skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay you win, systemd as nuclear power is pretty epic. :-)

That said, there is something about nuclear power that is puzzling. Sure it has a lot of fearmongering but it is very well supported by folks who create these sorts of false narratives.

Kind of like conspiracy theories to me, how to they continue to exist when the narrative is clearly incorrect in the presence of all the facts?

I had a professor at USC who was teaching Nuclear Engineering and he was solidly convinced that these "whisper campaigns" were funded by the big oil companies. His thesis was that big oil couldn't survive if electricity became so cheap that the things we do with oil now could be done more cost effectively with electricity.

It is too bad he didn't live to see the revolution in PV solar power. Clearly the geopolitical aspects of cheap solar is changing the landscape, and yet solar didn't seem to get the same treatment as nuclear.

If I have learned only one thing in my life it is that if you can keep the debate emotional (fear, hate, anger) then you can prevent the incursion of unpleasant facts by shutting down the listener's ability to reason. This was not a fun thing to learn.
According to one article newly built nuclear reactor in Belarus can withstand crash of an aircraft up to 5700 kg with speed up to 100 m/s. That's modern design, older designs probably are worse. Air liner is two orders heavier.

Honestly withstanding airliner crash sounds like an impossible task. And crashing airliner into something is perfectly achievable by a terrorist or crazy pilot.

So I think that's a real danger.
> it kills a very low number of people per TWh

This is a grossly naive and over-simplistic way to judge safety and efficacy. Yes, perhaps fewer people die in a major accidents, but then you've left a large swath of land unusable for hundreds or thousands of years. And the cost for managing the disasters is astronomical. In a place like Japan, they lose a not insignificant portion of landmass to an accident. While other forms of energy may overall cause more deaths, it's been distributed across everyone evenly. And apparently this is considered an better outcome, because that is precisely the policy we are taking with Covid. I'd make a bet that by the end of this pandemic, the amount of suffering and death caused by the lockdowns will be more than from Covid itself, when you consider the massive economic failure of small business, children in isolation for so long, depression, overdoses, suicide, domestic abuse, diseases not being diagnosed or treated, civil unrest, etc. It's considered a good policy to share the suffering across everyone to avoid a few directly attributable deaths of compromised individuals.

edit: I'd be curious if anyone was willing to refute my statement rather than downvote it. I strongly believe what I say but am a big supporter of critical thought and would love for someone to challenge my statement and give me a reason to think otherwise.
I think what you're proposing is essentially a retainer?
Recording low-contrast, low-brightness screen contents also significantly increases compression artifacts (or, alternatively, increases bitrate to maintain the same quality as a light scheme).

> Of course, I adjust my overall monitor brightness according to the ambient light (so do not use full brightness in the evening).

I suspect this may actually play a significant role here, since "light themes are way too bright / blinding / etc." is a common reason for the preference for dark schemes, and hints at incorrect monitor brightness settings.

As a rule of thumb, indoors in an office space around 100-150 cd/m² are the right ballpark. This corresponds to a brightness setting of around 20-30 % on most screens. In the evening with a little bit of bias light 0-5 % are usually the right area, though too bright on some models.
That's actually been done. It's called StrongForth.

http://www.arestlessmind.org/2009/02/03/intro.html
The obvious response is that Harvard and Yale are the best law schools, so it's not inconsistent that all the best students come from there. I don't know if that's the case, but looking at LSAT ranges at least they seem to be at the top.

I laughed really hard at that one. Being good at the LSAT has absolutely no connection to one's skills as a lawyer, and generally isn't even very predictive of performance in law school.

While good lawyers come out of Yarvard, the quality of their graduates is no different from most other law schools. The only difference is that a Yarvard Law graduate will make sure to tell you they went to Yarvard Law.
Before the natural gas enters a gas turbine it has to be pressurised. This takes some energy and it can be done beforehand. Power station generates electricity at times when it is expensive and compresses the natural gas when power is cheap. Compression usually takes around .8% of turbine power output.
As someone who's been on de developing side of memory corruption exploits, ASLR is effective in several scenarios.

It raises the bar considerably when exploiting a remote system. Without ASLR, DEP is worthless, since reliable tools exists to produce ROP chains. I think I remember seeing a fully fledged compiler somewhere, that can take high level C code and 'compile' it into offsets on the stack given a target program.

Just ASLR for executable memory is not enough. In a local EOP situation it's very likely an attacker can find where specific modules are loaded in memory. On Windows this isn't even a secret, since modules are loaded in the same memory range for performance reasons.

Here you really also need heap layout randomization, the latest version of which shipped in windows 10, and hasn't been successfully attacked as far as I know. That security mitigation has prevented me from building a stable exploit primitive in the past. And reduced the risk rating of a buffer overflow that I found from trivially exploitable, to not exploitable.

These mitigations are worth it, IMO.
Sure it's not like I haven't used libraries in the 20 years I've been coding. If it solves the complex problem I am facing, I will use it. But have you looked at the code in question? It is not complex. It is code you write in 20 minutes.
I couldn't read the article. The letters were washed out in the glare.

What did it say?
An alternative subscription model that I've always liked is Linux Weekly News (lwn.net) which publishes all premium content openly after a week behind paywall. (In my mind I like to call it "Freshwall", ie. paying for fresh content.) News quickly gets old after all.
Make it anonymous.
Posting here too:

For comparison, President Trump payed $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017. I just looked it up and I, a graduate student who makes like $30k a year paid three times that amount last year.
As a long-time publisher, there is only one primary metric that matters to me: loyal readers. I don't publish for the occasional visitor. I publish for the loyal readers that I have worked hard to cultivate, engage, and enrichen. The primary work is one of building a relationship with a loyal readership, based on consistency and quality.

Our websites, as they're designed, are probably a little annoying to people who are not our loyal readership. That's by design; you're either part of our core audience, or we're filtering for whether you could be part of our core audience. Everyone else is secondary to the success of the business, as well as secondary to our core job, which is to serve our loyal readers, and, again, NOT our occasional readers, and certainly not the people who are likely to visit us just once and then never again.

The article suggests adding an additonal – and complex – revenue source: selling articles individually. This idea, of course, is not feasible, because it is such a huge distraction from the core business, and is potentially a distraction that has the potential to cause real harm to the core business. Successful publishing is extremely difficult. To actually be sustainable, you really can't let yourself be distracted from what matters.
No suprise there. Her english was exactly the type that indian schools worked to promote in students. I was in a north american boys school. Other side of the planet, but our libraries' fiction sections were probably very similar.
In fact this is one of the biggest reasons why nuclear is failing. Building even just a single power plant is a project that is so large no single company can do it.
Perhaps because we have now taken (in a way) the role of God?
Isn't LGPL 2.1 is an odd license for something like this? Does it produce a library?
Is it true in any first world countries?

There are two clearly distinct legal traditions: the common law in the anglo countries and civil law in the rest. Also USA and UK seem to have very different and each of them unique treatment in this matter.

So it's not a question of first world countries vs the rest. It's more of a USA vs UK vs the rest of democratic countries, not sure where other Commonwealth countries fall.

Edit: I feel I wasn't clear. Civil law countries mostly adhere to ancient legal doctrine, some coming from Roman Empire, some from middle ages tradition, some from Bonaparte, some from German theoreticians. This corpus is pretty consistent, grown through statutes, while common law tend to develop idiosyncratic variants following practice in every country.
Probably the first thing to help you understand “why [OP] is asking that” is that different Christians and Jews will tell you different things with respect to “self determination”. Some believe in free will, some don’t, and there is plenty of nuance in between. Roman Catholics, for example, believe in free will, in that you are free to choose sin and therefore you are ultimately held responsible to choose love.
do you have a title so I can check it through DDG? I refuse to click the consent pop-ip on YT...

EDIT: watched. An aeroplane is not a train.
phppgadmin or adminer.
Gaslighting never ends, only escalates.
By constantly reading intentionally-scary headlines like this one?
And to tack onto this question, what IS the amount being used in these studies and is it recommended we take it? I remember that Dr from earlier in the month posting a blog series about Vitamin D and even there is still no answer as to how much. She said she was seeing problems when patients were taking something like 4000 IU/day or more...or something like that.
The device my comment mentions is for compression and capture on site at a well where there is no pipeline or electric transmission infrastructure. The compressed natural gas is hauled by truck for export at a pipeline endpoint.
The only people fitting both categories at once would have to be in favour of a very very quick de-growth/economic contraction and return to the lifestyle that was ubiquitous a couple centuries ago: no fossil fuels is pretty much a show-stopper for modern civilization.

That's a position that can be argued for and defended while being entirely coherent though (although it's not one that I'm particularly thrilled to run towards).
Depends on what you want to build.
You put a bacterial cell in a test tube full of food.

Every minute, the bacterium reproduces, eats, and reproduces again.

At minute 58, there's 75% of the test tube left.

At minute 59, there's 50% of the test tube left.

At minute 60, the food is gone and the test tube is filled with a horde of starving bacteria.
Some stores do it, some don't. However, when they do it's intentional in order to force you to go through aisles you might not have walked through otherwise, thus exposing you to more advertising and chances for impulse buys in addition to what you actually planned to get.

Yes, it's a definite dark pattern, but not so much an antipattern.
I did mean the survival of the species. I’m saying we are required to care about these things if we want to survive as a species. I’m not personally certain that we will, because as you said most individuals will have a hard time caring about it.
Basically your examples are about how to navigate a text based application--mostly web and CRUD.

What about a PCB layout program? What about Blender and animation? What about video editing? What about a 3D modeler?

If you are using an immediate-mode UI, you probably aren't making a text-based CRUD system--especially as immediate-mode UI's tend to be remarkably bad at text rendering.

A UI toolkit doesn't magically make every application accessible. If the aforementioned applications are to be accessible, that application has to change in major ways.

Not everything is text.

Forcing everything through that narrow lens is an impediment.
Opinion: Screen Time Is Kind of a Broken Mess
And what would be the excuse when the new reactors fail disastrously? None of the failed ones were considered dangerous before they fail, they were all supposed to be impossible to cause a disaster due to redundancies, passive and active safety mechanisms. They were all supposed to be built perfectly and the people who operate them were supposed to know what they are doing.

Yet, we have Chernobyl and Fukushima.

What happens when the next time 20 million people need to be evacuated? Europe fell to it's knees when 1 million refugees moved, Americans choose their president on premise to build a wall to stop Mexicans.

The risk is simply too great just to have a neat machine running that produces the same stuff that can be produced with other machines.
The key part of the theory is right in front of the writer, and he misses it. The common part of any of the various Q-factions, and the thing motivating it, is Trump worship. From "elite pedovores" to Baby-Q to "JFK Jr is alive" to "Pleidian Friends", all Q factions idolize Trump.

Qanon is just window dressing for Trump worship. Sorry, psychologist, Qanons aren't insane, but they are victims of Sunk Cost Fallacy. They need something worse than an obviously corrupt and self-damaging Trump so that they can still maintain their Trump support.
For the problem of reader regret with upfront payments (which would be the number one problem with clickbait) I could imagine a time-limited "payment loss." That is within, say, a day of having paid for an article, the reader can decide that the author/publication should not be paid for the article. This is not a refund; the reader does not get the money back. But the author doesn't get the money either.

The money goes into a "black hole." There are several ways of implementing a black hole such as a central fund that is evenly distributed back to all publications participating in the payment system in proportion to their current payout levels, but the important point is that neither the article creator nor the reader nor the payment handler sees that money.

That way readers don't get free articles via spurious refunds, but get the psychological satisfaction they're not rewarding clickbait, article creators are disincentivized from putting out clickbait, and the payment handler isn't incentivized to facilitate clickbait.
The Golden Rule: who has the gold makes the rules.
Masks and social distancing are temporary measures only and obviously not sustainable indefinitely. SARS-CoV-2 is going to be a risk essentially forever, just like the 4 other endemic human coronaviruses. If we really want to save lives over the long term then the primary focus should be on improving the infection fatality rate.
I think a lot of people would care if everyone they loved died five minutes after they did. Seems like a worst case scenario in fact.
Sorry, but in a previous comment you mentioned that you prefer "dumb programming languages like [...] C++11 without the auto keyword". However "too much to learn" and needing "encyclopedic knowledge" is exactly how most people with different levels of familiarity with the language would describe C++ (with or without auto).

To me it sounds as if your problem is purely lack of familiarity with modern languages, rather than them lacking some specific property that your usual languages have.
That's literally what the US has been doing (well except the parole part). Glad the drug problem is solved as of today because of that. Addicts sure are good at thinking about the longer term impacts of their habits vs taking a hit of the substance they're addicted to. Scary jail doesn't stop drug use
The second you’ve “engineered” yourself into losing good IDE support half the benefit or using a strongly typed language goes out the window in my opinion. Though maybe some bias because I make an IDE! :)

Happily with TS it’s possible to have DI and IInstantiationService’s and all that and still maintain good IDE support —- in no small part because the IDE is built with all those, in TS... if it was unusable we’d fix it.
Gah, I've been wondering what's wrong with my Pixelbook Go all day. It sucks that they identified this issue by Friday but didn't stop the release.
> However, using a light scheme with mostly text, you have a huge rectangle of LED (most of the time) white light blaring at you, which itself causes eyestrain.

I'll basically repeat my comment from below, but ergonomically set up displays meet ambient brightness, but don't exceed it (much). If you're sitting in front of a display set to 80 % brightness (~300+ cd/m²) in the evening, you're simply holding it wrong and compensate by limiting the content to dark tones only, which is a crutch at best.

That's not to say people shouldn't use dark themes. But if the reason for choosing a dark theme whenever possible is mostly "white is so bright it literally hurts my eyes", then the environment is decidedly wrong and needs fixing.
I disagree, computation has equality, unless you think computer files are not real. Two computations can be equal, and as far as we know we are leveraging this property of the universe. Electrons move and produce patterns which have equality and gives rise to computer state and thus equality of values, not to mention electrons themselves must be indistinguishable given they behave the same.
I think many people in the news industry agree with you. The problem is that good journalism costs a lot of money, and the advertising business model has collapsed. It needs to be paid for somehow.

This is also why non-profit news organizations are growing in influence. https://members.inn.org/directory is a good list of those. They tend to be supported by donations or wealthy benefactors, which is itself a risk because it's important for them to stay editorially independent from their donors.
It does pay well, objectively speaking. I share this every opportunity I can: https://levels.fyi.

Even if you leave the sphere of big public tech companies and unicorns on the coasts, software engineering typically pays well above the median job in each area of the country.
New method allows precise gene control by light
Most of the cost of a MWh of nuclear comes from the cost of capital (interests). [1] Put differently, if capital is backed by the state, that the $/MWh could be a _lot_ less than it is.

1. https://imgur.com/a/4mAlUbO
> Using a dark colour scheme to write code requires more eye processing power than using a light colour scheme. Sure the difference seems negligible, it's only a few milliseconds. Actually, it's a few milliseconds every time you "rescan" your screen; that's between 10 or 50 times a second, depending on what research you want to believe.

Why is it assumed that this delay is a bad thing or necessarily increases cognitive load? It seems to me like it could just as easily be a positive.

Reading faster doesn't indicate higher reading comprehension. There's a substantial amount of cognitive load in reading "flat" text and constructing the whatever structured representation exists in one's mind. Slightly delayed reading speed could help rather than hinder comprehension and higher-level semantic processing.
> For example, a British Lord's Nazi fetish

What case was this? Are you sure you're not talking about the Max Mosley (the former racing driver/FIA boss) case against News Group? Because that was a breach of privacy case, not a defamation one.
Why is the NYT article concerning Trump's taxes being continually flagged?
Just trying to understand if this a legitimate violation of HN policy, or if HN is being trolled?
Great product, great domain, and a great cause (not that you're a charity), good luck, this is really a great business
It sounds like this could be used to trigger complex lighting scenes and effects by listening in on the MIDI for a hardware-only music set, is that the case? Because, if so, this may be exactly the kind of software I've been keeping an eye out for.
> Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels

By the way Jean Marais's movies while being not very related to the books are excellent in being very hilarious genre parodies.
OP here. I guess you are right about the bias. I've learned a lot from this thread, thank you!
>Does that mean nuclear is just a totally great idea? No; the issue with nuclear is cost.

Oh don't forget the other issue: It takes decades to build a new plant. We don't got that time.

For the $6 Billion or more it takes to build a nuclear plant that will then take 15 to 20 years to license and build before it generates a single Watt, we could have had a $6 Billion of solar and wind deployed and operating for 12+ years already.
It’s pretty hard to live socially without any concept of a responsibility to other people, and I think you would find yourself alone pretty fast.

Of course if you didn’t care, there are a lot of other answers to why you should strive not to harm others but ultimately if it’s the thing you most want to do and you don’t care about the consequences that’s not really different whether there’s a god or not, is it?
Short of threats of physical violence, you can't be put in jail for a comment in the US. That you think an opinion, no matter how dickish, warrants incarceration is ethically bankrupt.
Bury it into 1-kilometer shaft and forget about it?
If you think that there is no possibility for environmentally-sourced contamination in something like this, then we simply disagree.

https://hulafrog.com/brazoria-county-south-tx/lake-jackson-c...
66 Gray is far from moderate as a whole body dose. The 100% lethal onetime dose for gamma or beta rays (which you probably got one of) is around 10 Gray, LD50 is 3 Gray iirc. A wholebody dose of 2 Gray consequently would get you severe radiation sickness, depletion of white blood cells and possible secondary infections with some chance of death.

Radiation therapy therefore needs to "aim" right, so as not to hit too much of the sensitive tissues like nerves, bone marrow, mucosa, etc.

Edit: here is a chart for a comparison of typical doses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#/media/File%3A027_do...

Hope you beat the cancer.
The healthcare situation in the USA is totally bonkers, but in general I prefer to be taxed less and receive fewer services from the government, and then use the saved money to select (or go without) my own service providers.
So, within a trust network, persistent hard work and intelligence may propel a candidate through the funnel. Or may not, because the funnel is only so big.

How do ideology and jurisprudence philosophy factor into this system, for an aspiring clerk?
Simply because people are capable of understanding causality? Even in a fully atheistic framing, a human society that embraced this kind of nihilism would drastically raise the ambient level of misery for everyone. Even if it’s your intent to selfishly push in this direction, a world where everyone else does the same would be far less enjoyable for you.

Prosocial behavior is also selfish to the extent that encourages the same in others and accrues the corresponding comforts to you.
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In my view, risk is probability times impact. On average, risking a dollar and spending a dollar are equivalent.

Where I think we get risk wrong is how we estimate its magnitude, often due to emotional fear of loss, or underestimating our own ability to innovate our way out of problems.