skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the headline should be read as "We took measures to prevent a lot of deaths from COVID. Now let's take measures to prevent a lot of deaths from air pollution."

The problem with preventatives is that if they work, people opposed to them will claim it proves they weren't necessary. You'd think that would be harder with COVID, where we really did get to do natural experiments. And while they're noisy rather than controlled, they sure seem to indicate that places that took real steps did better than places that took half-measures or less.
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> Do you expect my wife to turn away from the TV when I am watching Netflix?

No, and I do not expect my friends to turn away when they are visiting my home. This is not at all what I said or meant, and I think you know that.

> Each tier has a number of simultaneous streams allowed. If you want multiple people to be able to stream at once you pay more, and if you are streaming one at a time on the same device, you really think each person should have their own account?

There are really two things here. Yes, I am aware Netflix has a model where you can pay to have multiple streams ongoing at the same time. That's the model I am questioning, because obviously one person can only watch one stream, so this can only be used by different people in a household.

As for the other part of your question, yes, that is exactly what I think. Each person should pay equally for their own account. Why am I allowed to share my 2 streams with a partner in the next room, but not with a partner in Australia? What is the difference between the two?
It is highly discouraged to use a Pi Zero with the current versions of OctoPrint, it just simply doesn't have enough computing power and causes quite a few problems. Prusa really should remove the page in their wiki.
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Given that on https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/be... they mention that they accept Ether, but only if it comes from an identifiable account at CoinBase or a few other exchanges (specifically not self-hosted wallets) it sounds like they're explicitly trying to avoid being used for money laundering.
It reads very much like it's a response to this not-even-particularly-upvoted comment on his last essay, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26377185 "Why does he write like an SAT reading comprehension passage"

Kind of incredible.
Just before the year 2000 tech bubble popped? :P So 20-ish years ago.
> On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is?

The problem isn't with American conventions. We have no "spoonful" measure any more than you do. That website is not following any American convention by declining to specify its spice amounts.
That revenue is tiny compared to being able to say .eu domains for EU orgs and businesses.
Even hydro power can have cost overruns. See the Site C project in British Columbia for example. Massively over budget, yet the province absolutely needs this source of carbon free electricity to support its energy needs in the coming decades.
moving the discussion over here. Do any open source repos trying to use this in a practical way exist? Like, give me a ticket. Tell me what I should code in golang to make any sense of what he's saying? I'm an expert coder but skeptic of any religion stuff. https://github.com/andrewarrow/blackhole/
This one is a one trick pony as it is the first NFT to be auctioned at Christie's. The same hype happened with the first AI art on Christie's.

My advanced crystal ball predicts NFT scammers are going to ruin the craze and cause everyone to panic.
That post has to be a case of Poe's law right... for the love of god please.
It could be used as a way of tax-optimization in some countries I guess..
> getting screamed at and grounded/penalised for racking up huge phone bills.

Not just me then. XD
I recently dug into Thunderbird's add-on apocalypse and "stabbing in the back" is putting it mindly.
I think this entire line of reasoning eventually boils down to: Fuck capitalism.

That's fine with me.

Not sure what the hate for "Chrome users on Mac" is for though. Why not "Fuck Mac users" for supporting a company that is actively trying to bring down general purpose computing and user control over their own computing devices in the name of "security" but really for profit?

Personally, the way I deal with capitalist parasites is to put aside all desire and avoid getting locked into their crap. Outside of utility bills, taxes and mortgage - no product or service can hold me prisoner. If the leeches start sucking too hard, I simply drop them and find something else to do.
>Nuclear will always be many times more expensive than equivalent power hydrocarbon powerplant.

No, you're behind the times. You're thinking of present nuclear plant technology, and in that you're correct.

Newer plant designs solve most of the issues with construction and management cost, nuclear proliferation, and even reduce the waste that must be stored.

Arguing for greater use of the 1960s technology that's presently in power plants is silly, and no one is really advocating that.

Google "small modular reactors" and read up.
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> OVH is a European equivalent to Digital Ocean.

I've been making this point for a long time. Both of those AS spaces are legendary for the volume of dodgy packets they barf at the rest of us.

drop

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You can't control the network with 1/3 with BFT consensus, you need 2/3rds.
Cody put a few solar system objects on a stadium, with distances to scale, the sun is represented by a pea. He then proceeds to drive cross country to put on the closest stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk
Melbourne has one too: http://thenomadicexplorers.com/sites/default/files/users/65/...

(Not as big as the one in Sweden though)
Yes. So could literally anyone else though.
Website won't load for me in Firefox, keep getting security warnings about the site not being secure. Ignoring the security warnings just redirects me to another page with another warning.
Was the Emperor written, or was it the biography?

You skipped the first half of my sentence, which makes it pretty clear who wrote the book. At least, I think it does. In any case, you did make me realize the last clause is awkwardly written, so thanks! I amended my original comment.
> is (I hope) very much illegal and a reason

"You can" doesn't mean it's legal.

But it's documented because you might need to, for example carrying babies on the passengers' seat or if the airbag is malfunctioning and you need to go to the repairing shop it might makes sense to disable it.

> for taking away the operating license of that particular car.

why not the death penalty then? :)

The airbag arguably only saves the driver's life, disabling it has the same effect of smoking cigarettes, except cigarettes are vastly more dangerous.

They don't take away your license for smocking (I guess)
I thought that making concrete releases a lot of CO2, at least while making cement. Why do concrete producers want to buy CO2?
I see what you mean, but one thing that site could use is to have the "Jump to the recipe" button follow you down the page. I mean, my god, I had scrolled to the equivalent of about page 30 when I suddenly really "how long does this thing go on for?" and had to scroll all the way back up to be able to jump back down to the recipe.
That is common in the US for mansions. You buy the lot for the view and put the house you want on it. Sometimes you remodel the existing house, but that is only if needed to work around some sort of legal issue - the remodel is leave one wall standing, and when done a second remodel to replace that one wall.

For most people the cost of the building is enough that if it is functional you would want to use it.
here it means automatic storage duration
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It's got the bonus nerd connection in that a character on Babylon 5 spent an episode raving about it:

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Bagna_Cauda
In JavaScript, you can await a non-promise returning function and it's a NO-OP. So if you are taking a function as a parameter, you can await it safely, regardless of whether it's async or not.

function giveMe3() { return 3; }
function giveMe3Async() { return Promise.resolve(3); }

async function logger(func) { return console.log(await func()); }

await logger(giveMe3);
await logger(giveMe3Async);
Try to not be autistic for a second. Paul Graham is in the tech scene. PERHAPS he's talking about things like coding tutorials, technical blogs, press releases, documentaiton, etc.

I'd argue that simple writing is great in that domain.
This topic came up in Matt Levine’s column a day or two ago[1]. There are supply chain financing companies that let a big business pay suppliers after eg 90 days while the intermidiary pays those companies earlier (at a discount). The theory was that it makes the companies accounts look more appealing (having a lot of accounts payable supposedly implies you’re efficiently using cash by not paying suppliers until later).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-10/citi-i...
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Yes, I recently got a new chromecast, which now requires a google account to set up via the google home app. I knew I was never going to use this single-purpose account for anything real so I decided to make the name very descriptive and tried to put “googlehome” in the identifier but google would not let me get away with the string “google” anywhere in it. Ended up with “GewgleHome.”
> I would say teaspoon size which is about what's in your regular eating spoon

A “regular eating spoon” is usually a tablespoon, hence the name. A teaspoon is typically used for adding sugar to, or stirring, coffee or tea, or eating desserts.
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The possibility of seismic activity isn't automatically dangerous. I feel confident that if we can engineer skyscrapers to withstand shaking that we can engineer an isolated reactor vessel too, and a reactor shutdown only takes three seconds: https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/12/28/what-is-a-rea...
Stayed in a hotel near the Ericsson Globe. No clue.

When I saw the tiny Venus (or was it Mercury?) on a pedestal in downtown Stockholm, I suspected something was up.
Rich, developing nations wrangle over Covid vaccine patents
You could try to listen to it faster than 1x, maybe 1.25x or 1.5x.

Maybe video/audio is not for you? I have a big problem listening to something when I know I can read the same information in a couple of minutes. Why should I listen/watch a 30min tutorial?

I see podcasts mainly as entertainment, not a problem when you drift away a little. You don't miss much.
Ask HN: Which API gateway solution is the best
Currently investigating which API gateway solution to use to provide auth, billing, developer portal etc for an api I'm building. There's plenty of solutions on the market and I'm wondering if anyone has any recent experience with them and can provide an honest review on their relative strengths and weaknesses.

Big pros for me would be:
* An elastic payment model, so we can start for free while volumes are still low
* Out the box developer portal and docs generation
* OAuth capabilities

The pricing in particular seems quite opaque from my many vendors, so would appreciate any real information on costs that people have.
What’s missing from this discussion is a carbon price. If carbon were priced at $200/T, nuclear energy and renewables would both be favored over carbon based energy sources.
Study up on modern nuclear technology (which solves a lot of the economic issues as well as a lot of safety/regulatory issues).

Also, learn about how power grids work. Simply building in over capacity of renewables won't solve the problem at all.
This is silly.

If you make code that requires allocation and does not have an allocator passed into it, there is literally nothing stopping you from allocating anyway. Zig does not stop you from, for example, heap allocating without the usage of an allocator (Zig does not know what heap allocation even is). You can directly use the std page_allocator (and others) wherever you want, too.

There are very few good reasons to do this (e.g. spawning a thread requires particular allocation; using an allocator might not be sound depending on the OS).

All you have to do is document that it allocates memory and that's fine; there is no split.
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I am curious why you dislike solar more than wind. Solar to me seems much more predictable. At smaller percentages it works well to handle peak AC loads. Larger percentages seem foolish to me.
Art auctions, the favorite money laundering scheme of the rich, meets cryptocurrency, the second-favorite money laundering scheme of the rich. A match made in heaven.
> Well if you look at Chinese cuisine

If you look at Chinese cuisine, you'll probably find that trying to compare it to say "Italian cuisine" doesn't really work - probably better to compare it to "European cuisine" and try and capture the breadth and depth.
Or a high class form of pump and dump. "Sell" a worthless digital asset to an accomplice for a crazy sum of money, refund the money under the table, and use the resulting press to sell more worthless digital assets to gullible marks.
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Borat would say "very nice"
That's my life, really. The only arena I don't feel that way is coding. It's always stable, steady, predictable
It's true for classical nuclear reactors as far as I can tell.

But in recent years there had been many advances wrt. other kinds of nuclear reactors which often promise less (or even much less) risc, upfront cost, start/stop times and generally smaller size.

This kind of "small" nuclear reactors can have the potential to be in some cases the best choice.

Anyway best would be of politician let this play out fairly by not pushing any specific technology but just pushing "climate-friendly" energy while punishing (separately) both "climate-unfriendly", "environmental-unfriendly" technology. (Nuclear is climate-friendly but environmental or better human unfriendly).
Yup, this is exactly why Steve Irwin ran a zoo
> They list stuff like a "pinch" of salt or a "stick" of butter.

I don't understand the complaint here. A stick of butter is half a cup, 8 tablespoons. The standardization is more ironclad than pretty much any other product you can get in a grocery store.
You know what breaks, in human beings' experiences?

Everything. All the time.

So the holier-than-thou, thou-shall-not-deploy-less-than-perfect perspective is pretty irrelevant.

This is a side project. That did something neat. The author should be commended, not lambasted for not rebuilding Gmail on their own.

And God knows the Internet would be a better place with a little more weirdness again.
> That "simple" writing lasts longer is disproved by many works of literature that have made their way to us through history, most of which, by the standard of this essay, could be considered complex.

- Would that literature have been considered complex at the time it was written? How much of that perceived complexity is due to changing writing styles, education standards, etc?

- Writing a book and writing a proposal for the next project/product have entirely different definitions of "lasting". Context matters greatly.

> As someone with a modicum of experience in the philosophy of language, I must also say that I do not look kindly on people who take for granted that there even could be such a thing as a thought without language, a "pure idea", since for all we know such a thing has never been observed.

This sentence is a good example of the kind of unnecessary complexity described by the essay. You seem to be saying that "pure ideas are not possible without language", but that's not clear in your writing. If your intent it to exclude people who do not have a "modicum of experience in the philosophy of language", I have to ask: why?
This is a great cautionary tale about why not to copy. Imagine if they'd taken their approaches from SECM and put them on an IC instead of copying the 8080... they probably would have had a superscalar chip when the West was just shipping 8-bit in-order cores.
There are no commands the other way. F9 flies entirely autonomous, including termination. Based on the FCC filings, I'm pretty sure it doesn't even have receivers.
I'm sorry about this. I really need to improve this situation. Let me see what I can do today.
Kudos to the author!

I don't get this part:

> In 2021 I recently launched my newest product: It's called open3ABox and it's a raspberry pi with open3A pre-installed which I deliver to my customers who have not the technical skills for their own server but don't want a cloud version either. It's fully remote managed and monitored by me more steady income, yay

When people object to cloud (SaaS really), I tend to think it's about what you could variously describe as ownership, control, privacy, and security. They want to be the only ones who can access their data. They want updates to happen on their schedule. If you want the developer to manage and monitor your installation, why not use a hosted version?

Another reason is bandwidth, but I wouldn't expect that to be a significant consideration for invoicing software.
But in that case the user loses value, as he wanted what the site was offering.
Leaving my phone in a different room when going to bed.
>I was also a big fan, but there are many alternatives now.

Do some research. There are essentially no alternatives to nuclear power for 100% carbon free generation. That's due to how power is produced, transported and consumed (in the US at least) and simply installing extra capacity of renewables so there's "extra power" won't work.
"Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do." :)
Simple writing definitely has its place along side more complex writing. It depends on the goal for sure. Writing to an audience to convey an idea. Maybe simple is better. Writing a document for the sales team of your product? Probably want to make it simple and leave out complexities.

I do however understand some of the comments saying that complex writing can be more artful. A good analogy, symbolism, or metaphor can go a long way to driving home a point in a more elegant way.
It is a nitpick. The fact is that even counting your way, it's around 10% from fossil fuels. That's been achieved without expanding nuclear capability. It is renewable that has replaced fossil fuels here. Yes, Scotland also exports renewable energy. That's a good thing.

> can wind and solar do it? And the answer is no. Nuclear can do it.

Can wind and solar and hydro and geothermal do it? The answer is Yes. There's no need for more horrifically expensive nuclear.

> We can't scale hydro to that level globally.

No-one's asking you to. If you're all renewable already, good for you. If you're not, get your own house in order before criticizing others. But stop claiming that what's already being done can't be done.
Cross-region replication of data is always significantly harder, definitely consider if cross-AZ would be sufficient for your case (which it often is). Postgres can definitely be configured for a cross-region scenario, but the approach varies a lot depending on your recovery needs.
I recommend everyone to use the Hemingway Editor to keep track of how easy it is to read your texts: https://hemingwayapp.com/

Especially, if you're a tech writer.

Explaining complex things in a simple way is what you should aim for.

My #1 rule in writing: "if you can remove this word, and the reader can still understand what you mean then do so"
The negative externalities of carbon-based energy production dwarf any renewal subsidies.

See https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uos-tmt03012...
> So NFTs are the new DRM?

NFTs are in a weird state right now because they generally don’t give the holder any real rights or abilities. It’s basically proof that you for and control a cryptographically signed link to something else.

Like buying a link to a digital artwork, which is often available for free anyway.
I tried Superpowered and liked it! Congrats on building a cool product! I see the value in having calendar alerts on your menu bar. I am real bad at remembering meetings and find the default alerts to be annoying or forgettable - I recently got an Apple Watch that has helped a lot with this though. I was a little surprised there was no free version with premium features - in my mind, the main benefit of alerts in my menu bar isn’t enough to pay. I may not be the right user (maybe businesses?). Could you share thoughts around the pricing? Are there other features I may be missing?
I took the objective of the essay to be "communicating ideas."

There is certainly no reason why one can't write well and communicate their ideas at the same time. In fact, I'd argue that well-written ideas spread more quickly. Things like The Bible or The Qur'an would likely be far less influential if they were poorly written.
Colors seem to be about how functions compose, and the way functions compose is a way we can control effects.

"Throw it on an executor" doesn't change the fact that you had to change the way you evaluate different colored functions. So I guess it's still colored?

(How are function "colors" not just monads without saying "monads"?

Maybe if you understand function coloring you already understand what monads are and just don't know it yet.)
> There's definitely some skill to cooking, but 80% of why I'm considering a good cook among my friends is because I only use recipes from people I trust

I strongly agree with this. I consider myself a fairly accomplished cook, I've been cooking since I was tall enough to see over the table, but one of the big things that helps is that I will take the time to find the right recipe, mostly by looking at the recipe itself and being able to visualize and taste the food before I make it, but also but reading what the author writes and deciding if I trust them.
Word.

IIRC, Microsoft acquired CompareNet for $400m in 1999. Scripts for scrapping prices. Written in Perl.

I always get stuck on the little questions. Like: Does it work? Is idea worth doing? How big is the market?

(I mention CompareNet because I had some contact with one of the founders. It's my IRL example that I never figured out how to play this game.)
The problem is that we have no idea what you're talking about when you say C/C++. For you it seems to be C++, for someone else it might be both or it might be "one or the other but I don't know which." For yet someone else it might be really just C.

If you were to think that Rust is a good replacement for C++, why not just say that Rust is a good replacement for C++? That makes it clear what you mean, and thus the obvious follow-up: a lot of people would like a replacement for C, which is arguably not what Rust is.

And this is very on-topic for a discussion where someone asked "why Zig over Rust?" Zig is arguably closer in spirit to C than Rust is.

When you say Rust is a good replacement for C/C++, a lot of people read it as if you were treating C and C++ as one language and that Rust is a good replacement for both. It should not be hard to see why this is very controversial, given that they are very different languages and people tend to like one and dislike the other. It's going to be very hard to please both camps.
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When I was in college, an English professor shared this statement commonly attributed to Mark Twain, "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

It was actually Blaise Pascal who said it. But the point is, that clear writing means removing lots of fluff.
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