skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Such resignation reflects bitter experience of the way that dependency on natural resources can poison a country’s economic and political system. Inflows of hard currency push up prices, squeezing the competitiveness of non-oil businesses and starving them of capital. As a result, productivity growth withers (a phenomenon known as “Dutch disease” after the negative effects of North Sea gas production on the Netherlands).

That's an incorrect summation of the "Dutch Disease". Productivity growth doesn't suffer. Productivity growth, or GDP growth, increases with higher oil output.

The Dutch Disease is a politically slanted term to describe how other industries languish when one expands. But a rise in oil production is not associated with declining productivity growth, and the Dutch Disease theory does not include that proposition. A rise in oil production/exports makes an economy more capital-rich, which raises productivity.
So do you think lock up agreements themselves are a sell signal as well ? They threaten legal action on short selling (even worse than just complaining).
I've come to love single monitors. It is like a task mode for me where I'm only looking at one thing at a time. I use multiple desktops to quickly change between applications or views. It really removes a lot of the urge of distraction for me.
>Calculate how many wind generators you need to guarantee the same production as Hinkley point

Hinkley Point = 3200 MW
Average wind turbine generates = 3 MW

That's about 1,100 wind turbines at current tech. GE is working on a 12 MW wind turbine - it would take 270 of them would replace Hinkley point.
| The majority of the cost associated with nuclear is regulatory compliance and political rather than practical in nature (see: China).

An engineer in Shanghai costs $20K/year. You can't point to the cost of nuclear in China and pretend it will reflect the cost in the west.
Yeah... I agree. It took 20 years for the FireWire to be widespread enough for companies started to make products for them (Thunderbolt 3).
How about two vertical monitors? I use a laptop and normally also have connected two 27″ monitors, both vertically oriented, above it. There are certain code tasks that really benefit from the increased height of vertical orientation; as an example, last week I was doing some substantial rebasing, and the increased vertical height in a four-way diff was invaluable. Most of the time I find I’m actually using at most one of the external displays, but it’s definitely still common to get practical value out of both of them. Referring to web pages or other documents on vertical screens is also normally better—mostly normally because they’re half the DPI of my laptop display.

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│ │ │
│ │ │
│ │ │
└──┬─┴──┬─┘
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(The slight off-centring of the laptop in this diagram is also curiously realistic; early on, a couple of years ago, I had it centred; but a few weeks ago I looked closely at where it had ended up, and found that I consistently placed the laptop definitely right of centre, and favour the right-hand monitor to the left.)

A few others in the company use one or more vertical screens too. Those of us who do, certainly like the increased vertical space.

Quality of window management is also going to be an important factor: of the two main OSes: Windows is good at simple window-per-screen and two-tiled-windows-per-screen arrangements; macOS is fairly weak, being more inclined to manually accomplishing it. (I’m on Windows for now, but I’m planning on trying Arch Linux, which I previously used, on my Surface Book, as it’s now probably good enough to work with. With Sway (i3 clone for Wayland), its handling of such a screen arrangement will be superb.)
really enjoyed the paper.

Super clear data viz that strikes a point quickly and makes it easy to join the hypothesis.

I found it so clear and easy that there is probably some scientific bias that makes it non valid argumentation. If someone could point that out, would be great.
Does Facebook share data back with the app? For example, your name, etc...
The Chinese regime blocks sites that are critical of the Chinese regime.

GDPR on the other hand has absolutely no political selectivity. It's just a bunch of self selected US sites that can't be bothered to properly implement GDPR (until they get their own version of it).

That makes your claim about the number of websites accessible from Hong Kong about as relevant for freedom of speech as the lack of chlorinated chickens in Europe's supermakets for the variety of food we get to eat.
The mistake was thinking they owned a community. They may have started it, but once grown, the community is its own thing. A successful migration to an external website would require a wide buy-in from the prominent community members, and cannot be done by fiat by whoever technically controls the means of discussion.
I'm not even sure it's a good idea to avoid neck movements for a long time.
Sorry if it seemed insensitive, I didn't mean the most harmful, but the most powerful in terms of physics, as an engineering reference point if you will.
You generally need a printing press to become a good engineer, because unless you’re the new Leonardo you kind of need to read what other engineers and knowledgeable people have done before you trying out new stuff. A bag-pipe has almost nothing to do with becoming an engineer.
I would be curious to apply this to U.S. cites. Even New York must lose aglomeration benefits because of its unreliable transit structure.
> €300 disposable income per month

Hear hear, mister big shot.
They are even more severe and intrusive forms of disruption than ambient noise and impromptu conversation of open plan offices, so they would exacerbate the negative effects already known.

Pairing in particular requires you to schedule time for it, host it in a private conference room for those two people, and have adequate video conferencing. If pairing happens at someone’s desk in an open plan setup, looking at the same laptop screen or monitor (instead of a projected version), then it universally falls apart, and is significantly disruptive to other around as well.
"Although sea levels will not rise instantaneously, the calculated increases will be “locked in” at a temperature rise of 3C, meaning they will be irreversible even if warming eventually slows down."

That is something a lot of people don't truly realize.
Once 8k streaming becomes popular 5G will be a must.
If you are mainly looking at an energy source for the downtimes, then there is currently enough hydro being generated to do that.
I would be a little concerned about the ergonomics - any slight deviation from the heads central balancing point on the neck (i.e. looking slightly up or down) over a longer period can cause neck strain with the associated problems.

The ideal position of a monitor is with the top directly in front of your eyes when your head is perfectly upright.

That said you obviously don't have to turn your head as much, which might make up for that.
I know for a fact the great firewall does not extend to Hong Kong. We can deploy APIs there AND use HTTPS/ communicate with the outside world/ use Google services. How insane.
This comment adds nothing to the discussion.
The metaprogrammability using an ORM has never been wroth the loss of expressiveness in my experience. If I needed it, I'd probably not be using the procedural language the the ORM uses.
That makes it impractical and useless to sell for different prices; if a digital good costs 50€ in Germany and 20€ in Italy, both Germans and Italians will buy it in Italy. Companies are therefore forced to sell it for 50€ to everybody. That hurts Italian customers.
Blackberry still makes Android phones with keyboards.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revela...

This sort of thing happens quite a bit actually. In this case, a huge number of residents complained ofvarious illnesses that were supposed to have been caused by a new tower being built in their vicinity. That the symptoms were presented when the tower was not operational is fairly telling that nocebo effect dominates here over any rational or explainable occurrence.
Well, the nuclear renaissance since 2010 is marked by a decline in the number of reactors [0] and we just do not the capacity to build more, because the production of pressure vessels is severely limited. Plus most nuclear reactors are around 30 years old [1], so many will be decommissioned over the next 20 years.

Therefore it is simply not possible to build up the share of nuclear in the power generation mix, except with extending the operation time of light water reactors (from a design lifetime of 30 years), or build reactors without a pressure vessel, that is something akin to an RMBK.

Right now, over the next 20 years the clean alternatives are solar, wind and hydro. Nuclear power can at the earliest be expanded in the late 2030, at which point it has to compete with fusion, and hopefully orbiting solar.

[0] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/facts-and-f... (has actually just the total electricity number,

[1] http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/n/nuclear-power...
>noone has ever been able to show this under controlled scientific conditions.

implies that it was documented during a test
Or, even simpler than the books, it is a long discussion that ends up rephrasing points from the Agile Manifesto.
The comparison to hill-climbing algorithms is an interesting one, especially because the author ignores the fact that hill-climbing algorithms get stuck in local optima unless there is a way to “restart” the search from a new location. There is a time and place for big, risky changes to advance beyond what this “patch” approach can do.
It's really nice work. I have to take issue with something in the paper [1]:

“First, hardware-enforced isolation such as the use of SGX or EPT is fundamentally stronger than software-enforced isolation (containers/software LibOS), as shown by the current trend of running containers within VMs for security”

I don’t think that’s true. High-assurance security used to demand products use as many hardware defenses as possible. That was good for a while. Then, the hardware started having serious problems we’d have to work around. They seemed to be screwing them all up at some point with MMU and virtualization working better than average (most tested). Muen went with decision to use just one mechanism to avoid multiple, failure modes with software written in SPARK Ada for verification of safety. It did better with Meltdown/Spectre than many. More problems coming in on HW side, including attacks focused on SGX.

I think their assumption is thoroughly refuted at this point for modern, complex hardware. I’d depend on the hardware as little as I can using as simple hardware as I can get away with. Then, build the software as strong as possible around the most battle-tested mechanisms to reduce number of changes needed. seL4 on ARM and Muen on x86 are examples. If one has a massive budget, then build extensions to hardware that make securing software easier. Then, do the same thing again building highly-assured kernels on those heavily-verified, hardware extensions.

[1] https://www.ssrg.ece.vt.edu/papers/vee2019.pdf
I love my 43" 4K monitor not because he just wide, he also does give me much more verical space. I don't sit in the center, I sit about 1/3 on the left side.
Weirdly the caption above the first graph states:

> Big cities are more productive! In France (and Germany and the USA)

But then exclusively talks about, and provides data for, only French cities. In addition, their statement really goes against my experience of public transport within the big US cities I have visited.
don't forget the lights in your room, much higher output and much higher frequencies than your phone.
Are you doubting nuclear or are you doubting climate change?
A custody battle would be fun to watch.
Munich Airport builds custom doors to accommodate Airbus A380
Yup. Were I a member of that community, I'd feel wronged too.

> Just as I work to keep spammers and self-promoters at bay, I'd find it pretty scummy to form a startup around the sub and make money out of the contributions of thousands of community members.

Exactly. As you said, you may have created a community and technically own the forum, but you're not the community. The community is its own thing, and the founder demanding it move somewhere else so they can monetize it would be no different than an invasion of spammers - just another attempt at profiting off the community.
And here is the wiki page to answer how many since the 70’s (hint, it’s a lot): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accide...
Google wave, definitely. I still haven’t found an alternative that suits me.
> Germany has been taking coal offline after taking nuclear offline; and are replacing coal by gas (so they depend even more on Russia) instead of replacing it by nuclear or renewable

Germany's Energiewende is a many decade long plan with going beyond 80+ renewable energy for electricity in 2050.

The Energiewende is not just about CO2 reductions, it is about making renewable energy viable in an industrialized country. This has impact for all of us. Not just in Germany.

If the US had a forward looking government and population, we would much further along the way. The energy consumption in the US is twice as high per capita as in Germany and there is no credible energy policy beyond fracking gas. The current US president is a coal lover and he was voted for that into his office. Imagine the amount of research money and infrastructure money the US COULD invest into a new energy systems - instead it wastes money on wars, consumption and trillion dollar deficits.

> investing into nuclear too alongside renewable (rather than instead) seems the safer bet

That's why it has to go and somebody has to invest to make that viable. Germany is doing exactly that.

> Focusing on closing nuclear first (like Germany did!)

Germany did focus on renewable energy and the most incompatible industry had to go first.

Renewable energy is not about nuclear and renewable side by side - this won't work.

Nuclear is a huge state owned monopolistic system. Renewable is market oriented, decentralized, non-monopolistic. The break-up of the old system was inevitable to jump-start the new energy system.

It's a complete paradigm shift like going from Mainframe computing to a distributed Internet.
So I’ve tried vertical monitors and I find them to be very unergonomic. Your head naturally moves from the top of the monitor to the bottom. What I find this results in is too much head movement and half the time your neck is tilted more than it should be (ie more than is ergonomically safe).

It’s phenomenal for reading threads and large pages but I’m not sure it’s good for you.
The correct number of monitors to have is always n+1.
>The Internet connection is monitored[...]

While I agree that there is pressure from pro-Chinese Government henchmen to intimidate free press in HK, I am curious as to where you get this assertion that the internet is monitored. That would imply some kind of government surveillance. I have never heard of any systematic internet monitoring in HK of the kind done in other countries, like mainland China.
6 monitors? good god man lol, are you a sys admin?
It's not about cost, because there is not enough wind, solar, tidal and geothermal energy combined on the British isles to satisfy power consumption.

If you take single fuck up, that's been shown in court to be fuck up and then deduct from there that nuclear power is all over as expensive Olkiluoto 3, then umm.

Do you also smoke because your granny smoked and lived to her nineties?
Presumably, offer a sense of relaxation and peace - mostly through a combination of the placebo effect and not spending so much time looking at the internet, I guess!
Ideal window manager for me would be a 2-tier affair were at the top-most tier I would create task specific groups. Each group itself would work something like the linear sequence of the OS X spaces.
Can we get ( 2012 ) tag please
Excluding some of the mentioned ones like Google Reader, ICQ, Winamp etc. All them were at one point in time Champion in their own respective domain. They succeed at the time, so I don't see how it is a failure. They could just be more accurately described as killed or failed to move forward and compete.

So far

Google Wave, Pepple Smart Watch, XMPP, Unity, WebOS, Zune, Windows Phone.

I don't see any of these as "great" at all. And they aren't better in any sense. Google Wave might have succeeded if it was aiming at business use case, but for average consumers I doubt anyone are interested, and that is why it was shutted down.

I have yet to see a single consumer who looked at the UX of Zune, Windows Phone, Unity and thought I wish my Android / iPhone has that.

It is the same thing again and again, Engineers, or Nerds are designing what they thought was good, trying to solve problems where consumers don't have or don't care. There are many case of SaaS successes because their market are filled with the people having the same problem in business or Engineering.
I don't see how not enumerating details that reduce property values (like repair and maintenance cost and cost of insurance) changes anything I said.

Investing includes risk management. You can discount the abrupt disruptions into the price. Everything you say reduces the value of the property. Eventually large areas will be abandoned but until that happens people can live there.
Why not go in the other direction? Make the rollover happen every few years as just a normal part of operation. It means it'll be a well tested code path.

Are there physical reason why that wouldn't work?
Regarding your comment on wood fired plants: To me it seems that you imply that that is not renewable, which I do not understand. If you regrow the trees that you've burned (cleanly) down then your net impact will be zero, right?
It certainly doesn't look like natural gas usage is ramping up:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

>They produce 3x the CO2 of France, despite their commitment against global warming.

That's because France started replacing fossil fuels with nuclear in the 80s. That was the only sensible approach to reducing CO2 in the 80s. This isn't the 80s though.

>In an ideal world, renewable would replace everything. We are not yet in this ideal world

I mean, it's half the cost of nuclear and it doesn't include the risks (however small) of catastrophe.

In an ideal world we could swap out fossil fuels for something clean overnight - obviously it takes about 30 years. The question isn't "what can we replace fossil fuels with overnight", it's "what can take over from fossil fuels?"
Not kidding. I evaluated the capabilities of these platforms and there were some differences but all were better than existing solutions then and now. Flutter on the desktop might be a contender. Can't think of any others.
I tried the charge3 and the step and stairs-climbed counters both read wildly incorrectly. It also had a tendency to track steps taken when driving. They also hadn't got the pulse-ox sensor doing anything at the time I returned it.

The OS on it is quite nice, the iOS app isn't bad either, but the inaccuracy just drove me nuts.

I moved on to a Garmin vivosmart instead. Not quite as pretty, but a lot more accurate.
I have one monitor.

I don't understand this - you think rotating moving your chair is less effort than clicking alt/command + tab. And you struggle terribly - wtf are you talking about. Struggle to do what exactly, press alt tab ?

Yes, I'm a developer I have n putty sessions etc, etc.
> It serves to call attention to the fact that measurable radioactivity is not necessarily dangerous enough to worry about

That’s what it may have been created for, but it’s not what it’s used for.

> Similarly, pointing out that there is a measurable amount of Cs-137 in wildlife in Germany is not a statement about safety.

It’s been quantified and researched and the recommendation is still that one should control its intake of game meat and especially mushrooms from these regions because the CS-137 concentration can (depending on the kind) have multiples of the legal maximum (1) It’s perfectly safe to occasionally eat normal amounts’ but dismissing it as bananas is not appropriate.

(1) https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w...
The closer we are to discovering what causes radio bursts, the closer we come to doom.

"We've figured out what causes them!" he spoke to the bored conference audience. They sat up quickly. He continued, "It happens whenever any advanced civilization builds one of these." He takes a strangely shaped device from his pocket. There is a murmur from the crowd. "During the building of this prototype, we have--" and his tentacle fumbled for a moment, and it dropped onto the floor.

4 MILLION YEARS LATER

Astronomers have detected their third fast radio burst, and have almost gathered enough data to discover what causes them.
Well, Poles actually have a history like that as well. You can read about Emilia Plater

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Plater
I really like this video about the best way to setup two monitors - it compares price, ergonomics, productivity, aesthetics and desk space usage for all the various ways to setup two monitors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1N3jlgqcQ4

I don't have fancy monitor arms though, so for now my two monitors are just placed right beside each other on my desk.
Wow, I’m surprised there’s nothing about the Lisp Machines/Smalltalk... Remember ‘Worse is Better’?

And there is Xanadu, the ultimate hypermedia system. It’s a pity that no one (who could fund them) really understood the concept back then and it became vaporware...
As often seems to be the case in many parts of the US, the city of Miami is unlikely to muster the political will to do anything about this existential threat until after the city's businesses and residents have suffered serious, irreversible consequences. Think permanent loss. Few things can create as much political will as an irreversible crisis.

By then, of course, it will likely be too late for prevention, so the solution will have to be technological. Engineers of all kinds will have to come to the rescue of Miami and many other low-lying/coastal cities in the US.
Jawbone Bluetooth headsets. They offered the best noise cancelation and at one point was everywhere. Their execs made their products cheap and inferior, required payment for software updates.
Obviously we're a Republic.
what strikes me about pro nuclear comments, is the fact that never it's mentionned that uranium is a finite ressouce. So we're going to invest billions in a technology that will last 50 years ? The key word in renewable energies is renewable
I would be curious what the advertising landscape is like in Norway vs (for instance) the US. Clearly many Americans have their essential needs covered, and yet there seems to be a constant advertising driven pull for more and more to achieve ‘real’ happiness.
A 13 kiloton fission bomb produces about .01% of the long lived fission products that are resident in the core of a 1 GW(e) reactor just before refueling.
I wired up a breadboard this week with a few sensors I'm evaluating for work, and got a nice reminder of why we never use breadboards any more - 0.1" headers on 6" wires were producing undershoots up to a volt on a 3.3V I2C bus.

It proved the concept, but possibly at the expense of some input clamp diodes.
I didn't make a nuclear vs. coal argument I made a nuclear vs. no nuclear argument.
With respect to Windows phone, I only heard good things about the UX from users. I heard many complaints about the lack of apps though.
The common attribute is that these things are generic. That is not an attribute most software has.
If you use the ancient reactor technology of a PWR burner, then sure. However, most pro-nuclear people are for breeder reactors, not burner reactors.
https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/
for a comprehensive overview of the current worldwide state of the nuclear industry.