skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah there's really no evidence that private interests would do anything other than clear-cut sections. Check out this picture. The USFS manages the green squares as part of Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The brown squares are private in-holdings.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9320397,-122.0779696,13898a,...
That's hard to say. It feels a lot like dating. First of all, you want to avoid lemons. Secondly, you want to avoid glaring mismatches, so things can at least work out and be sustainable. But there sure are a lot of places where mismatches can occur!

Beyond company fit, there needs to be team fit (and proximally manager fit) and role fit. A lot of this depends on size, too. Company fit is going to be really important if you're anywhere early. But beyond a size, it matters a whole lot less than manager+team.

For the latter, you have to work with the team and manager on something to get a sense of what their style is and whether you'll clash. Try and find some way to talk about a problem as if it's a real world scenario, and see how easy it is to intellectually collaborate towards a solution. Does it feel natural or no? Would you trust this person enough to work with them for 8H+ a day? Keep this in mind as you compare offers.

But it's hard. You can only discern so much, and this stuff is really easy to fake in an interview. You see different shades of people once you really have to rely on them in the dint of production. This is part of what makes warm intros so powerful -- if you've worked with someone you trust and respect before, and they've worked with someone they trust and respect before, it's more likely that you and that other person will transitively be compatible. Move too far outside that transitivity and you're taking existential risks. This is why it's not always a bad thing to move around a bit more in your earlier career -- it can open up your second degree circles a bit more once you hit mid career.
Terminal User Interfaces in Julia (JuliaCon 2020 lightning talk)
To be fair, increased reliability and safety also comes at a cost. But I agree - loss of expertise and lack of economy of scale are a major factor.
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> Nuclear is also the only energy source where people get displaced from their homes in thousands of square kilometers in catastrophic events.

Luckily displacing thousands of people for hydroelectric energy is fully planned [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-threegorges/thousan...
I know it's not oss, but Fusion360 is free for non-professional use.
Curious, whats so special about SFO? I searched for some images and it doesn't seem terribly special (certainly not 2x price special).
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interesting, although the risk to one person might be calculable, but each of us interacts with others who might not be fortunate enough to take on that risk. It would be much harder to take those people into account also. Taking on risks that might have negative consequences with the clerk at the grocery store, or your own family members feels selfish.
The real answer is mostly "don't do that".

Spent fuel rods can't be used anymore because about 5% of the uranium has been converted into elements that slow down the reaction. The remaining uranium is still good.

Due to a presidential order by Carter, we waste that uranium. The process for recovering the unused uranium (called "reprocessing") is vaguely similar to the process for making bombs. We'd rather not have lots of countries making bombs. The idea was that by not reprocessing our own fuel, we could set an example and hope that somehow that would keep other countries from making bombs. Yes, that is terrible logic.

Japan does the reprocessing. We could do it too, and it wouldn't suddenly arm the world with nukes.

If the fuel is reprocessed, we could cut our need to mine uranium and cut our need to store radioactive material. It's about a 95% reduction. The uranium itself is the long-lived portion, so we'd clear up that problem too.

We could also recover rare-earth elements from the spent fuel. This is the only practical way to create rare-earth elements.

Of course, that doesn't get rid of 100% of the waste. We don't really have a shortage of great places to store it. The worries about burial are blown way out of proportion. All of the proposed facilities for burial are ridiculous overkill.
Programming Language Pragmatics is much more a reference book, to dip into for a not-too-theoretical discussion of a broad range of PL topics. EOPL is all about understanding fundamentals by implementing interpreters, with code that builds through the book. I use both, but I would choose EOPL as the book for a "proper" course in programming languages.
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Hexagonal grids of round farms are found in areas such as Saudi Arabia which don't have a dense road network or rectangular land ownership.
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This is only true if the circles are all of equal radius. With only 5 circles and 2 sizes you can get a significant increase to 87%. But the problem of practicality and cost benefit still stands.
If facebook pulls its app though, and goes web-only it will be a big blow to apples products. Users spend most of their time on those apps.
You're not wrong, but there is always going to be code involved when instructing a machine to perform some actions. By "no code" (and the reason it was in quotes) was that it's almost no superfluous code at all. No libraries to bundle, functions to define, bundles to upload, etc.

"I want to call an API, and if it's a Tuesday and the response contains 'foo' trigger another API" seems pretty simple with this. That's not to say it wasn't "simple" before, but there was definitely _more code_.
There was a post on HN the other day that talked about how hard it is for humans to see beyond direct first order effects. Once you get to indirect or N order effects, it's nearly impossible for humans to fully appreciate.

People see nuclear and it's easy to draw a straight line accident -> damage. People know about mercury is seafood, but they can't seem to attach fossil fuel burning to that problem even when told. It's a disconnect that I hope as a species we will one day figure out. Global warming and weather changes? Good luck.
What's the reputation of Seeking Alpha and why is it featured so much in HN?
No one is saying underground storage is perfect, but it's sacrificing a small portion of earth's volume for energy instead of our current strategy of dumping all our waste product in the atmosphere causing enormous damage.
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Maybe no tax, buy visa costs 10k a year which you write off as business expense in your work country.
> they're creating them algorithmically from aerial photography.

Google does the same thing. You used to be able to use SketchUp to model buildings for them, but, a few years ago, they switched to computer generated models. It was very obvious from the pointy trees and rough edges on buildings.
Well I guess that answers that! Megazord is the robot formed when all the Power Rangers assemble their smaller robots together. Voltron might be more widely known?
Just look at Japan, most of the region around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has actually been reopened to the public already:

> https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/beach-...

> https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/05/national/evacue...

Looking at the radiation levels, most places are already back to save levels:

> https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en02-01...

You have to keep in mind that nuclear contamination can actually be washed off. And the radiation is actually very useful in the cleaning process because you can easily use a detector to safely determine whether your cleaning operation was successful.

Even Chernobyl is mostly safe these days unless you stay at the hotspots for too long.
It's probably their plan, though tbh the App Store discovery process is atrocious. You re much more likely to find an app through google, and then you have to type the exact full name of the app in the store to have a chance of finding it
Anything over a threshold requires bidding (usually rfp process). There are only like 20 cities that have money, everyone else is scraping buy. If you can deliver value for $100 / month, you can make money, otherwise you're looking at the rfp process. There are rfp aggregators like rfpmart and others that capture about 50% of the rfps out there. You should also be warned that there probably is competition out there even if you were unaware of it.
Have sources on claims in the last two paragraphs?
I got GPT-3 to predict the timeline of the pandemic
This is the most promising project I've come across: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim, although it only applies to the browser. The last time I tried it out it had some performance issues though.
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Since it started in 1978, the Dakar Rally has had 75 deaths, with the last coupledeaths happening this year. Look up the DAF twin turbo II if you want to know how crazy this race is.

Actually this video does a good job embodying the energy of it all; NSFW warning due to something resemebling a dead body mixed with debris in the latter half from one of the accidents though; most of it is shot via crappy 70s camcorder technology so it's kinda hard to tell: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
There are other good reasons for doing piecemeal projects. Paying SpaceX for internet, transfers money out of already economically backwards areas to a far away private company in another country. Some people will argue that these are neocolonist attempts by West into East.
Facebook owns masses of Photos "gifted" to them by their users many with good quality.

That alone can be turned into endless
streams of money (selling them to advertisement companies).

And that's just one of many points.

So yes this won't get anywhere close to killing FB even if it is adopted by other platforms like Android.

Still it hurts revenue and this companies don't work on a morlaic basis but a pure monetary one, moral
only matter because overstepping it to
far makes you lose customers and trust from the government and with that potential more regulations.
It's called flight school, and it's not free.
Great, this would have helped us a lot in the implementation of a remote control app we did with webrtc. In my opinion, the best available resource at the moment is https://hpbn.co/webrtc/. (Also about a lot of other protocols)
With a failure rate of 1% for commercial reactors, calling something 'safe' is - frankly - ridiculous.

You wouldn't fly planes if they had that failure rate.

It's not just the death count for which, btw, we still don't even have reliable numbers!

What we do have is: Uninhabitable regions, radioactive boars decades after Chernobyl roaming Bavaria (google it), countless cases of cancer, highly radioactive waste we don't know what to do with, billions and billions of tax payer dollars spent on clean-ups, not just for accidents, but for decommissioning plants, plants on fault lines that are ticking time bombs.
Nuclear power plants rank first in the amount of economic damage done.

And you are seriously calling for mass adoption?

The engineers and scientists who built Fukushima and Chernobyl thought: Yup, perfectly safe and clean.
It makes me mad hearing younger people falling for the propaganda of nuclear power lobbyists who didn't have to live through these accidents.

We have plenty of space and money to turn our grid into 100% renewables, that are safe and cheap.
All it would take is the political will to do so.

The times to propose an outdated, dangerous and hard-to-control technology for commercial power generation are over.
Isn't Super Missile Attack mod for Missile Command from 1981, the first mod for a game?
Facebook is banned in China
> If tons of complexity is needed that baffles Ansible/Salt etc, I would be looking at the architects askew TBH...

Simple clean architectures can be deployed with anything. I judge a tool by it's ability to "make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible".

But you do have a very good point here:

> the old ways are largely pointless for most clients and developers who have long left behind artisan infrastructure

I don't like that it is this way, maybe I'm just old fashioned. But yes. This is the way it is.
I'll check it out. thanks for the suggestion.
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Why do you think it will survive?

If one is optimistic, this could be the the downfall of facebook. If FB is scummy it doesn't increase its chances of survival.

To be honest I'm sure there will be millions of other opportunities to gather data, by other companies. Facebook does it the easy way. Data gathering is a business now, I'm sure there are people who specialize in data gathering operations, a little like oil prospecting, the obstacle here is just getting the legal consent of consumers.
https://github.com/francoiscabrol/ranger.vim
Maybe in a year or so from now once they have enough usage telemetry and have cleaned up some of the errors, they'll be willing to release an Ultimate Edition on a terabyte SSD that includes the sim and the scenery that is most commonly used. That would make a nicer "out of the box" experience and would make things better for those with limited bandwidth or data caps.
What drives nuclear costs is generally rising construction costs. You can’t bring that down with building more nuclear power plants.

PV got so much cheaper because it’s a mass producible product.
20% per month is almost 900% per year.
Nuclear waste is actually the best kind of waste because of its very high density and the fact that it's solid.

The density is so high that the US has accumulated just 83,000 tons over several decades operating nuclear power plants:

> https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

That may sound a lot but compared to coal or, in fact, any other type of power generating plant, the amount is absolutely tiny.

In France, the whole waste of the country's nuclear plant operation fits into one hall:

> https://twitter.com/Orano_usa/status/1182662569619795968

What helps in reducing the waste by large margin is reprocessing the fuel and re-using it in fast reactors as explained here:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlMDDhQ9-pE
1) It's not just about making a big financial bet. No one is the same person they were 10 years earlier. The decisions we make along the way change us. You decide to make a big bet, that means you face a whole bunch of different decisions as a result, and then those lead to more, all of which change & become who you are. Many times it's fine, but when it's not, that is something lost beyond money. Do you think no one has ever failed in business and not had an awful impact on them? Some people emerge more determined, some people end up broken.

2) Success changes people. Failure changes people. It also changes how other people look at you. It's not uncommon for people who achieve a certain level of success to make a break with their former lives in some way. Even before success or failure, simply making a big bet then requires a certain amount of focus & drive that can make it difficult, unless you are very careful (and many people are not) to keep your same relationships, to not allow friendships & family connections to lapse. Or let's use something more concrete: many people finance their big bet through family & friends, asking them to make a bet as well. Failure in those cases can be very difficult.

3) You seem to agree with me here: time is always lost, always lost beyond any monetary gain or loss. And it's not just the time lost on the project: Starting from zero means time spent working your way back up. (Perhaps tapping those family & friends for more resources: see above) You only have time for a very small number of big bets. Doing that casually because you believe the potential downside is capped at money is... an incomplete understanding of the risks. If you choose the "big bet" path, it will likely define your life, and what you do day in & day out. And what life is defined purely in monetary terms? None.

So take those risks, all decisions are risks. But consider the costs as well. It's always more than just money.
It's hard to explain but it was a feeling I got. It felt like the language fell into place on it's own when you added stuff and not in a way other code projects do. Parsing with flex/bison "naturally" converged syntax towards other languages because other languages are made so they are easy to write grammar for etc. Whether an "if(exp)" introduces a scope of is own is just down to where you happen to put the push_scope() call, and so on.

I wonder how much of C that was just "that is how it happened to turn out".
Don’t say I didn’t warn you ;) This is not used any more — and the repo’s history looks messed up — but it was my solution to the “configure, make, make install” dance in Ansible:

https://github.com/wtsi-hgi/hgi-systems/blob/master/ansible/...

The replies to my original post say this is not something Ansible should be doing. Fair enough :P I was young!
To be fair if you add an opt-in step to anything, it will kill that thing. No moral judgement, just human laziness. If it doesn't kill it, it still becomes something everyone loathes (e.g., how you need an extra click to accept cookies on every site you use).
Thanks for taking the time to write all of this out!
France does reprocessing, too, and they're very good at it:

> https://orano.group/en/nuclear-expertise/from-exploration-to...

> https://twitter.com/Orano_usa/status/1182662569619795968
Race and ethnicity are also hyperlocal concepts. The specific groupings that are used in America are a product of American history more than any sort of universal truth. It doesn't mesh well for a global advertising product.
Source for "1% failure rate"?
Three Mile Island Disaster [video]
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I don't agree with the term "hack" here.
Different is not "hack".

I maintain some very large codebases.
This has never been an issue.

If one decides to export a function, the only callers of that function will be from within the package it was defined in already.
Even within a package, how many call sites will there actually be and do they need to use the exported version of the function?

I'm not saying it's good, or bad, just that in my (fairly extensive) experience it has not been a problem. I do recognize that some people may have problems with it, though.
well, I thought about doing a video chat over some game play, so two friends could play a match of anything while having a video conversation, next day some one posted something similar here on HN.

I then thought about drawing on top of the video stream so you can use as like one os those games where you have to guess what the other people is drawing or, to coach someone one to one and being able to "comment" on their screen as they speak, but again, I'm pretty sure every video chats does that. So I left the idea on the drawer for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3_CRr7tys (draw on the stream)
It's quite clearly not limited to one party.

Taking coal as an example.. Pro-climate folks would throw the livelihood of coal mining families under the bus, too, to achieve climate policies that pro-climate folks believe will help them long-term.
I was doing the takeoff tutorial and was wondering why 10 minutes in it still seemed impossible to get to the desired altitude and speed. Turns out they never mentioned that you need to eventually move the flaps back. Once I figured it out by myself I pretty much instantly made it. What kind of tutorial is it where you need to already know how a plane works to learn how a plane works?
Not quite the same but the preface lists the chapter topics.

http://eopl3.com/preface.html
It's possible to customize these as well, see e.g. https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Ejrus/Site/cocoa-text.html, http://www.deepsky.com/~misaka/MacOSX/DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
There's an excellent book called "Flight Sim X For Pilots" that's essentially just a walkthrough of flight school, starting in a piper cub and gradually progressing through to instruments flying and multiengine flying. I think it's probably a bit dated now, but it's an excellent source of information for how to do things properly in a sim, since it's aimed at real aspiring pilots.
Neither are airplanes. Why would a sim not teach you how to use the sim?
rfp threshold is closer to 4000usd in Iceland. An annual contract could be rolled year-by-year under that, and there are 72 municipalities to sell to.
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No one likes to talk about it however the Fukushima disaster could have been prevented with current technology but it was cheaper in the short term not to. Even IF you could have a super safe design a huge part of the problem was the lack of maintenance and actually implementing the safety designs they had. [1]

Why would anyone trust these companies to actually do what is right at the cost of the bottom line?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
Nuclear waste is primarily a political problem (which actually makes it damn near impossible to solve in the near term).

There's no fundamental problem with it, since it's produced naturally as well [1] and sites exist that would allow for very safe long term storage if need be.

It's also possible to get rid of long lived decay products entirely using certain types of reactors that can "burn" nuclear waste.

Again, political will and major investments would be required to make that happen, though some companies are already working on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine
Seems your company isn’t really distributed if it requires synchronised availability.
There’s already a disinvestment in fossil fuel going on. You have to compare nuclear with renewables.
I think it’s fair to ask people to read past the headline to get the whole story.
You could get much the same effect with an actual programming language and some conveniently pre-loaded libraries/APIs.
The thing is, displacement is often not necessary as explained by the WHO for the case of the Fukushima accident:

> https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/health-consequences...
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The magnitude and extent of the radioactive release was largely unknowable in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. The local authorities were put in an impossible position, either gamble with everyone's health or evacuate at great cost.

The root cause of the dilemma is that the worst case scenario for traditional nuclear is so severe and nobody can tell decision-makers with high confidence whether or not you've just hit it.
Proliferation is a big issue, perhaps bigger than climate change. Some modern plant designs try and address that though I think.
> I don’t think commercial success in fiction has much to do with being first to market with a novel idea.

Commercial success in anything doesn't have much to do with being first with a novel idea - in general, but also in "first to market" sense.

Video games: before Minecraft there was Infiniminer (by none other than Zachtronics Industries). Before Portal there was Narbacular Drop.

Mobile: before iPhone and iPad, there were other devices with a touchscreen on the market (and they had a stylus, benefits of which people are slowly rediscovering today), and the concept dates all the way to Alan Kay's Dynabook, and in parallel to Star Trek (not just 1960s communicators and 1980s PADDs, but Star Trek in 1960s also portrayed tablets with a stylus attached).

Etc., etc.
But what if you had community ways of living but in the modern world with luxuries like irrigation?
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