skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The free market destroyed nuclear, or rather recognized the failure of nuclear. This failure predates the regulations nuclear fans use to try to deflect blame from their energy waifu.

Nuclear power was NEVER going to be very cheap. Even in the 1950s, it was recognized that the cost of the common elements of coal and nuclear plants were going to restrict nuclear to being MAYBE 20% cheaper than coal, at best, and that only if everything broke the right way.

And that maximally optimistic scenario didn't happen. Nuclear plant construction turned out to be more difficult than thought. Even before increases in regulation -- which were going to happen, as new failure modes and near misses were identified -- costs and delays were escalating.

And now, nuclear has two feet in the tech grave. The tech base has decayed away, and continues to degrade. Hoped for cost reductions of Gen III/III+ reactors from experience would require impossible sustained subsidies. This is why hopes are being pinned on small Hail Mary Reactors. They're the only possibility of avoiding nuclear's extinction.
>What I find weird about all of this is that people actually answer their door to unexpected & unknown visitors?! Do you also answer your phone to unexpected & unknown callers?!

Wtf? Yes of course I do. Do you not have a doorbell?
Chi-Square Test for Feature Selection in Machine Learning
> evolution implies some races are "more favored" than others, i.e. superior

Evolution requires that some races are more suited to specific environments than others. It says nothing about absolute superiority.
Here's an article backing up my point:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diet-farm-subsidie...

Why do we need the govt making cheap unhealthy stuff even cheaper?
It's hard to believe what a behemoth Chrome has become when it was only announced in 2008. What makes this even more amazing is it did this when IE/Edge ships as standard on Windows (which seems to be ~80% marketshare) and Safari ships as standard on OSX/iOS. It wasn't until Android 4.1 (2012) that Chrome even shipped on Android.

Chrome did several things really well out of the gate:

- Auto update. Words can't adequately describe just how freeing and refreshing this was (and is). Doesn't FF STILL ask you when you open it to install an update? In 2019? Really? For non-technical people, auto update is what you want. For technical people, it's also what you want.

- The Omnibar. To this day, FF persists with the two-box model where one is technically for URLs and the other for search. No one wants that of course so search basically works in the URL box. Why they don't just merge this is beyond me.

- N-Gram completion of searches in the Omnibar

- This was a big one: while tabs existed before Chrome, Chrome was the first major browser to have one process per tab to isolate crashes and performance issues. This was huge at the time.

- Javascript performance initially was night and day between Chrome and everyone else.

- Chrome was standards compliant.

- Chrome ran across multiple platforms

- (This came later) Chrome Sync is hugely convenient.

- (Also later) I'm not sure when this one started exactly but Chrome took a fairly aggressive stance against ISP DNS hijacking.

Where once MS leveraged their desktop OS dominance to kill Netscape, the fact that Chrome essentially forced MS to kill Edge in favour of rebranding Chrome is... astounding. This also goes to show just how problematic antitrust application is in tech because its amazing how quickly market dominance can disappear or cease to be relevant.

I find it laughable that some here and elsewhere attribute Chrome's rise to dark patterns or they throw around terms like "antitrust" without really knowing what that means (seriously, look deeper into Standard Oil) when there were and are a ton of good reasons to use Chrome that other vendors have been unable or unwilling to replicate.

Just take cross-platform as one. This made Safari and Edge a nonstarter for me from day one (despite Safari's brief venture into Windows support).

All this alarmist Butwhatifism about alleged market dominance is (IMHO) not only unhelpful, it's counterproductive. It's the boy who cried wolf. It makes people numb.
one sample of comparing es5 vs es2015:

chunk {0} runtime-es5.741402d1d47331ce975c.js (runtime) 1.41 kB

chunk {1} main-es5.1bfc781538798f545483.js (main) 4.16 MB

chunk {2} polyfills-es5.3fd715547f9657c70398.js (polyfills) 111 kB

chunk {3} styles.aa4433d43e5cfd8531b3.css (styles) 65.9 kB

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chunk {0} runtime-es2015.858f8dd898b75fe86926.js (runtime) 1.41 kB

chunk {1} main-es2015.dfa7559ab60461b2497d.js (main) 3.99 MB

chunk {2} polyfills-es2015.8477b59fb2cdc50ef53b.js (polyfills) 36.8 kB

chunk {3} styles.aa4433d43e5cfd8531b3.css (styles) 65.9 kB
there is "Open Tax Solver" for US tax returns now, but it's written in C instead of FP, and the code quality is terrible even for C. off the top of my head, two of the biggest problems were huge arrays instead of structs and horribly inconsistent indentation.
You know what’s better than $3B? More than $3B.

I don’t like my information being brokered for someone else’s profit, but the incentives are pretty clear.
Tbh every time I get a parcel from Amazon I start thinking of investing in packaging industry,as the amounts used are absolutely obsene...I think 10-15 more years and we'll all be thinking how stupid this all was..
I see a lot of people confused about the host (Facebook). Carmack initially posted a lot of high quality articles on AltDevBlogADay. However, that site went down. Carmack said he moved to Facebook because he feels it's more reliable than other (cleaner) third-party hosts, which might not be around 10 years from now.
Working Effectively with Objective-C on iOS (2010) [video]
Using a Smartphone Accelerometer as a Microphone
> The job of the police is to help me

You are in for a big, big surprise. Hope your naivety does not get you in too much trouble.
We'll keep this in mind. A promise.
did you check what openvpn does? I would assume they have something at a local maximum.
Our body had evolved to eat whole foods and not some distilled version of it, like oils or protein extracts.

Our bodies react not only to the presence of a given molecule but to the other types of molecules that were ingested at the same time, the amount, and how those molecules react to each other.

A whole food has thousands of different compounds in it, that interact in ways that we can only now begin to image, together with undigestable compounds such as fiber that pass right through us but that feed bacteria in our gut that then produce nutrients that we also need, in a symbiotic (or sometimes parasitical) relation.

The meaning that a food is a whole food, does not mean that is not made of the same molecules as an extract, but that it is provided in the relative amounts and in the right combination with other molecules that our bodies (including our gut bacteria) have evolved to consume.
I never answer my door to unexpected visitors and it has nothing to do with risks.
The job of the police is to enforce laws. Whether this helps you is ancillary.
That's a humongous assertion about the US economy and not at all in line with the data. Construction is only 4.0% of the GDP, and the lump of finance and real estate (renting, reselling mixed in with the entire stock market) is 20%.

>The economy of N. America depends on building cheap housing, to attract more immigrants, so they can work building housing, to sell to new immigrants.

As described, that would fall into the 4%.

https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-industry
We've been using Plectica[1] for this type of stuff and finding it to be downright awesome.

[1]: https://plectica.com
As an added complication, a decent proportion of DNA in the genome is meaningful at least in how long it is, because it separates two functional pieces of DNA that interact in 3D space due to the way the DNA wraps around other stuff. If you change the content of this DNA, it doesn't cause disease, but if you change the length, it does.
Placing the people isn’t the problem. Feeding them is.
Ugh.

The method of natural consequences looks great on paper, but its practical application is extremely limited, because:

- many consequences are prohibitively dangerous (Dear son, surely the choice is yours, but I would suggest not to play with your toys in the middle of the road)

- many times the consequences are worse for parents (No, you may not play with grandma's golden necklace. I know you'll be careful and will never lose it, but, sorry, nope)

- children have much shorter time horizon: from hours at two years old up to months for late teens. Anything more than that is "infinity" and all consequences disappear at such distance.
Yes, there is so much potential to integrate diagramming and recent work on constraint solvers including SAT solvers, but also very difficult to make such systems usable and convenient. There is a lot of hackery in graphviz that seems difficult to recreate in a general context. It would help if graphviz could be brought up to date or moved to a better environment for doing new work.
An anti-example is admin dashboard generation, with ability to customize some parts that requires customization.

Admin dashboard is an interesting problem. To me, to build an MVP means to quickly scaffold an Admin dashboard. Then you can iterate the domain model until it fits the requirements.

Sadly, not enough open source project which is successful to quickly craft a customizable admin dashboard.

Note: Codeless in this case means you configure the dashboard through a json file instead of canvas.
Working with Fastlane on iOS in an Enterprise Environment
Funny.

The 'regulatory oversight' is a long time coming and most of the people organizing it seem to be pretty dim, leaving a huge vacuum for scammers to exploit
Won't there be significant volume from automated trading and market makers who dont need to visit websites in order to trade?
I can see the first two points being something that could easily happen but I don't think they apply in my case. Thanks for the book references, do you think 'Demonstrating to Win' applies to modern SaaS type apps too or more Enterprise/high touch/on site sales?
People always want more man
I don't think subsidizing a losing technology just to let you avoid having to deal with your misconceptions about the future would be good public policy.
Like when they deliberately cripple one of the most popular web sites for any other browser?

https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185
It does not :(
I live in the Netherlands, the government here passed a law in 2016 that prohibits shops from giving out free plastic bags (the are required to charge a minimal of 25 cents for a bag).

In my opinion it works tremendously well. It took about a month for people to get used to the idea, but now you see most people bring their own reusable bags. As far as I can tell the amount of waste plastic bags on the street has reduced significantly since them.

An interesting observation was that the shopkeepers had more issues with this law than the consumers. For the first couple of months many had some lame sign saying something like 'we are very sorry that our stupid government forced us to charge you for this bag'. Some even offered 25 cents discount on their product if you took a bag with your purchase. Luckily it is now generally accepted by both the merchants and the consumers.
Sorry that's wrong. If someone knocks on my door unexpectedly I don't even bother to look outside to see who it is - I'm not answering.
It's impossible to say without some type of dedicated study focused specifically on the question, but my sense is that those examples are rather extraordinary exceptions, and not the rule.

Color me unsurprised that the Mafia is breaking laws; there are also vanishingly few organizations like the Mafia in the developed West.
Are American Standard Toilets Good?
Was expecting rickroll of some sort. Was not disappointed
Philosphers from Socrates to the Stoics have a variant of "forgive them Father, for they don't know what they are they are doing". A person who values wrong things is bound to act bad. And its a handicap worse than blindness or lameness and therefore deserve compassion.
It's a misconception that mental illness means someone who isn't capacitous. Granted that can be the case at the extreme end of the spectrum but the term is a lot broader than that.
Sundar is busy improving diversity. Don't distract him with all these petty payment issues.
You could say that monopolies are inherently bad because they stifle innovation even if they don't lead to higher prices. An unassailable monopolist has no reason to innovate because competitors are effectively locked out.

But it appears to me that there is a psychological bias towards an exceedingly narrow definition of substitution goods and therefore markets, especially in digital technologies.

For instance, Microsoft clearly has an extremely dominant position in PC operating systems. The market for PC operating systems used to be synonymous with personal computing, but that is no longer true. Mobile devices now dominate personal computing.

So Microsoft has lost most of its monopolistic power without ever losing its dominance in the market as it was originally defined by regulators and users.

Similarly, search used to be synonymous with using a web search engine and Google clearly has a monopoly there. But now we search Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, etc for various specific things in different contexts and Google has to pay billions to buy users from Apple.

So my point is that yes, monopolies are inherently bad, but they are also inherently unstable in ways that are not adequately reflected in the current thinking around anti-trust regulation.
I would not draw same conclusion.

The website visit figures are estimates by SimilarWeb. I never heard of them, but would take their estimates with a grain of salt until proven otherwise.

Next, flagging volume fake just because average volume per estimated visit is high? That's a leap I would not make. Some sites cater to market makers who have larger volumes and trade over API.

What about dark pool trades where one exchange does publish the figures while the other does not?

Also, what is fake? Reporting volume without the actual volume of reported trades adding up to the reported value? Or are some trades fake? If the trades are fake, are they wash trades? Is the exchange the counter-party in these trades?

I am unable to trust this analysis.
What do you think makes a country, a country? I mean what makes, for instance, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia -- and what makes Norway, Norway? Let's carry out a simple thought experiment. Imagine you instantly swapped the peoples of the nations but kept everything otherwise identical. Are the people of Saudi Arabia (who now reside within the land and laws of Norway) now going to stop oppressing women? Are the people of Norway going to do the exact opposite and suddenly start oppressing their women, executing homosexuals, and all that stuff?

I'm sure you'd agree they would not. The nations would rapidly regress/evolve, depending on your worldview, to what they originally were. So it should be clear that what makes up the "people of a nation" are the people themselves - and by that you have shared cultural, ideological, and other views. And with migration and cultural assimilation this culture can grow and expand, as has been the history of much of America. On the other hand cultures can also be completely replaced. For instance, imagine Islam continues to fail to really integrate into nations and, through raw fertility rates, starts to become the dominant factor in a generally liberal nation. What do you think would happen to LGBT rights? Women's rights? Freedom of religion and expression?

Nations, in the sense of geographic locations, will probably not be going extinct anytime in the foreseeable future. But the views and values of nations, particularly those that trend towards embracing social views, are very much at risk of going extinct in the future. And the most ironic part this is that this is all completely foreseeable.
HongMeng “Ark” OS – Huawei’s Android replacement: what we know so far
I can say, at least from what I’ve heard, the OPP is not happy about the meddling at all. They have had enough bad press the past ten years they’ve been trying to fix that.

My brothers an OPP constable in rural Ontario (and incidentally married to a teacher). They were not happy with the messing about, especially the Taverner case. From what I understand Blair was a highly respected officer as well and is generally considered to have fallen on his sword to prevent the insertion of a corrupt top official.

Anyway I forgot about the SIU stuff. I’m going to have to pick his brain about it.
Too Many Cooks – Exploiting the Internet-of-TR-069-Things (2014) [video]
I don't know how awk (or this particular implementation) works, but it could be done such that comparing lines is only necessary when there is a hash collision, and also, finding all prior lines having a given hash need not require a complete rescan of the set of prior lines - e.g. for each hash, keep a list of the offsets of each corresponding prior line. Furthermore, if that 'list' is an array sorted by the lines' text, then whenever you find the current line is unique, you also know where in the array to insert its offset to keep that array sorted - or use a trie or suffix tree.
Seems like pure overfitting. Since the model is able to see during training the same coocurrence, it is just about memorizing the training set, which is trivial.
Seems like pure overfitting. Since the model is able to see during training the same coocurrences that are used for evaluation, it is just about memorizing the training set, which is trivial.
Chrome was and unbelievably still is the most developer friendly. Our Opera extension has been languishing for 7 months for approval or a response to our emails (we gave up) and snooty FireFox put us through the ringer to get our extension (they call it an add-on) approved and more than 2 months. Chrome is amazing for developers. Maybe unless you are an adblocker. That might be the opportunity for MS Edge Chromium.
It probably comes from the internet and how the web development media is heavily dominated by FAANG companies and trendy startups.

If your reference point is these companies and their developers, then it can appear like you're getting more obsolete by the day, since they're always talking about the hottest new tech and you're seemingly not using it.

It's turned web development and software engineering into a game of keeping up with the joneses. And I suspect just like with social media as a whole, it's made a lot of people feel like they're inferior to the rest of the population/their peer group.

But I've got an article about that planned at some point. About how the Silicon Valley focused tech media and internet has given people the wrong impression about what most such work is like in most industries.
Actually Omega 3 is bad if consumed in large quantities, AHA recommends a limit of 3 grams per day
Neat! This is like a self-hosted version of ngrok? So you'd just need a public host somewhere and then you can tunnel in. I've been doing some edge computing stuff recently with Windows, so I'd love to try this with RDP.
I work with Salesforce that actively pushes 'point and click' configuration to the naive CEOs while at the same time making billions from ever increasing development required to make all the stuff work. Codeless is fine for some genuine vanilla cases but anything beyond that requires code and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.The only real thing that is changing software field is ever growing abstraction,which does simplify a lot of things.For instance, to create a simple CRUD web app nowadays is a relatively simple task compared to what it used to be 20 years ago. However,even with all the abstraction,the simplicity ends up when complex business problems show up.
They might be trying to sell you something. How often would an unannounced visitor be unwanted vs. wanted?
It may be more simple than you think. Plastic bottles take a surprising amount of energy - higher than reusing glass - to recycle as the washing has steam cleaning and agitating stages because you need to remove the ink, glue and labels from the outside. Plastic recycling is comically easy to ruin a whole batch by small amounts of contaminants that didn't get cleaned away.

Glass is often recycled not to glass again, but ground to become low grade building sand. From an energy point of view it seems designed not to pay.

The old milkman, or Corona pop man in the UK got about 50 round trips from each bottle. Any breakages were thrown in with the new glass.
An exoplanet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’
A lot of "software" that is currently being developed are relatively simple CRUD applications. A developer shouldn't be required to create these kind of applications. (Most developers also don't enjoy creating these kind of applications, so that is a good match...)

For this category of software, there are increasingly better and modern platforms and frameworks without the need of writing any code such as Microsoft PowerApps, Mendix and SalesForce. That also explains the lately success of these companies.
From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_and_reception_of_Fri...

>The "fascist" Nietzsche was above all considered to be a heroic opponent of necrotic Enlightenment "rationality" and a kind of spiritual vitalist, who had glorified war and violence in an age of herd-lemming shopkeepers, inspiring the anti-Marxist revolutions of the interwar period.

I'm a fan of rationality and object to the violence enthusiasts he inspired gassing my relatives but each to their own.
> Every couple of years, the hope surfaces that a simple graphical interface will replace teams of developers. Business people to quickly and easily create beautiful expressions of their ideas and launch them into production seamlessly. A handful of startups in every generation take up this challenge, and they mostly fail.

well, I used to work in a company where a lot of software were written in Max/MSP (https://1cyjknyddcx62agyb002-c74projects.s3.amazonaws.com/fi...). Sure, it wasn't very maintainable, but it allowed one person to iterate very fast.

I've also used some CRUD apps which were entirely made in MS Access (D&D 3.5 eTools :) ).
You are woefully misinformed - the job of the police is not to help you. The job of the police is to maintain civil order and enforce (often very poorly written) laws like this one.
You can add a (2018):

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I would say it's what happens when a community is explicitly not allowed to solve a problem.

PHP, for all its warts, is 1) very community driven and 2) solved their package management problems via the community (with Composer). Go was not allowed to do that, because everyone knew that any solution had to be blessed by Google.
It's not a matter of spin, it' a matter of reality. At some point we need to move to a sustainable economic model. The alternative is eventual catastrophe. By definition an unsustainable economy, which does not become sustainable, will eventually not be sustained.

I also don't agree the consequences have to be 'very' negative. However that's such a vague and undefined term, it could mean anything. I believe the costs are manageable and that a stable, sustainable economy can be compatible with stable or rising living standards.
Unity3D game engine is a proof by counterexample that you can be lowcode for creatives and analysts while allowing engineers to fluidly drop down levels of abstraction and control the code, without big rewrites.
You've got cause and effect backwards there (mostly; it goes both ways).

Disclosure: FFmpeg contributor and Vimeo employee.