skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the sunk cost fallacy though. Some particular nuclear plant was constructed by hauling ore and concrete with diesel trucks. What happens when we switch to electric trucks, with nuclear or solar generated electricity?

By contrast, how do you reduce the CO2 output of coal? Do the same thing and replace the electricity the plant generates with nuclear and solar?
I too have nightmares about working at a place so poorly run that it would be possible for someone to delete the production database on their first day.
The Camp Fire was started because a transmission tower failed in an area which had a history of transmission towers failing during high winds.

PG&E knew that the towers in this area weren't sufficient for the weather conditions and did nothing about it.
Speaking as a (non-FAANG) experienced freelance developer, here's what I look at:

1) am I getting paid by the hour (or day or week)? Or does this employer expect me to be able to predict in advance how long this software will take to develop, and agree on a total price ahead of time? As a large company, perhaps I could overcharge for all jobs, and then the ones that do not go over budget compensate for the ones that do. As an individual, I cannot take that risk.

2) does the prospective client seem easy to work with? I don't have management, legal team, etc. to guarantee that the relationship doesn't turn nasty. If they seem jumpy or nervous or too hard-driving, then I am better off leaving them to a company, which has the legal and managerial staffing to deal with that.

3) I am a full-time freelancer; if I were currently working for FAANG, I probably would not want to do significant work on the side, unless it were for my own potential startup. FAANG developers probably already make enough money that they don't need to take side projects.

Hope that helps!
As seen in this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20138961
Notably that information came from Yelp...

"Documented records shared with The Hustle by a Yelp spokesperson tell a fuller story of Cerretini’s actions."
This is an accusation without any proof.

Probably every major mobile phone manufacturer are working on this to solve the notch problem.
Can't you use HDD or thrust bore for creeks?
Is that really the right way to count it? A lot of the CO2 for a solar panel is because the factory is connected to a dirty grid. If the factory was connected to a clean grid this would go away, and it’s involved in making this happen. Should that be charged to the coal and gas industry instead?

For nuclear, CO2 emitted by the concrete should obviously be counted. But uranium mining?
Bldgs Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes – Why Dont We Build More of Them?
Does anyone know if they had to create a new type of OLED for the required level of transparency or if all OLEDs were already transparent? The source tweet had a graphic but it wasn't too clear.
That’s like saying riding a bike isn’t carbon free because the biker relies on food farmed using CO2-based fuels and the rider breathes out CO2.
> It may work great for europe, but most of the world's population is elsewhere.

That's true, European providers work best for Europe.

But how many global locations does a service really need, if it's sitting behind a CDN? Three locations (East Coast, Western Europe, and Singapore) alone are enough to be within 100-150 ms of the most of the world's population.

OVH probably wouldn't be the best choice for projects focused exclusively on South America or China, but it already covers the rest of the world pretty well, including three locations in North America (East Coast, West Coast, and Canada).
Why should we believe a greenbean account saying this? Why does anyone have "full access to Production", whatever that is? Yelp does health care stuff too; sounds like a HIPAA violation...
Yeah, I use apple script to display current track / artist in my tmux status bar. Super handy!
Blender is free[×], forever

[×] subject to terms and conditions, restrictions, our definition of the word free, and what we allow you to do with it even after you receive it
If DNA doesn't code for everything then you deserve the Nobel prize because there isn't any other mechanism for how cells derive structure and function from that is known outside of this conversation. What else codes for PTM, ubiquitination, and basal level expression.

>DNA dictates whether a protein can be expressed or not, but not whether it is expressed in any particular cell, how much is expressed, or whether and how much is activated or otherwise modified over time.

It does determine whether it is expressed and how much is expressed. The difference between being a heterzygote and homozygote for certain proteins literally determines whether one will have fully protein expression or half. When a gene is doubled in the genome its expression is usually doubled as well.

>Because there are cases (probably the majority) where drug-gene interaction is insufficient.

80-90% of drugs are metabolized by CYP2D6, CYP2C19, CYP2C9, CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 to which we are starting to isolate polymorphisms in the general public. This isn't that difficult to do the genotyping, but what's limited right now is correlating polymorphism to what the side effect of drug is; this is going to be purely a time and data collection issue. I'm curious what your examples would be, because the majority of cases I've been apart of it's a simple base pair substitution that cause deleterious effects.
That has been my experience. Friendships are best formed and maintained by working towards some mutual goal or at the very least regular interaction. In the absence of physical proximity games are pretty much the only recreational option.
Right, like Freedom units. The temperature is 74F, the F is for freedom
If the moderator (graphite) crumbles into the channel it could jam it and prevent the control rods from entering the core and stop the nuclear reaction. However there are secondary (Nitrogen injection) and tertiary (Boron beads) modes of shutting down the reactor.

"In October 2014 a new kind of crack in the graphite moderator bricks was found at the Hunterston B reactor. This keyway root crack has been previously theorized but not observed. The existence of this type of crack does not immediately affect the safety of a reactor – however if the number of cracks exceed a threshold the reactor would be decommissioned, as the cracks cannot be repaired."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Gas-cooled_Reactor
It's not an accusation, it's speculation. The theft of their foldable display technology is proven, so it's relevant to speculate where this is coming from.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/samsung-china-tech-t...
In practice, letting things run their own course ("nothing changes") one of the methods of resolving the issue, indeed.
The long echo of WW2 trauma
When I see an ad for a contractor that has the Christian fish on it, I avoid it. I'm not sure why but maybe that it's unattractively pious, it suggests they somehow have a conflict of interest.. Wonder whether anyone else does that.
As to number one and the last paragraph you write as if it is a one sided market—-as if anyone can come along and offer to fill out the paperwork cheaper than JPM. But it’s a two sided market. And the second side is a government monopsony. Companies in that space will need to compete to become a dominant government contractor. That’s a very different business than signing up the masses.

Regarding number two, you’d be competing against a currently near monopoly lender that has zero cost of capital, sets the rules of the game, and has no compunction about manipulating the underlying asset class. Good luck.
Going vegan (which I understand as deciding to only eat vegan from now on) is a much larger decision than just giving a plant-based burger a try in order to reduce your meat consumption somewhat.
Molecules of freedom?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-depa...

Perhaps bytes of freedom?
GPL is harmful to developer freedoms but incredibly beneficial to user freedoms. Please do not conflate the two.
"Libre" is not an easy word for Anglophones to say, because the intense ambiguities of English orthography give you a few tentative choices of how it might sound (including having to attempt a French "r") and hints that they may all be wrong.

It's easier to pronounce if you're a romance speaker, but still not consistent, again due to the location of that "r." "Free" is pretty easy to say for everyone, and recognizable whether your "r" is a flap, is French, or is the English "r" which sounds like a humming engine.
I think anybody can write Haskell and anybody can play Zelda or similar characters in fighting games.

What the skill-cap / skill-floor thing is about, is how often do people bother. When the base level of skill required to play at all -- not necessarily play well -- is really high, often those characters don't get used as much. People find a character that demands less up front investment and play that character instead. It's not about ability, it's about time.
I’m using leetCode in the genericized sense of “Kleenex” instead of tissue or “Googling something”. Basically any algorithm style interview.

Don’t get me wrong, I can see if your company is solving hard problems (tm) or problems at a scale that has never been done before why you need smart people (tm). But I find it ridiculous that some companies care about how well you can do esoteric algorithms when they are hiring you to do yet another software as a service CRUD app or some internal bespoke app that will never see the light of day outside of the company.

I’m not even convinced knowing hard computer science is important in most jobs. One of the best developers I know graduated from a well known but not well regarded private for profit college. Didn’t know much hard computer science but he reads like crazy about best practices when it comes to writing software. His code and unit tests are things of beauty to maintain. We worked together at three separate jobs. He’s also in his mid 40s and he codes on his own time and does side projects like someone in their 20s.

I got my start doing assembly in the 80s as a teenager, bit twiddling C on x86 PCs and mainframes for a decade, but none of that matters when I am spending half my day as a “full stack developer” and the other half as the de facto “AWS Architect” (in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king).
They give away code, but place restrictions on using it. When did we become so vile?
It’s tied enough that if you leave iPhones and don’t remember to tell Apple to disable iMessage, any iOS user trying to SMS you will not reach you.
New research adds two new “chronotypes” to the morning/night dichotomy
An underscreen camera was an Apple patent circa 2005. I always thought that this was going to be the killer feature of the iPhone, but that never came to pass.
He compares Yelp to the Mafia and hands out discounts in exchange for one-star reviews. This seems rather mild by comparison.
That's not what I was saying, I was pointing out weird or bombastic expressions that entered our collective technical/marketing lingo. Whether they are still relevant or not is not the point. "Cloud computing" is almost comical in its childishness when you think about it for a minute.

"Full stack" is a bit of a pretentious nitpick on my part, I actually hesitated putting it in there but couldn't resist. I'm an embedded developer who does a good amount of low level/bare metal work, so when I hear about engineering positions requiring being able to do basic Linux sysadmin + write some Python/PHP/JS/HTML/CSS/... referred to as "full stack" I always want to arrogantly point out that this is actually quite a long way away from the "full" stack. I guess it's just an other symptom of web technologies at large eating a huge portion of software development.
However, in practice modern systems do ephemeral DH key agreement. Now, Shor's algorithm can be brought to bear on DH as well, but it ratchets up your costs because now you're attacking every single connection individually.

Suppose, miraculously, that you have a Quantum Computer which breaks any modern assymetric crypto for $1M in one hour. That's very impressive, but you won't use it to snoop on somebody's Google searches, that's $1M and an hour per search. "Big booobs", an hour and $1M later, "Big boobs" (ah, that first one was a typo), another hour, another $1M, "Bigger boobs". Not practical.

You _could_ attack the signature algorithm, allowing you to sign messages "as Google" and MITM connections but that's an active attack so it will have very poor deniability. Not a problem if you're the SVR or Mossad, deniability was never part of your mandate anyway, but awkward for the NSA or GCHQ whose governments prefer not to admit what they're up to. And lack of deniability is very awkward if you're organised crooks, that's going to get you banged up.
And considering the US Department of Energy just started labeling fossil fuels as "molecules of freedom" and "freedom gas"(no joke)[1] it looks like that only gets worse.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/us-department-of...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=some%20of%20...

Three times you could have moderated or qualified your statements, three times you failed to do so and made blanket statements.

> China is lost its credibility a long time ago

The entire country?

> cannot blindly trust any Chinese company

Really? Any and every?

> The Chinese has mismanaged their “brand”

Again, all Chinese?

To my ears, that smacks of racism.
"Red Hat (2009-present): cloud filesystem"

Does that mean you are the person ready to take responsibility for GFS and GFS2 being a steaming pile of bug-ridden excrement?
The article cites the fact that there are 10 administrators for every actual doctor or nurse, and these lines should be cut in half to instead be spent on more doctors and nurses.

I think this represents a gross oversimplification, overlooking the necessary work of administrative staff. It's not unlike the airforce: there are about 23,000 pilots but 500,000 personnel, a ratio of more than 20:1. It takes a lot to support the enterprise that keeps planes in the air.

In the medical profession, someone has to keep the enterprise running. Cataloging medical imagery & seek and retrieve records as needed. Accountants and HR departments, IT departments, working with insurance companies, all of it. Even with the amount of EMR work doctors & nurses may do themselves, it takes a tremendous amount of background "plumbing" work to allow them to focus on the actual treatment. I'm not saying there isn't any administrative bloat anywhere, but I am saying that non-practitioner staff in the industry feel this resource crunch quite a bit themselves too. The technician running the radiology suite feels just as much pressure to help fit in that extra patient and stay beyond scheduled hours to do so. Treating the entire non-doctor/non-nursing staff as bloat is an extreme disservice to the mission critical work they perform.

I am literally taking my 1.5 year old son home from the hospital today after an emergency visit that kept us there for days, and during this ordeal I dealt with at least 3 or 4 non practicing staff that went above and beyond their duties to help with something and smooth the process over for the work that doctors and nurses needed to perform. These staff feel the ethical drive to serve every bit as much, it just happens to be less visible.
Unfortunately a 90% solution only stops around 40% all wildfires. We need to do it, yet, but California is still going to burn. People are still not going to follow best fire prevention practices, both because of ignorance and poor regulation. People are still going to build in the wildland urban interface.

The places that don't burn now are just saving up more fuel for bigger fires in the future. The idyllic mountain cabin surrounded by large pine trees and ladder fuels is lost. Roads with brush up to the lines are death traps. Housing developments in box end canyons are the definition of insanity. Climate change is making large fires more frequent. Sparks from fallen lines have killed hundreds, just wait till we get a deranged but gifted arsonist that understands meteorology.

The first place for an excellent start begins at your home. It's going to take the power company years or decades to retrofit. Push the brush and trees as far back as possible. Start a neighborhood preventative fire group. Demand your city and country cut brush back from roads.
Can cell phones grow in the wild and potentially affect entire local ecosystems? Your analogies are poor.
That’s a pain in the ass. I have a number of apps I explicitly granted background access to. That should be my decision, not Apple’s.
The EU – what it is and what it does
V3Vee is an umbrella project that covers a number of systems level research activities over the past decade. It started out focusing on how to design a VMM architecture that specifically targeted HPC and supercomputing environments (Palacios). Since then it has branched out into broader HPC OS and other systems research topics.
Yes, but he himself admitted to writing good reviews and I have no reason not to believe Yelp in that case.
Duplicate.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20132575
I never understood the reason behind covering a camera on a laptop. I mean, what exactly are you afraid of? Someone can film you sitting in from of a screen? A microphone would be a more dangerous threat in this case, no?
I’m sure they also have no mechanism to lie about their tactics on social media sites like HN.
> Governments _have_ to apply a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to safety, regulation, and transparency, regardless of how expensive and inconvenient it is.

Only in combination with some kind of carbon tax, otherwise you make nuclear too expensive compared to coal or natural gas whose costs are externalized and harder to quantify than nuclear regulatory compliance.
If I remember correctly, there was no matching system in BW.
Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
> Well, how do you see that China has been stable?

Hard to say. China's society has been around since after the unification, 221BC (post-waring-states, the qin dynasty). It may have gone back further, to the shang dynasty (~1500 BC) but that was probably a period of conflict throughout. But does conflict in itself negate continuity of society?

But a) my knowledge of chinese history is minimal, and b) most important, how do you measure a society. The UK of now is different from the UK of 1980, how does one measure the continuation of a society? By culture? The Shang dynasty oracle bones have script that may be the precursor of chinese writing. Han period statuary is very reminiscent of modern chinese stuff.

Britain was likely pre-literate before the romans arrived (50BC IIRC) and the art was very different then, such as it was.

I don't know, how should we measure this? I mention art and writing as a proxy for culture as a proxy for society, but what should it be? We can't debate without agreeing basic terms.

> In the 20th century it's been conquered in an invasion

I think you mean the opium wars. I mention this in another post here. But they survived as a culture (arguably). "went through a communist revolution" - ditto survived (I might argue).

> PRC built huge concentration camps and 'disappeared' millions of people into them as

Yesss, I mention this in another post here. That is one way to have stability albeit an horrific one.

Compared to this, the UK was invaded repeatedly within the last 1000 years, the language was changed, the genetics were changed, the art changed... but what is a culture/society? These things? Other? Tell me.

> I think maybe your view of China is coloured by PRC propaganda

No. Please my other posts here. And stability and harmony are a matter of definition. I am sure my and your vision of it is something far nicer than china's crushing 'pacification' but unless we define things, we're spinning our wheels.

Also this thread is not about brexit and in this context I'm not willing to discuss it. I don't know why you're bringing it up.
I think its gotten to the point where power users go around to all their non-power-user friends and install ad blockers for them, at least I do in our office. The reason this is so successful is because it takes 5 seconds to go the the chrome store and add ublock origin. Convincing my non-power-user friends to move to firefox would be significantly harder. Google's goal is to remove the severity (and effectively the ease) of ad blocking for non-power-users.
I'm confused, is that not still "the cloud" you are using?

There's certainly a huge range of pricing for the exact same services (sometimes worse services cough OVH dedi servers cough)
Thanks for checking it out and giving me feedback. I definitely need to improve how I describe it.

Right now it does:

1. Improved history (tree style, time spent, dedupe)

2. Improved bookmarks + notes + tags; that is, you can go to any website and take notes and type #tags in your notes. When you go to https://histre.com/notes/ you'll see all your notes. You can filter by tags, search etc.

3. Low Friction Publishing : when you take notes as described above, you can add #pub and the note will be published and be available on your public page. Here are some notes other members have published: https://histre.com/pub/all/

You'll soon be able to share with just your team, and see only relevant notes/bookmarks from others in the topics that interest you.

I'll also send this to you by email so that you get notified. Please let me know what you think. Thanks!
If that information is wrong, Yelp would be open to massive defamation liability.
Sales people don't need special access to write a fake review that they know will slip past the filters. Since they work with the people who design the filter rules and know them better than the public.
> has huge piles of money

Do you have evidence for this? I assumed going bankrupt is a pretty large piece of evidence against this argument.
Information comes in different forms, and I am not quite sure why software is considered speech (and must, therefore, be free), but, say, schematics of an industrial electronic device or the blueprint of an airplane is not.
How come France is so reasonable and pragmatic with this where most other western EU (especially Germany) are going the Luddite way?
Per the article, most consumers are interested in plant burgers specifically for health concerns. I don't understand why you'd dismiss that as irrelevant. And unless this article is factually incorrect, the reporting is entirely fair. You can't get mad because you don't like it.
My guess is that whenever the camera is active, nothing can be displayed over it. In the demovideos I've seen, the display goes to black around where the camera is.
Maybe I am reading this wrong, but I guess I have the opposite experience. With phonecalls I had issues because I have serious tinnitus and have had that since I was young (played in metal bands and was a real man so no earplugs...). Since chatting became normal I made more solid friendships then I ever did in person and definitely then on the phone. I chat like we are sitting together which people find akward at first but then they seem to like it. It is not very different after a while if it is face to face vs writing 1000s of lines of text in some chat client. And the conversations are usually more profound; no noise, no drinking and time to ponder answers and questions.

Face to face I personally still prefer but I notice my younger friends do not and that is fine.

I have been making (and losing them as well; especially the ones I made in my teens: we have nothing at all in common anymore mostly) real friends (as in people that click fast and you talk with day and night if the opportunity is there) over 30 and over 40; those were met online via sideprojects, company buys and sells and some of them I have never met.