skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very very neat. When I was a kid I would pick these up from yard sales (the library didn't have any) and I would devour them. Usually after a few attempts at navigating the book though I'd just read it straight through and try and piece the story together in my head.

Seeing them laid out in a map like this is truly interesting.
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> think nuclear history has amply shown that people cannot be trusted to manage reactors.

Compared to ? Trusting people to manage coal power plants, mines, off shore platforms, oil tankers, &c. ?

> At the moment of reckoning when a reactor must finally be shutdown, you can bet a swift bankruptcy followed by skyrocketing local electricity rates.

France - lot of nuclear reactors : 13ct per KWh

Germany - shutting down nuclear reactors, still heavily relying on coal : 30ct per KWh
Striving for low complexity and high flexibility:

- low fix cost per month

- should be possible to cancel subscriptions within a month

- rather rent than buy (flat, car sharing etc.)

- no loans

- money to save goes on a saving account

- define low limits for max. amount of money to withdraw on accounts

- get proper insurance coverage

- avoid Paypal and other 3rdparty banking services

No need for any fancy tools and I have more money available to put away than ever. I only use a tool for my tax declaration, but since I simplified my financial setup so much I could even do it without a tool nowadays...
Thanks for working on it, I'll see if I can get it packaged to Debian during the holidays.
Depends on what kind of bias you want/need to manage? Corruption/bribery is a big risk factor in SA so that is usually the one most people worry about, rather than racial bias.

One of the things you have to look at is "how" that bias may manifest and if bias can even be applied in any negative sense in the realm of control you give to the user. If you give someone a task where they are to compare two faces, and they don't like the demographic of that individual, I suppose they might pick incorrectly (because you only gave them true/false type options). But you can build in review processes, reporting, performance feedback, etc to mitigate that. You need not treat it as bias at all, merely bad performance/mistakes that need correcting.
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Mobilising for war involved spending billions, and pulled the US out of the Great Depression as New Deal spending hadn't been enough. Quantative easing to correct the excesses of the banks in '08 involved spending trillions yet was more indirect and less effective than more traditional forms of stimulation. That spending invigorates economies is pretty much unarguable. Choosing more carefully, and directing where that spending goes is better than leaving it to the random walk of the market.

Pretty much everything is made in China, yet installing those solar panels will require local companies and engineers. Were they made locally the boost might be higher, but so few products are made locally in our globalised world that it's probably harder to unwind globalisation than fix the climate with foreign made panels.
In other words, please make sure that the government can access any communication they might wish to by ensuring your encryption doesn't work. Here's hoping Zuck ignores it.
Ruby rates much higher on the Englishness scale.
Is that why this article is flagged? Because of who wrote it?

Do you have any specific disagreement with anything he wrote? Because it seemed to be an interesting article with many things in it I didn't know, written in an engaging style.

From glancing through the comments below it seems people are angry because this guy isn't angry, and doesn't believe the world is doomed.

Why climate change is good for the world - "Don't panic! The scientific consensus is that warmer temperatures do more good than harm"

You don't explicitly pass judgement on this, apparently believing climate sensitivity and impact of small temperature changes is so obvious as to be beyond doubt. But there's a lot of doubt about how sensitive the climate really is. Climatology is very far from being a precise and well understood science, and that's before you get into some of the questionable scientific practices found inside.

The article is, again, well written and makes good arguments. It starts by citing a scientific meta-study into the economic impacts and goes from there. It also acknowledges the possible counter-arguments.

For those who are interested in the question of climate sensitivity Nic Lewis (a published climate scientist and skeptic), has some good talks on the matter, like this one:

https://www.nicholaslewis.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Lew...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYZW-6jw98U
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He's a great presenter; show, don't tell.
> Now that wind and solar are getting to the same price point there is no point in using nuclear reactors for energy generation.

You need 300 to 1000+ windmill to replace a single nuclear power plant. Might be doable in the US but there is no way to do that in France for example. Same for sun, good look replacing a nuclear plant in northern Europe with a solar farm, it's not Nevada.

Nuclear is on demand, wind and sun are not.

> The waste storage problem is not solved.

Renewable energy storage is not solved.
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The images are SVG, i.e. vectors that can be re-sized at will and displayed in any resolution. You can even change all the colors. See https://xd.undraw.co/

If you mean some images have too many details to be displayed as small icons, well, these are not really designed to be used as icons... if you need icons, try the nounproject as others suggested: https://thenounproject.com/
I don't think we've historically lacked motivation alpng those lines. AFAIK humans have been trying to address the valid reasons to be depressed for (at least) thousands of years. We've also been ingesting chemicals as a temporary hack for about as long.
How so? The article I read is mostly a list of interesting factoids about resource and commodity consumption. It doesn't attack environmentalists, if anything it starts with a jibe at journalists, but only insomuch as it notes "good news is no news".

In particular, what parts were ranty? I didn't see anything that would rise to the level of a rant. It's remarkably good natured given the invectives routinely dished out by those who would disagree.
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Anecdotally, Ive been very fortunate to have a positive brain chemistry. When bad things have happened, my brain pretty much doesn't worry on them. Eventually things work out (or something good eventually happens) and I get through the bad times.

There is no way to explain or describe this positive brain chemistry in a way that anyone can believe. But since I was a kid, my parents have been worried that Im too happy as they know dissatisfaction is what drives people to achieve. They would say things like "your only problem is you are too happy".

I havent lived to 85 yet though, so who knows.
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Qt KTerm, and VTE both supported complex typographies close to 20 years ago and nevertheless achieve similar performance.

It is a testament just how much behind times MS was up until recently.
In France base Model 3 is 43600. Any option / road ready fees will curiously drive you just past the threshold.
Note that this content is one year old. At that point, WSL was not a virtual machine, it was Linux syscall emulation in the NT kernel.
This is a government that deported it's own citizens asking to remove encryption for "user safety". Okay.
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#3: just hold and drag immediately. This is how d&d works anywhere in the system. No need for a special action.

One caveat is that you have to drag away from the context menu.
Implicit in this is that they already have all the access they wish, via Facebook, today.
Dive! Dive! Dive! Hit your burners, pilot!

FreeSpace 2 will forever have a special place in my heart. The best space fighter sim experience there ever was.

I hear that perhaps Elite: Dangerous is comparable, but from the videos of it I've seen, it doesn't have that military sci-fi feel to it. I miss the FreeSpace ambience, where you'd fly around in your fighter listening to the chatter between capital ships as they duke it out. I'm sad there was never a third part of the series; the storyline with the Shivans was excellent.
Let’s also not forget the illegal imprisonment of Assange without trial for the last few years in London, and now his appalling treatment in Belmarsh.
If it came with overall tax reductions, especially with road tax reduction, it could be a financially neutral rule for a specific amount of km per year. You could make is so that it then mostly hits people with monstrous cars, not the yellow vest people in their ordinary, perhaps slightly aging cars.
paywall. $30 for two paragraphs?
Part of what made Freespace 2 so immersive was its usage of actual stars as the locations for jump nodes - as a kid, being able to actually point to Gamma Draconis in the night sky as the setting of a game I just played added a whole new dimension to it.
For those repeating the “correlation isn’t causation” mantra: if you click through to the original article (https://www.pnas.org/content/116/37/18357), you’ll find its title is "Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2 epidemiologic cohorts of men and women”, so the authors of the paper are aware of that.

They tried hard to adjust for demographics and health conditions.

So, any critique should be on where those adjustments fail. The article is paywalled, so, even if I were knowledgeable about how that can be done, I can’t tell whether they are valid.
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Yep, so many things to be grateful of, but most of the people are just too "blind" to see them and acknowledge it. A gratitude journal is a really powerful tool.
From your link:

>and possesses very few side effects and extremely low toxicity.
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> ADHD patients calm down when they take Adderall because they’ve been on it for years and have a tolerance.

Speaking of myths, this is wildly incorrect. I've now been on methylphenidate -- AKA ritalin -- for a couple months. I do not and have not ever experienced a high or otherwise any euphoria. Partially this is indubitably because of the relative low dosage and low bioavailability. But partially it's because ADD makes me react differently to it.

There's roughly three effects I experience. Primarily it's way easier to stay focussed. The only side-effects I've been experiencing is some feelings of stress towards the end of the effective time of a dosage and some slight muscle twitching in my leg.

Anecdote aside, one of the possible side-effects of these sorts of medication is "a rushed feeling". Most people do not get this side effect, and if they do it's a cause for looking at different medication. It's definitely not the case that that's just something you build a tolerance to. Tolerance building is a thing, but it applies to the beneficial effects just as much as it applies to the side effects.
Apple think if people panic they will shake they phone. Really clever
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Fossil fuel is slowly killing all of us and the planet, every second of every single day. Even Chernobyl and Fukushima combined are a mild inconvenience compared to that.

Rejecting nuclear is like taking the car instead of a plane because "planes aren't safe". Yes the fuck ups are more impressive, but if you factor everything nuclear is the lesser evil.
I think this is partly why he believes wood burning can be worse than coal. Yes in theory growing trees and burning them is closed-loop ... if you assume the trees are grown right next to the power station and requires no energy input to grow or move them, which isn't the case.

Coal is very energy dense. Imports and other automated machinery like wood-cutting machines, planes for seed planting all burn oil. If you import coal and import wood, you could end up burning a lot more fuel with the wood option.

Now, that's kind of a tricky form of accounting because it would make wood burning worse from the perspective of the importing country only. But the carbon was still pulled out of the atmosphere in the exporting country.

The real reason wood burning/planting doesn't make much sense for reducing emissions is just one of scale. You end up needing to plant billions of trees to balance even just airline travel, let alone everything else. There isn't enough space short of terraforming deserts and other very energy intensive activities that probably wouldn't balance.
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Being stuck in a city traffic then answer might be:

Faster horses? YESSSSS !!! ;)
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There's actually a quite interesting movie about Ram Dass, about his life before and after stroke. It became a revelation that continuing living required digging deeper, and made him question much of his past, acting like the famous yogis and fooling around. When high on spirit, one may become a bit arrogant and full of oneself. He got more or less to see himself as "no more enlightened" than others, realize more of being the same as others, conscious sameness. That being a yogi is about much more than being famous, wealthy or having good health, none of that actually.

Lots of spiritual saints have had bad accidents and maladies in their life. Their power is often how to turn it to something deeper, meaningful, helping others and being inspirational - or just make a laugh about it. Ashtavakra was a total cripple (Ashtavakra means "8 knots" in the body), yet is studied and highly revered in India for his Gita.
We are looking at adding many new kinds of packages, including potentially Linux package types such as thesehttps://about.gitlab.com/direction/package/package_registry/...
> The cardholders would be charged nothing, the restaurant would receive 93 percent of the total, and Diners Club would get the rest.

I personally found this a bit more startling. How did they convince restauranteurs in 1950 that this was a good value proposition for them?
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I’ve had to navigate windows without a mouse a few times while troubleshooting a problem. It’s not too bad with the windows key, tab and arrow.

I had to use the key map once to type without a working keyboard. That was bad.
Curious how you charge if if the usb is "borked"
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What about Go? It seems like their approach is that if they define the style guide and build it into tooling, your code style (for Go) can only be the 'approved' style.

Or, put another way: People only have code styles because languages leave ambiguity. By removing that ambiguity you force your user-base to be consistent therefore increasing communication and productivity.

I tend to agree. It really grinds my gears when precious time is wasted on styling issues when there is no technical reason for either side. Granted it can be tough if you use three different languages with three different sets of rules.
Thanks, that's really great to hear. Release evidence, and where we plan to take that feature long term (https://about.gitlab.com/direction/release/release_governanc...) is really exciting to me, having spent a lot of my career in release management. Would be great to get your feedback on where we are headed - even if you aren't a GitLab user today, may you will be in the future.
This is a good point.

Dropping a program for no apparent reason can be a give away that there is something else...

The Boeing X-45 program is a good example:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3889/the-alarming-case...
> Actually we get on quite well in Europe, thank you very much. I suggest you take a car-ride through Northern France, close to Verdun, if those numberless WW1 cemeteries don’t change your mind I don’t know what else will.

That'll be the same France that has nuclear weapons?
So what, just because CO2 is unhealthy now you prefer radiation that will poison the planet for millennia?

Try clean energy instead and don't use worse as an alternative for bad.
It makes sense that it’s a numbers game. If statistically I try 100 projects and only 3% succeed, I am obviosly doing better than someone putting in 1/10 of the effort and having no success. The key ability is not genious but ability to iterate many many times despite failures.
We are looking to add breakpoints in an upcoming release, building on our interactive web terminals feature. If you're interested in providing feedback the public issue is https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/39527.
I disagree. The open source definition includes quite a bit about the license. There’s an organization (OSI) that works on this, and has for decades. The definition is available at https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

The ability to redistribute and change is as important, I think, as the ability to see the source.
And then you have to either re-train them to use string cursors or you have lots of people writing inefficient string code.
Of course they do. Facebook does not implement E2E encryption by default and they have to respond to lawful requests.
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Normal drivel from Vox.

Friends had a black version, Living Single (which came first) that rated huge for African Americans but non existent for whites, and vice versa.

Game of Thrones is a HBO flagship as they have always done. Marvel on the other hand is designed for the Chinese audience.

But I have no idea what that means in their markov chain of conflicting thought.

I'll go back to watching Netfix's The Witcher, based on a 2008 English novel translated from the 90's Polish novels because of a 2007 computer game and be happy whether Vox media critics are to good for it or not.
Anyone from the UK, I would urge to join up for https://www.ageuk.org.uk/services/befriending-services/sign-...

It’s a brilliantly organized scheme - you get online training and a telephone interview before you go live and it just requires you to give up 30 minutes of your time a week to talk and listen for 30 minutes. I signed up and it is brilliant- and so well organized
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All it does is produce an error: "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'a' referenced before assignment". The second f() call makes no difference.
in principle you could always write one-liners like this with lambdas or list comprehensions by translating

let x = <val> in <expr>

into this:

(lambda x: <expr>)(<val>)

(as the lambda calculus does)

or this:

[<expr> for x in (<val>,)][0]

of course the readability is terrible, but the power was always there if you wanted to (ab)use it :)

(yeah, i've used the second one in a repl, don't @ me)
Just curious, what would you say to your customers that are playing you game for the sake of escapism or entertainment?
Marriott/Hilton/IHG/Accor/Choice/Wyndham/Hyatt, everyone overcooks. The systems are set to allow a certain number of rooms to be overbooked every night, since there is a high probability of a certain percentage of people not showing up or wanting to cancel every night. The more rooms a hotel has, the more they can overbook. Although all the major brands have a policy of providing a free room night and transportation to an equivalent quality hotel nearby.

All the airlines do it to, too. Also, if a VIP comes in wanting to spend a month at the hotel and the hotel has to overbook a couple nights, they’re not going to turn away thousands in revenue. Even the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan cancels reservations when the Saudi royal family is in town.
I do phone befriending with AgeUK. Yes it’s awkward to begin with for them and you. But you might be the only person they get to speak to that week. Tough it out. It gets better.
The article starts out by addressing the very point you're making here: what about bad things that happened in the last decade? His answer is that things can get better in big ways, such that things that get worse in small ways don't counterbalance them.

I guess also the problem here is that many statements about things getting worse are very subjective, whereas the article tries to focus on objective metrics like absolute poverty, metals usage, etc. And it takes a global view.

Your list is pretty large but, for instance, you say "ads everywhere". The internet has been funded by ads for decades. Did it objectively get moreso in the past decade? And if so, isn't the worseness of this purely subjective given that many services we enjoy may not exist without ads or, possibly, would be charged for and thus available only to the rich, in rich countries? This is highly debatable. Whereas "child mortality is at record lows" is metric-based and objectively good.

Also many of these are very USA specific, but the worst places to live are really outside the USA. If your child died of TB "too many ads" and "the rise of smart speakers" is going to seem really trivial in comparison. No quantity of ads will counterbalance even a small rise in child mortality as a problem.
Recurring revenue by definition is not one-off payments for something.
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Why is this an "open letter" instead of being passed as law? I understand that you might write an open letter when you are powerless to change something, but this is a government...
Isn't people calling the other side names like "post fact" and "post shame" the very collapse of civilized discourse you're lamenting?
Unique? There are a hell of a lot of computer languages out there. The only unique ones are those that are so bad that no-one ever did that again.

The selling point for Crystal is that it has a clean syntax that's easy for Ruby or Python developers to pick up (almost the same as Ruby), but compiles to standalone binaries that run really, really fast.

I mostly work in Python because the libraries are a lot more mature, but I use Crystal when I need to produce a standalone binary.
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The real app look nothing like this clip. Really awful, that I have go back to Cmder
I am not convinced that explicit state machines are a good way to write code. Using core.async you get an implicit state machine, while preserving the illusion of sequential code, which is much simpler from the developer point of view.
Slightly different?
"the collection"

Well, any collection, even one of the images, if it's served up in a similar service.
The minister literally said it:

> ces véhicules ne sont construits ni en France, ni même par nos constructeurs nationaux

"those vehicles are neither built in France nor by our national automakers"

https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/automobile/le-sup...
Probably something to the tune of "people who regularly expense meals for business make up a large portion of our membership so what you lose in margin you more than make up for in volume."
You mean in the Embassy of Ecuador in London? That’s hardly a prison.
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I could make a similar comment about how keyboard shortcuts are "fucking horrible".

> Who the hell needs all this crap?
Who the hell needs keyboard shortcuts?
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