skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I run a long-form newsletter. I send it out twice a week. I spend many bleary nights putting content together for it, and its pieces occasionally appear here on Hacker News. I do a lot of research for it—and pay lots of money for tools to access that research. I often do interviews. It often brings in contributors. Those contributors are paid.

It has an RSS feed as a service to readers. But it was built as a newsletter because I specifically wanted to experiment with that form and felt that I could do interesting things with it.

Since I started it six and a half years ago, a couple interesting things have happened in the sector: One, the interest in building a business model around blogs has shifted over to the newsletter space. And two, people who wouldn’t have paid to access a blog now are willing to pay to access a newsletter.

I like to keep my content open to a large amount of people, so I rely on newsletter sponsorships as a business model, but my advertising approach is very minimal compared to other publishers. I’m not particularly aggressive with my signup form—I run it at the top of my front page and put a pop-up option at the bottom of the article, and sometimes I implement an occasional interstitial when an article seems like it’s doing very well and I want to catch the user’s eye.

But I don’t do as much as I could. It probably could be larger if I did.

But this isn’t about me. This is about this comment. Which is to say: This is a really cruel thing to say about newsletters. I know a lot of creators who put hours of work into their newsletters each week on top of full-time gigs, grinding it out with the goal of hoping to do something with that newsletter.

It also ignores the business realities of the newsletter space. Trying to build a blog into a business is really tough these days (it was back then too, something I know because I was blogging back then). But newsletters have created a path of opportunity for those who want to build things independently.

And while I will never claim that the work they do is perfect, it’s certainly not blog spam.

So I request, hey, maybe research the space before you use such a broad brush. Thanks.
If it's so easy then why did Fukushima happen? It happened only 10 years ago, and with an american designed reactor.
Using the Socratic Method in Pair Programming
There are not many such people, and everybody knows how to cook. Ready to eat meals are good enough, collective food preparation is good too.

Not to mention fast food is generally of poor quality.
I had some old photos that I thought I removed and realized you have to go to https://picasaweb.google.com/, which redirects me to https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ so that I can delete them. There was no other way to find the photos.
Profile Guided Optimization proposed for Linux with Clang compiler
California vs. the Supreme Court
While I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, there have been demonstrated instances where that behavior comes from trolls trying to stir up trouble and cast doubts on the merits of social movements. BLM even has a web site where you can report it:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/help-us-fight-disinformation/

I have no idea if that's the case here. I've also known over-zealous supporters of movements to do the same thing.

I'd just caution you to be skeptical about apparent misbehavior. Our existing animosities are being amplified, sometimes for lulz and sometimes for political gain. This person was, undoubtedly, a jerk, but exactly what kind of jerk may not be quite so clear as it might seem.
Hi maker here!

The news about Polestar accepting art as a payment option for its Polestar 1 (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27502889), got me thinking if it would be cool to see this for lower scale merchants as well.

The high level idea is to make a Stripe like API to redirect the customer to a validation platform. If the work is accepted, have it shipped to my company who buys it from the merchant.

As I set the upper limit much much much lower, there will be less need for verification.

The only big hurdle I can see so far, is the physical shipment of the art.

If you have any questions, shoot.
Pro-active policing is why people like Freddy Grey are dead. They arrested him without pretext, charged him with carrying a butterfly knife (which is illegal, but after the fact), and then left him unsecured in a police van until he broke his neck.
I think this is fairly standard practice these days, depending on the location of the registrar. (eg: EU)
> It's sort of charitable to say that there's "no signal" from either Safari or Firefox on File System APIs

I agree the phrase "no signal" does not accurately communicate other browser vendors' position.

Mozilla's current position on File System API is "defer".

> The ability to read and write from the filesystem is potentially very dangerous. We will need to carefully consider any solution in light of the security and privacy implications.

> We recognize that the spec authors take this issue seriously, but we are concerned that any solution will increase the risk of security incidents more than we are willing to tolerate. Right now, there isn't enough detail in the specification to make an assessment of these risks, so we will defer our decision until we have more information.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-s...

..And Safari's position:

> Apple's WebKit team does not support this feature due to the security / safety concerns.

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-August/03...
Yes, I should have considered that! However, I do not think it is tenable for most employers due to the risk of the employee leaving permanently.
That's not even true as dryers with heat pump are the norm, compared to mainly gas-powered ones in the us.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r...

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...

The data indicates that people want more accountability and reform. Which is exactly what I am arguing for.

> It's not simply people "demonizing" a profession (which again, people choose to work in).

Who cares if they chose to work in it? It's a necessary part of a functioning state. You act as if someone choosing to be a police officer means they deserve to be demonized. Please, let me know how that attitude is going to lead to any solutions.
It was 93F for most of last week, even in NH. I’m not going to suffer through that.

Space could be a factor but I live in a 450sqft studio. My washer dryer has about 1 square meter footprint in a closet.
A few charts showing 20-year quit rates via FRED:

* ALL Non-Farm: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

* Professional and Business Services (which I believe captures software) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTS540099QUL

List of all the options https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/32247
It was a reactor from the 1960s or older.
It's not primarily about using defective chips (but that's a nice side effect). As a process becomes mature, yield rates become very high and there wouldn't be enough defective chips to meet demand for a lower tier, so good chips are binned into those tiers anyway.

The primary purpose is market segmentation: extracting value from customers who would pay more while not giving up sales to more price sensitive clients who nevertheless pay more than the marginal cost of production.
CVE-2019-7481 VPN Flaw Weaponized by Ransomware Operators
> My understanding is that these companies tend not to hire as many juniors though, am I incorrect?

Speaking for myself, I’ve always hired a good mix of jr/sr people. I do always look for devs that have the proven ability to ship (so jr devs with a GitHub project for instance).
Nobody ever complained that a cop was sleeping in his cruiser not bothering anybody or that he was on the golf course when he was supposed to be running a speed trap.

But I also don't put it past the guys who treat the public like crap to also turn around and fudge a timecard.
> Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin

Yeah, my comments on this are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450889. Either they're dumb or they're pulling some scam I'm not wise to.

> illicit coal extraction

Yeah, if you steal your energy it can even be cheaper than any energy you have to pay for. But then you get "authorities deciding to act," which really limits your scalability.
It sounds like a headline an organisation formed to lobby for the nuclear industry might use.
Specifically, the "design basis" accident in the 1970s was a "double guillotine" failure of the coolant intake at the bottom of the reactor.

In real life people are scrupulously careful in designing pressure vessels and pressure vessels just don't break like that -- not the way that people suck in storage tanks every day.

In the 1980s it was realized that the real "most likely" accident is that the power runs out at the plant and they are unable to manage the heat output -- if you can swirl some water around it is not that bad, but if you can't, you get Fukushima.

Modern (post-1990) designs keep enough water around that the reactor can stay cooled for two weeks without power. Had Fukushima kept a few spare diesel generators at a site above the flood waters we'd probably never have heard about trouble there on the news.

Solar cell recycling is a thing, it is easy to melt them down to get the silicon, they are even expecting to recycle the CdTe cells from First Solar. Solar cells are more like beer cans, cars and airplanes (recycle almost 100% of the steel and aluminum) and less like houses (landfill.)
Wait really? I thought my regular Google account is disconnected from a Google Workspace account? The email is just used for initial sign up.

I'm really glad I didn't try signing up for it when I was trying to setup my custom domain to host mail.
Not if you store it in space.
This isnt about proper management methodology. This is about better ways at redirecting blame away from leadership. "No, the project didnt fail because I micromanage, overwork my crew, create artificial roadblocks, drown in arbitrary meetings and in general am a cunt. No, no, no, my team just wasn't properly in the rebellion spectrum to accomplish the task. I need a pay raise and a bigger budget."

Seriously, 80% of good leadership is someone doing honest self reflection after a decision, "if I was them, would I think I was a piece of shit?" Yes, in that language, because being crass is being honest. If so, alter the decision. If not, its probably an acceptable decision by the crew. A one page primer in terms of how not be an asshole as a leader is far more honest and effective than all these over intellectualize mental masturbation studies combined.

Mutual respect and trust between leadership and the crew is what makes effective teams. But hey, that takes work, knowledge, compassion and fraternization. You know what doesn't take work and all that other hard stuff? Bullshit checklists. Then you can show how it's the plebs' fault, not yours.
128k seems at least in the same ballpark as the PDP-10 so it should be possible - especially if disk is available.
It's a big company and they are an ERP vendor thus rooted in old fashioned manufacturing ideas. They think their size will protect them.
Used tape drives with not many hours on them are easy to find on eBay and other places for a fraction of the cost of new drives, and LTO-5 and 6 tapes, for instance, are pretty inexpensive.
All of the dryers I’ve used have been electric, not gas in all of the apartments and homes I’ve lived in. Some places in the north do use natural gas but that’s more in older developments.
> Dryers in Europe are famously ineffective

Citation needed.

Europe's Clothes Dryers Consume Half As Much Energy As America's

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/06/11/euro...

> many people still air dry on clotheslines

I have a very efficient and effective dryer and still dry on clotheslines from time to time. Saves energy, is very quick when the sun is shining.
This functionality in Erlang is something I miss in most other languages, and I was quite displeased when I discovered Python 3 abandoned tuple destructuring in function invocations.
I think there is almost a theorem that storage capacity will cost at least as much as generation capacity.
Steve Cohen did not go to jail despite his firm pleasing guilty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cohen_(businessman)#SEC_...
Is Broadcom bad at this ? I thought the VC4 (RPi) DRM code was officially supported by them.
> In fact it may be a good measure against it since you quickly see that it does not open in your usual app

There's nothing preventing a bad actor from copying the existing banking app and attaching a backdoor, assuming local code execution capability - either re-sign it with a local codesign certificate or use runtime code injection/linker overrides.

A web app has always the URL bar and the banking site can rely on HSTS to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
Decent insurance plans typically have an out of pocket maximum--at least for what they cover.
It's all about the geographical decoupling with local storage and smart consumers to smooth the loads. For example tying the charging of your electric car while it's parked to the current price.

For example using Norwegian hydro together with German, British and Danish wind.

Germany <-> Norway (2021): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordLink

UK <-> Norway (2021) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link

Denmark <-> Norway (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagerrak_(power_transmission_...
It is not 0.1%, it's institutional. Try it yourself. Go to your nearest police station. Ask for the procedure about how to report a negative encounter you had with the police. They will not give you an answer.

See if you get better results than the radical left antifa lamestream fake news media and report back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns
Scittle v0.0.1: run ClojureScript directly in your HTML page
> its only saving grace is GMail

Is that the HTML version? Because the normal GMail is also horribly slow.
Solar panels have a relatively short lifespan, require and enormous amount of material compared to the energy they generate, and contain toxic elements that never break down.

In contrast, all the nuclear waste generated by the world since the invention of nuclear energy can fit into a single Highschool auditorium.

For perspective, a giant freight ship that burns two tons of crude fuel per hour could run on 5g of plutonium per year.
As far as I know, the heaviest trains in Sweden run on the Iron Ore line[1]: ”68 cars long and weigh 8600 tonnes”.

I would surprised if rail bikes are allowed on any ’live’ track anywhere in the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ore_Line
Cost would more than likely go down if innovation in nuclear weren't stifled to all hell by FUD.
> NYPD increased stop and frisk from 100,000 stops to nearly 700,000 stops per year. 90% of those impacted were people of color — overwhelmingly black and brown men, [0]

Because NYPD literally had a policy that targeted black and brown people. And when they wanted to less biased harrassment the mayor pushed back and instructed them to stop and frisk brown and black men, specifically.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/bloomberg-apologiz...
We keep finding petroleum because there is a huge demand for it. Known reserves of uranium are low because we're not looking for more as the demand is low. If there was a demand, there is little doubt prospection would pick up and reserves would be found.
Density. Renewables use an insane amount of space (arguably wind energy can leave some space literally below it). (I leave mining operations out for simplification because such operations are necessary for both renewables and fission energy).

If you have seen what industrial-scale photovoltaic production can do to a rural area, you would at least consider this point. You need to build at least 1000a to cover the power output of even a small-scale nuclear power plant with PV. If you account for the load factor, you probably need something like 8 times as much.

Of course, nuclear power plants could be build close to cities and people living in cities are not affected by the space usage, so the political equation is clear.

edit: To put the space requirements into perspective. Germany has a (rough) requirement of 70GW of electrical power. To cover this with the (roughly) 1k hours of solar production and dense packaging of 1MW/a the country would have to install about 500000a of PV panels (plus some kind of storage over the year). That is about 3% of the currently used agricultural land. And covering here means putting up to 4m high steel structures on it, very close to each other. Generating the whole primary energy with PV would at least require five times the amount of space. Naturally, there are a lot of caveats (roofs, unused space, wind energy, storage, conversion efficiency...) but it should make clear why people are hesitant to accept such a buildup. Nuclear energy would, on the other hand, only require around 20-30 medium-sized powerplants for electricity or less than 100 of them for full primary energy generation (heating homes would be basically free due to waste heat). Of course, it would be much more expensive and you would have to deal with eithe proliferation and yet unknown error modes or an insane amount of radioactive waste, but you wouldn't need nearly the same amount of space.
Attacking the author instead of attacking the argument?
All US health insurance plans have an out of pocket maximum, by law per ACA of 2010.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...

And they have to cover all non elective procedures.
In 2080 people will be saying the same thing about reactors built now.

I'm certain of it.
That reminds me of this:

The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- Clark Glymour
In all fairness, My personal PinePhone running SXMO is a lot snappier and performant then my Android work phone with all its bloatware...
There are some strategic elements that are important for both chess and business but they are so incredibly high-level (like "think ahead" and "control vital resources") that it becomes almost a joke. I am reminded of [this article](https://nongaap.substack.com/p/shopify-a-starcraft-inspired-...) which tries to claim a link between starcraft and shopify strategy. Any links presented in the article are present between any two activities involving strategic thinking and so both SC2 and Shopify are completely incidental.
Lack of energy density in the turbines is not really what drives nuclear costs up. For a power plant it's not really an issue.

That being said, you're correct though. Compared to steam, power conversion machinery based on supercritical CO2 is amazingly compact. Fairly proven technology is higher temperature steam (about 540C rather than 300C) which is widely used in fossil fuel power plants, and would allow slightly better efficiency and smaller size.
Yeah; it is definitely a tempting conclusion.

I don't have any good data one way or the other. I have exactly one data point - one police officer I personally know - and he's not retiring ahead of the plan he's set for himself.
it might be but it's still commonplace, and not just in America
Pandemic Strategies to Avoid Burnout at Work
Game of Life SVG Loader
Conway's Game of Life built as an SVG, so you can use it as a loading icon!
Webapps can load and save files by explicitly prompting the user. This works in every browser. Random file or directory access is not provided for by existing standards, but simple load and save are enough for many use cases.
The issue I personally have with zoom (besides all the historic security concerns) is that it is typically incredibly complicated to
use - too many bells
and whistles to do even basic things. Meet generally ‘just works’, and has been better performance wise than Zoom on my hardware.

Zoom does seem to do better overly severely degraded connections (and surfaces that
It is happening). The experience is still pretty bad though.
Damming a river has a negative environmental impact on its wildlife too.
an interesting related tool is https://github.com/fredrik-corneliusson/click-web which builds on the click library to create web front ends automatically.
Between Brexit and COVID most of the typical destinations are out for a while, by the sound of it.

Almost all of the people I knew who did gap years before or after university went to either Australia or New Zealand (from the UK) following a three teaching-year degree with an extra industrial placement year - Australia in particular have (had?) a scheme where someone can live and work for a year with few restrictions provided they are under 30, and could extend that to two years if working in a rural area for some of that time.
People in Europe were/are reluctant to use dryers also because of the unnecessary power consumption. I also noted that a lot of clothes you buy in Europe are specifically not meant for tumble drying (according to the label) while this is practically unheard of in North America. Ironically, I suspect that in both cases, the clothes are produced in probably the same place somewhere in Asia.

Also, in case you have too much time on your hand: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7h93mb/nonameric...
I don't know why you're being downvoted - this is more than likely the actual answer. Look at who sits on the FREOPP board and who funds it, and where their leanings/policies are politically. Daniel Garza is, I thought, well known for leading groups responsible for astro-turfing various political/minority issues.

This is obviously not an unbiased organization, regardless of claiming to be non-partisan.
Hah, I've been trying to be fairly circumspect in my descriptions throughout this, as all I knew about Lee was what I'd seen in the stories about Freenode—but yikes, that's pretty crazy. Makes what he's been doing here make perfect sense, though.
Is the headphone/serial cable the same as those used on Pine64 products ? You may be able to buy one for fairly low cost.
Ask HN: Which FANGs are hiring remote internationally?
We're moving from the UK to another European country where no FANGs have an office.

My wife almost passed an interview at one of the FANG and she's thinking of doing the 2 months algorithms prep work and try again.
At the same time, we've both been working from home since before the pandemic and we're not happy to compromise on that, for no amount of money.

Now that COVID changed the playing field, we're seeing some FANGs open to remote work but they all seem to imply you're still an employee of the FANG, which means you're tied to remote in a country where the company has an office - do you know of any FANG which is happy to hire across international border and work with employees running their own company?
Modules, Abstraction, and Parametric Polymorphism [pdf]
Then just deploy more? The difference in price compared to nuclear is so high that we can easily install double the renewables we need and still come out cheaper.
> Cooling a melting reactor can be done very safely now if people put the effort in.

Cooling a reactor built when???

What do we do with the old reactors?

How are you so sure we won't make mistakes of a similar magnitude to the 1960s reactors, now?

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Edit:

So no answers, only downvotes. Is this the best you can do?
5th-9th grade Girls Math JAM Festival 6/26
Medical illnesses are the most frequent reason. Which can include bills of course. But also includes inability to work, a requirement for ongoing home help, etc.
Ah, that's interesting. Didn't know that.
I think the problem is that doing it right requires "putting in the effort".

Unless there is a 100% idiot-proof reactor is made, mistakes and crises will still happen, maybe less often, but still sometimes, and it will kill the PR of nuclear.