skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some incorrect arguments here - as well as some valid ones.

You claim that a reactor is more complex than a turbine (I assume you mean a wind turbine) or a solar panel. This isn't an apples to apples comparison because a reactor provides 24x7x365 baseload power, whereas solar and wind would require MASSIVE storage facilities to be comparable. That is both cost-inefficient and complex.

You claim the required number of highly skilled workers is high. Well, is that really true on a PER GWh basis? Reactors generate on average 1GW of power. Solar plants generate 50MW of power, at a highly variable rate. Even excluding the storage requirements, nuclear power likely employs fewer people.

You claim that nuclear physics is difficult and complex and therefore costs money. A refined process and established international design can remove these bottlenecks. In the same way that we have immensely complex silicon wafer chips with tens of millions of 9 nano meter scale transistors in them - for only hundreds of dollars.

You claim that safety costs money. That's true. But is it an unreasonable amount of money for the amount of power we're providing? A lot of the costs are borne from issues we cause ourselves. The Nevada storage facility is capable of holding literally ALL of the nuclear waste in America. Yet is remains closed because of fearmongering politics.

(I think) You claim that storage can be largely solved by national interconnects. But if you look at the massive power distribution systems in Northern Canada - they lose around 25% of the power in transmission alone, going only a fraction of the way that a NATIONAL power transmission grid would require.

The problem with renewables remains the storage problem. There are few practical solutions on the scale that are needed, and I find that most anti-nuclear pro-renewable advocates are simply not doing the math.
I don't think it's about long-running vs. short-running. That might be a heuristic, but what really matters is whether there is idle CPU time to be had between when you need large zeroed chunks of memory, or even if not, if you have some other performance characteristic you want (e.g. stable, consistent throughput) that would benefit from parallelizing the zeroing instead of having to periodically block.
> You can't get that much wasted water from that usage.

You also need to factor in the wastewater to produce all of the other products you consume. That produce you bought at the store and rinsed yourself was also likely washed several times along the supply chain before it got to you. That one bottle of beer you drank? The bottle has been washed several times, inside and out, along with the vat the beer was brewed in, every single pipe and tool that was used to process or shunt it, etc.
Yes! Maybe even especially FAANG people, since they’re used to large environments and different ways of doing things.

There’s two things to do if you’re looking to find a cofounder.

1. Build something. People are attracted to momentum, and the more traction you have the easier it’ll be to find someone to join. It seems backwards, but almost all teams I know came together after the product was (at least mostly) launched.

2. Be generous. Sure, you started it and had the idea and all that. But for this to work it needs to be an almost-equal partnership.

Obviously you can circumvent this with things like having a friend you already work well with, or a coworker also looking to make a jump. But still, I think these two rules will help!

(Email is in the profile if you wanna chat more!)
>> Especially considering how effective they can ban customers for any ol' reason and make damn sure that said customer can't reopen the account, or open an account under a different name.

Any references or data you have on this? :-)
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I was going to bring up the Mazda MX-5 as an example of a car that shrunk in its latest generation, only to find out that the current model is the widest by a whole centimetre.
Also, maybe I live under a rock, but the N in FAANG I consider ethical, others not so much.
Nice. I got to ask John Cleese "if it's not a personal question, are you a virgin?". I count that as one of my lifetime accomplishments.
This analysis can also be expanded to the complex numbers yielding "power tower fractals" aka "tetration fractals".

http://paulbourke.net/fractals/tetration/

https://thatsmaths.com/2016/04/14/the-power-tower-fractal/
My personal perspective is that if I'm allowed to sign myself up for danger on two wheels - a motorcycle - and danger on four lackluster wheels - an older car - then I should also be allowed to sign myself up for danger on four satisfying wheels - a new but small and light car. Cutting-edge impact protection be damned; make me sign a waiver if you must.
How much money did you get from Microsoft for disclosing that vulnerability?
A bit tangential but a quick click on the author's name in the article and their bio reads:

> ex-Amazon contractor, front-end lover, accessibility nerd, down for building cool shit, especially Vue.js and Amplify.js consulting

My alarm bells ring when the answer to "stop using X" is to "start using Y" where Y == company I worked for.

This isn't to say GA is or isn't problematic, but the article's bias is problematic.
The car-centric planning came first, though; widespread development of suburbs would not have been possible without major highways being developed, for they would've choked on their own traffic pretty quickly.
I think people are more bothered by the fact that compesation drastically increased during a period of poor performance with respect to market share.

Also, please provide some evidence that the board chair of a non-profit with an annual budget of $20M has a market rate salary of $2M/yr. Note that Mozilla Foundation also has an executive director (more like $250k/yr) and the Mozilla Corporation had a separate CEO and executive team (whose salaries aren't reported in the Mozilla Foundation form 990).
In China, all your data belongs to China. That is simply the way it is if you choose to do business there. You might point fingers at Apple and other companies who operate there, but China is a huge market. The Chinese people know their data is all backdoored, so there is no coverup or obfuscation.
Speed limits are often arbitrary and based on some sort of government regulation on the area (a state speed limit for example) or just decreased where there are narrower or winding roads.

The driver seems to be unaware of the negative effect she is having on the roads, creating a hazardous speed differential and upsetting other drivers.

I feel as though this is an inappropriate and dangerous place for the author to take her activism, putting others' lives at risk.

There is a reason why places such as the autobahn exist and have statistically lower accident rates when compared to standard roadways, even when there is no imposed speed limit. If someone like the author were to drive purposely slower than the traffic, the risk of accident increases greatly.
> Memes don't really infringe on the original works. Seeing an image of Peter Parker with some text on it doesn't really compete with the Spiderman movie, does it?

Most memes are full reproductions of photographs, not smaller sections of larger works like a still from a film. And I suspect Getty would argue pretty successfully that the online use would indeed compete with their licensing of the image on a website for their photographs for example.
Good reason why defense in depth should be used.

Simply stating that your network configuration prevents access isn't the best answer.
Make sure you are looking happy or joyful and try again

This strange phrasing is a red flag that the data is being exfiltrated to a non-English-speaking country.
Any Raspberry Pi should work fine for Lisp but if I had to use an Arduino I'd just write the code in Processing (or whatever they call the native Arduino compiler language these days) because fitting a Lisp into one would probably be more trouble than it's worth.
Or maybe it helps you empathize with somebody who is different from you if you regularly interact with people who are different from you.
The more I look at Fortran, the more I appreciate its beauty.

I think some of its infamy is unjustified.
This is no longer true, but ONLY as of May 2019 in response to pressure from the containerization world.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-no...

It’s not default insecure like Mongo was - this was far far worse. You couldn’t even prototype in a secure way even if you wanted to, without a massive contract. One of the most frustrating things in software - IMO they deserved to have AWS commoditize their stack.
> They haven't staged a mass protest, I am unaware of any lawsuits. I do not believe that Volvo dealers here in Canada are lobbying for it to be illegal for the Polestar vehicle to be sold in Canada.

This is because they don't believe it to be a credible threat to their business... yet. Assuming EVs do completely transform the industry (through a combo of economic & regulatory forces), how do companies like Volvo/Geely plan to transition the existing dealership network, or will it result in mass layoffs?
The included documentation PDFs on the site were quite useful tbh.
To begin with, your high vantage point means that everybody else driving reasonably-sized cars has trouble seeing around you.
No, it's a legitimate question. Think of it this way. If we stop using Teflon coatings on pots and pans, will that, for example, increase the amount of cooking oil used in cooking? And if so, will that cause other health effects such as more oil being aerosolized and getting in people's lungs more? Will it cause more oil to clog up pipes (think London's "fatbergs" for example)? Will it cause more oil to go into landfills, etc.? There are frequently unintended consequences to these sorts of changes and you may just be trading one poison for another one or a worse one.
> If you're investing with a 20-30 year time horizon, and you're convinced that Tesla is overvalued, you should absolutely short it.

Do you understand how shorting works? If you had shorted $10k of TSLA stock in May you would have lost $23k by now (it's not just a paper loss, you have to post collateral to avoid liquidation). And you also have to pay to borrow the stock you're shorting, so even if you don't face a margin call time goes against you.

Edit: By the way, if you had opened in May a short position in TSLA that represented 5% of your portfolio it would be 15% of your portfolio now. That's another problem of shorts: as they move against you they get bigger and at some point you may want to worry.
Before you can make such statements you should first be in that situation. A lot of people change their minds once they have to confront something.
"misconfigured security roles" means the dinks that set it up never 'configured" a thing, right?
Every day we drift further from god.
This kind of thing was suggested by many before. I also commented on this since (software) engineers tend to have a huge role in our lives now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075870
Claiming that nuclear power isn't feasible because "people fear it" is as valid an argument as saying that Climate Change cannot be averted because too many people don't believe in it.

The entire point of us having these conversations online is to help convince these uneducated idiots in society, exactly so that we can overcome these challenges.
I'm not sure I accept the premise that we've established anything close to an efficient market for executives.
I suggest western countries stop outsourcing manufacturing at peanuts (so those poor countries can make effective recycling, cleaning plants, etc), sending off their garbage and pretending total waste produced by more people should be the same as total waste produced by less people.

Per capita, people in developed countries are polluting far more. Comparing the total waste of Canada or US to India is similiar to saying CEO deserves more money because he works much harder than hundreds of people under them.

India has 1.34 billion people while US has almost 4x less and Canada 36x less.

An average American produce enough plastic for 10 Indians. Poor countries than india have even less per capita wastage.
GP mentions that "a river that a factory uses as a dumping ground until the waters are toxic and everything in it dies is exactly an example of a resource treated as limitless." In your opinion, is the market properly functioning to correct these behaviors? Where is the market when all the world's trash are getting dumped in our rivers and oceans?
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>You need to make as much money as a doctor to afford housing. So did everyone become a doctor in the past 10 years?

Plenty of people who aren't doctors can make doctor money now. Just look at tech.
The ethical consideration brought up in the article hardly even get a "meh" compared to many other injustices and evils in this world. Not to mention, most these "ethics" violations are a product of laziness, not some explicit goal. It's not like any tech company is plotting how they can make the most biased face recognition or how many innocent people the military can hurt with their tech.

Mozilla can try going after future employees, but good luck. People, both end-users and employees, have shown, by-in-large, that they do not greatly care about these issues.
With the birth rate dipping, I'm wondering if this will self-correct when the baby boomer generation dies off and there is a larger supply of housing per capita.
Fortran 77 has a lot of luxuries compared to FORTRAN IV, I have to say.
> The waste problem in particular I think is overstated, and costs are deliberately presented in a way as to appear expensive

Not to mention the reactors we are looking at now that can re-burn this waste (e.g. TWR).

> and it is disingenuous to even by implicitly equate this with environmental pollution

The radiation damage from coal is, on average, more than that of nuclear power plants for the surrounding area (only doing better briefly after a meltdown). Coal contains thorium and other radioactive elements, which are kicked up into the atmosphere in the ash and land absolutely everywhere.[1]

[1]: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/do-coal-fired-power-sta...
I have personally emailed Mitchell Hashimoto (this guy: http://mitchellh.com/ ) to thank him for his awesome software.

He wrote me back, and was very gracious.

This is what it means to be human. Well done!
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I'm not aware of Rustc leeching anything from my bank account. Or Scalac.

> Or get Lazarus for free and forget about pauing at all.

I wouldn't mind if the article was titled "Turkey preinstalls Lazarus on school computers".
Because there is not enough of them!

Having 1000000 people being able to afford $1m flats is better than 1000 of them
There is a fundamental difficulty when trying to implement privacy: A limit on the disclosure of information is itself a disclosure of information.

A good privacy design needs to confront this issue directly. Sometimes there's nothing to be done. I think in some cases it's mathematically unsolvable (cf. Cynthia Dwork's paper on Differential Privacy). But an explicit consideration can at least surface some trade-offs. The more fine-grained and selective your redactions, the more information they reveal.
I think you are asserting that "asset" and "investment" are synonymous. I'll reply to that.

A house is something you own. It can appreciate or depreciate, but it does not generate value. You might get lucky and realize a capital gain by selling it after it appreciates (if it appreciates and you can time the sale correctly), but it does not create value.

An investment is ownership of something that generates value.

All investments are assets, but not all assets are investments.
The problem isn't isolated though. We're at the point where people living in tech hubs are buying houses in Ohio every couple of months, simply because they can.

(owning) housing also isn't necessarily cheap relative to the jobs available in these areas.
I politely disagree... My first programming was using the scaffolding of game engines. After a few years of those kinds of toys was I exposed to C, where I only knew how to use ASCII printed to the screen as output.

For a while, I used both the game engine and C. There were many ideas I wanted to try, that I could simply execute faster with the majority of the engine already in place. Exposure to C let me do things the game engine didn't support, but at the cost of losing graphics.

If your kid doesn't like C64... it doesn't mean "there is nothing that scratch will be able to do". Scratch supports graphics, sound, and more. C64 supports, at best, blocky graphics with ~16 total colors. And even then, the nuances of sprite limits, etc... It can get in the way.

Kids like games. Don't underestimate the value of graphics and sound support as a motivating factor.
Stop eating any kind of factory-processed or packaged food (with plastic packaging, canned packaging, etc, as these are coated), stop using any clothing/shoes/furniture not based on natural fibers or with water-resistant or stain-resistant properties, using any sort of coated cookware (return to cast iron), etc

and that still won't do anything about commercial or industrial uses of those chemicals that contaminate your water supply/etc. Like firefighting foam, for example. The Air Force is going to keep using it regardless of what you do personally, despite them having less toxic alternatives available.

simply banning it directly wouldn't help, companies will just move on to the next thing, legally it will be presumed to be safe until there is science to prove that it's not, and we will need another 75 years of epidemiological studies to build that proof. Rinse and repeat forever.

The long term answer is that we need to reverse the legal model and have companies prove that any chemical they intend to introduce is safe, rather than the public having to (first learn what proprietary chemicals are being used, as this is not legally required to be disclosed, and then) prove that it's dangerous, but that won't happen under any conservative or liberal governments in the US, it will take a leftist government pushing heavy environmental regulations before there's any chance of phasing this sort of thing out. Until then, it's on to the next poison.
One of these modules' owners should update their modules to check if they are running as part of the ransomware, and kill the program if so. That would certainly be an interesting turn of events.
> help convince these uneducated idiots in society

Hence why the argument is already lost. Educated citizens have valid concerns that aren’t being addressed, and the uneducated ones? They still get the same vote you do.
No one can be knowledgeable about all topics, which is precisely why trust is so important.
Maybe Amazon is also already doing that...
While I ses you've been downvoted, I am really curious why do you believe that? Do you have an actual, concrete example?

FWIW, it would be very weird, since Java is strongly typed, and while you can introduce bugs, not any more so than in any other, esp dynamically typed languages.
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I was in that position, several times, and no I did not change my mind.

But I agree with the statement most people would do unethical things if their jobs required it. And I think that's sad to say.
This position pretty brazenly ignores the reality that global population is, you know, maybe just a little bit higher than it was 10,000 years ago?
Right, but don't you still need to own a server in order to log these GET requests?
Yes but that is a nuclear power plant that didn't even operate for 50 years and now completely made the environment uninhabitable, as well as incurred a massive cost to the people to have to rebuild it...again. If that were a coal or natural gas plant, Okuma would still be habitable and everyone wouldn't have needed to been evacuated.

Another problem about nuclear power is it's hard to find a reliable resource of uranium. There is a finite amount of it that is not as readily accessible or abundant as all the other resources.

Nuclear energy is a pipe dream. Whats the point in even building a cheap reactor (4 million USD) if you need to maintain it and then when demand increases so highly that there isn't enough uranium to go around. What then? Do the people in the north just go cold during the winter? It's no more sustainable than the current system, except there is a definitive projection that it couldn't sustain this population long term.

Green renewable energy is clearly the future, however we will never truly be able to convert to it until we can reliable transfer mechanical energy into things like batteries which can power things for a long time. Even major wind farms in Europe only supplement power usage. They cannot keep up with demand since they can only output what the wind gives.

We're a long ways out from a green revolution. Energy storage, capacity, 1:1 conversion of energy to power, and reliable power all need to happen first.
> your post saying you can't do anything with only JS

I ... didn't say that?
lol. Perfect articulation of something I couldnt verbalize.
I work at Apple in engineering. User data privacy is a VERY big deal and something which is taken really seriously. It is not just marketing lip service.

Is Apple perfect? No, of course not. Are there things I think they should do better? Yes. E2E encryption with user keys stored in Secure Enclave, etc, etc. However, for Joe Consumer, I think they make the most secure, easiest to use platform.
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Assuming the dirt weighs about 2 tons per cubic meter, this corresponds to 58 kg/m^2 / 2000 kg/m^3 =~ 0.03 m, so it seems like the gp just used the incorrect unit.
That may well be true, but I'm not sure it matters when your carpets, furniture, and clothing are covered with it. Eventually it will end up in your mouth and lungs, no way around it. I have a little theory that a significant portion of our physiologic PFC burden is acquired when we're babies. Babies positively swim in whatever substances are on the ground and furnishings. My other pet theory is that PFCs are contributing to the decline in sperm counts that we're seeing across the developed world:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191221153531/https://www.theat...
That's EXACTLY what I do. I imagine there are some that are great at reading white papers, but I am not one of them, and I'm not alone. Experience > Education.
Because there's nothing harder to stop than an idea who's time has come to pass.
I think this a piece that a lot of people miss. Last year I was spending about 1.8k a month in rent. Now I pay 1.9k for a mortgage of which 300 (and increasing) goes directly into home equity. Once home equity comes into the equation it becomes pretty basic math
To be clear, as far as I can tell, the ransomware is built using nodejs. It is not a ransomware that's installed via a compromised package. Although if you happen to be a bad guy, it seems like building a quality bitcoin-related package, waiting until you have a big installed base, and then owning all your users, might be an effective way to set yourself up for life.
Possibly they don't have calm or comfortable place for work at home. Possibly they would get lonely and demotivated over time. Possibly many people derive motivation from other people and would lack it absent personal contact - purely online classes have huge failure rates too.