skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the world where China wants to keep its own currency at a low value in order to continue the export-driven economic policy.

Look, obviously China can sell its US treasuries in exchange for "cash" (electronic balances in a current account). If it did that, the US would only benefit.

If China then exchanged this USD "cash" into another currency, the worst that would happen is for the USD to reduce in value in the foreign exchange markets, which would boost US exports and therefore boost the US economy.

Yeah, US consumers would have somewhat less purchasing power for some time, but that only balances out the fact that US consumers currently have somewhat more purchasing power than they would "naturally" have.
99th percentile is "didn't score well" nowadays? (going by the 2018 charts - the ones from when you were presumably in high school are out of 2400 - and in 2012 the cutoff for 99th percentile was 2210/2400 [0])

0: https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-historical-percentiles-for-...
Chronology is immaterial to this argument.

What matters is whether the state, with its ultimate monopoly on force, sanctions a given method by its active use.
Happy 5.25 inch floppy day, 2019
70x more nuclear power requires 70x more nuclear fuel too (or even if we doubled efficiency, that's still 35x more nuclear fuel).

And nuclear fuel does not exactly grow on trees...
Why would they pay for the order flow and create smaller spreads which makes them less money? They have no reason to do so. I don't see what you mean by savings - if they're making less money, how does that translate into savings for anyone?
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Don’t think China has _let_ power over the United States. I’d imagine some agreement would be met that would be in the best interest of both nations. At least I would hope for that...
It takes a while to adjust yourself to the collective narrative on this platform. I think for the most part, comments are for discussion and encouraging alternating views. If you write, "this is nice", there's not a lot of substance that others can extract from it. So, with that said, focus on threads where you have an interesting perspective or thought to add. Much easier to get your 500 karma points that way.
I use books (writing by pencil) and also plain text files on computer. This works fine for me.
For those who will probably never get a chance to actually visit, a quick Google finds maps of the tunnel system and you can see just how large it is (public part is the red area):

http://bienfun.free.fr/Plan-des-catacombes-nexus-2007.jpg

https://blogs.valpo.edu/studyabroad/files/2011/03/plan_catac...

(In French, naturally, but French<>English is one of the cases where Google Translate works very well.)
> Because clean is only if you don't include the waste and you never have a disaster

It is clean after accounting for those things. At a guess you haven't grappled with exactly how tiny the volumes of waste are compared to the scale of what is achieved.

100 accidents is a very small number. You haven't linked your source so I don't know what the standard or timeframe is, but it is a safe bet that whatever an accident is that 100 number is irrelevant.

> I'm not sure how minor you can really claim a nuclear event to be

Very minor. I recall an incident at a remote (uranium mining) minesite reporting to the regulator because a vat had broken open. Very concerning to the mine management - biggest incident they'd had in years. It would be like getting worried because a gold mine's cyanide tank had split open - a big problem if you might have been standing under the tank. Not a concern to HN posters.

> nuclear boosters aren't really doing themselves any favors by glossing over the negatives.

I agree, my problem is people keep talking about the negatives and then bringing out these statistics that say that nuclear is at worst about the same as the alternatives. The negatives are that the cost of a meltdown is highly concentrated in time and space, and people might have to move to a different city if it happens near them. At the minute scale of risk that is dealing with I just don't think that is very concerning. Especially since there are persistent rumours that we've improved our design capabilities since 1980 (we have computers now!) and that the new generations of reactor technology can't fail in the way the old ones did.
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Shhh, that kind of talk goes against the “market bad regulation good” thinking in vogue right now.
I really wish I could get overcast on Android, but I'm not hopeful.
Financial insolvency is a non issue compared to resource and environmental insolvency.
Alright, go and convince the citizens of a major US metro to emulate it. Good luck.
Going to be the same with assange... it's sad when governments make people disappear :(
Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033439. (Reposts after a year are fine. This is for the curious.)
The biggest portion of environmental damage is due to transportation, and transportation is due to single family homes causing a need for sprawl. People in India live on top of each other, and I’m sure they’d all like some space if they can afford it. They’d also like to take international vacations.
I completely concur with dual-think/multiple selves, but your example talks about two different selves at two different _times_, not at once as OP assumes.
The thinking about debt being repaid by a future generation is deeply misleading because government debt is an asset to the private sector and those treasury bills are largely owned by US citizens (directly or indirectly, e.g. via pension funds).

So it's not that the debt has to be repaid by a future generation. Rather, the debt causes the government to indirectly cause transfer payments among the future generation, from those who don't own US treasuries to those who do. Put differently, the debt is a vehicle for perpetuating the current social stratification (who's rich and who's poor) into future generations.

If you're genuinely and honestly worried about the effect that the debt has on future generations, then your answer has to be some combination of (a) wealth tax and (b) moving the country's pension systems away from asset-backed pensions towards pay-as-you-go / transfer systems. (Though presumably combining this with a socially owned social wealth fund would work as well.)
Good points.

However, my point remains that if it's so abundantly clear that nuclear fission is an economically, manageable, palatable option, it'd have a significant uptake around the world.

Fission power plants may represent, as you say, a rare city-level threat -- but that threat increases linearly as number of plants goes up. And while I agree there's a degree of irrationality involved in terms of risk assessment, it's non-trivial to talk people around from that position. If you're comparing the health risks to coal / gas, nuclear wins on pure numbers. But if you're arguing against solar PVC, solar thermal, wind, hydro, tidal, etc it's a much harder sell.

As to the UK having poor project management -- this may well be true, but it's somewhat aside. Ultimately no one else is ramping up nuclear fission plants, and everyone believes they have (or can easily purchase) good project management skills.

But even ten years ago the construction of the forerunners of the proposed UK plants -- managed by the French Areva corp -- were way behind schedule and over budget. I'm referring to the embarrassing Finland / TVO experiences.

Jeremy Leggett -- an undeniably partisan, UK based analyst -- ten years ago was expressing dire concerns [1] about the UK's direction here. The subsequent decade have been kind to his predictions.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/10/nuclea...
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Hi all,

My team of about 30 devs has been using Codeship since I came onboard ca. 2yrs ago. For a variety of reasons we've been talking about moving unto a different solution and while our DevOps guy (yeah we sadly only have 1 DevOps guy) has been talking about Jenkins (which is already used by our testing team), some of us are daunted by the prospect of having 1 overworked person having to additionally manage a Jenkins installation.

While the previous team I've worked in used Jenkins, the DevOps/dev ratio was far more favourable (startup, 2 DevOps people and 5 devs), and even so our Jenkins installation would still leak and require a lot of love.

Thus, I was wondering what solution y'all might be using in a professional environment in mid-sized teams.

Some context:
- All our repos are in private GitHub repos (so GitLab/GitLab-CI ain't an option).
- We're working with over 100 CI'ed projects and have 2-3 concurrent builds (I believe increasing that number without breaking the bank is one of the reasons we're moving but I'm not 100%)
- We primarily work in Python/JS/Java.
- All our stuff runs on Google App Engine.
My only Windows machine is only used for gaming. It doesn't even have a web browser. It's also on its own VLAN, so it can't talk to my other machines.
That’s the most straightforward explanation ive seen yet!
The WebGL view might rerender every frame, the react component tree doesn't have to.
The state clearly does not have a monopoly on computer/network exploitation.
If you have a Windows machine handy, I suggest you grab the NVDA screen reader (https://www.nvaccess.org/) and try it out with the Windows console to get a feel for what a good screen reader plus terminal experience is like. I understand that the Orca screen reader for GNOME also has good terminal support, and I think JAWS for Windows does as well, but I'm more familiar with how it works with NVDA.

Here's how you move around the terminal with NVDA. For all of these commands, you need a keyboard with a numeric keypad, and NumLock should be off. I believe there are alternatives for laptops without a keypad, but I'm only familiar with the desktop layout. To read the current line, press numpad 8. To move to the previous line, press numpad 7. Next line is numpad 9. The same pattern applies for words (numpad 4-6) and characters (numpad 1-3).

Incidentally, on Mac, VoiceOver's terminal support is crappy enough that my friend Tyler Spivey wrote his own screen reader for the terminal environment, called tdsr [1].

[1]: https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr
It's interesting that there's no legal consequences, for the politicians, to raise the debt ceiling.

Is this the same in other countries as well?
I think that in modern English, "nation" and "nation state" mostly mean "sovereign country or polity".

It's just very recent modern infosec and internet English and it's seeping out into all sorts of other places. Probably too late to stop it.

As a check, I just searched NYT's site for 'nation state' and other than its original non-redundant sense or in quotes, they don't use it, best I can tell.
Often I see comments asking what we can do to combat this, or expressing feeling hopeless. While it is not the complete solution, one direct way is by eliminating your personal consumption of animal products. Animal agriculture is a huge contributor to methane production, especially from cows.

> Overall, we conclude that methane emissions associated with both the animal husbandry and fossil fuel industries have larger greenhouse gas impacts than indicated by existing inventories. [1]

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/20/1314392110.abs...
For anyone interested in this type of stuff, check out:

- Of course, jepsen.io

- For JS devs, https://github.com/gundb/panic-server
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know who makes those standing desks shown in the pic of the MSFT office?
> But in these cases these are not direct unintended consequences of the legislation but rather consequences of companies failing to do their due diligence when implementing GDPR.

The complexity of additional law is part of its unintended consequences.
It is actually even better. The "Samkhya System" from Hindu philosophy posits a three-layer mental model as follows;

1) Buddhi - This is is discriminating and reflective part of consciousness. This can be called as the "observer".

2) Ahamkara - This is the individual ego part of the consciousness. This is the "I" which gives you identity.

3) Manas - This is the part of consciousness which takes in the sensory inputs, forms the impressions and feeds it to "Ahamkara".

"Samkhya" is THE oldest of the ancient Hindu philosophies and hence its mental model has influenced Vedanta, Buddhism, Yoga etc. which all came after it.
Slight tangent: somehow I cannot find it, but there is an amazing TedX video where a Google engineer tracked how his child learned words by effectively doing this and recording and tracking everyone’s voices and paths in the home. The amount of data he stored and crunched was impressive.

You may want to hit him up for his tech setup :)
You’re confusing quantity with its rate of change. If the population stops growing today and remains the same, all those people are still having an impact on the environment.
Often times when faced with a tough decision, I pretend I have a friend in the exact same situation and I think about what advice I without give them. It would actually take the form of a conversation and is quite productive.
Weird to post this youtube video embedded on kottke as if it was a post from kottke, here's the original TedEd video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLvVc1sS20
Yes, it can affect (for better or worse) the performance of a query.
And never send email to gmail accounts, and make sure nobody ever sends you mail from gmail accounts, I presume? That’s quite unworkable.
Yes much better thank you.
It’s a nice thought, but even if we accept that the global population doing this would stem the tide of climate change (which I am doubtful it would), one quickly realizes that there is no way that the entire global population is going to stop eating animals, and we are back to feeling hopeless.

I’m increasingly convinced that carbon sequestration on industrial scales is the only serious way to solve this problem.
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https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
Also fun: 0^0 (not an emoji; 0 to the power of 0). Windows Calculator gives an answer of 1; Excel throws a number error, while Android hedges its bets (shows "Undefined, or 1").
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Thank you for this.

I don't think you've told the whole story here - for example, when it comes time for the government to pay the future debt they can do it by raising taxes on one part of the population or the other, or simply by printing money (leading to inflation) and not all of those solutions work out the same way for any given person.

Even so, you've shown me a more sophisticated way to think about this issue and I'll surely end up having different, better founded opinions as a result.
By far the most effective measure is to educate and empower women.
Thank you. That is indeed insightful. I've also held the same opinion as the parent comment and this helps me understand the intricacies of economics a little better
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People can tell the difference in blind taste tests: https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/09/the-food-lab-drinks-e... (though in this case, most of the Americans preferred American coke)
Cut down on your consumption of meat. That's good and important.

But it is no substitute for voting.
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Looking at these old BYTE magazines makes me think that magazines these days simply look much better. Graphics design has has simply gotten better. Not sure if this is just my subjective opinion but somehow I believe there must be some truth to that.
My guess for most consumed beverage was a toss up between water or Coke. There is still hope, it's water.

http://www.haleysdailyblog.com/9-most-consumed-beverages-aro...
Can technology extend grocers' reach into food deserts?
we don't have working breeder tho
There is this, however, as mdorazio notes:

> Potential drivers in the category of increased emissions include emissions from intensive agricultural practices, emissions from oil and gas operations, and increased emissions from wetlands responding to global warming. [This last potential driver is particularly worrisome as it implies the engagement of a global warming feedback loop.]

So maybe "wetlands" is a veiled reference to permafrost. Which in fact are basically frozen wetlands.
50% nuclear is enough to achieve 100% clean energy today. It wasn't enough 50 years ago when renewables were expensive. Basically it has to provide base load power which is supplemented with renewables and peaker plants.
I agree with the small vs large. Would be interested in at what head count you’ve seen this transition happen? Especially the need for project/product managers.
Is it really the case that they are only hurting themselves?

The effect of targeted advertising on platforms such as Facebook seems to have had a very negative effect on democracy, for example.
The only way methane from live-stock is gonna disappear is by either: 1) Lab-created meat 2) Seaweed and other techniques of reducing methane released by cows [0] 3) Less humans due birth control or fortuitous events (e.g. a plague)

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612452/how-seaweed-could-...
No, it's one aspect of the clathrate gun. It's all methane trapped in ice. Some in undersea sediments, and some in tundra.
This platitude paints a very shallow picture of human decisionmaking.
Tecnically, eating oranges "can help you make better decisions" because getting scurvy is distressing.

Looking at yourself like an alien is not a catchall which will lead you to make 'better decisions.'
Graphic design was done by hand in those days. They literally cut and pasted images and text for the pages. My parents were both graphic designers and I watched them do this as a child before computers took over the industry. You can imagine how digital publishing tools made this process easier to iterate on.
Nothing will stop driven teenagers. Nothing.

The same way people of my generation had CD/DVD ROMs full of pirate games, software and pornography - teens today will find the path of least resistance.
Wreaking havoc on outdated computers...
More than you'd think
Firefox does not support full-range video at all, even with software decoding.

See bug ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459526
Or just test this: https://bug1459526.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8984...

Firefox's video support in general is pretty poor compared to Chrome. It doesn't support RGB or 4:4:4/4:2:2 YUV video either.

>here is the workaround

I knew that bug too, but that's a different story. That is about Firefox having problem to playback limited range video properly with nV graphic card (and it's partially nVidia's fault than Firefox).

Chrome used to have that bug too, but they have fixed it.

(Firefox team on the other hand, didn't plan to fix it for Win7 at least: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410693#c1 ).
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Toyota uses lead batteries in the Prius, they’ve been fine there for over a decade. Obviously much heavier than Li, but that’s a price/weight trade-off. With suitable charge management, lead acid batteries can last a very long time.
In would recommend two things 1) learn to negotiate
2) take an improv acting class. These classes help you learn to connect with others and read them better
GDPR is not a directive. There is no 'national implementation'.

I can believe such a law does exist in Denmark. It is not GDPR. GDPR might increase the penalties for non-compliance.

Such a law is a sign that the Danish don't trust their public sector as much as you suggest...

BTW to you remember that time that all your health data was delivered to the Chinese embassy on a DVD?
Wow. This is something I’ll probably remember for quite some time. It’s intuitive and immediately applicable, and also a dose of awareness I’ve needed recently.

However, there’s a catch to this. By distancing yourself like this, it seems like you may act quite rationally - but perhaps too locally rational. You may be a long time Java programmer and just feel incredibly unfulfilled about your day to day work, and you might be eyeing stuff like Scala and Clojure with dreams of a more fulfilling line of work. Perhaps the distanced rational self would say no, you are well invested in this Java skillset, and these new things could die out, or any new venture like this might not work out, so stick with what you know. But perhaps you take the more emotional route and say no, even if things pan out badly for me, i want a more fulfilling day to day rather than writing so much repetitive code or whatever (no offense to anyone happy with Java). And perhaps you land in a spot where you’re much happier. Or hell, perhaps you really wanted to pursue music, art, etc.

It’s my conjecture, but perhaps it’s most concisely put as: the more you distance yoursef, the less risk you tolerate, and you will take the safe path, precluding the wild possibilities that are the spice of life.
Shouldn't matter because there was nothing stopping them from making their own telecomm company from scratch then. If they didn't think the costs of those employees were worth it, they shouldn't have bought it.

It is like buying a used car with 3rd party stanced suspension and tires and then lamenting later on how you need to buy custom parts and tires when they wear out. There were other choices, but it just had to be that one, and those extra 'features' were very clearly presented as part of the original deal.
Really? Even after they tried to bring in mass surveillance only a couple of months ago? Even when they want to give double prison sentences to people who live in certain areas?

As a foreigner living there you might be less trusting as well. They are constantly changing the rules to make it harder for legal residents to settle.
This ignores many factors. Why are you assuming we won't reprocess fuel like France does? The CANDU reactors can already use Thorium. Why are you assuming we wouldn't have breeder reactors? If we ever actually ran the risk of running out of uranium, the price would rise and it would become viable to extract uranium from sea water - there is at least 4 billion tons of uranium in sea water.

If we derived all of our electricity from nuclear reactors, we would have enough fuel for at least tens of thousands of years (probably millions of years, but who knows how high electricity consumption will grow over the next few thousand years...) At any rate, by the time we would run out of uranium we likely would have mastered nuclear fusion.
> I'm not talking about users. I'm talking about other developers

False dichotomy. Developers are users too.

And trusting random code from the internet is still irresponsible as a developer, maybe even particularly as a developer.

> Developers aren't trusting random code from the internet; they're trusting a particular package

Let’s be honest. They did an act of “npm install gratis shit”, and they don’t give a shit where that code comes from. I.e. blindly trusting code from the internet.

If they expect more without getting involved, they are by definition acting entitled.