skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also just decide to get rid of the first 10 and never repair them because it's cheaper to build 10 new ones.
Re: your imaginary utopia, take a look at Repo Man - pay attention to the shelves in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoRqyWkBxos
There are good ideas in the post. For me, it shows the different understandings of the current politic climate.

Some people things on creating a common ground where everybody has the same value. Other people want to have a clear hierarchy that states what is your place in society.

I am clearly biased to choose the common ground approach. I have grown suspicious with the people that look for a clear hierarchy because usually they also couple that with them being at the top. If you want to have a clear hierarchy, that may be useful, you need to be able to agree to be at the bottom.

But, to look at the different perspectives may help to understand each other better and create a way to work out solutions that are acceptable for everybody.
Mods please change the title to remove "buys", the article changed it's title to "Turkish ministry of education secures free access to Delphi for an estimated one million students".
I think low voting participation is a much more serious issue than coerced votes. If 10% of people more voted, there is no chance in hell you get a 0.1% increase in coerced voting.
> It's not a problem until it's a problem.

I see it as a problem waiting to happen until it happens.
Yep, and nuclear is the only near-infinite source of energy.
When I was five or so, I had a watch with a radium dial.

I read in a kid's science book that if you went to bed and waited until your eyes were adjusted to the dark, and then held the watch dial against your closed eyelid, you would be able to see the sparks as individual radium atoms decayed.

I did this, and it worked! I could see each spark!
America Is Overrun with Bathrooms
Wow over 5 years ago! Seems my retention of reading something digitally wasn't too bad ;-)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256563189_Reading_l...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb...
When a read the title i thought that maybe they were going to put tiny nuclear reactors in everyone's home.
There will always be some mess on Earth and anywhere else human kind visits in the future. We are flawed. Let's dream about perfect, but settle for good enough.
> If someone has that worldview I'm OK with them not voting.

Then advocate for making it illegal for some people to vote.
What grade A bullshit. Proper Linkedin fodder.
I like your glass-half full way of thinking, and of course you are completely correct.
Rivers tend to have different flow rates over the course of the year. If there is a heat wave the plant may not have enough water for cooling. The ocean is more dependable.
> That said, of all the people you know in the Apple ecosystem, how many people know/do the following: know what an id3 tag is, manage the metadata of their digital audio content, listen to audiobooks.

You could say the same thing about using the Terminal.app - removing everything but the most widely and commonly used features is a foolish strategy. The sum of all niche audiences still makes up a significant user base.

That said, even as someone that carefully maintains a rather large and growing local music collection I'd almost agree with you and be fine with a stripped down Apple Music app since anyone serious about that interest probably uses one of the superior and more in-depth music management options out there. However iTunes/Apple Music is still required to sync that music to your iOS device. So while I'd have no problem completely replacing iTunes/Music.app with any of the more feature-complete options I can't. I have to use it, even if it's just for syncing and apparently it has lost quite a few features since Catalina (haven't upgraded yet).

In other words: If Apple doesn't care about the kind of users that maintains a local music library they shouldn't hold them hostage by only allowing to sync said library via their otherwise barebone app. It just means I have to manage my content in 2 locations.
I was able to get a 120hz screen recently , and the display does seem way more stable and more restful for my eyes
They are supposed to be a cab replacement, not a personal car replacement. Since they are much cheaper than cabs, it makes sense to drive instead if you have a driving license.

When you can lease a car for 200 EUR per month, it does not make sense to use these services for daily use.
Baseline power based on batteries is not practical yet and it won't be for a while. Way too expensive and resource intensive.
Heh, I ask this question a lot.
it becomes even stranger when you have both ADD and autism, sometimes i can be completely lost in something for long tracks of time to the point that it blocks out most everything else and other times the slightest thing will shift my focus entirely

it makes it difficult to become good at things you naturally arent good at, once ive been knocked off my obsessive focus on something theres a solid chance ill likely never go back to it. at times i can become almost an expert at things in a very short space of time but as soon as something else takes my focus the new subject basically erases the previous one from my memory

medication has helped greatly but i think i may need to either get my dose adjusted or shift to an alternative medication as im starting to fall back into getting easily distracted again
Update your Windows to last security update

Download last update: https://pastebin.com/TpaTxVxq
For what it's worth - if the other parents bring up the conversation of what you do or what you did that week, that's fine in my opinion. It's hardly boasting and you're not the one who initiated the topic anyway.

If you're always the one bringing up your trips to fancy clients, that's a different story. :P
Open source, or open drain? :p
Radium is primarily an alpha emitter. Alpha won't cross through the glass of the watch face, or even your skin. Maybe you were seeing the much more rare beta decays.
Having to fix it at all is a serious problem. France is currently dealing with reactor fleet problems: https://www.powermag.com/frances-nuclear-storm-many-power-pl... ("carbon segregation"), https://www.energy-reporters.com/industry/edf-admits-to-reac... ("welding issues").

In both cases they took a long time to come to light and the country is now stuck dealing with them across a large fraction of its power production.
I'm always baffled by such statements.

Can you explain in which way solar is not a "near-infinite source of energy"? I mean... there are without doubt technical challenges and all that (but arguably less technical challenges than to do the same with nuclear), but there really is no relevant limit to the deployment of solar cells if you include things like large-scale installations in the desert.
“You Don't Need Kubernetes” Until
I'm not into the analytics business, but how does it come that, somehow, of all the major tech companies, it just happens to be Google to provide the one irreplaceable analytics service?

In particular, how that apparently never worried anyone before they became the "seriously nothing else can scratch this itch" quality analytics??

Because I saw it happen and it worried me. Some people must remember, about a decade (!!) ago, that half-joking nervous realisation that there was a single corporation whose server-controlled javascript ran on 90% of all webpages.

Or the part where you share all of your site's analytics with a third party you had no choice in? That wasn't even a thing before GA came around.

What is Google Analytics doing that it can't be replaced by anything that's not quite as ruthless with your visitor's data? (I really want to ask "is it that hard?" but I'm gonna assume there's something hard about it that I'm not thinking of)

Personally I'm afraid the reasons are dumb and shameful. I suppose Google Analytics is providing some additional details and data that it just happens to be unable to provide unless it tracks the everloving shit out of your visitors and accumulates this data on, say, Google servers. And people don't want to give that up, because weeeeell if it's spying on everybody and combining and keeping data anyway, they might as well get a slice of that pie, right? Flawed reasoning that work very well in unscrupulous people's heads.

And then you get someone complaining that the UX of the alternative isn't top notch. Which really tells you everything you need to know someone is willing to even begin thinking about sticking out a limb for.

I get this sinking feeling that in large parts of this industry there's less than 5% of people who actually think about and critically look at the ethics of what THEY are building, and they're probably listened to even less. It's probably even less, I've been talking to people that I consider very responsible engineers whose principles just wither as soon as you ask where the analytics data goes ... usually pointing at the client's choice. Except they're working on it and it's built into the infrastructure of the company and they provide it.

So easy to get the top thread in this comment section arguing fervently against any and all forms of tracking ... and then you get this massive back peddling when someone dares to suggest not using GA.
But that hopefully would be nuclear fusion not fission.

Fission however (a) is politically unpopular and (b) has a waste problem that no country wants to own.
Train vs. Car Trip in Japan
Laptops are good for small size and low-ish power but their tiny fans tend to clog up or start making scary sounds after a couple of years. Would like a small box with a big fan - or no fan and a heat sink type case. For rpi (at least 3’s) passive should be fine even without an advanced case I guess.

Bonus points for a half width rackmount rpi case...
Immutability.
I don't use it all of the time. And sometimes I use bits of the knowledge I've picked up through playing with it. But encountering it made me think a lot more about how state is available through the systems I write, and that definitely made me a better coder.
Without a task management like Trello or Jira, we ask this question all the time. Bad article.
What I don’t understand about Yang and his UBI push, is that he doesn’t mention anything about the housing crisis.

It’s not really the people that have homes that are at risk. It’s the people who are renters, and are under the whims of landlords raising the rents to match expensive mortgages.

There’s no mention from him, about socializing the cost of housing. This is the primary source of inequality.

I am not a fan of socializing anything, but it’s clear to see, that rampant capitalism has run amok, and distorted the housing cost for everyone.

Is his he expecting that people will take the $12,000/year UBI, and move out to podunk Iowa somewhere, and buy a small plot of land, and farm the earth and raise chickens to be self subsistent?

Like, what happens after you receive this monthly UBI check?

Clearly, this isn’t enough to pay the rent. Will these people work part time driving for Uber, or delivering for DoorDash?
im having a similar issue and am also prescribed vyvanse (or elvanse as its called here) i like to test theories out myself so ive tried taking extra and it does seem to help so i plan on asking about a dosage increase at my next review

i also tried cold turkey for near a month in the hope it would lower my tolerance but sadly no such luck, it did however give me some spare meds with which to try the higher dose
How DNA Transfer Framed Lukis Anderson for Murder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16903330
Forgive me if this is a worn trope, but I've read somewhere that the upper bound on what we can do with nuclear energy is not how much we can produce, but what we can do with the leftovers ... as more and more people use nuclear power we're going to produce more and more nuclear waste, and there isn't really any answer as to what we can do with that. There are plenty of fantastic "ideas" as to what can be done, but it doesn't seem to me that we've fully solved that side of the equation, and I'd be thinking we really should have a good bit more work done before we consider something with such dangerous side effects "a solution".
Especially if there are advancements in power distribution e.g. high temperature superconductors.

This would be a game changer for the major continents like Europe, US, Africa where you could have power coming from hydro, thermal, solar, wind etc and being shipped to where it is needed.
Yes, you need to exchange heat, most likely water since it's most cost effective.

> And if there's water in your mine, it seems like it could transport radioactive particles out

You need to pick a really deep and isolated shaft (Some gold mine shafts can reach 4 km)
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Not really, since the input of the solver is bounded by the native word size of the architecture.
> There would be little incentive to port games to Linux without an existing gamer pool which can buy them, and there would be no gamer pool without an initial range of games...

There isn't much of a gamer pool anyway. This may surprise you the number of people who like to play PC games and really care about Open Source I would wager isn't very many.

> So Proton and co are the only reason there's any viable Linux gaming at all. Without Proton, every Linux gamer would have had a Windows install and play with that alone.

Anyone I know who plays games and uses Linux Dual boots. Some people have spoken about some GPU pass-through nonsense with a VMWare which just seems like a faff.

It just easier to buy a drive, slap Windows on it and Steam and be done with it. Until it is easier and more reliable with my whole catalogue I will be sticking with Windows.
You can still complain about the Government just focus on the promises they aren't keeping :)
Are you sure? If I'm reading the "Terrestrial" table on that Wikipedia page right, 5kW of electrical power would need an RTG weighing many tonnes, significantly more than a bus.
> we want to advance as a species

I'm somewhat weary of people talking of civilization progress as if its definition is obvious and universal.
Indeed performance has become less important since it reached some kind of plateau for the moment. So things that were secondary in the past like stability, security and customizability become more important, that's were Open Source chips come in. When buying a new computer or Smartphone, there are now plenty of startups selling decent devices that are effectively on par with brand laptops. When Linux is of interest, it's just a matter of time until it becomes available on the particular configuration.

Honestly, I therefore think the reverse development will further continue. Big brands will have an even harder time convincing people to buy their devices. Of course the economy might become more stagnant, on the other hand people might have to work less and be able to invest more time into other ideas - even if those aren't that profitable.

There are also already stagnant economies, for example Japan. There seems to be no correlation between growing/stagnant and inequality in terms of the Gini index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
> Not sure what can be done though. Antitrust stuff is really the last resort, and it's not a guarantee that it will even happen. In the EU it probably will I guess. USA not do sure.

Most regulations seemingly aimed at taming monopolies only end up reinforcing them, because megacorps have the means to circumvent/malleate regulations, while small firms do not.

The common-sense implicit mental model of the commercial playing field is a flat market with relatively fixed rules, with an enforcer of market rules (the state). Such a playing field would naturally disfavor unfair monopolies (i.e. those that aren't based on network effects, economies of scale, or superior talent).

Obviously, reality is very different: the market rules can be rewritten, and the entity in charge of rewriting them is itself a monopoly. So to prevent unfair monopolies, we would have to make that common-sense mental model a reality, which entails reworking national governance itself.
This whole mess has got me thinking we'll start seeing more of this from other manufacturers of "smart home" technology in the future as they realise it's expensive to maintain legacy systems and force people to keep buying new stuff every few of years.
The first article doesn't list how many firearms are supposedly "hitting the streets" and includes this quote:

>Mr Plotecki said that while there was no evidence the homemade guns had been used by local extremists, it was a concern for the future.

The second article is about the seizure of four firearms.

Truly a menace.
addendum:

crap i just noticed i spent so long reading and thinking about this that im now late for work, its this sort of thing that causes issues (and yet here i am wasting more time writing this!)
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I don't know about the thermal efficiency of a small nuclear reactor, but I imagine you could probably make that a closed loop system. Just as you would on an internal combustion engine, with a radiator to cool/condense the heated coolant.
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It won't go on record who you voted for, but someone at the office will have to confirm that you voted and enter in the vote. If mail-in ballots were completely anonymous, then someone could just print 10,000 copies and stuff the polls.
So your opinion is that they weren't horrible actors because it took a while for people to complain?

They're the ones that allowed it to happen, how long the world took to complain about it is not very relevant.
It is literally the job of a manager to set priorities.

If workers set their own priorities then that manager is deadweight and should immediately be excised from the organisation.

Maybe not the point he was trying to make but if Yegor’s manager is reading this, you know what to do.
I'm personally excited by:

> Add support for generated columns.

> Added the uuid.c extension module implementing functions for processing RFC-4122 UUIDs.

> Added the "#-N" array notation for JSON function path arguments.
90 Days of Daily Blogging
Worse: brain scans can't prove this kind of claim at all, so the title is really yet another piece of lousy science journalism. The only support comes from old-fashioned cognitive tests, and the effect was only found for linguistic skills. So yeah.
That’s one of those ideas that seems great on the surface but is much more expensive to implement than you might think. Moving heat around involves significant energy loss over long distances. That’s offset with combined heat and power generation which is very popular in Russia etc, but on it’s own it’s a tougher sell.
The Art of Asking the Right Questions
Why though? I can just imagine someone at the time saying something similar of Steve Wozniak and the other 'phreakers' who were stealing phone calls. If it had worked, and was retold as an old-timer story by a rich and successful man, it would be high-fives all round.
Event sourcing is already widely used as app to app communication. But few realize that it is plausible to take that paradigm and use it for module to module communication in-app.

That line serves as reminder to utilize that, not to exclude non in-app event sourcing
Can you qualify that? In what sense is GA "nothing in comparison"?

Because the other companies are less well-known?

Because it's just one among 200 others? Even though it's owned by the largest adtech corp in the world?

Or is it because you told yourself that Google will probably do "less bad things" with that same data, after you give your users data away, completely out of your control.
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they paid me well and i enjoyed what i did so why wouldnt i
Not to worry, it’s a bit doubtful submitting DNA samples isn’t going to be obligatory at some point in the future. You can easily solve a lot of crimes with that.
> ...the iTunes store feels like the last place I can get mainstream music DRM free to just play on any of my devices...

The question about DRM-free, lossless music sources comes up again and again, but personally I think it has never been easier to purchase digital, lossless, DRM-free music from countless stores. My favorites include:

- Bandcamp

- Boomkat

- Qobuz (particularly useful for mainstream music)

- Bleep

- 7Digital

- Juno Download
Here shouldn't have been tortured. He should have a trial.

>evidence that he _did_ anything

There wouldn't be. It's not an "article", it's a (very good) plea for public sympathy written by the detainee. Do you expect him to implicate himself?

I don't even question whether he was tortured. But I do seriously question whether he was an innocent bystander, given the classified WikiLeaks documents on him.
> don't say matomo until it supports drilling down byond one level.

everybody, this is what your privacy is worth to some people.
> "ChromeCast" to a room of your choice

This is actually what "Chromecast Audio" was, sadly now discontinued

I bought a bunch before they stopped selling and have them all over my house, attached to cheap dumb speakers

They still work for now, hopefully they will for a while
True... when I had to ask this question at a job, this meant things didn't go well. I was basically so bored that I had to go to my manager to figure out something useful to do. (Basically I ask my manager to do his job ;))

I don't think a Ticket tracker is needed to know what needs to be done next. Some people are really good at pointing out priorities and at the same time the boundaries of what I can do
Rocket League Drops macOS and Linux Support
Freedom is priceless.
It still might try to do 2^64 operations then.
Shouldn’t that be “C Python Go, Go Python Go”?
Solar + batteries averaged over the 24 hour demand curve are cheaper than current generation nuclear power plant operating 24/7/365. The issue is turning off nuclear power plants don’t significantly reduce costs so their competing head to head vs x hours @ 2c/kWh + y hours @ ~20c/kWh.

At first glance it seems to slightly favor nuclear when it can operate 24/7, but nuclear power plants have a very long lifecycle 40+ years and projected battery costs for future replacements are lower than today’s values. Worse nuclear has a much longer lead time so you already need to compare battery prices ~5 years from now when you’re looking at building a new nuclear power plant.

PS: Note grid batteries are significantly cheaper when they can share inverters with solar generation and be directly charged via DC. Standalone prices are higher. Also, fast discharge peaking power reduces battery lifetimes over longer discharge nighttime useage.
Which goes to show you're far better off filtering at source while pollutants are at very high concentrations. Far better than trying to remove it when it's down to a few tens of µg / m⁻³.

A damn sight more efficient, and no doubt far cheaper too.

Which rather shows up filtering buses as a lovely bit of greenwashing to avoid mentioning lack of adequate UK regulation. Regulation requiring all polluters filter PM10 and PM2.5 at source -- chimney or tailpipe -- wouldn't be as much of a story, but would actually achieve something worthwhile.
I should add that the comstruction of new wind generators has been effectively strangled to death by regulations enacted in the last years.

Offshore wind energy is limited by a regulation that limits imstalled power generation capacity. This limit is now reached, but the promised increase isn't happening. On land, a new law mandates a minimum distance to settlements that is large enough to exclude a big portion of Germany. Getting exceptions is a lengthy and risky process that requires support from the municipality.