skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea, but how much energy to micro-reactors provide today, on a commercial basis?
so we didn't plan for the problem in the past, so we shouldn't bother this time? that's pure whataboutism and not helpful
Peloton is my most frequently used streaming service. I use it for meditation, short 10 min workouts at my desk, longer bike workouts & cardio. I probably do several a day.

Very much worth the price, even without the bike. The instructors are all great, and I don't stress about the quality of any class -> I just jump into one. They all are great.

I _do_ miss having feedback on my form from an in person instructor. But post pandemic I can do this sporadically and make peloton my everyday.
Facebook’s Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is coming soon to four US cities
$429,496.7295

$429,496.7296 would overflow
> I bet that Altavista had its highest-ever user numbers right before Google appeared on the scene.

That's an excellent point, especially since the financial cost and effort to switch search engines is effectively zero.
Ah yes, unlimited harm to human life in cases of failure, versus the unlimited harm to human life and planet earth that comes guaranteed everyday with the use of coal and gas.
You have lost nothing. The old emoji are not going away.
> Why couldn't we just have stuck with yellow?

It was because of a demonstrated demand for emojis with different skin tones to the default yellow. Before the Unicode Consortium had even considered this, there was a popular app called iDiversicons, which had similar emoji-like characters customisable with five different skin colour options, as images that could be copied by the user into their messages.

After trying and failing to convince Apple to allow their app to modify the iOS keyboard to make these easier to enter, the authors of the app took a broader approach, and wrote a proposal to the Consortium to include their emojis as standard:

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14154r-idiversicon-emoji-re...
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14085-emoji.pdf

Based on this, the Consortium refined it into their own proposal that used the Fitzpatrick scale for skin tone modifiers:

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14172r-emoji-enhancements.p...
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14173r-emoji-skin-tone.pdf
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14174r-emoji-additions.pdf

And then, eventually, these were included in Unicode 8.0.
Which is an unfair point because we have yet to see what costs are associated with safely dismantling and replacing all those miles upon miles of solar panels and wind turbines will be. Nuclear has been deployed on a larger scale for a long time so the costs are known.

How many miles of solar panels, wind turbines, and battery backup are needed to produce the same amount of energy as a single nuclear plant? I imagine if you do the math at scale, it turns out to be negligible, if not more expensive for renewables.
>I can tell you most rank and file really love this

Let them feel like they're getting something special and you can roll the safe out the front door.
That still leaves unanswered questions:

What encoding - ASCII or Unicode? UTF-8, or UTF-16?

What type of filesystem - FAT32, exFAT, ext4?

What physical medium - HDD or SSD?

OP's question goes deeper than just the file format.
I wonder if Twitter compensated the icon factory for coming up with the bird mascot?
The issue with solar is that there are a lot more deaths for a given amount of energy than for nuclear. Yes, they're spread out so it's less dramatic, but overall nuclear is safer and also produces very useful medical isotopes.

What's really missing for nuclear is economics of scale. If we could just organize a repeatable build model so many operational challenges would be solved.

That said, I'll take anything. Wind, solar, batteries, tidal, nuclear. They're all far, far better than coal or oil from a public health and climate change standpoint. It's such a shame so much was wasted on the Iraq War, since the entire USA could have been powered by green energy with half what was spent.
I've had the bike for four years. Cost both one time and recurring is pretty high, but the product is of high quality. I've taken thousands of spin classes IRL and several hundred on the Peloton. Peloton is superior both in the hardware/software and instruction. Classes are taught by extremely well compensated instructors (I've heard $300K) so they are the best available. The best part for me is the library. There are thousands of archived classes starting with classes that ended ten minutes ago back several years. And not just cycling or running. The full body warmup classes have transformed my lifting routine and the yoga classes are now integral to my fitness program.

It's about $40 a month, which covers our family. My wife and I are fitness enthusiasts and this is more than offset by not having a gym membership or having to drive to exercise. We do have about $5K total in our home gym (rubber flooring, cable machine, dumbbells and benches etc.) For us being able to get quality classes and workout on our schedule offsets any added cost.
The white elephant in the room here is section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If that was to be repealed things like the possibility of being liable for defamation on the site would level the playing field.

The way it currently is, there is not a check and balance in the system and it has allowed one side to gain a lot more power which is a bad thing. While those on that side feel they are on the "right" side, that power imbalance has corrupted that side like any form of absolute power tends to do.
Something that I don't see mentioned is that this emoji opens the door to accidental racism because you are assuming the other person's race when you use it, since presumably one of the hands belongs to the person you are speaking to. This contrasts with something like the thumbs up emoji, where it is meant to represent your own hand, and so you can make it any color you want. It is also not clear if you use it, which hand is supposed to be yours- I am the hand on the left or the hand on the right?
Acronyms used:

LNT stands for Linear No Threshold: cancer risk is directly proportional to dose, that doses are cumulative over time (rate doesn‘t matter), and that there is no threshold or safe dose. This contradicts studies that we have about people who received enough CUMULATIVE doses of radiation that they would be dead if it was at the same time.

ALARA: Radiation should be As Low As Reasonably Achievable. In practice this means that any cost reduction simply means freed money that you're now required to spend on safety.
How about starting with mountainous environmental impact reports that no one reads?
Theres lots of room for maintaining effective oversight while making the overall processes more efficient.
The problem is the current processes were designed to be onerous due to those lobbying against nuclear power.

Also with new concepts like micro reactors or reviving long abandoned technology like liquid thorium reactors that would burn what we stupidly label “waste” and if the active systems are interrupted coast to a stop on their own instead of running away like our fast breeder water based designs a lot of the existing regulations and requirements are suddenly moot.

Most importantly Nuclear is the only “clean” technology that is predictable and controllable. Until you have a way to reliably meet base load requirements, fossil fuel generation is going to continue.

So if you really do think that climate change represents impending doom, resisting nuclear power is pretty dumb. It’s not perfect - but there isn’t any technology that is perfect or without some risk. Pretending nuclear is the only energy technology with serious issues is also dumb. 50 years of people painting nuclear as the boogie man hasn’t helped either. If you strongest arguments are emotionally based those aren’t very good arguments at all.
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Prions persist in soil for years; elk eat where other elk have deposited prions.
Folks thought the same thing about Fukushima at the time. If history has shown us anything, it's that we're consistently not as smart as we think we are.
Technically you don't need a good idea to raise $40 million these days. /s

To me building upon PostgreSQL was however, a good idea. Long term all databases gain relational features, through a rather painful process of realization that RDBMS actually did some things right. They'll skip that pain and focus on new features.

Microsoft does something similar by offering a Graph DB on top of MS SQL.
>I Love Capitalism! by Ken Langone.

more like I love Survisorship Bias
Trump was basically unable to do anything about any part of the federal bureaucracy, including the military, which is entrenched through a combination of civil service laws and Supreme Court decisions that make it impossible for the President to effectively control the bureaucracy if they don't see eye to eye.
Haha. In contrast to that, SAP is known for being very cooperative with SAP consulting firms - I guess that is part of their success.
I don't think Julia has gotten real backing from MIT as an institution, it just originated from some people who worked there. Julia is the only recent language I can think about that is growing and thriving without a powerful institution backing it.

While corporate backing certainly help, I think it's more important whether the language really addresses some pain point of existing languages. Compare Swift and Rust. It seems to me Apple pushed Swift harder than Mozilla pushed Rust, but Rust more precisely addressed the problems people had with C++.
It's 50 years since the early concepts in this Forth article were written. A few things happened along the way. ;)

Here is a Forth program with 1.2 million LOC. (It builds in seconds I am told)

Candy is a construction project estimator and management tool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13loLq5qswM

Written in VFX Forth, a native code compiler with C library linker, OOP, Gui Generator and lots of cool stuff.

Comparing hobbyist Forth systems to modern Forth systems is like comparing Small C to GCC or Clang.

*I have no connection to MPE UK except that I have used their embedded compilers in the past.
The morality and efficacy of going public earlier
> all the characters are yellow, but not Apu.

not true.

asians are a lighter tone: https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Osaka-Flu...

carl is black: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/2/29/Numbe...

the hispanic bee guy: https://img.chilango.com/2014/11/el-hombre-abejorro.jpg
That's overly simplistic to the extent that it is dangerous.

It takes two to tango. You can do everything right and your partner may still cheat on you, manipulate the children to dislike you, etc. It is unfair to say "you married too quickly" (apart from shotgun marriage, at some point you must make a leap of faith after all) or your second point that this person must not have tried hard enough. There are many reasons a marriage can fail, an many of them are out of one's control.
I've been wearing the Giro Empire E70 Knit shoes for the past ~6mo, and I've got nothing but good things to say about them.
Its actually really complicated on the supplier end. There is a lot of joint stuff with contractors and the DOE.
>It's a lousy argument to suggest that Chinese products are bad because Chinese culture does not promote attention to detail...

I would just like to point out that the GP did mention,

>...not culturally specific to Chinese...
Just as hacker news has rules so does Facebook, if you don't like it, go somewhere else.

What do you do when Facebook is the monopolist and you can't go anywhere else?
An increasing number people do do this now, just at the start of their messages. "As a cis white male..."
The other elephants in the room are (1) the material requirements (required metals, plastics, glass, electronics and reinforced concrete) per GWh, and (2) the required space per GWh (less space for buildings, fields or nature).

And solar/wind are also "cheap" because they are mostly produced in mainland China, with coal and cheap labor (including "very cheap labor": https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/economy/china-so...). Not a very sustainable solution...
> The Earth is struggling to support the current number of people living at western standards.

We are having significant effects on the climate and ecology, but I don't think it is accurate to say the earth is struggling to support us.

> Growth has been slowing which means… we’re still growing. At a time when we’ve blown past the CO2 threshold to reach +2degC with barely a speed bump.

I've repeatedly acknowledged the issues we face with global warming. Halting population growth will not solve that problem alone. However you keep bringing up the thermodynamic limit amd the declining population growth and a huge impact on when we reach that limit that you seem to refuse to acknowledge.

> If the only real argument you have against this is ad hominem, you’re on shaky ground.

I made no ad hominem attack nor did I call you any names, nor did I ascribe any beliefs to you. I meant to be using "you" in the general form to explain where I see a particular line of reasoning headed. I probably should have used a different general form for clarity and I appologize for any confusion.

You've explained elsewhere that you aren't going anywhere with your argument and don't believe solutions exist.

> Maybe you disagree that we’re past a point of no return

I don't believe there is a single point of no return, but I do believe there are a large number of inflection points that if you pass make the problems haeder to solve. We have passed some of them and there are more on the way. The longer we wait to really take these problems seriously, the hardee they are to solve

I am still unclear what the "magical thinking" is...
This guys are so bored they see racism everywhere.
I’ll be honest, when rephrased this way none of these points ring true to me. At least in no way to the same extent as the OP.
the US Navy is quite good at building nuclear power plants

They are also really good at the operational aspects.
thats my point. Facebook allows politicians to opt out of the "community guidelines" which I dislike intensely. Even if I agree with a particular politician.
Google USS Fitzgerald as well as Fat Leonard, that will put you on the path to understanding the pervasive problems in 7th fleet. They've chopped off heads in leadership, so maybe things are moving towards better, but it's undeniable there's been a huge problem festering for ages.

Familiarize yourself with the Zumwalt and LCS procurement programs. Both are nearly total failures, with the Navy grasping at straws to find ways to make the ships that have been constructed useful. Congress bears some of the blame here, particularly in relation to Zumwalt, but it's also clear Navy leadership has been often incompetent in planning future acquisitions. Those two programs cost US tax payers about $50 billion.
Please show me where I'm assuming a nefarious plan. Putting words in my mouth or thoughts into my my head is doing the very thing that you pretend to condemn here.
I know your comment is intended to be tounge-in-cheek but just to clarify: this recall is of Peloton's treadmill. The vast majority of Peloton users use their spin bike.
You are definitely going to get a million different answers here, and I suspect that all of them will depend on the details of a particular situation or conflict. I don't believe there is a blanket statement that could be applied.
Instagram adds caption option for Stories and Reels
I've never in my life seen a OS or app ask me what my race is for the purpose of determining what emojis to show me. Is that really a thing?
I suspect AVEVA PI (formerly OSIsoft) is what they are referring to. PI is excessively popular in Enterprise scenarios either OT or IT.
Considering the history of the USDA, I’m not okay with the USDA having final say in determining what I or my family put on the dinner table.
Years? Oh jeez. The soil is covered with brain eating murder proteins?
Domestic natural gas is only “cheap” because the government is allowing frackers to extract resources from the commons without paying for the costs of the problems they cause.

“Cheap” in quotes because anyone who thinks it is cheap is not accounting for some significant hidden costs.

The tragedy of the commons applies here. If you are not familiar with that, it’s worth looking up. I’ll assume you are.

Government can have a role in mitigating the tragedy of the commons by having the industry pay for the problems they create.

Or government can look the other way, which is a defacto subsidy.

We didn’t used to be a net exporter. Part of the reason fracking even got the traction it has now is that government was alarmed by how much money they were paying for the oil wars, and got desperate for any way to stop the bleeding.
This is needlessly alarmist.

A short video platform can hardly be expected to be a paragon of security and privacy. It has no utility whatsoever. I don't see where the concern comes from. A video of someone drinking coffee does not particularly invoke a point of concern.

What may be the real concern is China and the fact that the app is tied to it. Thats more race/geo-politics/war-mongering issue than a privacy concern.
Legally, this is incorrect, all possessions are passed onto heirs when one dies, which includes papers/writings/recordings. Heir(s) become the new legal owner and may do whatever they wish with the documents.

It can arguably be morally questionable to read and/or publish some writings if the author wrote them with the intention of keeping them private forever. Of course, if the deceased doesn't tell you you'd have to guess. At the same time the person is dead so you can't exactly hurt their feelings, and presumably they knew the risk of writing something down is that we it might be read by the non-intended audience.

Though you can hurt the feelings of other people who know the deceased and/or have a vested interest in controlling their legacy. You might also hurt people who are the subject of those writings.

I think I understand what you mean though, with digital assets one can actually prevent private writings and thoughts from being read by others after death, if that's what the author actually desires, in a way you really can't do with physical assets. This is arguably good as it better honors the wishes of the deceased.

However, in this case this is a memoir, which are generally wrote to be read.

I'm with you though, I want my thoughts to die with me.
He's probably referring to OSIsoft's PI historian.
Yes, that's why taxing carbon would be useful; it encourages all emitters to find solutions in parallel.
As much as you need. Modern designs are modular - chain together as many as you need to provide base load and also provide some overage so you have coverage when they do inevitably need servicing.

Or since they are modular if significant long term loads shift geographically, you can easily move them around to where needed too.

I agree the concepts of massive plants aren’t desireable - luckily there are alternatives if we can ever get past the emotional arguments and actually discuss things rationally.
Don't know much about the history of this, but it seems like there were substantial war crimes tribunals in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#War_crime_.... Almost a thousand executed, and thousands more given some prison time, including some very high ranking generals and politicians.
There's no feelings involved, only hard facts and cold logic. Comprehensive evidence has not been demonstrated on the other side; only irrational emotion. Argument from outrage is fallacious and has no bearing on reasoned debate. Allegations of public maliciousness must be demonstrated; attempts to claim such exists a priori without actual demonstration is an attempt to engage in the big lie. You have undercut your own position, sir.
I think the exclusion zones estabilished after NPP accidents may be different from the exclusion areas as designed as safety precautions (https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part100/p...).
Just because you don't think it makes sense doesn't mean it wasn't one of the rationales for the war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War#O...
Agree totally on the "double down on what you know" point. That pays off in spades usually.

Tangentially related to that: their mongo benchmark numbers always looked odd to me. Given that I've used mongo for 10+ years for high throughput time series data without major issues, I decided to do my own benchmarks. In my testing, mongo outperformed timescale significantly both in write throughput and query performance.

This is likely in part due to the fact that I'm using well-understood internal data from real production systems, and as such my ability to be able to build performant indexes / query strategies in the database that I know best introduces a performance bias.

I always take benchmarks with a grain of salt, for this reason. And I try to lean into the tech I understand best.
The 2nd stage is smaller AND efforts are made to de-orbit in a controlled manner.
I was talking to an ex-navy reactor man at a bar once. He said one of the most important things for naval reactors is to make sure you were making the "right kind of bubbles." I never found out if this was some kind of navy joke or if he was talking about Nucleate boiling.
When we have regulation that protects users against things like this? It seems like every week there is a new leak so whatever regulation is in place now is clearly not working.
That is not true. Not by a long shot.
We don't need nuclear at all.

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Coun...
Don't put up a straw man. Folks who question the safety of nuclear are not advocating for coal and gas, they're advocating for increased investment in myriad other clean energy sources. Suggesting that anyone who questions nuclear is advocating for coal and gas is a bad faith argument.
Exactly.

Every time I have used an add-on like ClearURLs, I have had issues at some point due to some zealous clean-up of URLs which breaks a redirection.

Typically, I don't want the browser to mess with my browsing if I am on the websites of my bank, a shop, etc.
I'm still confused why time-series databases are even a thing. It seems to me that time-series just means you have a date/time column plus an index on it. Which is something typical databases already do well, and like the referenced post mentioned, you could use a column store for better performance.

But I just don't see anything that makes creating an entire database design for one specific index type worthwhile...

I index many tables on my site by num_upvotes so I can find the top ranked items to show. Does this mean that I need an UpvoteDB? I don't think so.

A previous time I argued this point, it was mentioned that you rarely need to update or delete old rows. This allows you to tailor the storage solution better. However, this basically means a compressed column store, which again, doesn't really have much to do with time.
All things being equal, I think I'd rather be in one of these than in the open.
> At that point, they should create a government-owed corporation to hand off operation to.

The difference is that rightly or wrongly, the public doesn't see the military spending as wasteful government spending in the way they see spending on the Postal Service or for some, health programs like Medicaid.

There's an argument that a way to sell renewables to the climate change denying sections of the population is to have the military involved in its implementation.

If you think about it, the military has functions of 1) protecting the US against existential threats and 2) providing a path toward a dignified livelihood for a lot of the population. Climate change also poses existential threats, and there is an opportunity to create a path to a dignified livelihood for many people by tackling it with renewables.