skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear power is almost always brought up as a low carbon alternative to fossil fuels to power our civilization. Some even quote how cheap nuclear power is compared to fossil fuel based power. But, those advocating for nuclear power almost always discount the cost involved in dealing with this radioactive trash. To put it in another way, by switching on nuclear power, instead of handing out next generation a warmed/messed up planet with dangerous levels of green house gases, we would be giving them a pile of dangerous radioactive waste several miles under the ground. Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative.

Even if not supplying all of our energy from Wind and solar, it is crime of our irresponsible generation to not invest in solar panels in sunny places like Florida, Texas, Middle East, southern India, Southeast Asia etc. Use the safe option first, and wait for nuclear option to mature until we get a better grip on what to do with its dangerous trash.

Florida even actively prevents businesses from engaging in roof top solar panels. If that is not a facepalm moment of stupidity, I don’t know what is.
Study: No Link Between Gentrification and Displacement in NYC
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Have you searched the bug tracker for proposals to implement this? Have you submitted these requests? Did you review any guidelines or outlines of features that Firefox should support?

Leaving a comment on HN to (what seems to me) complain is easy; actually going to the issue tracker and mailing lists would be a lot more productive.

I suspect you'll find that it has been proposed but rejected. I suspect it's because support can be easily added via addons, keeping the core more lightweight and extensible.
I think it is a conservative/religious issue mostly. Women are harmed from this so it may be easier for them to change their opinions. However many women hold the same view and are not happy with such changes. The marriage without consent could be possible because there is one sunni maddhap which allow this. (For example in Egypt I think)

My views maybe inaccurate and in general I am pessimistic.
However many are not happy with what the current government is doing and any change which may seem clearly against Islam could be the straw that break the camel’s back.

I would like to add that the criticism is lower and maybe in kinder tone due to the low freedom speech ceiling so it is actually hard to gauge the general opinion of current changes in this article.

Almost no body I know talked about this, perhaps many are unhappy with it or afraid of society judgement for supporting such changes.
> What about installing miniconda in your home folder?

This is not how you deploy software
That is not compliant with GDPR anyway.

Appreciate that you now know they absolutely despise their users and take action by never using that site again.
Worked in an HFT shop and we were down to optimizing nanoseconds. Lots of folks had war stories about spending months to shave off tens of nanoseconds off pieces used millions of times per day.
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You may find this article interesting: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Unfortunately, that's not how big company recruitment processes work: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
This might be a stupid suggestion/question, but maybe it'll become cheap enough to just toss the spent fuel rods into space?
> Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative.

I suppose that when you watch your children die from climate change, then you will know.
I don't think devs should be shamed into not selling their software. That's some questionable 'white-knight' ethics. If you sell something, great. if you don't, also great. if you use ads to monetize or sell data, also great. If you use a freemium model which serves ads to the plebs and asks money from the elite, even better.

For that matter I don't think open browser producers can be expected to foot the bill for it either. their browsers do not cost a thing, after all and browser extensions only impact a very small part of their userbase.

Please remember that not everyone has a problem with ads, 'privacy invasion' and targetting. Some people do and think that everyone should think the same. I find this mentality rather stifling.
Plastic Bag Sales Fell by 90% at England's Large Retailers in Past 4 Years
What I object to is complaining about "government" officials as if there is only one type.

In the US, regulators may not do their jobs because it is can be extremely financially advantageous to look the other way. But the system of legalized bribery is in place because of deliberate choices by the system architects who made the problem much worse than it had to be.

The US government has been sabotaged. Blame the saboteurs.
To give you an anecdotal customer perspective I won't buy anything from Amazon that isn't Prime-enabled and fulfilled by Amazon. To me that's the only upside of Amazon - fast, reliable and free (if the subscription fee doesn't count) next-day delivery of the goods I ordered.

I can get similar prices and often better seelction elsewhere. Fulfillment is Amazon's greatest strength in my opinion.
Psychologists should speak against the abuse of data for political purposes
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Progressing the state of the game once per month sounds like more than most D&D groups are capable of doing...
… or radioactivity.
Gut bacteria influences your behaviour, emotions and thinking
Not to innuade the value from his books; but I do have a question.

Are his books useful for someone who are into improving his daily-job-programming skills? I gave a look at the indexes of his books, they seems more relevant for when I was into algorithmic programming competitions.
A man said it. We all believed it. We asked for no corroboration; we obtained no evidence. And that's where we stopped.

This is the monstrous injustice of our civilization. We organize the enslavement of over half the population based upon an unfounded idea.

Then we pat ourselves on the back for slightly loosening the bonds of slavery.

"Go slow," they say, "so as not to disrupt the order of things."

So as not to disrupt the order of hateful men lying to maintain their own positions of control.
Many of my customers use Confluence.

If you have enterprisey requirements (SSO, user groups and permissions, needs to work well Microsoft Office files, integrations in general) it's pretty decent and certainly not as bad as its reputation.
Do you have a source that controls for real electricity prices? Coal prices for example have risen faster than inflation over the last few decades (coal ~$30->$88 [0] vs inflation expectation $30->$42 by the US BLS calculator 2003-2019) and the renewables that have been bought online weren't exactly cheap.

There is always going to be a sink for more power, because all else failing electricity can produce more aluminium products, and aluminium is one of those wonder materials that there will always be uses for. We know that energy efficiency can just as easily cause consumption to rise as to fall [1].

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/214236/thermal-coal-pric...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Good share
I didn't know about that download icon. I must have removed it when customising the UI. Thanks!
It is interesting to read one significant thread here discussing gerrymandering starting as an effort to increase minority representation. Otherwise, minority blocs can be overridden by a majority and diluted into have no representation.

Then another thread discussing rural voters being given excessive representation. Why shouldn't the cities dominate, they ask?

Rural voters comprise a minority.

How consistent should these threads be in terms of the arguments and what is seen as good? How consistent are they in practice?
Show HN: Karma – an upvoting bot for business chats
I thought the response was that you’re already carrying a microphone with you everywhere.

Most people are using Siri in their smartphone.

Explaining why I have Alexa in my home should be less of an ordeal now.
I don't think that life in and of itself is valuable even under terrible conditions. Especially if there is no positive outlook, that things will be better, no reason to hang on.

I think only one thing really matters: QUALITY of life.

Life is not intrinsically sacred. QUALITY of life is to me.
HFT, being technology, has more benefit than pointless consumption, by definition - at the very least someone is creating something new and that is good for the economy. What are the actual benefits of this project in the market is unknown, especially because it does not exist yet.
It’s Fight Night in Las Vegas: Elon Musk’s Loop vs. the Monorail
Hardly, the amount of extreme desert vs the amount of people that want to visit is an extreme over supply. On the other hand people actually spend effort growing flowers.

PS: Joy is a recognized form of economic benifit.
Although some devs (and style guides) do tend to resist inference in favor of verbosity (C#). Subjectively, I love inference (like in F# or Crystal). I'm not sure if an objective winner exists for best strategy, or how to even measure that.
I only see an advertisement for a subscription in the page. I wonder if it says anything about how the aging population will handle those cities without cars.
KiloGrams: Large N-Grams for Malware Classification
Are you on macOS or Linux? Passwords can be imported from Chrome/IE/Edge on Windows.
Like the computer security program named SATAN, I suppose.
Tool: Everything in one file – screenshot, recording time and URL
This option is brought up alot and while cost is probably one consideration I think that the main problem is for when (not if) one of the launches has a rapid unscheduled disassembly as they call it, and basically become becomes a large dirty bomb.
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
It seems that as I suspected requiring consent for leaving prison or abuse shelter was also abolished.

https://twitter.com/dralmuneef/status/1157139494765645826?s=...
death for sure.
Show HN: Get-Good-Readme
Hello guys

I'll like to share with you a very small cli module that allows you to generate README files following templates.

If like me you have a lot of ideas and you work on a lot of projects at the same time keeping a coherence in the documentation can be important.

If you are curious about this little project, I drop the link below.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-good-readme
Facebook open-sourced its Photo- and Video-Matching Technology
Sofi and a bunch of other high yield checking/savings accounts are doing the same
Marketing Automation – Why Should You Use It?
Interestingly, the positive documentation effect of types is the one that has actual empirical support.
Thanks, the formatting that parent commenter used was confusing, I thought they were simultaneously quoting from somewhere and adding their own commentary.

Would be much more clear if instead parent commenter did as the subtitles do in the video you linked, and like they do in movie scripts, and also in other texts where a dialogue between two or more parties is presented.
Apple halts Siri response grading program after privacy concerns
It is an interesting piece of history. This dates back from when MS thought that all networking should be peer-to-peer (and that 640K was a lot of memory). IBM knew better and built domain controllers into OS/2.

As an anecdote - I worked on the team that was sub-contracted by IBM to write this. The spec was considered super secret and so had to be kept under lock and key. IBM security would confiscate any loose documents and leave a red card. One red card is a warning, two and you're off the project, three and the project is cancelled.

We'd just had a red card so were on alert when, late one evening, we discovered an unlocked cupboard on the final sweep. So we saved the spec in another cuprboard and for a joke left the old red card behind. The PM, who's spec it was, came in early the next day - obviously before the devs who left late the night before, found the red card and phoned security to get it back.

The ensuing "YOU'VE LOST THE SECRET SPEC!" conversation spiralled around like crazy until we came in and managed to calm everybody down. The PM still had to do a lot of grovelling.
Moral of the story - probably best not to attempt a joke with anything security related.
Spent fuel rods aren't the big waste problem. The tons and tons of lightly irradiated materials are (equipment, construction waste, suits etc)
A mosque rebuilt once a year
Make RTGs out of it!
https://xkcd.com/2115/

Even with all of these issues nuclear is the least deadly energy source! More people fall off roofs putting it solar panels then have been effected by nuclear disasters.
Not a stupid question. It’s a pretty common suggestion.

The challenge is that fuel rods are quite heavy and the $$$ costs to launch a kilogram on a path beyond earths orbit are incredibly high, let alone the carbon costs. Launching into space is just not a net positive.
Yeah but that URL thing is entirely FB's own choice and own problem. Definitely way more a thing of "violates our policy standards" than "oftentimes it is disturbing" because people going around tricking others to click on shock videos using advanced cloaking techniques ... just isn't that big of a problem.

Linking to things is a normal thing to do on the Internet, but Facebook wants to control that, because links often also mean the user moves their attention away from FB, onto the linked thing. This is what FB doesn't want. But it is a very useful thing for the user, to be able to smoothly navigate between apps and websites depending on their needs.

I do wonder why they chose to go with the danger of URL masking that links can be "disturbing" instead of "scams". Because I don't believe these techniques are (widely) being used to trick people into watching animal torture or other disturbing things. They'll be tricked to click on scams and phishing sites.

The difference between "disturbing" and "scam" is literally the difference between subjectively not-okay and objectively not-okay.

Facebook just wants the power to prohibit you from accessing what it deems "disturbing".

Also just from a technical perspective, there's some very weird assumptions: FB's server would see something different than the user's browser. But FB's local AI spy process would see the same thing? Are they seriously pretending that you shouldn't be able to securely log onto another website in a browser? Yes the user's browser sees something different, because it is logged in, and no FB's local AI spy process is not invited ...

At most they could warn that the site looks different than what the server side FB scanner saw. Then the user could decide if they feel more secure because this is expected as they are logged in and FB can't watch along, or if this is unexpected and they should be cautious.
And I'm so happy I live in a country that permits Euthanasia. And the rules for it are clear:
(some of them)
1. Intolerable suffering
2. No outlook on any improvement

There are cases where people recover after years being in coma. However, there are many, many, many more people in the same state who never recover, who are just plants.

Life is not sacred. Quality of life is.
wouldn’t managers be the ones who likely pushed for the pattern you’re remarking upon?

A friend of mine is currently studying to be a civil engineer. As part of his program, he's required to take multiple courses in engineering ethics and business ethics, as well as economics and law.

He's relayed to me numerous anecdotes from lectures all about engineers who caved to pressure from non-engineer business and political stakeholders. When the bridge collapsed or the building fell over, it was the engineers who were to blame. Again and again it was drilled into the class that you, as an engineer, are the last word when it comes to defending sound engineering principles.

They went on to learn about how this is the basis for the structure of engineering firms and that it's not allowed for civil engineers to work in a subordinate role at a company run by non-engineers, in order to prevent a non-engineer from ordering an employee to affix their seal to a building plan.

Perhaps we need something similar for software developers (seems a little absurd to call them engineers in light of the above, doesn't it?) I don't see how we'd enforce it though, since any kid can take a laptop into their bedroom and write a program with potentially millions of users.
You have to consider some form of multiplier effect that comes into play. Because the prices of assets are derivatives of others (incl. many, many other variables, of course) these millisecond savings end up turning into seconds, even minutes en masse.
Voracious, Unstoppable Bug Is Killing Off Vineyards
The implication here being that people in non-urban areas of the country shouldn't experience any reasonable amount of growth.
Definitely recommend contributing to their codebase. It's a great experience. I wrote about my experience contributing to Servo here: https://brainlessdeveloper.com/2017/08/12/my-experience-cont...
This is called rent seeking. Just siphoning money from society without any benefit.
That's not how it works. The waste has to be dealt with, but its not immediately harmful to the general population. Its a problem that has to be addressed in the long term, but climate change is a problem that has to be addressed in the short term. And by the short term I mean the past.

In other words, radioactive waste isn't a "your children" problem, it's several generations removed if a solution hasn't been found by then. Climate change is indeed a "your children" problem, if you're old enough to die in the next couple of decades. Otherwise it's a You problem.
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The Changelog 355: Federating JavaScript's Language Commons with Entropic
It's remarkably much work to discover the significant and relevant contributions someone did to OSS just from their github profile. Lots of people have forked millions of well known projects. No interviewer has time to go through all of them to find the ones that were forked for good reason, i.e. to make amazing PRs and not just to fool around a bit.

Also, the contributions graphic (with the colored boxes) is often off-putting, because many people tend to also use GH for random weekend hacks, which are shown as "contributions" just as much as "oh I made Firefox 2x faster on BSD" kind of things are. To GitHub, a commit is just a commit, and "I ran create-react-app" and "Fixed impossible 10 year old race condition in Hadoop" are both shown as a green box.

Spell out your relevant OSS contributions in your CV and/or your email. Don't just link to your GitHub profile, GitHub profiles are shit.

To be honest, if you only link to your GH and then conclude that interviewers aren't interested in your open source work, then this gives me the idea that you're not that interested in your interviewers either. Help them out a bit!
China currently does not have the capability to design and make advanced hardware microprocessor chips. The Google/IBM OpenPOWER Foundation is simultaneously researching nextgen chips and teaching China how to do so.

Giving China this capability, i.e. gifting the gap, will give China an advanced hardware capability they do not have and did not earn. It will undoubtedly be used by the Chinese military. The supercomputer labs is the primary target.

The AI race is already a big unknown, and the Chinese government internal checks and balances are inorganic and not yet tested. Remember the tenets, be slow to speak and be wary of unearned wisdom. What is the point of accelerating this?
The cookie warnings are not a consequence of the GDPR (remember they've been there before) and also only need to be done when you have non-essential cookies on your site (i.e. tracking, ads)
Thanks for the advice. Taking a 'burner' device (as you suggest) seems to be the way to go if you are worried about being forced to divulge the information on it (or confiscation). What worries me more is the possibility of being charged with some kind of offence just for 'importing' the technology. Seems unlikely I know and I wouldn't have even thought of it myself but there are several of us going and one of the party brought it up.
Amazon is going to kill the Dash button
In case you didn't click through, the brutal experiment in honesty mentioned by the OP is really worth a read.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/
Mission Labs Are Hiring JavaScript/React Software Developers in Lancashire
I guess that depends on your idea of progress. To be honest, reinstating the apprenticeship system sounds a little circular and also quite difficult to achieve, now that companies have got used to not bearing the cost of education in a lot of areas. You'd either have to regulate business massively, or shut down a lot of public education. I'd be more inclined to try something novel, like an international federated organisation dedicated to free education and open research, or something.
Apart from apparent ignorance and knee-jerk dismissal?
Perhaps store them on the dark side of the moon.
>To put it in another way, by switching on nuclear power, instead of handing out next generation a warmed/messed up planet with dangerous levels of green house gases, we would be giving them a pile of dangerous radioactive waste several miles under the ground. Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative.

Next-gen molten salt plants have much better usage of the nuclear material. Current light water reactors only use about 2% of the possible energy from the material.

One consequence of this better efficiency is the waste is only dangerous for hundreds, instead of tens of thousands, of years.

The long term consequences of nuclear waste are clearly less bad than the short term consequences of burning fossil fuels, which are estimated to kill hundreds of thousands of people world wide per year. That's entirely aside from climate change...

People are just typically ill-informed and incapable of making rational decisions about relative risk.

(BTW nuclear will also be one of the cheapest energy sources going forward, and is the only reliable 24/7 source of carbon-free energy.)
I think that the biggest win with this feature, is not that PHP will do more runtime type checks, but that the syntax is valid.

The past years we've seen several static analysers become more and more popular in the PHP community. Tools like phpstan (https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) and psalm by Vimeo (https://github.com/vimeo/psalm).

Allowing this syntax is a great way to write cleaner code that can be statically analysed, which is far more superior than the runtime type checker.
I would imagine that we must know that by now. We should be able to just see on a brain scan whether the pain centers are lighting up in response to pain.
You can safely store radioactive waste but there's no method of storage for the CO2 we put in the air, that's the big difference.
If someone with power would listen to you, I think the biggest advancements the average person could take back 500+ years would be related to hygiene and medicine.

The mere introduction of hand washing in situations where people are intimately caring for one another has saved millions of lives.

I also think the average person now has an amazing amount of knowledge about the body and its operation compared to even a qualified doctor of 200+ years ago.