skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in favor of nuclear power in desolate places.

Nuclear plants shouldn't be situated near large population centers. Transmission lines should bring the power to large urban centers.

Cities are often founded according to valuable geographic features. Important rivers, deep water ports, the coast lines in general.

Nuclear power should reside far away from geography that civilization tends to value.

If modern nuclear power is so progressive and incredible, new cooling methods should carve out better locations for plants. Keep them away from the water supply. Keep them upwind. Put them in the middle of nowhere.

Stop begging to ruin every river, lake and water front. Nuclear power should pull its own innovative weight. If the electricity is so limitless, use some of it to power advanced solid state cooling systems that take advatage of electronic heat pumps and closed loop coolant systems in the middle of the desert.

Place them on top of slag lagoons from strip mines. Situate them in places unused by human activity, and people won't be so quick to picket and erect political blockades.

How many nuclear power plants could we fit in the Sahara desert? If political zones were not a factor, how far and how difficult might it be to transmit power from the Sahara to South Africa?

Even if it were especially difficult, I'd estimate people would cheer such an idea.
One of the most interesting parts to me of Pham Nuwen's character was his relationship to his distant descendants.

Humans just aren't wired to consider family members beyond 3 or 4 generations up and down.

Perhaps I'd feel the same general apathy as Pham Nuwen 20 generations down. Then again, he had other familial issues that played a part.
According to accountants the food in my fridge and the cocaine on the table is an asset. Even credit card debt can be an asset according to the accountants. Accounting expenses as assets just because you can sell them is stupid.

Let’s divide the things that earn money from the things that cost money. Some of those things you can own. If they are a thing you own but cost money and you plan to consume it (house, car, food) it’s a liability. If they are thing you own that earns money or you plan on selling for profit it’s an asset.

A home could be an asset, but they usually aren’t. People don’t buy homes to sell them at a profit or rent them out, they buy them to consume/live in them (like a car). Thus they’re a liability. Most people buy a mortgage not a home, so no the house they live in is definitely not their asset. It’s the banks asset, and their mortgage is a huge liability.
I have seven translations. I really like the Grube one.
Spark is not a competitor to PostgreSQL.

It is a distributed compute engine that has a lot of capabilities, is rock solid, allows you to blend SQL with Python/R/Scala and can support ML use cases as your needs grow. You can easily store all of your data in PostgreSQL and run Spark on top.
Definitely not just a nitpick. Proper header use is important for accessibility trees and robots.
Well, that is kind of the tl;dr of the philosophy, but there is a lot more to it. Stoicism has a lot more depth and was a competing life philosophy in Ancient Greece. I would recommend Longs dive into Epictetus. It is much more academic and should tickle deeper thinking about Stoicism than meditations.
> Small towns and cities don’t have jobs.

The unemployment rate in the USA is at 3,6%. Small towns and cities would be deserted if they had no jobs.
Say what now? It sounds like you want the FAA to revoke the A320 type certificate?
Uh, there are plenty of homeless in Tokyo, they do keep it tidier I guess. There are also homeless in Osaka and Nagoya. I assume other big cities have homeless, but I’ve only been to (and seen them) in these three cities.
Greco-Buddhism, as its name suggests, is Buddhism with Greek influence, not vice versa.
As mentioned, the difficulty with PageRank isn’t the implementation, but scaling it to billions of webpages. Doing so would require either extensive knowledge of systems or approximation methods.
Definitely! I became excited by Next when I stumbled on it about a month ago. I have several ideas/itches, but a high activation barrier to implementing and experimenting as I'm a total lisp & emacs newbie.

I'm also given to understand that the Next codebase is currently undergoing significant refactoring, so I hope to delve into this more once the internals have stabilized.

If somebody has a complementary outlook/background, I'm happy to be baited into discussion and activity. As they say, two people together may be thrice as effective.
I assume these must be small examples on a long list of accomplishments, because 30k/year doesn't seem like it's enough to offset your salary. I have to imagine the impact of a principal engineer should be measured in the 10-100x of their salary?
The iPod Is Back but Why?
Good list of tips and congrats on finishing the book, 1.5 years is a lot!

>Pad the timeline

yup, despite finishing two books, I naively thought I'd take about a month for the third (I already had most of the stuff as a tutorial on GitHub) and it ended up taking 2.5 months (granted some were unexpected delays, but still)

>forgot to give context for something

that's been a worrying consistent one among the few critical feedback I've got, but as I'm self-publishing ebooks, at least I have the option of addressing them quickly (this also ties with points in the article about getting early feedback, especially those who are experts in the fields)
If you take Tokyo plus the three cities adjacent to it, Chiba, Saitama and yokohama, then it is much more than 9M, probably around 20M and all that on a smaller area than the bay area. For proportions it takes less than half an hour by regular train to get from the centre of Yokohama to the centre of Tokyo and only couple of minutes from the edge of one of those cities to the edge of Tokyo so they are basically one big metropolis. If you choose not to live in the centre of tokyo but rather half an hour away by regular train, the prices are funny and those trains come every 3-10 minutes depends on the time, 18 hours a day.
Is this going to be safe for pregnant women and the like? I seem to recall that was one reason to opt out at the airport.
No but they do have an open peering policy meaning they'll generally peer with anyone who wants to free of charge.

https://peering.google.com/#/options/peering

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/15169
It has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_roll#Accidents

http://code7700.com/accident_kc-135r_63-8877.htm

http://www.failure-interactions.com/boeing---19-oct-1959.htm...
Topography also plays a role, Houston and Chicago can grow outward forever, something that pesky hills and water get in the way of in the Bay Area.
If a user turns off CSS then virtually no websites will render correctly for them. Adding a specific detection for that fail state is really just unnecessary bloat.
I might be wrong, but is not the motivation for rebuilding houses to build a larger house? E.g. replace a nice 2-floor wooden house with not so nice 9 floor house from bricks and without a garden, and later demolish it and build ugly modern concrete high-rise building?
If we’re talking about finding the steady / convergence state of a matrix, there are better ways than simple repeated matrix multiplication. One would be to solve a linear system of equations. The one PageRank uses if I recall correctly is the power method for eigenvalues.
and where do you live?
I'm not so sure that it is good engineering to be inherently stable during normal takeoff and landing operations.

Modern fighter planes are inherently unstable because this is required for better maneuverability. Passenger planes can certainly benefit from that too.

Consider gusty crosswinds during a landing. With an inherently unstable aircraft, there is greater capability to compensate. You can have a computer stabilize the plane, preventing the tail or wing tips from striking the ground. When wake turbulence threatens to flip the plane or when a microburst threatens to pound the aircraft into the ground, a fast response is possible. Stability would deaden the performance of the needed response.

The extreme example is probably wings that are low-mounted anhedral and forward-swept, with the bending controlled by rapidly actuated aerodynamic surfaces near the tips.
I browse JS disabled. And if some page doesn't render and really want to read it, toggle it on with a single click using a browser plugin for that site only.
Upper/executive management certainly were happy... of course, until it bit the company in the ass. Engineering time not spent handling what would happen when a customer becomes not a customer is development/engineering time spent making features for sales to tout instead of making sure the product was safe for people they no longer thought they had a reason to care about. Reputational risk is really poorly handled because it's such a nebulous problem - and now, hopefully they'll see a massive drop in new customer acquisition and existing customer usage or they'll have absolutely no reason to care at all.
That's not what stoicism is. The aspect you refer to is the insight that we can only control our thoughts and our actions and not a single other thing. There is also more to it, regarding the ends to which we should order our thoughts and actions.

Also, human suffering and dismay are universal. Wealthy westerners may have escaped material want, but none of us can escape the human condition.
Of course, and your point is? Unless you're implying that all people are good for is reproducing.
I'm not that old :)

why do you think checks and balances only apply to politics? power corrupts, and not necessarily only political ones. I'd say any power corrupts, e.g. in marriage, one side gains significant upper hand and he/she has a decent chance to abuse the position.
What happened to my JavaScript phone?
Show HN: Curl to Get My Card
While I read this I tried modeling storage and query models for implementing such decaying recursive karma network. Not quite sure how, it felt hard.
If someone knows how to do this, from an abstract perspective or from a systems implementation look, I’d greatly appreciate that! :)
The 55 year olds aren't taking from the young via Social Security and Medicare, they already payed in and are still paying in. The 65+s also already payed in and they're just getting back what they paid for.
That would be interesting. Might have to add it to the backlog of “cool things to look into implementing”. My main concern is if it would increase the echo-chamberyness of social media.
>the label’s metadata is always present and accurate

Based on my tangential experience with this part of the industry... it absolutely is not.
> can't opt out of their tracking

How would breaking up Google prevent tracking?
Indeed. Use know how, recode in another language if needed, screw the a*e.
120 years after the first version of Java was published. It would be owned by Oracle.
Yes, let's shoot at something that's sent from a civilization with technology incomprehensibly more advanced than ours.

Great idea, I'm sure they won't be able to annihilate us in a few seconds.
How to Build Omni-Commerce Microservices with SAP CX Hybris Commerce?
I don't understand how having free market competition solves the issue net neutrality is addressing here: what if each ISP has different deals with different internet content providers? Net neutrality prevents this kind of vertical balkanization in a way that the free market can't intrinsically address.
How is your experience with Linode? After seeing that incident, we held an emergency meeting to bring in another cloud provider.
We can already do that with multibeam lasers.
I used to use iPod Manager [1].

When you add songs, do it from the original firmware. With the iFlash and all that, transferring files while loaded into Rockbox will cause the issue you mentioned... a lesson I learned after transferring about 80gb of FLACs.

When you boot the iPod, lock it right away and it'll boot to the normal firmware. The transfer speeds are better than using disk mode.

https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dop
You've taken "Rich dad, poor dad" too literally it seems. A house can be an asset or liability, depending on its use. If you live in it, it certainly earns you something, it replaces the need for renting a space to live in. If you own it and don't use or rent it, it can be a liability if it's not even a suitable investment vehicle (e.g. with stable or falling prices).
I had forgotten about the rudder problems! Worth a read: https://imgur.com/a/5wcFx8M

> Perhaps the single most complex, insidious, and long-lasting mechanical problem in the history of commercial aviation was the mysterious rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s. Although it had long been rumoured to exist, the defect was suddenly thrust into the spotlight when United Airlines flight 585 crashed on approach to Colorado Springs on the third of March, 1991, killing all 25 people on board. The crash resulted in the longest investigation in NTSB history, years of arduous litigation, and a battle with Boeing over the safety of its most popular plane.
You dont need to graduate college to have loans though, just attend.

"The official four-year graduation rate for students attending public colleges and universities is 33.3%. The six-year rate is 57.6%"

Accounting for that, a large majority of people attend college.
How harmful is this to our bodies?
Sounds like this author might like professional certifications with training courses and exams...
It would have had to have been unattended for a very long time.

Current guidance is to wait a couple days to see if it clears up, and only if it doesn't after several days then see a doctor.

You would not have hearing damage after just several days.
> are a autonomous surveillance and intervention system

> they are subluminal

since we're talking crazy theories... how do they defeat the speed of causality to relay information back home?
I doubt the vast majority of users want strong enough security and encryption that it stops companies from being able to debug and fix issues.
Note the graphic describing a “45mm Pistol.” No such thing.
10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
I agree with you that meaningful online relationships can happen and do happen, but as I grow older I find myself agreeing with the parent poster. You need face to face friends, and if you think you don't, it's worth digging into why.

You set up a false comparison, by the way. There are both meaningful and not meaningful offline relationships, as there are both meaningful and not meaningful online ones. Most offine relationships are not meaningful. It's not useful to compare offline acquaintances with close online friends, just as it's not useful to compare offline friends to online pseudoanonymous interactions.

I grew up on web forums and had/have friends who are just online friends, so I'm no stranger to the phenomenon. But you can't get a hug online.

I'm not implying that a hug is essential, but it represents a class of interactions mostly around intimacy (both platonic and non-platonic) that the digital medium has a lot of trouble substituting. I'm not a touchy feely person, and I'm more fine with traveling alone than pretty much all of my friends, but I still carefully maintain local meatspace friends because I find those interactions essential to my long term happiness regardless of having online friends.

In other words, I disagree with you because I think the medium really does matter, orthogonally to the question of the quality of the relationship.
It's most likely due to the fact that the people who can act upon the process itself, not just follow the process inevitably see the issue and do truly want to help.

Getting your message into the right hands is what matters, not the platform it's on.
My bet is also that it is a hypersonic plasma stealth drone.

Plasma injection also reduces drag and aerodynamic heating if done right, that would also explain the anomalous thermal signature.

especially at hypersonic velocities

Being a drone would explain accelerations that would kill humans.
Huawei has reportedly stopped its smartphone production after US blacklisting
Yeah good point. Bash and/or another shell is likely to be easily installable on whatever system you're on, you have no obligation to use the default shell.

I guess my main point with the PR was just not to ignore history and point out that both ksh and tcsh are both actively used and maintained. Ok they're not as popular of course but then again BSD isn't as popular as Linux but they are still relevant and active. In a repo that is years old at this point, has 16,000+ stars and would be considered a comprehensive guide on anything shell it's a very basic omission.

As for uniformity, in terms of scripts, for 99% of use cases I write them in POSIX shell, for portability too. Anything that falls out of this I'd potentially reach for a Bash or Ksh feature but as a rule of thumb, if what I'm trying to do calls for an array, which bash can provide then that's the point I think, that you should be moving onto a more featureful language.
What does ACP in stand for then? Edit: Oh, you mean the mm part :-) ...actual printed products notwithstanding

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-45MM-PISTOL-GUN-SIDE-BASEBALL-C...
The mental gymnastics below in the thread where people try to explain why not investigating Google in 2012 was OK and investigating it now is not OK are quite amazing.

Though to be fair, in 2012 Google exerted its monopolistic power far less than it does now.

For the life of me I can't understand why it's good that less than a dozen unelected and non-removable people in this country (Schmidt/Page, Zuck, and the owners of 99% of "independent" media) have the power to decide who wins elections, and what people think about issues.
While I'm totally in favor of what you're saying - it could be that the article means greater Tokyo and not just the central part of Tokyo (to bring the comparison similar to the Bay Area one), which would amount to more like 39 million population - it's a much much much larger city than the San Francisco Bay Area.

But I would believe the number if they really do just mean central Tokyo housing starts, that seems like a reasonable number. And that would make it potentially even more embarrassing for SF.
Why aren’t you willing to give up liberties for temporary safety, said every dictator ever...
Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere (1998) [pdf]
One option would be to set up a trust, backed by a lending bank, that would purchase an amount of the company for the purpose of eventually selling the stake to the workers. This is how most companies transition towards worker ownership with ESOPs.
I'm not so sure that's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of elements of Christian myths that are considered 'scientific reality', such as people and fruits and the fact that the Romans crucified people. There are also elements that are not. However, there are also influences on our culture that originate neither in science nor in Christian theology.

I think you interpret that passage to mean: "All influences must be from science OR religion, but not both. It is from religion. Therefore, it is from science." However, I interpret it more along the lines of: "Science has not backed up this idea of free will. So, how did we get this idea in our culture, you might ask, if it's not real? Well, it is inherited from Christian myth." This second reading is not an argument (he's not proving why free will is not a scientific reality), but an explanation of why the idea of free will exists.

You may still not be convinced by his assertion, but I don't think it's a false dichotomy. Additionally, he may make such assertions in his work Homo Dues (which I have not read), but I don't think this is necessarily an example of fallacious reasoning.
Yes it’s partly cut off on the left but clearly inferrable on closer inspection. The graphic artist doesn’t know firearms. Mostly irrelevant to the article except for peripheral credibility.
... Or Miyazaki Hayao ( 宮崎駿 ) as we would say over here, and the government wants foreign media to start saying as well.

An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at legendary Japanese animator and director Hayao Miyazaki. For a decade, he allowed a single documentary filmmaker to shadow him.
So someone deleted their data and surprise surprise it wasn’t really deleted? And only got noticed because the tool stuffed up by using it. What’s the bigger issue the stuff up or the fact Google didn’t honour his deletion properly?
How does the website portray itself in that way? Or claim in any way? I don’t think it does. Besides the name of the site? A name doesn’t mean much. It’s just that. Not a description. A common example is the name of various political parties and powers that has little or nothing to do with what they are.

It actually would be weird for YCombinator’s only news aggregator site to be only about hard programming “hacking”. It’s an established huge incubator of startups. So naturally the news aggregator site itself will be broader than just hard programming “hacking” as YC has matured.

Also I assumed hacking has multiple meanings. Hacking together code is a common enough phrase. So that would include doing web dev stuff. The front page doesn’t usually consist of just html wrappers.

I think you are blaming something that isn’t a problem. The problem seems to be this site isn’t what you want. And the site never pretended to be what you wanted either.

And the whole point of news aggregators is for anyone to be able to post something. You’re again upset at the whole point of this site. There was no illusion or trickery. This is how modern Web 2.0 news aggregators work. You’re also assuming the person did it for internet points. And upset at that. Which makes it seem like you want to do it for internet points.
Doesn’t seem to load for me. Do you have a screenshot?
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