skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to check up your reasoning. Actual calculations can be pretty complicated so I relied on a real world example: the largest solar array project under construction in the world, Australia's Sun Cable.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/14/just-a-m...

A few numbers: the projected cost is $20 billion. The nameplate capacity is 10GW. The most efficient solar plant in the world (located in Arizona) has an efficiency of about 30%, and I think we can assume similar efficiency for the Australian one, which translates to a 3GW average output, assuming it includes enough giant batteries to stabilize the output. The size of the array, in one of the most favourable places in the world by climatic conditions, is 150Km^2 (more or les the size of Amsterdam). Note that in the Australian desert we can assume the cost of the land to be almost zero.

Always according to WP, the cost of nuclear per GW should be about $6 billion. So a 3GW nuclear power plant should cost about the same as the 3GW (in average output) solar array. The difference is that the power output of a nuclear plant is steady and entirely predictable, it occupies a minimal fraction of the space needed by the solar array, and it can work anywhere in the world- from Australia to the coldest and rainiest regions. Transferring the Sun Cable project from the Australian desert to Germany is simply impossible due to the climate and the cost of land; while it's perfectly possible to build in Germany ten or twenty 3GW nuclear plants.
Ugly how? 2-6 years is not unreasonable at all.
But people don’t pay for apps.
I’m in the UK which is objectively tiny, but going from the south to the north wouldn’t be a day trip. And if you basically spend 1 day travelling up, 1 day doing whatever team guff the company wants you to do, and 1 day going back (i.e. ~24 hours), you’ve wasted MORE time than you would have commuting an hour each workday for the whole month!
The article compares XML with JSON and YAML. That makes sense for some applications, but for other applications, like a structured text, I'd compare it with Markdown. I'm not happy with XML or Markdown for my source, where "source" means what I edit or what I put under version control, which aren't necessarily the same thing. I find it better to invent my own adhoc notation and write a Perl script to verify it and convert it into XML, HTML, Markdown, JSON, ...

It's a shame, but the sad fact is that humanity does not yet have an adequate and widely used way of representing structured text in a computer. XML is perhaps the closest I've seen, but the tools don't seem to be good enough or sufficiently available, and now XML is also unfashionable so I don't suppose the situation is going to get any better.
C++ API Design – Dont_deduce
A sad truth is, the higher end of fit and finish on iOS almost always includes writing or hacking about at a lower level than one “should be”.

And SwiftUI is at least one level above that, so it’s going to be some time before it’s stable enough to get that spit and shine properly.

I’m off to muck about in the internal view hierarchy of a navigation bar to animate its button label..
Money. It would be way too costly that all countries manufactured their own devices.

A single laptop has likely hundreds of processing units, running unknown software, often with direct access to the memory buss. Building a secure devices however where every bit of code and every bit of hardware is designed domestically (and preferable in house) is so prohibitively expensive that no one do that. The hope is that if there is a security fault then someone else will find it and report it, and so a reputation system is the only economical viable method for hardware security in most consumer devices.
I agree, it seems like a big draw to work at Google are the benefits, and if these are reduced because of increased remote work, I wonder if more people will leave for competitors?
And here's an example of an old business card using that format for an email address:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#/media/File:UUCP_Email_Ad...
> Tiktok gives them that acres to manipulate/meddle in other countries.

This is a really naïve world view—not that TikTok isn't potentially a channel of propaganda, but that we somehow are free of propaganda in the US. The Trump administration is a source of propaganda. The Democratic party is a source of propaganda. Propaganda is basically any speech from any biased source. The only significant difference between China and the US isn't that one practices propaganda but that China limits their propaganda to only one source.

Blacklisting "propaganda" from sources you don't like is in fact censorship. If we start blocking China because we don't like what they are telling us, why stop there? Why not start blocking propaganda from the Trump critics.
No, its all the same.
Bytedance is a Chinese company. Look up VIE (variable interest entity) or "Sina Structure". Essentially the Cayman islands topco is a fudge that the Chinese government tolerates to facilitate non Chinese investment in Chinese companies, something which is not normally allowed. The structure is very common among Chinese tech companies. Instead of controlling the company by owning a majority of its shares, the "owners" of VIEs control their firms contractually. Paul Gilis' blog is very good on this https://www.chinaaccountingblog.com/weblog/explaining-vie-st...
Allright, looks like ddg returns this for the first result of "tos instagram":

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/639eea0ad46fc91d.png

https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/before-january-1...

And it's an old ToS. Looks like they softened it up since then. But it was quite unequivocal back then. ;)
Android Hacking Series
A fair bit. I don't have numbers for trees in particular, but one of the benefits of putting solar panels above farms is supposed to be cooler panels, which improves panel efficiency.

Though most of that would be evaporation, not chemistry.
> Baraitser heard arguments on whether the full medical records of Assange from the doctors and psychiatrists who had given evidence should be released to the media. Both defence and prosecution opposed release, but Baraitser kept referring to “open justice”. She will rule on this on Monday .

Outrageous. I cannot see any public interest justification in favour of releasing the records. Open justice can be done without releasing absolutely everything about the defendant.
You use the word "smart grid" as though it just automatically makes electricity usage go down. A smart grid works by redistributing load to when there is power. A smart grid almost always needs storage, unless it's doing simple things like running your dryer where it's just a matter of turning on your appliances at a certain time of day. If you're at he from 7pm to 8am, and you want your home to be heated while you're there a smart grid isn't going to help you. A smart grid would tell to to be at home at different hours of the day, but people aren't appliances.

And again, car batteries being used or not, we wouldn't have enough battery storage fulfill the storage requirements for decades or even centuries, and by then the first batteries we built will have long since worn out.
Seems like the judge is agreeing with your parent poster.
This would be great if it were true, but sadly the cost of waste disposal and plant decomissioning was not priced in during running times, at least in Germany.
Yes renewables have gotten cheaper but nuclear isn't outlandishly expensive either.

If it doesn't match expectations and the price doesn't significantly drop further from today (seems unlikely), going nuclear would be a good decision. If renewable continues to drop, we have a bit more expensive power depending on the percentage of nuclear to renewable power. However, if we don't build nuclear, I'm really not sure how much CO2 we're adding to the air and how many more people had to die from pollution before we managed to build enough renewables. If it's ballpark reasonable I don't see that we can afford to wait.
That is true as well, particularly when it comes to Western pick-up artists perpetuating the image of "Asian" girls as "easy" and desperate for any White men, who then flock to those places in hopes of scoring what they can't do so easily back home.
The only reason Trump has been able to pull this off is the fact that minors can't vote.

If you deny voting rights to a certain group of people, politicians just don't have to care about them at all. They can do things that hurt that group, and no one is going to hold them accountable.

At this point, I believe we should stop discriminating based on age.
The world is different now. The remote world will become the norm.
Startups are about building a new business: and the new business needs to ready for this brave new word.
S3 subdomamin takeover weird pattern
Limiting scope sounds nice in theory but there is always scope creep when you throw greed into the equation. And generally speaking the courts are not designed to be a fast resolution to anything.
Bring back traditional advertising. No user profiling, no retargeting, no data collection. Pay for exposure and not clicks. Problem solved. Micropayments is a red herring.

Print newspapers use to cost what, 50c a piece? And that included an absolutely massive printing, sales and distribution infrastructure. It is preposterous that digital publishing would cost more.
> And Sundar has needed to go for a long time... How do you turn the largest consumer and commercial OS into a dumpster fire of exploits, half-finished ideas (Settings vs. Control Panel, anyone?!?)...

So Windows was made by... Google?
Again, I find incredible cool what the Linux community has accomplished. And yes, the update process in Linux is much more simple in theory (sudo apt update). However, at least for my use case, the pros do not outweigh the cons.

Firs cons: lack of key apps (Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite).

Second cons: lack of OEM produced drivers, which means that some things work worst than in Windows. Example, energy management for my ThinkPad.

Third cons: it seems to me that most things are more complicated to do than in Windows. Case in point, even if we do not consider the wgets, installing mkvtoolnix and vmware.

Fourth cons: Why do I need to look for the specific distribution version of a program? I can install a Windows XP program in Windows 10. I can even install a Windows 95 program in Windows 10. But I have to look for the specific version of Ubuntu 20.08 of a program. The version for Ubuntu 17.06 would not work.

Again. I can for sure use Linux if needed to (I am currently trying BSD on my ThinkPad), but if given the chance, I feel much more comfortable and productive in Windows.
The US does in fact do the same. It limits the high-level IP transfers so that China cannot develop and compete higher up in the technology chain. You think the fact that they manufacture the world's plastic crap and assemble iPhones is an enviable position?

The reason why we're stepping it up is because China has shown that they can domestically grow successful tech and social media companies that can penetrate the US market. It's not so much national security that's the issue more than it is insecurity in our fundamental beliefs that our system is inherently superior because they're now crossed the barrier higher up in the value chain. We gave them manufacturing just like we gave domestic immigrants the "dirty" jobs that no one wanted.
As I said, journalism sponsored by entities that may want to sway you. That can be anything from simple advertising, to state-controlled media.
It's basically a repo containing ~/.emacs.d.

It provides a lot of sensible defaults for different Emacs packages, these are organized into "modules" which are just sub-folders that can be enabled or disabled via the central config files in ~/.doom.d (this is a custom Doom thing, it just loads a few files in ~/.doom.d at startup to make it easy to config everything in one place).

Basically it provides you a nice starting point to using Emacs, with things just working out of the box.
Is this a hypothetical? I don't believe you've tried TikTok if you think scrolls are filled with Chinese propaganda.
I'm dumb and don't know anything about maternity/paternity leave. What prevents someone from being hired by a company, taking leave due to a child in X days, taking the salary the government forces the company to give you, and quitting Y days after you return? What if X and Y are a month or even one day? Could companies could be scammed for a year of salary while getting only a few days of value out of their employee?
I think the Web Monetization API currently incubating as a proposed W3C standard would provide the experience you are desiring.

Consumers establish a wallet provider and install a browser extension (for now, until the standard is formally adopted). When a Web Monetization HTML tag is encountered, the browser starts streaming micropayments every second while you are engaging with the content.

Content creators can then do things like grant access/remove the paywall, not load/remove ads, or offer bonus features.

Today, GQ, Wired, and ~1,000 other sites are experimenting with the Web Monetization API. The only wallet provider right now is Coil, but the protocol is well defined and ready for other players.

References:
- https://webmonetization.org/
- https://coil.com/
- https://mobile.twitter.com/WebMotized
Meantime mothers in the USA get 12 weeks, below the minimum recommended by the WHO (16 weeks).
This is ironically what’s become popular for service-specific usernames (“on twitter @dan” and “on instagram @danny”). It’s arguably more useful than the email notation because prefixing with the @ is a clear sign that a username is coming next.
He never stated that 3 months were necessary. Only the first month was mentioned.

Beside that recovery from birth itself can take quite some time (tearing, C-section etc.).

Beside that I wonder if a post-partum depression might even be considered a normal complication when around 15 out of 100 women get one(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941764/).
This is at the beginning equivalent to the two weeks omsorgspermisjon you should have got after the birth (but which legally doesn't have to be paid).
I think it's quite healthy for the business TBH. In Scandinavia this is the norm, at a medium sized company there will probably always be someone on parental leave at any given time. You expect it, and therefor deal with it by reducing the bus factor up front.
> This isn't going to be cheap. But it is feasible, and if you care about carbon I'm not sure how else you do it.

How about we use the carbon free method of generating electricity that France has used to generate most of it's electricity for close to half a century?

We don't have to wait for a miracle that makes batteries cheaper, we don't have to scale up battery production by several orders of magnitude. If we built ten nuclear plants for every one that exists in the US today, that's enough for 100% carbon free electricity generation. It'd also provide enormous amounts of water if we use the waste heat for desalination. It also wouldn't involves consuming massive areas of land for solar panels. It would only involve technologies that currently exist and that we have decades of experience working with.
It's a long time since I saw any meaningful criticism of the government (emphasis on meaningful).

They all cheered the supposed victory of Macron getting funds from the EU. None of them told us that it would cost us more than what we would receive (since we're a net contributor to the EU budget).

Did you see any real criticism of the COVID crisis management in the press?

Edit: you want some real, French style, nasty criticism go read a few articles from this blog: http://h16free.com/

The guy knows how to write and isn't holding his punches. That's what I would expect from free journalists.
When I was a kid, discovering "complicated" games like Elite in my uncle's library was almost like digging into the adults' secret porn stash, things you weren't supposed to know about :)
Couldn't good 'hackers' potentially find opportunities in the shitstorm that is modern policing? Perhaps there's a business or some other way to 'disrupt' policing, and make it more fair/balanced/honest. Can't do that if we fail to have substantive discussions about what the problems are.
> I dont understand how this could be a viable strategy -- unless your job is entirely useless, the business must replace your position during your absence in order to continue normal operation

Just because you cannot get fired for going on parental leave does not mean that the company cannot hire a substitute for your absence. This is typically what happens.
I never claimed that RISC-V was ready to go in production.

The RISC-V spec is not finished yet. A lot of pieces are still missing to make a serious ARM or x86 competitor.
I'm very disappointed by the lack of press for such a major extradition case!

The fact it impacts press freedom, judicial impartiality, and foreign interference in a UK court, I feels like a lot of this extends far beyond this case, and I feel that the public should be aware of this to some degree.

What can we do other than sharing links to try and get the word out?
Elementary school for me in the ‘00s had a computer lab whose primary purpose was to teach how to use Word.

It’s also unclear given the general sorry state of education salaries in the US who we’d be getting to teach these classes. Most adults aren’t that computer literate either, and I doubt a high-falutin’ FAANG employee is about to work in an urban school with lead paint and asbestos for a ~50k salary, some of which you have to use to pay for chalk, tissues, paper towels and other basics of the classroom.
"F#, C#, Kotlin, Swift"

All tied in with one singular company each that calls all the shots - For good and for bad. You kinda get all their other stuff showed down your throat along with the languages and things can get bloated fast. But at least things are streamlined. Nodejs had an uprising with io.js in 2014-15 and is now governed by a foundation. I like that a lot. I sleep soundly knowing that no company can pull the rug from under me on a whim.
As someone who has actually talked about the Tiananmen Square protests on WeChat and occasionally corrects misconceptions about how difficult that is, I don't think banning the app will help in any way, since the ban will just reduce the volume of such messages even more.

The status quo is that you only need some minor skill at language games to talk about forbidden topics without using any keywords that trigger censorship. With a ban in place, at least one of the participants additionally has to circumvent their country's firewall to reach the other side. Censoring censored media even more is not a good way to fight censorship.

I'm also not sure why you think "How much time would you really spend discussing Tiananmen or criticizing the CCP?" is talking about TikTok, since you can absolutely do that there https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tiananmen
In The Netherlands a similar law was put in effect in July 2020. I'll reap the benefits of this very soon (my partner is due tomorrow). I don't believe its fully paid though (IIRC 70%). Before this it was two days. TWO days!

This is our second child, and from the first one I know I still had lack of sleep the first 48 hours. The first week is the roughest (especially for two autistic parents an absolute hell with lack of sleep plus all kind of new stimuli), with the following months almost as severe. I believe it is incredibly woman unfriendly (I'd even call it misogynist) to give men no time from work.

On the father and mother this leads to less fatigue, burn-out, and on long-term better output. For the child, I believe its difficult to see the effect on this on short-term. For example, the effect of father-child bonding might not be seen on the short-term, and its also no guarantee, so you'd end up with some kind of correlation in a study. Proving a causation on this is going to be difficult.
Machine learning uses CNNs, which are directly based on FFTs.
I have used VkFFT to create GPU version of a magnetic simulation software Spirit (https://github.com/DTolm/spirit).
Except for FFT it also has a lot of general linear algebra routines, like efficient GPU reduce/scan and system solvers, like CG, LBFGS, VP, Runge-Kutta and Depondt. This version of Spirit is faster than CUDA based software that has been out and updated for ~6 years due to the fact that I have full control over all the code I use. You might want to check the discussions on reddit for this project: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ilcw2f/p_v... and https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/il9sar/vulkan_...
From that video (F4 vs concrete), the narrator who was present at the test says that ultimately its the energy that counts (wheither you model a detailed plane colliding, or a simple sausage shape of same mass and velocity, turns out you get essentially the same result).

So let's calculate the kinetic energy for the 3 things mentioned: the Phantom F4 II kinetic energy, the Schwerer Gustav shell kinetic energy (I don't know the energy in the explosive charge though) and the A380 kinetic energy:

E = 1/2 * m * v * v (not sure how to use caret in markdown)

Phantom F4 II: 1/2 18,824 kg (770 / 3.6 m / s) (770 / 3.6 m / s) = 430 MJ

Schwere Gustav shell: 1/2 7000 kg 343 m / s 343 m / s = 412 MJ EDIT: this should be 4 x 412 MJ = 1.6 GJ since I forgot to double the speed of sound.

A-380: 1/2 500000 kg ( 945 / 3.6 m / s ) ( 945 / 3.6 m / s ) = 17.226 GJ

where I used 500 tonnes instead of max takeoff weight of 575 tonnes, and V MO of 945 km/h

so thats 40 x more energy than the F4 test...

the F4 test resulted in a 6 cm deep scratch, so naively multiplying by 40 gives 2.4 m , i.e. substantially more than 70 cm (to see it's not that naive, just consider crashing 40 F4's sequentially, they'll dig deeper and deeper)
So not much changed in the last 10 years.

I envy the possibility in some parts of the world (mostly Silicon Valley) to sell dreams to investors. I'm also glad not all parts of the world a that hype driven but still, I got so many ideas and with $10M I could try most of them.
Indeed. In Norway fathers and mothers must each take 15 weeks. And then in total there are either 49 weeks (with 100% pay) or 59 weeks (with 80% pay), so you can divide the remaining weeks between the two.

But there are some inequalities in the system still. For instance, the father can only take the shared weeks if the mother is in "activity" (working or studying). While in Sweden there is no such requirements.

And I am not sure what happens with the father's share if the mother is out of work and ineligible for proper ompensation. In that case the mother gets a one-time, approx €10 000, compensation, but I think the father does not get anything except two weeks off in connection with birth.
The OP won't have seen much of their child's first 3 months either. Their time with their child probably started when the child was 8 months old and lasted until the child was about 12 months old...
I have three screens. I adjust the brightness on all of them twice per day, but you couldn't pay me to navigate the on screen displays with the mushy buttons more often than that.
> TikTok is the generation that is most malleable to propaganda in a way that can undermine an entire generation.

You don't have to look far to know this hypothesis won't stand up to any scrutiny. Not only are TikTok users typically in the age range less likely to vote, but everyone is susceptible to propaganda and lies. There is a lot of US produced propaganda out there aimed at the older generations which is being lapped up by a public thirsty for negative partisanship and divisive rhetoric.

If the Tiktok generation has been undermined, then it's by the older generations who benefited from more favorable situations, grabbed the wealth and power for themselves, pulled the ladder up and now refuse to see how any of this is an issue and will fight to maintain an unequal situation as long as it favors them.