skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The existing companies are pulling out all the stops to try and keep from being decommissioned for as long as possible since, from their perspective, that capital investment is a sunk cost and the longer it runs the higher the profits will be.

perhaps it is an unintended side effect as far as they're concerned, but i'd also hate to reach a point where we don't have a contingent of engineers/plant operators with experience running these plants. nuclear won't be any safer if we turn all the plants off for 40 years and then decide "oops, yeah turns out we don't have any workable plan besides fission" and have to figure out how to run everything again.
What makes this different is that is is trying to enforce unpopular ethics
Any permissive software license (which it seems CPython's is) is broadly interchangeable with any other, and can be used with both other permissive licenses and copyleft licenses like the GPL. That can't happen with any license that places restrictions on what it can be used for.
Maybe it's because I'm in Canada where several provinces use hydro as a primary energy source, but why doesn't make it to the top of the lists more often?

Nearby ecosystem damages, relatively speaking, seem rather low in comparison with nuclear or fuel, and for dealing with future climate change issues in general. While they don't explode, I'm sure they can can cause disasters of their own.

But wind/solar require massive storage capacity to become a primary source and require a lot of space/disruption at these scales. I'm not sure how the affected landmass (in the long term) compares with Hydro, or maintenance costs.

Hydro has this great combination of zero emission and the water being its own battery. Not relying on rare materials and battery production avoids adding competition and could favor the transition to electric vehicles at a global scale.

Like nuclear, initial costs are problematic. Social acceptance is so-so. In some places like the US many "good spots" are taken, but it appears 2/3 of potential in the world is untapped. More numerous but smaller damns seem to be a possibility too.
AstraZeneca is not breaching its contract with the EU. That appears to be propaganda: note that the article doesn't actually state what part of the contract is being breached, and the link in the first paragraph that superficially looks like it would support this claim goes to an article that's not about contracts at all, in fact the word contract doesn't appear anywhere in that article.

The EU accidentally leaked its own contract with AstraZeneca after trying to redact it. It showed that AZ were correct about the wording of the contract and the EU had been lying. There is no real disagreement about that anymore: the EU is on the wrong side of that dispute which is why there's been a lot of posturing but no court cases.

BTW several EU countries have stockpiles of the AZ vaccine they aren't using because their citizens aren't turning up for appointments or volunteering to be vaxxed.
I don't think these changes are likely because, in my opinion, there is a silent anti-natal movement in Western culture. We have serious issues of an aging population, not enough kids being born to fund social security, etc. and all of our solutions look like bringing people in from other countries with high fertility rates. None of the ideas being tossed around seem to have anything to do with facilitating our own families. There's lots of different sub-sects of the anti-natal movement ranging from the environmental to racial. I have a friend who confided in me she was afraid to have a child because she didn't want to pass on whiteness.

I truly hope you are able to find a partner and employer who supports you in your life decisions.
The entire premise is ridiculous.
Why should the power needs of certain people be put above the safety of giant land areas?

I am happy to pay a premium for technologies that are less efficient but safer.

When did it become acceptable to say that society needs to pursue as much electricity production as possible, all risks be damned?
TEPCO dropped the ball pretty massively too, although IMO it should be the government's responsibility to assume that power operators are going to and not allow them to.
A laptop can be customized with accessories, same as a desktop can.
Google: Making it even less likely there's anything other than Blink that implements the most recent HTML* spec since 2013.
I collect TinTin commics in different languages, out of this fantasy that attempting to read them is going to teach me those languages (I mean, it can't hurt, right?). And I was completely blown away that Snowy has a different name in most of the different versions (most of the time, it's some variation of the translation of "chalky"), but Cpt Haddock is always "Haddock".
I don't like the current trend of social media apps burying users under push notifications, calls to action, and other engagement hooks.

However, there's a second, parallel problem adding fuel to the fire: The more we talk about overindulgence in social media (or Netflix, or video games, or fast food) as an act perpetrated by evil corporations on us helpless individuals, the less sense of individual agency we give ourselves. I'm not suggesting that we let social media companies off the hook, but battling this problem is going to require more than simply shaming them in Medium posts. We have to start reminding people that they are in control of their decisions, and that they can take steps to reduce their social media usage to healthy levels.

I know the common refrain is "Delete Facebook!" but that's the equivalent of abstinence-only education. We need to start talking about how to configure Screen Time on iOS, or how to use Facebook's built-in tools to hide content you don't want to see. We also need to encourage people to take control of their feeds, muting users and topics who draw them into unproductive discussions.
So I could transfer from icloud to google then import into digikam. Interesting

Why can't I just download a zip from icloud with my 13,000 photos/videos inside? Where's the API?
It goes completely against what most believe, but out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

And that's including the worst-case accidents.
This would be great if the metric was measuring value. Measuring value is hard; the closest quantified analog we have is money.

So a valid comparison might be "how much would anyone actually pay for this ad-funded thing?" It turns out the answer is often $0.
>Yup, my first question on seeing the headline - how does some specialty bank I've barely heard of end up putting at risk 50K jobs?

Great question, and the answer is likely: they don't. I'd guess they just counted every last person they could (and probably some twice) to inflate the number of jobs at risk to try to get the mythical "too big to fail" tag. The 50k jobs was stated by lawyers in court with seemingly 0 documentation to back it up.

>Lawyers for Greensill on Monday told a court in Australia, where the company has been fighting to retain credit insurance, that trouble at the company could cause clients to default on their debts and jeopardize 50,000 jobs.
If we're going into like very technical definitions I believe what you're talking about is physical dependence. In a mental health context persisting use even after multiple serious negative consequences is part of the definition of addiction.

Though even there I think they are moving to phrases like "drug use disorder" partly because of usage mismatches like this.
There was a really good twitter tread about Fukushima by Dr. Malka Older (great sci-fi writer) who wrote a report on the disaster for the french nuclear safety agency, it gives you an idea about the kinds of problems the engineers working on the reactor faced while the crisis unfolded, very interesting read.

https://twitter.com/m_older/status/1366324146901254146?s=19
If you prefer, we don't have to evacuate. We can just tell people to keep living in Fukushima and the number of deaths will be still smaller than fossil fuel plants.

People don't evacuate from fossil fuel, not because it's safer, but because you can't, so we just accepted it as facts of life. More people die from vehicle exhaust than Fukushima: where are you going to go?
Our society used to suffer because of folic acid and iodine deficiencies. Regulations required supplementation of those compounds into commonly eaten foods like grains and salt, and those deficiencies are now a tiny fraction of what they once were. What would keep us from doing the same with vitamin B12?
How Consumer Experience Is Shaped by Political Orientation of Service Providers
Lol how does not wanting to be mugged have anything to do with black lives? And most insurance has deductibles...
Absolutely? I know I’m atypical for an internet user, but apart from YouTube I rarely use Google products, and YouTube is a nice-to-have, not a necessity.
I did read it, before I made "numerous comments."

Papers discuss the implications and applications of their work. That discussion is not the work itself; it is meant to give a starting point for fitting the work with other research or doing new research that builds on the work. Thus, the authors "close by sharing our brief thoughts on policy implications of recognizing cryptodamages." That section mentions a wide range of policy implications—several paragraphs that you didn't bother quoting—without advocating for anything in particular beyond reducing harm.

Frankly, that leaves it sounding like what you're really bothered by is that the paper points out that there is harm, and advocates for reducing it. And if that's the real problem—that you don't like it when someone speaks up and says hey, this has quantifiable downsides—just be honest about it.
Syphon[1] (although open alpha) too.

[1] https://syphon.org/
There are a number of flea-borne illnesses:

https://www.dvm360.com/view/feline-fleas-and-flea-borne-dise...

They appear to be rarely deadly, but unpleasant. The fleas themselves are also deeply unpleasant, both to the pets and to the humans in their houses. If your pets brought in fleas, you would almost certainly want to treat the house with a pesticide bomb.
The Hanford site is a WWII era nuclear weapons facility and is not at all comparable with nuclear reactors for power generation.
> it's crazy that a women doesn't get paid for raising kids

Why would women get paid to raise their own kids? You suggest it's because when done well, it has incredible value to society. What is that value to society? It's having functional, productive members. Women already reap the benefits of that by sharing society with other peoples' well raised children.

What I mean to say is that it's a web of mutual benefit. The gap is actually in all the people who don't have children, who are essentially free riders in this scheme, but that is offset by the fact that they pay taxes for things like schools, which they don't themselves consume, and lack of tax breaks that parents receive.
Oh yes. I'd love to be able to hook up Google Assistant devices to my iCloud reminders lists, so that "remind me tomorrow to call the doctor" spoken to the Google Home would just nicely become an iOS reminder.
"[Old] Usage patterns don't make sense to allocate bandwidth equally for up/down."

In the past 5 years the amount of video and streaming (pre-recorded and live) has exploded. And remote/WFH culture is advancing. It's time for US internet providers to catch up.
Both absurdism and sarcasm present unrealistic scenarios and trust the listener not only to a) understand that the scenario presented is deliberately false but also b), to see the humour in resolving the distance between reality and the presented scenario.
> Also, what is "excessively gory"? One arm chopped off ok, two is excessive?

Given that the licensed software is a library intended for use in game development, this is actually an important question!
It goes completely against what most believe, but out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
> some rich white people experienced a minor inconvenience?

i'm not sure if at-gunpoint armed robbery registers as a 'minor inconvenience' to anyone, regardless of skin color.
Vimeo was working the paid angle around the time that Youtube launched, and it wasn't under water. Youtube was successful because they _purposefully_ (and so, criminally) refused to take down copyrighted content because they were aiming to grow fast enough and large enough to be purchased by Google.

It's not just Youtube/Vimeo; for instance, Flickr was a premium paid service around the time that Facebook launched, and it wasn't under water, either.

These "freemium" services were able to act as _hideously unprofitable_ loss leaders for the large advertisement firms, and so take down the non-advertisement-funded competition.

It was predatorial monopolistic practices that gave us the current web.
> Sure.

You missed my point that they're not counted meaningfully. U-3 is what is typically reported, so the others are irrelevant.

The "health" of the economy is a nebulous, academic abstraction when there are 100 homeless people camping under freeway underpasses outside my window, no federal livable minimum wage, workers gradually being paid less and less over decades while expected to work more and more, swelling ranks of billionaires cashing in on socialism they bought, and the burgeoning ranks of un- and underemployed who go neglected (maybe that explains part of Trump's base?) and undercounted. The MSM loves to parrot how "great" the economy always is because that's what advertisers want to hear, but it's tone-deaf when there was (and may still well be) more real unemployment than during the height of the Great Depression.

Wealth equality and employment are all most people care about. No one cares about the "health" of the rich people's casino "economy."

Wealth Inequality in America

https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM
Seems like the technicians' work is already done for them. What a win!
All problems are human and not technical though when it comes to engineering failures.
Cutting corners was appreciated to meet arbitrary plans and quotas. The failure mode wasn't that different.
This is great. I've been thinking about hacking something like this together for myself for awhile now.

Part of my interest in this is that I'm sitting on a bunch of company data already - both public and private companies. I'm the founder BigPicture, a B2B sales tech startup, where we had to acquire similar data sets to power our product.

Basically, we got sick of paying Clearbit for the data, so we ended up building our own thing. Here's our API docs that shows a sample of what we have: https://bigpicture.io/docs/enrichment/company/

Getting this data is a pain in the ass, so if you're interested, I may be open to partnering in some capacity. My email is michael [at] bigpicture.io
Whats the worse case? We end up with a exclusion zone for a hundred years?

I'm beginning to think that is a feature.

The world needs more exclusion zones that can be left to nature. In the last 50 years we have pretty much encroached our shit into every single square inch of the planet. The only areas that aren't shoulder to shoulder humans destroying the environment, are the ones to inhospitable to live in and don't have any obvious natural wealth to exploit.

Maybe we wouldn't be going through one of the largest extinction events in the planets history if we irradiated half the land mass enough to scare people away.
The Siberian tundra already has bears, wolves, and the coldest cold known to man.

It also has very nearly zero population.
Thanks. Found an article explaining them, I've been meaning to look it up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
Recently, there was a linked shared with a cheatsheet for modern JS that would replace needing to use jQuery. Does anyone have that link? Essentially a guide for building framework-less apps with vanilla JS.
The reality is that this isn't much different than it was in the past. When Morton Downey Jr was on TV with a hostile audience tackling guests and subjects they opposed strongly one opinion on this was just another way of being a jerk in your own home. Now, it's seen as something new or changing when all that's changed is that we can speak more often online and see more opinions than we have in the past. But the same audience remains with the same basic opinions. Some things might be closer to the public consciousness but the ultimate truth of this matter is nothing that Bari Weiss said is entirely true. Sure, some people have lost jobs to do hecklers and harassers online but that would be no different than when gay people use to get outed in the past and lost friends, jobs, and family. If anyone wants to be honest and talk about cyberbullying and cyberstalking then call it that rather than lie and call it "Cancel Culture" to sell more clicks or books because we do have a problem there especially with respect to the laws governing such behavior. It's not been that long ago that an adult woman bullied a teenage girl into committing suicide online, so there's things to discuss, just not the nonsense that Bari Weiss is cooking up.
Jesus, I pay that much for Spectrum's "up to" 100mbps. Right now speed test is showing me anywhere from .04 to around 40 down and about 10 up, but admittedly, my Wifi setup is less than optimal. There's only a single upgrade package "up to" 400 down.
It's a bit infuriating when English isn't your native language because I could never remember the right spelling.
Agreed. Freud is still taught widely, just not in the Psych department...English Lit eat it up though.
The cost of nuclear is high in the short term but when debt is paid off it becomes one of the cheapest sources of baseline energy in the long run. I don't think "big nuclear" is behind these posts, its just that more and more people are looking past a period of nuclear panic and recognizing that this is likely to be the only form of baseload power we can transition to in the face of climate change.
have to say, you'd have a lot of health problems if you tried to ditch all fats
There needs to be dynamic range in feedback. This is true for managers as well as parents. If every little thing is 'awesome' and people are 'super amazing', and I'm 'incredibly excited' about everything, there's

1. nothing left to say when things are really amazing

2. an implication that less would be acceptable
Are you sure you know flexbox and grid well? I don’t see how you could prefer floats.
From what i know about this accident, the profit in this case was not to loose face for the higher ups running the plant.
Guy Davenport gives some pages of Diogenes in 7 Greeks: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/guy-davenport/#7-greeks
The one thing I am seeing is non-toxic folks are not opening enough companies that offer great work-life balance, good pay and other perks. So people who like good things are only looking for jobs and not setting up companies and offering these to others.
See this the fundamental problem with verbal reasoning about certain topics. I guess "illusion" was my imprecise attempt to say "something analogous to an illusion." What do I mean by that? Basically I mean that consciousness seems like one thing but perhaps it is not. I do not not agree that seems requires a "subjective" observation. Basically I am arguing subjectivity is incorrect but useful model of our selves that the brain creates on its own. It does not exist independent of a living brain.

If an "AI" image recognition algorithm classifies a zebra print couch with four legs as a zebra, the animal does that mean that the algorithm is experiencing a subjective deception or that it is just wrong?
Interesting. Typescript seems to need a --strictNullChecks flag, but yeah Kotlin does have this already. (Sadly, Kotlin is filled with so many bad ideas, it's hard to notice a good one.)
I'm glad to see that you use PyQt for the GUI. Have you examined PySide as well? It's mostly drop-in compatible with PyQt and has a much better license in my opinion.
It's partly that, but it's partly what the GP comment says: the prevalent idea that true equality of the sexes is for women to become exact copies of men. Since women and men are not exact copies, this causes problems.
Show HN: NFC Passport App
Every human being can value traditional female work (or, more broadly, human obligations to each other) more than money.

But we seem to want to be paid. It's interesting that socializing the payments seems to strike people as more freeing than just social obligation.

This seems like the kind of thinking that eventually requires payments to give up the thrill of killing each other.
Wouldn’t the plant have been located where demand and cooling capacity were co-located?
yeah, the c/c++ ecosystem never really had the benefit of a internet connected curated library community. afaik the first big example of that was perl in the late '90s. CPAN was awesome: here's this big library of awesome libraries that have been curated with full tests and documentation that you can search and add to your system with a few easy cli invocations. (for the uninitiated, this was npm or pip for perl in the 90s- complete with dedicate wikipedian level pedants gatekeeping/curating)

moreover, batteries included scripting languages like perl, python, matlab, etc all tend to have the benefit of having their core bits be best of breed. perl has/had one of the best re engines out there, matlab has a great blas all compiled with the best optimizing compiler and ready to go, python was more generic i suppose, with fairly strong libraries for most things (strings, io, network io, etc).

other than the microsoft nuget stuff, the c/c++ ecosystem never really had the benefit of anything like that other than boost which was pretty tough to pull into a given project and didn't really have the community of people writing high level libraries like the scripting languages did. that said, i often used to think it would have been interesting to build a language agnostic platform for language centered library communities. (a sort of generic cpan/pip/npm in a box for pulling down libraries and running tests for any language- a combination of build system, online community platform and search engine)

but the real moral of the story: use the libraries, luke/lucia! also, know them!
I think the idea is that if we continue to print money, the dollar will eventually collapse as the world's reserve currency, and nations will use the yuan or euro instead - having a material effect on American persons life outcomes.

I know increased national debt doesn't directly imply money printing, just throwing some thoughts out there.
Dude, I used to use Visicalc.