skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may well be other contributing factors than the quite narrow two you offer.

Reading some of Jeremy Leggett's analysis of nuclear in the region, notably Flamanville and Hinkley, is highly enlightening.

From inability to plan or produce sufficiently high quality components, and then challenges getting them into place without damaging them, low quality work being undertaken in the construction process [1], government hiding details of contractual arrangements, a consistent (and predicted) drop in the price of power before and through the lives of these projects, industry players being painted into a corner where they must [try to] grow their business despite the above [2], combined with a surfeit of hubris all round.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/10/edf-warns-o...

[2] https://jeremyleggett.net/2016/06/03/the-nuclear-white-eleph...
* Seems like they're far from human performance.

* On highways while under the supervision of a trained driver and autonomously within a select area.
A few years ago I fell and broke my elbow. It was a mess and had to have emergency surgery to put it all back together. After surgery I'm sent home with a "ball" around my neck that is a reservoir for some pain meds that are being fed into my body via a catheter that was threaded into a vein in my neck. So I am sitting on my recliner a few hours after the surgery , awake but groggy. Anesthesiologist calls me on my cell phone to check in on me. So the pain med ball has a valve on it calibrated from 1 to 10. It's on like 9. He asks me how the pain level is. I say "no pain". He say's "great, what's the setting our your valve" I say 9. He says "whoa! you need to turn that down! At that level it will be used up in about 10 hours and you need it last for at least 48 hours" I say "okay." He then hangs up. So being a groggy engineer, I think "okay, I will dial it down to like 2 and then as pain arrives adjust up to needed level" So I turn it down to 2. About 45 minutes later I am in the most excruciating pain I have ever experienced. Think teeth clenching. Sweating. Tears. I immediately turn the dial up to 10. The pain lasted for 2 hours. I'm an atheist, but let me tell you I was coming to Jesus in those two hours. Once the pain subsided, I call him back. He says "Oh yeah, you should have slowly backed down on the dial." Upside is that I have a lot of empathy for folks who say they are in pain. Seriously, if that pain had continued I would have taken anything, Heroin, whatever!!!
I would be willing to put my life at risk to fight against this sort of totalitarianism. History has come to that plenty of times before.
This may be true, but i think keyboards are a bad example. Keyboards are generic, there's been very little innovation in a long time, everyone knows how to make a basically equivalent product. The only real distinguisher between competitors is cost. That's going to drive margins to be razor thin. But not because its hardware but because the type of product a keyboard is. You would probably see the same thing in the market for hammers, cutlerly, etc.
Here's the thing about Xwayland: Xwayland is Xorg. If you look in the xorg code base, you will find that it's separated into components called DDX and DIX. DIX (Device-Independent X) handles protocol and server state; DDX (Device-Dependent X) does the drawing. One of the back ends in the DDX code is for Wayland; when you compile Xorg with just this back end, you get Xwayland.

So if Xorg gets abandoned -- oops! There goes Xwayland as well. I do believe that this was the plan all along: keep Xwayland around as a solution for "legacy applications" for a while, then stop supporting X altogether to make it less attractive as a back end for new applications and toolkits.
I’m not sure I understand what’s happening here. Is the article just those two paragraphs? Does it include the “more from” stuff that follows the two paragraphs? There is only one main header. Is there is link to the real article? I couldn’t find it, although I tried some of the mysterious icons.
I don't have extreme physical pain, but I do have chronic pain in the form of a constant, low-to-medium grade headache that sometimes turns into a crippling migraine-like pain for a few days. It flares with weather changes and stress, but on a 1-10 pain scale it's a 3-4 every day of the week 24/7. At times it surges to a 7-10. There is nothing modern medicine can do for me but turn my consciousness off -- which I refuse to accept.

I've learned to tune it out, but the fatigue it creates is sometimes overwhelming and I find myself crashing frequently on whatever surface I can find to rest on. I struggle mightily in the mornings to make it to work.

When I was in my teens I was part of an NIH study into chronic headaches, but doctors in general waive it away or don't know what to do about it. Constant back and neck stretches and 800mg of Ibuprofen daily seem to be the only things that alleviate it somewhat, bringing the average from a 4 out of 10 to a 3 out of 10.

Strangely, the first time I went headache free in my adult life was a week-long period in the Bay Area when I was interviewing for a few jobs. The headaches went away for a few glorious days I felt what it felt like to be "me", unencumbered by chronic pain for the first time in my adult life. It was absolutely glorious. I sometimes wakeup, in soaked sheets, sweating about the bizarreness of dreaming about that week. I once had a root canal without anesthetic, because it wouldn't take effect -- tuned it out -- I have nightmares still from the experience.

But I didn't get the jobs, I live on the East Coast, and despite a strange semi-immunity to anesthetic, probably a result of the same condition and genetics (I can get a cavity filled by using the same "tune it out" mental skills I learned dealing with absolutely disabling head pain) without fighting over if the anesthetic is working or not. Most dentists have no idea why the novocain isn't working.

My mother has an unspecified autoimmune disease that causes her global minor joint pain. Whatever she has, I'm sure I inherited it. Medical practitioners are universally unable to do anything at all about it. I sometimes drink too much so I can sleep once or twice a week despite (to spite) the pain.

It sucks and I hate it and I wish I had gotten those jobs in SV even if it meant I had one week a year, pain free. But now COVID-19 so....
I am struggling with sciatica related to my SI joint right now. It's not nearly as excruciating as most of the other posts but it has rendered me unable to work at all. Am not able to sit for more than an hour before the pain is too much. Lying down is only slightly better. It's been quite some time since I have been able to get a good night's sleep without having to wake up with the pain buliding up slowly.

More than the pain, it's the fact that I'm prevented from being able to work on my computer that frustrates me so much. After a point the boredom becomes worse than the pain.

While am not seeking medical advice from someone on the internet, I'd love to know what you did to get "healthy again".
This happens a lot in hospitality. Most chefs I know (myself included), set a timer, then go back to the job just before the timer goes off.
I don't understand, can you please explain?

> Inexperience grows from the bottom

In what way?

> I've gotten "better" by simply being too stubborn to get worse

How does one get better by wanting to get worse?

This makes no sense to me.
> Make it cheap enough to not be more expensive

Are you expecting it to be cheaper to rent than buy in the long term? That's pretty impossible since the person you are renting from has to buy at least 1 and provide additional services. It doesnt matter how cheap you make it; x<x+1 for all x no matter how small x is.
I see, so we can quickly build cheap & safe small molten salt reactors but we actually don't build because of risk aversion and industry inertia so that's really a shame (I thought the tech just wasn't ready yet).

Another problem is nuclear fanboys: why exactly do they hate renewables so much ?
Most online support groups for medical conditions are terrible. I know a few principles that are constructive, but I don't know how to get traction with starting a community where people genuinely talk about useful information in a genuinely supportive fashion that's not invasive.

I'm agreeing with you, if that isn't apparent. This is a topic near and dear to my heart and I keep trying to figure it out and ...failing.

My Reddit has five members and no traffic, basically. I am stilling thinking on how one would position and promote such a thing.

(Edited for accuracy.)
The implication in the story as told is the O&G company was using free college labor to do real work.

That is completely with precedent.
The article is just the two paragraph. But because separation of content on medium is achieved primarily with whitespace instead of more obvious affordances it's confusing as heck.
> “I never thought I would have seven months of my life wiped out by this virus. It’s just gone. Evaporated,” he said.

I feel the same way. Except I never had COVID, at least as far as I know. But my life has been stopped just the same. I rarely get out, and we'll probably be having another lockdown again here. Granted I'm living in one of the worst hotspots in Europe.

I know the measures are necessary and I follow them but they are incredibly tough especially on those of us living alone. We have to come up with some kind of some solution to get our lives back even if the vaccines don't work. This can't go on for years, it's just too depressing. I'm suffering from many of the mentioned symptoms too, caused by depression. It'll eventually cost lots of lives too.
It seems to me that Instagram is trying to limit automation and linking to stop it feeling businessy. While some automation platforms exists, scheduled posts break all the time, it's hard to share responsibilities for posting, and all that. You can't even upload images by logging in to Chrome unless you hack user agents or something like that. They want a one to one mapping of account to person and have you use the app when you're out and about instead of sitting in an office, for a more personalised feel. Probably because we already have Facebook for that.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
Why is the Communications & Marketing Manager on the CoC? That's one scary red flag.
Hello, Scott Hanselman.

Thank you for writing this. It has fostered some good discussion on HN on a very difficult topic that usually goes poorly, so you must have done something right.

I hope you get well soon, even if it takes some kind of miracle (in the sense of "wondrous happening," not necessarily in the sense of "intervention from god" if that second thing isn't your cup of tea). Sometimes people do get medical/health miracles.

All my best,

Some Random Internet Stranger named Doreen.
Sure, I guess that's fair.

Consider that a route might start as an idempotent way to update a RESTful object, but then requirements change over time and that method call now has non-idempotent side effects, such as updating a counter, or sending an email notification. It may not be practical within this system to determine whether the object being PUT is truly identical to the state already in the system, given the high volume of API calls, or the distributed nature of the state. At that point, everyone sits at the table to discuss what color to paint the bike shed. Should we change the verb, breaking existing clients? Should we require two separate API calls in order to separate the additional behavior from the idempotent simplicity of the original PUT request, doubling our API request load and introducing a possible error wherein a client forgets to make (or errors out while making) the second API call? Oh, and by the way, all of the existing clients won't benefit from the new, desirable behavior.

Neither of those options sound great to the stakeholders, so then you end up with a non-idempotent PUT, through no fault of the original API design.

The verbs quickly lose their meaning, and it would be better to spend that time actually considering how the API should evolve instead of worrying about what verb is associated with it.

You're obviously entitled to your own opinion. I fully admit that I could be wrong in all of this, but this is how I currently feel.

My experiences with HTTP have convinced me that the verbs are an abstract idea at best -- and because of that, we would all be better off eliminating PUT and PATCH. POST can do everything that PUT and PATCH can do. PATCH isn't idempotent to begin with, and you can't rely on the PUT verb to really indicate that a route is truly idempotent and you can just retry it arbitrarily, unless the documentation says so... in which case, POST can also declare that it is idempotent. (which, yes, does sound kind of weird, but I've also seen that.)

gRPC does away with the verbs entirely, as far as the developer is concerned, and that seems good to me. When I'm using a library, the functions aren't labeled with POST, PATCH, etc. The relevant behaviors and guarantees are spelled out in the documentation. I would imagine gRPC is a lot like that. But, as I said in the beginning, I don't have any direct experience with gRPC... just a lot of gripes with the way that HTTP REST APIs work, and some optimism that gRPC would let people focus on the actual problems at play, instead of lots of random distractions. (The verbs were only one of several such distractions.)
I know exactly where he is right now.

I broke my clavicle and had it plated back together. It was only for 8 months until I had the hardware removed, but it was constant, jaw clenching, phone-ringing-in-the-ears white-out pain that lasted for months.

There's no position in you can sit in to relieve it. You can't move or adjust to make it go away, even for a minute (there were a few times it went away, but very few). It's not like when you cut yourself doing something dumb and the initial pain subsides. This pain just. kept. going. Initially I was on Dilaudid, and then morphine, but the constipation was awful, and mental disassociation and hallucinations were scary. I started Oxy, but was scared of addiction so I didn't take it as often. I just kept popping Ibuprofin like candy. I even meditated, but it didn't do much because it's hard to learn something like that on-demand.

The pain finally went away after the hardware removal. But you know what? I have a persistant fear of being like that again. I can't imagine what I would do if it was every day and there was no known source like OP.
Alternatively it highly depresses you and you drop out never to re-enter the job market, or to enter very late only once it becomes a necessity for survival.
No joke, a vibrator applied to the inguinal area. It's a little uncomfortable and probably has a hefty dose of placebo effect but I'm told it's like a reset button for the way the brain interprets pain from the damaged nerve. Like sending it garbage data to trick it into clearing its cache.
Ah. I really enjoyed that.
That would sort of work too, but it comes with its own set of issues. Keep in mind that there is very little reason you would actually want to do it that way when either way you're dealing with the same impedance mismatch. In other words, you will have to solve the same issues in the display server you're running into now with screen recordings and strange window manager behavior. It's not something that you'll just get for free. If it was, the other Wayland implementations would have it fixed by now. There's no magic solutions to this without any brokenness or workarounds—the crux of the problem is that you have two protocols you're trying to match up that are compatible in some ways and incompatible in others.

Also I think it's a stretch to say the push behind Wayland is coming from Red Hat. Maybe within GNOME, but there are other implementations with no connection to Red Hat.
I'm less dangerous if I know nothing, but duly noted about how unwelcome medical advice can be
If the road is empty how can there be cars that need to defer to them?
I didn't mean us to be divisive. Backend engineers need good front-end partners to be successful. Front-end engineers depend on the backend folk to not fuck shit up, which happens time and again.

I meant that the developer community, the folks that are at the helm of developing Javascript frameworks (gahhhh!) and other shenanigans, the entire browser based ecosystem just reeks of incompetence, lack of discipline and rigor.

Frontend and Backend engineers should get together and build a better system that serves both well. That's what I meant by asking Postgres core devs to build front-end tools, something like Gemini [1].

[1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
This is a great article and being deaf myself, I have very similar experiences. Some thoughts...

I'm a heavy Otter user and find it well worth the subscription - I used it a lot even in person, and have used it more since we all started working from home. We use Teams for most of our meetings and I always switch the captions on there; one or the other sometimes lags, but usually not both at once. For family video chats, we use Google Meet, and it's usually on par with Otter and Teams.

I have read a lot of positive comments of Google's Live Transcribe and Recorder apps, but can't evaluate them since I'm an iPhone user. Between this and the other hearing a11y features in recent Pixel phones, and me having one foot out of the Apple ecosystem anyway, I give serious thought to switching to a Pixel almost every year and one of these days I'll actually do it.

Worth mentioning: Google added the Pixel's Live Captions feature to Chrome and it's in the beta and main channels, but it's hidden behind a flag AND a setting, so you have to enable the flag, restart Chrome, and then confirm in settings that captions are turned on. I believe this is entirely on-device and it does work astonishingly well; I've used it on programming streams on Twitch and it handled the technical vocabulary better than I expected , if not flawlessly.

A US-centric point I should mention: for companies above a certain size, the Americans with Disabilities Act requires that they make reasonable accommodations for you. I have done this in the past to have a professional captioner. They're more accurate, but inconvenient to schedule, usually have a bit more lag, and very expensive ($125 an hour was about average when I last had to get quotes for this). Not everyone wants to make the accuracy tradeoff and that's fine - I understand their position - though I'm personally willing to because it makes it very easy to jump on a call with a coworker whenever I need to.

Quick notes on my setup: I have a 3.5mm splitter hanging off my work laptop's headphone jack. One side goes to a ReSound Multi-Mic (which includes a 3.5mm jack) to stream the audio to my hearing aid. The other side has a TRS-to-TRRS cable going into my iPhone (via the audio to lightning adapter) or iPad to provide an audio stream for Otter to work on. USB webcam provides the microphone. I typically use my iPad since I can set it up under the monitor my video call is running on and then I don't have to use screen space on my monitors to display the captions.

I really should write up a blog post about all of this, with photos.
The Lady Astronaut series tackles historical sexism brilliantly
It's full-duplex, that's 1000 Mbps in each direction simultaneously.
Privateer, though... I loved the hell out of that game.

I don't think we had a Star Wars variant but that would've been something.
Idk, but ESL speaker as I myself is, I don’t think localizations are that important for technical writings, where few grammar or rhetoric is concerned, and technical terms can simply be seen as “tokens” that can be represented in any language as long as you can identify their “shapes.” Therefore, if you are among the targeted reader group, that the documentation is not in your mother tongue is unlikely to discourage you from reading it. On the other hand, if you are not comfortable with reading technical descriptions generally, having a localized version will not help much either.
I saw the title of the article, read it, and came back to the comments to find fellow clusterheads.

Wishing you pain free days!
My partner hasn't actually implemented any external pancreas programs for a few personal reasons, I mostly bring it up because it's something that's solidly in the "goals" column and we're both excited about the possibilities in the future. (And it is very much the future as far as I can tell)

Yes, Tidepool and OpenAPS are both generally focused on insulin management, so if you're looking for something that involves glucagon-like things I've got no idea.

Honestly, Scott Hanselman is the guy I'd ask.
I think the opposite is more unusual. If you get aquired by Facebook you generally switch your own stock for FB’s one, at least in most of the deals I’ve heard of.

Much better for the company to keep their cash free.
Oh, right. I'm an idiot who forgot about the fixed point divide.

And yes, at some point you are going to need to do a divide by constant 10. It's unavoidable if you want a base 10 display. The option of using BCD to do calculations just lets you do that divide upfront, rather than at the end.
Only posting this in case it helps anyone else. I am aware it is a single point of data in my case but it is backed by research and accepted medical advice (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3412202/). I had severe chronic pain from herniated disc that was not a perfect candidate for immediate surgery.

My GP prescribed Cymbalta (https://www.cochrane.org/CD007115/NEUROMUSC_duloxetine-treat...) and I was surprised to find out that the depression med actually is known to help with chronic pain.

It took a few days/weeks to really kick in but it absolutely worked for me. What it did was dissociate my conscious self from my in-pain self. I was always aware that my body was in pain but frankly it didn’t bother me.

This allowed my body the time to properly heal itself without me consciously trying to adjust my position and movement to minimize pain. After about 9 months, I got off the meds, completely pain free. Cymbalta does have a ton of side effects and I experienced a number of them, especially when tapering off. However it was all worth it to get rid of the literal pain in my neck. Sounds like a parody to say “Ask your doctor about Cymbalta” but honestly if you are in chronic pain, don’t want to be addicted to opioids, have tried every rational thing but this, it is not a woo crystal oil gimmick. It is a risk that may be worthwhile to you.
That's actually where I was getting my BASIC code from to transcribe. I don't remember exactly which magazine, but in my fuzzy memory, I think it was Byte.
How does any kind of fine for PG&E not end up being a regressive tax? As long as they are the only supplier in NorCal the costs will just be passed on to all NorCal residents.
Given that it resolved itself on its own, I'd assume that wasn't the case for me. But it's very interesting how referred pain can be so confusing!
Google-discloses-windows-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild
A lot of ppl are under the impression that pge is a private company. That's not the case. Its a heavily regulated government controlled monopoly and laws prevent any competition.

Time to deregulate and let new competition in!