skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, the failures at Fukushima were definitely human caused although it was indeed an extreme natural disaster as well.

Being anxious based on the past failures is not totally justified as the environmental cost and dangers from pollution are much, much greater for existing non-renewable energy sources than nuclear even factoring in Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc. The number of fatalities and injuries from those versus their power output makes them safer than coal.

The real problem is that the public conscious is turned against nuclear because of its association with weapons and the decades that environmentalist groups have spent protesting against it, ironically.
So ... there's still no solution in the US. Gotcha.
Belief perseverance
I lost my facebook account last year after someone copyrighted my own profile photos, I get a strike every time I upload a selfy then my account got shut down, this is slightly different from this story but it show that facebook spend zero effort to fix this issue unless the story blow up, I am political activist in Algeria and the dictator regime there were using some 3rd party companies to copyright activists content on facebook and use it to shutdown their pages
Agreed. Only way to fight back is to quit those platforms.
Correlation is indeed not causation. However all four statements hold true for correlation. And at least alcohol can cause cancer.

- Bad diet: for example red meat increases risk of colorectal cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698595/

- physical activity reduces the risk of many cancers. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...

- overweight people have a higher risk of cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...

- alcohol increases risk of head and neck, oesophageal, liver, breast, colorectal caner and many others . https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
Japan’s application of anti-defamation laws seems similar[0].

That is, unless this case got special treatment due to the alleged corruption of Thai justice system.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23935469
Chinese tourists do have quite a reputation for creating a nuisance. But in most of Asia the tourists who have the worst reputation for most outrageous behaviour has to be the Russians and Australians. Russians and Australians going to Asian tourist destinations, getting extremely drunk and starting fights is pretty much a cliche.
Truly an excellent production!

Great acting, music, recreation of the era, awesome attention to detail and of course delightful mysteries.

It sets the bar very high, to the point it has alas kind of ruined "other Poirots" for me.
Context matters, in this case location.

It’s like joking about child prostitution in Cambodia. As an American it’s something that happens in far away lands (not entirely true, it happens in the US too).

In Cambodia, it’s a very serious issue that really pisses of locals since it’s mostly Western tourists supporting it there.

Joke about it in the US and it’s just frowned upon. Do it in Cambodian and you’ll piss people off enough to get yourself in trouble.
> unless you configure your own DNS specifically for them

or use horrible ISPs that redirect everything that isn't valid (and intercept DNS if you try to use an alternate DNS).
Just wait until you're home to write the review
The only hope I have about Swift is that Apple won't try to force every devs to use their language to release apps/games on their platforms.

For now it is possible to use standard API (C/C++, Posix, OpenGL, Vulkan)

But I have a bad feeling about this.
That’s not a problem with the language that’s just you not knowing how to use it, two very different things.

Associated values with enums are very powerful features of the language.
one of the interesting things in cocoa/foundation is the types are all objects, but they make a big distiction between NSArray and NSMutableArray, same with strings, dictionaries and many other objects

to make things mutable you have to clone them as such and i cant really think of a single api in cocoa/foundation that vends a mutable array or string...

i think its a very good point...
For anyone looking to dig deeper into the allegations of corruption on the islands and how it may have contributed to the murder of the couple in 2014, this is a good place to start:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/23/briton-thail...
My logic:

Q: How many people take vitamin d supplements now?

A: Not many

Q: How many would take it if it was given to them free?

A: A lot

Q: how much does it cost to give someone life saving ICU support?

A: a lot

Q: how much does it cost to give people some vitamin d?

A: not much
When I'm watching to some Italians communicating with each other, sometimes I think that they're going to start a fight, while they're just merely chit-chatting. Cultures are very different around the world.
A DV (domain validation) certificate shows the content came from the person in control of the domain (i.e. can change DNS records or change the server content) not that the person in control of the domain is "who it should be". With that in mind the person who can show current control is able to generate new certificates and issue revocations for old ones.

OV (Organization Validation) and EV (Extended Validation) certificates get into the "is it who they say to be" but Let's Encrypt won't issue those. What all getting validated entails is a bit more in depth for each of these and so is the revocation.

The ultimate protection in cases like domain transfers is limited lifetimes though. Gone are the days where the last guy likely had a 2+ year cert for the domain. Let's Encrypt is 90 days max and it's increasingly hard to get even 1 year from traditional players.
Reminds me of when Instagram stole some dude's account and just handed it to the "Royals" https://www.instagram.com/sussexroyal/

Poor dude was like a WAU for years and Instagram just went 'nah' and gave it to royals.

Your account isn't yours, it's Instagram's. They don't care about you or your photos or your likes or friends or connections either.
> entire day or two watching Netflix and staring at your phone

More like years, nowadays. Some people (most?) never recover at all, because it's cheaper and more addictive than smoking. Apple's detailed time tracking was a revelation. We discovered that my wife (who is currently out of a job due to COVID) was speding 8+ hours every day on her iPhone and iPad alone, and I myself was spending entirely too much time on my mobile devices as well. I managed to cut down to about 1.5 hours a day. She's still struggling with it. And it's hard. I have to leave my phone upstairs so I don't relapse.
It wouldn't be if Facebook didn't prove in the past it is the most immoral online company. I get that they pay you, but maybe it's time to take another look at your employer with a more objective lens?
Ask HN: Is identity theft legal if the intermediary is a journalist?
In light of The NY Times publishing President Trumps tax returns[1] which they claim to have received from people who were in legal possession of them, I’m wondering how this does not qualify as identity theft?

Surely being a famous or a notable political figure does not shatter all expectations of privacy.

If a rogue employee at a hospital emails your medical records to a newspaper can they publish it?

What about notes from a conversation with your lawyer?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
That’s a very Western point of view and not held by much of the world.
My wife and I have been subscribed to acorn.tv for several years instead of Netflix. It has many eminently watchable shows, especially Poirot and Foyle’s War, my favorite.
This. I was taking 5000IU as I thought it was mostly harmless. But I also noticed some of the symptoms mentioned in that thread such as crazy heart rhythm even when resting. I’ve dropped that supplement and am just accepting the more nominal amount from diet, multivitamins, and mild sunlight exposure. Since then I haven’t had the heart rhythm issues.
> For example, it's easy to find people who get anxious about xrays but not about flying even though it gives you roughly the same amount of exposure.

A 7 hour flight gives you 1/5th (.02 mSv- 2000x daily background exposure) as much as a chest xray and 1/350th as much as a chest CT. They're only similar if you fly relatively often, and if you get any kind of CT you need to fly a LOT to make them comparable.

Your example also under-rates the danger of xrays compared to flying under models that are suspected to be more realistic than current linear threshold. If acute doses are worse than spread out doses, the xray is even worse than the plane.

As a child, you would have gotten even less radiation from a flight. An xray exposes you to roughly the same dose, since the image is confined to a specific spot on your body. Everybody gets the dose delivered to a roughly 1'x1' area, yadda yadda. On a flight, every part of your body receives more radiation- so a 50 lb child will get 1/4th as much radiation as a 200 lb adult. If they get an xray, a smaller area needs to be exposed... but not 1/4 the size. It's actually related to the square-cube law, since the image is cross-sectional but dose delivery depends on volume.

https://www.xrayrisk.com/faq.php
The law is something to the effect of "disclosing private matters can be defamation even if it's true".

That's common in many countries. "It's true" is only a valid defense if you're accusing someone of a crime.
Believe me, we've read a lot of code written by other people. There's a point where you read

HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<String>> mapping = new HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<String>>();

enough times that you start to get tired of reading stuttering code, too.
>If you look at Szabo's twitter feed these days, I surely hope he isn't.

I just glanced at it and it looks innocuously right wing. In the context of being contender for the creator of a decentralized currency I was expecting a "far-right" libertarian type.
Compare that to the days when scientists like Marie Curie cared around vials of radioactive material, shoe stores had flouroscopes to test fit shoes, and xrays were used as an acne treatment.
...!mcsun!nuug!fics!el here :-). Of course, those were actual routes, rather than just reverse hierarchies.
Ask HN: Get some PR for launch Platform for customization of prosthetic limbs
Hi, next week I'm going to launch on Kickstarter coleg.co is a design platform for prosthetic covers, and I would like you to help me with advices or contacts on how I can get some press release, or this is our preview on Kickstarter https://bit.ly/2S0A9JQ and this is our Coleg.co platform.
Thanks
Yep. I don't actually feel strongly about the chart (or changes to it) at all. Trying to create a definitive "greatest albums" list is an exercise in futility.

The only music rankings I put any stock in are the Top 5's used in High Fidelity. Or anyone who does similar on their own: choose a narrow category ("top 5 side one track ones"), list them, and discuss with a group of people you know - because the prompted discussion is what's really beneficial.
From the bug report[1] "E KernelUidCpuFreqTimeReader: Failed to read /proc/uid_time_in_state: java.io.FileNotFoundException:"

So, sort of because of missing files, but more about ignoring an exception and running on into code that's probably looping.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113245...
Sometimes quotes help, but not always.
> the function signature told you nothing - like whether the function would even return or not would sometimes be a mystery

Yes! This drives me nuts about JavaScript! Untyped parameters are one thing, but having to read the entire function just to know if it returns anything is ridiculous.
I would assume that transmission adds costs, and nuclear is already economically uncompetitive before you add that extra overhead.
There were also cost and schedule overruns in other nations like China and France, besides the ones in the US and UK.
Whether your explanation is true or not, this is obscene.

Personally, I'm more and more glad it's all coming down. It was unfixable anyway.
Hitman Evolution
> My favorite is a much clearer contrast between active and inactive windows.

You're not talking about Big Sur, right? Because the contrast for that has gone waaay down for that in this release.
Here we go. Instagram guy tells us it cannot happen. Investigation closed.
4′33″
Yes, that exists. I still want to see a movie of the book.
Due to issues with transferring energy, German producers will often pay Netherlands ones to shutdown their windfarms and export electricity there.
Does it, though? A large portion can definitely be avoided with design and technology. Chernobyl happened because it was a positive feedback loop, in the West it was an obsolete design even before it was built. And Fukushima was quite literally acts of god (in the actuarial sense.)
That is a false dichotomy. No one said anything about defamation laws in general and this is a business not a person.

They told the police that what he said was untrue and the police came to his work and put him in prison.
This is absolute nonsense

No, it’s not. It might not be accurate, but to my knowledge the linear-no-threshold model is still subject to support and opposition from various bodies.
I agree there should be more focus on that, but not at the expense of masks and social distancing. We just need to do all these things.
That certainly wouldn't be surprising, but these laws do routinely treat Thai citizens as badly as they treat anybody else. He's likely not in for particularly fair treatment in any case.
If you were worried that this week would go by without you getting your 2 minutes of hate fix, rest assured the good folks at NYT and HN have your best interest at heart.
> IDEs and LSP-enabled editors are pretty much the standard nowadays

There are many places where you see code without IDE-like features. One that comes to mind is everything related to git. Web-based git tools like github, git GUIs, command-line git, you name it.

Besides, it's nice to be able to read and understand the code without needing to download the entire project and importing it into an IDE just for that.

My idea is that you almost always write in an IDE, but not necessarily read in one. Thus, for verbose languages, the IDE would generate most of that example for you (I know for sure IDEA does this exact completion) but it will be perfectly understandable in a git diff.
Exactly, that's why I created this little app, as a reflection.
I think spending the time to learn how to be your own best friend, perhaps this might be especially valuable or undervalued among the HN audience. Speaking from my experience I feel that I'm relatively driven but that often goes together with being my own very harsh critic. One way to descriibe this is that I wouldn't spend any time with someone whom spoke to me the way I sometimes speak to myself when things go wrong. The times when, instead of beating myself up, I'm able to say to myself it's ok not to be where I thought I would be by now it my life, I've been more peaceful.

So my answer to OP's question is: learn to be compassionate with yourself.
Thats why I always like the anthropic principal; that its necessary for life to be possible, because if it wasn't then the universe would pass with no entity there to observe it.
The other front page post today makes a strong case for why the horse has already bolted on Nuclear vs Solar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605191
This article implies radiation is the only objection to nuclear power, which isn’t true. It also fails to mention any alternatives (renewables) at all. Both seem major omissions.. especially from the BBC, which I always found was a bit more balanced on these topics.
Only that the @ ("at") reads terribly than.

So com.gmail/cydeweys maybe?

Or it could be just an object in a global namespace (accesses through a protocol specific facade). So com.gmail.cydeweys
Posted comment on your blog, should be awaiting moderation, but let me know if not.
Are you implying that this story is manufactured outrage? Because to me, this seems like much realer journalism than most of what the media puts out.
Very enjoyable series, and David Suchet is stellar.
It is also interesting to see some of the cast who went on to greater fame like Alice Eve, Peter Baelish and Talulah Riley; there are probably more I'm unable to remember right now.
On top of that they could scratch the review score for this property, remove the possibility to review it and put in a story about how a guest was arrested and jailed for posting a review. Google didn't cause this but they could have a part in stamping out this problem.
>> I accidentally pass in 3 params instead of 4 to a function (with static typing this does not compile)

> In Erlang this will also not compile, unless you have a 3 parameter version of the function, in which case static typing will not help you.

This is only true if the function you are calling is part of the same module (and is not called in module:func(Args)-form). If it's not, Erlang will happily compile it and you'll have to rely on xref to catch the error.

This is one of the compromises it takes to get hot code reload.
The fact this is on front page of HN tells you the incredible hypocritical political bias that is allowed to exist here. Another example of rules not evenly applied. The HN community is rediculous and my post will never be read because of highly bias moderation.
https://outline.com/6yf9UP
https://archive.vn/YylTa
Worth repeating that people in the UK are unable to get enough vitamin D from the sun from next month until the spring.
Whereas with lovely coal and oil we get to ignore the problem. It's just smoke until... Catastrophic climate feedback loops, mass extinction, hundreds of millions of climate migrants escaping uninhabitable parts of earth, coral and shellfish disappear in acidic oceans, entire ecosystems collapse and etc etc. But nuclear had costs. Sure. But we could at least begin to calculate those costs.
If you want to get right down to it, there might even be a benefit to being exposed to certain levels of ionizing radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
> If an increase in exposure at these low doses mattered, we'd see a correlation between background exposure and cancer rates, but we don't.

No, because the marginal increase at low doses, as seen in the natural background, under LNT is so low that it's not statistically visible.

The evidence we have is even consistent with models in which the effect/dose at low exposures is HIGHER than in LNT (for example, if there are repair mechanisms that are induced at sufficiently high doses.) Advocates of hormesis don't point out that a concave downward curve at low doses that this sort of effect might produce would increase the number of cancers from a nuclear accident, vs. what the LNT would predict.
Another problem of these languages is that you have to actually learn them, and there's too much to learn. And good luck understanding anything without that encyclopedic knowledge.

To me, it's all just abstractions that get in the way more than they help, tbh.
Why does the answer always reply with coal and oil instead of Renewables and storage?
> This also means that somebody else is also getting mail directed to me.

By what mechanism do you think that's happening? There is no account with same username as yours, except with a dot, and never has been. Guaranteed. So just how would your emails be going to somebody else?

It seems like your mental model of how this is working has to be incorrect to have that fear.
NBA Playoffs – Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat Are in a Barista Battle
Having spent the last several years working in Node/TypeScript environments (and being firmly in the “I was wrong about types” camp), I think “isn’t so bad” is an overstatement. It certainly isn’t as bad. And especially as TS improves, the possibility to move more and more toward the “not so bad” ideal is there.

But there’s some truly awful stuff in the ecosystem; in the underlying language and the platform’s DNA; in the compromises TS (rightly) makes to be a productive real world tool; in the commonly used tooling; and just peppered throughout everything you can expect to encounter in common third party libraries.

Overcoming all that awfulness requires a lot of additional effort, is inherently limited, and isn’t common in the community (although that too is improving as TS becomes more popular, and as safer patterns become more idiomatic).

I think if I were building a new greenfield project with my choice of platform today, it would be a difficult choice whether to take all that I’ve learned in Node/TS and accept those trade-offs, or to invest in learning another platform.
We need interactive media that is a movie you watch and a camera tracks your eyes and bodiku reactions and can dynamically change the story and portrayal to try the elicit the maximum response along some metric from the viewer
As an equal analogy - why can't we design our way out of governments having lots of "human bullshit" problems? If you can answer that question, you solve a much bigger problem than energy.
He reported paying taxes, in turn, on a number of his overseas ventures. In 2017, the president’s $750 contribution to the operations of the U.S. government was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama, the $145,400 in India and the $156,824 in the Philippines.

America first.
Transmission distance adds capital costs, maintenance costs, and transmission losses; plus, nuclear tail risks aren't narrowly localized, so you don't get much mitigation with distance, especially if the distance simultaneously puts in a less securable, including political stability, location.
...Google Play 'com.android.vending:download_service' suddenly utilizing 95-100% of the CPU for an extended period.

Of course, Google gave their vending product the privilege of running in background. Because it's important.
Outdoor spaces are generally not good for tech work. You can’t see your screen because of glare, run out of power because there isn’t an outlet to power your laptop, am uncomfortable because of the seating position, have a gust of wind blow away your notes, don’t have enough screen real estate, can be too hot or too cold, etc...

Interestingly, of campuses I have been to, the Stanford campus seems to have been the best designed for this. Plenty of verandas and balconies protected from light and wind, outlets everywhere, good WiFi. The original campus buildings were designed to protect people from the sun. Glad they carried it over to the new buildings. Facebook with their courtyard is also good.
Banning Gas-Powered Cars Can't Happen Soon Enough
It's so difficult to make money when everyone wants things to be free.

I pay for Medium and that's all right now. I would much like to see the micropayment future - it has to be part of the browser.

I would like to pay in lieu of time. If I could see page statistics of how much time it took for a page to be put together and costs of hosting - I could make a contribution based on this information. I've given random £100 to artists I love for the same reason.
i have an alias that shows each folder in the current directory humanized... might have been slightly modified from one where i got it to work on macos. duf == disk utilization folders. a caveat is that it can be a bit slow if there are a lot of files/subdirectories.

alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'
If the business side is making these kinds of technology choices, the business itself and the engineering side both have significantly worse and more important problems. And those problems will inevitably create those cancelled weekends.
By your logic we shouldn't program because someone else MIGHT mess it up.

Should we remove every feature that someone might misuse?