skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obama didn't shut anything down.. he appointed a nuclear physicist that said we shouldn't slow down nuclear approvals after Fukushima as Secretary of Energy[1]. Hell, read the description of all the Federal support since 2009 for Vogtle 3&4:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

They still can't get the stupid things built. It's going to finish somewhere about 200% over budget at $25B for 2000MW and nearly a decade late. Just an absolutely calamity. Over $12k per KW. Natural gas is what, $750/KW? Wind near $1,500? Solar near $2,500? Capacity factor can only buy you so much goodwill when you can build 5x the nameplate capacity in 1/10th the time.

The best thing the nuclear industry could do to save their technology would be to actually build generating plants for anything approaching the cost or schedule that they commit to when contracted.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu#U.S._Secretary_of_E...
> buying houses in Ohio every couple of months, simply because they can

I doubt that, and even if they are I'm not sure it's a wise choice. Housing is cheap here compared to other areas, but it's not that cheap (unless you're buying stuff I'm not sure you'd want to buy anyway).
> But I agree, the US government isn't functioning 1) as originally intended or 2) for the benefit of the majority of the people it 'represents.'

I disagree, and I think you need to take a look at three sets of poll results to understand why. (For all the poll results, keep in mind that voters skew more conservative than the overall population.)

1) A recent Gallup poll shows that the vast majority of Americans prefer free market to government solutions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-f.... Only in two areas did more people think the government should be primarily responsible: environmental protection, and online privacy. Even for healthcare, 53% though the free market should be primarily responsible, versus 44% for the government.

2) Since 1965, Gallup polling has shown that Americans consistently list "big government" as the "biggest threat facing the country in the future." https://news.gallup.com/poll/201629/americans-big-government...

Aside from a brief dip during 9/11, a majority of the country listed "big government" as the "biggest threat" since the late 1980s. Even during the 2009 recession, "big business" peaked at 32%, and is usually around 25%. In 2012, 72% of Americans listed big government as the biggest threat, and only 21% listed big business.

3) According to a 2014 Reason-Rupe survey, the majority of millennials want a "smaller government with less services and lower taxes." https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/assets/db/140488628178.... See chart on page 47. 57% of millennials want lower taxes and less services, versus 41% who want more taxes and more services.

In short, Americans distrust government, trust businesses, and don't want to pay high taxes. That's pretty much explains why we have the government we do. Half the country (Republicans) doesn't trust the government at all, and will push back on any new government programs or taxes. Out of the other half (Democrats), you've got several factions that are only loosely connected. A large faction comprises wealthier white progressives, for whom issues like gay marriage and abortion
I don't want a collection of keyboard - I also prefer something that all the macro functionality is inherent to the device, so I dont need a cross platform software, I should just be able to plug the keyboard in to whatever thing I need to use it on, and it should just work.
The coolest named language ever. Forth is cool too :)
Consider what happens to your immune system when it detects a foreign particle that it can't get rid of because there's no way to interact with it.
yes as i said, word of mouth is an important part of growth. but word of mouth doesn't just happen out of nowhere. discord knows their market, did their research, and did tons of work behind the scenes in marketing, partnerships, developing features that would add growth, etc. you see discord literally everywhere at events, other social media platforms, involved in communities.

where do you see this kind of effort from open source alternatives? i believe this is the biggest issue with the "alternatives". my perception is that they think they built an amazing product and that people should just start using it. but that's not how that works.
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There's also waxed cotton and oilskin. Some maintenance required, but they work.
From the late 1990's to early 2000's, there were a number of online companies (would now be called SaaS) including Qpass in Seattle that solved this problem for companies like NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and many more. Turns out that customers really didn't want to do that for written articles; subscriptions just worked better.

That turned out differently for things like mobile apps.

(Source - worked at Qpass for multiple years.)
I live with two housemates. Some days they work from home, if I didn't have an office to work from, my house would become the office. Or more precisely my room as both my housemates work jobs that require lots of phone calls.

I currently sleep and relax in the same room. I do not want to add working to the list of things I do there.
>Simply stating that your network configuration prevents access isn't the best answer.

Right. The network should actually be configured to prevent access.
On the other hand you need a lot more pins for SPI.

One more advantage of SPI that I see is higher data rates, full-duplex communication etc..
I didn't say it was. I said it was an outlier.
Cyclones in the summer are rare.
It was also a major reason that the sea ice extent got as low as it did, and it's never got even close to that low again. It's not relevant to the long term or short term trend.
Well looking at a large scale public health incident from only science perspective is a naive simplification.
The other favorite arguments are, "if we don't do <unethical> thing, someone else will, therefore it's ethical". I call it the "selling crack to teenagers" argument but it was the go-to by Google employees defending the autoaim killbot project Maven.

There was also an idea that, Google employees are the "good guys" compared to "evil Amazon", therefore when Google does something, it's de facto good, and it's better for Google to do the unethical thing since they will do it less unethically than Amazon.

Google employees care a lot about their "TC" and "GSUs" - that's it. What bugs me is that at least Goldman employees and their ilk kind of have that tacit acknowledgement that they are in it for the lucre. A lot of Googlers really act like they are in it for the greater good even when the company picks money over ethics at literally every junction.
Bro! Shoes with toes I'm dying -- he's got me nailed
I bloody knew this would happen. I tried to warn them, but would they listen? no....

A world without the Pythons? Not my cuppa tea.
A used but modern Mini Cooper is not that expensive. In 2012 I bought a 2008 with 20K miles on it for $15K, and it's been a super reliable car, real joy to drive.

I also have a 1967 Pontiac, and THAT thing is enormous. There were a lot of big family cars back then.
Your comment on the other hand comes off as very hostile - essentially, if you like PHP it's because you don't know better - it's because you only know that language.
I'm aware of GBU's preference for info but systems vary. Just to use your example, I'm typing this on Slackware and when I pull up man tar there are three examples, right after Synopsis and Description. Examples for extracting, both gzipped and regular archives, and creating a tar file are given.

And when I shell into an OpenBSD server their man page for tar has several examples at the bottom of the page.

Man, IMO, is a lot like Linux distros in that they are not all created equal, pull from a lot of different sources and can be inconsistent if you're not looking at the correct ones for whatever system you are on.

I too think TLDR is a good idea but that's no reason not to encourage that some of their work be ported back to man pages in their examples' sections.
FWIW, the Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. Employees don't have any equity. Salary and bonus are thus the bulk of your compensation at Mozilla no matter what level you're at.
Yeah, I marvel at the seeming dichotomy in the human mind.

We're capable of such amazing reasoning and creativity, and moral courage. But the very same minds can sustain sets of beliefs that are clearly (to others) internally contradictory or irrational, or that rationalize behavior that's clearly violates one's own ideals.
I wish google would enable infinite scroll like DDG. Internet search results are of the few times it is more user friendly than pagination.

Just being able to keep scrolling and seeing more results is very helpful. I guess it increases the value of the "first page" for Google.
Chipko Movement
I just hoped it was a website for formula translations
New mouse design solves Carpal Tunnel
Interesting product. I can see some value in noting that I’m going to be responding to a group email or asking someone else to respond.

The shared inboxes seem like a low cost alternative to help desk/support software and would be likely outgrown quickly by an organization with the budget for premium email.

Can anyone discuss their usage of it?
I might be mistaken but I think the Polestar line is a Hybrid car so that will result in Maintenance for the dealer. I.e. I am unsure if you buy the Polestar 1/2 where do you get it fixed? If you have to get it fixed at Volvo the dealership won't be upset, but then it's not really an electrical car so it's not upending their business model.
true. many folks vote for Green candidates for similar reasons.
It does not work reliably and the quality is not something you can only sell as an addon feature. This is what Abbyy does for example.
Page 125:3 makes the claim "We introduce Seq, the first domain-specific language and compiler for computational biology" without further qualifier, so I think my interpretation is correct.
It should be a win for everyone who owns property right? I plan on renting my current house when its paid off and moving up to something bigger.
If 1M people want to move to your city but you only build housing for 100k of them, it's not really going to move the needle very much on price, even if you built "a lot" of housing. The amount of housing built has to be considered in comparison to the demand for more housing. The absolute numbers matter much less than the relative ones.
Toward a War with Fewer Radio Calls
I reported similar issues in the past and there's no bounty, but of course Microsoft reserves the right to deviate. (And I hope they did in this case!) Minimally, you get placement on the Microsoft Online Services Acknowledgments page. https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/re...
Sure, translating formulas is cool and all, but where's the framework that lets me use PL/1 on OS/2 to build Web 3.0 apps?
I’d argue that 12 years of schooling does get people to play as a team, it’s just that the team is smaller and more local. If I grow up in a smallish town in South Dakota I will go to school with and know people who mostly look like me. I won’t meet someone from a big coastal city and get to learn their worldview and how it was shaped. I won’t (probably) experience what it feels like to be in a minority role (as in race, political belief, etc). I will, however, grow up with people and maintain longer relationships with them. I will vote and act in the interest of my community’s shared beliefs.

I also think there are other intangible benefits to conscripted service aside from exposing people to a wide diversity of their country. We were able to end the Vietnam war because we had a draft. We’ve been at war with terror for 19 years with no end in sight. Too few families are affected now and the nation doesn’t have the will to stop this forever war.

I do generally agree that socializing in the context of killing people is probably not ideal. That said, a very small part of the military actually kills people. The vast majority of the military is either in a support role, or do not find themselves in a situation where they actually need to kill someone. So, I want to discount your first paragraph a bit. That said, I support the idea of a 2 year mandatory service which unlocks benefits like tuition (university, trade, etc). I don’t think that service needs to only be military - I would happily revive the Civilian Conservation Corps, use the Peace Corps, etc to fulfill that service.
> If I recall correctly, that twitter post is not entirely accurate. The CEO was exercising their stock options.

Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, and Mozilla Corp is private held wholly by Mozilla Foundation. No one is getting compensated in forms of equity. All compensation plans are salary and cash bonuses.

The data from the tweet matches the numbers from public IRS filings of Mozilla Foundation. See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/ for the most recent report.
Our economy, educational system, heck our entire society is basically structured (ideally, from the ruling/moneyed class's perspective) to keep the great masses just happy enough not to revolt, keep the machines working, and no more. Many people literally cannot afford to make every life choice based only on their ethics.
SaaS needs to be hosted. The user who pays for the software has to download the software which means the website is re-distributing the code.

See https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#redistribution

You must give any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License;
I think the real takeaway from your story is that you shouldn’t make friends with judgmental people, otherwise you will let them peer pressure you into acting against your best interests.
While this article does do a good job of illuminating the potential challenges, it's a bit frustrating that there's such scant discussion of solutions.

IMO, this problem has been solved pretty comprehensively by the TUF framework[1], which has a number of solid implementations[2][3]. Many of these implementations even have reliable third-party reviews, so should be pretty trustworthy.

[1]: https://theupdateframework.github.io/
[2]: https://github.com/flynn/go-tuf
[3]: https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary
How come you count inflation for house and not for savings? :)

As others point out, houses can be easily setup in and around the metros to give a steady 3% return not including appreciation. Considering dense living is the future and the house will materially remain through a market downturn, why wouldn't you diversify your portfolio with a few?
Speaking of propaganda, one of the most surprising ones (to me) is VERY apparent here. There's this idea of "nuclear vs green". This is extremely odd to me. We don't say that our grid should be all solar or all wind. The argument is "nuclear vs coal and natural gas".

Pro nuclear is "We want a well diversified energy production that matches the needs of areas where power is demanded in a economically and ecologically efficient manner."

For example: I am 100% all in favor of southern California (and really the southwest) running off of 100% renewables, predominantly solar and wind. I don't see an issue with that. You don't need much storage. Alternatively, I don't see that working well in the northeast or PNW. Just like building nuclear reactors has environmental impacts, there are environmental impacts to the land usage of wind, solar, hydro (this is more obvious), geo, and the respective storage systems. What to use for the specific area is not an easy calculation.

All I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't take a technology off the table before we've considered it's uses.
Perhaps it's a controversial opinion, but I feel like it's just flat out unethical to relegate basic security to the paid/enterprise version of your product.

Of course it's unethical to use said product to store real user data too, but the road goes both ways.
Just want to mention, there is no proof that this is an actual letter. None of the information in this entire thread is verifiable (except an anecdote about IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad being denied entry to a business awards ceremony for arriving by bus, that one is true).
May Brian welcome him at the threshold of whatever comes after. He will not soon be forgotten here.
I guess I would be one of those people - my reasoning being that I don't mind ads that much but in this case the google changes are pissing me off. Many media organizations are not doing to well, the do ads which is maybe not smart but that's how they pay for it. Google is doing very well, what they have already pays their bills and makes them rich, but they want to lessen the experience of their users to get richer.

So in this one case I'm the kind of guy who would like to block ads on Google and nowhere else currently. (Also if I install an ad-blocker I am at the mercy of the ad-blocker not reaching a deal with one of the richest companies in the world to let their content through because it's ok)
For exactly that reason, I've encountered peripherals getting stuck during i2c transactions far too many times. At least a handful of times I've had to add boot (and sometimes runtime) logic to clear stuck transactions, due to the lack of a dedicated way to reset said peripheral.

It's quite annoying because one stuck device can block all other communication on the bus. Let's hope your reset pin (if you have it), isn't on an i2c expander on the same i2c bus.
Fortran actually isn't a static language. It's evolved over time. The last significant revision according to wikipedia is just over a year old. The beauty and horror of it probably depends which era of it you're looking at.
I noticed the README had a nice ASCII-ART touch, and briefly thought about converting my .md READMEs back to extensionless plaintext files :)
> It’ll be interesting to see if converting classics will become more common

It'll depend on the owner, really. Some folks want the style of the older vehicle but the technology of the future, so they go the EV (or at least Restomod) route.

Many folks like the simplicity, the sounds, the smells, and the looks of the classics, so they leave them original (or make minor mods to make them more "livable" without sacrificing the original intent).

As for size, I have a '71 MGB GT which can fit quite a lot in the back. But I like how it smells, how it rumbles, how it sounds, and that B-series motor, so it'll stay mostly original (though I have a hotter engine ready to go in it).
Well, for a multinational corporation, the sentence still makes sense and doesn’t seem gratuitous or sensationalized, as they could say they shifted $39B of UK profit to Ireland or something. It does leave a vague and perhaps intentional implication of crossing some kind of border, so they could have said “$39 billion of profit in the incorporated US”, I suppose.
Ironically that's why we had to get one in the first place. However, in the US, SUVs and Pickups outnumber sedans, so the majority of people sit at the same vantage point.
Wow, I never realized that phrase was used internally at MS. I always thought it was an outsiders description of their practice. Shameful.
> They know best how it works

But they don't necessarily know best what usage patterns work well for people who are not maintainer-level experts.

I see a strong case for having separate texts for documenting the interface (striving for completeness and low redundancy) and introductory teaching. I don't think that I'd like seeing each man page prepended with a wordy ELIF and two pages of trivial examples. And I'm not saying this because I'd not need the ELIF, quite the opposite, I just don't think that it would be wise to mix them.

Having them maintained in one place, passed through the same distribution channels and available on the command line, now that would great of course. The minimum almost-requirement for a crowdsourcing effort for that content could be a contribution licence that is 100% compatible with the real thing, not 99%, not 99.99. Just in case.
I've been driving legally and defensively for more than a decade and have noticed few problems. It's relaxing in the moment, and even more so in the long run, given how bad I'd feel about killing someone with my car. Highly recommended.

Some people seem upset by this (on the Internet), which always baffles me. Do they also seethe in the elevator because it's not going fast enough?
I think the oil will run out (or we'll transition to other energy sources), then Saudi will just wither and the special relationship will disappear.

But yeah, it won't end because of morality.
My CloudFlare stats show multiple times as many hits as GA. I'm guessing it's not handling bots/spiders or something.
Law enforcement is using a facial recognition app with privacy issues
For me, independence is entirely about the money.

There is a 20% budget deficit on day one of independence: 8% from the "danger" of Brexit (SNP's own slides!) and 12% approximately from the Barnett formula.

I asked a panel of SNP MSP's what they were going to do about the deficit since we'll technically be worse off than Greece on day one of independence and they wouldn't commit to an answer as they were waiting for George Osborne (the chancellor at the time) to provide them with exact figures... this was in a room full of Entrepreneurs in Ayrshire in 2016 (might have been 2017, can't quite remember the date). They got heckled for that answer.

I maintain that if they can come up with something plausible to answer the question of what we do on day one when we are bankrupt, I will look at the rest of the evidence. Until then, there's no point. I will vote no.

So the money angle is perfectly valid in the case of independence.
Ruby Rails doesn't even work work out of the box on Windows.

Which makes teaching it 10x harder. ( US seems to be outliner in that every student is on MacBook )
I'm not picking on your metaphor, but I don't understand it either. Mind elaborating?
Same. I really dislike I2C, but it's universal and it's been around for decades, and it's hard to avoid designs without it. I2C keeps causing these additional issues which the article doesn't touch on:

* No way to safely bring the bus back to idle from mid-transaction. By "safely" I mean not accidentally transmit an extra byte which could e.g overwrite EEPROM memory. There is no combination of transitioning the 2-wire bus from an arbitrary state back to idle which works in the general case. If it's important, you end up adding a dedicated reset wire.

* No safe, universal way to bring the bus from tristate, or low, to pulled-up. There are designs where this ends up being necessary. You end up with a spurious transaction, which may wedge the bus, or having to add a reset wire or buffer.

* The protocol is extremely hostile to devices with non-zero latency response. It's designed as a simple "Address this register and then immediately read out a byte in the next clock cycle". Works great for trivial devices, but for anything more complex it ends up needing a bank of register acting as a "proxy" to access the higher latency side of the chip. At this point I2C is an awesomely bad choice, but people keep doing this, because it's so universal.
Finally! I can't wait to be part of the first GenX college coding projects as a service (GXCCPAAS) unicorn!
Yep. This "fuck you, I got mine, now get yours" mentality coupled with NIMBYism is definitely one reason we'll never get affordable housing.
I don't understand how unveil works for applications which ask the user to supply a file to work on, as the app can't pre-declare where in the file system the user might want to go to. For example, how would a word processor allow a user to select an arbitrarily located document to edit?

Or is there some exception mechanism which allows any directory path that the user selected manually?