skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “But wait,” says Mr Manager, “you already subscribe to five publications, so you’ve proved you have a propensity to subscribe! You’re exactly my target market!” Wrong. It’s exactly because I’ve done some subscribing that I’m just not gonna do any more.

Exactly. Same thing is happening with cable unbundling. Few people want to subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO, ESPN+, Disney+, Peacock, and YouTube TV/Sling/Fubo/Philo/whoever to get all the content they're interested in.
How do you think it’s possible to create and maintain relationships without empathy, sympathy, helping other people, or even understanding them? I genuinely don’t understand why you think these are separate.
The problem with nuclear is that people are afraid of it. If we had spent the last 40 years trying to make it cheaper instead of trying to prevent accidents, it wouldn't be so expensive.
I say so.

Go work for Jane Street if you don't believe me.

That's the nearest equivalent to being a former Supreme Court clerk I could think of.

In either profession, it's nice up at the top.
I think it was originally promised to be $30k but bumped up to $35k a year or two later.
Unscientifically, I can attest to light schemes being easier for me to handle than dark ones. Of course, I adjust my overall monitor brightness according to the ambient light (so do not use full brightness in the evening).

I'm astonished (dismayed?) by how many people give presentations or record otherwise very useful videos with dark mode content. That content is unviewable when the ambient light of the viewer's surroundings is high (such as daylight, or especially when outside). A great presentation is diminished in worth if it can only be consumed in less than all circumstances.

As an aside, it is important to control the ambient light if possible, especially where "daylight" (high K) LED lights are concerned. Not only does the high volume of blue rays take a toll on your eyes, but it also impacts melatonin production. And of course it means you likewise have to have your display brighter.
Honestly haven’t given it a lot of thought, as I’m not currently starting a greenfield project with my pick of platforms.

But I think off the top of my head, languages that I’d look at as first contenders include F#, C#, Kotlin, Swift. I’m sure there are other good choices, for the kind of space I tend to work, that are equally productive and have enough of a community for me to be comfortable adopting them, but I would need to spend some more time researching options to really say with confidence what else I would consider.
Writing Better SQL Episode 1
Dr John Campbell's video on making videos (with OBS Studio)
PHP’s type system has improved (and continues to improve) by leaps and bounds. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607891

Also the Laravel framework for PHP has the most Github stars of any server-side framework: https://twitter.com/denicmarko/status/1309714816290951168
Donald Trump taxes report published/leaked
Improving Transformer Models by Reordering Their Sublayers
>Is it right that the 51% of the population is able to coerce 100% of the population into paying higher prices for the more ethical businesses?

Just from the numbers yes because the other side isnt saying more or even same but less.
If we think of variables as boxes and types as label on those boxes, does it makes sense to have labels on the boxes if complexity of opening the box just to see what is inside goes up?
By that time, it will be too late to save even remnants of humanity.

But your line of reasoning perfectly shows that it fine - humanity going extinct is a good thing. The universe is better off without the like of us.
While truth is still a defense, in the UK the burden of proof is on the defendant; this means that if you are accused of libel or slander in the UK, you have to prove that what you said is true in order to defend yourself. This can be very difficult; for example, how would your PROVE a hotel clerk said certain things to you?

In the US, the burden of proof is on the person suing for libel; they have to prove that what was said is false.

So in the UK, yes truth is a defense... but you can still be telling the truth and unable to prove it, which makes it not much help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
Not sure why you’re downvoted.

I helped a teacher last week reinstall her OS. She was about to buy a new $1300 gaming PC (not reimbursed by the school district) because she kept getting kicked out of her video calls with her students and apps randomly crashed.

And now it’s good as new, no need for a new computer.

I think us tech people sometimes lose sight of the amount of crapware that non-techies accumulate / download / install over a period of years.
Rowand Atkinson recently did an amazing take on Maigret, three or four 2-hour episodes iirc. Some of his best dramatic work imho.
> Comparing within the EU is fairly OK.

The company I work at do data analysis on COVID-19. We cannot compare within EU as of now; only within the country. Even then, data (e.g. from hospitals) needs to be "standardized".
Yes, Cancun was exactly the parallel my mind drew when I was in Bali years ago. Hordes of young, drunk a-holes looking to party on the cheap in a not-too-far-away locale.
It seems like most of the high-profile examples lately have either been false or misleading.

Just to check, I looked at all posts with over 1000 points in the past couple of months where a big tech company is accused of doing something "evil" to the little guy. They are:

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1. Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com (1656 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303

The OP accused GoDaddy of registering a domain for itself after the OP had added it to their cart. It turns out that many people were searching for the same search terms and someone else just happened to register it via GoDaddy on the same day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523901

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2. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store (1313 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275

The OP implied that Google was banning all Fediverse apps with no recourse for the developers. But it turned out that Google was asking developers to block logins to a set of unmoderated instances that are known to be full of hate speech. Some developers refused, but it seems like most did not, and are doing just fine.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspal...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.juggler.sub...

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3. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited] (1243 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987584

The original title and tweet said that Apple keeps the 30% cut. The author turned out to be misinformed.

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288625617873694721

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Python’s type hinting is specifically designed for this use case: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

Also, TypeScript is designed to work the same way, as it can coexist with untyped JavaScript code as you introduce it to the code base (it still has to run through a compiler, of course).
If you're single, dating. Especially online dating. Depending on you upbringing, this is similar to personal finance, where nobody really teaches you what to do, and there's a lot of "seduction" or "red pill" toxic nonsense out there. Dating is also a relatively recent modern construct, and it's a skill that doesn't come naturally. There's a certain etiquette to it that might vary from place to place and in time you're in. But generally, it's about keeping it simple to start out with, getting more adventurous as dates progress, and being assertive, organized, and clear in your communication, while trying to forge a genuine connection with someone. It can also equip you to handle other emotional rollercoasters you might encounter.
Wow that's cool! Will have to watch.
For me it went down the pan starting series 10. Too much `sexing-up' type deviation from the books; no more Hastings, Miss Lemon and Japp; I think they even stopped using the wonderful theme tune to which you refer.

But, yes, before that, absolutely wonderful!
I would not be surprised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY446h4pZdc
The Guardian is free to read all of the time. The yellow boxes st the bottom ask you to subscribe but don't require it
> but three people traveling by boat for (I assume) over 7 days are a very low risk.

I think there is an element of proportionality missing here. In this case, it's a very low risk of what? Well, it's a very low risk of going through yet another lock down. The previous one cost the NZ economy billions and threw something like 10% of their population out of work.

In case the picture isn't clear, I'm an Australian. We have benefit of experience here. One state, Victoria, managed to screw up their quarantine regime. The result has been over 700 deaths, and 100's of billions of dollars in lost work, and an economy that shrank by 40%.

The other extreme is Western Australia. Unlike the rest of Australia's states, they shut their borders completely, turning themselves into almost a country within a country. They have been and continue to be heavily criticised for it. The outcome has been no new cases for months, no lockdown whatsoever for months, and they are the only state whose economy grew in the last quarter.

In economic terms, it's very clear what the right course of action is. And given the cost of just one case leaking through the quarantine wall, I'm sort of surprised the penalties aren't hasher to send the strongest possible message. Burn the boat maybe?
Post such job proposition in "Jobs".[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
I wonder if it could work with some sort of in-between model? Like pay $1.00 to access 10 articles in the next month (or whatever). This reduces the problem of no payment processor wanting to process $0.10 payments, and no reader wanting to pay $15-50 per month to read 1-3 articles from your newspaper.
There is a company (whose link I can’t find) who will drop a natural gas compressor and storage unit for capture and storage. Not sure if the economics work, but they’re making the attempt.

Edit: Found it, Cryobox. Seems like a great way to monetize abandoned wells that are emitting methane.

https://www.verdek.com/Nano-LNG-Station.htm
I highly doubt Bloomberg cares enough. They make their money selling terminal subscriptions and data feeds for obscene amounts.
Colleagues of mine are working on a system using these kinds of water heaters. Specifically, they are working for a standardized protocol to allow these devices to negotiate prices / indicate to the grid how much they could take.

From what I heard they said something like a half-time for the heat in these devices of about 1 to 2 days.
The other issue with dynamically-typed languages is that the language sometimes "helpfully" fixes the types for you. I came across one JS project that said this:

for (var i = 1; i != Math.pow(2, 16); i <<= 1)

Replacing Math.pow(2, 16) with 1 << 16 effected a 30× speedup--and this was in SpiderMonkey, which tends to be a little less finicky about optimizing mixed types than V8.

(It's been a while since I coded PHP, but my recollection is that PHP tries to pull a strings-are-integer tricks a few times).
Stored water for hydro power generation is also a commodity for later sale or consumption.
The article says he said "modern day slavery", but the point here is not that there wasn't any defamation.

It is that police came to his work and put him in jail based off of a complaint by the hotel. Does that seem reasonable to you?
Show HN: Remote Oil Tank Monitoring Solution
This started as a raspberry pi ultrasonic project, and has morphed into an app/ website.
I am now planning to improve design based on Laser based sensor and incorporate a battery pack where you can change the batteries. Would love some feedback from the community what features would be useful on the web/application side. Thank you
It's generally true in most countries, since libel laws extend to keeping private matters private since many things can damage a person's reputation even if they are true. For example, a British Lord's Nazi fetish.

In the US, the publication of private matters is a separate tort, invasion of privacy. For IOP, truth is not a defense.

Or another way of looking at it: libel is a narrower tort in the US than it is in the rest of the world.
Trying to claim light color schemes are scientifically better based solely on the The Pulfrich effect is absurd. The best color scheme for programming is the one you like and can comfortably look at for extended periods of time. Your eyes are different than mine so trying to claim this is a scientific means of determining the best color scheme is about as useful as you telling me what my favourite color is based on 'science'.
looks like this website is shit at pasting long strings of unbroken text correctly. try messaging me on twitter or reddit with a new payment request

https://twitter.com/F_D_KB
https://www.reddit.com/user/Fiach_Dubh/
Related advice would be to annotate every stack effect with a comment, no exceptions.

Back when I was into Forth, I had this wild notion of adding a stack checker, defining two additional comment words which would be aware of the stack effect of all core words, and require a stack effect to be defined for every new piece of vocabulary.

Never did anything with it, don't write Forth anymore, doubt I will again. I still think it's a good idea though, so I like to put it out there.
1 peon
2 layoffs occurred, more with less from corporate
3 constant suck yes. Less about delivery and more about cutting, while at the same time engagement in wasteful spending like new offices
4 lol no, raises were frozen
5 less reasonable, people started quitting and only the immobile were soon left
> if we care about existing, our sole responsibility is to each other and ourselves

The conclusion does not derive from the premise... I can care about existing in a hedonistic way and then responsibility in no way derives from my caring about existing. I’ll just do whatever I want to do and get the most pleasure possible while I exist, with nary a worry.

Unless you mean “we” as in “all of humanity” and “existing” as in “humanity surviving”, but then I don’t see why we should assume this premise to hold. Most people don’t have the energy to care about the survival of their entire species, there are enough problems to deal with in an individual’s life.
That's because its a bit of a bait and switch. When people pull that out, it's about keeping existing plants running- extending them to run for 60+ years. That's pretty cheap, since the cost of fuel is tiny and you just need to pay for the ~1000 people onsite. The issue there is risk- you can't just open up all the valves to check how worn out they are, or if all the computers still have nice transistors and clean relays. You can do some basic stuff like looking for cracks, but the system is ancient. Who knows if that is okay or not.

Then, if you talk about new construction, the issue is cost but the conversation is entirely about risk. There's very, very little danger even for many decades. Cost is another matter. The best estimates are that nuclear costs as much as the most expensive other technologies to build, but the actual end figure has just gotten higher and higher over time. Manufacturing is not what it used to be and these huge plants have been outpaced by smaller plants and different technologies.
Sounds highly subjective obfuscated in a layer of objective measures. What's the best tech company?

This implies it is the one with the highest average Leetcode score. LSAT is basically an IQ plus time spent practicing test. Hey that actually sounds kind of familiar!
I can’t really reconcile people who genuinely, in their heart of hearts, believe we’re on the precipice of doom because of carbon emissions, and are at the same time strongly against nuclear power.

Can someone who feels this way chime in and help me understand? I’m genuinely curious how these two ideas fit together.
Yes! I've been thinking the same thing for years. The hardening stuff has gone too far. I'm so happy to hear someone who worked on Project Zero speak up about it. The worst reforms in my opinion have been the ones that obfuscate memory and introduce nondeterminism, like aslr. It makes C programs impossible to debug. It's everywhere now. One basically needs to toss out half of libc and use MAP_FIXED for everything to get back normal behavior.

On the other hand, stuff like ASAN is great. I don't hear many people talking about it, sadly enough, outside Chrome team. Operating systems should enable that systemically. Sadly they never will. Because it actually finds real bugs, which take effort to fix. It's much lower effort to push non-breaking changes that make code slower and development less pleasant so you can claim victory at raising the iq bar for hypothetical bogeymen.
You have a good point sir. Have a nice day.
This is crazy. Another version of this article has nearly 50 points in half an hour and isn't even in the first 200 listings on the front page because of people flagging it. We are like weeks out from the US election and this information is important for anyone trying to stay informed (as evidenced by the shear number of people voting it up).

There's something broken here when you can just flag away any facts that you are uncomfortable with and pretend that they don't exist. I've already vouched the article back from the dead. But this is ridiculous for a website which claims one of its core principle to be libertarian style free speech.
"It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypticism

Actually, this has been a fairly widespread theme in most civilizations.

"With Covid-19 afflicting the world, and a climate crisis looming, humanity’s future seems uncertain."

Oh dear. It is only in the last couple of months that I have begun to grasp that our very fundamental human rights and freedoms may cease to exist forever.
I remember a similar concept that would work by stacking barrels of concrete using automated cranes. They had a press release like 2 years ago, and since then I never heard anything from them anymore.
I was actually very ignorant to the not very new ideas that Leftists hold about "abolishing the family", even as far back as Marx (maybe even further). Very disturbing
Isn’t this the premise of WALL-E?
More thoughts.

I dabble with publications

1) I subscribe to the Guardian atm even though it is free to read

2) I tried to restart subscriptions with the Financial Times and Economist recently and gave up on both due to shitty behaviour, shitty terms, shitty UI. It is not all about price
If the world ends with us, there is no worries about what would be after us. There will be nothing, in some sense.

If the universe could continue, it's our responsibility to keep it making aim - in our understanding. That is, if we destroy ourselves, then the rest of history wouldn't make sense from our point of view.
> The key to writing type-less code is making it so simple that you could cry.

I can't help but interpret this as "the key to writing type-less code is choosing problems so simple that you could cry". In other words, dynamic typing doesn't scale.

When I have a very simple problem to solve, sure, I won't mind dynamic typing. For anything worth more than an hour of coding however, I'll definitely reach for more reliable tools.
> Tiffany Trump

... who went to Georgetown law (typically in the 10-20 rank range).

Note that this is the best she could do when her father was running for president.
Yes, you've got it exactly correct - I was able to draw it out using a simple algorithm, but couldn't do it mentally in-game by looking at the original.
As far as I've heard, newer designs can reuse this spent fuel but there's no political will to go forward with it for some reason.
I feel like that is about to come to an end now that the appointments have become the biggest political events of the year. Yay home team! Everyone in the US knows that the setup is 6-3, does the fact that those numbers exist not make it already deeply political.
True, but this isn't exactly irrational. Nuclear only has such a good safety record because we have been so careful with it. Nobody seriously thinks "move fast and break things" nuclear reactors are a good idea.
Indeed, this submission too got flagged like 30 seconds after being posted. Jesus christ.
Why don't we see official recommendations to take more vit D to mitigate the effects of covid?

Is there still something these studies miss?
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I recently did a side-project[1] as a chance to learn SwiftUI. Their docs were not so great and I didn't want to reverse engineer their API + document it. So I used React Native + Swift backend.

Hopefully they improved/will improve the docs.

https://asadmemon.com/projects/screenshothero/
That’s just part of the story, annual nuclear refueling is also surprisingly expensive. The raw material is cheap, but you need to refine it to reactor grade, creating fuel rods, and only use ~6% of it before replacing the rods. So on net it ends up being quite costly before considering long term storage. You also need to shutdown the reactor for refueling. Other costs like maintenance starts to really add up over time. Similarly, reactors are small but nuclear power plants take up a lot of land for security, staff, etc.

It’s really a combination of several factors that’s keeping Nuclear so expensive in every country around the world not just the US.
It doesn't matter if you have a new design if you don't deploy it. The Fukushima plant was older than the Chernobyl plant. One could have simply decided to replace it with a newer design. In hindsight if Japan's government didn't have to pay for the Fukushima cleanup they could have done more sensible things, like update the entire nuclear fleet. It certainly would have been cheaper to tear all nuclear plants in Japan down and build new ones when you look at the cost overruns at Fukushima.
Apple has always taken a position something like "do it our way, or you're on your own" with their developer tools - but I don't see the situation getting any WORSE any time soon. Apple has so much code that's written in C, C++, or ObjC, that I don't imagine they'll ever be in a position to drop support for those languages. So as long as your language is able to interop with C/C++ or ObjC you're going to be fine.
For me, excluding the obvious ones like driving is dressing up nicely. Although I value ones looks less as I grow older, since appearance is transient (someone can be having a bad day), I appreciate the skill needed to combine an outfit, which I lack and can't fathom.

By nicely I don't mean like for a wedding or expensively, just plain nicely with your day-to-day apparel. Combine garment styles and colors and subtle details. I have a feeling I would have it easier on some occasions if I just payed attention to how I look instead of just making sure my weewee isn't in the open and the cloths covering me are clean. When I do try, I turn out looking goofy so I stick to my plain, bland, inoffensive elements.
Well, the P is what does you in, really :) PRNGs use a few bytes of entropy to make a ton of bytes of /dev/urandom. With
dice, the entropy is directly in your hands. Also, apparently dice are quite good sources of entropy, enough that people use them for actual crypto from time to time. I imagine most people would just be concerned with the distribution of 1-6 but I suppose if you're using them for actual crypto you'd care about other things (do you start to throw in a specific way after a while? Maybe getting into a sort of rhythm that affects the output?)