skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. How about we use the same source you -- which does sound like it may not the best site to obtain impartial metrics from, but includes this paragraph:

> These show: advanced nuclear, 9.9 c/kWh ... wind onshore, 5.2 c/kWh; solar PV, 6.7 c/kWh; offshore wind, 14.6 c/kWh; and solar thermal, 18.4 c/kWh.

Two things to note.

1. A better comparative assessment is available here [1], specifically drawing your attention to page 1333.

2. The min/med/max numbers invite questions around the cause of such large disparities, and this leads you to ask what 'advanced nuclear' means in the citation you offered. Many of these very impressive LCOE and gmC/kW figures are for new designs of fission power plants, while we should be factoring in those costs & emissions of current installations that'll be maintained for the next few decades.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
There are integrations for all the major editors.
I don’t know what we’re arguing. If you want to professionally associate with people who have raped and exploited kids from a position of extreme wealth and privilege, then I guess you’re probably legally allowed to, as long as you’re not putting people in danger. You have to decide where you’re at on that. I know where I’m at. I think most people do. Which is why they’re disgusted.
How to Impress During a Data Structures and Algorithms Whiteboard Interview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance_chasing
See my longer response above.
The title of the article is "A beginner’s guide to the debate over nuclear power and climate change", and is about the various perspectives of the DNC candidates in a specific 'Climate Change' debate.

Not sure how it's a problem that he's writing about it from a climate change perspective, and even has a disclaimer that it doesn't have all the details about the pro and anti nuclear debate.

>I’m not going to review all that history (it could fill a book); instead, I’ll approach nuclear power purely through the lens of climate change.
I remember reading that the legend of the unicorn owes a lot to random finds of narwhal tusks.
There are a large number of assumptions to unpack in your question. Most key, I think, is the mapping between progressive proposals and helping people when they're down.

If I'm a rural American farmer or miner, how does it help me to require me to buy health insurance or pay a fine? How does it help me to tax me so that the future white collar and management classes of the American populace can owe less in student debt?

The problem isn't just that the rural poor don't act in their own best interests. It's also that the coastal rich are extremely presumptuous about what other people's interests are.
> h/t to Joel on software for this tip

Is that Joel Spolsky? Man I miss the SO podcast.

I can't think of what it is you do but thanks for your response. That's a good tip about existing product(existing market).
You sound extremely insecure considering this is some article giving one person's viewpoint from 8 years ago. The vast majority of white people have never thought about this "issue" a single time in their lives and couldn't even begin to care less.

>flagged

Haha. Literally reeking of insecurity.
Yeah, this all seems strange to think that young women are only coerced into relationships with old men.

I have seen many young women court older men for various reasons.

The term sugar daddy comes to mind.

One can question the basis of such relationships, but I think it's a huge stretch to suggest they always arise out of force or coercion.
His lawyers probably told him to stay quiet.

That company is screwed. I won't be using it anymore.

Boycott bad leaders.
The Model S is basically the electric equivalent of a classic muscle car. High power at the expense of weight, and optimized for short straight line performance.

And like with classic muscle cars, it can be beaten on the track by a cheap light car tuned for good handling with a stiff suspension and good tires.
> He only won thanks to a) a quirk of the American electoral system and b) his opponent also being historically unpopular, by nature of having been in the public eye on one side of the US political system for 25 years.

I can certainly agree with b) but a) is not a very useful way of looking at things. if you went back and changed nothing else about the election except making popular vote the win condition, hillary clinton would obviously have won. but this small modification would have totally changed the campaign strategy of every candidate. people who didn't bother voting might have voted. donald trump might have won anyway with a different strategy. we might not even have been choosing between trump and clinton in the first place!

not saying the electoral college is good, just that this isn't a strong argument to the contrary.
Well, he deserves what he got then. No sympathy. I was not familiar with the details of his involvement.
Gladwell's most famous book, 'The Tipping Point', suffered a similar fate. It was largely predicated on the 'broken window theory' [1] which too was proven not to be valid [2].

After his book 'David and Goliath' received numerous bad reviews for oversimplifying things and pinning causes on things that don't make sense, Gladwell lashed out at his critics and basically said that his books are not written for experts. [3]

Almost all of Gladwell's books are written in a style that categorically states that the subjects of his writing have a predetermined cause and effect. He doesn't leave much to chance, uncertainty or some other unknown cause. Everything is certain. His stories and narrations always imply a cause. That's the real secret of his writing.

[1] https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/11/14/the-tipping-po...

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sorry-malcolm-glad...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/29/malcolm-gladwe...
For example, a good lap around spa in an F1 car means getting a blind curb at the top of Radillion at about 310 KPH
Never for me.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People accept those things as trade offs for things they want, yes. Free markets don’t give people what they want. They give people the trade offs they most highly value. They may not want DRM in printer cartridges, but they make the conscious decision to buy $100 printers with expensive DRM cartridges instead of $500 printers with cheap cartridges. They may not want less leg room on flights, but they make the conscious decision to click on a fare $3 lower in Orbitz. They may not want ads to spy on them, but they don’t want to pay for content. They want sugary foods, which are delicious. They want gas guzzling SUVs, and continue to buy them in large numbers even now that the “truth” about climate change is supposedly out.

Economies are about trade offs. The central thing marxists do not understand is that you cannot alter the nature of the trade offs through government. All you can do is move the equilibrium to a different place (at the cost of a deadweight loss).
Nobody on Hacker News will do that! They love their iPhones and MacBooks too much.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. Especially not ideological flamebait slogans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can use the change of dynamics from a curb to rotate the car around in slow corners. Watch the Monaco GP around the swimming pool and you'll see car by car clipping the sausage kerb at almost exactly the same point to get the front turned in.
Why No One Is Beating Tesla's Range
Of course it's a factor. For the most part people like to be part of their own tribe. It's human nature, not taboo.
I’m always interested in hearing about why people get involved in a specific nonprofit organization. Do you mind sharing some thoughts with us?
The editor Ulysses supports markdown, but more relevantly, supports folder/file structure such that trees of hierarchy can be selected at once to become part of a same generated master document.

https://ulysses.app/tutorials/split-merge-glue

(You can also just select and then export, which does a temporary glue, more or less.)
No need to apologize. I was referring to the new study, not Ericsson’s, and mangled my comment. It should read: “The title is incorrect as it is Anders Ericsson‘s research, Ericsson did not find that time spent necessarily led to mastery (that is a popular misunderstanding). The new study quantified practice, not deliberate practice, and despite all that did find a correlation between unqualified practice time and mastery, among other factors.”

Thanks for catching it.
At home I've switched back to Firefox. Seems like I need to complete that transition at work to continue enjoying things like ad blocking and functional sites.

In fact, maybe sites should start recommending something like that. (Microsoft's wallet sense must be twinging.)
Or, you know, just protecting property by any legal means necessary against people who were there illegally, and enforcing the rule of law. That is pretty American, and it’s sad that so many people have a problem with law and order.
Please don't post ideological flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What is the point of sending cookies to cross-site domains? I never got this. We have postMessage today, and iframes. We have API client information. Third party cookies are restricted anyway, now.
That logic would work great if Google were the publisher. Unfortunately, there are a lot of companies that think they are “publishers” but are actually meaningless now that Google is effectively a publisher, except that they don’t pay for content. Those companies—newspaper, magazines, basically anything middlebrow but not for rich people—are all getting cut out because why would you pay to staff Runners World or Car & Driver when you know who runs (because they post pictures of themselves running) and who wants a car (because they search for it)?

So, yes, in the end, the ad market has a certain size, independent of the advertising companies in it, but now the link between that market and actual writers making actual content people want is broken and everything is turning to shit.
US person here: I am familiar with codeine-(acetaminophen) mix everyone calls "Tylenol-3". It requires a prescription.
Given that a Tesla weighs almost 2.5 Tonnes, I don't understand the desire to race them? Surely it will just perform like a bus under braking and roll around?

They also don't have manual gearboxes, which is a turn off for me personally.
Typo. Should have been: https://invidio.us

(Edit window has closed for HN :(

It's an alternative interface to a popular but increasingly advertising-infested and annoying video-hosting platform.
> For 99% of the people out there, it is.

99% of the people out there never connect to wifi in coffeeshops?

I'm not even sure you hit the 99% mark if you measure by time spent connected, though I would love to see some data.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, but have not really been involved with DoH.)
: The reason why they tell you to start chest compressions

is because it creates adequate air exchange to keep somebody alive until Narcan is administered.
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> Like there being legal loopholes

It’s not a loophole. It’s the point of the law. We export weapons under the guidance of our government. There is a political check on munitions. Not everyone likes the defense industry, but banning weapons exports polls terribly.

In this case, that democratic check is released. That makes it different from traditional weapons exports.
s/stack/stake/g
Do they regulate funding of research around either the material or its affect on the human body?
How modern sports betting began
> Of course like most group work, the workload is terribly lopsided toward the competent people, while the less competent people go get pizza and drinks for the others, and take up a little bit of work (which usually has to get rewritten anyway). Everyone ends up with the same grade.

I was never assigned a group project in college that I didn't feel was a complete waste of time, but this situation is actually pretty easy to avoid if the professor cares.

one of my professors would require group members to individually submit reviews of their teammates with each milestone on the project. basically "did they do their fair share, less, or more?" if on average your team felt you went above and beyond the call of duty, your individual grade would be the group grade multiplied by r > 1, and the opposite if everyone felt you were a slacker. the scores were normalized so if everyone rated each other as exceptional, r would just be 1. it didn't make the distribution of work perfect, but it made everyone pretty interested in at least appearing to contribute.
She did take it elsewhere. Compare the NYMAG story and the NYT one.
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Why not split harmful carbon dioxide into harmless carbon and oxygen? (2009)
In my experience, different elements of the same content jumps out at different people depending on our respective experiences and circumstances. If you're lonely right now (I've been there many times and they were always the worst periods of my life. it sucks), I hope you find a way out of it. Cheers.
I think the change at the haldway mark is the thrusters stopping. The lander would continue shaking for a few seconds afterwards.
I've had Doh enabled since Firefox added the feature. Zero issues; works great. They are starting to roll this out by default for a small portion of their users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-to-gradually-enable-dn...

Most of the privacy concerns seem related to the reduced ability of countries and employers to control the browsing behavior of people. IMHO this is mostly a good thing. I don't want to inform my government or employer of every website I visit. Lack of their ability to do this is the whole point of DOH. It's a feature not a bug. It's the reason I enabled it in my browser: it improves my privacy and security.
The canary is not implemented yet, as far as I can tell.
Take a look there on Google street view. It looks so odd. A few nice houses (and some not-so-nice ones) next to barren streets and unpaved roads.
Is Xi Jinping Mishandling Hong Kong Crisis? Hint of Unease in China’s Leadership
> they can also know exact SNI names

This is why ESNI is being rolled out, yes?
Even though those browsers have to use a safari core anyway? How strange.
Protect your basic security. But if you have basic security (this depends on your stated in life), follow your heart.

(Follow your heart =follow your intuition = your intuition is your mind drawing from all your knowledge and experience to guide you)
I like it. I used to run electric sheep[0] on my root window, but it made the fans run constantly.

[0] https://electricsheep.org/
No - I only have two accounts that I post under, basically one with an autosaved password on my computer, and one on my phone. And I don't see what is so strange about my arguments. I'm not arguing that Epstein was a good guy or that his assistants necessarily weren't trafficked. I'm saying no one knows - and so far, not one of them has come forward, so regardless there is no real way to know. I would be saying the same thing if people were arguing that all the children who went to a church were raped by a pedophile priest who clearly raped, say, at least 10 children. I don't see my points as logically too difficult - merely that the subject is a clear baddie, and that means if someone says he has 19 fingers and another person responds that he probably has 10, that person will be accused of defending the baddie.

And really, this isn't a point I particularly care about. But message boards let you focus on parts of a conversation and address them independently of the rest. This isn't something I'd try to defend to the death, or would even feel the need to rebut in actual conversation. But as long as threaded messages exist, I don't see a problem with talking about these details.
This has been a common suggestion since before the Publix Suffix List existed, as you can see from the linked issues in the text (and the references to the IETF DBOUND WG).

Like most things, on first glance, it seems like it does make sense. Except it has a lot of issues, which you can see have been discussed for 15 years without resolution, even though yes, it would scale better.
That's basically a technicality. If the video clearly shows the entire offense (to me that would include showing the entire yellow so it can be measured against what it should have been) nothing else should matter.

On the other hand, if the camera doesn't show everything the camera software is in effect testifying--and it comes down to if there are any flaws in the software. The government does not have a good track record on this--breathalyzers inherently are relying on the software and the manufacturers won't permit examination (discovery refused, there goes the DUI case)--so in some places it's been declared unquestionable.

(Never mind that the breathalyzer inherently has a considerable error margin due to biology--the ratio between blood alcohol and breath alcohol varies from person to person. Quick screening test, fine, evidence for conviction--not in my book.)
In summary, a new medium-density chemistry of pouch cells can retain 90% capacity after 5,000 cycles at 100% depth of discharge.

In other words, trading off a bit of range (e.g. a Model S goes from 360 to 300 miles) to get batteries that can last for 1 million miles, or alternatively, grid storage applications that could run for 20 years.

This work is from Jeff Dahn’s team which does research for Tesla, which has claimed they will deliver a million mile battery next year. Presumably this could be an option for high duty cycle vehicles that could be charging multiple times a day.
E-books are doing pretty well.

It's a flat-out monopoly. Amazon has a strangehold on the market. If you only had to compete on the hardware, then you'd see competitors. But you need to compete with the entire market ecosystem, which is very hard.

It's like the mobile phone industry, except instead of two unassailable players there's only a single one.
If you accept that the leaf looks like a happy little frog it helps :)
I have only read about him but he seems very talented. He represents the think-outside-the-box attitude that characterizes some of the best Media Lab work and he's very good at raising money, which is critical for the person in his position.

That said maintaining the connection with Epstein in spite of repeated warnings was unconscionable. Joi Ito needs to step down and think hard about what he's doing. Not every rule is meant to be broken.
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yeah this is all about hate and power. companies make a business by tearing down others and spewing hate to build platforms of clicks and advertisements.
They probably saved some trivial amount of money on manufacturing costs by removing physical switches, seeing as how they were implementing touchscreens anyway for the rest of their interface.

Smartphones initially had physical buttons that have gone by the wayside now, but at least their screens are much more responsive!
The beginning is annoying:

"Meteorites are bits of asteroids that fall to Earth"

Then it says "while true, that's not the whole story, There are many kinds of asteroids...", but near the end, acknowledges in passing that the initial statement was false, and meteorites come from various types of objects.

I interpret this as a clickbait/engagement technique, that may seem harmless to some, but it really irritates me.
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Yes, I do all of that. I was only continuing the parent's claim that idling a car for AC is littering. I don't actually believe it is - merely stating in that worldview that airconditioning a house is littering too.
Nasal doses of Narcan are available from a pharmacist for free where I live. A government-sponsored thing.

Even if it's not as effective, maybe better than nothing. Until professionals arrive.
My OS (glibc, specifically) provides a way to resolve names (gethostbyname) using various means (hosts file, mDNS, DNS, directory service) configured by nsswitch.conf. Some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) even move this to a separate daemon (systemd-resolved) which does stuff like DNSSEC validation and DNS-over-TLS (DNS-over-HTTPS is not (yet) supported natively, you need an extra program for this). I don't think moving common functionality from the OS into individual applications is "getting rid of shitty old standards", we will end up with multiple duplicated implementations.
>> how hard to brake

Easy answer: Always as much braking as possible. There is no light braking in racing. You want to maintain full speed until you absolutely have to slow down. You brake as late as possible. The skill is not in judging how hard to brake, but when to begin braking. Watch F1 with the telemetry on the screen. Throttle goes up and down in corners. Braking is always either full-on or nothing.
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I switched back to Firefox recently as well— the containers plugin has me completely won over. It takes a while to get in the groove of it, but surfing the internet and not being logged into Google and Facebook everywhere is great and totally worth it.

(I recently also switched back to Windows 10 after a decade+ on Mac OS. I never got satisfactory performance from Firefox on Mac, so part of trying it again was hoping that the perf story on Windows was better, which indeed it is.)
There is a description that’s correct. We may never find it, but it exists.
This response seems ridiculously low effort, and doesn't even try to conform to HN guidelines.

Can you elaborate any more on "free speech crusaders" and why whoever you think they are deserve only your disdain and dismissal?

I'm actually not clear on why it's relevant.
Hint: Drinking bottled water was a subtle "they're gay" punchline in the film Heathers (1988).

https://moviechat.org/tt0097493/Heathers/58c74f926b51e905f67...

Google's Ngram viewer shows a consistant uptick of print mentions since 1985:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bottled+water&...

And sales volume since 1996:

https://douglashicton.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/bottlegrap...

For myself, until the mid-1990s, it simply wasn't a thing. I would occasionally buy a bottle on road trips in the 1990s (I now carry a reusable drink bottle, those are going on ten years' use for me).

If you view conference videos online, you'll note that pitchers and glasses in earlier videos were replaced by plastic bottles later. Those are now starting to disappear in some cases, though tetra-pack water also sometimes appears. An interesting sort of incidental meta-commentary on late capitalism.
This breaks the site guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate abuse without evidence, and to assume good faith.

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