skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ridiculous we're still not rallying around nuclear power (in addition to renewables).

"Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day. The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation.

TerraPower, the company I started 10 years ago, uses an approach called a traveling wave reactor that is safe, prevents proliferation, and produces very little waste. We had hoped to build a pilot project in China, but recent policy changes here in the U.S. have made that unlikely. We may be able to build it in the United States if the funding and regulatory changes that I mentioned earlier happen." -Bill Gates, Dec 2018 [1]

And even before that it's already the safest form of energy. [2] Fear has shot us in the foot and continues preventing us from making substantial progress.

1) https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2...

2) https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
They don't, you can use any medium for exchange. They have monopoly in deciding what is and what isn't an official currency.

As for the rest of your question, the people give them the power as part of the democratic process. Many people realized that whether they like it or not the little protection they get from a government is better than nothing. And it's enough to look at people's reaction when they get swindled out of their completely unregulated coin: ask the government to fix it and punish the swindlers.
Have you considered the possibility that these kids are actually just passionate about it? And what are these "alternate views" regarding climate change you mention? There is the truth and there is misinformation perpetuated by the oil/natural gas/plastic/etc companies and those getting paid by them.

Think about it. When you're a kid, you're not yet jaded by the harsh realities of the world. That corporations drive everything and we are basically just along for the ride.

The kids are looking at our dying planet and wondering "why is nobody doing anything?!?" I often feel the same way. The difference is, I have to go to work and focus on providing for my family. I also know that no amount of protesting or public speaking will change the path we are on in any significant way. Children still believe they can make a difference and I admire that passion. They are not worried about how old they are because they are watching the "adults" sit around and argue over even the smallest of corrective measures (carbon tax).
This is why it's so important that wind and solar costs have plummeted to below the cost of coal. If it wasn't for the introduction of fracking, they'd be much cheaper than natural gas, too.

As developing nations build up the energy base, it'll be easier and cheaper to do it with renewables than with fossil fuels. That changes the equation tremendously.
The concept of waste is a very narrow view of the world and one trapped in our 20th century concepts.

Waste implies we have no use for it any further. This concept views the world on very limited time scales (wherein we can continue to take from the world and turn things into waste that we have no use for any longer).

Instead we should always be thinking about reuse of materials. Waste should never be a terminal state so much as the waste products of one process should be converted into a useful input to something else.

Ultimately with limited materials on planet earth, virtually everything needs to exist in a cycle (water cycle, carbon cycle, etc).

The problem with the blackhole idea is that all atoms / baryonic matter could be used for something. When you send them to a blackhole, they literally cease to exist as baryonic matter (or at a minimum are never usable again). Thus, you are literally taking that material out of use (technically they will eventually be converted into energy as hawking radiation).
The CCP’s goal, much like the vast majority of political factions out there, is to maintain / grow political power.

You’re setting up a very unreasonable straw man in suggesting that the CCP is either cartoonishly evil, or virtuous
We've banned this account for proliferating flamewar on this site. That is not allowed here.

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> Although I think you might have the option to "reveal your Google Account" to other users/viewers of the shared document.

Is it not the default when you are logged in? It used to be the case that when you are logged in and you visit Google Docs, you (your name at the very least) show up on the list of viewers.
Ah, okay. I thought I would need to move them somehow right on my phone. Will have a look into that, thanks!
What do executives do, anyway?
Python’s date object does not store seconds.
When I was a kid, my parents had a three-week vacation every summer, and one week in autumn and one in spring. I never managed that, but that's partly because I get too antsy when I'm away from home for more than two weeks, and partly because I'm my own boss. But it's still completely normal in the Netherlands.
Come on now, if you "remembered" anyway, surely you'd have nothing against the information being removed from an index?

This is more about the right not to have everything you ever did tattooed on your forehead.
What happens to you at your job if you don't follow the guidelines?
But most of the bottom quarter of earners are part-time workers.

I'm actually surprised that many part time employees are given paid time off at all.
Working class usually implies little to no savings beyond, perhaps, equity in your house. Losing your job means you're several weeks away from couch surfing or living on the street.

In terms of emotional stress this is worlds away from the toil of the middle class, especially someone making $100,000/year or more.

I grew up poor--like, food stamps and having your furniture thrown out on the street during an eviction poor. Being upper middle class as an adult, one thing I do to relieve the stress is keep my "plan B" in mind. I have more than enough savings that if I had to I could buy a double-wide trailer in the sticks, send the kids to public school, buy a bait shop, and get by just fine. That makes a world of difference, but it's not an option available to the working class. If you're working class your only choices are poverty and the status quo.

A software engineer like myself, or a doctor making $600k/year thinking of themselves as working class, kinda blows my mind. It's not like the working class believe that they're the only ones who work hard.
Right now you need to energize the base: those are the people who care enough to work for you (knocking on doors, making phone calls) when the election gets closer. You don't want to touch people who only slightly supporters but overall "have a life to live" because you can burn them out and then they won't vote at all which is a loss. In just under a year when the election gets close you use the core base to run your local election.

It is well understood that the local ground game in the months up to the election is what really wins.
The costs of old model reactors are high because the designs are the result of layering modern safety technology and practices on top of 1950s and 1960s era technology.

No one should be building any more of the older designs at this point, period.

The US also needs to revise the regulations governing reactor construction, because they're also centered around the old technology. The construction and operation of reactors was a very easy target for expanded regulation for many years from any politician who wanted to exploit the public's fear of nuclear, so reactors are very over regulated.

With newer/safer reactor designs and revised regulations to govern them, construction will be considerably cheaper.

However, there's no comparison between Solar/Wind and nuclear anyway, because they serve different needs, base load vs. peak load.
I can't recall which probe, but NASA has used the same body for multiply slingshots. But that's stealing orbital energy from the body you pass in the same direction it's orbiting.

I think the mass of the body only matters in how much momentum it has. If you fly by an asteroid you will deflect its course. You could convert the entire mass of earth into spaceships and slingshot them past Jupiter and it would barely register.
The best thing I did last year was going to a gym 2 weeks before xmas and getting a membership and a trainer. I didn't tell anyone, I didn't make it my "new year resolution", I just went and did it. I'm still happily chugging along about 10 months later.
That's awesome. I don't find it hard to believe that the octopus is dreaming, but I am a little skeptical of the interpretation of the evidence. Humans get erections throughout the night which have nothing to do with sexual dreams, so maybe the chromatophores cycling are just like that.
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome on HN, and you crossed into it egregiously in this thread. That is not allowed on HN, regardless of how badly someone else is behaving. Moreover, your account has been using HN primarily for this purpose; we ban accounts that do that, because it is destructive of the intellectual curiosity HN exists for. I've banned your account for this reason, but if you'd like to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and email hn@ycombinator.com with reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future, we'll be happy to unban you.
Still, the service branches are always shuffling the deck to maintain the appropriate mix of senior and junior service members, especially in the more technical fields (such as psyops). This could represent an uptick in the use of psyops capabilities and the need for additional senior NCO's, or it could reflect a crop of senior NCO's that are retiring and need to be replaced. Sometimes a field can become bottom heavy, thus they reduce the points necessary for promotion (yes they use a point system), and when a field is top heavy they will offer early retirement, re-classing, and other options.
> I agree with you that the hard problem of consciousness is not amenable to scientific study

What if we assume a brain simulator with good debugging tools?
Facts have a known liberal bias.
What an insightful perspective.

I have a pair of twins as sisters in law (who have a very different relationship than this pair) and even after more than 25 years of knowing them this article gave me insights about them.
1) Getting funding easily from VC's (and sneaking in a clause that says you will cash out $1M so you can focus on the "long term")

2) Having access to highly coveted angel deals like Uber, or Twitter when they were just startups.

3) Getting paid for giving high-level fluffy advice in conferences.

4) Book deals.
The problem with interviews that rely on discussions of experience alone is that they aren't effective.

It's easy for candidates to exaggerate or misrepresent their accomplishments. This is especially true when they worked on large team projects. For example, if they say "I was part of the team that built Google Search", that could be a really impressive thing if they played a key leadership or technical role, or it could be a really unimpressive thing if they hung out while others did the heavy lifting, and it's very hard to tell the difference.
> at one point in the distant past, before ancient Greece and even Egypt, there was a global society that all shared very similar ideas regarding religion

Do you mean a single global human culture? We don't even know whether religion came before agriculture or the other way round. Citation really needed here.
> Even Apple and Adobe don't actively turn their update services back on when you run their applications if you have explicitly disabled them, though, at least not in any version of any of their software that I've come across.

You can explicitly disable their auto-update mechanisms in the UI, I'm not sure if that's the case for Chrome, but force-closing the GoogleCrashHandler process isn't really comparable to an explicit UI toggle.
Andrew Yang answers policy questions in Quora session
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There's a critical difference between choosing not to do something, and
being prevented by someone else from doing it.

Also, how dare you insinuate that gay people are not part of the local community in Alabama?
Are they the aliens, or are we the aliens? If octopus are conscious, do they look at us the same way we would look at aliens that came to earth with such incomprehensible technology that it looks like magic?
How is this different from Audm?
Web app and SDK for adding geofences and bluetooth beacons to your mobile app
Video is good for concepts that need visualizations, though a good blog post with animations or illustrations can work too. Video is required hands on demonstrations, like how to fix something on a car.

But videos showing somebody write code or commands is infuriating. There's no need for that. A blog post with code examples would be much better.
I think your issue is the similar to the problem I've been having, where the science of climate change seems to be ignored in favor of the politics of climate change, and questioning the later means you disbelieve the former. How strongly someone "believes" in climate change shouldn't be the metric by which we judge the value a person brings to the conversation, and the data/science should not take a backseat to political convenience.

I don't want perfect to get in the way of good when it comes to this issue, but this is a multifaceted, complicated topic, with far reaching implications, and it cannot be solved via an emotional battle royal of half formed politically oriented thoughts.

Semi-related, but I played a game forever ago called "Fate of the World", which attempted to put the player in charge of a global government to address climate change. It was almost viciously hard (The game designers may have been trying to make a point) but it was extremely interesting to see how you had to try and manage emissions from various regions, as well as political/social stability, ideally without destroying their economies (you need them to keep paying taxes to fund all this) all while trying to manage/reduce the damage caused by the shifting climates.
But the Earth atmosphere is not the glass of an aquarium, so I’m not sure this example applies.
Probably not. But there is always going to be a spectrum of variously qualified college students, and they are going to sort into a hierarchy of colleges. That will be true even if every college graduate has a life that would be considered "successful." Of course, success and satisfaction tend to be moving scales as well, and are often judged against peers. That's not about being zero sum. More education probably grows the pie. But only a limited number of people can go to the best colleges, unless you lower standards such that they are all mediocre.
No, they want you to google it for them. It's part of the sealion code of conduct.
Is that not a double edged sword though? When you reveal sources and methods, you tell ISIS what to do differently. These sorts of things tend to be some of the most closely guarded secrets in the US.

Disclaimer: I had a security clearance when I was in the Army.
That's the thing - if you get too close, you can't not feed it!
At this point I no longer care. If we're not mutuals, and you attempt to reach me on Twitter, you're just wasting your time because I send unsolicited interaction attempts by non-mutuals to /dev/null.
Thanks, this looks like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for!
Is your point here that it's implausible that rising temperatures could cause any of those things on your list?

Because at least two of them have an obvious link to temperatures (especially if you think about what average temperatures and weather do to birds/insects' primary food sources)...

We also know that depression (and as an indirect result, suicide) have known links to weather in some territories, so it's not implausible that climate change could impact that too. Though I'd expect higher temperatures to lower depression rates, it's possible suffering through even hotter summers without A/C could exacerbate depression among poor people, since there's nothing you can do to escape it.

If back to back heat waves brought on by climate change threaten you (maybe your grandma's sick and can't take the heat), and you can't afford any of the solutions like a nice air conditioner, maybe you get desperate and turn to crime so you can find the money to keep grandma from getting injured by the heat? I wouldn't personally say 'I bet that happens' but I also wouldn't bet money against a study being able to pull it out of the data. We had old people dying in homes not too long ago as a result of a power outage in the American southeast - Florida I think? - and it was a news-level scandal.

If hot summers and reduced rainfall kill crops, that's going to boost poverty levels in farming counties...
Immigrant Population Growth in the U.S. Slows to a Trickle
I'll be in the minority and say this is a mistake.

>WeWork is also planning to sell three businesses acquired in recent years: event organizing platform Meetup, office management startup Managed by Q and marketing company Conductor, according to the person.

Despite the debate over WeWork being a tech company or not, they WERE taking an interesting route that other companies have taken, which is to own their software stack, and not just eat their dogfood, but license it to competitors as well. I thought We's ambition to own/build/compile a building management stack was ambitious and forward thinking. We becoming the Microsoft of building management seemed feasible, because up until them it was a bunch of disparate parts. Them buying things like Fieldlens seemed inspired. Shedding the parts that numanagement doesnt like, instead of integrating their software into a WeSoft365 is a step towards turning We back into a pure realestate play, and being a software company would have been their competitive edge, differentiating factor, and risk aversion of future obsolescence.

The thing We did wrong was to not merge its businesses faster. When Adobe or Microsoft buy something, the first thing they do now is lightly rebrand it, and throw it into a bundle. High paying customers then get that new product for free, without prices going up. And in MSWorld, because everything is built on Nav, Sharepoint, and Exchange, data flows freely between their products. We would have benefited from a unified identity and storage across its products. Sign your building up once, get Fieldlens and Managed by Q and everything else theyve bought in the last 5 years.

IBM survives by constantly shedding its legacy businesses and reinventing itself. We is shedding its reinvention.
As bizarre as your suggestion is, what makes you so sure Thriptic is "high-value"? A guy this volatile and so easy to annoy probably found reasons in the past to justify (in his own mind) 10% tips or lower. Perhaps the cameras (or just a wise restaurant manager) knew Thriptic was in fact a cheapskate that they had little interest in serving.
I thought, this would be hell for most of the year where I live (because of the weather). So I looked at the locations, California and the NE. Yep.
Experts who spend tons of time with animals (like in zoos) also assume animals feel affection for their handlers. This may be the case for some animals but I've seen it said for animals like snakes. A snake doesn't have any concept of love/affection (especially for a human).
There’s a difference between people having sensational opinions, and sensational opinions affecting real-life legislation[1].

1. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolutio...
The article is reporting Tiktok voluntarily taking responsibility for pushing for social change in a country, by banning content that is appearing in that country.
I don't use chrome any longer, firefox for the win.
Someone from my local community runs a non-profit that, on paper, sounds great, and he gets a ton of these types of awards for the work he does. Except he doesn't actually do much work. I don't mean he, personally, isn't responsible for all the success his org has, I mean his org does very little of the work they purport to do. They focus on getting a few very high-profile placements per year that they can tout as successes, but overall, not many successes that are coming strictly out of this program.

Dude's also one of the types who acts like doing "so much good in the world" gives him the right to put down literally everyone else in the community.
I hear this sentiment a lot, but as someone living the "one breadwinner, wife and three kids" life, it seems completely doable on tech job wages.

You just have to adjust your lifestyle somewhat. People talk about how you used to be able to live on much less money, but they forget all the added conveniences people have.

For example, my Grandma stayed home with my Dad and his seven siblings. But they also had an outhouse until he was in junior high. They also had a garden and lots of DIY improvisation knowledge.

The way I like to think of my current family situation is that instead of calling my wife a "homemaker" or something traditional like that, I say she's "financially independent". We have enough money that she doesn't have to work. So she doesn't. So what if I have to work. We're halfway to freedom.
Just finished, would definitely recommend. The book has many interesting ideas, not just the octopodes :)
I spend most of my time in Swift. All new features are developed in Swift. We've slowly been doing a conversion, since about Swift 3, and are about 95% of the way there.

We also have several legacy apps that are all ObjC, or 50% ObjC. There's not a ton of new feature development, but still updates.

If I had my druthers, I'd be Swift exclusive.
Few things I would like to draw your attention to:

1. Firefox is reporting that certain parts of the page are not being served over HTTPS.

2. In the "My audio articles" section why do I need to enter the first paragraph of the article when I'm already submitting the link to the article?

3. The side menu doesn't close on the mobile site when I tap the drawer again. This was the only thing I found wrong about the UI.

I hope these will help you with improvements. Congratulations on getting Listle live. I really like the simple design of the site. I'll test more functionality tomorrow (it's past midnight at my place).
Partly. But I think the interest is that it’s self-dealing. If you are buying and selling to yourself then it’s easier to price an asset. So that’s nothing like HP overpaying for Autonomy.
Happened to me spring skiing last year. Not a lot of people on the mountain; I was separated from my group; I fell and broke some ribs and could not move; I was lying on/in the snow but not dressed for those conditions. My watch called 911 and messaged my kid.

So yes, it happens.
From the article: "In retrospect, I think our test was a bit longer and more difficult than ideal. If I were to do this over again, I would design the test to take about 4 hours."

Seems reasonable to me.
I'm not pushing for "zero migration". However, I don't think migration should be driven by business interests. A person who wants to move to another country should be able to do so.

However, I don't think a business should be able to say, "We can't find a citizen who meets our requirements, so we want to bring in a foreign worker."
The article abdicates the responsibility of Thomas cook itself. It's clearly not solely an issue of external factors (althemoreso those factors were predictable). TC has financial troubles for a decade now. It known to be in a dire situation the past few years. And yet it was allowed to sell unrealizable packages to hundreds of thousands of people. Now their collapse costs a fortune to the UK taxpayers and probably even more to the thousands of businesses in the european south that are damaged. It's a little rich to pretend it was all inevitable