the ajax latency or using local storage better.

and in the end, everyone just saw $$$ in using the closed apps from the store.
> Instead of having an energy coming from nowhere that increases particle mass, we have something coming from nowhere that expands space.

Dark energy does not "come from nowhere". It's locally conserved everywhere. It has to be: the covariant derivative of the metric is identically zero, and the "stress-energy tensor" of dark energy is just a constant times the metric.
>So we went to the settings app, searched for the email app entry, no dice. Eventually through trial and error, we discovered some obscure entry in the settings app to manage accounts. It makes no sense at all. Literally none.

It makes a lot of sense. iOS uses your Gmail credentials for more than just mail (it can also sync contacts, calendar items, and notes to your Google account). So it makes sense to not have it within the Mail app.

Besides, it's not "4 layers deep". It's directly under a top level Preferences heading called "Accounts & Passwords" in Preferences, which should be the first place to look for, well, Preferences.

Third, you could find it also by just typing "accounts", "gmail" etc on Spotlight search. Again, just a click away.

If that's the sort of "problem" iOS has, it's pretty solid.
Clearly, we just need to outsource reactors to third-world countries that are ok with being irradiated! ... I nominate Alabama!
My comment was made from a user's point of view. I explicitly did not care about technicalities or who wrote what code. All I meant is that I can do things with an out-of-the-box Mac that require downloading third-party tools to do on Windows.

How Microsoft achieves that is their problem to figure out, whether they license these tools or reimplement their functionality, as long as the functionality is there out of the box. But I guess shoving ads (aka cancer) into the lock screen is higher on their list of priorities.
Nuclear could have saved the world 30 years ago. I'm afraid it's just too risky now. Nuclear is not dangerous if we have organized human life managing it. However, the risks are such that there may not be the know-how or organization in the future to keep the plants going or have an organized decommissioning of the existing plants.

The technology change would also need to be drastic because we cannot rely on cold ocean waters to cool the plants.

In other words, we should have done it 30 years ago when the risk of societal collapse wasn't so great and we had the confidence that we can maintain this technology.
Newton MessagePad 2000 and 2100
Not exactly good governance was what she did before too, going back on existing long-term exit plans that the majority supported. Fukushima just moved that from somewhat unpopular to entirely politically untenable.
Half the article was about the reasons costs are so much higher in the U.S. than South Korea, and how to fix it.
Like it says in the first sentence after the bullet list you're quoting from?

"Lisp is not on its own with these 'problems'. Smalltalk, Prolog, Java, ... also have similar 'problems'. Java defines its own infrastructure, same for Smalltalk, PERL, ... "
After the revelations, I don't know if the prestige is as strong. It's still there, but you could wonder how many of these people bought their way in, or earned the privilege.
Nope. If we build 100x reactors, there will be new reasons why it's not enough already and we need 1000x more.

There are unspoken and unpopular things that could really work - limiting consumerism, and decreasing population.
I was not really trying to introduce the state monad as much as trying to reference it as a way of illustrating what we're often pretending we're doing when we talk about making something idempotent, when what we're really doing is what didbus referred to as "deduplication". Something like this (untested):

def IncrementWithMemo(world, id)
val, memo = *world
if memo.member?(id)
[world, id]
else
[[val+1, memo.concat([id])], id]
end
end

The above should give the same results (barring any stupid bugs) if you pass in the same state, by making the changes it makes to the world explicitly part of both input and output.

But usually we're of course not doing that, but cheating and not actually storing the world state, because we're doing something messy and imperative with side effects, and so can't store the entire relevant part of the world.

We both agree that the way didibus described the "fixed" Increment() operation, it is still not idempotent. I gave my example to point out that the problem with their version could in theory be fixed by explicitly serialising the world state. But the point being that "fudging" that and pretending is illustrative of the abuse of the term that they were asking about.

Your comparison about a priori vs. a posteriori makes sense with the added caveat that as I understood it didibus recognised that this is not the correct of the term, and so is asking if there is a better name for this system behaviour (their version, without the explicit serialisation of world state).

I honestly don't know - I unfortunately think that it's largely too late to get people to talk about this as something other than idempotence. What is hopefully not too late is to get people to understand when they're using it as a shortcut and to understand that there is a more formal definition.

Especially because sometimes the shortcut is unnecessary and it can be helpful to find a way of restating the problem as an operation over a limited world where you can make it actually idempotent.
As I understand it, Buick seems to be doing fairly well along these lines and was a fairly good seller in China for its reliability.
http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/ is a pretty fantastic resource of learning this stuff.

Don't worry too much about opengl vs direct x vs vulkan. There are underlying principles that apply broadly to both.

Alternatively if you want a book that goes more in depth, but still allows you to take your first steps, opengl programming guide 8th+ edition is good.

Expect it to require some patience no matter what route you take. Graphics programming is finnicky.
Maybe regardless of politics they’re just appalled at the idea someone can be forced to donate organs?
My notes in college followed this route. I would take notes during lecture with pen on paper - less distracting, less likely to go wrong, lighter, and battery life was not a concern. (Today, I would likely take notes with a stylus on a tablet.)

When I sat down to revise my notes, part of that revision was to type them up in Emacs with org-mode, using embedded LaTeX for any notation that was not natively supported in org-mode. I would frequently already have typed notes from my readings, and I could integrate the lecture notes with these. I would render to PDF and print these out for further study away from the computer.

Part of the reason for this is that I found having access to the Internet and my collection of computer games was distracting when I was trying to study. Being able to print out the notes, share them with friends, study without having to haul around a laptop, find power, or navigate with a keyboard in the silent study floor of the library was important.
>That is exactly what I was talking about! You are portraying games as "immature activities" like "superhero movies", rather than just "movies".

On purpose. I don't consider them mature activities, and the world didn't consider them as such either, until the infantilization of the population post 90s.

>and, indeed, more games than your "nth clone of shooting aliens"

Yeah, but not much more.
Thank you, this is fascinating!
Not to mention the small nuclear waste issue.

Managing waste for a period far, far, far longer than any state has historically lasted continuously (or even since the dawn of human civilization) seems really optimistic.

Very few states have lasted continuously more than a few centuries without some kind of partial or total collapse (military defeat, revolution, bankruptcy of government, etc), ant these waste will need to be managed for thousands of years.
Con artists and criminals think everyone is corrupt.

If you know someone who thinks everyone is corrupt, or self serving, well... that’s one way people rationalize their own unethical behavior.

The meaner you are, the more assholes you meet.

When someone says “liberals are just virtue signaling” they probably are a horrible person because they don’t believe humans can behave ethically/altruistically.
I'm very reluctant to give up my 2014 MacBook Pro Retina. I've used it every day for 5+ years, and it still has the original battery. The only reason why I've been checking out recent models is that I don't want to lose the headphone jack.
That's because more expensive goods tend to be repurposed or recycle more. Take for example, a car is way more likely to be recycled for scrap metal than a bike because there's more value.

Same for apple goods which tend to depreciate in value slower than a generic brand PC or Android phone.
It's funny how the 20-somethings of the well-off seemingly have the skills and experience to take on key leadership roles, that their peers somehow would have to take decades to ascend to.

It's "status" but anybody can look at say, Ivanka Trump for example, and see right through it.
There are limits to electronic charges found, period.

Adding additional elements increases mass.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AdPqWv-eVIc
It’s more like, poor working SOBs getting robbed of services that tax funds should’ve been going to
Thorium is an alternate fuel that can be used in breeder reactors with fast or slow neutrons. It's particularly well-suited for thermal breeders, which work best in fluid fuel systems. Fluid fuel systems (like the now internet-famed Molten Salt Reactor) have lots of great capabilities that fall into the broader category of Gen-IV nuclear reactors (near infinite sustainability, super-safe, reduced waste, higher temperature, etc.).

There was some internet hype for a while that Thorium was a end-all/be-all but those were slightly misguided in the sense that all Gen-IV reactors are end-all/be-alls. The Thorium itself had very little to do with it. It was an attempt at rebranding nuclear. As a nuclear engineer I prefer precision and promote all Gen-IV stuff including Th-fueled ones. Maybe I should have gone with the rebrand.
Google assistant is the reason the phone is so cheap. The same reason a smart TV is cheaper than a dumb one, and why most of those "home assistant" things are cheap. You're not paying with money, you're paying by allowing access for data harvesting.

The same phone without Google Assistant would be better, sure. But it'd also be much more expensive - if it was allowed to exist at all.
I think investing money in social services and education and early intervention for kids who are the victims of neglect and trauma and maybe treating addiction like the medical problem it is instead of a criminal problem, so people can get treatment without social stigma.
The advantage of MSRs is not that they can't melt down (or that they could use thorium; that's vastly overhyped), it's that there's no volatile material in the containment building.

The containment of a LWR has to be large because it fills with radioactive steam in an accident. It has to be able to contain this steam, which means at least a certain amount of structure to withstand its pressure.

But MSRs don't use water as a coolant. They circulate salt in and out of the building. They can be designed to remain at low pressure even in a bad accident, just from heat transfer that occurs from thermal radiation at elevated temperature. As a result, the cost of the containment could be as much as 1/5th that of a LWR.

Unfortunately, MSRs are not available today, and likely will not be for decades (especially if new materials must be qualified; no one will buy an MSR if there is any question about the materials not lasting their projected lifespans.) By that time, renewables will have marched down their experience curves to an economic position that will likely be unassailable.
If you can update the screen... or at least replace it if it breaks. IIRC there are 3rd party screens for it.
It's a matter of personal taste, so it does not need to be "well formed". These things are more religious questions than about rational arguments. As for numbers, no, I don't. All I have to go by is the number of people I know or have met that dislike it. And so I know it is polarizing, but beyond that it is guesswork. The point was not to claim that it is some massive proportion of developers, but to point out that decisions of taste are not inconsequential.
And all of this waste management run by the government is another government subvention of nuclear technology of right now unknown height.
The Java version puts the prior comment in perspective. I agree even most Perl programmers would not want to work on a codebase from this Era. The problem is that Perl was the de-facto web programming language at the time, and large swaths of the internet was written by Perl neophytes and programming amateurs. The code generated by this population was necessarily problematic.

By the same token, PHP codebase of the early 2000's were a horrible mess. There is a downside to being among the popular and accessible languages of a period. It takes a while for the general community skill level to increase and best practices to trickle down to new people. Javascript of a few years ago wasn't all that different, except for a large amount of experienced programmers from other languages also being involved because of its privileged place as the language of web browsers.

These days, I wouldn't imagine most codebasse of 10k lines in Perl being noticeably worse than in Python or Ruby.
It is not necessarily malicious. Some malware is purely designed as a prank type of stuff or to do something funny to the computer.
I've had plenty of people swear at me because open source software I release won't build for them. It gets tiring and puts me in a bad mood all day.
People can't fix their own cars engines nowadays, which has been a huge legacy in the USA (the car enthusiast/tinkerer, the hot rod, the looking under the hood, etc), and they expect to fix intricate, miniaturized, SoC-based, waterproof electronics like smartphones?
Not all views are valid and should be tolerated or platformed, though. Assuming you disagree, I challenge you to argue against that without using what amounts to a slippery slope fallacy.
I agree that would be insane, which is why I said to run the nuclear 24/7 and build enough solar for the extra demand during the day.

Wind/solar is only that much cheaper if you ignore storage.

Stop ignoring the possibilities of much cheaper nuclear and things look different anyway. South Korea is already 6X cheaper according to the article, and some GenIV designs are likely to do even better.
HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel
Old? Unlocking the energy of the nucleus is certainly our most recent energy resource, by any measure.

Dangerous? Even though nuclear fails catastrophically, it does so very infrequently, and few people die relative to other energy sources (hydro dam failures have killed 100k in one incident, coal kills more each day than nuclear ever killed). Nuclear safety per TWh is on par with wind and solar (which kill very few people e.g. from ice throw and falling off roofs).

Radioactive? Ok, fission products are radioactive. Can't argue with that.

Do you really think Steven Pinker is in the nuclear lobby?
smooch.io is great
I think the main use of CMV is for people to post things they disagree with because they want to crowdsource an argument against it. There's definitely been times when my counterargument to a point was much better articulated on CMV than I could have ever come up with on my own.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were political operatives from both parties crowdsourcing arguments that agree with their point of view by posting the opposite point of view.