skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same logic people applied in the last crypto mining shortage. There will be more and more of those in the future as Bitcoins valuation becomes dumber and dumber. But I don't have to care since I am not an angry person on the internet who insists on buying a high end GPU for low prices while there aren't enough of them around. I bought an overpriced RX 570 years ago during the last mining boom and I am happy with it.
>Upgrading them to conform to modern safety standards isn't cost-effective.

Why that? In France nuclear power plants are kept to the newest safety standards. Everything in a nuclear power plant can be replaced apart from the reactor vessel and the containment building.
This is one reason why having well managed, capable institutions matters so much. Don't get me wrong, democracy is vital to ensure accountability, but it often worries me when elected politicians interfere in the management of specialist institutions unless they are clearly mismanaged. These things can take generations to develop but only a few months years to cripple.
Thank you for confirming this, I thought I was going crazy seeing it happen a bunch recently. I assumed my system was just on the fritz.
It’s an invitation to pose a slippery slope argument so that s/he can tear it down, I’d just ignore it.
Please put Austria on the list! :)
As I understand it (I haven't actually seen it explained anywhere). It's some kind of a hack that lets a single file be interpreted as both a shell script and a COM file, and a C library that does runtime detection of which OS you are running.
Apple already has Sidecar that turns your iPad into a monitor. It's not a stretch to enable that feature on Mac so you can turn your Mac into a monitor too whenever you need it for some reason.
The idea that in a few years germany could be opening multiple lignite coal mines to replace falling renewable output makes me incredibly anxious about our chances of transitioning away from fossil fuels at all.

I've argued it in other places in this thread, but I really think the only solution we have right now for clean baseline power is nuclear energy.
I don’t know the statistics, but I live in the US, and had rented for 10+ years with 5 of 6 different landlords in 3 cities, and I always got my deposit back, and I don’t know anyone who was stiffed either. But I wasn’t staying in the worst places, but not the best either. One was an informal cash transaction rental from a Craigslist ad and it worked out.
> As for the actual point: I see no reason to venerate C. Nobody should labor under the false pretense that we, as an industry, are brilliant enough to reliably write safe, cross-platform C. We haven't managed to do it for the last 50 years and, given the current state of static analysis on C, I don't have any particular hope for the next 50. I'm going to keep on writing it, but I don't intend to venerate it or convey that expectation on anyone else.

This absolutely hits the nail on the head. This is masterfully put.

The problem with a great many successful things in the world is there's a very human tendency to "saint" them and attribute a sort of mystical infallibility/ineffability to them. As though they weren't just "fit for the purpose and in the right place at the right time", but rather "a work of genius - the right solution for all time, now and forever." (C.f "end-of-history-fallacy").

That's how technology stagnates - if we, as a community, can't admit something's got room for improvement, it simply won't.
The division between the Industrial Revolution and the Second Industrial Revolution is a silly one in my opinion. The late 19th century is what I'm referring to, and it's the one with the most substantial economic growth.

We had 70+ years with no central bank whatsoever (and over 120 with a weakened bank on the gold standard). From that point until 1913, we saw the telegraph, telephones, railroads, mass industrial manufacturing, electricity, radio, airplanes, and cars. Most of these innovations were adopted most aggressively in the U.S., despite not all being invented in the U.S.. Even with railroad booms and busts and routine recessions, nothing remotely close to the Great Depression happened.

Once again, there was 4% compounded growth a year for a century, and without the advantage of "leapfrogging" legacy technology.
Yep!

As someone from a former socialist country, I can confirm.

Situation has got a lot better in the last ~30 years, people have alot more, but since a few people got even more than that, some complain a lot. Average worker family has gone from bicicyles and maybe one yugo (or a "fico" - even smaller/cheaper) to two, maybe three european-mid-range cars + all the modern extras, but are not happy, because their neighbor has as 100k€ mercedes.
You still have to remember that the Fukushima reactors were also old and crappy designs. That TMI was as harmless as it was came from the things we learned, Fukushima predates that. Tepco also refused to upgrade or improve several safety measures.

And the Czernobyl design not only ignored a lot of safety knowledge the Sowjets had at that time, but took intentional shortcuts to be cheaper and make the fuel more accessible (supposedly for bomb production).
What kind of regulation are you thinking of? We regulated away losing real money stupidly fast over gambling, but you can still play the same machine if it's not real money.

Frankly, I can't imagine any practically effective regulation of social media. I don't even understand what is the desired outcome of this potential regulation. Less socialization? People are not going to be OK with that.
If this analysis is correct then be happy with the lack of GPUs.
latest benchmarks with wasm3, wasmer, wasmtime, wavm and etc:
https://www.00f.net/2021/02/22/webassembly-runtimes-benchmar...
So sorry to hear this. A nasty strike on the self-hosting folks out there. All the tips of "partially open-source" solutions in this thread make me want to go back to bed.
"Utilizing 28.36% of installed capacity" is what the linked map says about solar right now.

I just rewound the slider to 8pm yesterday and it says "35% renewable".
And what happens when there's a storm? Renewables alone can't provide all the power needed over extended periods of time without very significant storage, for which there is no large scale cost effective solution actually implemented.
What counts as notable success? The entire base energy load for Ontario, Canada comes from nuclear (see: live.gridwatch.ca) and the provinces high energy costs (such as they were) were directly caused by investment in renewables through guaranteed high rates paid to producers. This is not a political point, I supported those mostly-now-abandoned investments. They took down just-erected windmills near my house in recent years (Prince Edward County, Ontario).

Seems like you are seizing defeat here.
It's a mix.

I think that average or high quality code has increased in quality over time, because CI/CD is a lot more widespread. Increased computing power has improved tools such as IDEs, compilers, linters, testing tools, etc. So the ceiling is generally higher, I'd say.

However there are a ton more newbies in the field, because there's a need for more people, so there is also a lot more garbage and that garbage is even worse.

Plus, there are a ton of programming-adjacent folks which can now publish their stuff. Since their focus and background are not related to programming, their libraries and apps are generally of lower quality.

TL;DR: There is more of everything, and since 80% of everything is crap, there is more crap. It's also harder to find the gems, since we have to wade through crap. But good stuff is still out there.
I always got my security deposit back when I rented. No drama, they just checked the apartment and gave it back.
Living in a country where there is a better social net in place, but coming from a refugee background, i regularly notice a disconnect with my peers.

I do understand their financial worries and sympathize, but only because i am aware of my perspective. Oftentimes i have to remind myself that for others it is actually stressful to think about not being able to comfortably buy a house vs renting it.

Meanwhile i worry about my mothers retirement, how i can get her out of this shady living situation and how i can pay back everything she has done to bring me up despite circumstances.

Actually i wish for others that were better off their whole life to have my perspective for some time, since i think that it would really make them less stressed about their future.
I was exaggerating, but yes, there are also big mismatches. I think this tends to happen more with big job sites.
It might have been the biggest tsunami ever recorded, but it's nothing new that tsunamis do occur in Japan, and still the plant was allowed to be built and operated directly at the seaside at a height of only 10 meters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...). And why? Because the nuclear lobby had a lot of influence in Japan.

I'm not sure where you get the 200,000 evacuated people from, but the only mention of 200,000 people being evacuated in the article you are quoting is in fact in the "Nuclear power plants" section...
Also all the bad pre-2001 programmers have come back and instantly jumped into tech lead and CTO positions.
Related:

5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor, May 27, 2011: (https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about...)

The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor, January 19, 2012: (https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve...)

4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand About Poor People, February 21, 2013: (https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-never...)
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This Cosmopolitan thing for sure opened some floodgates :-)

It's a shame that I imagine OS vendors will find some fancy ways to make it at least annoying to use it, in at most a few years. I think it's already happening, with code signing/notarization.
There's this in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-peop...

“All the way up the income-wealth spectrum,” Norton told me, “basically everyone says [they’d need] two or three times as much” to be perfectly happy.

It references this study: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53540
The question has probably been asked a thousand times before, but wouldn't all those bootstrapping problems for niche platforms be solved if Rust had a C backend? Are there technical issues which would prevent compiling LLVM bytecode to a C blob, similar to what wasm2c does for WASM bytecode?
> other organizations are able to maintain their sovereign status in the same way the Knights Hospitaller did

Which is really easy for them because they're really friends with the powerful psychopaths running our planet. Most communes have been either assimilated or destroyed by the colonial powers that be.

See the ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes or Exarchia in Athens for some of the latest examples of State power colonizing areas they had previously been consciously chased away from by the local population who just wanted independence from tyranny.
> > a person’s pay is determined by how rare their skills are and how much demand there is for those skills. The value of their work doesn’t factor in as much

> What's the value of a person's work that isn't just determined by the first part? What does the author think drives demand, if not the prospective value you provide to the various companies in the labor market?

The value of your work is "how much money would the company lose if no one did the exact job I am doing". This generally has 0 correlation to your wage, because in general a company will think in terms of "how much money would the company lose if anyone else did the job this employee is doing", which is a very different question. This is how it happens that many absolutely essential jobs, without which society would simply stop functioning, are also among the lowest payed. Probably one of the best examples is nurses, but also warehouse workers, transport people, construction workers, farm hands.
I feel like this was more due to how we used computers at the time rather than AIM itself. You can still set your status on most messaging platforms, but we're now always online and people assume you'll respond later if you're too busy.

Up until the early 2000's, most people were still getting online using a dial-up connection on a PC. That meant you had to make a conscious decision to get online and block off your phone line for other purposes. At least for me, the very fact that I was online meant that I wasn't busy and was open to chatting with my friends.
Clicking "Demo" on Ubuntu/Firefox 86.0 does nothing :(
That would be completely inconsistent with what I've stated about why standards are desirable. So, we evidently agree on that.

It is not logical to apply the same standard uniformly to everything regardless of its inherent characteristics. It's also not always the best course of action to blindly apply any rule without making exceptions. Bits and bytes already and inherently do not fit into a base10 paradigm, but a base2 paradigm.

Making an exception for the application of scale measurements for those units makes sense and worked perfectly fine, for decades. Confusion was created by those adopting a different standard, for dubious reasons.

The issue of consumer ignorance, which was largely created by storage manufacturers and later now embedded by Apple could have been easily and simply resolved with a tiny bit of education.

Indeed, at least through the 80's it often was.

It's actually not that hard for people to remember one four digit number to multiply or divide by, after they've had an explanation of why that's important and make sense. Building this into the UI along with explanation is also not difficult. Exactly the same as many other important things that are prone to being misunderstood are explained.

Everyone would be better off for it.
I still don't understand how recycling is related to the appearance of rare metals in toys and food packaging. This is more of a problem in the specific case of recycling. To prevent this from happening, you need to use proven recycling services (such as https://www.rubbishwaste.co.uk/). Unfortunately, not all waste removal and recycling companies perform their work efficiently. In any case, you need to approach the choice of the person with whom you cooperate more responsibly. All the best!
Even with that, 20% of US electricity is still from nuclear.

We managed to build these before the industry became expensive.

Now Germany and the United States are rushing to close the operating plants.

I’m not sure why we can’t figure out how to build a standard design and replicate it
But for some reason it's not cool to use HTML. We throw on megabytes of code just to bypass the page reload so that we can better control the user experience. This is why we end up with complex and bloated libraries like React and end up with a frontend and backend state that have to be kept in sync.

I wish we went back plain HTML, especially for sites that don't need to be dynamic.
> Enter https://live.sysinternals.com in to Windows Explorer to browse and run the psTools suite.

How do they do that?

Edit: well I guess going there answers the question: it’s exposed via WebDAV
>I'm sure there are libraries to parse json in C++

There certainly are, but adding a library is much more difficult in C++ than pretty much any other language which seems to tempt people into hacky self-built parsing when they really ought to know better.
Maybe the quality is still the same, and your skills improved? Sounds like 10 years ago you blamed yourself when something went wrong, and now you can see when it's the library that's broken. 10 years ago you may have not been able to spot defects, but now you can.
This is acceptable, but only if you blame people for their failure to not preorder the card in time. Since you decided the allocation mechanism to be based on time rather than money that's the only valid conclusion.
Yeah, a bunch of things in this article strike me as very American (I'm British). No-one in the UK worries about not being able to afford healthcare if they're poor, nor do they need a car to get to the grocery store in under an hour (unless they live in an isolated home out in the countryside, which probably means they're rich, not poor.) There are many, many places you can live in the UK without needing a car to get to work.

The deposit thing looks insane to me too. My rental deposit is held in escrow by some third party; I've never heard of anyone not getting their deposit back when they move (unless they did something to deserve it e.g. trashing the place). The only issue around deposits is that you usually have to pay a deposit for the new place before you've received the deposit back for the old place, which can cause cashflow issues.

I've always thought of the U.S. as a great place to be rich, but a terrible place to be poor.

On the other hand, I find it laughable that this author describes a 900sqft apartment as "very small". 900sqft would be considered a decent-sized, mid-range apartment in London, and if you're poor you'll live somewhere MUCH smaller. Americans have such ginormous houses, even the poor ones.
Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Coal exhaust may not, but coal itself does, just google/ddg " coal slurry disasters" to see the impact when it goes wrong.
All of those jobs would have still existed in a public utility. How many dividends do you think the average Texan got from the various power companies in Texas?

How do you think the taxes paid by those private utilities will stack up against the massive harm caused by those utilities trying to preserve profits and reduce liability in a crisis? How much do you think it will cost Texan tax payers to dig themselves out of this hole?
> Other organizations should be able to be sovereign too if this is allowed.

Many people have tried over the years. But only those that play nice with tyrants are allowed to survive. Hell even entire nations who did not bend to the wills of their colonial masters of yesteryear have been meddled with. See the assassination of Thomas Sankara (a democratically-elected president) as example of the dozens and dozens of US/Europe-powered coups d'État of the last decades.

Autonomous communes, whether squats or private property, have tried to declare their independence for centuries. The truth is they've been either assimilated or destroyed by Nation States. There's a very nice/powerful movie called La Cecilia about that.
Value, not demand. A nurse who helps stop 50 people from dying each week is doing very valuable work, but a talented lawyer helping to defeat valid class-action lawsuits (negative value work) is probably paid more.
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I remember when someone explained here eloquently and inticately explained why Twitter constantly breaks in various ways, such at saying I'm not allowed to see a tweet, but then I merely hit reload and it works... easy fix posted around a year ago at least but still not implemented. Don't hold your breath.
>What's the value of a person's work that isn't just determined by the first part?

The value of the work done, either in a physical sense (because it produces something of value) or in a societal sense (because it involves doing something of value).

If you're the best hole-digger in the world, and people are constantly trying to hire you to dig holes so that they can fill them in, then you would be highly paid - but would your work be "valuable"?

Probably very few people are true free-market believers when it comes to the idea of fair pay.
Sure. If you see the history of that article, you would find my username. My userpage mentions my email id where you can send it to.

(Not sharing my ID directly, to avoid unnecessary spam)
Having mm/dd/yyyy and dd.mm.yyyy wouln't even be so bad if people did not also write mm.dd.yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy and mm-dd-yyyy and dd-mm-yyyy and mm.dd.yy and dd/mm/yy and mm-dd-yy and dd-mm-yy and mm.dd and dd.mm and mm/dd and dd/mm.

Of course even then, yyyy-mm-dd is best.
I have a problem with Vulkan on linux. Vulkan wont work on Intel drivers if the display is using 10 bit colour.

For some reason, OpenGL still works, and very well, including doing gradients in 10bit colour space.
I'm thinking (among others) about the toxic effects of girls looking at perfect women all day long.

So like a pack of cigarettes saying you are about to inhale a list of toxins and will get lung cancer, perhaps Instagram can say that you are about to look at a bunch of women that do not exist in reality: Their eyelashes are fake, their bums have been sucked up with a vacuum system (which hurt), they are not in Thailand, the background is fake. The private jet they are on is hired for 5 min, and their goal is to get you to mimic them and buy the stuff they get paid to promote. If you succeed to look and act like your fav influencer, you will not become happy, in fact you are more likely to become depressed. Moreover, most men do not find these women attractive (I'm still baffled why some young girls do think the duck-faced generation has any attraction but ok, maybe I'm old) and you are better of becoming a strong minded, gentle and independent individual if your interest is being attractive to potential mates (opposite sex of not).

Maybe we could compel $socialMedia to show such warnings every now and then. It's just education, the same as listing side effects on (US) pharma commercials, and (EU) risky financial products.
SciFi author John Scalzi did a couple blog posts on being poor. (His readership added some he'd missed.)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/09/03/being-poor-ten-years-...
the AIM era suffered from the duplication of messengers. I remember using Trillian to merge aim/icq/msn and later Pidgin.

Also, I forgot how to register on aim but i'm pretty sure it wasn't tied to name or phone number :) such a wild life