skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would never notice a bank correcting it's own error on your bank statement. They don't post it as a credit followed by a reversal - they remove the accidental credit. It just disappears from your statement.

It happens ALL the time, and you'd never notice or be notified.
Distractions are not really my problem, it's mental exhaustion. If anything I think I should probably have more breaks, when I'm at work I just work. I see majority of people procrastinating, reading news, social media or socializing with coworkers to take their mind off work from time to time.

If you can work 8 hours straight with only a lunch break, I don't think you are doing very mentally intensive work.
I use the “clever hacks” because I’m afraid of one of my blog articles getting linked to on Reddit. Even if there are no ads on my site, I want it to stay up and readable, and I don’t want to suddenly get an egress-bandwidth bill in the process!

Also, despite having done ops for years, I don’t want my continued willingness to do ops (as with DO/Linode/Vultr) or my continued usage of my small municipal ISP (or even my small municipal ISP’s continued existence, as these often get bought up, and their branding—including web-host domains!—gets blown away in the process) to determine whether my site stays up. I want my website to continue to exist, at the same URL, even if I retire and go live in the mountains with no Internet for the rest of my life. I want my works to outlive me!

There are “good” shared HTML hosts that have been around for decades and will likely be around for decades more—SDF.org is one; most universities with accounts for alumni are another—but these don’t tend to be able to handle the bandwidth, so you have to combine them with a service like Cloudflare anyway.

But really, “slug-based static-site build-product hosting” like Github Pages and Netlify are just shared HTML hosts as well—with some extra features, sure, but ones that you can ignore if you please. With GH Pages, for example, you don’t have to use a static-site generator if you don’t want to; you can just commit content assets directly to your github-pages branch. And the result has the same properties you list: if Github complains, I can take that same repo and push it to another site; or it can gracefully degrade to being a folder (that happens to have a .git dir in it) that I can plop into any public_html directory.
I’d rather under lock it and be able to use it with strictly passive cooling. Who wants a fan on their raspberry pi?
New Godlua Malware Evades Traffic Monitoring via DNS over HTTPS
PBS/NOVA ran a documentary a couple of years ago talking about safer nuclear reactor designs. This included lessons learned from Fukushima.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDCEjWNGv6Y
So for most people that are in the situation you describe I'd say they would probably just spin up a WordPress instance, pick a theme they like, and start posting.

A static html site? Even easier. There are tons of services out there that will let you host your own content for very little money or even free.

You can set up a static site on a platform like 1mb.com for next to nothing and edit the html, css, etc. To your hearts content. JavaScript mostly runs in the browser unless you're doing something more complicated than hosting your blog.

I taught myself HTML by reading source code when I was around 12 (I'm not a coder by trade). It's not a super complicated language. Nor is CSS. And there's sites like CSS Zen Garden, w3schools, and template sites all over the internet that ease that transition.

You talk about that general public, but this is a site mostly of techies, so it's natural that topics like this would be present here, far more natural than politics or posts on gossip at least. For the general public it's still pretty easy with numerous site builders, hosted solutions, etc. that will do all the heavy lifting for you. If you're not willing to take the time to learn, there's always someone who will charge you for their experience and make sure you're set up well enough to do what you need to. It can't be that hard to do with the proliferation of crackpots, marketers, and homemakers who are able to set up their own sites effectively.

While I can certainly sympathize and empathize with the idea that as a community we sometimes don't realize the difficulty in some things, on this particular topic, I think that between the market and open solutions there's a wide array of options available for someone to host their own blog with a number of entry ramps of differing difficulty.
The tail risk on nuclear is so bad that innovation which merely reduces the cost of energy isn't nearly compelling enough. Energy costs (either direct, or indirect via carbon taxes or other pricing in of externalities of burning stuff) need to rise significantly before there will be a real driver in the system.

If you want nuclear, you want punitive carbon taxes, or carbon trading with low caps.
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There's a big difference in how their matching works, that made me prefer fzf. It's related to how they deal with spaces.

With fzf, and also helm in Emacs, rofi... a space is a separator between matchers, and the order of the matchers does not matter. So if you type "foo bar", it will select a path "/bar/bla/foo" just fine. This is important to me for discoverability: very often you know quite well what keywords to look for, but you don't know or are not sure about the order. So order irrelevance is very important.

fzy treats the space as a literal. So the order matters. And that's a killer for me. Plus in my experience the speed difference is not important, all are fast enough in practice.
He was careful how he said it; thus the many disclaimers about being a fan of tidyverse in general. I think you are underestimating the effect of tidyverse being taught. Also, RStudio is absolutely free to push whatever packages they want. Same as R users in general are free to use any package they want. But if most people learn the tidyverse, thats invariably what they will default to whether people like it or not.
Dubious evidence in medical studies is a big problem.

But I'd argue that it's only the core of the issue. The second layer out — and I think the more influential layer — is the JOURNALISM surrounding these medical studies.

Even if the underlying science is sound, a lot of outlets and reporters routinely (and sometimes willfully) get the facts wrong.

I attended a talk with Retraction Watch's Ivan Oransky, where he spelled out how easy it is for well-intentioned journalists to exaggerate, over-generalize, or misunderstand what a study says. It was eye-opening. And a little frightening.
Nothing a new connector with more contact surface and 12 volts couldn't solve. No power negotiation bullshit, no $30 cables. The problem is big brands have hidden agendas, they want to sell you those $30 cables, they want to lock you into the brand by making you distrust that everything will be compatible with other brands, etc. So it wasn't naive, it was deliberate. Sort of an attempt to subvert standardization regulations and hurt competition.
I think the more concern is that it was withdrawn without notice to the account holder while denying it was PP who authorized it. I don't think the post was really worried about keeping the money but more or less, what if PayPal decided randomly to deduct a ton of money with no reason and no notification to the account owner?
G2pC: A Context-Aware Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Module for Chinese
> with so many possible variations full feature cable can have problem listing all the features

There are only six variants: https://people.kernel.org/bleung/how-many-kinds-of-usb-c-to-...

And it's actually the product of three variants (2.0 only, 5 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s) by two maximum current ratings (3A, 5A), so a pair of logos would be enough.
Bois is undoubtedly one of (if not the) best sportswriter alive today. Not only is he wildly funny and profoundly sincere, but he's able to elevate the subject matter above the bookkeeping and political insider drama his peers only ever seem to write about

Do yourself a favor and put some time aside to watch Chart Party:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSe4gpc8PLD...
and Pretty Good:
https://www.sbnation.com/pretty-good

absolutely phenomenal work. I don't know of anyone else doing anything even approaching this.
deaths per kWh (or even various adjusted life year metrics) aren’t all that matters. Cost of cleaning up and other economic losses due to accidents also matter.

The Fukushima accident may not have caused much in the way of injury, but the cleanup is projected to cost over $100bn. It’s not so easy for nuclear power to compete when those costs are factored in.

So yes, passively safe reactors are a big deal in my book.
No, you can use trailing commas if you want.
> An isotope that lives 100k years is incredibly radioactive! - these isotopes can produce children that are very short lived

Oh really? Which isotope among the fission products would that be?
I think it is mostly about being able to declare the config schema in the same language. You can declare a base config file with types instead of values that has to be extended. The parser will validate the types and insert defaults when it is merging the configs. It also has some nice features to avoid duplication and boilerplate.

References: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...

Disjunctions: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...

Templates: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...
People who were big into R pre-Tidyverse have this tendency to view the way they manipulated data frames pre-Tidyverse as the "basics," and Tidyverse as the "advanced" method. I think it does anyone learning R for the first time an incredible disservice, for the reason you state: dplyr is fantastic. But the old guard is (rightly) afraid that if people start with dplyr, they'll never get around to learning what base R provides for manipulating data frames. Which is good in my view, and nobody should have to learn that.
Loved this episode!
I like twitter. I'm in the minority here, but I genuinely do. I keep my timeline curated, I am very very liberal with blocks and mutes of anyone who vaguely annoys me, and I enjoy using it.
Most casinos use multi-deck shoes (so multiple decks of cards in one stack which they deal from). Your counting advantage increases as the shoe gets smaller (more cards played, more history, more knowledge of odds of face cards remaining in the shoe).

Casinos will shuffle all the cards before you have a significant knowledge advantage. They may adjust their shuffle point based on whether they detect a counter. If there are no counters at the table, then it's more efficient (for the house - hands played per n period) to play until close to an empty shoe. But if they detect a counter, they may shuffle much earlier - half shoe even. At that point, the counter has very little advantage.

Regardless of the rules and what casinos choose to allow, they will stop a player that they believe will, over time, really hurt the house. In some cases, however, skilled players will be allowed to count and win big for a period if the house believes that player will take that money and lose it elsewhere on the property. Or if that player is influential and attracts/brings other less successful or disciplined whales, the house may ignore the cost of the one successful counter.

In the end, it's about bottom line... unless the player pisses off someone important on the property. In that case, it doesn't matter what the player does - they're gone, banned, and probably blacklisted from other quality properties.
>...I know you can re-process fuel for normal nuclear reactors. But that doesn’t give you: “less hazardous and only needs to be stored for a much shorter time” waste

I am not very familiar with the Russian breeder design in particular, but generally that is wrong fro 4th generation designs:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amounts being generated are manageable and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
You're expected to be at work for ~8 hours, not to problem solve for that long. (Hopefully, if you're at a half-decent company). You have email and chat to manage, stand-ups, other meetings and calls, coffee breaks, lunch. Most people can set up their day in a way that they can be productive without feeling like they need to be constantly 100% concentrated.
Would be even more mind-blowing if it ran real BIOS code on js x86 emulator.
My mid 2014 15" MBP came with 16GB
paypal is horrible, once an issue happens forget about resolutions. Their customer service is one of worst
I'm not quite so confident. USB-C should have required a trademarked stamp on the connector to show that it was compliant. Any cable that wasn't could have been forced off the market for trademark violation. Similar to how CD-ROM, DVD, etc... was done in the past.
Use a Good Password Generator
A _lot_ of banks allow you to generate 'virtual credit cards'. It's basically an auto generated valid credit card number.

You can use them for recurrent expenses or make them single use (the card is cancelled after first payment).

You can also max them to any arbitrary value. So if I need to buy 23.03 dollars of something online I can issue a card that maxes out at 24 dollars. So even if the details were stolen you could only take the remaing cents until it maxed.

None of this is new or innovative I never really understood the need for paypal in online shopping.
Nuclear power is the ONLY option, because no renewable energy source allows for all:

- easy storage

- constant availability

- cheap construction per MW/h

And we cannot afford to pollute our environment even more burning fossil fuels.
> If you're better at writing/composing dplyr, you can often make up the speed difference between the two in terms of the savings in time spent writing and reading code.

dplyr syntax is definitely more concise and readable than base R, but comparing to data.table I don't think it has any advantage in terms of saving time writing or reading code.
Yeah, I'm surprised we're having performance arguments about these two libraries with mostly undefined performance characteristics which both run on a single-threaded runtime.
Bots are going to be the way we interact with the web (and really all systems) heading forward, this 'real people' at just 'browsers' is quite a misunderstanding of what a 'user-agent' really means in this day and age.

If I launch a new tab in the background and tell it go establish some set of factors for me, or locate price points and details for me, or buy something for me (and right now as me)... or just have it let me browser and interactively direct it but have it block ads as I go.

I know the law, and lawmakers, are looking at this from a fraudulent content perspective, but they are going to be hard pressed to do anything in long run to quell this.
>In many (all?) countries, your bank would've acted criminally

Well, you clearly aren’t a lawyer (anywhere).
I read parent as saying that playing poker with others is the most entertaining way to spend your time at the casino, since he didn't mention money.
See my other comment, but I would be curious to know how many users actually could detect the speed difference between a data.table and a tidy solution. Speaks to how small most datasets really are IMO
Absolutely. I usually respond to the "R-is-not-a-real-language" line with something like "R is syntactic sugar on a Lisp where the atoms are APL arrays". It's plenty interesting from a computer science perspective, if you bother to look.

For instance, why does R use <- instead of = for assignment? Because initial versions (of S) predate C -- developed down the hall -- the language that first introduced = for assignment.
This will bring the end of Twitter. A website where 75% of the content is bots.
> I realized it's the middle class (employees at a company) who pay maximum taxes but receive little to no benefits.

So about the same as in the US these days, if you count all the non-federal income taxes that Americans pay.
> I don't think there's a great reason to reprocess at the moment.

At the moment, no. But the economics are likely to change over the next century or so. Which means that reprocessing should definitely be taken into account when determining how long spent fuel needs to be stored. Requiring storage facilities to be good for ten thousand years or more is not reasonable given that it will be economical to reprocess it long, long before then.
It’s right on this issue, but the Tidyverse is a collection of packages, and most are speedy. Discussing the rare case that supports an argument but neglecting the numerous others that do not support it is the definition of cherry picking.

And I don’t expect RStudio to say, “we have this collection, which works fine for most users, except in this case you should replace package x with y, or in this corner case you might like package z.”

RStudio doesn’t need to promote a fragmented ecosystem if they don’t want to, it won’t cause the death of R.
I like shared hosting, not only it is very cheap, but you do not get to bother with administration stuff. You cannot run everything you'd probably like, like in a VPS, but pretty much every provider has at least PHP support with some database and most also provide Python, Perl and CGI support (the latter wont be fast but you can use it to upload CGIs written in compiled languages like Go). If you stick with static sites (like i do) performance shouldn't be a problem at all.
ISPs can make money selling behavioral data to aggregators. Domain names are more valuable for this than bare IPs.
A nuclear reactor in a battle zone is a dirty bomb sitting in your territory.
I'm not sure what your threshold is for a real project, but I've been using it for multi-stack dev environments with no trouble at all for the past year. You shouldn't use it to host a production environment, but I'm not sure why you would want to. What it solves is you don't have to use the minority, poorly supported windows ports of your language runtime, if it even has one. Many smaller languages I've tried don't support windows at all, and many NPM libraries have terrible bugs in windows (hard coding posix paths/environment variables, etc). WSL allows you to skip all of that trouble and use windows without changing any of your workflows or having to learn a totally new shell. The upcoming 2.0 release should be even better.
Cloudfunding? It's like Kickstarter but for projects that are nearly guaranteed to die. Kind of like how patrons supported art. Most of the stuff was just workday or average, but every more and then there were gems.
If my university uses Enterprise RStutio on grid it is better to stick with tidyverse rather than data.table?
Docker Swarm is pretty much dead. Everyone is moving to managed container services like GKE, EKS and ECS.

Very few companies our building their own clusters (sure they are out there, mostly banks, financials and gov)
How do you spill a ceramic?! It's a heavy solid, not a liquid!
Researchers listen to people who hear voices
I don't understand what is interesting about this, but if you find this sort of thing interesting, perhaps you would also enjoy the router admin interface emulators of TP-Link: https://emulator.tp-link.com/VR600v2/index.htm
> No one does that

Um, what? France has been reprocessing for decades.

> Much less hazardous is still tons of extremely dangerous stuff that will last 100 k years

Um, what? What's left over after reprocessing is only dangerous for 100 years or less.
> We don't ban videos on electricity or electrical engineering because people can be electrocuted... We don't ban videos on chainsaws because they could be used to cut a person in half... We don't ban videos on cars because they could be used to run people over...

Don’t give to YouTube too many ideas.
The reliability of these products was sacrificed before a golden idol of Jony Ive on the altar of Thin. I find it interesting that this program is announced more or less at the same time he announced his formal retirement from Apple.

He did many fine designs for the company, but like any superstar, at some point they can do no wrong and it becomes impossible to criticize them within an organization.
I still think that GitHub pages is too limited for anything but very simple site

Oh we wont disagree there, it absolutely has its limitations.

You had originally stated you don't consider these types of stacks to be "running my own site" and I was just wondering what the distinction was, not to necessarily call into question or invalidate your own experiences-if I gave that impression, it's on me to communicate myself a bit better next time.
Pointing out the obvious: it's more expensive to run a modern resort casino than a Fremont St casino in the 50's, even in inflation-adjusted dollars.
>at which point it's nothing else than another version of PayPal

No. At this point you have a trusted broker, who can choose to broker your transaction or not, but they cannot choose to decline it.

This is nothing like a "version of PayPal".
A big part of the Fukushima disaster were not the reactors but the spent fuel tanks. Their existence there and close to many reactors is testament to the still unsolved challenges of storing the waste.
One person with a simple text editor isn’t going to be nearly as productive as someone who chooses a modern stack with better tools.

I left open my prior tools, etc so as not to bias the answers. I’ve done lots of Java, Python, Swift, some Go, etc but I’m willing to learn anything, so forget that you know that.

I’m looking for a big lever.
Majority of your arguments against it are that other bad things also exist... really?

Also I am British, i've never come across long scale until now, we definitely don't use it, and haven't in a very long time. I'm also well traveled but apparently not enough in Europe to notice this.
Inicio[0] is the closest I know of (in Kista). They are very nice people who do good work, but since it's mostly targeted towards students their events tend to be during working hours.

[0]: http://www.meetinicio.org/
At this very moment I am sitting in a dealer-provided loaner car by a strip mall, because I have to wait for my own car to be repaired and I need to make phone calls. There is no other space nearby where I can do that for love or money, including the dealership waiting room.

I asked for the loaner vehicle for this purpose specifically. The car has AC and privacy. I get it. I wish it also had a desk.
Until the Dept. of Energy approved of the NASA Kilopower fission reactor (~1kW, a couple years ago) they had not ever (ever!) approved of a new nuclear reactor design. All currently operating US nuclear reactor designs were approved by the Atomic Energy Comission, an agency that hasn't existed for 45 years.

The Dept. of Energy simply isn't interested in doing it's job. They will not approve new nuclear reactor designs or create new regulations to make building safer nuclear reactor designs feasible economically or legally.
EVs have their own hazards.

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-batteries-violently-explo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJ6LperQUk
Avoid the mainstream media, advertising-centric sites, social media, et al, and the Internet is mostly fine. Stick to the niche sites and services that have always been there and it’s a much more pleasant place.