skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their coffee is second to none. I only drink Ethiopian coffee when possible. Amazing flavor.
If i could get hired with a good rate after just learning the COBOL language maybe. Unfortunately, I don't have a mainframe for me to learn the rest of the environment in.
I think you should probably check your ego. There is no reason these "country-simple" city counselors couldn't be much smarter and more savvy than you or I.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake review: An incredibly bold Final Fantasy
From the Lancet piece you linked to:

> “I estimate that 10 000 people have already perished as a result of Chernobyl, and that is only about a third of the eventual death toll”, says Grodzinsky. “But, we are dealing with a very prolonged process which is spread through several generations and it's far too early to start saying we have worked it all out and now we can move on.”

That statement was made by Dmytro Grodzinsky, chairman of the National Commission on Radiological Protection of the Population of Ukraine. That sounds like a relevant expert opinion to me.
I had similar thought, which led me to believe that the closest thing to God is the irreducible quantum randomness in our molecules.

In fact, I believe that life is not exclusively about order, but rather about harnessing randomness (entropy by another name) and capturing its output to bootstrap solutions to environmental problems. Our entire manner of reproduction is about allowing just enough randomness to produce interesting new results while maintaining the integrity of the life-form.

I’m a cryptographer, by the way, so what got me thinking about this was how we put a nice box around randomness to produce cool stuff like encryption and signature schemes.
WTF Is Automatic Speech Recognition?
Which is currently on fire and spewing radioactivity.
Malta appears to be somewhere you can get an EU banking license without quite so much scrutiny and oversight as some of the larger places. Coincidentally quite a few cryptocurrency-related organisations have moved their HQ there...
Universe was born pregnant with life, (C) mine, circa 2010.

I mean that with that huge size and so number of opportunities, "invention" of self-reproducible forms is inevitable. And so we can treat the life as yet another form of matter.

There are quite a lot of possible consequences of this axiom.
They could deliver diapers to cars. The novelty might be good for business.
Nukes should be the future but it won't happen.

People are scared of it, and don't understand fission. Popular docudrama shows, like Chernobyl, propagate myths that reactors can explode with "2-4 megaton power".[1]

Politicians won't back it because no one wants it in their back yard. And carbon gives them new revenue they can leverage and borrow against to balance the budget.[2]

I list more reasons at [3], which I link every time this comes up.

[1] - https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/480113/how-large...

[2] - https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059981189

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167207
The whole point of companies forcing arbitration clauses onto their customers was to save money by denying customers the appropriate legal avenue for recourse. If the company didn't want to face 60000 arbitration cases they shouldn't have blocked their customers from filing a single class action lawsuit.
Thanks, I see what you mean. It's been a few years since I read that, and I'm certainly not well positioned to speak for, or about, the book.

Pardon me for becoming bogged down in details -- I take it that the post is about deflation risk, not what was or wasn't predicted about _this_ pandemic.

"We are heading into a deflationary crisis" is a pretty compelling prediction, and I have now set off to try to work out which leading indicators of this would be informative.
I was a licensed arbitrator. I am aware of how arbitration works and what it is supposed to accomplish.

My point was that a business with at least 60000 customers is not a very small business. It's a sizable business that should have the resources to defend itself in the 60000 arbitration cases that it chose to force upon its customers.
The C++ '–-&gt;' Operator
> It could be - but in the majority of cases it isn't

I don't think that's really true, at least for the Java ecosystem which is implicated here. Eclipse does not call out to command line tools for most things, as far as I've seen
I remember one of the first cases in my business law class was about immenent domain and how it was found that the government has no obligation to follow through with their reasoning for taking your land.

Pretty messed up.
People have been saying we would have rolling brownouts once we got to 5% renewables. Then when that happened without any ill effects, they said it would happen at 10%. Then 15%. It doesn't matter, because it has always been a false talking point, without any basis in fact. It simply doesn't make sense unless one can only imagine large thermally driven plants and you don't want to have to change grid management from what you were doing in the 1960.

We can do 90% renewable energy, and even 100%, with storage and curtailment. How much we need of each is simply a cost trade off. If we could build nuclear now for less than $100/MWh, it may have a place in this cost optimization problem, but we can't, so it doesn't have a place until nuclear technology catches up to the 21st century.
It's really important I think to also understand the genesis of the modern conglomerates in Korea in order to understand their history and arrive at modern day practice.

IIR, "A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present" by Michael J. Seth is an excellent book that has some great sections on the topic.

I haven't come across any real "management theory" texts out of Korea, in the same way that Kaizen came out of Japan and was all the rage in the 80s and 90s in U.S. management circles. There's probably a few reasons for it, but I think the most compelling one is that in the things that are no real international competitors in the leading industries of the day to the U.S. (software, internet stuff, etc.), so there's no real driver to look abroad and see what the other guy is doing. In the 80s and 90s, Japanese car companies started taking the stuffing out of the American auto industry, then a dominant market, and it forced people to seek out how this was happening. Today "Agile" is all the rage, and nobody is really doing it better.

However, the reverse is happening, as South Korea continues to transition to more of a service oriented economy, and American-style management practices are slowly being integrated into Korean workplaces. There's a pretty direct line from Drucker bringing Kaizen over to modern Agile practices, and I suspect that we'll see a similar Korean evolution of Agile practices that befit the culture.

I would suggest reading: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317639433_Formal_an...

as well as this short talk https://youtu.be/OHilmaWZVUw
Those cows likely represented the livelyhood of many residents.
I think that would be the mainstream media?
Meeting Steve Jobs
The ADA may not require it, but the compliance costs it imposes are a strong disincentive for publishing.

The ADA in that case turned an unmitigated public good from "Sure, why not publish them online?" into "We can't publish this content without paying a lot of money we don't have, so we just won't publish it.".

In this case, the ADA has left society worse off.
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is correct. Outages are super expensive for a nuclear power plant, and plants take days to start and stop. Not only that, but capital costs are so large, you need to run it as much as possible to have any hope of just keeping up with interest payments.

People think waste is the biggest problem with nuclear, but I think it is huge capital costs and lack of flexibility are even larger problems (not to mention insurance for accidents, but only the government can provide that). Coupling nuclear with some kind of large scale battery would work to even out load requirements, but the only thing that might work is pumped storage, which would require a huge reservoir at a decent elevation, not to mention being pretty inefficient.
whoops, thanks for the reminder :)
Reddit to begin exploring a tokenized points system
In Defense of Zoom: China Fud, Performance Tradeoff, Open Source
Ugh at risk of being the grumpy old programmer: jit code is just never going to touch actual handwritten native code in performance. It's been like 50 years. If we care about performance we need languages for it.
Title doesn't match source.

"Coronavirus spam selling the 'Pandemic Survival' ebook"
The statewide officials were in on it too. Blame Scott Walker first and foremost, certainly more than any one individual at the town level.
I read that, because it is uninhabitable to humans, wild life is flourishing in that area! And forests are taking over!
Who lets their dog lick their mouth? That's absolutely filthy.
I am still trying to get a hang of the basics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSYnOvEueo
Considering it sounds like the ejection seat failed to work properly, I don't blame them for writing it up
Absolutely, it's something I researched while writing this article (since I knew someone would bring it up :)). Ultimately, I wanted to talk about concepts more than specific technologies, so I avoided going into detail on Spanner.

I don't claim to understand the underlying tech for Spanner, since I haven't read through the research paper fully. But my understanding is that write latencies are increased, which is a trade-off that has to be made. No matter what, _some_ trade-off is necessary, unfortunately.
“Memories” – 256 byte MSDOS intro (commented code included)
Though Belloc (one of his well known collaborators) did advocate state seizure of goods in order to bring it about.
I like the concept. It was not immediately clear that you tap/click to walk. This may have been explained in instructions but who reads those?
Interesting stuff. 90% of the material in your web site goes way over my head.

I have two stupid questions.

Why is offshore nuclear not a solution to many of the public fears about nuclear power?

If fracked natural gas is very cheap, why are coal and resid (both comparatively dirtier fuels) in widespread use for energy generation?
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx
> I think there's this argument happening that is renewables vs nuclear which isn't healthy. Nuclear's competitor is coal and natural gas which serve as base loads

Well in France the goal of reducing the nuclear share is to increase the intermittent share (Solar and Wind), so it's definitely a Nuclear vs Intermittent

Intermittent sources need a stable source to produce electricity when they can't and they also need changes in a network that is not built for withstanding a production this variable. The end result is that intermittent ends up being more expensive and, because it needs gas, to supplement it, emits more CO2 per kWh. France is the last country where intermittent sources should be propped up (if propped up at all)

> Though I would be happier if the plan was to explicitly discontinue their coal and gas plants first.

Coal is pretty much nonexistent in France, however gas can never go away because even though nuclear plants have amazing flexibility, it's still not as flexible as gas, which is used for very high very sudden demands. Unfortunately there aren't many ways to do this particular job (hydro still isn't as flexible)

There's no good ecological, economical or safety-related reason to reduce nuclear to 50%, especially if it is intended to be replaced by Solar and Wind
`go install golang.org/x/tools/present` finished on the author's contact information. At first I thought it was weird, and after experience, it's a great slide to end on.

Now that I've watched Prof Winston's talk, I realise it's inspired. Thought it does say "Thank you" on the last slide. Oops.

https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/cmd/present/temp...
The simpsons were generous. Despite all the high jinks that reactor has not yet made springfield an unlivable ghost town, yet that has already happened to several towns around nuclear reactors.

And the simpsons were funny because they reflected what happened in the real world. People knew about Three Mile Island and Chernobyl when the simpsons were on.
Meanwhile, Mastodon has it right in front with OCR built in. Someone often comes along to reply with a description if you don't/aren't able to do one.
TL;DR A reformulation of physics based on intuitionist mathematics seems to aid human intuition, makes no impact on calculations.
Perhaps what you’re saying right now is a lie.

In general, I’m quite fond of being incredibly sceptical of the government and all of its agents. They should be scrutinized thoroughly. But this isn’t honest or productive scrutiny. The truth is all of those politicians lied, and all of them exaggerated details, and misrepresented facts (though trying to measure how much would be reasonably subjective). They also all did good work (again open to some subjective interpretation). But your commentary boils down to an incredibly black and white view, which ignores the sins of one group, and exaggerates the sins of another. It almost exclusively reflects your own biases over the actual conduct of any president.
How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
Mainstream acceptance is like third or maybe fourth on the list of biggest roadblocks to nuclear power. The simple truth is that nuclear electricity is outrageously expensive relative not just to gas but to renewables. The plants represent huge investments, and waste storage remains a problem that has literally never been solved by the market (i.e. nuclear waste processing has always been a government subsidy in some form or another).

Nuclear needs to make sense on a balance sheet first before you'll see uptake from environmentalists like me. But it'll happen. Make it a cheap carbon-free energy source and I guarantee you we'll advocate for it. Right now it mostly looks like another boondoggle.
As I understand it, any API call using the deprecated authentication scheme will fail for the 3-hour period, not just logins.

So for some folks, maybe CI will be broken, or deployment automation, or even code review.

The trade-off here is to be disruptive enough that folks will notice and fix old callers of the API, while not leaving thousands of coders permanently in the lurch (they'll notice and complain, but three hours later they can get back to work, while someone fixes the infrastructure in the meantime).
Sure, yeah. I actually studied in an advanced humanities program and have read most of the people he references. I worried a bit about the characterization. But since the labeling didn't really matter for my point I didn't sweat it too much.

I was really into stuff like this for a few years. After a while, this argumentative style just stopped landing for me.

To each his own though. I go back to the blue/gold dress. I can't explain my issues with it without just making people angry, advocates can't explain why it resonates without frustrating the other side.

So... I just want to say sorry if you thought the link was some kind of offensive misdirected attack on something you like.

If you like this stuff, go for it, knock yourself out.
Not measuring VM startup time has a long tradition in papers. It was the Original Sin (TM).
Meld [0] (written with GTK so available on Windows, Linux, and possibly Mac but I don't know about that last one) is another tool in the first category.

WinDirStat [1] (Windows) for the second. It is also available in the super-useful PortableApps format [2], which is always nice.

[0]: https://meldmerge.org/

[1]: https://windirstat.net/

[2]: https://portableapps.com/apps
Is it just the number of people that have died that matters?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fuk...
A2A refuelling is still absolutely required for effective air combat, you can only fight for a short period before you are bingo. For strike you'd want a stand off weapon, but if absolute stealth was not required you can use conformal or off-board tanks.

If you used Strike Eagles you have the same problem as Supers -- they are 4.5G, not low observable, which gives warning of a strike. But I suspect the Supers will be in service for decades.

Extreme range strike is arguably complimentary to submarines, but there are no manned F-111-like platforms available to buy, and no one thinks that is a role UAS can do.
Libertarian lawyer explains your Constitutional rights during Covid-19
Welcome back to C++ – Modern C++
The issues is partly political. We could overcome that.

Partly technological: risk of fallout, and more ugly - long term storage.

But really, the issue nobody thinks about is proliferation.

If the West started pumping out 5 cent/mmh electricity and booming, you can be darn sure every tin pot fool everywhere in the world would be as well. After all, why shouldn't they?

But Canada will manage it's boring, hardened facilities extremely well. The entire economy of Canada is not based on anything really intelligent - just 'boring, consistent responsibility and stability' - which is exactly what you want for such things.

But how long will stability remain around Nigeria's 20 new reactors? Hey - they convinced us that 'everything was fine' and that it was 'Colonialist and Evil to require external, rigorous inspection'. But now there's a regime change, a civil war breaking out. A rebel group has nabbed a reactor. A second reactor the staff are fleeing because Boko Haram is in the area. The US president wants to send in Marines to lock down the facilities immediately, but wary it will just erupt in more violence immediately.

Obviously that's hugely speculative, but if/when nuclear power breaks up with 100's of reactors popping up everywhere - something like this will happen - somewhere.

I think we can conquor public opinion and figure out 'long term' issues with enough focus and innovation.

But this requires 'highly responsible civilisation' almost universally so that something doesn't blow up somewhere in the long tail.

Since most of the world actually isn't ready for that responsibility, what do we do? Controls? How? Can we tell them 'no'? We could block Somalia from getting nuke power ... but probably not most other places.
City air is far clearer worldwide.
Mis/Dis Information in National Security (US Army War College Video Lecture)
That's a straw man. The pharma company hadn't even applied for FDA approval yet.
Judging by today’s software, looks like no, it’s not.
For further context, a refundable tax credit is the same structure that is being used for the $1200 stimulus checks.
"Paper Reactors":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715730
I’d love to hear you detail what you see the connection between these two things is.
You could probably go cradle to grave experiencing your entire life in nothing but Samsung (or companies related by family) goods.

It's interesting to note that Samsung's yearly revenue is about 10% of the South Korean GDP. I'm not sure I can think of an American example that's even close.
1. Offshore nuclear power may be a wonderful solution to public fears. It also allows us to build in shipyard conditions, which are basically a giant Henry Ford assembly line of gigawatt-class 24/7 power plants. We built such a thing in Florida back in the 1970s but it didn't quite work out. [1]

2. Coal is absolutely getting crushed by fracked natural gas, especially in the USA. All the news about coal shutting down and also about carbon emissions getting (everso slightly) better are because of this swapping of coal for gas. Check out the EIA charts of energy sources vs. time. Coal is in free-fall, gas is covering almost all of it. In Japan, where gas is more expensive, they just announced that they're building 22 more coal plants to replace their unpopular nuclear plants. [2]

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-01-26-offshore-power-sys...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/japan-coal-fukush...
The Crazy Rich Salaries of Singapore's Ministers
I agree, but would that be considered discrimination?
Does 18F offer competitive salary or remote work? If not, what about pension?

I've never worked for the public sector, so I'm not entirely clear how it all works. How do you get promotions or raises?

Are these "civilian" jobs? Do they require security clearance?

Is there a risk of the office being defunded under the Trump administration?
This magazine is mostly know for its racist intellectuals so sure let’s see what they have to say about energy.
I learned Pascal before learning C in college back in the 80s. For me, C felt like a step backwards towards assembly language.

Things missing in C:
Bounds checking;
Non-null references;
Subranges;
Sets;
Nested functions?
Not only that, but the sheer complacency of people within the industry when it comes to better tools blows my mind!

Our VDI development environment runs an OS from 2 decades ago. It's ugly and the latency is mildly infuriating. And yet, my co-workers are totally OK with it all.
I don't know where the "within half a kilometer" meme came from. Wuhan Institute of Virology is about 13.5km from the market by road or 30 minutes by car. And the two are separated by the Yangtze river: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12D2/production/... (in case one wonders the source of the map is BBC https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51388024)

With Wuhan's population it would not surprise me if there are millions who live or work closer to the institute than the market.
> If numbers are finite and limited in their precision, then nature itself is inherently imprecise, and thus unpredictable.

Is this not what Planck's constant implies? We can only know position and/or motion to a certain degree, and not exactly? Does not quantum mechanics already include this idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816075
>The American fascination with cars probably peaked around 1971.

that's an interesting question. cars/motorcycles/fast things were a huge box-office theme in the 90s and 2000s, with many franchises featuring car thieves, enthusiasts, and racers -- but the same trend was around in the 70s.

If one generalizes social direction by using box office themes as an indicator, like plenty of people (probably unwisely) do, it's a tough question.

Sports car sales, a decent indicator of automotive interest due to their singular purpose nature, were higher in the 90s and 2000s than the 70s.

Just as a singular example, take the Corvette[0]. A practically useless car for anything but enthusiasts, sports driving, and status. It sold 21 thousand units in 71, and 53 thousand units in 84. If that's any indicator, the peak must've been past 71, at least, albeit that's a fairly weak indicator given the gas crisis a few years later that spurred most folks away from anything with a big engine.

Cars are still a huge status symbol for the rich, famous, and successful. Millenial-aged rappers are still buying Lamborghinis.

To be clear : I think you're dead-on correct that millenials are driving less, but personally I think that means more about millenials lack of financial mobility more than it does the failure of the automobile to allure current generations.

[0]: https://www.corvsport.com/corvette-sales-volume-year/