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I agree with the need to maintain and upgrade nuclear plants.

However, I dispute calling nuclear "one of the cheapest and safest power sources humankind has ever developed".

The order of magnitude of Fukushima cleanup costs is $1 trillion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup#Cos...

There's also the touchy issue of storing spent nuclear fuel and contaminated hardware. Ignoring the problem presents a hidden cost and safety risks.

Still on safety: nuclear enthusiasts often equate that reliable under nominal conditions implies reliable in practice. As if negligence and stupidity weren't factors in the real world.

Back to your point: we need to collectively admit that climate change relates to our practice of postponing the costs of pollution -- a massive economic externality that needs correction. The solutions are expensive and require commitment.
>> At the heart of our mental chess game lies a profound lesson: It is easy to play the victim in life, to allow your circumstances to dictate your disposition. But the difference between being content or distraught is a matter of perspective.

Good advice, but only as long as you don't let the bastards that screwed you up get away with it just because you got over it. Don't let yourself be fine with letting others treat you like dirt.
> It's basically a legacy software that is kept alive with patches upon patches until it collapses.

Also where hackers can lobby against some bugs getting fixed.
After 400 interviews? I highly doubt it. The discomfort you feel in an interview isn’t part of the interview. It’s something you’re generating and bringing into the room with you.

Anxiety before a job interview (or exam) is your body believing that if you do badly, you might die. It doesn’t take 400 job interviews to notice you don’t actually die. The article suggests it takes about 5 practices. I also liked what they said about the collage experience. Seeing a lot of my fellow students succeed and fail job interviews seemingly randomly probably helped more than I think. It made failing an interview feel like just a normal uncomfortable thing.
Currently we use a modified WebRTC stack with VP8/VP9 to encode the video stream. This is similar to what quite a few game streaming services are doing like Stadia and even Amazon's new Luna(?) service. There are lots of platform specific optimizations up and down the webrtc stack to make sure latency is kept to a minimum while preserving quality. Things like only encoding pixels that change, progressively encoding over multiple frames to sharpen quality, keeping jitter buffers to a minimum.
Housing can not be both affordable AND an investment.

Interest rates need to rise, and soon.
99% that. Tried to interact (up/downvote, reply, etc.)
Wefarm adds $11M to expand its network for independent farmers now at 2.5M users
I didn't read the article because I already saw the movie by John Oliver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU
The amount of data is absolutely insane.
Ask HN: How much time do you study at work?
Do you plan it like at least hour a day or do it only if necessary?
Usually I read at least few pages of a book a day + watch youtube or pre-downloaded video course with floating VLC player.
I feel like US is really behind on federal ePrivacy and personal data regulations.

Seems like CCPA is a step in the right direction but should be implemented on federal level.
For what it's worth my in-laws specifically chose to buy a second home in a mobile home park. I don't know all their reasons but the low cost of the land was part of it. I've seen their "trailer" and it's quite nice, so I wouldn't necessarily assume everyone who lives in one of these places does so out of desperation or lack of choices. People have different needs and wants.
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> Should he tailor his tshirt too?

No, because t-shirts are already available for one-off prices. He's already willing to pay enough to motivate people to make them for him. He and/or wider society are not willing to pay enough to motivate people to make him one-time-purchase software, apparently.
yep, Octave is what I currently use when I can choose. I loved the concept of Julia as an "octave with fast loops". But it seems that there are some compromises with the Julia interpreter that go against my intersts. Maybe thee's still space for a modern language for numerical computation whose efficiency is not encumbered by the need to support strings, dictionaries, multiple dispatch and the like?
RobinHood is styled like a gambling app. That doesn't put people off; more the reverse.
Do you live in the US? I do.

The US is home to 350,000,000 people. If you gather the craziest of these in one small place, you'll have enough force to storm a (poorly defended) Capitol.

The US always had various fringe, a-social and anti-social groups. Still, Americans do largely share a sense of identity, especially against a common external threat. To judge by some of the comments here, perhaps to a greater extent than Israeli society currently does.
A new grad from Stanford is no more an Engineer that someone from a boot camp is.
The ones here will do it if you want to pay via phone *Pay. Obviously not every restaurant has updated to that though, especially mom and pop joints. I usually leave the tip in cash anyway. Covid has put an end to my restaurant visits for a while though except the occasional outdoor place.
Even hours runs hundreds of gigawatts.

Spanning a continent only helps wind power and not solar power.
> In Israel, tech education can begin as early as middle school

Actual selection starts in kindergarden. Various games and activities that select for ability to follow and understand the rules and so on. Results from kindergarden define class distribution in elementary. At the second grade kids do kind of IQ test (0-100). Those who scored 92-95 get selected for one-day-a-week development program. Those with 95-100 get selected to special schools. Every half a year each teacher fills a summary on each kid. The summary is added to general evaluation.

By the time, they get to army, it's known precisely which unit is the best fit mentally and physically.

Drawback of this system: if immigrant kid gets directly into high school without document trail, he is labeled as not smart. Goes directly to the Border Police. There is a special unit within the Border Policy for kids, who are smart and got there by mistake. In general border police are mentally challenged grunts unable to follow complex written instructions (anecdote: my collegue was treating in the field a border police soldier who lost an eye by shooting through the hole with label "Do not shoot through this hole, you'll lose an eye").
it doesn't help that things like the American Heart Association openly lies about omega-6sclaiming they are "healthy"without stating that they are at levels found in the human population 70 years ago rather than today and has been peddling disinformation regarding saturated fats and sugar for decades.
I found this:
https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/advance-article-ab...

also:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20181...

then there is the question: do people with mental health issues tend to gravitate towards veganism or is the diet itself is causing the issues.

I would like to see a study with a large number of participants from diverse backgrounds who are meat eaters and then go vegan and see if that affects their mental health. However a meat eater who is then forced to eat soy products/meat substitutes they dislike may be unhappy for that very reason. Its a difficult test condition to say the least.
"Some habitat loss" meaning upcoming extinction. But the reservoirs provide irrigation that makes it politically inexpedient to take them down.

Turning them off while fry are heading downstream ought to help, some.
I think it has become cultural. It's just what people are used to. We adopt norms from the society around us rather than starting from minimal apriori assumptions or at least questioning every little thing.
Some additional info along the points you make

https://asiatimes.com/2021/03/wind-and-solar-reliance-would-...
That doesn’t mean the British state played no role. Are you saying the Balfour Declaration had no impact on developments in the region from 1917-1947?

I’m not saying the formation of Israel was 100% the result of intentional British foreign policy.
Foreign policy is messy and inconsistent. The various actors in the region were seeking different things at different times.

Yes the British were in some cases trying to disarm Jewish militants, but in many cases they were also the ones who had handed out the arms in the first place (eg. The Jewish Brigade).

I don’t see how you can dispute that this a messy, contested historical saga with many factors to consider.

I urge you to read more widely on this topic. If you’re so certain that your position is the correct one, you stand only to confirm your existing beliefs.
In the early days of Bitcoin like 2011, you could mine basically for free using a gaming PC you already owned (there are a lot of assumptions here that coiners don't want to get into). I actually did this. This has nothing to do with how PoW works today, where even obscure chains are slammed with GPU farms within minutes of mainnet launch.

With PoS you have to buy coins before you can stake. There's no way to bootstrap your stake without spending money.
First, symlinks are not really portable, for example they don't work on Windows, or in ancient UNIX systems.

Also, that way every command executes with the same privileges because it's the same binary. And at least in Linux capabilities are bounded to a binary. So for utility that necessitate of special capabilities (e.g. ping, passwd, sudo, etc) this approach will not work.

Yes, it works on busybox since everything is owned by root on the typical system so nobody cares about privileges.

Finally, you need to load in memory every time you run a single binary all the thing needed by all the other binaries, even for the `true` binary. To me is stupid.

The solution exists, and exists since ever, and it's encapsulating common functionalities in shared libraries, and have very small binaries linked to only the libraries they use. Unfortunately Rust choose not to support them for stupid reasons like problems that were resolved decades ago.
Hmm, that's interesting. If I was writing a review moderation algorithm, it would leave only one copy up if there were multiple substantially identical reviews. Those are likely to be written by bots that mutate a common review and post, or even if some entity circulates a "review" to its crew of minions who write fake reviews based on that template.

I'd also write it to remove reviews written by a single account if the reviews across diverse products are substantially similar.
At $15/hour, that security guard is probably close to double the income people living in trailer parks earn.
> PoS at least gives everyone an even playing field; big or small you get the same percentage return.

Your cost basis in the underlying coin is by far the largest determinant of ROI.

It’s like the old real estate adage: “money is made on the purchase, not on the sale”.

Fairness of mining has always been virtually irrelevant to ROI.

(Except insofar as accusing competitors of shades of mining “impropriety” supports a narrative — and invariably a narrative which disproportionately benefits investors with an ultra low cost basis in a benefactor to said narrative.)

“China miners, special deals” etc — it’s a trope that’s been going around for about a decade.

Virtue signaling aside, judging by the raging bull market for ICO coins amongst cryptocurrency investors, clearly no one is concerned with fairness whatsoever. These things are majority premined by insiders and/or sold to prestigious investors in pre-pre-pre ICOs (yes, there are “levels”). What happens is the general public gets sucked into these coins then adopts narratives which suit them. That’s what you’re seeing here. Not that anyone cares.

(Disclosure: I’m invested in a true hybrid PoW/PoS coin, and I’m rather familiar with the downsides of both PoW and PoS mining.)
Acceptable that trailer parks are the country's most affordable housing, or that it's being allowed to be squeezed for profit?
Just look at their ticker symbol: HTZGQ

Currently priced at $0.90.
In a coldish part of Canada, I think I had 2.5hours of outside or PE time through elementary school

The same amount of PE, along with became optional through junior high school and high school.

In elementary school, recess/lunch were required to be spent outside (unless it's -30C or so)

You could spend up to 15min at a time inside to warm up, dry off your mittens, and maybe grab a hot chocolate but after that you were kicked back outside
Moving from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Microservices-Based Commerce
Sigstore: Easy Code Signing Andamp; Verification for Supply Chain
100M: Disney+ got to Netflix’s subscriber milestone in 1/5 the time
Here the countries with tax treaties with US.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/unit...
Second Life and The Sims Online are wildly different from Roblox. You're right that the particular sentence you've picked doesn't capture what Roblox did different, but it did transform the building of virtual experiences.
The old Turkish bait and switch! Cha-cha-cha-chachinnnGG!!!!
>I honestly believe that HN threads on CCP are targeted/brigaded.

Spot on, there is no doubt about that. Mere seconds after posting anything that's remotely not pro-china will be downvoted to oblivion. This thread was on the front page and then it almost instantly disappeared.
Agreed. I like the tree of threaded comments like Reddit/HN much more. Theoretically the comments in posts could use that structure.
> Last thing, if we need to look at the future... better change everything.

Absolutely. We had decades to work with a fairly stable set of tools and they are not going anywhere. Whoever needs them, they are there and likely will be for several more decades.

I am gradually migrating all my everyday DevOps workflows (I am a senior programmer and being good with tooling is practically mandatory for my work) to various Rust tools: ls => exa, find => fd, grep => rg, and more and more are joining each month. I am very happy about it! They are usually faster and work more predictably and (AFAICT) have no hidden surprises depending on the OS you use them in.

> we are no longer in the '80 where everything was a stream of text, and a shell that can manipulate complex objects is fantastic.

Absolutely (again). We need a modern cross-platform shell that does that. There are few interesting projects out there but so far it seems that the community is unwilling to adopt them.

I am personally also guilty of this: I like zsh fine even though the scripting language is veeeeery far from what I'd want to use in a shell.

Not sure how that particular innovation will explode but IMO something has to give at one point. Pretending everything is a text and wasting trillions of CPU hours in constantly parsing stuff is just irresponsible in so many ways (ecological included).
Even the visible carbon ash is stored, toxic and radioactive too. You don't want that contaminating water supplies either.
Depends. Emotive language aside (i.e. "damning") the low sample size is actually "more evidence" in the presence of a convincingly low p value.

It means that this particular sample of 21 people would have to be extremely atypical under the null hypothesis of no difference. Therefore, given its low sample size (and thus wide standard error), it is 'some' evidence that the effect size is also probably quite large.
Yeah, I wonder if things like ffmpeg would have been created in the current culture, or if it would have been a VC funded webservice paid for with a monthly subscription, and when the company eventually failed, all the code would have vanished with it, rather than being progressively improved by a large number of people through the years and having a phenomenal positive impact on the world.
Building a basic house is pretty simple. Larry Haun put out a great book with Habitat for Humanity to do it for about $40,000, and irishvernacular.com/ outlines how to do it for €25,000. But we induce scarcity in the housing market because if everyone had a comfortable, decent home, they might not work so hard, would they? Imagine how much less value would be created for assetholders, how much less stuff we would make, if families felt free to survive on one income.
At some point revolution will probably become inevitable.
No specific amount of "hand holding" is enough until the diversity numbers are up, as that is now the metric.

This is not a specific judgement about diversity as a metric, but an observation of making any something a metric.
also you might have family and community ties to some of these people. They might groom you since you are an early teen.

When I was 13 for sure being the hacker in a crime organization would have sounded somewhat appealing.
I didn't realize how many false positives Gmail had with spam for the longest time. An astonishing amount of legit messages get wrongly flagged for my account. Given that the UI hides the spam folder, I would bet that most people have no idea how many messages they miss from this.
Throwaway for obvious reasons:

While working for a big vacation rental company in Portland not named Airbnb, they rolled out a review update that still added negative reviews to the 5 star score, but hid the context.

A rental may have a lowered star rating but the only story you’d see was praise.

Business is not about logic like engineering. It’s about growing margins, and that is entirely emotional.
Your best interest may differ from doctors best interest when treating you (not getting sued, following guidelines, getting paid for not rocking the boat)

So document yourself: medline is free, and with sci-hub, you can get the full versions of anything

EDIT: actually, no, don't document yourself. Ignorance is bliss. Why would I even care? After all, it's your life! And I care even less than your doctor, since we don't even have a contractual relationship (which you have with your doctor by virtue of paying him).
I've got two doctors in my family, and from how they describe it getting into med school is easier than FAANG. Once you're in you're practically guaranteed 250k after 7 years of training and 500k debt. Residency definitely sounds like a pain in the ass, but if you graduate from a reputable American med school it's very unlikely that you don't match. I guess it depends on how you define easy. Some may define it as amount of work required, I tend to think as chance of success.
I’d argue though these cave artists are more skilled (artistically) when compared against their peers.
I see, I missed that. In that case I have a follow up.

Why do you think that "media" is more likely to start a subthread than a regular message? It seems to me like this is unlikely to be a particularly effective distinction? Or is the intent that media + manual is close enough to perfect?
How do I insert a comments section with Webmention? What HTML do I add? Preferably via dynamic JS so it's self-updating.
How do they hire talents? You can make lot of money legally if you’re a smart person in tech, I guess they have to offer either ridiculously high salaries, or something else?
Attacks on Jews in Israel and the greater Middle East pre-dates 1948. The creation of the State of Israel is one justified response to the attacks.

Attacks on Jewish migrants and natives in the Middle East was never justified, unless you are anti-immigrant in general. Are you one of those anti-Latino Republicans?
If you think an $x one-time payment is a great reward for making y, then make y and charge $x. Seems like a free opportunity to me. If it's really so simple, you can easily undercut those doing the subscription model.

Unless, of course, $x is not actually that motivating a fee for the work. In which case, it's a bit entitled to expect others to work for a fee that doesn't spur you into action either.
Well, those problems happen now, so it's not strictly worse than what we have now, but those are good points.

For the first one, it would have to be tied into the payment system somehow so the money would have to change hands. It doesn't totally solve the problem, but it certainly adds a cost, especially if the payment system requires unique customers. Heck, Google could make money like this by only allowing reviews for purchases via Google Pay.

For the second one, I'm not really sure, but if they bribe everyone with the same discount, it's not really a bribe anymore, it's just the new price. And if they don't offer everyone the bribe, then they will quickly get bad reviews.
Adjusted for cost of living, that security guard is poorer than the person living in a trailer park or very close to it.

There's been a large rise in people living in campers in California due to high rents.
Does this apply to users on T-Mobile's network via MVNOs, or only customers who subscribe directly to T-Mobile?
The removal of rules making it impossible to create more housing would be a start.
In elementary school there were maybe 3 male teachers, but the non-teacher staff were all male.

It's only high school where the teachers were about balanced, and idk about the non-teachers
Localities can fight back by reforming zoning laws & applying land value taxes instead of property taxes.

In many areas of the country it is illegal to build anything but a single-family home. To people familiar with supply & demand this should be an obvious problem.
I have a ~200 LOC Hugo partial I've built up which reads in the webmentions via jQuery, then parses them out into Twitter, Micro.blog, or "other". If at least one of either/or Twitter or Micro.blog, pull out the root URL and show that at the top of the comments to encourage discussion. Otherwise, parse out like, repost, or plain old mention and add an icon.

I also have an HN parser for posts like this one[1] if they've hit a certain comment threshold.

I don't have any problem with sharing it, but I just haven't published it anywhere yet on account of not wanting the maintenance or support overhead. I think all of it can be gleaned from the page source, anyway.

[1] https://justinmiller.io/posts/2019/09/21/pi-gadget/ (see bottom)
This is true (and honestly something I haven't given much thought to). It's true in any economy that the rich can leverage their wealth to get richer through investments at a higher earnings rate than the poor can.

I do like that cryptocurrency platforms can put limits on "how much" leverage they get, to significantly close gap between potential "percentage" return on investments between wealthy and 'poor', and remove the ability for third parties to operate which give preferential treatment to people with high concentration of total market cap.

If you own 1 billion USD, then sure, you're going to get a larger return on investments (when measuring in USD) than someone with 100 USD, even if the percentage RoA was the same. Because of how classical economic systems work though, these are very grossly disparate. Someone with 1 billion USD may be able to generate 5-20% return on investments in a year, whereas someone with 100 USD would be lucky to get 3% (certainly, larger returns are possible with luck and wise investments, I'm talking purely in the aggregate over low-risk investments, like holding your money in an account which pays interest).

But let's assume the person with 1 billion USD and 100 USD are both getting 1% interest annually; the person with 1 billion USD is still making more money from investments because they have 999999900 more USD which they are investing.

PoS doesn't solve that latter problem, but it can close the gap on the return expressed as a percentage of investment