skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally I've found people learn to deal with common systemic risks but have issues with systemic risks they're not used to. Case in point:

I moved from St. Louis (Tornado Alley) to Seattle. There are really no earthquakes or volcanos in St. Louis (except from newmadrid which is a dooozy, but rare). I had trouble understanding earthquakes and they scare me a lot. But I was having a conversation with the Northwesties about Tornados. When I explained just how bad they could be, it terrified the Northwesties. There are no bad storms up here; lightning makes the news. To add to that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado happened the next day. This terrified all of the northwesties. To me tornados are a part of life, and I'm more ok with them than earthquakes as you "get a warning", and you have a chance to move away from them (it's only a chance).

At the end of the day we all, except maybe Ray Kurzweil, have to deal with the ultimate risk of death. Many of us just ignore it for our whole lives as a way of coping. Others stare it in the face and logic it away, which is essentially the same thing. Why are we all not constantly panicked with the existence of death?
You'll be able to install Linux on NTFS root now!
For me, finding solutions for problems with older versions of software happens on Stack Overflow more often than anywhere else. Thanks for all your work!
Makes sense, forgot there was a web client. Thanks!
Joel was one of the voices that helped me understand that, while my analysis was useful for myself and the employer at the time, my conclusion was not an especially original insight.
This is such an odd article. Perhaps Paragon isn't being entirely altruistic with this move but TR are being quite scathing of someone's work submitting a kernel driver with no direct financial reward - and no real praise for, hopefully, fixing one of the biggest out-of-the-box gripes that Windows / Linux desktop dual-boot environments have. It's no small wonder people often complain about the hardships of writing and maintaining open-source software!
I doubt they look at everything by default. I would think they have a starting point of something like Persons of Interest, Devices of Interest, and Locations of Interest.
Thanks. I understand now. I somehow thought the IDE would use at least some sandboxing
Instead of inverters, there should be a push for DC network.

Virtually all SMPS would be able to to work with DC (right now) and they won't even need active power factor correction either. Washing mashines with brushless DC motors, most ovens would be fine too. When I think almost everything that I have home, save for geothermal pump and three-phase appliances would be ok powered by DC(0). DC has its own issues: galvanic corrosion possibly being one, arcs too (no self-extinguish 50/60 times sec) but it has no issues with inductance, hence lower transport costs.

(0)Cheap LEDs with capacitor dropper or regulation by triacs are not compatible.
Looks great! I made a similar open-source project last year called Sharer.link: https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/sharer.link, which also supports podcasts, movies, and audiobooks. Here's an example link of the same song: https://sharer-link.netlify.app/song/beautiful-people-fea-14....
Thank you for the reply! That makes sense as an approach :)
Wish you all the best!
We really should be carefully considering the risks of this accelerated vaccine development. Though, I don’t think it’s realistic we’ll be able to actually consider the _real_ risks because the world is in a mode of always wanting to find the silver bullet at all costs - even when one doesn’t exist.

We’re in an unprecedented time where people think that a COVID-19 vaccine will allow us to stop social distancing and wearing masks. With the efficacy targets of these developments, that won’t do. We need defense-in-depth _even with_ a vaccine. Once we have it, great, we can open more things up, but social distancing and masks still need to be worn until the virus becomes endemic.

I still wish the US had invoked the Defense Production Act and pressed the public and private sectors into work on a vaccine and manufacture of PPE. The fact that we didn’t is telling of how drastic leaders want to respond to this. In my view, this is a war against a virus, but we’re not acting like the situation requires a war-levels of effort.
The problem is that a comment like this is mostly just calling names and the rest of it is just empty claims without explaining anything, such as why the analysis is wrong.

It's great if you see things that others don't, but when posting here, please provide real information that others can learn from. Just fulminating about how bad something is—even when you're right—only makes the thread worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a blog post from 2012, which should be noted in the title of the HN discussion by appending "[2012]".
> It's used as a treatment for drug overdoses ("excited delerium") which appears to be why it was used here.

Why does it “appear” that way?

Please edit your post rather than spreading misinformation.
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Sex is complicated. Sex is not always a beautiful expression of love between committed partners. Sometimes it's a casual pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes it's a whimsical act of exploration.

In many cases sex is the direct cause of much sorrow, misery, and emotional damage. Maybe your partner cheated on you. Maybe you got pregnant and your partner left. Maybe alcohol was involved. Maybe you are lonely and got addicted to pornography. Maybe you didn't use contraceptives and are now seeking (or went and got) an abortion. If you look around in poor communities, you'll find a big source of poverty is... unprotected sex. It turns out, you can pretty much ruin your life as a teenager and guarantee you'll stay in poverty your whole life if you get pregnant and have a baby while you are in middle school/high school.

Unlike war and murder, sex is something most people will participate in (in some form or another). So I would argue that it's more important than ever to consider the types of sexual messages we send in media. Do we want to promote sexual relationships between committed partners or do we want to promote wanton promiscuity? I would argue that whichever you choose will have an impact on some non-negligible % of the future choices of the viewers. To be clear, I think we also need to be careful of depictions of extreme gore/violence as well, but for slightly different reasons.

In general, I'm of the opinion that implicit > explicit for both sex and violence in media, but perhaps there is a time/place for being explicit (i.e. so people understand what really happened during the Holocaust, etc).
Some ideas have huge buy in. They're capital intensive and that's just the way it is. Even for other ideas, sometimes it's nice to have founders not worried if they're going to be homeless. Definitely tradeoffs on both approaches but I can see the reason why some choose to pursue VC funding from the beginning.
> correcting

I believe this is what they are trying to get at. No ill will intended, but it seems pretty futile to try to "correct" the way another person experiences the world since any viewpoint a correction comes from is inherently a property of observation at some place+time+culture. I think earlier societies' greater homogeneity tricked us all into thinking objective reality is a thing that exists.
Would you care to share your source? Thanks.
Intent, promises and reality aren’t always aligned. Especially when given a slap dash of tens of thousands of lines of code that didn’t meet kernel contribution guidelines.
My friend did a "rm * -i" and got back a '-i not found'
For a used bookstore inventory could be done once a year like we do to avoid drift in our data.. but more realistically everything would be scanned as it comes in and out. Why that doesn’t already happen baffles me too!
In my small town, we have a game store that sales used sci-fi books, a tiny used books store with a small selection, and two thrift stores with decent selection of books. Nevertheless, I do not feel any of these constitute a real used-book store with any real breadth or depth. I'd love to visit one.
Anyone else have people sign up for accounts with your email address? I had one recently where I could access a working GrubHub account for a while. And in the spirit of lame on-boarding optimization and “churn” prevention, while I could have used it - I couldn’t cancel the account. That required the phone number associated.
Quick sidenote: This was built as a frontend app, no backend, which directly talks to the iTunes API in the browser. As a hack, it uses DuckDuckGo's !ducky feature for links.
> They are sorted.

No, they are insertion-ordered.

> Nobody but python would do that.

Ruby Hashes are insertion-ordered; JavaScript objects have numeric properties ordered numerically (so, in a sense, are sorted), but other propertied in insertion order.
> A solar panel is essentially an electronic sandwich. The filling is a thin layer of crystalline silicon cells, which are insulated and protected from the elements on both sides by sheets of polymers and glass. It’s all held together in an aluminum frame. On the back of the panel, a junction box contains copper wiring that channels electricity away as it’s being generated.

None of this sounds like much of a problem in a landfill. I guess some panels might use lead-based solder, but I would be shocked if it’s more than a handful.

If it’s not economical to recycle them, why shouldn’t they go in a landfill?
Are you able to pull prices into that page too? Almost like BestBookBuys from back in the day :)
RCOH means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refueling_and_overhaul apparently. But I don't know why this would make civil use much more expensive.
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Its like sports. You ask someone at the top of their game why they keep doing it and all of them wont have any great answer.

Its like once your brain gets used to doing anything well it just keeps doing it.
Are there any known instances of a fracking induced earthquake causing any damage?

Any reports I've seen seem to be quite localized and minor.
This is the difference between reality and theory.

In theory, you'd be fighting the system.

In practicality, you'd probably end up in some black site, disappeared.

I recommend against doing stuff like this.
My main point is that the problem of waste from modern reactors is about the same as managing waste from solar panels, probably is even easier since it is concentrated in few locations and there is not much of it.
Existing energy storage options other than batteries are either geographically limited, or not feasible. I explain the issues with natural gas storage in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24253317 You can't just produce natural gas out of hydrogen and air, you need a source of carbon (and the fraction of a percent of the carbon in the atmosphere cannot feasibly be used).

Yes, solar and wind can mitigate fossil fuel use in the short term. But there is no feasible way to use them for the primary source of energy without massive amounts of storage. It provides an option to produce some carbon-free energy, but does not provide an option to go from "some" to "all". If we actually want to stop climate change, we need to go for "all". The link you posted does not refute this. The solution proposed in the article is to just use fossil fuel backup plants until a storage solution is found.

Germany and California are both already approaching the saturation point for daytime generation. And once you hit that point there's no way to keep going without massive amounts of storage to transfer the excess generation during peak hours to non-producing hours. Intermittent sources cheaply reduce carbon emissions in the short term, but offer no path to fully renewable energy without a miraculous advancement in energy storage. The paper you linked to doesn't refute this. The plan laid out amounts to, "keep burning fossil fuels and hope we eventually figure out energy storage". When the fate of the world is at stake do you want to bet on an unknown and unproven solution, or a solution that has successfully delivered the lion's share of a nation's power since the 1980s?
During the early 1860s plenty of hostile units were on US soil. Over million people died.

It is interesting that at this polarising times, the idea that this weaponry will be used in an internal conflict is not considered.
So you’d willingly allow tens of thousands of lines of code which you don’t understand or really know what it does into a kernel which is used by literally billions of devices?
> There's not enough nuclear fuel in the world to power the world for more than a little bit

This claim is simply false. The argument in favor of this view involves a very narrow interpretation of proven reserves that excludes discovery. The argument you're making is the same as peak-oil-ism, and we all know how that turned out.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
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https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article-abstract/14/1/1/2625523... is one such example or https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2018.1... 'Why do pastoralists in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation' on the right side dozens more articles about the political and economic state of Mali and surrounding areas

type those doi numbers into sci-hub to read them, also this is the 'real' economist: https://academic.oup.com/ej like their study on mandatory conscription and criminal behavior afterwards https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/129/622/2522/5490322?sea... when released from the military these groups find no upwards mobility, so use their skills for crime.
The problem with used books stores is they always have book two of a series, but never book one :)
That's what the ACLU says the Border Patrol's interpretation is. When I actually read the regulations and the statutes themselves, as far as I could infer, the external boundary was meant to refer to the international water boundary.

I'm afraid I don't recall the exact citation off the top of my head, but I'd like to see more evidence for the ACLU's claims than, well, just the ACLU saying so. Especially when the ACLU itself points out that the law and regulations doesn't actually give the Border Patrol some of the powers it has.

(I should note there's a distinction between the actual legal authority and the actual policies applied in practice--I'm arguing that the legal authority is 100 miles from the international waters boundary; that the Border Patrol is exceeding that is probable, but the ACLU is, IMO, conflating the legal and actual effects to lobby specifically against the law rather than lobbying against the Border Patrol acting illegally).
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I just did that last weekend!

After an allnighter, which isn't easy for me anymore, I typed:

``rm -rf. /*``

with the dot and the space reversed.

When the shell threw an error in my face, I thought, "oh, an extra dot." so I deleted the dot and re-run the command.

And there goes my configs and most of the dotfiles in my home dir. Luckily, I have backup for some of those, so it wasn't a complete disaster.

I don't trust myself doing ``rm`` in commandline anymore.
That's a pretty good summary, but .. I think it depends.

IMHO for many tech companies, "After Hours" has come to not exist for many employees, especially in engineering. I work with teams in India and Europe; since Covid there's been a serious expansion of meetings with these teams, so 7am, 6:30 am meetings, 9pm meetings, and so on.

For a little while, it was fine, I am a helpful person by nature. But after two months or so, I decided this was not being treated as temporary, so started simply declining. It is not without political cost to do so. Being able to decline is a privileged position, and definitely there are many people in the company who don't think they have that option. Obviously that's wrong, but it has been so easy for many companies to impose this on their exempt workforce that I think turning back the dial will be a struggle.
Solar cells themselves do loose efficiency very slowly (less than 1% per year for most modern monocrystaline silicon cells) due to defects collecting in the semiconductor material. It is the same reason that LEDs slowly loose power over time. Due to the extreme conditions in the semiconductor material (high electric fields, often moderate to high temperatures) the dopants can diffuse into places they do not belong, or cluster together both of which hurt the performance.

That said, most panels die before the cells themselves go bad due to mechanical failure of the cells (cracking, etc) or failures in the electrical wiring in the panel due to corrosion.

It is the same problem as with LED lighting. I have not seen a single LED bulb which lasted long enough for the actual semiconductor devices to age noticeably, but I have seen dozens of bulbs where thermal cycling caused the electrical contacts to the chip fail or the power supply capacitors have gone bad.

Also, due to the rapidly increasing efficiency and decreasing costs of solar cells, it can often be economically viable to replace your array with fresh cells just for the added power output you get. If you took cells form 20 years ago and replace them with current cells you can quadruple your output power for the same area!
I believe the positions naturally draws people who are bullies. Not that all of them are, but the power over, and respect from the general population is probably very attractive to people who get a kick out of being asshole. Also, while I can't confirm the prevalence, there's a ton of anecdotes you here about shady hiring practices. There's the now popular story about a department refusing to hire people who had too high an IQ, and a friend told me how a department in a large city was attempting to recruit his cousin, despite him being diagnosed bipolar.
I always wondered why you could not just place the panels a bit higher. So that the sun can pass on certain times etc.
Unless Google arbitrarily decides to close your account (as has been known to happen) with no way to contact a human to correct things...
My phone has also been my sole internet connection for the last 12 years.

What I don't get is they are selling wireless broadband at the price I mention above, but if you buy what is essentially the same product as part of a phone plan instead (i.e. they've simply packaged it differently), you pay something along the lines of 10x or 20x the price per GB.
Async/Await easy retry in C
how is that a good comparison, when you're given puppies you are being made responsible for living creatures, If you're given a bunch of code you can literally just drop it.
You can get locked from Gmail if Google decides to suspend your Account. It has already happened to lots of users, even G Suite ones and good luck trying to get it back.

Examples on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22705122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013799
How do you provision hundreds of boxes using a UI?

...In a way that can be checked in source control and reviewed?

CLIs are not bad.
It's interesting that they aren't requesting a liability waiver for the case when it doesn't have side effects, but simply doesn't do much, like the flu vaccine, due to how quickly the virus mutates. Because that could easily happen as well. Others aren't requesting that either. This sounds reassuring, in the sense that they don't try to CYA for charging billions for something that doesn't work.
A polio vaccine introduced in the 1930s could paralyze kids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
> Not sure what the point is on the first two - you wouldn't even need that with a non crap ui framework.

Server-side rendering is a business need not a programming need. A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation. To do this on the web platform is a well-supported pattern. To do this with Qt you'd have to implement your own HTML- or JSX-like framework on top of Qt (like Hyperview does for mobile).

Companies that use Electron can just move faster and crush competition. That's why there are billion dollar companies based on Electron programs and Qt people get excited about it being the software behind the radio volume button on the latest model fishing boat.
The full paper from citation 1 is available here:

"Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States"

https://escholarship.org/content/qt96315051/qt96315051.pdf

If you look at Figure 2, they model different combinations of overproduction, storage, and regional aggregation (interconnection). Overproduction helps significantly. At 50% (1.5x) overproduction, the United States can supply 75% of demand with no storage and little new interconnection. At 1.5x overproduction with 12 hours of storage, it can supply 95% of demand with even less interconnection.

If the AP1000 units under construction at Plant Vogtle do not go over budget any further, they will have cost $11.20 per watt to construct [1] -- $25 billion spread over 2234 MW of generating capacity. If they have a capacity factor of 93%, that's $12.04 per watt of annualized output.

Utility scale solar in the United States achieves an average capacity factor of 25% as of 2018 [2] and had a median construction cost of $1.60 per watt as of 2018 [3], with costs still falling. That's $6.40 per watt of annualized output, or $9.60 with 1.5x overproduction.

Wind costs are similar. Wind has higher up front construction costs but also higher capacity factors in favorable regions.

Once constructed, solar and wind also have lower operation and maintenance costs per MWh generated than nuclear plants do.

I was very enthusiastic about nuclear power from about 2000-2015. I still think that it's safe enough and far cleaner than fossil power. We shouldn't shut any operating reactors down prematurely. But large scale renewable projects have cut costs drastically since the turn of the millennium while new nuclear projects keep going late and over budget. The EPR and AP1000 reactors were supposed to be the standardized, affordable, predictable reactors that retired the nuclear industry's history of cost overruns and schedule blowouts. Instead they have become spectacular contemporary examples of those same old problems.

[1] "Vogtle Cost Upgrade Causes Rethinking of $25B Nuclear Plant’s Future" https://www.power-eng.com/2018/08/09/vogtle-cost-upgrade-cau...

[2] "Capacity Factors for Utility Scale Generators Primarily Using Non-Fossil Fuels" https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

[3] "Utility Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance, and PPA Pricing in the United States - 2019 Edition" https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/lbnl_utility_scale_s...
Instead of blocking custom domain email addresses outright, the site could require a secondary recovery email address from an approved provider when an email with a custom domain is used to create the account. Then any security interaction like password reset, or 2fa would go to the primary address and would send an alert to the secondary email address about the nature of the communication. There could be a link in the email (sent to the secondary email address) that could allow the user access to instantly lock the account and/or disable access to the account from the primary email address until the user updates thier settings. The secondary recovery email address should not be able to be changed without an email confirmation (to the secondary email).

Good practice for users in general is to use email services like gmail as thier login/account email and add thier custom domain emails in thier bio.