skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After I got past the horrible misspellings and atrocious grammar, I could appreciate what the author is saying. The author is privileged to be able to concentrate on and enjoy a particular language. That is great, for him.

Most of the rest of us have to learn and use a wide swath of languages, features, and technologies to stay a leg up in this world. We seldom have the choice to pick what we work on. Sure, we can change jobs, but inevitably it requires conforming to someone else’s opinion.

The author makes me want to go back and pick C up again. But like so many times in the past, I will probably find it needlessly painful and go right back to the more modern languages which already solved so much for me. I don’t mind standing on the shoulders of past C developers. I, for one, also do not mind learning the details of any particular modern language because, if anything, it makes me more marketable.
Stock buybacks are a way of distributing money to investors. It's functionally equivalent to a dividend.
At the same time, Buddhism is about transcending samsara and therefore dukkha. It's hard to find a good word to describe the complete absence of all forms of dissatisfaction, but "happiness" is not a terrible first approximation.
Right, of course. I blame gboard.
This is such a great example of building products that serve the need of the customer - nails it with zero ambiguity. Please blog about how you did it, software stack, your thought process and be it a reminder that deep thoughtful approach towards a problem can deliver exceptional results.
Petrov day is going to be celebrated on the 26th, just a few days away. Whatever your nationality, whatever your profession please ask yourself: "Am I contributing to the destruction of the world? Is there something I could be doing to destroy the world less?" And then please act on that.
Needs "(2017)" in the title.
You don't have to make a dramatic move. If you're nervous maybe just move some capital from riskier vehicles to more stable.

Got some upside from some stock? Maybe take that profit and move to a Cash type position.

Diversity of Investment.
> Why would they benefit in green energy infrastructure?

The worlds largest Wind Turbine Manufacturer Vestas is danish.

Besides them, there's lots of green energy infrastructures companies that are expanding. Also of note, the Large Danish companies LEGO and Novo Nordisk have already gone 100% CO2 neutral on productions through various offsetting initiatives[1]. Oil money is not something to flush down the toilet, but the country is moving very heavily in the green direction. The oil will dry up, or we'll reach a point where it's political suicide to keep going after it. But the wind will keep blowing and the sun will keep shining.

[1] yes that's not enough, but a good milestone on the road forwards
I could write a zsh/bash plug-in so that it fills the prompt instead of running the command, in the same manner as ctrl-r. What do you think?
That could be wrong.

I think the point still stands that the separation contributes to a decrease in entropy, however it enables another effect which increases entropy even more.

If we were allowed to mix it up evenly by adding energy from the outside to lift the heavier material up (constant temperature), then we'd get an even higher entropy, agree?
I didn't know it requires a login. Do you know any online free platform that can launch a given docker image?
A hero of the Soviet Union, if not officially.

Please add the publish date (September 18, 2017) to the title; it's called Hacker News not Hacker Archives.
All African nations have very low average IQ scores.
It's pretty common for creators -- authors, artists, bands, etc -- to become formulaic. To some extent, it's just pandering to their estimated audience. Also, they've typically been working on their first few works for years. And then, if they become popular, they're under pressure to produce more and more, faster and faster.

In my opinion, it works best to just write series. You can just use mostly the same characters. Matthew Stover did that well with the Caine series. I gather that he'd been working on it for at least a few years, and had been told that it was unpublishable. So he cut out a first book, and focused on action. Then another, when it sold well enough. And then, years later, after his Star Wars gig, he published the last two. They're basically a metaplot, and collection of back stories, that probably look a lot like the initial project.
Until nixon axed the large bills as part of the drug war. With 1000$ being the new largest bill, gold bars/coins became a potentialy practical option once again. Krugerrands (sp?) tried to capture this market but never caught on.
My sense is that it's tapping into the kinds of small- and medium-term funded companies that brag about their burn rates and Heroku bills.
Nuclear costs squat to run. It's all the construction costs you need to amortize over the life of the plant that screw you.
There are two carbon cycles, the biological one (fast) and the geological one (slow). In the biological cycle carbon enters food chains through autotrophs (self-feeders, nearly all of them photosynthesising organisms like algae and plants) which capture carbon dioxide from air or bicarbonate ions from water and use them to make organic compounds such as glucose. These in turn get eaten by heterotrophs (other-feeders) such as animals who consume the organic molecules and break them down through cellular respiration where carbon in the molecules is released as carbon dioxide. Decomposers (fungi and bacteria) also release organic compounds and carbon dioxide when they break down dead organisms and waste products. Rinse, repeat.
Thanks! Actually it's written in bash because it started as a 25-line script. If it gets bigger, I'll consider rust.
> The cabin differences would have to be too big to deliver it as a trim.

So it's too difficult for Tesla to deliver. You agree with me: Hyundai's got Tesla beat on range at the price point.

> That would make it bridge the gap and probably beat the kona price wise

"Probably" is not a practical reality. The car you're talking about doesn't exist. The Kona EV, the Niro EV, and the Soul EV do exist. Hyundai is ahead here.
>> On another note, I have spent a good deal self-reflecting more or less alone in the dark with me and my thoughts.

Two phrases that have been very relevant to my practice:

"Being lost in thought is the opposite of concentration."

"Lost in thought is not meditation."

The above is not meant to imply that there aren't benefits to spending time lost in thought.
I had several like that. They were at tech and defense BigCo's. You don't need a union to be like that.
I think sleeping might help you work on the assembly program because its state and structure is made easier to recall and understand after you've slept on it. But my opinion was more based on solving math problems and learning musical pieces and athletic skills than understanding hare-brained programs.

On the other hand we might ask, is three 8 hour days better than six 4 hour days? What if there are break days in between the 8 hour days? Maybe only the first night of sleep on a new program is particularly effective. Who knows.
It's no exaggeration to say that Mr. Petrov did save the world. If he had passed his report up the chain of command, the Soviet Union could well have launched a retaliation strike. As Jeffrey Lewis is quoted in the article, "we should be talking about the great nuclear war of 1983 if any of us survived."

RIP and thank you sir.
Building Software Is a Distraction
I think it should work out of the box. Did you get any error?
Whoa, Baader-Meinhof effect. I was talking to my gf about the ghost cities in China, and how they're like modern Potemkin villages, except the Chinese government wants to make the villages real. Fake-it-till-you-make-it villages.
When the available evidence says "blow up the world", a gut-check is in order. Petrov checked himself before he wrecked himself and everyone else. Bravo!
This is not true. Many nuclear plants in the US have been shut down because they cannot cover their operating costs. The plant in this thread is one of them. TMI hadn't been cash flow positive for six years.
I think that falls under personal preference.

I was born and raised in Georgia. I'm abundantly familiar with what goes on there, weather-wise.

Near daily thunderstorms in the summer.

Electrical storms that can kill electronics, appliances or even people.

If it snows at all, businesses shut down, schools shut down, car wrecks go up, etc.

If it gets too cold, they sometimes shut down schools and businesses.

When I was eight years old and we had something like a foot of snow, roofs were collapsing, they were sending a van around to pick up nurses so the hospitals would be staffed and my sister and father walked like five miles in the snow to get to a store to get supplies we needed because no municipality in the state has any equipment for doing snow clearance and all the roads were closed.

Snow is not some kind of natural disaster in places that routinely get snow. But it is a real and serious problem in Georgia simply because it happens so rarely that it doesn't make any real sense to acquire snow plows and the like. They would rust and rot in place and be unusable on the rare occasion that it does snow enough to see an accumulation on the ground. Most of the time, you wait a day or so, things warm up, it melts, schools and businesses re-open.

But, meanwhile, people die in car wrecks.

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10840810/snow-car-crash-map

Atlanta sometimes has serious flooding.

https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/10-year-anniversary-...

Etc.
Lie because the other side is lying. The bigger bolder lie wins. The truth is considered weak medicine. This is how we got here. It's a disaster.
Non-paywall link? ️
The only issue I really have with SQL is the lack of control over how a query is executed can really be an impediment. It's like how people were talking in another thread about getting frustrated with garbage collection.

I spent a lot of time working in a department that wrote a lot of ad hoc Oracle SQL, for updates to a production system, and complex reports, and there was one guy that was ten times faster than everyone else, and also more likely to get his code correct, and so I paid attention to what he did.

He would break down a complex set of operations into simple individual queries generating temporary tables; he just wouldn't bother fighting with the optimizer, or trying to predict what it would do. So he not only wrote queries that ran quickly, but he wrote them quickly, and he got them correct quickly.

I would read Tom Kyte, exhorting people to use the full complexity of the language and the Oracle optimizer, but from my experience, it just was not the way to go. I wrote many page (or more) long queries that were things of beauty and then found that breaking them down into simple ones actually was usually much faster.

One fundamental thing that I don't think gurus understand, is that for the average grunt in a typical corporation, there is a separation of duties, such that you can't just go and change the things that a system administrator controls. So saying "your database is configured wrong" doesn't address normal life.

Although the pure relational model may be nice to think about, I find it really convenient to have a certain amount of sequential context, and PL/SQL always seemed to me to have a disgruntled relationship with SQL, so I've gradually tended towards Microsoft alternatives.
Is there a site which lists all known satellites in orbit and their trajectories?

Upon sitting on a roof some weeks ago in Texas, I thought I spotted at least 5 or 6+ within 30 minutes. Is this probable?
Person A says if solar is 1/3rd the cost of nuclear, and energy-to-gas-to-energy is 1/3rd efficient, it should be cost-neutral with nuclear.

> If solar costs less than a third what nuclear does (which is where we're headed, we're already down to half), why do you need nuclear base load? Why not just do this gas conversion?

I objected, because energy to gas costs money, and gas to energy uses money. You have to count the other costs before you can assume cost parity.

Simple enough?
Cool! Will do it!

My only concern is that this way it would be impossible to add subcommands to navi

Let's say that in the future I want to add a command for removing a cheat (navi remove)

The way you described, it would look for snippets which contain "remove"

Any ideas?
Charging per request for something that has a cost to provide is reasonable (and it's a tiny charge in this case, $3.50/million or 0.00035 cents per request).

Otherwise there's no incentive for application developers to optimize their usage.

In my last company we charged per unit of work, but it was possible to send a lot of requests to do a tiny amount of work -- some customers hammered us with millions of requests to do each unit of work. It wasn't malicious and it worked with their workflow, but we lost money on those customers due to all of the infrastructure required for the request routing.

The company eventually started charging a nominal fee per request, which resolved the issue.
I wouldn't go killing important servers if I were you. I'm showing a bill for 950+ hours for a bunch of services that I only have one instance of each. Since that's not possible (there aren't that many hours in a month), and Cost Explorer has the correct numbers, I'm assuming that there's a mistake that's causing double-counting on the billing dashboard.
The sea, obviously
It is a mistake in the billing console.
What makes WeWork so unique and powerful that it managed to paint itself as a unicorn?

AirBnB has network effect for the huge market of "a place to sleep at while travelling". This requires matching customers with providers frequently, and the same customer will use the same platform and a different provider.

Uber has the same for "a car to take me somewhere". Again, repeat customers, different provider every time.

WeWork seems to be... a company that runs coworking and office spaces. What advantage does it have over any other company that runs coworking spaces? Why would a customer choose them over any other coworking space/landlord in a city where they want a coworking space/office? Most customers don't make that decision often enough for WeWork to benefit from any sort of lock-in/network effect. Why do/did people ascribe more value to WeWork than to a random collection of coworking spaces with the same square footage? (Did they?)
It could be worse. Once upon a time a common "trick" was to avoid using foreach loops because they generated garbage. LINQ also generated garbage. I'm not sure if the .net 4.5 upgrade fixed that one.

Ultimately you wind up doing the exact same thing in C# that you'd do in C++. Aggressive pooling, pre-allocation, etc. A handful of Unity constructs generate garbage and can't be avoided. I believe enable/disabling a Unity animator component, which you'd do when pooling, is one such example.

It's all just a little extra painful because you to spend all this time avoiding something the language is built around. Trying to hit 0 GC is annoying.

It also means, somewhat ironically, is that GC makes the cost of allocation significantly higher than a C++ allocation. In C++ your going to pay a small price the moment you allocate. But you know what? That's fine! Allocate some memory, free some memory. It ain't free, but it is affordable.

In Unity generating garbage means at some random point in the future you are going to hitch and, most likely, miss a frame. And that's if you're lucky! If you're unlucky you may miss two frames.
As part of a company all of whose employees were fired as a result of trying to unionize, last year, your experiences are pretty limited.
It is just a loophole so the government can debase the dollar.
Not with crypto. It's trustless. That statement is a blanket statement that might seem correct at first but technically is completely wrong when it comes to crypto and well implemented smart contracts. See "The Byzantine Generals Problem": https://decryptionary.com/dictionary/byzantine-generals-prob....
Yes, I do too love the remote code executions. We really should look at safer alternatives when making networked games.
Based on your input, the latest version has a preview window: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3226564/65380182-6....

Alternatively, you can use the --print option

I hope you like it!
Apparently my meaning got lost (as also visible from the downvotes). I meant those two words made me immediately think of the dire conclusion drawn up later: SEC investigation, crimes committed and so on.
Stock buybacks give money to investors but are taxed as capital gains and not income.
It is cost neutral with nuclear during those occasional times when you're burning the gas to make power.

It blows the socks off nuclear at other times.

But nuclear needs to get its high prices 24/7 to make economic sense. Otherwise, the cost of that 20% capacity factor nuclear is going to balloon even higher.

Simple enough?
I'll add it to the "alternatives" section
Wow, just like housing, right?
"HCL itself would be violating the National Labor Relations Board law if the company fired workers for forming a union, but Gyrgo is concerned the union can’t protect them from the work they do with Google, since they don’t actually work for Google."

In other words:

Google won't be violating the law if the company fired workers for forming a union because they will be doing so using a proxy organization as a scapegoat. This in effect allows them to circumvent the law referenced above.

Complete horseshit
The paper you cited above calls 20, 39 and 59 inches of SLR by 2100 the low, intermediate and high scenarios. And 39 inches is close to a meter.

But since the paper is from 2013 I should have used 87 years. So 1000mm/87yrs = 11.5mm/yr, a little more optimistic than 12.5mm/yr.
They get paid back with money that is worth less. In other words, their investment was a poor decision on their part.
We are talking in two different subthreads at the same time.

Stick to the argument here. It is very simple.

Power->gas->power requires capital costs and operating costs. Even if PV is 3x as cost-efficient as nuclear, PV power divided by three and then paying for p->g->p is not cost neutral.

P->g->p has to pay for its costs over the narrow times where it is actually filling in. The rest of the time it is a dead weight.
I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's not even clear that it will include my historical activity when it's ready...
Concrete use-case: Infrastructure as code. Sometimes we like to keep track of servers, environments, accounts or what not, and a human readable/verifiable representation is useful to check differences in a period of time, for audit purposes. Git/SCM is a good tool to do versioning and atomicity; The CSV is for the readability.
The poor can easily get those things as well, especially with apps like robinhood that make buying stocks easier than ever. Also you have cryptocurrencies now that can basically be purchased in seconds.
Unless GDP growth is 0 then yes it can.
Writing? I think that's the basic human creative act, putting thoughts to paper - words, music, whatever
The Ozone layer was improved by both politicians and the general public working together to reduce harmful chemicals. It is actually one of the great success stories where people worked together. Even the most conservative leaders in the West at the time, such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Tatcher saw the threat and responded with action.

One could argue it was not so hard as fighting carbon emissions, because the general public had alternatives they could switch to without noticing much difference. It probably also helped that Margaret Tatcher actually was an educated chemist who could listen to the scientists
Try substituting "white" for another race in your sentence and see how that sounds:

> Criticizing how Jewish men use their Jewishness to preserve their exclusive access to money and power isn't racist

If the sentence sounds bad, and that most certainly does, then the original is racist.
A way for people to "experience" the app, if/when quota is exhausted. Which might also to satisfy the curiosity of some, before they use quota.

> (you probably could not do it with a streetview photo, because of their terms, but a generic photo would totally do)

My fuzzy recollection is some years-ago TOS permitted showing the service being used?
Ethereum Mining vs. AWS Spot Pricing [2017]
I see!! Sorry, I might have read your comment as you saying that you're struggling: In which case, I see that you definitely have the right attitude, so I hope everything is OK :)
100%, there is absolutely no reason for them to be related except in the self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking they are related.

multiple quarters where the US GDP decreases, even if its just 0.1% each time, will be called a recession.
Sounds like Chicago is about as close to safe as it gets anywhere on earth.
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make. If you assume that’s the equilibrium state and therefore the highest entropy state given the constraints on the system then of course the entropy cannot spontaneously increase. And if it’s the highest entropy state despite looking “low entropy” under the flawed criteria of “looks ordered” then it’s obvious there is something else we’re missing that explains why the entropy is indeed maximal.

Anyway, to increase the entropy you don’t just need to add energy, it has to be in the form of heat (something you can’t extract work from later). If you move the “heavy” layer on top of the “light” layer the (potential) energy has increased but if the temperature remains constant the entropy doesn’t change.
Just use an accurate word to describe that instead of confusing the economically illiterate
Did they do their regulatory evaluation themselves, hiding what they produced, still claimed that what they did was "not important" after one crash, tried to blame the pilots, waited for a second crash, again claimed that it's the pilots responsible for the second crash, insisted for the planes to keep flying after the second crash? Was it all the effect of their decision to lie about the facts of design of the whole plane to everybody?

I still consider what Boeing did hard to match with any other event, except maybe with some other Boeing actions.
The word you’re looking for is “de-stresses”.
"The mundane, banal aspects of life are drenched with profundity."

I agree with this, but I don't think Nautilus routinely hits the mark.
What you're looking for is awareness, to be right here right now and observe what's going on inside. If you're like most people, you spend most of your time lost in thoughts that you didn't actively choose. The first step is to realize that is the case, which is very difficult in the middle of the storm; hence the sitting down with closed eyes.
Gently Down the Stream with AWS Kinesis
I'm going to push back against this "let's blame the evil media for everything" view. The treasury yield curve inversion is one of the best indicators we have of an oncoming recession, even if it's not 100% accurate. To not report on that very important signal would have been negligent.