skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current sites that would welcome new nuclear, as evidenced by enthusiastic local support matched by a new construction project:

* Vogtle, Georgia

* VC Summer, South Carolina

* a cluster of small towns in the west that are the first customers for small modular reactors

* Wylfa, UK

* Hinkley, UK

The greater challenge with nuclear is getting the funding to construct, followed by actual engineering, procurement, and construction.
You're in my "show new comments from particular users" Telegram bot, and I find you to be among the better commenters here, so you're definitely not shouting into the void :).
I had an odd experience with my past computing memories about 7 years ago.

We’d just hired a new guy after his masters. I guess I am older than him by say 5 years.

I grew up on command line dos, hacking around on config.sys and similar to reconfigure the “extended memory” (above 640 kB) to get say, Tie fighter to run with gouraud shading and stereo sound, little tasks like that kept me burrowed into manuals and using the dos shell as a kid, just before the Win 3.1 era. After becoming a teenager I ended up not touching a computer for maybe 10 years, so the dos shell was always this thing I hacked around on as a kid.

Fast forward to seven years ago, and our new hire has never seen the dos shell (cmnd prompt/whatever)
So I am explaining how to navigate, commands to issue etc. and it’s the weirdest thing, reaching into my childhood to tell this guy about some work related particulars here and now. It kind of did feel like he missed out on something good.
Then again he was probably hacking together a website at similar age and wonders what in the world we did growing up a few years before.
That's true but I was referring to games that continue to add new features and improvements to their Windows client, but leave the Linux client on an old version, which is a separate issue. With online games this sometimes even means that Linux users will no longer be able to play with Windows users.

On the other hand Wine probably has better backwards compatibility with old Windows games that Windows does in many cases.
The modals don't exist to protect the user. Their goal is merely to annoy users to the point they just give up and blindly click "Accept". They only exist for the benefit of companies, and most of them violate GDPR.
Check out https://realisticpaint.com

It’s sooo realistic sooo much fun. And just $25 on Win, Mac or IPad
Isn't that the point? If the person lied about the situation then you never consented to the situation that actually happened.
> it can also refactor Auth0’s (and it’s own) pricing to increase revenue even further.

Yeah, about that. Auth0 is already struggling to compete with Firebase Auth, AWS Cognito, and even Azure AD B2C (at least on price, for that last one). Increasing the price further is a bad idea.

Also, ory.sh is coming. If I were Salesforce, I'd be funding that to just commoditise auth.
Wasn't ITER supposed to be built by now? DEMO was supposed to start in 2033 as the successor to ITER.
All of those solutions involve better ways at keeping neutron multiplication factor below 1. Fission reactors need fuel that naturally have an eta above 1. Fission reactors are also designed to have large quantities of fuel inside of them. So if the control systems fail, even if those control systems are built-in chemically, then you have a disaster that lasts for timescales that humans would prefer not to be on the table.
I am not a professional front-ender. I will tell you my experience with all the SSG I have tried.

OK,cool, let's read the documentation.OK , first example, clone this template and blah blah. The template is always like 4 versions behind (the same for 90% of the templates that can be downloaded). Even doing the most simple change it is a pain,it almost feels black-boxy. At that moment I gave up and go back to simple JS/CSS with React if needed.

Among that lot the one which seems the sanest is Next and even then it is too opinionated for my taste.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic hell on top of the ideological hell we are all enduring with topics like this. If you want to make a point about international variations in language, that's fine, but turning it into a whole separate flamewar is not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really miss actual movie cutscenes. Good graphics and cheaper mocap, and the general notion that we see the same characters led game studios believe they were a better option. I still think actual actors are hundred percent better at delivering a story. We don't need to uphold this belief that in-game scenes were "real", in the way that an actual movie cutscene would hurt the "magic" - it would actually make it much more realistic. It would be even - again - rewarding to work through a storyline to finally get a new cutscene. With all the cheap greenscreen tech, I wish there would be be a trend of movie cutscenes coming back.
The mobile games market is an excellent, concrete example of service providers which not only favor "short term trickery" over "long term quality", but actively reduce the long term quality of their services to engage in that trickery and are wildly successful for doing so.

Modern mobile games are chuck full of time gates, grinds, fake currencies, and many other dark patterns designed to physiologically manipulate their users. They usually give users just enough value for them to become invested. After that, the sunk cost fallacy keeps them "engaged" despite the terrible value proposition. Some users tough it out and consume a torrent of ads to keep playing for "free", while others fork over money for microtransactions to keep up with the game's demands without wasting so much time. Either way, it's a terrible experience for users that makes mobile game developers tons of money.
> The license is mandated (in certain circumstances), however the funds are collected by the BBC directly.

Interesting. I would still consider that government funded, personally, since it's a mandatory fee imposed by the government and applied to all TV watchers, not just consumers of the BBc. It's certainly a bit more blurry though with the direct collection.

> The US mandates obamacare I believe, does that mean it's government funded?

It depends what you mean. "Obamacare" is an extremely broad term.

Speaking generally: If the government is mandating a fee for some activity, and allocating the funds from said fee to some entity, that entity is government funded. Those fees are defacto taxes.
>or using scripts that were hacked together and abandoned on someone's GitHub.

I think you meant to say 'thankfully provided by their benevolent creators for my benefit'.
I think we are both saying the same thing. The problem is creating a weak set of rules (you can pay employees less, you can fire at will, you can circumvent taxes, you can pollute etc.), and then expecting one company to do more when their competitors don't while both are competing in the same race. I think congress has failed the people and hide behind, "look at that evil corp".

Heck, Zuckerberg is pleading congress to pass strict privacy laws and Amazon is pushing for higher min wages. The reason is that it will level the field and they don't have alone play by a different set of rules and see users go to competitors.
Since I just deleted my Google account, I'd be more than happy to risk a ban.
> The -> macro is a clever hack which allows you to "thread" values through expressions. It implicitly adds the value as the first argument to the first forms, the result of that form as the first argument for the next, etc. Because the core library is quite well-designed, this works 90% of the time. Then the other 10% you need ->> which does the same but adds the implicit argument at the end of the forms. And that's not always enough either, so they decided to add a generic version called as-> which binds the value to a name so you can put it at any place in the forms. These macros also don't compose well.

This is the biggest criticism of clojure I agree with the author on. Trying to compose threading macros is extremely annoying even though it’s not that difficult to refactor. Somewhere in the thread, you’ll want to put the return value of the previous function in a different argument place. I am not sure the reasoning behind designing the macros this way. With how well the language is designed, this annoyance has always seemed out of place and somewhat of an after thought. I made my own macro [0] as an experiment to circumvent this annoyance... which was an interesting experience (both writing and using the macro). Still, I don’t think it’s a good enough solution so I’m still trying to think of better ways to implement thread macros in clojure because I love the idea.

[0] https://github.com/cj-price/pipe.dream
no argument there. i love desertscape yards, and like trees more than lawns (though trees are more water-thirsty). what i don't like are fake plastic lawns as used in a few places around me.
I know I'm a big dummy, but is this "machine learning built in" (and similarly, for the Apple Silicon M1 "neural engine") really just mean "ALUs with additional multiply/add units"?
14:22:01 *Shmerl has joined the game
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14:22:07 DefinitelyNotAnAimbot is on a killing spree!
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I own a mix. I absolutely love my electric leaf blower and electric chainsaw. But I own both an electric and a gas-powered string trimmer. The electric one is every bit as powerful as the gas one, and it's much nicer to use. But it doesn't have the runtime to do the large steep slope further away from the house. For the big jobs I tend to dual-wield, using a blade on one and a string on the other. If I hadn't inherited the gas-powered one, I'd probably just have more batteries for the electric one.
I've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and also for the trollish username. We've asked you many times to stop the former, and you seem to have ignored my question about the latter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362566).
Just goes to show that something witty is good at convincing a ten year old that something false is true.
This is just peak NIMBY Karen at work: laws passed to address personal grievances.
Social policy should be dictated by a government that is "by the people, for the people". We the People should be able to make these decisions, by a vote, on our own behalf. That was the plan.

Obviously, the American political system is not in an ideal state (to put it mildly), but at least the sweeping bureaucratic inefficiencies make it hard enough to really change the temperature of the water by more than a few degrees in either direction.

"Silicon Valley" is just shorthand for "massive tech monopolies that have an outsized, inescapable, and pervasive influence on the way that every living person goes about their daily business"; and when you have amoral, profit-driven corporations that can "move fast and break things" - who are incentivized to wield their influence in whatever way serves their immediate interests - the human condition be damned, well... you end up where we are, here, now.

I am suggesting that we are not prepared to regulate companies like FAANG & Friends in a way that keeps them from remaking humanity in their own image as a means to their own ends. I am suggesting that it is horrifying that privately-held companies without any incentive to be responsible for the consequences of their actions against humanity, writ large, are able to effect social policy so much.
We still have a gas mower. Climate change has reduced our grass-cutting climate impact. In the past few years, our grass is dried out and almost dead by July. If we cut it after that, it becomes really dead. If we don't, it hibernates until the fall rains. So lately we don't cut our grass for two months out of the summer.
Yeah, it's just not an effective means to change small behavior like this. They could have instead banned loud noise making machines and/or machines with high pollution, and this would reduce the supply, and shift the demand to the alternatives, which by definition should now optimize for the proper features (silent and green).
The way things happening now, especially in CA, is laws for everything such that it specifies behavior, not incentives. This then makes enforcement target individuals instead of market suppliers.
The left is literally pushing for the banning of a childhood classic with no racial problems. No slippery slope needed.
Assigning blame is a bit academic.

I think a protocol that used integers instead of decimal point would have led to more correct implementations. So it would be a better protocol.
Can this integrate with ggplot2?
In SimCity 2000 it didn’t show up until around 2050. Game was from 1993, so that was a 57 year prediction.
> Auth0 is the most prominent alternative that customers consider when evaluating Okta. The acquisition of Auth0 eliminates that threat and grants Okta pricing power as a result.

"Grants pricing power" is such a euphemistic phrase for "solidifying a monopoly will let them price gouge"
If it's at all useful, here are some charts from the census data. [1] No idea how accurate the census is. I would expect tax data to be more accurate. Probably more interesting would be 2020-2021.

[1] - https://www.newgeography.com/content/006891-california-loses...
Knowing nothing else about this project, it falls in the category of things about which I thought "Wouldn't it be cool if somebody..."
CNCF Webinar on Deploying Kubernetes at the Edge with OpenNebula
More likely they'll have beefed up alternators and battery packs on the trucks and charge between/during jobs.

Which from a pollution point of view is way better than 2-stroke backpacks.
The issue is that the current fusion choices (deuterium) produce neutrons during fusion, that hit your containment vessels, and ... create long-lived radioactive isotopes while slowly embrittling the containment vessel. When you replace it, it is in fact, a long lived radioactive husk that you need to safely contain for a long time. There are other fusion options that do not, but they are MUCH harder to fuse than deuterium (what we are still trying to achieve)
My friends uncle said to us when we were teens “boys, I know boys like to do stupid things. Just make sure you don’t hurt anyone and only break the law if it’s really funny so the judge will laugh and go easy on you.”

Another one I heard recently that I like: “If you ain’t having fun building it your users ain’t gonna have fun using it.”
So then I can only assume you included the carbon monoxide number because it was ... large?
I have no idea why this comment got downvoted. This is the most scientific explanation possible. In males, more testosterone induces more risk taking, while low testosterone is linked to risk avoidance. Left-wing policies (“nanny state”) cater to people who avoid risks; people who are risk takers prefer right wing policies. Testosterone also affects muscle growth and facial characteristics.
This strikes me as a teenager attitude - trying to look cool. If your stories are great because you go out of your way to try make those stories.. it's not that interesting to other people.

Being boring is seen as bad to teenagers but really, it's not that bad.
By doing 10,000 bad drawings, Chuck Jones once wrote.
It depends on which baseline you're referring to and how many more times the US would back out of its financial commitment after that baseline was made.
I had the same issue two years ago after buying an iPad, and went through multiple tutorials (DrawABox, Udemy), some books. I wasn’t able to stick to any of them, until I stumbled upon some videos on YouTube by Alphonso Dunn. For some reason his way of teaching worked for me, so I bought his book [1] and I’m finally seeing progress.

[1] https://www.alphonsodunn.com/book
And particulate matter. The lawn maintenance workers come to neighbouring houses and just blow the stuff onto the street and towards the other houses. Then another crew comes in and blows it back. It eventually all ends up at my house. Clogging up my cpu fans...
My two cents are blogging through static hosting is more complicated than wordpress on basic php hosting. I need the email hosting comes with the $3/month web hosting anyway.
https://www.edx.org/course/data-science-r-basics
Disclosure: I work for edX.
spf13, thank you for your vim config, I have been using it for years!

In regards to Hugo, I enjoyed using it at first, I loved how fast it was, but I kept running into issues so I decided to make my own SSG.
Not giving Google a few hundred dollars (or if you buy a used phone, $0) isn't going to hurt them.
Here's a more recent (1 year old) talk that gives a bit of a progress update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6U4wB-oYM
it would still be a test of the system though, because it would only be a small subset of the population.
It's simple: money.

"The Internet" became "social media", which quickly became "the media".

Game, set, match.
As adults we've found higher payoff/cost activities and generally, at least for me, other people are more interesting than games. I never saw that coming.

EDIT: not to say that I don't still enjoy games, but games have to either be really fascinating (factorio, surviving mars, city skylines) on a technical level, be social (multiplayer minecraft with my kids), or emotionally engaging (some RPGs, but usually only one playthrough)
If you really want to gain knowledge and confidence in the fundamentals, spend some time watching (in real time, NOT sped up) an excellent artist. Good art is often very slow. I saw a huge improvement in my own (self-taught, hobby-level) art when I began to get comfortable spending 10 hours on a drawing instead of one. I enjoy drawing portraits and can recommend this guy's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stephenbaumanartwork
Musk has never been a covid denier. He understood that covid wasn't as dangerous as many claimed, especially for younger and healthier people. The only thing close to covid denialism that I can find is Musk's decision to resume production at Tesla's Fremont plant in defiance of Alameda county lockdown orders. This was in May of 2020 after months of failed negotiations with government officials. It's important to note that unlike Bachman, Musk had skin in the game. He asked that if the government sent cops to shut down the factory, only he be arrested.[1] The factory resumed production and nobody was arrested. A week or so later, Alameda county changed its rules to allow the factory to operate legally.

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891 "Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me."
Ebay has had an "offensive material" policy since at latest 2018 -- that's the earliest that Wayback Machine has a capture of the URL that the present "offensive material" policy is at.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180705090957/https://www.ebay....

The 2018 one probibits "items that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance, or promote organizations with such views"

I am not sure to what extent or in what ways it has been enforced against what sorts of items. Perhaps it has been enforced unevenly or mostly not? I suspect that nazi memorabilia, at least, has been consistently rejected for a while.

But the policy is not new.

The today one at that URL gets into a lot more specific details than the 2018 one, including prohibiting "Items with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example through caricatures or other exaggerated features, including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and golliwogs"

It looks like those details were there as early as Nov 2020, not sure how long before that. But that predates the current Seuss controversy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030930/https://www.ebay....

In closing, the Internet Archive is doing some really important work. I should go send them some bucks again.
https://archive.is/CUSnI
And as America becomes more different from one person to the next, how is that whole “melting pot” idea working?

Multiculturalism is dead.
California’s Teachers Unions Are Still Fighting to Keep Children at Home
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For some really great insights into drawing for business (esp. whiteboarding) see: The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam.

There are other related books by the same author too. I especially enjoyed: Draw to Win
It makes a difference for categorizing and talking about OOP though.

If the default level is good, and some people take it to absurd counterproductive levels, you need to give a bit of a warning.

If the default level is absurd and counterproductive, but using a fraction that much is good, you need to approach the conversation in an entirely different way and "OOP is bad" is kind of correct and important to address.
In the short term yes, but in the long term most of their customers won't pay for expensive ad space with very low conversion rates.
What I find weird is that this whole discussion presupposes that a woman gives away sex in some kind of transaction, not that she has sex because she desires it.

In the first case we could talk about some kind of fraud. Maybe she expected a long term relationship in exchange for having sex with the man, which he actually couldn’t offer because he was married, so she feels that he didn’t live up to his part of the bargain. She gave something away and didn’t get anything in return.
But that whole premise is just sad.

If she instead had sex because she desired it, in the same way as the man, which I hope most people agree is how it should be, it wasn’t a transaction. And she wasn’t cheated on anything.
Will this play out like it did in Palo Alto? There, the landscaping services switched to small generators on little carts, pulled behind the new, electric leaf blowers.

Still gas, still loud, still polluting - just one layer of indirection.
CFTC doesn't have jurisdiction over this. They only regulate derivatives and verrrry limited authority over spot market activity that affects derivatives.

As this is in coordination with DOJ and the SEC, this is just tacked on to see what sticks.

I don't see the securities fraud (SEC) or the commodities fraud (CFTC) sticking. Therefore, I don't see the money laundering or wire fraud or the associated conspiracy charges sticking either. Unless they traded Greyscale ETFs or some other unregistered security, which would be a dumb and illiquid way to trade fairly liquid spot assets.

The spot markets are regulated like products. So this is a FTC issue, too bad they have no teeth. But the FTC knows what digital assets are too.
They're banned in LA but people still use them
Ask HN: Most effecient way to improve vocabulary in a new language?
I’ve seen so many methods. Flash cards. Courses. Watch movies in the desired language etc. I wonder what the most effecient way is.
You’re Not Trans. You’re Just Weird
As someone who authored one of thoses 322 SSGs, I wonder the same thing :)

It's just a really fun project to work on, quite easy to get something working and the result, even if it sucks, is almost immediately useful for anyone who needs a SSG. It may suck but you know exactly how it works.

Some of us get too excited and actually end up making something other people also want to use.