skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, actually the stated point of the Fed's move is to spur inflation and that requires monetary velocity (spending and re-spending). For that stock buybacks are not very effective (relative to other Gov spending), because the money just stays in people's investments and doesn't go anywhere. Also, I think you really want to look at the participation rate rather than the un-employment (which has been steady for a year whatever the Fed is doing).
Is there an inverse correlation between curiosity and the aversion of feeling like a noob? Exploring unknown areas/subjects/places may be a bigger driver than overcoming the ‘noob feeling aversion’
If I ever become a bilionaire, or frankly just get a little more than I have now, my next move is: RETIRE.

What the hell is wrong with people like Buffett? He knows he can't buy more time in this life. Same with all the psycho billionaires. Why not give someone else a chance Boomers?
Agree, every point is bogus. But I would like to hear more about the supply of uranium, which sound like the only serious argument. One could use alternative materials, like Thorium, but would that increase the supply by orders of magnitude?
Collects moisture and keeps it right there by the pin. There might well be some chemical breakdown too, the older foam loses its spring so must be changing composition as it ages.
What is going on with America’s boys?
I know it's easy to play conspiracy, but after watching this piece [0] on "active measures", it wouldn't surprise me that FSB finally found a way to hack proton mail, or the way to circumvent the block will expose some part of it. Hence this measure.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-d...
There is the assumption that people necessarily mind feeling like a noob. I don't really. What I dislike is a situation where I freely admit of being a noob and then people who know clearly even less about the situation than I do acting superior. Or people who know more than me now about it, but will know less than me in a month acting superior. Or, just people acting superior :-)
Your 0.22 number is nowhere in your sources, and is obviously off by several orders of magnitude based off of my original sources above.
Built with Workers
What It’s Like to Tour Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone
He doesn't show any statistics from his own blog to back his theories up.

I don't know, I don't think these are any valuable SEO lessons imo. The tl;dr of this post is "I find SEO optimization boring so I just write whatever I want and don't think about it".

There is nothing wrong with that statement except that it isn't a SEO lesson. Sure quality over quantity is a good SEO lesson. To provide stuff of value is good for SEO but that goes without saying.

SEO is about optimizing your content and the value you already bring. If you load the whole blog async for example, it won't be very good for SEO no matter how good or helpful the content it.
That was decades ago with outdated technology. We have 2020.

Checkout the current demand and current capabilities of France. France has only one extremely expensive reactor under construction (though it soon needs to replace many), with cost overrun, time delays and technology problems.

If France, a modern economy, can't deal with it, how should countries like China or India, which are each 20 times larger deal with it? France has less than 70 million people. The actual growth is in Asia and Africa - and the growth is about countries with a billion people, like China or India.
Ask HN: Should I change name of Clippopo?
English is not my native language, so that may lead to some biases in perception of English words.

I'm building a www.clippopo.com — clip-sharing platform allowing to share moments in long videos.

People of Reddit advised that "popo" can refer to slang "cops" or related to "butt" in some languages.

When I made up that name I was referring to Limpopo river in South Africa. And there is also at least a Hippopotamus.

How are those excepted in English-speaking world?
Is "popo" a real problem in "Clippopo"?
> Are you confusing me with other HNer again here?

Nope.

> You quoted another commenter and responded to it in a reply to me. That's not how threaded forums work.

That's exactly how thread topics work. That's the context of the conversation.
Why would they block a service they found a way to compromise?
Request to postpone some Python 3.9 incompatible changes to Python 3.10
Block Javascript.
Incorrect. Here's some live data for you to gander at: https://www.electricitymap.org

They still run over 40 GW of coal.
Zen out. Let people act superior if that's how they want to act and don't worry about who knows more or who thinks they know more.
“Dramatic Action”: why China was so late to quarantine Wuhan
> What's more predictable than the day/night cycle?

Human stupidity.
That was considered by some scientists who would pay a price if they were wrong, concluding it wasn't a serious risk. The calculation here is being decided by a company who'll pay nothing if they're wrong yet will profit if they're not.

But say for a minute this statement isn't true: that they proceeded with hugely risky experiments without a careful analysis. Would that mean being so reckless again now is justified?

You would use blind luck last time to justify another round of Russian roulette?
> However, the biggest problem with solar thermal technology is cloudy days and nighttime. Abbott plans to investigate a number of storage solutions for this intermittency problem, which also plagues other renewable energy solutions such as wind power, in a future study.

This is a much harder problem to solve than all of the listed problems with fission, many of which are misrepresented or exaggerated. For example:

> If a nuclear reactor is built every day, the global supply of these exotic metals needed to build nuclear containment vessels would quickly run down and create a mineral resource crisis.

When a nuclear reactor is built every day, we'll be able to get all the resources we need for anything from asteroids.
Here is interesting DIY video of things one can create from an old laptop. Inside the video there is a link to creating a daylight lamp/panel from a monitor -- it's really great and looks like a daylight from a window due to specific materials used in monitors to evenly distribute light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLP_L7Mgz6M
the magic $10 billion number capping the size of the fund also seems curious because why would it be impervious to change over a period of 25 yrs in which the scale of trading volumes, market capitalization, etc. have all grown?

also, groups of people don't perfectly share ideas, outlooks, etc. especially over time. Humans tend to argue, debate, tug of war. If this task (the puzzle they are solving) requires a team of people, the 1st tiers and 2nd tiers, again, how does that translate to a steady $10 billion "working capital" portfolio and steady returns over 25 yrs, this money sucking tick parasitically attaching itself to a stochastic market that has undergone vast changes, but itself staying so consistent?
I don't think that would work too well. I have actually received a call from my own cell phone...on my cell phone. Now that I think about it I should have answered it to see if it was someone or if it was busy. Either way this is getting out of hand.
areas like HFT are
Nowhere to hide.

Just a few days ago I wanted to research some nasty disease and I used brave on TOR to watch some stuff about it on YT.

First thing after I opened FB was a clinical laboratory tests adv.
Could they been moving money from their open to investments , less successful funds to the medallion fund? Maybe even thought the market via trades?
> Design aesthetic is different from 'stuff that doesn't work'

Again, we were speaking about durability and aesthetics, not functionality.

Since you want to discuss functionality...

> laughably awkward

For example? Do you have any better real world alternatives.

> dangerous

What and how?

> hard to clean

Compared to?

> Try to explain it away all you like.

No one is trying to explain away anything. We're not talking about the same thing. You're interjecting your thoughts on functionality as if they're in opposition to our discussion about reliability and design.

To put it another way, we're talking about reality and you're arguing hypothetical. It's like showing us how your air guitar is better than our actual guitars.
Yeah, downvote at will. But those are the exact words I always tell to my 73yrs old mother, and they are never failed me nor her.
PavlovsCat, mind sending me an email? Email on my profile.
My first reaction to this was to be creeped out. Even being in the industry how did all of these sites (560) have data about me that they were willingly sending to Facebook without my permission. And while I have a Facebook account, I am not a Facebook user – as in I've logged in twice in the last year to see a neighborhood post or the like.

But then I went from creeped out to oh shit as sites I run were on the list. The way Facebook puts it, these businesses are actively sharing data with Facebook for the businesses benefit. But as a developer who has been asked to put a pixel on a site many times, I have to rethink the data exchange here. Obviously the sites are not getting the benefit that Facebook is receiving from everyone piping in data – often unknowingly.
One idea would be to pick a project that you actually use. This means you'll already have an understanding of what the project is about, and you can directly benefit from whatever work you end up doing, which is a nice added incentive. Even big projects will likely have lots of small fixup/documentation issues which no one has gotten around to, but will add value, so don't feel too put off by the size of a project.
Shamir's Secret Sharing Shortcomings
Although Germany do say they will phase out their Coal-fired power stations by 2038 - so another two decades to go.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/26/germany-agrees...
No Code Accelerator (Alpha)
Hi Everyone,

I'm excited to announce the NoCo.io team is going to do an alpha run of our no-code accelerator. We're going to select 5 companies and help them:

- build their product

- launch their product

- raise money (or make money) depending on the goals.

What it entails:

- 8-week program

- Meet virtually every week

- We'll help you build your product

- We'll help you validate your idea

- We'll help you find funding if/when you're ready

We won't be charging for this in any way.

I'd strongly prefer the 5 people come from HN so if you know a lurker on here just tell them to apply!

Requirements:

- some work you've done to validate the idea and the market

- you work on sales and marketing as hard as we do on your product for the entire 8 weeks.

I'd like to get this started in Feb, but I'm more focused on getting the right people together.

Why I'm doing this:

1. I don't know where this will lead to. Perhaps raising a fund, perhaps not, but the best way to find out is to give it a try.

2. I need NoCo.io to get beat up a little bit so that the product can evolve (or be killed)

Apply Here:
https://k8ty.typeform.com/to/QeJhfQ
There are strict regulatory obligations to the outside investors that would make that transfer illegal.
Cheap Raspberry Pi Alternatives in 2020
Mindcastle.io – scalable cloud-backed distributed block device for Linux and VMs
The explanations given in the article are good ones and are said before. Even in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033733

They have a strategy that does not scale beyond certain limit and they keep the fund tightly within those limits.
You'll probably want to read the calculations in Dercuano about lithium reserves, but I agree that massive overprovisioning is a better solution than just massive batteries.
Even without including cost overruns and decomissioning, wind energy costs the same per kilowatt of capacity[0,1].

And the actually produced energy as share of capacity (= the capacity factor) is way better than most think. For the nuclear plants in France it currently is just over 70%, while it is about 50% globally for offshore wind parks [2,3]

[0] http://www.windustry.org/how_much_do_wind_turbines_cost

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-edf-nuclear-epr/frances-e...

[2] http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/wind-energy-factsheet

[3] https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/20170912wnisr2017...

Edit: Changed phrasing because it apparently sounded like the 50% capacity factor also referred to France.
Facebook provides two different options, one is deactivation and the other one is deleting. They are not the same thing. If you merely deactivated it, then your account never was deleted.
The article is from 2011. Most of the points describe issues with historic plants and wouldn't apply to Gen3 reactors.
Nuclear critics seem to ignore, at least when discussing the dangers, that the world is currently producing 10% of its energy from ~440 nuclear power plants in ~50 countries. France for example, derives about 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy. This is not some spooky new technology to be wary of. It's doing fine.
All we need is to scale by a single factor of 10 compared to what we have now to go 100% green. [0]

In terms of public perception of danger, Nuclear vs Coal is akin to Flying vs Driving. In both the latter kills many many more people, although little by little. The former has disasters extremely rarely, and even then they are not that bad [1][2][3], but when they do its all anyone can talk about for a long time, and they cement an erroneous perception of danger. "Coal is responsible for over 800,000 premature deaths per year globally and many millions more serious and minor illnesses." [4]

The only real issue is cost. While its very competitive to run a NPP, its very expensive to build one. Note how the number of plants has grown exponentially(?) until 1986 and then just plateaued. [0]

Considering the crisis we are in, I think its only logical we subitize NPPs, take extra care of them (for example in Fukashima the right protocols were in place and so the death toll as a result of radiation is "1" [5]), deal with the waste problem later, and work on perhaps better solutions in the ensuing decades.

Sure it's not perfect, but its our best bet.

[0] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-an...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
[3] https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
[4] https://endcoal.org/health/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
See also

* GameCube to Wii

* Game Boy to Game Boy Color to Game Boy Advance

* Also features a case of backwards compatibility on behalf of games too. A lot of GBC games would run in a Gameboy in black and white

* Nintendo DS to 3DS

* PS2 to launch PS3

* (Announced) Xbox one to Xbox Series X
The "fearmongering" was about much worse things that could possibly happen in the future, and some of those much worse things have actually happened since TMI. Getting lucky in one incident doesn't mean your luck will always hold and the fear is unjustified.

When I was a kid, some old friends of my family lived on a horse ranch in Mt. Wolf, Pennsylvania, a mile or so from TMI (which had a 20 mile radius evacuation zone). When we visited them some time before it happened, they joked and teased me about how I should be worried if ever I saw steam rising from the cooling towers (which I could clearly see there always was).

A year or so later, they were cowering in their basement with diarrhea from the radiation leak, with no idea how long they would be there or how it would end.

TMI had much more influence over their change of opinion about nuclear energy than Jane Fonda did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Vol...
Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
I gave a talk a couple of years ago about using WordPress and still highly recommend it. It solves so many problems out of the box - account management, routing, CRUD, etc. Here's a video of the talk:

https://wordpress.tv/2019/04/23/corey-maass-build-a-web-app-...

There are a number of large web apps that use it, so it's not just for MVP's. I also heard the book "Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework" will be getting a second edition this year.

It's not the coolest, shiniest option, but a solid one, I think.
Sorting Data with Python Pandas
You need to study more. You lack sufficient knowledge to be judging whole ecosystems as "shit".

http://0.30000000000000004.com/
Not sure why this is on HN these days. But then again, this is just another businessman pulling out of the newspaper business.

Move along now, nothing to see here.
Yes very possible I don't understand what you are trying to say... I know what leveraged investing is but a lot of the details may be beyond me. This is not my area of expertise.

Correct me if I'm wrong: my understanding is that you're saying that they could have taken a huge risk using a lot of leverage and they didn't lose all their money so they get their 5% + 44% (found this from a Bloomberg article). Essentially they're just the notable outliers and have been for 30 years? If so, that still seems a little far fetched for me.
Sigh. Do such low-effort posts from other people as these recent pg ones ever appear on the HN front page?! Guess I just won't click on them in future. It's depressing to see –because I really love many of his essays on non-startup subjects, and learned a lot from them, and probably will again next time I read them.

edit: oh, now its #1.
I recently read The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life and a lot of that book focused on newspapers. Buffet delivered papers as a boy, had a big legal battle to buy a local Buffalo, NY paper, won a Pulitzer at the Omaha Sun for coverage of a scandal at Boys Town, and he was very close to Kay Graham of The Washington Post. I'm sure this was an emotional decision for him.
I’m using it for VR dev on the oculus quest and I think the dev experience in 3.2 is very good.
I haven’t actually used Unity, though, so not sure how it compares.

Once you get it all set up, you can just hit the android button and it’ll export the apk directly to the device. Also, you are still able to live view via wifi.
Budweiser Develops Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency in Africa
This is actually a good idea. You could then route the video signals from the application you want (including the real webcam) to the virtual webcam. THis should be possible with pipewire already, but I don't know yet of a proper GUI mixer?

That will appear soon enough, I guess?
If you lived where I live and did this you would be dead.

In winter the temperature of my water at the well-head is about 4 C, but if it's sitting in the pipes over night it can hit 0 C (which means no shower until it thaws, of course). The ambient air temperature in my bathroom is often below 10 C in the morning before I rouse the fire when it's -20 C or below outside, and that happens for weeks at a time. A 4 C shower followed by standing wet in 10 C air means a fairly quick excursion into hypothermialand.

I guess if you live in, say, an apartment in Saudi Arabia or Florida a "cold shower" might have a completely different meaning than if you live in a cabin in the Canadian back woods.
Managing mutual TLS between services with Istio
If those fees were linked to wealth or income that would seem reasonable. $10k is going to really cause problems for an average person, for a holywood superstar though it should be more like $1m

A firefighter who's DUI because they had a couple of beers on a Friday night, then got called to hospital 50 miles away because their daughter had just been stabbed, and instinctively jumped in his car to get there asap, shouldn't be treated in the same way as a $900k/year architect who's been guzzling champagne at a product launch after launch party, then drives their $400k car 3 miles home
I live in the United States. I remember this story as a kid and always assumed cold temps and weather makes you more susceptible to viruses like the Flu. https://www.history.com/news/did-william-henry-harrisons-ina...
It is quite good but I have found several issues which are annoying and solved by competition.

Protonmail bridge on linux has problem with attachments bigger than 2 MB and it disconnects a lot.

Android app is mediocre at best:

- feels really slow

- shows notifications for emails already read on web

- deleting or moving email to different folder waits for confirmation from backend which is really confusing (you can still see deleted emails but you can't delete them again)

I hope they will work on those UX issues otherwise I really like it.
Working on building a system that can be used in urban areas to help fight climate change and water treatment issues using Algae. There has been so much research on the uses of Algae and how effective it is at using CO2 to grow and now I'm just trying to think of the most effective way to launch a venture.

The hardest part has been deciding what to fight first and meeting other people who have experience working with algae. I would love to connect with anyone that wants to talk Algae!
Again, show us papers that did the maths where such things are working, even "theoretically".

Throwing techs at a problem will not solve the problem.
Seasonal grid-scale energy storage is indeed not practical, but a factor of 10 is unusually large; the sun angle doesn't change that much. (Must be clouds?) Even seasonal thermal stores are infeasible under some circumstances, although in other circumstances they do work. Massive overprovisioning is probably practical. Demand response is definitely practical, and in Arizona happens by coincidence to some extent, but it remains to be seen whether the reduction delivered by demand response is a factor of 2, 3, 10, or 100.
I'm sure you're aware that nuclear heat and electricity could be stored and/or distributed just like renewable stuff in the vast energy storage system of the future.

I still would like an answer from you on EROI
https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2016/02/oxford-uehiro-prize...

^ This is a link to a relevant article containing an important counterpoint: it argues based on a few assumptions that we should let computers write our moral codes and not the other way around.
I've been active online since 2000.

There was a theory in 2004, known as GIFT: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad

Guess what? People without anonymity are total fuckwads too - this happens on Facebook, Instagram and Twitch, in an era where you could probably find someone's personal details if you look hard enough.

I think the key is audience. Bullying feels good for a lot of people. Bullies will go for low hanging fruit where they won't be struck back.

You see people acting this way even in once helpful sites like Stack Overflow; downvotes will pull bullies in like a magnet. You see people picking on anti-vax, flat earthers, Justin Bieber, not so much because they do harm, but because they're easy targets to hold down.

Viral algorithms amplify this effect. It highlights bad news that everyone can join in and rage on. It's not a new thing; news channels have done this for decades.

We can't really fix it. I'm more a community nomad these days. It's easy to move on to other new and old communities, away from this effect. I've been happy with HN, Discord, and IRC lately.. IRC has picked up back to 500 people per channel, and it's probably no coincidence.
If someone has completed a process even only once, they may have some insight that an old timer has missed. It's always a good idea to listen to a "noob". You may learn something. Noobs also may have the best ideas about improving a process. They haven't fallen into the "we've always done it that way" mind set as of yet.
There is, and it's equally creepy: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity