skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coal is going away regardless due to it not being competitive against natural gas, no solar required. I’m saying nuclear should stick around until it’s the last base load left, but not bother building one more nuclear generating unit. Safely extend operating licenses whenever possible.

Batteries and their lower costs will meet us at peaking needs in 3-5 years. There are hundreds of GWs of battery manufacturing capacity coming online over that time frame. Every million Tesla EVs is 10GW of controllable battery storage load on demand (example used only because I’m familiar with their presentation on it, and have seen it’s orchestration demo).
See my caveat in reply to GP though
Show HN: Scooget – Social platform to surface tech products
Seems to have worked with 8chan, last I checked it's still offline on the clearnet.
They've been the poster child for "Form Over Function" since the Apple //c.
I wonder if Karr was the unidentified journalist in the decoded Venona cable who took considerable money to write at least one article before he took on the Paris personality.
Yeah it looks like the program is mainly for super early stage, ie no cofounder, pre-idea folks.

I think if you already have a co founder and an idea and/or prototype, then that fee/stake for value might seem unacceptably expensive.
Yang is just flat out the best candidate IMO for those two reasons. Rational and empathetic.

Wish he had more of the spotlight.
I'm on board with not funding nuclear (takes forever to build, on those time frames it will likely be outcompeted by solar+storage). But carbon capture and storage seems essential for keeping carbon levels on an acceptable level. We dragged our feet too long to solve this with just reducing pollution. And while carbon capture is expensive it's a bargain compared to the costs of climate change over a few decades.
> "If y'all had just handed over your wallet when we asked, we wouldn't have had to hurt you. So really, this is your fault."

Seeing as Google doesn't engage in fingerprinting and are actively taking steps to block it[1], I don't think this is a fair characterization of Google's position.

[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-secu...
One of the main results of Cybernetics. You can get a PDF of Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" from here, as well as a lot of other information:

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html\

(edit: Ha! I just realized it's the same Principia Cybernetica Web!)
How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
It can be useful to know what specific brand(s) of corporate hypocrisy you're dealing with. And/or use it to properly ridicule the responsible parties.
Well, I can't read this due to NY Times pay wall, but the incitement of revolution over a recession is quite extreme. The last recession was a deep one, but it's uncommon to have recessions that deep. Most recessions are a couple quarters of slightly negative GDP growth followed by a rebound.
> We have about 10 years of emissions left if we want to stay below 2°.

First off, if that is the case you can be sure we'll end "above 2°" (by which I'm sure you mean 2° above some earlier average). China and India alone have massive projected tails for their CO2 output.

Second, "10 years of emissions left"? You're suggesting that somehow C02 emissions could be curtailed completely within 10 years? Absurd...

Neither transient or equilibrium climate sensitivity are known well enough to make such pronouncements - but the global warming alarmists feel it necessary to periodically throw a deadline out there. They think it's good psychology, and will lead to more panic...whether or not such panic is actually justified.
There are several problems with a just-carbon-tax approach:

1) Carbon taxes just get passed on to the consumer. This makes them incredibly unpopular, because consumers see a short-term cost, but not a short-term benefit. In the US, this means that implementing a carbon tax is a good way to make sure you get voted out and replaced by a climate-denier in the next election. The Yellow Vests movement in France was sparked largely by a fuel tax.

2) Using a consumption tax also means that the poorest people of society pay the highest cost (relatively speaking.) It's unjust to make the poorest people pay the most, especially since they also do the least "damage."

3) According to the IPCC report, a carbon tax high enough to effect a rapid enough change would effectively be a fossil fuel ban anyway.
My money is that we invent this to combat/manage people's weight. A machine that slowly burns off excess glucose in the blood stream? Suddenly those extra calories aren't a problem!

(There are probably a whole host of knock on effects that I'm not considering. I'm not a biologist.)
Using "let thing: type" seems bloated, I prefer the C style "type thing;"

; can also make a lot of difference, which is a little weird.

I don't understand why there is both str and String, seems complicated for nothing.

Option things are not really clear yet, and I don't understand what is their use, it seems like an alternative to unions, but few developers use unions anyway...

Pattern matching seems powerful but I fail to understand its usage, and I'm a little skeptical about the machine code it generates.

D is fine, but I think that even D is not simple enough.

Rust seems like it's awesome, but it requires to entirely rethink how you write code, and I've never been a fan of high level abstraction.
Of course he blames the NGOs. They've been fairly vocal against his policies for opening up further territory for agribusiness, so now he's blaming them saying that they have set fires in order to discredit him. The end result is almost certainly going to be multiple attempts to ban as many of those organizations as possible on the grounds that they are some sort of eco-terrorists destroying Brazil's rainforest. It won't make much sense but making sense is not the goal. Getting those organizations out of his hair is the goal.

Watch what he does, not what he says.
A few words in opposition to barefoot running:

My podiatrist told me that aspiring barefoot runners make up a large part of his clientele, and in his professional opinion this is a dangerous errand. People who were running barefoot since early childhood (including various native peoples of the world) maybe fine because they spent formative decades of their lives acclimating to the style and growing stronger muscles/ligaments/joints/bones/skin, but everyone else is running a high risk of sustaining an injury (and enriching my doctor in the process).

Vibran Five Finger was targeted by a class-action lawsuit stemming form lack of scientific proof of their barefoot claims, and they settled. Vibram stood to gain a lot from showing the proof, and the fact that they didn't have anything convincing on hand is quite damning.

High risk is obviously not certainty, and people who did derive benefit from the method are likely to speak up, while those who failed are likely to have moved on and say nothing. Survivor bias alert.

Barefoot running has a strong "appeal to nature fallacy" factor. Doesn't make it wrong, but this sort of bias should be noted when calibrating the level of excitement for a particular subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

If you're gong to do it anyway at least consult a podiatrist about early sign of trouble so you know when you're going down the wrong path. This would be way more useful than acquiring your advice from various internet forums.

My doc refused to answer the question about safe running techniques and told me to get a bike instead. Which I did.
I feel like all the waste created from those batteries (since wind and solar can't meet peek demand) will ultimately be worse for the environment than any waste created by modern nuclear technology. If you compare the waste created by the two at the scale needed to cover peek demand, nuclear actually creates less.

Yes, batteries can be recycled[1], but from what I've seen, many of the efficiency figures are grossly overstated (or absolute best-case scenarios rarely seen in practice).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling
Your own numbers say that the richest population in the world in 1850 - way into industrialization - died at 55 on average, after ignoring child mortality. Which BTW means they watched maybe 1/4 of their children die.

If any population lived like that today, their lives would certainly be called nasty, brutish and short.
They have the unknown type since 3.0, which will force you to write runtime validation to satisfy the type checker.

It’s very helpful for dealing with untrusted/uncontrolled data.
Whether this information is new or not is irrelevant. China continues to use these techniques and the world should be aware of it.
Since you're not really required to use templates or inheritance at every corner.
I'm always confused when someone calls out a large group of people for not having a consistent opinion.

Gotta love Americans! They flip-flop on major aspects of policy making. One day they spout "ban guns!", the next they say "If need be I'll defend my right to bear arms with violence!"
You can make it zero-config, polyfill everything, apply all babel plugins so everything is transpiled to support IE 7, for all you care.

But everyone has different needs. So tools like Babel and Webpack allow you to pick-and-choose what polyfills and transpilations are necessary.
messed up country with retarded government and really hot chicks
I am surprised that this did not come up when the branding of the releases started. Localization / Product Marketing usually has a hand in everything.
Where does it say they don't engage in it?

Naturally, blocking other companies' fingerprinting is important to their business model.
Yet, we also have to consider the joy we get from running and what we would be doing if we weren't running. If you told me at the age of 40 that long-distance running would take 5 years off my life, I wouldn't care. Running, makes me happier. It helps with my mental health and because I'm a trail runner, I'm constantly out in nature visiting new locations and conquering new challenges. By contrast I also fly fish for the many of the same reasons. Fly fishing doesn't fulfill me in the same way that trail running does. But dying with a fly rod in hand or running up a mountain would be a great way to go!
They worked hand in hand. In other words, given the 3/5s compromise, how to you implement it from a voting perspective? For example, if your state has a population that was 50/50 slave/non-slave, then each non-slave vote was theoretically worth 1 and 3/5s of a vote, but giving individual voters differing weights was deemed unacceptable. The solution was the electoral college in which the votes available to the state could reflect the extra voting power of the non-voting population.
That's a very understandable reaction, and very much a possibility.

What data do we have on how much is skimmed from proposals like this, or fraudulent companies that are set up to exploit this funding?

Michael Lewis talked a bit about this in The Fifth Risk, particularly the Solyndra scandal. The Obama administration took a lot of heat politically for Solyndra, which in reality amounted to a tiny tiny fraction of funds made available for solar development, and the overall solar research fund that Obama allocated wound up turning a profit for the government. You wouldn't know that based on the reporting though.
> I never hear this criticism when devaluing our currency to go to war or subsidize large business.

Oddly, I hear it all the time.

Perhaps two wrongs don't make a right.
"People like me" are uttering these things, because "people like me" are facing the same or similar questions themselves. You are right about time being a scarce resource. This is precisely the reason why one shouldn't skimp on $IMPORTANT_THING: because it can greatly reduce the value of all the time put into the thing already.

So you got me 180° wrong – if his motives were purely economical, I'd completely understand his arguments. But because it is not purely economical I see this as a vague sign that he might not value the time he put into it himself enough, which is never a good thing in the long term.
We can dream
Talk about a death sentence
tlwr; How does this 'open standard' benefit google's ad strategy at the expense of its competitors in so many words ?
Handling it takes money and effort no one wants to spend. John Oliver covered the situation a couple years back [0].

[0] https://time.com/4908330/john-oliver-nuclear-waste-last-week...
I don't live in the US. That's a big parameter.
Ultras just seem like the ultimate in self-torture to me. Then again, I have very flat feet and am extremely prone to shin splints so all running is self-torture to me.
It's worse than an unenforceable policy, it's an explicit violation of the law for which they can (and should) be sued over.
People got used to replacing them every year.

And Apple have been out-selling themselves for years.

So, the gravy-train factor is pretty high, one might say.

I mean, I say this as an avid junky. I've got a stack of iPhones in front of me from the very beginning, and on the basis of my .. pockets .. as well as an admission that I have changed my behaviour over the years to, literally, 'treasure' my thousand-euro pocket communicator, (without which for some reason life is difficult) .. and not scratch it up as much.

A good case helps too.

And in most other cases - I'd just buy another one anyway, if things got really distracting... I mean, this stack ain't getting smaller, yo.
I have a plan to keep running into my 80's. But of that is foot, knee, and hip mechanics. To that end, I use Altra branded running shoes.
> we don't know the long term effects of massive sustained wind farms.

Yes, and we should pay (with money) more attention to study that. However we shouldn't/can't stop because of that and wait till we'll know more certainly - in general; some decisions need to be made early, and this question is an example.

> Have we solved the solar storage problem yet?

We have a variety of ways to store energy, and we're getting better with it with time, so forecasts here are optimistic. This is still a problem, but, again, we may move forward with other parts while we improving on batteries.

> I vote we go all in on nuclear

I think with nuclear we're uncapping worst case scenarios. This is harder to calculate, so I'm hesitant.
Looks into the “resolutions” field for yarn. It does exactly this.
Indie dev here who was been working solo on games for the last 3 years (nights and weekends) using the resources you're describing. You can get a lot of mileage out of those assets for not much money, but it takes a huge amount of time and skill to turn them into something consistent and usable. You can usually find art similar to what you want, but almost never:
- in the correct aesthetic
- the right size
- with the proper animations

It's a full-time job to find this art in the first place, to resize, to animate, to recolor, and apply effects to the art to help it match your desired aesthetic. And then it still is never good enough.

There's a lot to be said for having someone produce art to your requests in a consistent style, even if the quality of the art is not extremely high.
> Cutting off the $650B in fossil fuel subsidies over the course of 15 years pay for a little over half of the plan.

That's not how subsidies work. "Subsidies" here are just lower tax rates for R&D spending.

If those tax breaks go away, so do most of the energy projects associated with them. The taxable income would shrink, and you'd have less money, not more.
Yeah - generally I don't like solutions like this but going after the providers that the people doing the swatting are using seems like the way to go.

That and (of course) come down like a ton of bricks on the people actually doing it.
Instead of getting both votes for going middle, you get neither.
>Did you miss the part where adding an employee would double his required budget for the game? Which means he needs at least double the sales?

How does that mean he needs to double the sale? That's not how any of this works unless he wasn't making a profit before.

Assuming his budget was $50k, and he made $250k in sales. Now if he increases budget to $100k, he sure as hell doesn't need $500k in sales to justify the decision, in fact as long as his sale goes beyond $300k, or a 20% increase, then it pays for the increased budget.
I did a lot of auxiliary work when I was really competitive (mostly college), including weight lifting, sprint drills, dynamic stretching, hurdle drills. Generally, though, I usually just run (although this consists of a variety of running workouts). I never (literally never) do any static stretching beforehand.

In my experience, the most important thing is to make sure you build up the amount of running (quality and quantity) in a proper progression (don't do too much mileage or too much speedwork too fast).
Every Person in Great Britain Mapped
Regarding the VLA - is it as "open" as it appears to be from google maps?

That is, from what I could see, you can almost just turn off the highway the drive to it, and I didn't see any kind of fencing or whatnot; there also seemed to be more than a few "back ways" into it via jeep trails and such.

I've had the idea just to drive out there one weekend, camp overnight, then explore the area for a day or two, then leave. But I don't know if that would be considered trespassing on government property or something?

It just looks like a large collection of space telescopes and mostly empty desert, with a few buildings scattered about, but not much in the way of "people things" - which I doubt are needed except for maintenance purposes (which is probably what few buildings there are there are for).

Other than that, it just looks like a slightly-improved piece of desert landscape - kinda like what wind farms look like and such on the California/Arizona border area (which you can easily drive up to via maintenance roads).
What I'm saying is, the feature/mechanism that lets WebAssembly call WebGL or WebGPU is exactly the same one that lets it call DOM APIs. The same implementation work supports both.
> Those practices were curtailed by Congress; given that, it seems foolish to assert that current practices, hated as they are by the electorate, might not also be curtailed through legislative action.

The problem is you don't just need some law to be passed, it also has to be a good law, which is the really hard part.

And it's a lot easier for Equifax than tech because if Equifax would dry up and blow away it would only make the world better. Their entire business is doing the thing nobody should be doing at all. No part of what they do actually needs to be saved.

The problem with Google is that they also make a search engine. We need search engines and email providers and video hosts to continue to exist even if their funding source changes. So it's no help to pass a law that just makes them impossible, or makes it so that nobody can do it unless they're a multibillion dollar corporation. That makes it worse rather than better, because competition is the greatest practical method of thwarting corporate misbehavior. Laws alone can't do it -- see also pre-breakup AT&T, post-breakup AT&T and Comcast, various failed attempts at totalitarian communism, etc.

Especially if you make rules that cause the incumbents to get so big and entrenched that it becomes inevitable that they capture the regulators.

The best thing laws can do is to ensure that competition is thriving. But most of them in practice do the opposite.
> Don't get me wrong, I hate the super spammy intrusive ads, and sometimes retargeting does feel like I'm being eavesdropped on, but I can't be the only one that prefers to see relevant ads? I'd much rather see ads for sneakers and watches (which I'll frequently click), than I would for some other junk that doesn't interest me. I genuinely don't mind ads if I know it's supporting the thing it's displaying ads on.

None of this fundamentally requires the surveillance apparatus that most ad scripts come with.
Thanks. I feel like there should be a lot less discussion about tools and a lot more discussion about architecture. I find that with good architecture, the language doesn't really matter at all.

I've built high quality very complex projects in both JavaScript and TypeScript (both alone and as a team lead). My point is that I (and people of my skill level) can complete the project/subproject much faster with JavaScript so it gives me a lot more extra time to write tests.
IntelliJ doesn't have "saving", it writes all files to its cache constantly and then to the original files as soon as you alt+tab, and yet I still find myself hitting Ctrl+S constantly, usually as part of like a nervous tic or something, where while I'm thinking I'll save, paste my clipboard, undo, repeat.
A perfect example of how bad recruiting can be
A friend applying for a job at an aerospace company just sent me this screen capture from an email she got. It's hard to believe someone could think this is the correct way to engage with candidates.

She also said that the process was so messed up she decided not to apply. She saw it as an indication of what working for this company might be like. Granted, they are using a service, but someone at that company had to approve this process.

She said she went through four or five pages of button clicking before she could actually start the application process. Beyond that, the pages looked like 1980's websites.

Hint: Think about the email address on this image and parse out what it is telling the candidate.

https://i.imgur.com/KBlCkcs.png
I have no interest in constant cosmetic updates.

But I would love for Apple to take after Windows Phone and use those gorgeous big tiles on the home screen. Fat chance, but one can dream.

Windows Phone was really something. A dearth of important apps, but design-wise it was a milestone.
The Sad State of Axios
> We can only be sure that we are witnessing the best basketball players in the world who are motivated by money

I wouldn't say that. As an NBA fan, I feel that players that are motivated by money fall off once they make it to the league. They lose their passion, fall out of shape, and waste their potential. The best players are the ones that are so passionate about basketball that they don't know what they would do without it, are able to stay out of legal trouble, and are able to stay relatively injury free.

American football is much the same way, but with more emphasis on staying injury free. Sadly when they retire, if their body is wrecked from the sport and they don't have anything else they're passionate about, they often turn to suicide.

Also for decades now, many NBA players have mentioned in interviews and whatnot that they know players that are better than players in the league, but never made it because of drugs/crime/other off the court issues.

On a side note, auto racing has a different problem. We don't necessarily see the best drivers in each racing series because it takes a lot of talent AND funding to get to that point. There are likely many drivers that are more talented but never had the funding to reach the highest levels.
Well, not never.. but with congress.... yea, I definitely agree.
Do you have any links to those stats? I’ve only ever heard partisan talking points and haven’t looked at the data myself.
This is true because people want "instant" change. I've been slowly converting to a better running lifestyle and I'm now running in ZeroDrop shoes. I think going down to super thin soles is a receipt for disaster for the average office dweller who wants to run on the weekend!
Make it first-party, then. At least for your landing page. I don't expect to have to load third-party scripting from a commerce website just to be able to see something other than a blank screen.
Sooner or later we gonna have nuclear power as the main source of energy.