skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the nuclear waste we've ever made in the USA stacks about 3 barrels high on a single football field, about .002 square miles.

One of USA's deserts is around 190,000 square miles.

I'm sure we can find someplace to store it all.
Albert Einstein, Scientist and Mob Idol
Canada's immigration rate is 5.3 per year per 1000 residents (200K per year, population 37.59M). The US immigration rate is 3.6 per year per 1000 residents (1.18M per year, population 327.2M). And in absolute (not per capita!) terms, Canada resettles more refugees than the US [1]. The US is in fact more selective (probably owing to decades of legislative gridlock leaving us with an outdated bureaucratic nightmare of an immigration system nobody on either the left or the right likes).

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/19/canada-now-...
I've been researching this a lot lately. I think the following list (in this order) is the best general advice for tackling/preventing chronic inflammation:

1) Invest more time in compassion/self-compassion

2) Cultivate better social connections (quality more important than quantity)

3) More regular exposure to green natural environments

4) Less junkfood

5) Spend time building up habits that help relax you, such a breathing exercise etc

6) Do work that is meaningful and makes a visible social contribution

7) Varied physical exercise

Chronic inflammation happens because the body feels it has to adopt a physiology that has a short term focus of dealing with threats vs a physiology that has a long term focus that promotes rest, growth and rejuvenation. The latter is only possible when the body feels safe and secure and that element is missing in many people's lives, many people's bodies are in the former mode most of the time. Most of the things in the list either promote parasympathetic states enabling the latter, or help build your ability to deal with stressful situations without promoting chronic inflammation.

One of the most interesting findings I've come across is that hedonic happiness does not help with inflammation, in fact, people who get most of their happiness through hedonic pursuits actually have genes that express themselves to help bring about inflammation. People that achieve happiness/satisfaction through meaningful endeavors have been shown to have gene expression that is not promoting inflammation. This suggests for example, that spending an afternoon volunteering beats having a fun night out at the cinema, as far as physiological benefits go. Steven Cole (expert in genomics) has some very interesting presentations on this.
> It’s amusing to see people think there is some hard technical problem here.

One of the primary users of robocalls are politicians. I'm sure they'll get right on legislating against it. /sarc
> Both of those statements have some element of truth to them,

No, they don't.

They are supercharged propaganda.

> but they're obviously incendiary, as is your 'veganism is unhealthy'.

Not at all.

Saying veganism is unhealthy is stating an opinion shared by many nutrition expert, it says nothing about vegans, it is just what it is.

meat is murder contains a judgement: if meat is murder, you are a murderer, if taxation is theft, who collects taxes is a thief.

I can accept "you eat corpses" because it's true, I don't eat animals alive, they are already dead when I eat them, but it is also imprecise, because I eat just bits of the corpses, not the entire carcass.
> Are you saying there have been studies that show Haskell's type system has not been correlated to higher correctness than say Java or Python, or are you saying you are unaware of any such studies?

On the contrary! Consider for instance: "Total Haskell is Reasonable Coq"[1]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09286
I agree with you. I try to be nice, but acting out my will , and God's will, with authenticity is a higher priority. I am increasingly aware, as I become more "myself", that people are offended and intimidated by my mere participation in the world. I respect moral boundaries, not social ones. Some people appreciate it more than others.
Article states state health dept employees.
What total bullshit.

No country would commit to any new nuclear plants unless it is a cover for a weapons program. (UK)

Here is a simple test, would any privately-owned utility buy a new nuclear power plant without a government guarantee? No.

A nuclear plant if ever finished as half are abandoned takes about 20 yrs to build (eg Flamanville / Olkiluoto)

A 1G PV plant with storage with 25% utilisation would be built in a year. With a capital cost of 7%-10% of nuclear or about 1/3 adjusting for utilisation.

There are three costs for a powerplant:

1. Capital costs - most are 20%- 30% equity and the rest debt.

2. Fuel costs - How much is the coal, gas or other fuels used to create the power.

3. Operations and Maintenance (O&M) - All thermal plants (solar thermal, nuclear, gas or coal etc) use high-pressure steam. The O&M on steam is about USD 20 per MW-h.

So, if you had a solar thermal plant (Ivanpah) the steam O&M is about the same price as total generation from PV.

Based on the average of Flamanville, Olkiluoto and Hinkley Point here are some reasonable guesses.

Capital Cost: USD 15 per watt (pv with storage USD 0.50)

O&M - USD 40 per MW-h (Ops 10 + steam 20 + closure 10)

Fuel - USD 10 per MW-h
Less people will bother to like posts. Aka less organic reach. It has been demonstrated that a post with more likes is more likely to be liked. Advertisers buy fake likes just for that very same reason on their ads.
Yes I am a Brit. From my UK perspective NYT feels distinctly Democrat leaning rather than neutral with the odd surprise opinion piece. I don't think I've ever felt them independent or neutral. WaPo somewhere between Democrat and Republican - I've never quite been sure if that's them simply unsure which horse they want to ride. Though I admit I read rather less from WaPo, and am not sure of the US Republican equivalent of The NYT, equivalent to the UK Torygraph (though they're not really that since their last change of ownership).

What I do notice distinctly, with both those and probably all US media to some extent is the degree they come onside around "national issues" and military action, often becoming distinctly non-neutral, even when it against their perceived political alignment. A tendency that is far less pronounced in the UK papers - though that is increasing.

UK media is often quite happy to lay the boot into the sitting government, even if it is "their own". Neutrality usually gets bought and made partisan (and crap) - Murdoch and Times, Lebedev and Independent. FT is probably the closest we have left, and their buyer haven't yet ruined it.
Same here, I was so happy when I saw that they added that setting. It doesn't send unknown numbers to voicemail if you've called them in the past. It's a pretty good heuristic. It solved the problem for me. If some doctor's office really needs to reach me and I have never called them first, I guess they can leave a voicemail.
I actually attempted to do this.

I used ML techniques to help smooth over some of the difficult parts (there are many difficult parts). The hardest cases are ambiguous names, for instance delineating Hispanic vs. Puerto Rican naming conventions (they're different). The fundamental approach involved pushing all ambiguity up to the end user, so they always have the option to correct the system.

https://www.alphanym.com/demo/?jm2
Canada is terrible at assimilating immigrants, the only reason we have less poverty is because our immigration laws are much tougher than the US' and we take in mostly richer immigrants.
It's called a termination fee, and it already exists. Alas, it's payable to the receiving operator, not the receiving person - meaning that your telco actually makes money on every single spam call you get. Talk about perverse incentives!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_rates
Just look at how habitable Chernobyl still is.
I do the Caledonian Sleeper a few times a year to Inverness. Recently they've rolled out new rooms on their trains which are much better, but compared to the price of flying it's really expensive. I still travel on the sleeper though because I cannot stand the indignity of modern standard-class air travel.
Nicotine is specifically harmful to lung tissue.

You state that smoking weed has carcinogenic effects similar to tobacco which very obviously is not the case. They are completely different drugs with completely different side effects. Smoke from marijuana does not equal smoke from tobacco. I am not saying its without negative consequences but they are apples and oranges.

Of course we have research on smoked flower. 1000s of years of research. Mankind has been smoking this plant longer than recorded history and Ill take that any day over the literature at pubmed. I would love for the feds to allow more research of course but its still schedule 1 so not much to be done.
The word "God" doesn't appear in the US Constitution, which also doesn't make mention of any "superior force".

People whose hearts stop on an operating room table and are subsequently resuscitated aren't issued death certificates.
> Members of this organization need to be pursued as criminals

Not sure why this is being downvoted. NSO and its employees willfully facilitate criminal violations of CFAA, among other laws. (They have received payment in U.S. dollars, making the question of jurisdiction trivial.)

Given the heinousness of some of the crimes they've aided and abetted, many against American citizens, most Americans would be on board with arresting their employees on arrival to the America or our allies.
Youtube has some very scary examples of ships in storms - I almost get seasick and fear for my life just by watching.
Are there any public test data sets of name corner cases? Given the popular "falsehoods programmers believe" lists, someone could create a public data set of unsanitized name inputs, expected decompositions, and expected round trip result. I think genealogy organizations have published de facto standards for name formatting.
You are clearly misreading what I wrote, please read it again: I do not believe that all people who wears a MAGA hat believes in those ideas, what I said is that many people do (since that's the sort of rhetoric Trump often uses).

> Nobody said this

Yes, Trump said that Mexican immigrants bring drugs and crime, that's literally what he stated in that speech. In a similar fashion he also wanted "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering" the US:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151208051322/https://www.donal...

It is extremely disingenuous though to say that "nobody" who wears that hat associates Mexican immigrants (and other demographics) with crime.
What's the expensive bit? Can't you rent a server and build on that?
I thoroughly recommend the book. When I first read it, it only took me two sittings over a weekend to complete.
Counterpoint. The gig turns into a night out, which you don't really enjoy but heck you had to say 'yes'. Now you're tired, and you are snappy at a work friend, who takes offense and you miss out on an invite to some other thing you would have actually got value from...

Basically saying _yes_ to everything isn't going to magically make you only have great experiences. It will just mean having different ones.
Yeah it’s a pretty terrible term. I shop in the produce and butcher sections of the store and skip the rest. If it looks like it came from a plant or is part of an animal, then I’m happy.
> Yes it does. Making 10x the annual average family income makes you upper class. That’s what the words mean.

No that's not what the words mean.

Social class is what circle you run in. It's what kind of car you can see yourself driving. It's how you think about financial security. It's what rec activities you think about doing. It's how you get involved politically.

Income is only a tiny part of that equation. You can be upper class and dirt poor. And you can be lower class and have millions in the bank.

Don't use class to refer to wealth or income. These three concepts are totally different and can exist independently of each other.

It's not your fault you don't understand this. America failed you.
not forgetting the paid trolls, bots.

It always felt to me that the audience of reddit is a lot less than whats bragged. And that they use bots to prop up the numbers.
> Any diet can be unhealthy

Yes, exactly, so if I say "eating candies is unhealthy" I don't think there's gonna be any group jumping at my throat.

Maybe is because candy lovers are not insecure cultists.

They know it's a matter of taste and personal belief, not something with a more profound meaning.
In my experience they never leave voicemails. The only ones I've gotten were some shit in Chinese that I get once in a while (917 area code)
As I mentioned below, Canada admits more immigrants per capita than the US does, and far more refugees (it surpasses the US in absolute numbers, not even per capita).
Obviously not everything but more than one would think is acceptable. Standing on the shoulders of giants sometimes has its cons.
They committed a crime (crossing a border illegally). What should you call it if not illegal immigration?

What do you call robbing a bank? Undocumented withdrawal? No, it's a crime.
Deflection Tactics Used by Fossil Fuel Lobby Against Climate Change
There's a sphinx extension (sphinxcontrib-sdedit) [1] for sdedit ("Quick Sequence Diagram Editor") which does require Java [2].

[1] https://pypi.org/project/sphinxcontrib-sdedit/

[2] http://sdedit.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if luajit runs in your device, but vanilla luajit supports generating and loading bytecode.

https://luajit.org/running.html
Your basic regexp doesn't allow all weird edge cases. For example, this is a valid e-mail address:

"f@@bar"@example.org

but it's not accepted by the basic regexp.

The first regexp doesn't look correct to me either.
This is a place where free software and OER (openly-licensed educational resources) could really make a difference.

In my experience the online assessment solutions offered by most commercial publishers are horrible, while open source solutions like WeBWorK http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Get_WeBWorK and MyOpenMath https://www.myopenmath.com/index.php are not bad and have been around for many years.

Yes they are not as "shiny" as the commercial offerings, but I'd trust them much more for actual learning/practice/quizzing than the mainstream publisher crap.
php is definitely better these days (i used to use it early in my career), but unless you're already knee-deep in php, i can't think of a web project where php/laravel would generally be a better choice than ruby/rails. alas, ruby has become passé too, in favor of javascript, a decidedly unrefined language.

javascript has too many hidden ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and just hasn't evolved for developer happiness the way php and ruby have.
Probably also much more likely to hit a boomer as an easier target than your average British citizen.
I’m an immigrant to the US from an Asian country.
If it is so simple, I wonder why the problem takes so much discussion to be solved...
What makes this gnuland?
Would it really be so bad for people in LA County to have as much of a vote as the rest of the country? If we switched to a popular vote, I bet the number of voters would shoot way up, which is undoubtedly a good thing!
A quote is of no value. Actual costs and time spent must be determined by dismantling a reactor successfully.
Which languages would you say have expressively "strong" type systems?
> "when criminality under a given law starts to show significant correlations with an ethnicity/nationality/race/gender/orientation/etc."

Yes, immigration law - both application and enforcement - tends to correlate highly with nationality. I'd wager speeding tickets also correlate with drivers.

What should it correlate with?
"PHP on HHVM is EoL'd"

True that you shouldn't expect large existing PHP projects to run. But, the syntax is close enough that for net new projects, it's essentially PHP.
Strange that the article is not talking about the latest french reactor Flamanville 3. This EPR reactor is already 10 years late and will cost more than 13b€ For 160MW. And this just for construction cost and not for running/dismantling it.

Then I wonder what practical exemple would support that after 15 years a solar PV installation has to be rebuilt.
Instagram and Facebook really fuel that trend.
If it was just simple type annotations, type synonyms for domain modeling, I’d agree. It’s not at all though. Just consider how extremely hard it is to set up systems of dynamic dispatch in Haskell.

I do however think the “types help me reason about code faster” argument is a lot of bollocks. Years of experience working in large enterprise Haskell & Scala codebases made me believe this is not true at all.
A more interesting question is how do you separate narcissism from idealism in a startup founder? I mean it takes a certain type of person to defy the world against all odds. Sometimes you end up with someone like Elizabeth Holmes, and sometimes you end up with someone like Yvon Chouinard.
The opposite of kindness is not toughness. If your life seems purposeless you could always go and become a soldier of fortune in one of the hot wars already underway.
This is one of those "Turing tar-pit" scenarios. As you point out, it's technically possible, but in most languages, it would drastically increase the verbosity of the code.

None of the built-in control structures will work with your custom types. In Java, for example, "int" is a primitive, and "Integer" is final. All the built-in functionality that works with numeric types won't work with your types. All of the standard and third-party libraries expect the built-in types, too. Java doesn't support operator overloading, so you wouldn't be able to + your numbers, either. Instead of helping you with every arithmetic operation, it would be a massive pain point at every arithmetic operation.

Strings and integers are fundamental types. Programming languages just aren't designed to let people substitute their own.
We were on a longish trip and had checked luggage. I didn't want to fly a budget airline especially and my friend wanted to spend a bit of time in London. So it probably cost us a bit more but wasn't really too bad. But, especially given that I got a day room in London anyway, it certainly wasn't cheap either. The experience was fun and that's what counted anyway.

I will take train when I reasonably can though. I never fly from Boston to NYC unless it's to connect to another flight.
Agreed, we should be talking about the "timestamp cache" in more detail generally. While I'm here, looking at [1] helped me confirm how everything is kosher despite being in-memory. The timestamp cache pessimistically maintains a "low water mark", this always ratchets up monotonically and represents the earliest access timestamp of any key in the range. Writes happening at timestamps lower than this water mark are not let through, and bumping this watermark past the point of the observed write intent's timestamp is how slow inflight write intents are aborted by recovering read requests. On server restart, the timestamp cache is initialized with a low water mark of the current system time + maximum clock offset, so "future" write intents (or more accurately: write intents sent in the past but previously stuck in transit) are simply rejected.

[1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/sto...
Cheers whoever downvoted this and couldn’t be bothered to reply but it’s the truth. Independent watchdogs and researchers alike have all found faults with the leave campaign. Most of the what Boris says about the EU is horseshit; from fish packaging to the infamous “straight banana” legislation - none of it was true. Even the 350m figure he plastered on a bus was found to be false (actual amount is much less).

Theres even been a term coined to describe such hoaxes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth
I definitely agree with the premise of the article that narcissism takes away value instead of adding value.

Being calculative, cold and even disloyal at an individual level does not make someone a narcissist, it can be a very altruistic and idealistic thing in fact. For example, firing untalented employees to make room for more talented, hard working ones is altruistic IMO. If everyone did this, the system would work really well and everyone would be better off (even the lazy, untalented people would be better off thanks to universal improvements in productivity).

I think nepotism is a huge problem now. At scale, loyalty to specific individuals can be downright evil. Loyalty must only be given on the basis of shared values and principles.

Criminals can be extremely loyal to each other but they have no shared values aside from mutual self-preservation.
There's this absolutely perfect scene in the movie 'Idiocracy' where just interacting with the system will get your name mangled so the lead character ends up with 'Not Sure' as his legal name.
That doesn't mean we're not more selective. Numbers per capita say nothing about the selection process, especially when it's far lower in terms of sheer numbers.

The refugees we do take in (28k per year is nothing) get a decent amount of support mainly because most of our immigrants are relatively rich Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, etc...
Convicted child sex offenders doing what? I googled "drag queen story hour" and I have no idea how it connects to call blocking and telecoms.
Would you say that's still the case? I've also been hoping that Rust would see a kind of Actor-oriented ecosystem emerge, and while there's definitely projects out there, none of them really support distributed computation in the same way you'd get from Erlang. At least yet, I'm still hopeful.
Since you mentioned typescript first, here's a library that is basically an implementation of the ideas OP tries to convey: https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts

Can't recommend using this library enough; being able to essentially reject any input (e.g. json over http) at runtime because it does not conform to the type definition is such an amazing thing!
Providing tools that could be used to violate the CFAA is not the same thing as violating the CFAA. There are several US companies that do this. There is nothing illegal about it as long as you don’t sell to countries on sanctions lists.