skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like you might be missing some key knowledge here, including nuclear in "dirty power".

Unless you live near to a geothermal or hydro source, there is no renewable option available today that can provide baseload power, the "day in, day out" load that must always be available on the grid. The options are fossils and nuclear.

Coal waste is massive: 68 tons of solid and 77 tons of CO2 per person-lifetime of electricity. The majority of that waste goes into the air, where we can't control it and don't know what it's up to (apart from fucking our climate of course). That's not counting fly ash and flue gases, the world's largest source of released radioactivity. That stuff is packed with heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury. The air pollution from coal causes 35,000 deaths from lung disease per year in the US alone - when it's working perfectly. The same figure for China is estimated to be 350,000 deaths per year.

In contrast, one person-lifetime of nuclear waste is about 12oz of solid, dry matter, which we can watch (and apparently re-use in modern reactor models). It produces zero CO2, and zero gaseous emissions. The total lifetime death toll from nuclear power is - at it's most generous - under 1,000 people.

Renewables are a part of the solution, and long term, they will be the complete solution. But even if we could solve all the power generation, storage, and transmission problems within 50 years (which would be amazing)... we need a way to provide base load in the meantime. And we have an option that is safe, zero-carbon, and produces a fraction of the waste of the alternatives.

Additionally, "we need to reduce energy consumption" is only an option if you're cool with 2/3 of the world continuing to live in abject poverty. By the end of this century the global population is projected to level off at 11 billion or so, with almost all of that growth coming outside the wealthy West. The 90% of the world which is currently using a fraction of global power generation wants washing machines, electric lighting, and computers, too. If the US cut average power consumption in half to match Europe, and then we all cut power consumption by a further 50%... we would still need to build multiples of our current baseload power generation capability.

TL;DR: We need way more baseload power than we've got. It's not helpful to lump all our options into one category and rule them out completely... especially when one option comes with zero carbon.
'Political correctness' just means people can't be jerks to the less well off people and have to take responsibility for what they say about minorities, women, disabled people etc. Seems like the human race improving to me.

And people are pessimistic about life because of climate change that was helped to be created by the pollution of the past when we discarded crap everywhere and didn't care about the earth.
C'mon. My Top 10 CS school expected me to put in 60h/week and was pushing me beyond my limits most of the time. My "quant-heavy" MBA required me once to spend 8h/week. If you find MBA difficult, you are probably doing something wrong. Old-school MBA is about networking (basically drinking buddies for life), new trends are about connecting tech people with VCs to use each other to build something new and profitable.

MBA is useful to get overall picture of individual areas from 10,000ft so that you don't need to re-invent everything and have some semi-automated way to process things that are thrown at you while building/managing some organization. You should walk away with knowledge about what financial instruments are at your disposal, how not to completely mess up your organization with one's stupidity or lack of leadership, how to recognize phase of a company you are in etc. This is important when you get under permanent stress while running a company when quality information will be scarce and obfuscated, people's motives will be a mixed bag, and only subjects you mastered and networking circle you built will be with you.
> but there's no reason to think the solid state components won't normally last 25+ years.

Except this article is specifically about solid state components failing in a much shorter timeframe.
Not that much. BGA chips aren't that hard with a hot air station. I've done plenty of de-soldering and reflow using just a hot air gun.
How is it better if the salaries are lower.

I am tired of engineers should care about their "craft" above all else dictums. Software engineering is somehow more pure and innocent than evil finance ( for example).

I would rather earn a lot in my prime and retire early to a place of my choosing.
Odd what things people seem to have issues with. I've never had any problem with application and window management on either platform, be it keyboard based or mouse based.

I suppose for some people there has to be 'one true way' of managing windows and applications and every other way that isn't their way is automatically no good. But for me that hasn't really been the case. I like some versions more than others, but it doesn't really affect the way I work or the efficiency I work at.
The list seems like a dream, especially the healthcare part and the neutrality of the Swiss, not as extreme and divided. The housing, taxes and pay are icing on the cake. To top it off, Switzerland looks like a dreamland with all those amazing views.
Series: 'Automating Poverty' How our governments use AI to target the vulnerable
I spoke enough German to make the transition to Swiss German okay. It's definitely a barrier and I'm still working through it. Most people can and do speak English if they think their English is smoother than your German / Swiss German.

Outside of major, cosmopolitan cities (pretty much Zürich and Geneva), I'd say there is an expectation to speak the local language. Anything official I've done has been in German.
Generally speaking Toyota is conservative in terms of rolling out new technologies and sticks with what's proven. For example the base Camry has a 2.5L engine and 8 speed auto transmission and the base Accord a 1.5 turbo and 10 speed auto. Toyota also goes more in depth terms of QA and testing on individual parts than others.

From an article on the Toyota - BMW Supra/M4 collaboration,

"...BMW couldn’t believe how extensive some of our quality and efficiency studies were as parts came into shape one by one. We would take every bit down to a fastener or rivet, and put it through our stringent quality control and a dozen other testing, we’d ship thousands of parts back to Japan for analysis. That is normal to us."

http://club4ag.com/chief-engineer-tetsuya-tada-reveals-the-a...
I still remember reading about your company on HN, Adriaan. Gefeliciteerd!!
8% return, good one.
Coast Guard $10.5B Cutter Program Giving Fresh Opportunity to U.S. Shipyards
and not ancient sand witches
The saddest thing in the world. To waste 20,000 opportunities to enjoy good food is squandering a significant part of life.
India is a democracy that votes for its own laws, nobody is using it as a "staging box."
That’s a pretty big difference, but it would also be interesting to know where these positions are located. The cost of living differences between SV and outside of the Bay Area is pretty substantial, making these absolute number comparisons a bit harder to interpret.
Immigration is an easy win for significantly reducing global poverty.

In a classic Economics and Emigration:
Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? Michael Clemens argues that it would be a win-win-win scenario to open up our borders.

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.25.3.83
I don't think that's how capitalism and commercial companies work...
So many comments in this thread seem to know exactly what’s best for everyone else. Maybe different people have different goals?
A maybe minor point: It's more or less impossible to become a Swiss if you aren't already whereas it's kind of possible to become an American. If your company makes it it's entirely possible this can become a problem down the line, for instance regarding your tax status or rights and obligations.

Also, the culture is remarkably different, so if you're expecting something similar to the american college campus-like experience large companies offer over there you're in for a hell of a culture shock.
I'm kind of confused what taboos, abstractions, political correctness have to do with a sad era. Pessimism and escapism- do we have evidence they are increased today compared to the 60s?
Ok, fine, but do you realize you stepped in to make a clarification for what other commenter might have meant by "processed" where that commenter (ChuckNorris89) explicitly said to both: 1. not eat processed food, 2. eat pasta and olive oil?
> San Francisco is famously non-sunny (all that cloud).

Used to be true, but less and less given climate change
From what I've seen, it's less common than the US but they do exist.
> No not dynamic

Ok, I see that structural typing is a third type system option.

But honestly, I don't want C# and .NET to contain every feature and paradigm ever created. It would be bloated and hard to use. Already there is significant legacy and different ways of doing the same thing, and it's likely to get even worse.

If the language that you ideally want is built around structurally typed free-floating functions, then it probably isn't C#. It probably exists, it's likely possible on the .NET platform, but it doesn't work and think like C#.
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Exactly. I would make double what I make now in the Netherlands.

That being said, everything is 2 to 3 times more expensive there. That might well be worth it given the quality of life you get there.
WG also doesn't do dynamic mesh routing. With tinc, I can have a network path down, and my mesh will find it's way around it. Tinc is slower than WG, but I will take that hit for the benefit of availability. (my preference anyway)

One thing I noticed with tinc is that it does not take advantage of sysctl network tuning. I had to increase the network buffers for that dynamic routing to not make as much of a noticeable slowdown.

Cipher = aes-128-cbc
ClampMSS = yes
UDPRcvBuf = 81920000
UDPSndBuf = 81920000
Compression = 0
Some people don’t, in fact, live in the Bay or make telephone number salaries hacking React all day.
> Cons: no Sun

That's a pro to me. I'm happiest when it's cool and cloudy, and everything to do with the sun is just brutally oppressive and makes it hard to get anything done.
As far as I know, a portion of Tesla's superchargers (and cars) are shipping with a CCS plug. I suspect it's just the matter of financial terms and Tesla's capacity.
Hi mad_eye_ai! Unfortunately not. We are interested in candidates that could join us full time onsite.
Python 2 is obsolete. It won't have upstream support anymore when bullseye is released, which means that Debian has to do all the maintenance by themselves. Even if there are no updates, that still means fixing security vulnerabilities and keeping it compatible with changes in the environment (i.e. new packaging policy, new compilers, new hardening features, etc.). There's nothing to gain but work by keeping it.
2to3 does NOT handle the change in division behavior. There is no automated way to do so because python2 only does floor division sometimes and it's decided at runtime based on the arguments being ints or not.
The scariest and most prescient part of 1984 turns out to have been the 2 Minutes' Hate. See: China on reddit last week.
Yeah and that's for a 538 sqft apartment. I don't know the specifics of the San Francisco rental market, but you can easily beat $4k/mo for a studio in desirable parts of Manhattan, so I assume the same is true of SV
Why the gaming industry is an investment opportunity
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The article is about the following VS Code extension for writing Markdown with math formulas using LaTeX syntax.

https://github.com/goessner/mdmath
It might make some sense in a multi-party discussion, I think. E.g. "When Soandso implied X he or she made a mistake by assuming Y". In an interview though? Unless it's from the Silence of the Lambs, I don't see where third person pronouns could ever happen.
Ah that's a shame. If you'd had a bootable USB stick or some pre-boot environment to use, you probably could have rolled back from a snapshot. At least, that's my understanding of the theory.

Your experience has definitely not discouraged me from wanting to ZFS my root partitions though. If only to provide the potential / theoretical ability to roll back a snapshot if necessary!
Remember the 50's? Too long ago. Anarchist bombings, shootings all over American, the world. Today is so much safer and saner than back then.
In Silly Valley, yes.
> - Negatively, it is much harder to find meetups close to you that apply to you. Unless you're based in Zürich (the tech hub of the region), expect any meetups to be irregular and if you don't go to the next one, it might be the last one.

In my experience there is a lot of meetup in Lausanne and Geneva. However it is a different kind of tech hub mostly focus on deep tech, where Zurich/zug focus mostly on Fintech/Blockchain.
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258550.

I'm very much an exception to the norm. I would have looked at Germany first if I were unmarried.
Not OP, but I have so e experience particularly in Zurich.
English is widely spoken by a majority of the people you'll be working with, but some sort of basic German can go a very long way. Compared to other cities like Paris or Strasbourg (other tech-ish cities), Zurich is far more English friendly, perhaps only second to Amsterdam.
Bullshit alert
They start with:
"Maybe it is because of the outrageous rents eating over 30% of the salary and houses you cannot afford unless you joined Facebook or Google at the right time? "
Regarding the SV.

Then, this is what they (proudly) say about Switzerland:
1) "In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF "
2) "In Switzerland a Software Developer can easily earn over 100,000 CHF (1 CHF is around 1 USD) "

So, that means that we can calculate your rent there to be between 30% to 48%.
But I guess, just because it is in Switzerland, it should not be outrageous?
Python 2 will not be maintained upstream beyond January 2020[1]. Therefore Debian will not include Python 2 in its next release since Python 2 will be already be EOL on the day of that next Debian release.

Otherwise, who will fix the Debian Python packages when the next CVE comes out?

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
Errors in the laws of physics can be found in two ways:

1) new experimental data which conflicts with the currently accepted laws of physics

2) inconsistencies within the current laws of physics

or

3) The "error" in physics is not there and there is an error in the derivation of the inconsistency.

What happens here is that an engineer attempts to use the accepted laws of physics without measuring new experimental data in hopes of violating the accepted laws of physics, but without formulating an explicit contradiction. This is why gus_massa's BS alarm got triggered: using only accepted laws in physics it should be impossible to derive a contradiction, and any seeming contradiction is either a complicated form of already understood propulsion mechanisms (photon rockets) which consume rocket rest mass, or else the seeming contradiction is an actual contradiction, in which case the derivation should be simplified to the extreme to point out the inconsistency in physics. The latter was not illustrated so it entails either an error in derivation, or an inefficient photon rocket.
AS an American I am sure its almost impossible. On a positive note I do speak German already.
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Yeah, it is super interesting to read about. Our food monoculture is going to be a huge problem for us in the future.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35131751
Maybe the companies don't care, but apparently the US government does. There's a hard requirement for H-1B, that the applicant hold at least a four-year bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or its equivalent, and will be employed in a position which requires such a degree.
On openSUSE at least there is an `lp` group for this purpose.
I'm Swiss but we have a lot of people from different places working here. Many Swiss people are totally fine with English, and since we speak Swiss german, nobody expect you speak it anyway.

That said, in our case, working for Banks, you do still connect to the 'old school' Swiss buissness who are a little less English driven then the Tech sector. That has caused some issues for us, but not all that significant.
Have you updated your priors?
No, but it illustrates what I was getting at: that's dozens of operating systems.
I agree that the mere act of choosing to observe or report something is, in some sense, activism, at least in that it indicates the author thinks the topic has some merit. But it's a sliding scale.

(1) And an author can identify words designed to elicit emotional response and work to minimize them in their writing if they want to focus on the facts vs. their interpretation of the facts.

(2) Listen friend, only an idiot doesn't understand words and phrases have emotional tone, and an author chooses whether they want to piss you off or stay out of your emotions when they choose their words.

... these two sentences have the same conceptual content.
Ah—that's quite possible. I'm close to St. Gallen, so either of those cities are 3-4 hours by train for me (so a bit out of the range I'd normally travel for a meetup).
It is impossible to have perfect knowledge, but journalists and authors in general still write articles.

If you show efforts in reporting neutrally, your readers will pick that up.

I agree that media companies, which are part of a large multi-billion industry, have their shortcomings. That makes trying to keep an open mind even more important for journalists. There is a reason why being independent is still a positive qualifier for journalists.
And?

Did Mozilla take 21 days to fix that issue, push it off for a future release, and only reprioritize it as a hotfix after being hounded?

GP isn't complaining that Chrome has bugs, every browser has bugs. They're complaining that Chrome doesn't prioritize bug fixes unless users raise a stink.

I am somewhat sympathetic, because I've worked with issue triaging, and I understand that everyone wants their issue to be #1. I am less sympathetic than I otherwise would be though because Google owns the dominant browser in the marketplace and is owned by one of the biggest companies in the world. My standards for them are higher.
This is a very precise answer. Still, there is need for more cells as grandparent points out, and those cells will be closer to ground level than before.

Other anticipated benefits are providing connectivity to fast vehicles (for example high speed trains) and providing mobile internet to whole buildings in situations where it's cheaper or more convenient than fiber optics or copper.
Request smuggling vulnerability found between Amazon ALBs and Go net/HTTP
> Tech stocks outperformed market

On average over a long period, but in this case you are invested in one company over a very specific entry date and period of time, with some critical periods blocked from selling.

Facebook peeked around the end of July 2018 at 209$, if you got stocks then you might be in trouble, or already sold out after seeing 124$ during December 2018.
Cars are not "bricked" : this issue is well known and some Tesla hackers have solutions to fix. Rich rebuilds YouTube channel did a report on fixing flash cards on a Tesla : https://youtu.be/o-7b1waoj9Q?t=510
US Strategic Command video that shows each stage during a Minuteman III flight
And mobile phones have existed for 40 years, gsm for almost 30.
Considering the most radiation is outputed during the phone conversations, and most people hold their phone always on the same side of the head (irradiating only that half), detecting an epidemic of mobile phone radiation sicknesses would be easy, if there were any.
So obviously social anxiety in the formal, medical sense is a real thing. I've had friends who have struggled with it, and had very good luck working with therapists. I'm sure that it's still a struggle for them, but at least from an external perspective, they seem to socialize and form relationships just as well as everyone else now.

Outside the formal anxiety sense, most people struggle with the negative feedback loop. The trick is that you can't simply turn it off - even if you're the best socializer in the history of humanity. For me, I set an informal timer (usually while journaling or in the shower) to intentionally introspect my interactions and pick one thing I felt I could have improved on ("I really wish I had said more than 'fine' when So-and-so asked me how my day was") and then move on.

One lesson that's hard, for me and I suspect others, is that while it's very important to be polite, it's not your job to make everyone else feel happy or complete - that's not an excuse to go around being a jerk, but also don't feel you owe anyone else something by default. It's enough to have a conversation about the weather or let the other person complain about their boss some and offer a bit of empathy.
Insurance is not linked to employment in Switzerland. You shop around. Employers might help defray the cost. I know at least one large employer who gives 400CHF/mo towards insurance ( on top of salary).
I don't think we can simply assume that starting position matters to "pulverization" after 1500 years.

Mobility is more likely; the mobile object moves along with the ice, the stationary one gets pulverized.
> I noticed the store filling up with Craftsman, Kenmore, and other Sears-branded junk.

Such a shame; Craftsman used to be THE name in home tools. If one broke, you could bring it back for a replacement... forever.
As a trans woman, Spain is also one of the only parts of Europe where hormones are easily accessible, so if I ended up having to live in Europe, no other country would be an option.
Tyler Cowen's "What I've been reading" blog posts[1] have been a great source of book recommendations for me. He reads an unbelievable number of books across a lot of fields and topics, so it's likely that you'll see something that interests you at least once every couple posts.

Once you've identified interesting books, you also have to do some "triage" to identify what to actually read now. My strategy: Every time I find a book that looks interesting, I use Amazon's "Send a free sample" feature to send a sample chapter to my Kindle. Whenever I finish a book (or get bored with the one I'm reading), I'll flip through the samples I downloaded until I find one that holds my attention, and then I'll buy the book (or get it from the digital library if available) when I get to the end of the sample chapter.

Goodreads also purports to provide book recommendations based on the reading list you've uploaded, but I haven't had good experiences with that so far.

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/b...
No, because the economic return on the child would be better with a committed parental unit, rather than a temporary paid associate, whose concern starts and ends with the pay checks.
1. The path to citizenship is pretty long as an adult: https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/themen/buergerrecht/ein...

But once you tick the boxes it's not particularly hard.

2. Very.
$3000 will get you a not bad one bedroom in a old building with rent control in SF, or in a new building in the burbs.
I missed the part where every creeper alive circumvents the policy without inconvenience but every other user alive can't.

I require consistency, so either EVERYONE is inconvenienced, or EVERYONE can circumvent it without issue.

The part I missed is the justification for inconsistent and illogical arguments where magically your ability to be inconvenienced is based only on your desire to be a creep.
Current title doesn't match the article. The original title is pretty poor, but "going from to even more" is worse, IMO.