skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best ideas - the ones that lead to actual publishable breakthroughs - all seem to happen in the shower. Some combination of enforced downtime, warmth, relaxation and white noise from the water seems especially effective.
> I programmed server-side web forms in ASP.NET and JSP for years before switching to SPAs and React.

I don't think that comparison makes sense? ASP.NET and JSP are server side languages while React is client side.
> It just doesnt make sense to me at this point from an economics perspective.

What are you comparing it to? Are you factoring in economic costs of continuing to release carbon into the atmosphere?

(I don’t want to excuse lazy/bad accounting... but traditional power plants don’t factor in the cost of the carbon they release, so basically everyone is ignoring long-term costs.)
Why did the factory owners pay for (or at least allow) those sorts of books to be read? Wouldn't they view it as against their interests?
Yup. So the US has created a new competitor and didn’t gain anything in the bargain other than paying for the transition.

It would be one thing if this was done after, say, the TPP that ensured that Phillipines and Vietnam created an IP a regime that protected US company interests before they started manufacturing there, but that’s not what happened.
Ibuprofen is an OTC medicine in Germany.
As someone who has worked in the online gambling industry I can say that this article is very outdated and on some points misinformed. Things have changed a lot since 2010, and he is wrong even about how things worked back then.

> It is routine for sites to demand the transmission of passport and credit card scans, drivers licenses, utility bills and other personal documents. All the available evidence indicates that this information is stored permanently.

Only due to the regulating authorities demanding this to prevent money laundering. Collecting and storing this information is just a huge headache to the gambling companies. I know some small companies do it improperly, but if they could chose themselves they would not have stored it at all. I have never heard of any company using this KYC documents for anything other than storing them for possible police investigations.

> As a rule, they don’t. It is extremely difficult to close an online gambling account, and in my experience impossible to have your data deleted.

This kind of BS with making it hard to close accounts was an issue and has been cracked down on. These days it is very easy to permanently close a gambling account if it is Malta or UK regulated at least. If it is not then you can report them and they can get large fines. It is impossible to get your data deleted though since the casino must keep it for anti-money laundering for a long time. Here I do not know how many actually delete anything once their legal time is up.

> [and] fail to notify customers that personal data will be retained permanently even after an arduous process of account closure.”

Yeah, I think the sites should be more clear about this. But I do not know of any industry which does this well.

Edit: About tracking the whales. No, that is not related to any data abuses as far as I can think of. It would actually be better (from a greedy and selfish point of view) for us if we could delete the gambler's data when they delete their account because then they can register a new account and lose all their money again and we could say we have fulfilled our responsible gambling obligations because there was no way we could correlate the new account with the deleted. Tracking whales is usually mostly done with quite simple BI queries and VIP teams doing work manually.

I am not saying data abuses do not happen in the industry, but it is certainly not built around them or close to as bad as e.g. adtech. Actually ordinary online stores seem often to be worse than casinos when it comes to privacy which probably says more about our current society than about casinos.
In some countries, for some media, this is allowed.

Of course the USA tries to prevent this with all its might.
These are resource problems. Economics is essentially everything.
However, I agree that storage in both grids is a good way to go. The Eastern States have that already -- recently most visible in the Tesla battery project in SA, but also in pumped hydro in the Snowys. WA, not so much...
The people who make a paper have to know where the border is for their particular paper. That is, which things in the paper are claims with evidence to back it up - and which things are speculations about what might be an explanation.
That some things are speculative is not such a big deal, as long as it is clearly marked as such. Then someone else can investigate it properly in another paper. Or people can use it in another work, by treating it as an assumption that they can verify whether holds, and then make use of.
Hanlon's Razor is not a physical law, it's a heuristic, and a very useful one for stopping you thinking everyone is out to get you
People underestimate how much of the opposition to nuclear plants in the past was due to the "dual use" nature of the technology, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In the 80s it was hard to care about the effects of climate change in a mere hundred years when global policy was to keep civilization-destroying quantities of weapons on hand that could be delivered in 45 minutes.

The war between nuclear weapons and environmentalists went "hot" when the French DGSE sank the Rainbow Warrior and murdered a photographer in retaliation for trying to stop their nuclear testing.

If you think the question is solved, ask yourself this: would you prefer that Iran solve its energy needs from a fleet of nuclear reactors or a fleet of solar panels?
> If you define hacking as controlling your computer hardware at the lowest level, then hacking is dead because no-one wants to write device drivers.

This is absurd. Dude, let me be clear - Just because you write Java all day long does not mean that there are hundreds if not thousands of embedded system developers who engineer (quite passionately!) the thing that powers your SSD or your wireless card or the thing that heats your home.

We often take these substrates (in this context - the firmware and device drivers etc.) for granted in the modern hardware and often fail to even acknowledge them. I am not one of them and I vehemently defend these silent heroes of our generation.
If Disney were going to shill Star Wars memes they wouldn't be about a character where they didn't make any merchandise in time for Christmas.
"excess solar power from households and businesses spilled uncontrolled on to the system, pushing the amount of power needed from the grid to increasingly low levels.... The only way to manage the solar was to scale back or switch off the coal- and gas-fired power stations that were supposed to be the bedrock of the electricity system."

Wow, that sounds like a great problem to have. Note the aggressive rhetoric ... 'spill', 'uncontrolled','pushing', 'bedrock', 'solar smashes utility finance'. Well-crafted FUD from ABC's Mercer, if he wrote it all.

Coal and gas being endangered sounds perfect, if you give a rat's ass about climate change. But let's do everything we can to get in the way of progress by painting the result as blackly as possible. Maybe instead of pushing that excess onto the grid, people can sell it their neighbors instead ... or 'the industry' could install more batteries to store it in.
Alleviating poverty with experimental research: The 2019 Nobel laureates
To their own citizens sure, but they have had absolutely no qualms about invading the privacy of those who are not their own citizens, which is the entire point of the 'Eyes' programs.
You make very good points, but I'm not sure if you correctly identified our point of disagreement - because I believe there is problem with subscription model itself (at least for individuals, I get the capex vs. opex incentives for companies), on top of the problems with unsubscribing.

I was readying a long comment addressing your individual points, but I realized I can compress it all to this:

The overall reason why I prefer ownership of durable goods over subscriptions (and the planned obsolescence economy) is reduction of variance in opportunities and quality of life. At the time when I have the means, I can buy something. If I have less means or that something is very expensive (e.g. a new car, a house), I can convert it into a "subscription" myself using my bank, via various forms of loans and installment payments. And then when I go broke, I can still use the thing I own, perhaps to help myself get out of the predicament. Subscriptions bundle this all together, making the utility directly dependent on my cash flow, prevent me from optimizing the value I derive from them (through ToS that limit a lot of non-standard use cases), and deprive me from the ability to use a good in the time of crisis.
After writing the above comment, memory comes back a bit. The problem is that sqlite does not support renaming a column directly. One can find procedures for that on the internet. E.g., https://tableplus.com/blog/2018/04/sqlite-rename-a-column.ht.... However, we also wanted to be able to rename columns where there are foreign key references, for instance references to the table of which a column was renamend. A generic function, not in sql, but in the programming language of our project, in this case c++, was written for this purpose, something like rename_column(table_name, old_column_name, new_column_name). Needless to say the first version of this function was not quite sufficient leading to the problems that I mentioned. In the end I had to improve this function. I remember at the time I was quite pleased with myself figuring out how to do this without temporarily switching off foreign key checking which the first version of the script had.
> Netflix have been doing cinema releases of their titles ahead of their streaming debut. Surely that's other revenue?

That's for awards qualification purposes. It brings in rounding errors, and almost certainly operates at a significant loss.
Sounds like go is missing the Java equivalent of -Xms which sets the minimum heap size before GC is necessary
There is heap defragmentation.
"You" would be the company, and the submitter would assign all the rights to it. Interestingly, I looked and couldn't find any terms of service or company name.
If the 10nm is a broken process and Intel didn't announce it, aren't they open to shareholder lawsuits for failure to disclose material facts?
People who don't use Latin alphabet have been forced to learn it to use pretty much any programming language out there.
I didn't do any development on CrossRider so my understanding is pretty limited here, but it looks like it was just an SDK to build cross-browser extensions which a bunch of developers used to place ads, and then CrossRider caught all the blame for it.

To me this sounds like if people used Ionic or React Native to make spammy crappy apps and then people blamed those frameworks respectively. It wouldn't make any sense. It's the fault of the app developers or the platforms which distribute the app (e.g. the app store)

Am I missing something here? Did CrossRider have a storefront which actively promoted adware extensions? I'm not able to find anything rationally explaining the amount of backlash and downvoting rasengan is getting.
> I go to a UC. Sure plenty of people know a bit of linux and networking, but how many people actually want to go past their classes and actually take the time to research and learn more? It's hard to find those people.

Those people do exist, but they’re probably not in a classroom for much longer than it takes to complete the final.
We need to talk about AI – let's not simply brand it as snake oil
How about: if you release on a publicly accessible channel (ie streaming service) then copyright law is amended to say you have to release to any service that requests it (after say one year) or you lose your copyright.

How would that not serve the public interest?

Public gets access. Copyright owners get paid. Middlemen can't fuck it all up (so easily, I'm sure they'd find a way).
Rust will never work except in niche areas because it doesn't allow for easy experimentation and does not provide an iterative workflow like Python, R, or Julia.

I think the future is Julia, as it's as easy to write as Python, is interactive, and can be compiled for fast speeds!

It will just takes time for Julia to have as many libraries, but at some point the tipping point will be reached, and Julia will just eat Python's lunch.

Python was dying before the latest wave of data science and machine learning craze saved it anyway. There are pretty good reasons to believe Python (and Ruby) will slowly wither away. I am careful not to savy that they will die out, because they won't as some computing problems do not require so much speed and hence Python and the like can still pass mustard. But in a post-Moore's-law-world, data is getting bigger, the demand for computing is larger, but programs aren't getting faster, and there is a limit to how much you can optimise Python. Eventually, a crop of speedy and easy to write programming languages will rise up and eat Python's lunch. The early signs are there with tools like Julia.
I reckon I've seen a single open cut coal mine that's probably 10% of that size... Leigh Creek in SA. Actually, I just looked it up on GoogleMaps. It's "only" about 8km x 3km or so, or 2.5%. I still wonder how much electricity we could generate if we covered every coal mine in Australia with solar panels?
The apology is basically the modern version of that corporate statement.
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> But if you truly think the entire extent of what was going on is out in the open, I admire your credulity.

Well put, it is quite transparent that something shady was happening there. But it seems no one is interested looking into it.
I would have asked why rather than jumping to accusations, but I too was reminded of the murder of Peter Nielsen.

The story of that series of tragedies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Überlingen_mid-air_collis...
> This article and articles like this miscast Kape in an incorrect light.

correct. Focusing on the founder's alleged ties is a distraction. The real story story is "all VPN's are snake oil". The fact that he peddles this should really stand for itself (regardless of his backstory).
Anaerobic biodigesters are very common here in Germany. The residue is a really good fertilizer that can be applied to the fields. At least here in G the nitrogen application from this has to be documented and subtracts from the N fertilizer budget farmers are allowed to apply.
> maybe people think the prices are too high

Absurdly high. Game of Thrones costs $167 on Amazon, which is more than binge-watching it eleven times using one-month HBO subscriptions.
How can users verify that PIA doesn't log?
On the server it depends. For front end servers, where you are running many connections with no shared state, AMD crushes Intel so bad it's shameful.

On the backend, for things that are not highly parallelizable or memory sensitive, sometimes Intel wins. Things like databases and the like. That was when Intel still used a single ring bus, the mesh should add latency similiar to Epyc's IIRC. I haven't seen any benchmarks of the newest EPYCs vs the newest Xeons though.
> It's free, GPL, and open source - you know, "No Warranties" and all that.

Making something available for free doesn’t absolve you from blame when you make stupid decisions. Well, it does legally, but from a social standpoint it’s still not nice.
I recently started reading "Deep Work" by Cal Newport and this is one of the points highlighted in the book. I'd recommend it (even though I haven't finished it yet).

I'm trying to be mindful during my day and I walk to and from work every day which is around 9km total. The beneficial effects (on attention, memory etc.) are twofold. In the morning it wakes me up and by the time I'm in the office I'm ready to dive into my work straight away. I see a lot of people that arrive drowsy or sleepy in the office and they need at least an hour to actually start doing anything meaningful. In the evening I use the walk as a "shutdown" ritual after which I don't think about work anymore. I also take a 30-40 minute walk during lunch time. It's a good point during midday to relax a little bit and be refreshed for the second half of the day. Overall for the day I walk around 11-12km. Health benefits of walking aside I really see how it's making me more focused and I do better work because of it.
A side note first: Another post quite recently claimed that insurers aren't refusing coverage totally, but merely reducing their exposure, since reinsurers are making demands like "no more than 30% of portfolio exposed to coal". (Double side note: I suppose some insurers set that at zero, for whatever reason.)

To the main point: What's peculiar about coal? I can see reasons why insurers might want to avoid or limit exposure to a particular class of risk. But what makes "coal" into a class of risk, in insurance terms? Why is coal a different class of risk than, say, mining or construction, which seem similar to me as naïve layman?

Whether insurers are reducing or avoiding this risk doesn't matter for this question.
This is a good point. The way I usually think of this is that most of the time we simply don't need as much redundancy as we have encoded in language. It only becomes important in instructions for complicated things, scientific papers, or when you are communicating over the top of loud noises or a bad phone connection. I don't think explains the forces that shape our language fully, but it does provide a starting point!
Rust can never replace Python as a front-end because it's compiled and not all that flexible or user-friendly.

Rust can't currently replace C or C++ at the back-end because it doesn't have good enough support for GPU computing yet.
Typical code cowboy mindset: expects all of the glory, none of the responsibility. Kindly piss off and don’t come back until you’ve learned proper systems design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-safe

Self-driving software might find its way around a controlled test track okay but is nowhere near fit to be in control on public roads. Safe way to test it the is to have human drive and have the software simulate the same drive, then compare the two for discrepancies. Rinse and repeat until the software consistently equals or betters human decision-making. Then you can consider putting the software in charge.

Programmers are supposed to be the technical experts in the room. So if they aren’t pushing back against ignorant uninformed hubristic Management’s bad decision-making and making it right, how the hell do they think their software will do any better? Fucking Worse than Useless, the whole cowardly bloody bunch.
To be fair, some of us were sticking case windows and cold cathode lights into our gaming PCs 20 years ago so we could look uber-1337 at LAN parties.

(I am now firmly in the "RGB is dumb" camp like the other grumpy old people. Oh well.)
Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
There's theoretical potential pretty much everywhere -- in that hot rocks exist underground, and some form of permeability can be created. Economical potential is quite limited, and technology dependent.

In particular, the Cooper Basin project, while technically viable with demonstrated generation capacity, died after failing to get investment needed for a transmission line. At the same meeting I referred to in my top post, I also heard that the CB project was about 600 km away from the nearest transmission lines.

N.B. I was not working on that project, so my knowledge is not firsthand.

Birdsville Qld, is still the only operating geothermal power generation plant in Oz as far as I'm aware.

If you are only interested in hot springs, there are developed baths on the Mornington Peninsula in Vic.
In Conversation: Masayoshi Son and Larry Fink [video]
We've got it pretty bad here.

This man is now the Prime Minister (the highest political position in Australia):

https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...
Joseph, the latest champion is also incredible. He is capable of tracking opponent's screen and reacting to commentary while maintaining the game.
Also, hyper-tapping.
This is a very common technique that has been in use for decades at farms all over the world. You can see these dome-shaped containers when you drive through the countryside in western Europe. The first Wikipedia entry (2002) mentions that it's a popular process in the Netherlands and Denmark. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biogas&oldid=2064....
> Extremely drastic change is needed to avert climate emergencies.

Good, than nuclear is nothing we have to think about because it's construction times are ridiculously long while renewable energy is getting better and cheaper rapidly.

> Our nations have plenty of money it's just all concentrated at the very top. We used to fund advanced reactor projects [1]

We've been throwing ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on that for decades. Show is over. Time to give the money to technologies of the future not ones of the past.

Even France sees this: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nuclearpower-astri...
I'm curious, what's normal to do with all the waste from desalination?
Bugs are unintentional and can (and are) fixed.
> ... at 4.2 Kelvin (4.5 degrees above absolute zero, ...)

Is my understanding wrong (or out of date) or the article bad at this point?

I thought the Kelvin scale was designed such that its base is absolute zero so 4.2 Kelvin would be 4.2 degrees above not 4.5?

EDIT: Actually, looking at the num-pad on my keyboard, I'm now assuming that the "4.5" is simply a slip-of-the-finger typo rather than a mistake in understanding.
The current energy discussion in Swedish politics is Green vs Nuclear. No one is discussing a stop for burning fossil fuels in power plants or banning the import of coal/NG energy from neighbors. Not even a suggestion from the green party at a total stop.

Instead we get a bunch of political tricks. If we export more green energy than we import coal energy then we can pretend that that the coal did not actually get released into the air as pollution. We plant trees and talk about carbon capture, and then we discretely cut it down and turn it into biomass fuel and call it carbon neutral. Somehow that turn into negative carbon, while at the same time the old coal power plants can be reused to burn biomass and natural gas.

In the latest political debate the green party representative came with this great comeback. People who want to reduce global warming with nuclear are wrong because that side want to lower taxes on gasoline. Thus nuclear is bad.

I would like to think that this is isolated to the Swedish green party but somehow I doubt it. No one want to talk about a complete ban on burning fossil fuels for power. I don't have much hope with nuclear advocates, but the current data is hard to dismiss. Looking at EU the lowest gCO2eq/kWh emitting energy grids are Norway, Sweden, Iceland and France. Norway has more hydro than they need. Iceland got plenty of hydro and geothermal. Sweden got nuclear and hydro. France got nuclear. Every other energy grid in EU, regardless of political alignment, is dirtier. Even Denmark with it amazing investment into wind is at this moment (https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...) 400% more polluting than Sweden.
Expanding the abbreviations like that and using them to decide grammar is pretty close to something like the etymological fallacy.

The point is those acronyms are now used as names in their own right.