skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Presumably it's more of a financial/efficiency problem.

It's absolutely a financial decision, but it wasn't a financial problem. Cooling towers are not free but in the grand scheme of building a nuclear plant they're not expensive either (most power stations — including non-nuclear — have cooling towers).

And "Direct cooling" is not a passive option, you're still pumping water from and to the river or body of water in order to condense steam in the secondary circuit. What you're not doing is semi-closed cycling of that water through a cooling tower, you're feeding the condenser straight from the body of water, and sending water back into it more or less directly (possibly having gone through a radiator of some sort to shed some heat).
thanks for bringing this to surface :)
Egotism, selfishness, lack of empathy, entitlement. A nice collection of "dark triad" personality traits.
I would say JS is simple, but it’s not easy. :)

I love the language - it is earning me a comfortable income and I am very productive in it, but it requires experience and iron code discipline not to let it bite you!
This. There was an interesting thread a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20456152
My parents rationalize this by saying that they want to have something to reminisce about once they're too old to travel or even to move around without pains. On the other hand, the photos they take on their travels do not end up on any social media, but in a private collection on a family file server...
Very cool! Are there details anywhere on how this works?
> If I had ever gone to a doctor with any of those symptoms I would have gotten exactly your advice: It's just stress, it's psychosomatic. Don't worry so much.

Or what if you had gone to a "lyme literate" doctor and been misdiagnosed with chronic lyme disease? Put on antibiotics for three years (like one of the patients in the story) with harmful side effects, and at enormous financial cost? Then you would have a whole bunch of problems in addition to your mercury poisoning.

I realize that it must suck for the patient, but in cases where no diagnosis can be made I think the best thing a doctor can do is just to say "I don't know", treat the symptoms as much as possible, and prescribe lifestyle changes (diet, exercise, sleep) in the hopes that things clear up on their own, or that some test eventually reveals some useful information. Better to do nothing than to actively harm the patient with ineffective treatments.
Think Legroom on Planes Is Bad Now? It's Going to Get Worse
>Tent was temporary

So what? It ended easier and cheaper to design, set up and operate than a traditional building (the GA in the tent is already far more efficient that the other ones). It can last for decades, too.
I suggest you to take a look at PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
>Potential controversial opinion but what could really be wrong with: “When you’re hungry eat, when you’re thirsty, drink

People forget to hydrate all the time, and can ignore their thirsty signals, or even not feel thirsty...
Which ones of the sub-debates did you focus on solving?
Greek myth is full of lions, they went extinct in historical times.
Fossil Fuel Is Hitting a Dead End in Europe’s City Centers
Given the total population of 'famous people', are they over represented?

In some cases the over exposure of famous people can be good, such as raising awareness about things that otherwise might be ignore (depression, breast & prostate cancer, dementia).

I will grant that 'famous people' may well be more likely to be involved with quackery, due their social environment and on average having more money to waste.
Hadopi 3, Le Retour
The issue would be what happens if russia declares some manner of war on us. Your contributors and maintainers are now citizens of a hostile country who might actually believe in their aims.

I think people have a naive cosmopolitanism that assumes knowledge work transcends state loyalty, but there are reasons that it may not do so nor is it safe to rely on the current model of peace to persist.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ really needs to be redesigned, too.
This is false dilemma fallacy – there is no link between "unable to fix roads" and "s/Kiev/Kyiv/" renaming. "Kiev" is a transcription from Russian – which was an official language in USSR, but is not official in Ukraine.

Renaming streets is also part of decommunisation process, which is common among post-Soviet countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decommunization

Also, calling society "ill" is offensive, and if your goal is to have a meaningful discussion, you'd rather avoid offending your fellow citizens (unless you identify yourself more as Russian, of course).

Source: I'm also Ukrainian
Agreed, instead of giving up my passport, moving away from my family and job, or going to prison for tax evasion...

... how about we agree that I personally did not want the government to use my tax money to bomb civilians in Eurasia and I desperately would like to find a way to prevent those weapons from being launched.

But I think we would have to replace something like 70% of our elected representatives to force that to happen
Why crafty Internet trolls in Philippines may be coming to a website near you
> if we can popularize a safe option, we can just flag all the unsafe approaches

I am not a lawyer, but I think under european privacy laws those approaches are probably ilegal, too.

If some manufacturer (probably chinese) wants to grab data from people in Europe, they must comply with EU laws even if they don't have an office in the EU.

Not beign able to sell to a huge market is probably a better tactique, but not the only one to use.
> Indirectly related, living in the UK there seems to be a growing culture of 'fuck you' in this country.

Well, when the elite are all shining exemplars of "fuck you, I got mine" with demonstrably no consequences for those actions, and TV is full of reality shows pushing the same message, people (especially the young) will pick up on that.
SpaceX testing ceramic Starship heat shield tiles on flight-proven CRS-18
Beautiful content. Thanks for sharing.
Meh?

If anyone thinks they didn't already have it ..
> And privacy alone, which is what they are pushing is not enough.

Apple has the best mobile processors. How does the Kirin 810 in the Honor 9X compare to Apple's A12 or the upcoming A13?
> So if we look at a software engineer's week, is it more like the park ranger or the NFL player?

First time I'm thinking about this, but there were a couple of things that immediately came to mind.

1. Doing something you know (you have processes and habits and strategies) vs. doing something new.

2. Doing something that is difficult (I suppose fundamental AI research is an example) vs. doing something that is easy (prototyping a CRUD app for 100 users).

Here is how I came up with these thoughts.

For 1: doing something I know vs. something new is a huge difference. And I think you need a higher sleep quality for doing something new as it aids with learning.

For 2: My family is mostly blue collar. Some of them have huge muscles and some of them didn't. The huge muscle people had a way easier time doing their blue collar jobs. However, most of them got back issues eventually and I couldn't relate that to their muscle size.
Looking forward, I'll welcome European bananas and dates and cocoa, but what other crops will they replace?
The holy grail part.
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Lander-Developed-Smithsonian-Spa...
The Great Hack: How a Subject Access Request Exposed Cambridge Analytica
I recommend you to watch Up in the Air.
"You know, honestly by the time you're 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he'll be taller than you, not an asshole would be nice just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don't think about that when you're younger. Someone who wants kids, likes kids. Healthy enough to play with his kids. Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that's a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that's not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea, a nice smile just might do it."
If I’m not mistaken I believe that black intellectuals in the 1900s also participated in US communist movements.
Just go and use Godot if you want an open / custom engine and good tools. https://godotengine.org/
> This is appointed by the European Council and requires approval from the European Parliament.

And now let's look at the past 3 presidents: always the same routine, the EP gets presented with 1 candidate and can say yes... or yes. Awesome democracy.
I never kill spiders at home - they are our pets. My kids are no longer afraid of most bugs now as a bonus.
Sometimes I can‘t help thinking whether the UK is just the US‘ trojan horse in the EU. Well, things might change quite a bit after October 31st, so hurry up!
Beyond “Hello World”: Modern, Asynchronous Python in Kubernetes
I wouldn’t cal it a handicap. I think a lot of it comes down to confidence. Women can tell when a guy is not confident in himself / his appearance and that’s a turn off.
The Interface Culture
This is a transformation almost everyone can make with enough commitment. On top of that, guys really underestimate how much they can change in themselves to look more confident and attractive E.g. Good posture, proper hygiene, trimming eyebrows and facial hair to look sharper, fitting clothes, etc etc

Rather than obsessing over everything you could lose, set your mind focus on what you can improve and the results will follow.
The government has more leeway when acting as an employer.
Yeah, they were transplanted. For me, it was a two-day operation because I wanted more follicles. It was a bit of a hassle at the start, and a bit painful the first day, but overall it wasn't really that bad. It takes a week or so before you don't look weird, and you have to be super careful for a month, but after that it's just your hair.

Your results may vary, although I think I got perhaps the best result out of all of their patients. They seemed really excited about how it turned out.

I thought it would look better for the $5k I spent, but that probably says more about how they managed my expectations than about the work they did. It looks perfectly natural.
I called the source disingenuous, not the person reading it. The "science" produced to an agenda and budget from Exxon or some thinktank who are also oil or politically funded - yet claim independence by lies and obfuscation. I hope at some point soon it's made illegal with heavy sentence - regardless of political or financial stance - or requires clear enough disclosure of interests they cannot weasel out of.

If you round file some temperature headline that doesn't extend with precision the frame of reference, well that surely means you read no mainstream media on any topic as it encompasses them all - politics, sport, tech, climate, international relations, crime. Everything. I credit you, and most readers, with enough intelligence to know "hottest temperature ever" implies hottest temperature on record not hottest temperature since creation or some arbitrary historic era. They can do it with politics and business easily enough.

I'm in my late fifties - climate is the first existential threat that has the credibility of scientific support, and repeated evidence from numerous indicators that are coming at accelerated rate. It's been undertood in varying degree and known for years. Cold War was never that. In fact for most people, most of the time, Bay of Pigs and missile crisis excluded, it was a complete non-event. Previous mis-reported headlines of some scientific finding or discovering cold fusion were never that. Media is bad at science, water is wet, news at 11. Asteroids and super-volcanoes? First let's quantify the risk - that right now seems vanishingly small. Climate is unrecognisable compared to my childhood and twenties, or my parents and grandparents descriptions of their youth in the early 20th C. Species and habitat loss is having weekly consequences. TL;DR it's the first credible existential threat in my entire life or in any of the periods of history I've read.
skeeter-eater
Good to see more alternatives in this space. If I can make one big app design request it would be this: Don’t assume that apps can always create their own windows. This has been a snag for winit and several others. Allow creating a GUI given an existing window handle.

See e.g. https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/issues/159

If you create a rust ui framework that supports the VST windowing/event loop model and just supports one GUI backend on Win32/MacOS, then many people in the audio plugin community would be very happy.
Sounds like you pick and choose based on how much you like the ethnic group in question - which is exactly why Russia supports it for Crimea but not for Chechnya.

Ethnic conflicts aren't soccer matches where you should pick a team to support.
I think of it more as a continuing challenge. There is just bigger groups of us now.
Experiments are nice, but the practical usually blows up for unknown reasons.
There's no point to change the whole site when it would mean most readers getting lost or turned off.
France Is Making Space-Based Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons
Yeah that’s what I was thinking of.
Leak of Internal Windows 10 Build Gives a Peek at New Features
Grew up in one of those picturesque Maine villages you see, this is definitely getting worse as time goes on, but it is hard to put a stop to this because it also brings in lots of money to otherwise impoverished areas.
Yes I do, even when I know when I'll get home, plans can change.

A timer also can't tell me if my AC is actually on, may fail in the case of a power outage or I may forget to set it, as such using a timer doesn't provide a meaningful improvement over just turning on the AC when I get home and tolerating the heat for half and hour or so.

In the end, a timer has no feedback, so a closed loop system will always be better. I've been burned numerous times by open-loop systems in home automation, so I don't do that anymore. That's the second reason why I spend a lot more effort and money on sensors rather than actuators (the first reason being that graphs are fun).
Bezos Expeditions
If you think you have a reasonable chance to become a Google Fellow or equivalent, then by all means ignore everything I’m saying here.
It's definitely the hair. One of the reasons I didn't want to do it was that I didn't really mind being bald before, so I didn't really get any self-confidence improvement from it. I just look better in photos.
MSFT to invest in Softbank Fund under condition to move fund portfolio to Azure
Low-carbon energy makes majority of UK electricity for first time
it is debatable what function means. The Digital Economy created these years principally based on technology created by subsidizing their costs internally by ads is far greater than what is lost.
If the market is segmented in thousands of competitors it might sound good but it will stagnate because noone will have the power to really innovate.
The example of mail and Maps was not accidental. we had Thousands of mail providers before and all it brought us was 5MB mailboxes, maps were out of reach for the average consumers and costed hundreds of $ for each country you wanted to have access too (updated maybe once in 2-3 years and only route information and very few POI). The market was segmented and noone had any real interest or the power to push the envelope.
> You know that most Tibetans historically only eat yak meat, milk, cheese, and bread? They couldn’t grow anything in such a harsh climate. Only monks could have the luxury to eat vegetables. Now it is the solid proof that the Chinese government didn’t just destroy temples in Tibetan culture but helped them eat vegetables and fruits.

That CCP is just so nice and helpful!
Galileo blackout followed effort to guard against cyber threats
No, but it could take advantage of native API in each platform and fall back into Go ones when such kind of APIs aren't available.
While not actually cryptographic in nature, it's a nontrivial authentication protocol that is better than a more traditional certificate, as discussed in the article, and potentially very impressive end enlightening for the not too technically minded people who follow art and art trade.
Finasteride is a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor. Basically, it works by preventing the conversion of Testosterone into its more potent form, Dihydrotestosterone. Without DHT a lot of the effects of Testosterone, including maintaining your libido, are significantly reduced. I was on it for about a year to speed up my hair recovery and it definitely worked wonders, but that was along with replacing my testosterone with estrogen, so the "side effects" were actually the intended effects in my case.
You weren't paying attention.

Plus the written in C, Pascal, C++, Modula-2, Java... was taking place on BBS, USENET and written media, so hardly easy to find on HN.
This begs the question if UK/EU got a copy of all the US citizens ' fingerprints in return.

It is possible to commit treason against your own country. Can someone commit treason against the EU? Is it a criminal offense?
I am not sure why I didn't realize that sooner, but that's awesome, thank you for pointing that out.
#boycottazure
If you want to work on software in this industry then check out https://www.moduleworks.com/join-us/ Moduleworks develops algorithms for many of the CAM platforms that target machines like KERN develops.
> without a middleman

Are you saying that I should be able to connect to my home directly over the Internet? How does it bypass NAT.
News Provenance Project
Or unmarried? Or very short? Or without a perfect set of teeth?

Vanity is extreme in US politics, and US public life in general. You’ll find an extreme skew for high level US managers being taller and having more hair than the population on average .
Some charge money for developing products, and it leads to sustained development. Some call those commercial products, and have a tendency to work well. The source can still be open, as open source doesnt have to be free. But many dont want to pay for products, want them free, and at the expense of others.
You're describing stackoverflow answers
Thanks for the book recommend!

The Battle of the Atlantic was, for Britain, quite simply the most important theatre of the entire war, and yet is one of the least known beyond "convoys" today. 12 hour Sunderland and days long naval patrols weren't suitable for sexy movies, though there were a couple of b&w. It gave repeated opportunities to lose. From initial US reluctance to form convoys at all, despite British preference until loss rates convinced, through the Air Ministry neglect of Coastal Command both pre-war and early war. Always second place to Bomber and Fighter Commands yet the Ministry were determined to retain control during Admiralty efforts to coordinate activity with the Navy. Thankfully the Admiralty won out, or we would have lost.

The U Boat "happy times" could so easily have lost the war, and remarkably fast. Bridging the gap with "stupid" ideas like the improvised merchant carriers that carried a few obsolete, but remarkably effective Swordfish stringbags kept things going until mid-late war when convoys had a decent chance of escorts. The tech and boffins going into the Atlantic war are mainly invisible, just as important, but make a bomb bounce for a PR only dam raid and everyone and their dog knows those forever.

Bomber Harris (Bomber Command crews preferred to call him Butcher when avoiding profanity), had more the ear of the politicians. Churchill was supposedly not convinced by Harris' controversial, and often ludicrous, promises to win the war by air alone yet they got the men and aircraft that implied they did. Obviously with Dresden and other actions, Harris and Bomber Command is far better known and re-examined today. I've never been entirely convinced by Churchill and war cabinet's supposed reluctance to accept bombing given how well supported they were.

Approximately no one at all knows, writes books about or builds monuments to RAF Coastal Command or Western Approaches Command[1] (the Naval fleet and associated Admiralty group HQ in Liverpool) that actually did repeatedly stop us losing the war. There should be a Sunderland in the BBMF next to the Spitfires and Hurricane, not a bloody Lanc. Some revision and re-evaluation is probably long overdue.

One relative in Bomber Command, two in Coastal. I think my bias is showing. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-Chief%2C_Western_...
> Additionally France plans to set up its own space force, the “Air and Space Army,” as part of the French Air Force. The new organization will be based in Toulouse, but it’s not clear if the Air and Space Army will remain part of the French Air Force or become its own service branch.

They've announced that the Air Force is to become the Air and Space Force, which is quite different than what this paragraph from the article suggests.
I like choice (a) best of all. I don't think taking serious steps to help the homeless in incompatible with wanting to have a downtown that isn't full of poo and untreated mentally ill people.

I don't think SF is going to be in a great position to implement any of the steps in (a) if they lose a giant whopping chunk of jobs, revenue and tax base when those 'rusted-on conferences' finally get scared off and move to other cities, or when tourists decide SF is Just Too Damn Sketchy.
> The US doesn't yet have massive prison camp systems full of political dissidents — but then, for the first couple of decades, neither did the USSR.

You may want to reread that last part of history.

[...] established in 1918 and legalized by a decree "On the creation of the forced-labor camps" on April 15, 1919. The internment system grew rapidly, reaching a population of 100,000 in the 1920s.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
Object‐Label‐Order Effect When Learning from an Inconsistent Source
> That's because you need literally days to get a nuclear plant running again. Coal plants can start within hours.

You don't shut down your nuclear plants, you moderate them up and down.

Unlike e.g. Germany, France's nukes were designed (and are used) for very aggressive load following, reactors can output 30~100% of their rated power and can rate up and down at up to 5%/minute.

Here's a twitter thread on the subject (in french) from early march: https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1102620969808658432

This is a bloke who apparently likes following france's electrical and nuclear networks, roughly speaking on March 4 checking the previous week's data they saw that only 40 out of 50 reactors had been running (= more than 50% of rated power) on sunday, looking at electical demand it had fallen 15GW from early feb to early march (march was quite warm), nukes had dropped 10GW between saturday and sunday: not only was demand low (usually the case on french sundays) wind power had gone crazy. Gas plants were completely shut down (except those used for both electricity and heating), hydro was at the lowest possible level, pumped hydro had pumped all it could.

Checking neighbours, Germany and Austria had spent part of the weekend with sub-zero electricity prices (they were paying surrounding countries to take electricity off of their hands).

From sunday to monday, demand picks up like mad, and the nuke network handled overall increases of 50~100MW/mn over the morning (it still had to be supplemented by hydro and gas as consumption rate of changes exceeded 150MW/mn).

This is the graph of nuclear production changes over the week-end: https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1102625880520699911/... the sunday lows went down below 38GW, the highs on either side are above 50.
This is a misleading title.

The UK government gave access to US companies. There's currently no suggestion that the data moved to the US.

More details here:
https://euobserver.com/justice/145530