skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See here for a detailed explanation: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/why-power-prices-...

Here's an excerpt:

> There are several reasons why conventional power station operators, which are either losing money or at least losing profit during times of negative prices, keep their plants running (See study by Energy Brainpool, page 4-5 and the 2016 results from Consentec). They can be technical, for example the power plant can be too inflexible to change its output, or the ramping or costs for shutting down and starting up can be too expensive. Another reason for keeping the plant running can be the obligation to provide contracted balancing power to keep the grid stable or provide re-dispatch power. Alternatively, it may be that a certain production has to be kept up to provide heat for a town household heating network. Those plant operators which have already sold their power at the longer term futures market face no extra costs when they let their units run – they are merely losing the profit that they could make by buying cheap power to supply their customers instead of producing their own.
Every request displayed default welcome page = controller + view. Except for the Symfony, Symfony has no "classic" welcome page, so I had to create it and it was just Hello World. In the case of (Webiik), Laravel and Symfony the view was rendered by the template engine. The number of lines was counted by PHPLOC. You can find more info just under the comparison table at https://www.webiik.com.
> It always baffles me that nobody thinks to set up a best-of-both-worlds system whereby all the data is gathered, but stored in a secure database under the control of an independent government entity, possibly the courts themselves. If you’re tracking a suspect, get a warrant and the court will supply the data.

Why would it baffle you? Have you looked at the atrocities committed by governments throughout history?

The idea that these systems wouldn't be abused by the government, even given my limited understanding of human history, is more baffling to me...
Could you give us a set of countries whose customs agencies cannot refuse entry to non-residents, for any reason whatsoever, including no reason?

I have a feeling that is an empty set.
No, I'm not saying that at all. There are _some_ companies that run targeted campaigns to influence elections, sure, but they are a tiny minority in the world of tech. I don't like Uber's business tactics either, but I don't see them as the face of the tech industry - in fact, I don't really see them as a tech company. Count everybody who's main source of income is driving for Uber as an employee and the percentage of employees working tech roles is pretty small. Many large companies (including banks) have more and more complicated tech than Uber.

Again, let me make that clear: I'm not arguing that every company in the tech industry is staffed by angels, but that intentional bad actors in tech are the exception, not the norm.

> Borderline illegal tax-dodging by large tech companies is business as usual

And I haven't said it wasn't, I've merely compared it with what the largest banks have been involved recently. I don't know if it got worldwide coverage - this is what I was referencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files

> I don't see them warning their users that right now they are (maybe) not being profiled by governments for thought crimes, but the data is all there, so if in 10, 20 or 50 years time the government changes, this is a definite and very real risk.

And I'd love for them to be legally required to explain privacy considerations to their users in such a way that informed consent can be given. Again: I'm not "pro big tech", I'm saying that big tech still has some room if they want to rub shoulders with big finance when it comes to amoral business practices. Big tech operates in a grey area, big finance hasn't seen anything but #000 in decades.
Have you played on Arena? I'm struggling to imagine how anyone could meaningfully troll you on that apart from by spamming the 6 pre-canned communications (which you can mute).
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Get rid of market capitalism and nobody has to
A house insulated to PassivHaus standards will drastically reduce the carbon footprint of space heating. Reducing your energy needs by 90% makes the origin of said energy largely irrelevant.
Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclear Medicine
Hello, HN.

I’m Thomas Eiden, founder of Atomic Alchemy.

Atomic Alchemy will manufacture nuclear medicine and the radioactive materials used to make it, using several compact nuclear reactors.

These will be the first privately-owned nuclear reactors for nuclear medicine production. They are merely higher-powered versions of previously-licensed reactor designs that currently reside at universities. These reactor designs are passively safe and cannot melt down. With improvements in modeling and simulation that have occurred in the last few years, it is quicker and cheaper than ever to license and construct such a facility. But to be clear—we won’t be manufacturing reactors—we’ll be a chemical/drug manufacturer in the same way that Delta Airlines doesn’t manufacture planes or airports, but is a transportation company.

Before starting Atomic Alchemy, I was the lead reactor core designer at the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. My main job each operating cycle was to arrange the reactor core in such a way to allow the United States Nuclear Navy to run successful material experiments for their next generation submarines and aircraft carriers. I’ve always been interested in production and efficiency, and the issues currently plaguing nuclear medicine production have been of great interest to me all the way back to when I operated a reactor in college.

Nuclear medicine is used in a wide variety of diagnostic imaging procedures and cancer treatments. The most common procedure is the radiocardiogram to diagnose cardiological issues, and brachytherapy for cancer treatment.

Unbeknownst to many, there is a critical shortage of nuclear medicine worldwide--right now. The main failure in the supply chain is the fact that the entire world’s feedstock for nuclear medicine primarily comes from six government-run reactors, most of which are over 45 years old and will be retired in the next 10 years. Additionally, these government-run reactors are scientific research reactors and are not set up to efficiently produce these materials.

I have a design for a manufacturing facility that combines the entire supply chain, from irradiation, to chemical purification, to medicine production. This will allow Atomic Alchemy to fill the void as more aging reactors are shut down and allow those that remain to focus on their true purpose—science.

Currently, the reactors, chemical purification, and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities are all in separate facilities, sometimes oceans apart. By shrinking the entire supply chain into a single facility, manufacturing costs can be slashed by up to 50%, as regulatory, shipping, and myriad other costs associated with the radioactive material decaying in transit, is reduced.

The market for radioactive feedstock alone is well over a one billion dollar market worldwide, and is constrained by the current supply. As the standard of living abroad continues to improve, developing markets will demand even more nuclear medicine.

Looking forward to your feedback and questions.
That's why they call it work, it isn't always going to be fun or easy.

If your employer thinks you are doing well, you are doing well.

Not having a job would complicate things more.

Focus on work while you are at work, focus on you outside of work, stay close to friends and family that care about you. Take up a new hobby, join groups with similar interests. Find people that like/care about you. Exercise and eat better, healthier.

As far as work, yes most code bases are a mess.

It can be difficult to track things down and understand what is really going on. Keep at it and you will get more familiar with it.

Start adding your own logging and messages to help you understand what is going on and providing more details when an error occurs, this will help you and make the project better.
It it open for recreational divers?
Were you flying to or from somewhere else in Europe in the Dublin case? A subtlety about this which has just come up elsewhere in this thread is that the whole Schengen Area is treated as a single "country" for immigration purposes, so if you have an intra-European flight, you have to enter or exit "Europe" in the course of a transfer to or from an external flight.

But I think if you fly, for example, from New York to Paris and then on to Tunis, you don't have to go through immigration controls in Paris.
The academy of motion picture arts and sciences was formed for theatrical motion pictures. The Academy Awards was created specifically to promote theatrical motion pictures. If I got the summary of Spielberg's letter correct, the Emmys were designed to promote Television works.

Sure, you can say that's historical and they're out of touch. But he's on the board for that organization and that's their goal. Those lines might not be there for the average person, but the organizations (and flow of money) is still structured that way.

Netflix is doing the minimum to co-opt the prestige of the Academy Academy (which, everyone knows is a joke but still take seriously) so they can take that prestige to promote their own streaming service.
Also: the physical footprint of nuclear is tiny compared to energy harvesting + seasonal storage. This really matters at the scales we need. Not that nuclear is free from nimbyism, but its small footprint still counts.
I would agree with you - mostly when I comment here it's about something that I have direct, professional experience with. Either education, rural living, low income folks, or farming.

Otherwise I tend to just ask questions to help me understand the article from people who actually know.

But my first reaction to most articles is a dick joke. That belongs on reddit, not here.
To a regular software developer who uses (and does extremely minimal contributions) open source software regularly, this seems more for marketing / branding (even from an HR perspective) than for anything else (like a contribution without returns in mind).

We're reading about how GS "will" open source some software on WSJ, it would be better to just see a blog announcement with a link to the repository.
There are lots of perfectly legal things that get censored all the time, by both the government and private companies.

Adult content is one area that comes to mind. If you run a business in this area, on the internet, which is perfectly legal, you will quickly find that every major financial institution refuses to do business with you.
What's Driving AR Commerce and Enterprise?
I for one despise the political correctness that has occurred/is occurring in the current online communities. Anything and everything can and will be misconstrued to suit the needs of the "offended". Offense is taken, not given. I am sick and tired of the entire SJW mindset that has permeated the WWW and development circles.

What was "innocent" a few years ago is now grounds for doxxing, shutting down of accounts, getting people fired, you name it. It seems that "tolerance" is only tolerated if it is agreed with. Voltaire comes to mind here.

I never thought Linus was in bad form. His project, his rules. Ditto Theo de Raadt, who I think is a great project leader. I've heard him speak more than once, and he is a very nice guy. Like most leaders of tough projects, these guys endure massive amounts of BS from BS artists, and they need to be able to trounce the idiots and expose them. I have a feeling the majority of people would disagree with me anymore, but then again, my mindset and attitude were largely set by the military long ago, so I like strong leaders who don't brook BS.
I jumped to Cowboy Bebop's use of the quote, so don't feel too bad about it.
> Is Spielberg going to feel the same about Apple's streaming service? Would he want his movies there excluded from the Oscars?

Yes.

“Once you commit to a television format, you’re a TV movie,” he told ITV News in March 2018. “You certainly, if it’s a good show, deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar. I don’t believe films that are just given token qualifications in a couple of theaters for less than a week should qualify for the Academy Award nomination.”

Spielberg has produced many TV series and TV movies and has won 4 Emmy Awards.
I am not sure I believe that facebook content is truly anything like 99.9% user generated at this point.
People on Hacker News are also pretty likely to back ups. Getting your work laptop confiscated by agents will probably only earn you points at work.

There's also a good argument to be made that the search is illegal, it's important that everyone stand up for that, even if its stressful.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/bill-rights-border-fou...
You know, if you have a conversation with someone (without an NDA, etc.) they are free to tell anyone about it, but in a number of states they (or anyone acting with their permission) would not be free to record the conversation because of all-party consent laws.

I wonder if that's the kind of model that we need to consider expanding into personal data collection in a number of areas. (And maybe reinforcing with separate, affirmative consent requirements for some uses; e.g., I've posted notice and you entered the property may be sufficient consent for video recording used exclusively for normal security purposes, but perhaps not for outside sharing, as targeting, etc.)
Well I wrote it wrong.

Imagine something like finding the seed for a pseudorandom number generator where the numbers generated form the byte pattern for libgen.

That's similar to the cryptominer hashing where people just have rigs enumerating through possible values to generate a hash with the appropriate number of leading zeros. It's just that libgen would be little bit longer than a hash and also have some ones interspersed with the zeros.
> which isn't even the same since it returns `false` if something is null

That's not the case AFAIK - checking in both node and FireFox, `true && null` evalutes to `null`, `true && undefined` evaluates to `undefined`, and `true && null && true` again evaluates to `null`. In what scenario does `&&` coerce the returned value to a boolean?

EDIT: checked MDN's docs at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - it seems to indicate that there is no such coercion of falsy values to false.
I believe the issue is that Oscars is perceived in a way by the public that could make it anti competitive to exclude certain film makers, especially if rules change so they just happen to match exactly one company, one which is seen as a threat to the status quo by at least some of the incumbents.

Essentially, if you claim to hold a competition open to everyone fulfilling certain criteria, and it becomes valuable due to marketing ( competition ) to participate, then you will have to accept some government scrutiny of rule changes to ensure they are not anti competitive.
> I also think it's really important to take a step back and really think about if and how any donor is actually "helping" at all. We in the west have this funny idea that money is the answer to everything and more money = a better life.

I agree that there can be a charity can cause a vicious cycle by damaging local industry. However, it is pointless to talk about charity in isolation without considering other factors such as the harm caused by trade policies of developed nations (to be fair, is in their national interest), "exploitation"[1] of resources by MNC with no meaningful value-addition in host country, as well as a general lack of accountability among African political leaders.

Cutting all aid seems like an easy solution, but it won't spur development of local farms or industries if they are undercut by subsidized goods from abroad. The 'difficult' solution, but more likely to work, would be overhauling leadership culture, and getting a fairer trade system in place (e.g. no farm subsidies) - sadly, I do not see any appetite for either due to self-interest among the actors.

1. scare-quotes because raw resources are extracted and paid for, but the value addition is done abroad. Ghana produces a huge chunk of the world's cocoa, but most of the profits are captured by European chocolateers.
IBM AI can predict with 95% accuracy which workers are about to quit their jobs
Interesting perspective. With regard to the historical value, though, I think that the volume of information cheapens the value of most of it. The kinds of things that move people and events so that future generations can understand what happened are still preserved -- maybe not all the details, but enough. Of course, there could be some great catastrophe that wipes out most of the collective memory, but the broad outlines are still there and will continue to be there in some form, because ultimately the really important memories are preserved in the minds of those who were affected by them and passed along in some form to the next generation.

So, the burning of the library at Alexandria was a catastrophe for our understanding of ancient civilization, but enough was preserved that we still have what is essentially a Greco-Roman understanding and practice of government, philosophy, history, etc.

Closer to our day, I remember things that were told to me about events that happened over 100 years ago by people who lived through them or who knew people who lived through them. For example, my mom has told me about how her Uncle Henry wheezed when she was a kid in the 30s because he was exposed to chemical warfare in the trenches of France during the Great War. My dad's stories of growing up on a farm during the Depression and World War II likewise tie in nicely with things I have read about the larger events at the time; e.g., he once mentioned how they received extra gas ration stamps once they bought a tractor because they were farmers producing food needed for the war effort. (They farmed with horses until 1942.)

So I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of what life was like for my parents and grandparents because of what they told me. Do I have anything like a complete record of it? No, but I don't need it. Do my children need it? Sure, but they don't really understand what actual Nazis were because that word has been misused and misapplied ever since Gore Vidal used that tactic to "win" an argument with William F. Buckley 50 years ago. And I can tell them about that and why it's important, but it doesn't seem to register because they were never taught any details of what happened in the 30s in Europe, and don't really have a sense of what that generation suffered through as a consequence of the toxic ideologies that flourished during that era.

So please forgive me, but while long posts like this on the internet might be interesting to a tiny percentage of us, for most of the people who live in the future they will at the very best be reduced to a one-sentence quote by some future Ken Burns-like documentarian read by some future Morgan Freeman-like actor.
The lady enjoy her big cucumber alone
Nukes cost more https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/new-y...
The website associated with that second project appears to be hacked: https://gridstylesheets.org/

(not really apropos of anything, but it seems that the project has been abandoned)
There are payment processors that cater to that market. They charge large fees (up to 20%) for card transactions, though that's actually due to the crazy-high chargeback risk. People's spouses tend to discover their subscriptions, then they declare it wasn't them, their card was stolen, and a chargeback follows.
The percentage of content hardly matters in regards to your point about news being in this business long before Facebook. It's ironic that news sources are pointing fingers here since this has been their CORE product for years, minus the troves of data.

News channels make the extremely rare seem common, and the common seem like it doesn't exist. All to drive ad revenue. Now traditional news is rapidly becoming irrelevant and we see pay walls popping up left and right. I would argue that the news media is worse at propagating extreme fear and paranoia, than Facebook. At least a lot of Facebook content is funny/viral videos, whereas the news is 90+% negative
Perhaps I was unclear, I was asking if they can confiscate your stuff and send you back without it.
That's kind of my point. If no one else is willing to compete, why bother advocating regulation that makes your incumbent advantage harder to maintain?
Yeah - there are many comments about Facebook's lack of ethics on this site. I'm betting more than any other large tech company.

Hell there was even a poster in a different facebook story talking about how it was fun to tell headhunters they refused to apply to facebook because of ethics.
Actually I was more referring to the effect that constant advertising has on our attention span and possibly even our society at large.

We know we are constantly being fed B.S. so reading something with an open mind is difficult in the modern world, chances are there's some sort of sponsored content push in there somewhere - so we skim read before reading to check for ads, then we stop doing that second step and just take a surface scan of data. Our brains are so constantly bombarded with advertising that we're now receiving advertising, occasionally, for retreats where we can get away from all the advertising and noise of the modern world.

I have a personal, lovely example for this which is so beautifully clear - sandwich boards. Sandwich boards are those tilted sidewalk signs that shops put out for anyone who isn't aware, they can cause a moderate increase in traffic to a store because they're annoying - specifically. Signs that are hung from an awning above a shop don't obstruct people so their attention doesn't catch them as often, while as sandwich boards are more than happy to block half the sidewalk and force you to walk around them in an effort to be noticed - their usage is valid when indicating a temporary state, since the cost of hanging an awning sign to let people know that the ping-pong tournament has been moved down the street is silly and often not an option - but when that board is just advertising an establishment (even if doing that advertising by letting you know about a sale) then they can often be seen below an awning sign that is perfectly visible from the same angle (window painting and displays tend to be less visible to pedestrians so there is a valid reason to have some angled description of your business)

So, let's do away with all these sandwich boards - they exist for no reason other than to annoy us and get in our way. They occasionally make narrow sidewalks difficult to traverse for people with walkers or wheelchairs and what, as a society, are we getting for that cost? Nothing.

Sandwich boards are a beautiful example of this since so many of us encounter them daily, but lots of other advertising goes out of it's way to be obtrusive, to steal some of your mind's attention (jingles) or to be visually distracting (flashy banner ads). This shit has costs that we all pay, and the value we, as a society, reap for paying that cost is dwarfed by the cost - people are already spending almost all their money constantly so this advertising war isn't to make sure people make informed choices, it's to steal the sale away from a different product.
It's too bad they don't include post-use decomissioning/recycling costs. There is some really toxic crap in there Nuclear has to, so should solar.

They also forget that renewables are not that versatile and only address a small part of the big 4 carbon emitters (grid, industrial, cargo, cows). Industrial and cargo transport are going to require nuclear heat sources.

So while it's great that costs are coming down, they are not are not reporting the full cost, and it's only a partial solution to the big energy problems.