skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wind 150 (2% global electricity)

> Nuclear – global average 90 (11% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)

> Nuclear – U.S. 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)

The article you linked makes no claim about developed or undeveloped nations. And the data here simply marks 0.1 as the US death toll from nuclear, and 90 as the global average death toll including Chernobyl and Fukushima.

US is not the only developed nation, and Japan is not an undeveloped nation. I'm not sure I'd consider any country with the capability to run a nuclear power plant "undeveloped", including USSR in 1986 or Ukraine specifically, but this isn't an argument I feel strongly about. IMF data (seen on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country) would put current day Ukraine out of the list of developed, and I suspect the same for 1986.

Also, it's unclear if the death rate on wind is a global average. It's difficult to infer substantive information from the labeling on the data in this article from 8.5 years ago. There is no distinction between developed and undeveloped nations, for nuclear or for wind power. And the proxy you're using (US or non-US) is not listed for wind.
Argh, thanks for catching that! It's fixed now :)
Then I would say that this essay fails on its own standard, because what it argues for is clarity, not simplicity.

I'm sure Paul Graham thinks himself a clear writer, which he tends to be. Now try running "On Lisp" through an app like Hemingway, that will "simplify" the language. I'm almost certain the result will be less clear than the original, even though it'll be arguably simpler. Is that really what writers should aim for?
No, the solution is building multiple sub 100 MW (NuScale Power and others) and a few sub 500 MW SMRs for major cities (think post VVER 440 designs and Rolls Royce SMRs). Gen VI+ has passive safety requirements that would render a multi GW plant too big and too expensive. Think huge tanks of water, double containment, passive circulation, gravitational safety features and minimal disruption of fisheries and habitats. We need smaller and more modular NPPs with reactor vessels built on an assembly line and QCed, good safety guarantees, minimal staff, minimal operational costs and the ability to regulate the energy output in a wider range.
> Starting with their name from their badge, we'd see how many of the top 10 security questions we could answer

A fun thing I do is to just not use my legal name. Online or in person (unless talking to a doctor and such). Many of my friends don’t even realize.

Of course the problem is that at this point I’ve used this name enough that you can probably do all the same tricks with it. That’s why I use yet a 3rd name as a throwaway at coffee shops or with transient strangers.

Getting death threats from dad’s business dealings once was enough.
Not always, property in london is a way to launder money, thats pretty public.
Very well-written and thoughtful.

Yes, on your case there's hardly any reason to use an ORM.

I have worked with Symfony but these days it is always .Net Core or Java it seems and I can live with that (thankfully none of the clients I work for use Javascript or on the backend. One used Python with plain SQL and secrets stored in the application code though :-)
The site itself is at https://photo16x9.com
> Fiction and poetry vs whatever type of writing blogging is.

Essayists, pamphleteers, and diarists (blogs), and aphorists (Twitter). Genres with centuries-long histories.
Same but in TP7 by following a tutorial found on a CD shipped with a magazine. Very satisfied with the result but never managed to get the version with textures right.
Is there a list of social media sites supported by fraidycat somewhere?
I got a real kick out of "our ARM Mac bootloader is actually the thing you used to backup and restore your Wii NAND a decade ago".
To someone with a technical bent, it (NFT creation and sales) seems pointless and crazy, but it's no more so than things like fiat currencies or stock shorting.

Essentially, people are gaming human psychology to trigger the desire to "own" something and creating an artificially limited supply of that something using crypto (which may as well be a cut and paste replacement for magic as far as most people are concerned).

Limited supply + desire = high prices for acquiring whatever is desired.

High prices plus near zero production cost for the "item" means lots of profit for little effort, hence all the interest in this right now.
Having an off-site backup of your data is a no-brainer at any level of complexity.
The Marginal Ethics of Privacy
A little more info from an NPR article on the sale:

"That is, until about four months ago. That's when Mike found out about a new kind of blockchain technology that has been rippling through the digital economy: NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. NFTs are like certificates of ownership — unique barcodes that can't be duplicated — that can be attached to all sorts of digital files and make them into exchangeable assets. Mike's story offers a window into how NFTs are on track to dramatically reshape the art market."

(https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975782582/market-power-to-the...)

So NFTs are the new DRM?
Early and classic literature was meant solely for the elites, so it featured flamboyant writing styles. Current literature is meant for everyone, and so it focuses on efficiency and effectiveness of communicating the intended idea as unambiguously as possible.

"Beauty" and "inspiration" are subjective and vary with personal preferences. I find simple and concise language much more elegant than the verbose "literary" styles of the past.
Nim seems pretty opinionated to me: use imperative style, minimal or none OOP (preference for macro built DSLs over OOP), functional allowed for those who like it.

Also looking code around I think style and usage is pretty consistent and Nim idiomatic code is certainly a thing. Overall I think it is a definitely consistent language. It is definitely evolving but you can go a long (loong way) with 1.0 features.

I also believe “there is only on way to do it” is more of a slogan/goal than a real thing.
> non-fungible token (jpg)
> 21,069 x 21,069 pixels (319,168,313 bytes)

I think this is the information you are looking for? It's somewhat hidden at the top under the hashes
A unified approach to federated learning
The whale has no voice; unless you insult him by saying, that when he so strangely rumbles, he talks through his nose. But then again, what has the whale to say? Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!

- Moby Dick
You directly reference James Joyce
Should We Be Picking Out China Patterns or What? – On the X-Files' Dynamic Duo
You know. Actual news is very hard to find with in the noise and click bait here. But this is something very newsworthy which brings some hope.

Thank you for posting this.
just got off a webex meeting, the audio delay is still over a second for phone participants, this causes a lot of problems. fun issue to have in 2021
Sounds delicious. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it. I'll have to ask my Nonna about it when I can travel to Entracque again. :)
This may be the first legitimate, legal, semi-non-speculative use for blockchain I've seen! That's pretty interesting on its own.
> You've visited my site that I have built, you can either use it as is, or not use it - your choice

People's choices aren't so limited. They can do any number of things to your web site. After it leaves your server and arrives in other people's computers, there's no way to control what they do with the data.

> but don't start trying to mess about with it and sending stuff, I might be terrible at writing backend side and sending things wrong blows up a server.

Don't leave your APIs exposed if you don't want people to use them. Anyone can look at your javascript source code and figure out where the information is coming from. People can and will simply request it directly from your server. I already do this with curl.
I would say there was a frenzy equal in magnitude around the 2000s dot-com. Yes, this looks crazy because we have never seen it.

Then again, who would have thought we would get diapers and dog food delivered to our home the same day we order it?

Or that mini-flying machines would bring me a Big Mac?

The future is a very weird place, but the winners will be the ones who embrace the crazy.

Jason Calicanis has a good story about when he met the founder of Robinhood (The trading app). The idea sounded so nuts that it was worth a bet.
http://www.hipsterbusiness.name/ is (I think mostly) a joke, but it implements the correct-horse-battery-staple solution to domain naming. The N one-word domains are long since taken, but there are N^2 two-word domains. They may not all make sense, but it presents a lot of opportunities, and they're "memorable" in that correct-horse-battery-staple way.

I was a little struck that my first attempt came up with Otter And Frame -- OtterFrame.com is taken, but OtterAndFrame.com isn't. I'd be curious to know what fraction of that N^2 space is taken already. (It doubles to 2N^2 if you add the word "And" between them, though I guess the version without will always be more desirable.)

OtterAndFrame.com is at least as good a name as Akiflow.com or Biyaki.com (two names dredged from YCombinator's summer class).
> geographically distant usage by users of the same account

But that's just it. A Netflix account isn't valid "for you and anyone you think it is". It's valid only for people in the same household. The thing they are cracking down on is people using the account in a way that they were never supposed to.
His YT channel is full of 4chan cringe. I'm not going to give him any views but it seems likely he's alt-right.
There's a difference in writing, like there's a difference in painting. Painting a house is different from painting the Mona Lisa. Writing a work instruction or standard operating procedure is different from writing a poem and both are different from writing pop fiction or non-fiction. You can optimize for meaning, optimize for beauty, or you can optimize for inspiration, but it's hard to get all of them, and this is not a skill that is easy to get.

PG does not really explore that (natch), but that's a point to consider, nonetheless.
Clone Wars: Open-source clones of popular sites
It's an NFT. It's one etherium coin being flipped over and over again to more ridiculous speculators or the losers who end up holding the bag in exchange for a non fungible digital token.

It doesn't come with art, rights to publish, rights to copy, etc. It's just an etherium coin the original artist minted that no one else can copy, that they named after some work of art and sold.

NFTs don't make any sense without associated rights or goods they would represent, and even then they do the same thing as contracts without any legal enforce ability - you'd need a contract to enforce any rights sold with an NFT. The NFT would just act as a 'proof' token.

I don't get it. Where's the value?
It isn’t even really that convenient having smart home devices. Managing the extra network overhead to keep their spying packets away from everything else is not convenient. I wouldn’t mind a smart TV but I want root access if I buy one
Sorry about that! We do aim to give feedback to each candidate even if we've decided on a no hire. Can you send me an email at julien at serpapi.com to sort things out?
It's screwed up because we give people a very small amount of income to help them while they are seeking another job and then tax them on that small income. Why does it need to be taxed?

The max unemployment given per month does not cover rent for most people in a mid to high cost of living area. It just seems insane to decide that that income should be taxed as well.
An NFT is like a piece of paper titled with the name of the artwork and signed by the artist. Meanwhile, the artwork hangs in a museum and you have no control over it.

Imagine going to the museum and showing people this paper. “Look, I bought this piece of art!” But even though you bought it, you don’t own it, so you aren’t able to take it home or anything like that.
> Allocating functions are red, zero-alloc are blue and you can't call a red function from a blue one

This is not entirely correct analogy. You can embed your allocator inside one of the parameters, too, as a strategy (perhaps a certain type of "object" should carry it's allocator with it).

Then uncolored generic functions could operate on allocator-bound and allocator-unbound "objects" alike, even if say the generic function calls a "object method" that performs an allocation in one case but not the other.... You just have to be careful about how to handle errors.

There is no equivalent for async.

If you were going to be serious about function coloring in zig, the place where there is function coloring is functions with error return values but that's actually a reasonable place to have function coloring, and still, it's easy to build seams in both directions, so a red function can call a blue function, and a blue function can call a red function pretty easily.
Obviously a personal opinion, but Ansible solves this problem really well. It does get sluggish once we're talking about more than 50 machines, though.

To reliably end up with a working cluster:

- spin up plain operating system VMs

- spin up one more VM for Ansible instigator

- collect the IPs, write them down to Ansible inventory

- pull/upload your custom binaries

- run Ansible playbooks to set the VMs up

Sometimes it's beneficial to have a two-step process. One playbook to install rarely changing components. Then make a VM snapshot. The second playbook installs your custom binaries. Future installations can then start from the snapshot.
Ask HN: What is your falling asleep trick?
Good day!

These days we all have a lot on our mind. Therefor I was wondering, what is your mental trick to fall asleep?

To start with mine:
With closed eyes I imagine myself walking on a beach, only seeing the lower part on my legs. I focus myself on a natural rhythm of moving my legs. The better I'm able to keep a smooth pace, the more relaxed I become.
I notice that sometimes my legs are moving too fast, too slow or in a strange way. A better focus helps me to find this smooth pace again and become relaxed.
Just write like a needful.

Hit all the keywords, make it look like you know even though you don't

Don't make any sense, that'll make them read it all.
Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main"
Artwork has always been a popular way to launder money. Since its value is entirely subjective.
The title makes it sound like it's going to be on functional programming.
I grew up with my shortest "daylight day" starting at about 08:40 and finishing at about 14:50. This basically meant that both morning and evening commute happened in basically darkness. No matter of time-shifting would've accomplished "get both ends of the school/work-day in daylight", although making them shorter would've worked.
Build Your Own Cellular Network (2010)
you have (or your distro has) installed the widevine drm plugins for firefox (or whatever browser) that are included by default on windows and mac os. these are proprietary plugins, but some convenience-oriented distros distros include them because many users expect them.

some linux users are on linux because they want to eliminate proprietary software from their computer altogether. which means no access to un-broken drm media.
Having been in construction site works longer in many cases. When the tradesman has to travel 1 hour to the site, he is going to want to work long hours to get done sooner. (2 12 hours days is = 3 8 hour days). We worked that job because we knew if we refused the builder would find someone else who would - and then we wouldn't get the jobs closer to home either.

This depends greatly on the crew. Some are more willing to work long hours than others.
Man, I didn't realize 500 servers was still "little company" level!
So could someone explain how NFTs can be used to launder money? Because otherwise they seems pretty useless with the exception that these can be used to access decentralised software as a license key.
Hey AdoptOpenJDK team! :)
Not even. They’re the new digital beanie babies.
I think it depends on how mainstream your distro is, or maybe on what browser you use. When I used Linux, every streaming platform ever told me that my browser wasn't compatible to stream.
No, it has nothing to do with copyright. You own a token where the only proof that it has anything to do with the artwork is the fact that the creator said so.
Which reminds me, I used to use me@myname.com but gmail’s UI gets weird when viewing emails from me as it uses “me” to indicate the owner of the gmail account.
Glassdoor pay data is utter rubbish and they have zero incentives to improve it. You are not their customer, your employer is, and your employer wants you to think people get paid less than they are.

Check levels.fyi, it is much closer to the truth. 250k GBP TC in London is possible at FAANG L6/E6 (or L5/E5 with some luck with stock appreciation). HFTs are also able to pay that.
> Nuclear is not used for any of those either.

Sometimes, nuclear is used directly for heating by distributing heat to district heating systems.
Honestly, an eye mask did a ton for me. It forces me to keep my eyes closed, and blocks out any extraneous light
This is so cool, wish I were as good an engineer as you! I am sadly trapped in my backend big tech world and haven't spent time nor effort to dig myself out of that hole
Absolutely has happened with anything expensive that has gotten cheaper. Sumptuary laws are another reaction which can occur.
If you liked this essay, check out Politics and the English Language by Orwell.

It changed the way I think about writing and goes into a bit more detail.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Historical reasons: American society has settled on 40 hours being the appropriate amount of work for the average person. Starting near the beginning of the day at 9:00 meant 8 hours later people would get off at 5:00. I've heard Ford started that convention, but I haven't really researched it. But I think business hours are now very firmly entrenched in American society and that it would be very difficult to change that convention.
As an update on this... The latest stimulus package included 10K+ of unemployment income tax forgiveness. I'm glad the folks in DC realized how many people were going to end up with very expensive tax bills this year.
Experimenting with my interactive green screen on Omegle
I'd love to be wrong, but I have a hard time seeing this succeed. However I feel somebody can/should disrupt Google by obsoleting search.

Search:Information retrieval as steering wheel: automobiles

With autonomy the steering wheel can be dispensed with. Hopefully someone invents something that can do the same with search, as we know it.
> Jargon that builds on intuition can be its own problem.

Sure it can, which is why you gotta be double-careful naming things and not try to take metaphors too far. A jargon term needs to crisply identify the crux of the concept and not confuse with irrelevant or misleading details.
Can you have emoji@emoji.emoji email address?

So your email address would just be 5 "characters" including the @ and the dot
Very much agree, Maxwell.

Worked on this fork of elasticlunr.js for that purpose: https://github.com/kickscondor/elasticlunr.js
> What's the problem with the #custom_page selector?

This is exactly what we've done for years, but with tight deadlines, small budgets, long-running projects take on all sorts of crufty technical debt. Maybe I change a value in "special_page.css" and suddenly the homepage breaks.

Tailwind lets us isolate that cruft to where it matters.

It's not a silver bullet, but it's helped immensely. Initially, I thought it might just be "new broom syndrome", but after a year of using it, I'm still in love in a way that I haven't been since the launch of jQuery.
Sounds like an opinion that exactly matches the mentality that the article describes. And in modern day too!
> so I assume your logic should be consistent and you would also like to have the option to say pay less and get an iPhone with no warranty.

What did I say that has anything to do with warranties?

> For some reasons we force warranty

This is just false. We don’t force warranties.

Companies are free to sell products without warranties.

Customers generally prefer warranties so companies provide them.

> and IMO for the exact same reason we should for basic repair ability ( diagnostic software,schematics, parts and ability to remove the DRM)
I hope this is more clear,

It’s clear that your analogy is false.

Customers want warranties so they choose products which have them.

You mentioned earlier that android devices are as bad to repair, but that isn’t true either:

https://www.fairphone.com/en/

If customers want repairability they can have it. No need to force apple to do anything.

> we can talk about tractors or fridges so we can avoid the Apple bias.

Tractors and fridges are not like computers, this is a silly analogy.
> Early and classic literature was meant solely for the elites, so it featured flamboyant writing styles

That actually isn't universally true. For example, most people today probably consider Shakespeare's writing style to be "flamboyant" yet his audience was a wide swath of the public. The difference today is that we are post-Moderns and so we have inherited the Modernist rejection of the Victorian era and its excessive tendencies.

Akbar was also a contemporary of Shakespeare, interestingly enough.
Be careful using illegitimate car rental codes. Sometimes they look so cheap because they cancel a lot of your insurances, because your employer carries those insurances itself. So if you crash or the car is damaged, the clerk says, “Don’t worry Hertz Corporate will pick that up” but of course when they discover you are not an employee they will not.
Just be careful with ccTLDs. Read more about the .IO debacle a few years back: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

Also recently, Notion had issues with their .SO TLD More info here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/22280127/notion-down-sche...

> but some speculated that it may have to do with Notion’s web address: notion.so. The “so” suffix is the domain for the country of Somalia, and a deleted tweet from Notion asked if anyone knew people in Somalia.
The Smoking Gun has a great collection of tour riders. Some well done, some snarky, and some that are just awful.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage

The greatest of all time is Iggy Pop's rider from his 2006 tour:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage/arena-rock/iggy-pop-0...
Whitespace as syntax is a somewhat controversial choice. Others will talk about missing semi-colon bugs or other delimiter-not-matching-whitespace bugs. Their counter "You only have to mis-indent an if relative to semi-colons once to be leery of that choice."

Most of the time (more often than Python), you can use parentheses if you really want. Getting everyone else on your team to stick to that formatting convention..maybe not so easy because, well, not everyone shares your opinion/values. :-)
Then it should shut down.
That is actually a good point, and one that frequently irritates me: people are hand-wringing about the total non-issue of Fukushima Daichi to this day, because of media fear-mongering that the scary radiation would cross the Pacific and impact Americans.

Meanwhile, twenty thousand people had just died from a tsunami. Twenty thousand. Not to mention the complete destruction of infrastructure in a populous city, and the ramifications of that.