skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people would say that any improvement in running tech is a good thing. Like the parent commenter mentioned, if this tech trickles down to consumers, we'll be able to live better, more efficient lives. If you wanted it to be an even playing field then everyone should run barefoot. Money already plays a massive role in athletics (better diets, personal trainers, a fixed regimen, not having to worry about a second job to put food on the table) so claiming that some people can't afford the latest tech isn't fair. I think the regulation that requires shoes to be on the market is fair and worry about the specifics is overstepping.
This feels related to "The Dress", somehow (is it blue and black, or white and gold?).

Do these separate illusions share a common cause (high/low contrast colors juxtaposed)?
I fully agree with this. I wrote a related post a few years ago called The 100-Hour Rule (in contrast to Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000-Hour Rule). It's at https://www.codingvc.com/the-100-hour-rule/.

It takes tons and tons of time to be world class at something, but very little time to go from newbie to better than almost everyone else. The key is wanting to get better and then pursuing that in a deliberate, thoughtful way. A hundred hours of tennis lessons or of reading books on negotiation will quickly place you in the top 5-10% of the general population in those things -- and possibly even the top 1%.
Today came the news that people who testified against the President are being fired: including Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland. This is an out-of-control administration. They may well use cellphone location data to track movements of political opponents as well. These are scary times.
> it's become less and less viable.

isn't it because of some unnecessary regulation and some materials technology being behind.

nuclear fission is the second densest form of energy, It is absolutely worthwhile to improve it for the future humanity, IMHO.

I think most countries and national bodies are just giving up on nuclear all together.
I don't see it. Strom-report says for 2016:

150 TWh Braunkohle + 110 TWh Steinkohle. For electricity production.

> surprised to see those broken out

Braunkohle has domestic production, Steinkohle no longer.
Was it the “environmentalists” who won here?

That’s just a label, and you’re using it to group an unknown mass of people together, assume they have identical views, and criticize them. Let me guess - everything that’s gone wrong in the world is also the fault of “the liberals?”

In reality, Japan had an unfortunate nuclear catastrophe and it scared people, rightfully. The public put pressure on the government to ensure the catastrophe didn’t happen again.

Meltdown scare is the major downside of nuclear outside of waste management. I think a lot of people aware of the science of energy generation consider nuclear a very reliable, green solution compared to the alternatives.

But asking the general public to ignore the big scary elephant in the room is like asking people to stop freaking out about flying on planes (while they have no fear of the objectively less safe alternative of driving).
For devices that don't support more recent versions of iOS, Apple does make minor updates to old major versions. For example 6 months ago Apple released iOS 9.3.6, fixing some issues for the iPhone 4S which is forever stuck on iOS 9.
I thought older people are more valuable since they have more experience. There isn't much physical difference between 20, 40 and 55 year old people unless something like alzheimer kicks in, especially in our field where the job includes reading stuff and pressing button.
Odd way to measure it, starting from absolute zero.

If we take extremely conservative numbers and say the current average temp is 0C and death is certain at 100C then we moved 1% closer. I suspect some krazy kooks might suggest that the Earth would be uninhabitable long before 100C is attained.
Guess I don't, though I do often hear a "speaker" when reading text.

Also usually can't recognize faces using System 1. Which means I often don't see someone I know until they've long-since decided that I'm ignoring them. :-/
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> We can't keep throwing away devices like this; it isn't good for the environment.

Someone should tell that to Apple, throwing devices and buying new ones their strategy when the same devices can easily be repaired but repairing things is not encouraged by Apple.
Mosquito heat seeking is driven by an ancestral cooling receptor
VScode is a glorified text editor. It pales in comparison to a real IDE like Visual Studio
Reducing consumption on a meaningful scale is completely impractical, particularly when you include emerging economies, who need to increase their energy consumption in order to attain a reasonable standard of living.
I have to wonder if this is a deal with China, since it makes Japan less energy independent and the leading political party is known for nonstop corruption scandals and some ties to China. China will likely be a big seller of that coal and profit off this big time, same as they will with the recent bizarre casino legalization plan.
Immoral labyrinths come with immoral minotaurs... how do we escape those before they eat us alive?!
I’m still happily using my 6s.

What I’m unhappy about is that iOS 13 broke a few things in Safari that have affected its stability. Double-tap to zoom is incredibly unreliable now and it worked perfectly for years. There’s some weird caching going on and some rendering issues, so sometimes a site will get stuck in a weird broken state that re-navigating or refreshing won’t fix. Have to exit Safari and reload it to fix.

The email client now has a huge amount of white space at the bottom with all of the features like Mark as Read bundled under the reply arrow.

And text selection is complete crap now. Selecting text in the url bar just defaults to highlighting the entire url and it takes 5-10 taps just to get a cursor. And in regular text, it’s impossible to see where the cursor is BECAUSE ITS UNDER MY THUMB. The old magnifying glass was a way better UI.
That's like saying spiders aren't scary. It's a little subjective.
I would just suggest you read The Four Steps to the Epiphany.
I wonder if there is a formula for how cheap a place is based on how easy it is to have usable water and usable crops.

I have had these feelings since I saw the Egypt map showing how much of it is just not usable.
They have to remove the glued-in screen to get at the battery. Much more difficult than it should be and with the risk of compromising the waterproofing. I don't buy the argument that this is somehow required for engineering reasons. Wristwatches have easily replaceable batteries while being a lot smaller than an iPhone and having much better ingress protection.
> I think the recent increase of crime in London is a direct consequence of the alienation of the third category of people due to the flood of liquidity from the first category

You think it's that rather than, say, the continuous fall in per capita funding for police over the last decade?
Your original claim was that parents don't really get "Elterngeld", because they pay for it themselves in taxes.
History Lesson: How Italian Tanks Defeated the German Navy in a Tense Showdown
I am convinced that people who write things like this don't believe intelligence is genetic. You no more earned how smart you are than you earned your race.

Wisdom? Determination? Scars? You can claim to earn or learn some of those.

Don't get me wrong, I am not aligned with the hnn society of smart idiots who think Harrison Bergeron was a how-to manual. The genetic dice roll can be cruel. I don't look like Clooney nor am I built like The Rock. But them's the breaks. The only thing worse than that unfairness is the unfairness well meaning and smart idiots would create trying to rectify the inequities.

Still, I am empathetic enough to be amused by rantings of the intelligent regarding economic options when they seem to have not seriously considered some other people are less intelligent and may really have less options.

In the abstract I will side with those who declare no one is trapped. But there is a continuum.

You pretty much have to get me to Vichy France or San Francisco levels of disgusting society before I advocate a waitress with a 6th grade education just decides that supporting the evils of Cheesecake Factory is beyond the pale and worth joining the resistance, the kid's be damned.

Seems to me some of these smarty pants could create a utopia for the lesser folks who feel trapped by mortgage's, child support and other meaningless pursuits instead of wasting their horse power on blogs.
There’s literally an interface for this.
But do you also give them a free hand to implement the entire stack below to meet that goal, along with the budgeting advice "waste anything but time"?
The technology is better but the costs are too high.

Also (the surviving units at) Chernobyl have been shut down for several years.
There are probably thousands of design decisions that go into making a phone like this. Who is supposed to decide which ones get a notice and which ones don't? Apple probably already has some sort of organization that deals with these communication issues. Is this fine a reasonable punishment for getting one thing wrong?
> The problem is they didn't tell anyone they were doing it.

Then France should issue fines for every electronic device sold that had this functionality. Except that would have meant fines being issued for effectively every laptop, phone, and tablet sold in the last decade. What Apple did is a near-universal function in battery powered devices with powerful processors.

It'd be funny id Apple disabled this functionality in France, thus bricking many old phones, and tell the French that they made this change to comply with French regulators.
Not to be confused with "Do something, even if it's wrong" which is how you break out of analysis paralysis.
Now it seems healthcare workers are readily getting infected.

"A study has found that 40 health-care workers were infected with the novel coronavirus by patients at a single Wuhan hospital in January, underscoring the risks to those at the frontlines of the growing epidemic."

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-chin...
Imagine if Apple took it into account and made their hardware servicable by end-users at an affordable cost...
Interesting, which configuration management system do you use?
Hoka One One Carbon Xs are currently all the rage in the running community (#1 trending shoe on Strava) and retail for much less. Similar technology to the vaporfly but more forgiving. I'm surprised no one has brought that up on here yet.
The argument boils down to nuclear is safe and cheap, except that we only have unsafe designs because of ignorant people, it’s expensive because regulation (of the old, unacceptable designs), and waste totally isn’t a problem because someday we’ll figure it out.
Just to correct an incorrect fact: Apple’s phone batteries are replaceable.

Just not by the average user.

But in the same way you don’t have to trade your car in when it needs an oil change or new breaks, you don’t have to buy a new phone when the battery degrades. You can take it in for a non-prohibitive fee, or do it yourself for a little less if you’re a little more technical or adventurous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22262467
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the Fukushima reactors require active cooling at all times, and they become dangerous if there is no available electricity, whereas modern reactors can be stable without active cooling.
So, use the synthetic benchmark as a regression test.

Progress is only counted towards the real world sites, but if you make performance markedly worse on the regression test, then that's a bug.
That makes you quite an outlier. 95% of trips are < 5 miles

https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips

I don't think we should optimize our cities for that.
Might be a bit of a stretch to call everyone in the UK shady based on your experiences of one single city.
Nonsense. "Environmentalists" (a crude & politically inactive umbrella term) can't even get nations to do the minimum necessary for long-term survival (stop catastrophic rates of wetland & forest destruction even in wealthy nations, reduce CO2 emissions, etc, etc, etc). Greens (for example) hardly get elected anywhere outside of a couple of European nations.

It is true there is public resistance to nuclear power, almost everywhere. And the very same citizenries which don't want nuclear power also vote against action on climate change, for the corporatacracy, & for the generalised sacrifice of the biosphere for fake 'economic growth'.

People don't want nuclear power because they are scared of it being near them (rightly or wrongly). This has zip to do with environmentalism.
The original article (chinese version)

http://china.caixin.com/2020-02-05/101511802.html
I'm struggling to see where the following professions fall on the GP scale:

* lawyers
* consultants
* ad execs
* dentists
Japan pretty much imports all of its energy. Its an Island nation with limited flat-land that is densely populated - the Solar production is limited and cannot significantly contribute to its energy needs. Off-shore wind may help, but Japan going forward will assemble one of the most diverse energy portfolios.
We are so fortunate to have the Government to protect us... The $25 mil now becomes Apple's cost and needs to be passed on to customers.

I actually need that feature and have it enabled on my phone. Some apps just draw too much battery power.
Because it does a little too much perhaps? Or not specifically that, but that these shoes have highlighted that the gear provides a distinct advantage (much as those advanced swimsuits did a few years ago). Most sports are well past the point of pure athleticism anyway, they're all somewhere on the scale of corporate entertainment now, as highted by the higher comment asking what would happen without sponsorship, as though just wanting to run for its competitive enjoyment is unviable...
> I don't follow what you're saying about 'GEN IV' reactors. AFAIK, that's reactors of a type that won't be online until at least 2030

As I mention, Superphénix is a Gen IV, and was finished building in 1981.

> the primary failure at Fukushima was a sea wall too low for the tsunami that occurred. How is the reactor design relevant?

Fukushima melt down because the water destroyed the backup generators. The generators are used to power the pumps. The pumps force coolants to flow, removing heat and therefore avoiding an increase in temperature beyond what is structurally sound.

A typical Gen IV reactor would naturally cool down without need to keep coolant running. For instance, Superphénix immerses the breeder in a liquid sodium coolant that has an effectively unreachable boiling point, tremendous heat capacity, and no corrosion.
I think the poison here is government, not the tool. It makes sense for a government to look for location data to persecute its declared enemies.
Exactly. I live just outside London, and the big class system is obvious. Most people are in the 3rd tier the OP mentioned, i.e. lower or working class. Most people I know and work with are in the middle class. And there is the unreachable upper class that owns most companies and land. You generally have no connection to them.

But I grew up and lived in several other Northern European countries where there is mostly just a huge middle class. Sure, some differences between upper-middle and lower-middle. But not a lot, and they can live side by side, go to the same school etc.

There are the odd billionaires, big estate heirs and royals i.e. classic upper-class but very few and they don't own everything. And they might also live near you, their kids might go to your normal public school etc. And then there are some unfortunate that could be classed as in a lower class but that is very few, and not everywhere, mostly just in the big cities. Mostly recent immigrants that do the jobs no-one else wants to do. They quickly get swallowed up by the middle class once settled.

Unless I was very sheltered that seems to be the case for most countries in Northern Europe apart from the UK?
Sure. Thin cloning is a way to obtain a clone of data that looks fully independent (you can modify, add, delete data), but physically multiple clones share physically the same data -- except those blocks that were changed. This is implemented using copy-on-write -- see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_stor...
So they took the technology of the revolver and applied it to pressure relief. Fascinating stuff.

>One particularly efficient type of pressure exchanger is a rotary pressure exchanger. This device uses a cylindrical rotor with longitudinal ducts parallel to its rotational axis. The rotor spins inside a sleeve between two end covers. Pressure energy is transferred directly from the high pressure stream to the low pressure stream in the ducts of the rotor. Some fluid that remains in the ducts serves as a barrier that inhibits mixing between the streams. This rotational action is similar to that of an old fashioned machine gun firing high pressure bullets and it is continuously refilled with new fluid cartridges. The ducts of the rotor charge and discharge as the pressure transfer process repeats itself.
Right so, basically the software updates just made things worse. As an industry we're funneling people into these forced updates because most people dont want to update. And their reason for not updating is totally rational, it will almost always make things worse! I get the security aspect, but otherwise this is horrible.
https://archive.md/2kPaU
> Sure you can. You just choose not to.

Much in the same way that you can jump in front of a moving bus if you want to - you just choose not to.

The implication is not that it's _impossible_ to walk away - it's that it just doesn't make any damn sense, given the likely outcomes.
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Please don't post generic ideological comments to HN. It leads to generic ideological discussion, which leads to repetitive flamewar, which is tedious, which is off topic here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Things like builders no longer make sense if you have named arguments. Transforming or filtering a collection is more idiomatic than mutating it in-place. Factories don't make sense when first-class functions do the job better. Basically everything that's frowned on in Scala is also frowned on in Kotlin, in my experience.
The cost is too high? The monetary cost will be quite besides the point once climate change wipes out the coast cities on four continents.
This reminds me of the mycologist Paul Stamets' proposal to use radiotrophic fungi to clean up Fukushima.

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/using-fungi-remediat...

Further on "mycoremediation":

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

My biased view is that fungi-based technology is an under-appreciated field with great potential for growth and wide range of applications.
>I think utilizing one's power as a worker and aligning other workers to increase workers' power ...

This sounds terrible. You're not increasing worker power as a whole you're just increasing the power of workers with similar political agendas. If successful, the unaligned workers don't even get the material benefit of a raise or added employee benefits like they would from a real union. The unaligned are basically just expected to roll with whatever mayhem the preachy workers cause.
The world production of coal is dominated by the People’s Republic of China with 47.4% of global production. China also dominates the global consumption of coal with 51.6% of the world demand in 2017.

http://energyatlas.iea.org/#!/tellmap/2020991907

China has no coal to spare to sell to Japan, they need it all. As the world's fastest growing major economy their electricity and thus coal demand will go up, not down.
I've been contracting for just over a year in London as a JS dev. £500 is a good day rate, I've seen as low as £250 advertised. It also varies a little, for example front-end gigs using React will generally pay better than Vue (a shame for me in particular as I prefer Vue).

With the IR35 changes I've been looking at switching back to full-time, but the salary ranges are just so low in comparison, it's quite disheartening really. Most comparable full-time positions offer about a third of what I make contracting.

I also expected contractors to be more highly skilled, but in my experience it's almost the opposite. I recently worked with a devops contractor earning probably around £100k who had set the organisation wide SSO administrator password to "Password1".

If I didn't have so many commitments in the UK I would seriously consider trying to move to the US. The market here seems completely bizarre.
> In some circumstances it has been surpassed already. It’s not an unfamiliar experience today to wonder whether we’re interacting online with a human or an AI system, and even alleged experts have been taken in by bots like “Eugene Goostman,” which, posing as a Ukrainian teenager, fooled a panel of Royal Society judges in 2014 into thinking it was human.

No, the Turing test has not been surpassed. The "panel" was not fooled; one judge on the panel was fooled. And how, I don't know. The sample dialog on the Wikipedia page for that bot is the sort of pointless trivia questions that a bot can answer and a human can get wrong, and it won't tell you anything about who you're interrogating. If you instead try holding context across multiple inquiries, the charade will quickly reveal itself,

(">" = human, "<" = bot's reply.)

> Hello.

< Nice to meet you! Please tell me how you found me and what you'd like to discuss :-)

> Through Wikipedia. Tell me about somewhere you've visited.

< May I ask you about the real reason of your interest? Maybe, let's talk about something else? What would you like to discuss?

> Curious about your history. Why do you not want to discuss it?

< How do you know? I thought nobody could guess that! Could you tell me what are you? I mean your profession.

The previous reply is nonsense, and the constant evasion is typical of chat bots like Cleverbot. Clearly bot. I know I'm not blind, but I think we're kidding ourselves to equate this with the dialogue capabilities of a human. It took 3 queries to get to that. Even more recent attempts, like AI dungeon, fall apart after 2-3 queries that require context and understanding.
Most have problem breathing and require hospitalization. Thats the main problem with this disease, it overwhelms the health system with this cases.
Leg irons & electrocution gear were the two items I specifically remember.
As noted in the article, they were:

The team of moderators, referred to internally with the anodyne moniker of “technical team,” is the only unit that works alone, apart from other TikTok operators and staff. This team’s responsibility includes pulling any content that violates TikTok’s terms of use or is offensive to the app’s user community. Live broadcasts, however, are monitored by an even more elite team operating in China, where ByteDance has its global headquarters. The team in China was responsible for monitoring the app and discovering João’s suicide as it was livestreamed. Yet no one saw it.

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/tiktok-suicide-brazil/
This is admittedly not my area of expertise, but don't all shoes do that? Unless the rubber permanently deforms, any rebound at all is returning energy.
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