skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your own link says (direct quote): "Modern renewables are about as safe as nuclear energy".

And if you read further you see this:

Let’s again put this into the context of our town of 27,000 EU citizens, who would collectively consume around one terawatt-hour of energy a year. These are the impacts if they got all of their energy from a given source:

Coal: 25 people would die prematurely every year;

...

Nuclear: it would take between 14 and 100 years before someone died;

...

Solar: 53 years before someone died.

Also, the costs of nuclear accidents are generally underestimated:

according to our analysis, with 388 reactors in operation, there is a 50% probability of a Fukushima-like event (or more costly) every 60–150 years, and a Three Mile Island event (or more costly) every 10–20 years.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.12.026
You know, it's possible to be for masks and still acknowledge it's not the perfect solution. You are the one pushing me into a corner of "either you're with us or against us".

The ECDC guidelines recommend face coverings but still recognise the caveats, but in your eyes they are heretics and anti-maskers for even mentioning it. You appear like a religious fanatic. Very sad to see and it completely kills any serious discussion about the topic.
I think Hong Kong used to be a test field to test how the democratic system will be implemented in China. However, the experience of the past few years has shown a failure. The government's work has been unreasonably opposed by the opposition parties, and the people have been incited to riot.

Under this negative example, people in China who yearn for the American system are already ashamed to speak up. I even suspect that the purpose of Hong Kong’s opposition parties is to prevent democratization in China.

The demonstrators have a slogan "Non Separation", which means that peaceful demonstrations and violent demonstrations are not separated. They are all part of the entire movement. Peaceful demonstrators were hijacked by violent demonstrators.
Feeling in the middle of this now. It’s honestly starting to feel like hell.
Your summaries of the wiki links include unhelpful partisan soundbite takes, and your final "great plague upon its subjects" equally so, which somewhat undermines your call for nuance.
Everyone have access but you have to log in with your ID and the ones you check can see that you checked them. You can check 500 people each month.

Your scenario seems pretty far fetched to me since this information will be published in October for the previous year. It contains the income and tax for the whole year only. It would be pretty difficult to know the information you suggest from the limited, delayed records.

As a Norwegian I fully support our system with public tax records.
Maybe it is a smoke screen, put in something likely to be found and something that won't. Everyone pats themselves on the back for finding the obvious one...
An odd witness for the very true issues people have with Google Search. Google is crediting all websites it uses information from. It might be sad for such a site but I wonder how the creator thought that this is sustainable. Sites with biographical data for famous people already existed and for them adding net worth information is easy. So if not Google had kill them, they might have being killed by IMDb oder Wikipedia.
Show HN: Story with Dynamic Soundtrack
You are mostly correct.

I'm female, and want to wear simple clothing. Black pants, black shirt. Short sleeve in summer, long sleeve in winter plus or minus a basic sweater or two. Sometimes, these aren't available or aren't available in black, so I often wind up wearing simply jeans and a t-shirt.

I'd rather not have frills, though I can occasionally tolerate zippers.

I'd really like pockets that have space for things: I used to wear men's pants when I was younger and I gotta say, I've considered switching back. I wish they fit better because the pockets are glorious. (Men's shirts don't fit well at all since they aren't made for breasts).

I can usually find non-athletic shoes in black, but it gets much more difficult to find black or mostly black athletic-style shoes.
The implication is that women are expressing their looks as much as their personality.

However, the two are connected; how one's personality is perceived is dependent on one's looks. If you want people to value your personality, best to exercise regularly, dress well, and keep up with proper grooming.
> natural for the brain to fill in the blanks with its own assumptions

I think an annoying thing is that people are (seem to be) completely unaware that they're (their brains) doing this
Ok, sorry sir ;-) Copyright infringement. What's the difference really here?

IANAL means this precisely (and on a side note, I'm here for open exchange and debate, not for claiming to be right ;-)

Interestingly, depending on jurisdictions, there are places on the globe (EU, FR) where I think the terminology is theft not copyright infringement ("theft of database"), even if it does not apply to this US National dispute. Now let's see how this goes with the US gov.
Dynamite is a good example of why the philosophy is complete bullshit. How about you blame the stupid evil fuckers who started all of the futile wars to try to get rich in the quagmire that was European geopolitics instead of tbe person who made them safer?

It is the same sort of stupid blame shifting involved with the hippocratic oath for x nonsense. Oaths are majorly outmoded in the zeitgeist anyway because everyone recognizes lies are commonplace.
tl;dr

Reality, we have virtue signaling.

.... soap box

because its and end run. the idea being that if software developers had this as a whole then corporations could not force them to do whatever it is that was then decided as against the oath but it amounts to nothing more than virtue signaling

the issue with a software developer Hippocratic Oath is that you can damn well bet it will be subject to the whims of whomever is loudest on social media or whatever political group wants to use it to damage the other party.

The Hippocratic Oath is protected by history and pretty much limited to interpretation but any such oath or rule today is not worth page it is printed on.
> Facts (like someones net worth) cannot be copyrighted. However a compilation of facts can be.

It’s my understanding that this ceased to be true in the USA in 1991 and that a minimal degree of creativity is required [0]. Other countries have started following suit more recently.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
YFi – macOS utility app to monitor your WiFi connection – Product Hunt
If the new normal world is too dangerous to sit in an office together, how on earth would you find new friends if you moved?

It doesn’t make sense.
Nature may be less considerate. The problem with failing or particular case isn't the shame, it's the death and destruction.
This seems highly likely.
Python Typosquatting for Fun Not Profit
A classic paranoid security question.

The ace in Linux's pocket is that you're free to read it all. That can't be said for Apple, and Microsoft or any of the OS's running switches and hubs out there. Let alone all the server side cloud code.
We had gcc3, but some people were still stuck with redhat's patched 2.96 (which was officially 2.95 + some security patches)
Yes and no - UK was actually a colonial empire at the time of WWII and had conquered and subjugated more land and peoples than the Japanese ever managed. While the UK itself could be termed a liberal democracy, most of its subjects had no say.
Thanks for the links!

On a side note, it's a shame most universities do not teach CS students much about hardware, hardware security etc
An interesting fact that you may not know about is that Von Neumann was involved in the decision :

"Von Neumann, four other scientists, and various military personnel were included in the target selection committee that was responsible for choosing the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the first targets of the atomic bomb. Von Neumann oversaw computations related to the expected size of the bomb blasts, estimated death tolls, and the distance above the ground at which the bombs should be detonated for optimum shock wave propagation and thus maximum effect. The cultural capital Kyoto, which had been spared the bombing inflicted upon militarily significant cities, was von Neumann's first choice,[131] a selection seconded by Manhattan Project leader General Leslie Groves. However, this target was dismissed by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.[132]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
we already have one that is pretty close - Ted Nelson from his 1974 book Dream Machines:

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

I am going to help make people free through computers.

I will not help the computer priesthood confuse and bully the public.

I will endeavor to explain patiently what computer systems really do.

I will not give misleading answers to get people off my back, like “Because that’s the way computers work” instead of “Because that’s the way I designed it.”

I will stand firm against the forces of evil.

I will speak up against computer systems that are oppressive, insulting, or unkind, and do the best I can to improve or replace them, if I cannot prevent them from being bought or created in the first place.

I will fight injustice, complication, and any company that makes things difficult on purpose.

I will do all I can to further human understanding, especially through the new visualizing tools of interactive computer graphics.

I will do what I can to make systems easy to understand, interactive wherever possible, and fun for the user.

I will try not to make fun of another user’s favorite computer language, even if it is COBOL or BASIC.
I have "unlimited". In the sense that I have a daily 5GB cap, if I hit that I have to manually trigger 1GB more. But I can do so as much as I want.
The Hippocratic oath isn't very effective — it did not prevent the development of bioweapons, drugs to carry out death sentences, or human destruction during WW2. If doctors can have their oath circumvented in a very tangible and obvious way, why do we think programmers working at a high level of abstraction can't?
> possible solution for a small portion of this problem

In CS research, this is known as "software components", and people have been worrying about it since at least the 1970s with very slow progress. Here's Stoustroup writing about it in the 90s, for example: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Language-technical-asp...

"Reuse happens only when a variety of social conditions are favorable. However, social conditions, development processes, and design methods alone cannot guarantee success. In the end, working code must be produced"

The dream used to be that software could be like electronics: standard elements like resistors would have a small number of well-characterised parameters, and you can just pick them from a catalog. Large components would come from vendors with large datasheets that would also describe their performance, and would be guaranteed a certain period of availability such as ten years.

The end result is not quite like that. A lot of components have made it into standard libraries (what python calls "batteries included"). Everything else is available on repositories. However, because everything has to be free (and sometimes Free), that also selects for the absolute minimum maintenance effort and quality. Freedom has many huge advantages, as does not having to get purchase order or "BOM" approval every time you add a dependency to your project, but it does leave people in the "if it breaks you get to keep both pieces" situation.
What? It's you who suggested avoiding extra movement may be ecologically beneficial due to less food consumed. I have no idea why you're pulling virtue signaling into this.
A lot of companies have large market share because their products “won”. Not every success in capitalism is a result of cheating or doing evil things. It’s how they decide to keep winning that could be the issue.
pretty sure the british also saw to the irish as subhuman, which also enabled their exploitation
Agreed, this seems like a bit of a clickbait title. I'm sure you'll find people that say they want colonialism to be taught in school as an exclusively bad thing, but you'll also find people wanting intelligent design to be taught alongside evolution.
I've been experimenting with the idea of having background music for stories.

Each section is marked up with a set of tracks that can be played through the section and as you scroll through the text, IntersectionObservers are triggered to queue them to start playing at the next appropriate point.

Some people I've tried this on like listening to background music while reading, some need complete silence so I'm having a hard time deciding whether this is a useful or not.
> when the compiler has put in effort

Not effort. That’s the Sweat of the Brow doctrine [0] which is no longer law. The requirement is creativity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#United_State...
Houstonian here — did you mean Hurricane Ike (Sept. 2008)?

Hurricane Igor (Sept. 2010) hit Canada, not Houston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Igor

(In Hurricane Ike, we lost power for seven days, and ice and dry ice at the local grocery stores were rationed. We have a gas range and a gas grill in the backyard hooked to the natural-gas line. Every night for the first few nights, quite a few neighbors came over to grill and share stuff from their freezers; we cooked side dishes on the gas range in the kitchen. Everyone sat around and ate and talked on the patio by candlelight. It actually was kind of a nice time, especially since the weather was unseasonably pleasant for that time of year.)
> title: defies laws of light physics

> text: may sound like it does, but doesn't

Yes, of course, the clickbait. Or the "How he got more clicks with this one simple trick" aka "The readers hate him for that".

Sad to see stuff like this pop-up almost daily on HN lately.
Researcher Demonstrates Several Zoom Vulnerabilities at DEF Con 28
There is absolutely no room for comparison. Obama would never kill Americans intentionally on US soil.
SpaceX and NASA overcame a bitter culture clash to bring US astronaut launches
Well we can hope to surface avenues of monopolistic behavior that allow a company to abuse their position within the confines of the law through committees like this. Just because it follows the letter of the law doesn't mean it's not malicious or damaging.
Nvidia: Accelerating Standard C++ with GPUs Using stdpar
Re-occupying North Africa for its natural resources also guarantees the doom of the project in short order, as well as a huge cost of money, lives, CO2, and everything else.

"Ensuring stability with force" does not work. Stability can only be ensured with prosperity.
Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach
12V/120V freezers do exist and are marketed towards RV, camping, and off grid markets. Disadvantage is they tend to be smaller, cost more. But they are very efficient. Where a residential freezer might draw a couple of hundred watts dual voltage fridges draw 25-50 watts. And automatically switch between 12VDC and 120VAC. So they can be connected to both shore power and a battery at the same time and it 'just works'
Presumably Bill Gates was a good manager and CEO, he became the richest man in the world by running a very successful software company.

And in his current field of "global health" he hopefully has as good of a grasp of the issues, the proposed solutions, and since he's a smart man he's hopefully able to separate the bullshit from the effective solutions.
> the first compiler to support GPU-accelerated Standard C++ with no language extensions, pragmas, directives, or non-standard libraries. You can write Standard C++, which is portable to other compilers and systems, and use NVC++ to automatically accelerate it with high-performance NVIDIA GPUs.
Well there is one major assumption error there - that negative real world consequences are only linked to negative ethics.

That is so wrong it isn't even funny. If the car was invented as powered by a Mr. Fusion the buggy whip makers going out of business would be a negative real world consequence.
Some good advice maybe.
Horrible idea, if a package get corrupted by an adversary not only would you have to clean the npm package but also hope everyone who committed the code into a repository gets the news and fixes it.
At least with NPM there is the chance that a fixed version gets automatically pulled on the next build.

In addition to that, most package managers rely on metadata, like description files, the bloat introduced by these micro-packages is unfathomable.

Then there is the obvious answer to all this, use a proper language, learn it and don't pull in stuff like "left-pad" from external sources. It's a one liner. If you can't come up with that yourself get the fuck out of this industry. Seriously.
I think they climb the tower and pour gasoline on them.

Which is stupidly dangerous.
CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
> And what about those conjured celebrities I added as a precaution? All five were all scraped right into Google’s search result pages. It provided undeniable proof that after being turned down, Google simply went ahead and stole the entire database of content CNW took eight years and over a million dollars to build.

A number might not be copyrightable, but what about a news article? What would happen if all the world’s new sites just denied the Google crawler using robots.txt? What if they also returned 404s if accessed from an IP address known to be owned by Google?
CNW's statement was about 2012 to the present. The damage is done.

I distinctly remember even recently that Google wouldn't provide attribution in the snippet.

Though now, it sure seems like the #1 results for most of my "{celebrity} net worth" queries are AMP (AKA Google approved™) pages.
Dune 2020 Could Reshape Pop Culture, Just Like Lord of the Rings
Yes, and google has been observed several times to ignore the robots.txt file
Except they are basically a primitive dress. And I don't find such things comfortable at all. Please just give me basic pants and find a way to adjust the size slightly so they fit well.

Pants are warmer and I don't have to worry about how I sit (am female, and do not enjoy this bit about dresses). Biking is not an issue, nor is extra fabric going to get stuck in a conveyor belt.

I'm also pretty sure the togas would require a decent learning curve if you are wanting sleeves. I certainly want sleeves and a shirt that isn't in the way: Things like ponchos aren't good to cook in - they get in the food.

Togas would be outright dangerous when swimming and I can't imagine them being great for working on a car. They might be slightly cooler in the summer if you aren't using too much fabric.

And I'd argue that no matter what, you still have fashion. You'll see it in the way folks drape the toga fabric and their use of belts and things to hold it together. You'll see fashion in the color and/or print of fabric and whether or not you can keep a white one clean. Like with uniforms, you'll find more emphasis on body shape, hair, and other such things.

But I suppose we could all just let our hair grow out: women and men both should just stop shaving as well. It is, after all, fashion. And not do phsyical fitness more than what is required to be healthy and do your job - excess muscles are fashion, after all.
I have to point out that under British rule, there was no democracy. If they want things exactly like they have before, the central government would send a governor to HK instead of having their own governor.

China wanted HK to be special and successful, to use it as a showcase for the 'one country two systems' model. Now China just want to not lose HK. Huge change in thinking.
What does “skin in the game” mean precisely in this context?
Its an economic project rather than a political project. A good percentage of Singapore economy is based on oil. Doing this now and getting experience on it would allow them a leg up on the competition for the future where solar will be even cheaper in the future and more countries start seeing this as an option.
Would you mind elaborating on what you’re referring to? I’m quite curious.
Tell that to Modi haters. The man is on a mission to actually lift India up from the cesspool of shit created by INC and other parties that usually tie up with them.

One by one, small improvements pouring in every year.
Now waiting for Uniform Civil Code, and Population Control Bill.

But I'd also very much welcome a new legislation that deletes the whole fucked up caste system and caste certificates stuff that allows basically even the rich to get into places that have caste based quota.

Next up, scrap the IAS thing and remove so much power from power and money hungry fellas cracking the UPSC exam just to get to that position where they can mint money with the power they get, as well as modify ground level implementation of the incumbent govt to their wishes. Which is particularly why many of Modi's schemes don't really reach the people they're supposed to benefit.

The education system revamp is going to be a huge boost up for productivity of the young generation, which is a vastly welcome change.

Now only if the subversive army of communists and leftists would let the nation actually progress instead of harping on and on about non existent problems and identity politics.. But then I guess that's not how a real world can ever be. Bad guys will be always be there.
I remember a case in Germany, where Apple did the same to a small shop with an Apple in their logo. They had to change their logo back then
Previous discussion [1]

Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo (iphoneincanada.ca)
738 points by lapcatsoftware 1 day ago | 329 comments

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094143
https://www.statista.com/statistics/627209/electricity-consu...

"2018, the amount of electricity consumed in Singapore reached about 50.5 thousand gigawatt hours"

So if you can manage three of those arriving every day you can meet Singapore's electricity needs.
You've probably meant: if they had chosen something much subtler we wouldn't be talking about it.
The Hippocratic Oath works for doctors because they have power over what happens to their patient(s). Administrators and managers run the facility, but cannot tell Doctors what to do.

It would only work for software engineers if we moved to the same model: Management run the facility but cannot tell software developers what to build.

I don't think that's a viable model for managing software development.
There's checking people using your libs downstream (which, admittedly, is quite hard to do) and there's not writing software for cruise missiles.

> This can be used for good, or evil, but by whose standard?

Your own. The oath is taken by humans, and humans differ in opinion - no one can impose an absolute standard on you, and you follow your oath as you understand it. There's no board to deprive you of your license in IT.

> Any such oath is useless posturing, and subject to the whims and pressures of what's in vogue today.

It's only as good as the will to uphold it. I think that's what's in short supply among the stereotypical "bro" coders.
Rachel seems to trip over the concept of Division of Labor[1] to a point. There is arguably more net gain from not having everyone reinvet OpenSSL just to communicate.

Or maybe she's more against being indiscriminate about re-use.

But there just aren't many companies big enough to engineer their own complete solutions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
Man the EU really needs to mandate compliance with SEPA Instant. Quite tragic that three years later and customers are still waiting on batch processes. FPS really is lush.
I can almost smell the formaldehyde smell coming from the 60's paints, wallpapers and furniture.