skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't write off the whole premise of the state of Texas as ridiculous, it must have some non-ridiculous features if you look hard enough.
> Good luck designing and operating a complex, dangerous system with purely altruistic, utterly selfless people.

I know you're beeing sarcastic, but you just have to run it by the book. No need to be a saint.
While we learned a lot from Chernobly, the culture back then was already very fearful of nuclear.
Thanks for the answer! I totally agree on the not enough people read source code part — unfortunately I believe it is not only a language “barrier” thing. I mean, even in a language I know by heart, I probably could not make sense of some complex part of the linux kernel, because I lack both the underlying technical knowledge on some hardware interface, or the context of the code. And especially this latter can not be overcome with only code with good comments. It needs good documentation, which should give a basic understanding, and on top of it we can build the code for the fine detail. Of course it is a noble goal to try to decrease the surface area of the required knowledge, so props to you!

What’s your proposed solution to the problem with low and high level languages? Is the level 3 language a higher level one? Because I’n not sure there could exist a one language to rule them all, because of the inherent difference between the two domains.
I still can’t download a car.
Agree - there are different ways to slice this, but at the end of the day, should we?

Let's say you and I start off with zero wealth, but we both graduate with a good degree, both get high-paying jobs and both make the same amount of money.

We also pay the same amount of taxes - which sounds fair, right?

Lets say we both make 150K a year, but I spend it all on my living expenses/fun while you are able to live on 50K and save 100K every year.

In 10 years, you will have over a million dollars in savings/investments while I lets say managed to save 10K.

We still make the same salary and pay the same tax but our wealth is grossly unequal. I pay 100X tax-per-wealth than you do. That sounds horrible but in the above example is totally reasonable.

Obviously the Warren Buffet example is a bit different than that but - he pays a ton of absolute $$$s compared to you, me, and anyone else, why is his total wealth an absolute necessity to look at?
TikTok settles privacy lawsuit for $92M
Version 14 adds some features to recursive CTE expressions to do BFS/DFS searches and cycle detection. As always, depesz has a nice write up of it: https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-...

I _think_ it's just syntactic sugar and doesn't let you do anything you couldn't already do, although perhaps it would leave room in the future for the Postgres team to optimize query execution.
Lol, not many parent will come forward and openly say that they regret having kids.
While there are a lot of human faults in this disaster (I think it is hard to deny that generators in the basement were a bad idea) it is also a complicated problem. One factor that isn't frequently brought up is that the Tōhoku earthquake was the 4th largest ever recorded and the largest in Japan (9.1) (second largest recorded was an 8.5 in 1896 and the second largest theorized was an 8.9 in the year 869. Remember this is not linear growth). Fukushima wouldn't have happened with an 8.5. A big reason this is important is because it really sets this event apart from that of Chernobyl, which I'd argue was much more dependent upon human error and bureaucracy.

But that means that the problem was both human and technical. What was considered good enough regulation was the issue because it is hard to predict earthquakes and even harder to estimate for earthquakes we've never seen before. No one thought a 9.1 magnitude earthquake would hit Japan and Nuclear safety is typically magnitudes of safety above what is needed (see radiation dosages) and this is a good thing (even though many that are pro nuclear, but never worked in the industry, claim that we're too strict).

But you are right that there is infighting between the scientists/engineers and the bureaucrats. But that's been true for every industry I've been a part of. I'm just trying to say that the story of why Fukushima happened is substantially more complicated than I see in the general discussions here on HN, Reddit, or elsewhere.
I don't quite understand what's hierarchical about this example. seems like a few different mutually exclusive segments that can then be independently analysed?
The existence of daycares is proof that people are willing to pay for raising children.

What you're hitting on is that staying home to raise 1-2 kids is economically inefficient compared to working and sending the kids to a daycare, because the daycare can benefit from efficiencies of scale.
My wife went through the hell of a lot of failed rounds of IVF. It's way worse for a woman. It was bad for me in a different way, and not nearly as bad as what my wife had to do.
However this was our choice, I don't demand that the world should change to help. She works a zero contract min wage job. We didn't demand anything of anyone else we had our own goals.

Edit: my heart goes out to anyone suffering through IVF.

Edit 2: we got lucky, she gave birth at 38. Anyone else going through this I'd recommend a book called it starts with the egg.

PS I keep saying "she" because it wouldnt be true to say "we". I didn't suffer my body getting fucked up with hormones.
I’m trying this out of curiosity, but getting (e.g.):

HTTP/1.0 400 Invalid HTTP Request

My mistake, or are there other working end-points out there (I tried google, yahoo, and cbc.ca)?
Is the main spar counted as a single component?
So storage reaches cost competitiveness with nuclear at $10-$20/kWh.

Do we know what the current cost is today?
I hate to pour cold water here, but a stock I believe in is one that financially performs well. It doesn't matter what the mission statement or philosophy behind it is. I think all those intangibles are highly overrated as an actual concrete $-demonstrated strategy for investing.

I find very mixed / uncorrelated results of companies emphasizing ESG issues leading to good financial performance. Larger factors control a company's fate.

Shareholder pressure on such issues rarely is a major factor in producing the ESG outcomes envisioned. More often it's broader market or social changes that lead companies to change, not the shareholders (even large institutions) buying or selling their stock for "moral" reasons. Divestment campaigns, for example, are rarely the thing that actually bring down a company or country -- their fate was already written elsewhere. With that in mind, what is the chance that my 100 shares are worth anything in terms of company direction.

Now, that said, I'm not going to invest a company that does illegal things. Nor am I interested to invest in coal companies, for example. I don't want to add to our global warming problems, even in the small ways that I personally have control over. But those companies were already doomed by each and every one of our choices about how to buy energy, the cost of natural gas, alternative energy generation costs, and the economics of coal-fired power plants tanking the demand for coal.

I would rather use my money to influence the regulations and government policies that corporations act under. I wish you luck, if for nothing else than to see if your model can gain traction and do something positive!
Recall that during the rise of C, people were writing machine code on punch cards.

Or Fortran, Algol, Lisp, Cobol, Basic, Pascal, ...
I was an English major in college. I immediately thought of Wordsworth's “Lines on Tintern Abbey.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/lines-composed-...
Actually you can - there is an adapter [1] for that.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD825AM/A/lightning-to-vg...
As a couple who had a child in their 40s (naturally) I find a lot of people overestimate the difficulty. Yes the odds of success drop dramatically with age so it's best to start when you can but even so, IIRC, the most likely outcome is no problems at all even at age 40.
Of the spacecraft? All of it.
I wonder if they do indeed compute a checksum of the binary to come up with a aot-translation cache key. Must be quite ineffficient.
Atlas: Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform
What I'm saying is a proper organization takes advantage of peoples' base motives, instead of trying to defy them.

Free markets work so well for that reason.
I chose that example precisely because both of them are in the language of the former natives, now barely spoken in the area, and not in the language of the empire that conquered it. ;)
Law firm associated with Donald Trump leaks confidential information
Maybe it's just me but I can't remember the last time I had to think about a chrome update/download/EULA change. Personally I think that's great, they aren't things I want to spend my time on so if they're automated than all the better imo.
According to that map download speeds are nearly twice as fast in the US as they are in South Korea? I don't know where their data is coming from but that sounds awfully suspect.
To roll this out on a national scale, at $500/mo for anyone under median income, at 160M US workers, would be 80 * 10^6 * 500 * 12 = 480B dollars. This is 1/7th more than current Federal Receipts.

Imagine trying to raise taxes on every form of federal taxes on average 14% to reach this.

For that much money, there are likely vastly better places to spend it in targeted assistance instead of such a ham-handed one size fits all program, with far better social returns.
> When nuclear fails, which it will, through accident or terrorism, it fails forever, catastrophically

Not all reactor designs are capable of failling catastrophically.

>Why cant we all live off solar and wind? Why must you have nuclear?

I wish we could just live off solar and wind, I'm only in favor of Nuclear because the evidence suggests we can't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348355
I think I would be fine with paying too, but by paying you're giving up all of your personal information. Unless websites will suddenly start accepting something like Monero, I actually prefer to be tracked, as I can at least block it.
What exactly is the "threat" of forks? Being able to fork the network is often seen as a feature, not a issue. If you're building a decentralized network, you sometimes have to have consensus when doing upgrades globally. This is in reality a fork but everyone agrees to keep with one of them. Those who don't agree, can continue running the other one if they feel like it.
While it is sad that it is news worthy, it goes against Steve Jobs' ideology...
I hope, one day to see it's rewritten in a safer language.
Keep unpacking meanings please, this is really interesting.

Where do Monnow and Tintern come from?
> Why make it harder

Because there is no way for a commit message to become outdated or detached from what it talks about, both of which are very much issues with comments.

> why make it impossible to update if there are other suggested alternatives that are available since whenever the commit was made?

Because that doesn't really matter.
Even more interesting is what the turntable.fm site said back in January: https://web.archive.org/web/20210118082936/https://turntable...

tl;dr Lots of startup drama
Dies on a guce.advertising.com link for me. Using DNS to circumvent adblockers is bad mkay.
for-profit corporations should not own our communications infrastructure.
There's Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. There's also a lot of "New" versions of older European locations as a way to distinguish them from other similarly named places when there aren't any rivers nearby, I guess, like New Jersey. Don't forget, a lot of places in the US were also already named before European settlers arrived.

It might also simply not be needed as a matter of practicality. There are many Springfields, but probably not very many per state (although I know New Jersey has two) and certainly a max of one per zipcode. Sure Springfield, MA 12345 isn't as whimsical as Springfield-upon-the-Connecticut (or whatever) in terms of distinguishing it from Springfield, NJ 08765, but it gets the job done.
They are useful as a standard way to talk about the brain. If I say I am 'right-brained' in casual conversation, most people in my culture know what I mean.
Network access is only for reporting errors. I believe you can just deny it, or simply use the app offline. The real use-case for the underlying technology is remote onboarding and remote identity verification. There is more info on that here: https://business.passportreader.app
If you don't want to see ads, why not run an adblocker or avoid visiting sites that show ads? There's no good option right now, if you have a paywall people will complain and almost no one will visit your site, and if you have any ads at all people will complain about that too. (I remember an HN article about a guy who had a banner advertising his own product on his personal blog, absolutely no tracking, that got added to uBlock adblocking lists.)

If you want you can use duckduckgo with ads disabled in settings, visit HN and wikipedia and stackoverflow (although they have the #hireme thing), pay $10/month for youtube and spotify premium so you don't see ads there, etc. And then use ghostery to disable third-party cookies and things of that nature. What more do you want the industry to do?
Stablecoin provider Tether extorted over allegedly stolen emails
So it all comes down to relative costs then. Has anyone done a comparison between nuclear costs and this?
Yes, sure, write Unix CLI plumbing tools without strings.
Speaking for myself as a light FB user in the US, I get a ton of value from seeing my relatives' updates. Otherwise, I would have no connection with the next generation of babies in my family.

I generally find this line of thinking problematic: conversations with a homogenous and small group -> generalization based on an interpretation of their interpretation of their experience.

Also objectionable but on the other side: people's revealed preferences for how they spend their time are better indicators of what they find valuable.

Neither explanation is particularly compelling except as confirmation bias IMO.
Then perhaps we should start funding fusion research above the "fusion never" levels?

Honestly, had we put the stupid amounts of money that we subsidize fossil fuels with (think about how much government funding went into the specialized drilling that became fracking) into fusion research, we'd likely have it by now.
Two-Thirds Scale VT100 Is a Perfect Match for PiDP/8 Replica
Can someone have a gambling addiction? I've often heard that gambling addiction is a real problem, so why can't social media be addictive? Social media and mobile games like to use similar "engagement" techniques as slot machines, for example.
Yeah. I just avoid str manipulations in general in C and when I have to, fuzz it ... (but still, the perf cliff is definitely new to learn in the past few days).
If you believe WSB is "taking down" hedgefunds instead of "being played like a fiddle" by them, you should probably take a second look.
Isn't the field for this a bit crowded at this point with players like Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, etc?
The FCC has been skeptical of the latency of Starlink offerings, which are well below 100ms.

See https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-has-serious-doubts-spacex-sta... for an example.

So, it might be that the senators aren't pushing that because the FCC has already been on the ball for latency, and pushing to keep latencies down around 30-40ms
C++: the language that's been around for 40 years and is completely new!
No, if you want sensible string handling, the sane choice is usually to choose to use a language that is not C. Not always, but definitely usually.
> Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually making progress.

There are two massive red flags in that sentence. If the standup is being used as an excuse to micromanage something has gone horribly wrong. And if people don't use it to make progress (that is, asking for help and mentioning blockers) something else has gone terribly wrong.

There are about a million discussions about how broken Agile is, most of which discuss some abomination of a process with very superficial similarities to Agile. It's not like having a standup is some sort of magically good thing on its own if people just use it to do things the way they've always done them.

Cue the inevitable "If everybody is doing Agile wrong, maybe there's something wrong with Agile?" response, to which I would simply say that I've seen Agile work in at least two completely different workplaces, and I've seen how terrible non-Agile processes are in at least another two.
I think you’re looking at this the wrong way. The fact that companies can sell their regulatory obligations as a positive PR move is the carrot to get them to do it well and be proud of it. Stick only is how you get half-assed left to rot technically compliant implementations.
I am so sorry to hear that and I hope you are able to get any help that you need.
Thanks. This is something dudes can't write about. My wife & I simply decided decades ago that one of us would always not work. We lived cheaply so we could accomplish that goal, but we wanted a good family life.

I would have been happy to be a househusband because she's about 50 times the programmer I am, but she doesn't love business and I do. We ended up doing great, but we had to start out assuming that a 2-career life would simply be too much stress in the high tech world. Great thing is it forced me to make creative choices, but one thing that got us both hoodwinked was this notion that a woman is as fertile at 35 as she is at 21. Um... no. So we had two severely handicapped kids. It would have been nice if the popular press had been a little more honest about the biology--but of course I should have educated myself better.
There are some schemes that have kept poor people poor even if that was not the explicit reasoning. Racial redlines do that. Independent school districts funded mostly from hyperlocal real estate taxes do that. Allowing predatory payday loans and huge overdraft fees contribute to it. Treating homelessness and drug use as crimes rather than problems to be solved definitely do that.
> User-Agent: bender

> Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

This was there when I checked just now; was it removed and re-added?
there's nothing inherently unportable about strings though.
> Do you feel the same way about causes of death?

Yes? Polluting power plants kill many more people than the whole bitcoin mining operation.

> Also, other consumers like cement, fossil fuel production, and plastics HAVE been focused on. Bitcoin is new and only recently popular so we don't know much about it and it's true cost.

Okay, we agree on something here. I fully support assessing Bitcoin mining and operation costs and comparing those costs to other consumer classes to get perspective. When we do this, it is easy to see bitcoin mining is a non-issue climate-wise (for now). The main issue is pollution done by Big Polluters such as naval transport and coal/gas power plants.

These bogus calls for regulation/shutdowns of minor electricity consumers just spoil the climate discussion, distract us from the real polluters.
Here's a comment I read on Reddit a while back which supports the idea that Freud wasn't entirely without his merits, and still stands with some merits, even scientific ones, today with citations I think are pretty convincing: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9caomv/philosoph...
> They were already gifted many billions of dollars in the past for this same basic purpose but they pocketed the money.

Very little government money has been spent on broadband. Federal funding for broadband dates back only to the Obama administration. And cable companies have largely not received this money. You’re thinking of something else.
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It's down to luck that the corrosion was detected before a serious incident occurred.
We are already past that point. The world is not reducing carbon emissions fast enough. I don't see how nuclear allows us to reduce them any faster. The bottleneck is funding and will of the everyday man.

The world won't become uninhabitable - global warming alone is not going to cook us. What will happen is more natural disasters, difficulty with natural resources and farming, and wars for those resources.

Climate engineering is the best hope to reduce global warming. Aerosols sprayed into the atmosphere, that sort of thing.
C++20 doesn't quite rectify this unfortunately! The data structures still use std::less even in C++20, meaning the 2-way comparisons would happen twice. Except now each 2-way comparison is potentially implemented on top of 3-way comparisons. Perhaps I or someone else should get in touch with the committee to try to change that, otherwise things are going to be slower rather than faster if we still use 2-way comparisons but now they have to do 3-way comparisons underneath!
There's a nice Go implementation of git: https://github.com/go-git/go-git
I don't think you realize how fast 1tb of data goes when you have a family of 5 all doing zoom calls and remote learning all day, then streaming video (youtube, live tv, netflix) at night.
The vessel head had corroded completely through the 6.63" steel pressure head, and the pressure vessel was relying only on the inner cladding to contain pressure. They were just a transient away, for years, from a steam explosion that would completely disassemble the pressure vessel and core and would place maximal stress on the containment building itself.

The issue was only "detected", after being covered up for years by falsified reports, when the engineer doing inspections decided to turn himself in.

There is no way this condition can be regarded as safe operation, and if that is what you are arguing there can be no question that it is flat wrong.

There are many, many of these kinds of situation where, just by the grace of whatever, we dodged a bullet and didn't have the catastrophe. You can't count those situations as adding to a cherry-picked "safe operation record".

There is a huge different between "didn't explode today", and "can't explode ever". We have spent too many days, months, years, in the former, rather than the latter. The so-called safety record is a lie.
Naval reactors are different, their scale is two orders of magnitude lower. One could make other safety guarantees at that scale. They also use enriched uranium which means no refuelling is needed during the service life of the reactor. SMRs can also make some of these safety guarantees.
If I may[1] shamelessly link my newly launched generated art project, I’ve just written up a walkthrough[2] of the current iteration. I have more variety coming. While stylistically simpler and more uniform than Heydon’s work, his work has been a major influence.

[1]: if this isn’t allowed please let me know and I’ll delete

[2]: https://eyelidlessness.github.io/blog/2021/03/what-the-art-p...
This is a lot like how in JavaScript you have footguns like the with statement or in Python 2 where you have Unicode issues, etc. I am sure we could definitely a new C standard that excludes these functions as obsolete, but the linked header file is a pretty sensible interim solution. C is an old language and it’s kind of amazing that code written 30 years ago can still by and large be compiled by a modern compiler. Ever try to run 3 year old React projects using today’s React? :)
Google wants to own the entire web just like Microsoft did when they shipped IE6, but somehow the people who were mad when Microsoft did it actually love that Google is doing it.