skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I should have quoted more of the gp:

> .. that resulted in much of the world's electricity being produced by fossil fuels

My point isn't that 'leftists' (a decreasingly useful categorisation in any case) aren't anti-nuclear. It's that this anti-nuclear stance has been causally impotent in most of the nations that haven't chosen to build much nuclear capacity. Australia is a great case in point - even its 'leftist' party is very right-wing (pro-coal, pro-asylum-seeker torture, etc), yet the population, right and left alike, simply will not countenance nuclear power.

There's a great tendency for political pundits to confuse the positions and divisions of lobbyists, politicians and insiders with those of the population at large. Anyone attributing lack of nuclear capacity to 'leftists' is doing just that.
It illustrates very clearly how perception is affected by the coordination of different rates of movement of all the elements that connect the observed subject and the observer, including the elements that make up the observer. Which then makes you wonder, what is an observer?
If I used to give 5% of income and now I give 15% of income, my commitment has increased, even if the need has also increased. 5% GDP to 15% GDP shows a pretty dramatic increase in commitment, especially with the economic growth in that time frame.

OP asserted "Post 1970s", so starting in the late 1970s is the appropriate starting point (quibbling?).

The progressivity rate link above was tax rate, not percentage of taxes paid.
Posts like these is why I read HN religiously!
The easiest way is usually to trade one of the ETFs that track gold price (some of them are backed by physical gold while others use futures or other derivatives on gold).
No, unfortunately for that idea raising the minimum wage simply raises the cost of living commensurately.
Not sure what that's about, but I just do not see the fitted line as reflecting the bubbles.

Why not draw a straight line sloping slightly upwards towards the north side?

Basically, there's a gap near 74 on the north side, and if you think that actually means something then what does it reflect in the real world? If it doesn't mean anything, then the claim of statistical significance seems fishy.
> 2. Why is this iOS only? Limited resources excuses can be answered with 'do a mobile web so all mobiles can'. Is it the 'sometimes iPhone users tend to pay more for the same things Android users are too cheap to'?

Generally the answer is that the founders / designers use iPhones, so it's what they prioritize.
>> We usually anticipate 4x.

All software estimation boils down to the long established scientific methodology:

(2 X what the last person said) optionally plus 2 weeks
Yes, yes yes! Encode invariants in your data, don't enforce invariants on your data. I particularly think this point needs to be stressed more, because practicably speaking, not every language has the typechecking faculties of Haskell:

> Sometimes, making an illegal state truly unrepresentable is just plain impractical given the tools Haskell provides, such as ensuring an integer is in a particular range. In that case, use an abstract newtype with a smart constructor to “fake” a parser from a validator.

For instance, few type systems will let you encode prime numbers as datatypes, so you'd have to do something in your language like

newtype Prime = Integer
mkPrime :: Integer -> Maybe Prime
mkPrime | isPrime p = Just (Prime p)
| otherwise = Nothing

which is parsing!
Just like Amazon Prime. Let's not pretend most people are actually subscribing to it...

"As a Prime member, you can already watch thousands of popular movies and TV shows at no extra cost, including exclusives and award-winning Amazon Originals available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Save even more with exclusive deals on video purchases."

No 'extra cost'? All that content isn't free. I feel about this much as I do about cable subscriptions by default including the cost of ESPN and other sports channels:

May I not subsidize this, please?
You’re contradicting yourself. Your earlier post says “they banned all forms of nuclear energy” while now you claim to be aware that they didn’t. Given that this whole article is about energy policy (as opposed to the narrow scope regarding the existing NZ ban on nuclear armed vessels in their waters), what is your point? If 80% of its electricity is already renewable, why the drama over taking that from 80% to 100% over the next 30 years? Doesn’t sound like a huge stretch frankly.
I’m not imagining them! I subscribe for my daughter and it definitely does.
Yes, so that's my question, why do they expect this money losing retailer to turn around and not only stop losing money but also be able to pay back a $250M investment? Does Sears still own anything of value? Even if they own a lot of their stores, under today's retail climate I don't see that real estate being worth much.
I thought the barber pole was because shaving involved cutting people up so bad, that the blood soaked rags were hung outside.
> And then your commit is merged, and all your great code is going to be used.

It's more about understanding what qualities in your code your team appreciates. There's a big spectrum in code that gets accepted for being amazing and code that only gets barely accepted too.

> While I understand wanting to be praised to some extend, wanting to be praised for doing your job still sounds a bit off to me.

Do you think it's weird that people in other industries might say "great work!" from time to time? Seems like a basic part of social interaction to me. I don't want to work with robots, especially the people in code review discussions that say everyone should just have a thicker skin.

Only getting negative comments back from people and "pull request accepted" notifications is a cold environment to work in, especially if you work remote.
"This concurrency model appears to be adding complexity to the system without any visible performance benefit" is pretty hilariously cruel though.

Personally I might prefer "hmm, why did you do it this way?"
As a non-physicist, this is a spectacularly readable abstract and main text. What a fine example of scientific writing.
It's referring to motorbike riders.
This is something I wish I'd started doing decades ago. I recently found an old bookmarks file from around 2003 and almost every link was dead. I think the longest living thing on the list was sluggy.com

Now if something is on the internet and I think I might want it later I'll save a copy. I just need to find a better way to originize the information than nested folders of HTML and text files.
If your opposition agrees with everything you stated and how you stated it in your politics ad, it was probably a terrible horrible ad.

I don’t know where you get “nearly everyone” agrees that political ads that lie are problematic.

Today there was a funny Snopes fact check of a meme saying Democrats have tried to impeach every Republican President since Eisenhower. [1]

Turns out Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment on every elected Republican President since Eisenhower (Ford was not elected, he was appointed after Nixon’s VP resigned). Snopes rated the meme “Mostly False”.

You can deconstruct the “Biden Corruption” ad that Trump ran against Biden which CNN refused to run and find it contains only factual statements presented in an arguably misleading way.

The only fact I know is that the best political ads will present an opponent in the worse possible light using their own words to do it. As Joe Biden says in the Trump ad, “well, son of a bitch!”

Facebook is absolutely the last entity on Earth I would want to be censoring political ads in a critically important channel.

The idea that the Federal government should be in the business of threatening Facebook with obliteration because of political ads they don’t refuse to run — luckily there’s an Amendment to the Bill of Rights people should double-check.

[1] - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dems-impeach-gop-president...
This should only apply for large companies. Only in large companies do you end up employing large numbers of idiots. And only then do you need the rules that a minority go crazy with.

In my experience, the cure is usually worse than the disease. Give someone a rulebook that they can use to justify the awful inclinations of their personality, and they will spend 99% of their energy doing this.

Small companies manage this better in my experience - outside of the guy who came from LARGE TECH COMPANY and spends all day writing lists and telling people how they do things at LARGE TECH COMPANY - because they will get rid of someone who is being disruptive rather than try to move them somewhere else. HR in large companies tends to be far softer.

Btw, my point is that all this applies to social activism too. We need rules because eventually someone will do something dumb. The rules will get taken too far. And that small minority ends up making almost everyone else unhappy.

Incidentally: there is a probably a parallel with this forum. Of any internet forum, this place is probably the most humourless and exacting when it comes to people quoting rules (often by number) to each other. The monkeys will take over the zoo 100% of the time in these cases.

I have actually even had interviews like this. I remember one particularly funny one was for a front-end role where I was witness to a lecture from a "senior dev" on the topic of: why X technology/pattern is "wrong"?
Well of course that's the not so well hidden goal... If the government controls everything, then everyone can be equal!
At this point, it doesn’t really matter what you (or anyone, for that matter) personally want any more, because the company will have regulated acceptable behavior based on the snowflakes that take offense at literally everything.
I think corn feed is more of a US thing due to the over abundance of subsidised corn production (I’m amazed at how much of the human and animal food chain in the US is corn derived).
In Australia and NZ, it’s mainly grass/hay.
Very popular in south america. In Peru you could go to the local mercado and some dude would give you a binder full of music, movies and shows - you would pick all the stuff you wanted and return in a few hours and buy a fully loaded thumb/hard drive from him.

I have an incredible archive of traditional 'charango' music from Bolivia and Peru through these fine gents, but they had all the latest HBO and Hollywood stuff as well.
As far as spacex visualizes them, no way in hell. Now, if you were to either use A) H2+LOX fuel generated via renewable means or B) non rocket propulsion (scram jet, railgun, etc) you could potentially do a lot better for long flights because once you're in space, there's no air resistance and you can coast as far as you'd like depending on your initial speed.
Mountains of red tape don't exist in the communist dictatorship of China yet they haven't broken ground on a new plant since 2016 [1]. There are fundamental economic problems with nuclear that prevent it from being the power solution we all hoped it would be.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...
AFAIK each satellite runs two atomic clocks one being much more accurate. Completely different from GPS and way more advanced.

Unsure how it works singal-wise. I assume not only you need different receiver, but also its hardware has to have much higher clock rate.
No question - but why not have some of these banks pay some high overnight rates? They have the money to do so.

This push to squeeze every nickle of profit out leaves almost no margin if stress hits. The repo market is huge. If there ever is a real scare and people are used to be able to get free money (or expect the fed to step in) the fed will have to step in on a HUGE basis.
Yeah I've been going back and forth on this. I think some location targeting is important though. For example, if you're running for mayor I don't think you should have to advertise to the whole state or country. I think the real question is should you be able to sub-target the voting populace? (i.e. I'm running for a statewide race but only want to advertise to certain cities)
They actually never write the pricing anywhere, I've even read the FAQ to see how much is for the Pro and the Premium, and it's not there.
You should be focused on bringing people up and creating wealth, not keeping people down and destroying it. All that does is make everyone equally poor. Wealth is created by providing value, with other people willingly paying you in return for goods and services. Nothing is losing anything.

You can also take risks and get rewarded. That's what individual freedom and capitalism provides. Otherwise are you going to also cover the losses of every failed business?

> "Why are you interested in keeping billionaires rich? ... Are you really so insulted at the idea of sharing the wealth?"

This is a ridiculous non-sequitur. Some will always be richer than others. As long as the minimum standard of living is raised, there is no need to envy and take from those at the top.
Years ago I worked with a developer who had a different methodology: 2x, then bump the unit of measure. Thus, 1 day -> 2 weeks; 2 weeks -> 4 months. It's been remarkably accurate over the past couple of decades.
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> But as the author admitted, the Louvre doens't have a space capacity issue. And in my books anything that gets more people into a museum of any sort is a good thing.

They really need to do the grocery store thing and make you walk past everything in the museum before letting you into the Mona Lisa at the far back.
Interesting. I also read an interesting article[1] by Matt Stoller where he makes a good argument for breaking up companies like Disney for their anti-competitive behavior.

[1]: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...
Recent article questioning the validity of this research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437852
I understood the article, and I see your point, but my main feedback is that when I read the title I assumed that you were going to describe some way where you would parse input without validating it.
> nature isn't going to grow door frames or rafters for us

If I'm not mistaken there is a special kind of rake that used to be grown in its characteristic shape out of a single piece of wood.
This is why learning Elm has been valuable for me.

Without the convoluted type system of Haskell, you have to do this more, and it is a lot simpler to understand and maintain. You are never going to be able to use the type system to guarantee everything about your data, so let your runtime code check it, add lots of tests and keep it isolated (Elm calls them "Opaque Types") so it is easy to reason about.

The equivalent is possible in OO with classes, but with the caveat that only if you make everything immutable and ideally have a layer of compile time null checking on top.

In short, with Haskell I am learning and relearning language features constantly and banging my head. With Elm I grok the language and I am focused on solving the problem.
One of the main use-cases of https://histre.com/ (disclaimer: I built it) is to be able to save and organize links like this. If you're looking to do that easily, perhaps give it a try? :-)
https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_44_3.html#SEC...

What Does Simulation Have To Do With It?

Alan Kay, delivering the keynote speech at the Second West Coast Computer Faire in 1978 said, ``we decided to focus on simulation in Smalltalk, because that's the only really interesting thing to do with a computer''. When I heard this, I was aghast: ``Simulation'', I thought, ``why in the world would people want to use personal computers to model throughput in a machine shop, or to calculate the number of toilets[Footnote] in a football stadium''. Certainly any rational person wanted a personal computer to do real computer science on it: to write operating systems and compilers so that others could use them to write programs, and...well, I hadn't thought that out completely.

``Simulation'' had come to mean (at least in the computer science lexicon), a specific kind of modeling of systems, usually done in an odd simulation language such as Simscript or Simula. What I only realised years later was that what Alan Kay was talking about something far more grandiose when he said ``simulation'': getting the whole wide world into that itty-bitty can: the computer. And yet, ``simulation'' in the limited computer science sense has already had a great and often little-appreciated impact on computer science as a whole. In his speech, Alan Kay exhorted people to look closely at Simula-67 for the direction of the future. Simula-67 included (in 1967!) classes, object orientation, multiple communicating processes, in fact close to a laundry list of what is currently considered the way to approach complex problems. So simulation in the small has already influenced the mainstream, and I believe that simulation writ large will have an impact many times greater.
Almost all wood that is intended for use cases where warp is a problem is engineered wood.
I found a convincing answer here connected to delays in raising the debt ceiling among other things like corporate tax payments in Sep.

https://www.ibtimes.com/new-york-fed-steps-market-move-inter...
How Web Apps Finally Won
To test it, jump to: https://talktotransformer.com/

There are some examples of starting text, with mixed results.

Sometimes it seems to be overfitted and spitting entire paragraphs taken directly from some random page, but at times it seems to create something interesting:

Eg:
"The Captain: I'm ready to sink this ship if it will help finding the alien artifact
Dr Jones: Ok, but just don't sink it with ME on board!"

Created:

The Captain: But I am Captain. That's what I get for being a coward!

Dr Jones: It's okay, Captain. I've been in this game long enough to know when a captain is about to die, but not this time!

The Captain: Okay... You got me. I'm just not sure I can trust a Captain with an artifact that's been hidden away for hundreds of years. It's too dangerous.

Dr Jones: It's going to be a long day. We need to get this back to the ship. There are other ships still out there, but we can't expect them to help us out of this mess.

The Captain: But we must save the artifact!
Billionaire Ken Fisher's surprising client list
Well, their big selling point is that the interface is localized in Chinese, which is only really relevant to Chinese developers whose English is not that good and who mostly interact with the Chinese technology scene. That they're hosted in China is also quite relevant for the speed comparison with GitHub.

So I'm not really seeing the nationalism angle here. Except maybe for the DCloud CEO, who complains that many good Chinese products aren't taken seriously due to a preference for foreign ones. I guess he's also not-so-subtly hinting that DCloud is another of those good products.
Woah cool. Back when I was using Haskell (uh, ten years ago, now), people kept telling me that they were _pretty sure_ there was a flag that detected incomplete pattern matches at compile time, but no one could ever tell me what it was. -Wincomplete-patterns . Now I know. Thanks!
“Oh honey, bless your heart. You are a lovely person, honest. But you can’t program for shit.”
That's an example of exactly what the comment you're replying to said.
Hypothetically.. if one were an unattractive misanthrope with low sperm count.. what procreation strategy would you recommend to maximise my comfort in old age? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking I should adopt at least 7 Vietnamese orphans.. I won't be able to provide them more than a community college education, and I will undoubtedly imbue them with emotional problems as well.. so 7 sounds like a safe number to perhaps end up with 1 or 2 more resilient ones that will be able to manage my care...
TypeScript is sadly very unsound by design, so doing this kind of thing in TypeScript is always going to be more “best effort” and less “exhaustive proof.” That’s not necessarily wrong or bad per se, as after all, Haskell has escape hatches, too (and so do dependently-typed languages, for that matter). However, there are philosophical differences between the way the languages’ type systems are designed.

When I’ve talked to people who develop and use TypeScript, the general impression I’ve gotten from them is that TS is actually as much about tooling as it is about correctness. TS enables things like autocomplete, jump to definition, and quick access to documentation, and it does that by leveraging the typing information to “see through” the dynamic dispatch that makes that sort of thing infeasible in dynamically-typed JavaScript. The TS type system does provide some correctness benefits, don’t get me wrong, but where ease of use and correctness are in conflict, usually ease of use is preferred.

This is true even with all the “strictness” options enabled, like strict null checking. For some examples of TypeScript unsoundness, see [1] and [2]. Flow is actually generally a lot better than TS in this regard (though it does still have some major soundness holes), but it looks like TS has basically “won,” for better or for worse. But again: TS won because its tooling was better, not because its ability to actually typecheck JS programs was better, which I think reinforces what I said in the previous paragraph on what TS is really about.

[1] https://twitter.com/lexi_lambda/status/1068704405124452352

[2] https://twitter.com/lexi_lambda/status/1068705142109810688
> If I recall, Red meant bloodletting, White meant teeth, Blue meant haircuts.

I'm not sure that can be right, because I think blue's only used in the USA. (At least, I only see it with blue in emoji; in England they're red and white. Amusing if it is though, and the only still-relevant colour has been lost here!)
Robot equipped with new artificial skin and control algorithms
Opinion: Disney content these days is absolutely awful. I'm not enjoying the films, the shows, or anything really. They spend more time doing remakes for a global audience (read. China), and compromise the quality of the end result.
Would it still take root if it was placed in backwards? If it was someone else's tooth? a particularly well shaped rock?
It likely wouldn't be Jet-A that's synthesized, it would be some sort of bio diesel that would have to get approval. GA still uses leaded gas because the industry is so slow to change and everyone is terrified of having to re-certify (STC) existing aircraft or add additional fueling infrastructure. It's a far more complex issue than I can describe here but it works as a useful analogy.

Electric aircraft, however, sound really good in a boardroom because the logistics are "simpler" (disregarding the issue of charging gigawatt-hour batteries somehow).
Awesome. Now who wants to make a hypercomplex numbers library (quaternions, Clifford, Cayley-Dixon...) in Swift?