skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fair enough, that's pretty damn hot. When you said cooler, I thought you meant something like a moderate year-round temperature - though with global warming even that probably isn't going to stick around long-term; we're going through a scorching summer (77F is a lot for us) in the UK right now.

I have a dryer but not really any room for a dishwasher unless I got a countertop unit; I live in a normal-sized starter house in the UK.
https://github.com/fredrik-corneliusson/click-web
The supercritical CO2 turbine is about as big as the employee break room in a conventional turbine house.

Cost is proportional to how much steel and concrete you're using.

It's not just the cost of the turbine it is also the heat exchangers, which for a PWR are much larger than the reactor itself.
I'm sorry, but comparing the nuclear waste to the waste provided by solar panels is absolute lunacy.
- Low changes/grow. This demo was written in 2014 and it probably still look like as if it had been written in 2020.
- Easy interop with any npm library. Just import and use it.
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I'm a little confused why the NHMFL home page ended up in my hacker news RSS feed, but I received my PhD here and thus feel obligated to comment and upvote...
Alright, then. Who is the premier of China? When was he inaugurated? Or who leads the ruling party of China? When was he inaugurated?
No, they're pro-vax because they observe that it's the socially and professionally high-status position to take.
Indeed, this is not the problem we are answering, but your first though seems a great idea.
More importantly, Odin is clearly The One (at least if we trust out Slavic friends).

Stick that in your non-Asgardian pipe and smoke it, Neo!
> "For years, urban developers have been talking about “15-minute cities”—accessible downtown neighborhoods where residents can satisfy just about every food, drink, beauty, entertainment, and fitness need with a short walk or bike ride. Logically, as more 30-somethings relocate to the suburbs, real-estate developers will chase their needs by pouring money into a constellation of 15-minute suburban town centers. The downtown office building’s loss will be the suburban developer’s gain."

Nobody I know who's moving to the suburbs is doing it to buy a loft apartment and bike everywhere. They're all entering or already in child rearing years and buying houses with yards and cars. As much as people talk about wanting to live in dense walkable neighborhoods, and as much as I wish we could build denser suburbs, the American dream of a lush lawn and big comfortable car is very much alive with millennials.

And more practically, where are you going to build these walkable suburbs? All the prime space of of the inner ring is already built out, and existing "street car suburbs" have already been popular, affluent and expensive for years.
I would not called Systems thinking out of date [0]. I would rather say some approaches to systems thinking are now out of date. There have been multiple generations of systems thinking approaches.

Let us take cybernetics as an example, we began with 1st order cybernetics (command and control), then moved on to 2nd order cybernetics, and now we are moving towards 3rd order and 4th order cybernetics.

Similarly for systems thinking, we had the "hard approaches" to systems thinking which viewed the system as "out there" (i.e Cybernetics) then it evolved into 'soft systems' approaches.

We have seen a shift from functionalist approaches, to interpretive then emancipating and now post-modern approaches. We are moving towards ethics, aesthetics, perception, eco-systems etc.

Complex Adaptive systems that Snowden writes about is a subset of these systemtic approaches. Put another way, yes there are some approaches to systems thinking which may be 'dated' (i.e Hard systems), there is quite a bit that is very relevant today.

[0] Here is some of my writing on this subject:

https://www.notion.so/zyelabs/Systemic-Approaches-HN-0d22752...

Edit: Quote from the paper attached in the link above.

"The VSM & Cybernetics was heavily influenced by Claude Shannon's discovery of information theory. The 10th theorem of Shannon is the basis for the law of requisite variety. Further the lines drawn within the VSM could be regarded as the communication channels."
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> The same thing happens when manufacturing even basic electronic components like resistors.

EEVblog did some tests[1][2] some time ago on ±1% resistors, and found that while his samples were fairly Gaussian and within the spec, the ones from his second batch were consistently low. That is, none were above the rated value.

So yeah, don't assume a perfect Gaussian distribution when using resistors.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WAhTdWErrU

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSmiDzbVt_U
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Not sure what compiling LLVM has to do with a compiler class though. Yes it's a compiler, but compiling it won't give lots of insights on how a compiler works or how to write one?
Yeah but newer designs like GE's newer ESBWR are designed to passively shutdown if there's a failure.

The reactor used at Fukushima and many other places go haywire in a worst case failure scenario (like a massive earthquake and tsunami).

There still isn't anything that can provide the power we will need better than nuclear.
Why ARE types like the Koch Brothers so interested in nuclear? It's a massive upfront capital expenditure, and profitability is always questionable so they need to be subsidized by governments. Is it simply ideological aversion to solar and wind?
What large open source hosted office suite is better exactly? I’m unaware of one.

Same with large open source email services? (Ala Gmail)

It’s usually apples and oranges comparisons. There is libreoffice, but even on it’s best day it’s not doing real time document editing/collaboration with 10+ people on opposite sides of the planet, and that is the Google Docs bread and butter for instance.
It would be nice if the Panfrost DRM code could be dual licenced like the Lima stuff.
And wind turbines kill birds. And solar fields disrupt habitats.

What about it?
And look at Mexico which has a compromised force.
We bought an especially energy efficient dryer in Europe a couple of years ago. It takes about twice as long to dry a load of clothes (2.5~3 hours) as the one at my folk's house in North America.
Reading up upon some of the absolute ugly and unmaintainable hacks that software writers had to rely upon two decades back to fit things into the hardware, I am honestly quite glad the æra of that type of programming is now past us.

It was certainly impressive, but it was aso a case of often design having to give way to such hacks, such as the fact that many older first person shooter games had to have their entire level design work around the idea that the engines could not support two walkable surfaces vertically above each other for performance reasons or the famous Duke Nukem 3D “mirror” hack.
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I stopped using thewirecutter.com for this reason (there are workaraounds, but in the end not worth the trouble). An account is now required just to read reviews.

Over the years I've stopped using a number of sites - it's such an inconvenience to manage email/pws for a million different sites, not to mention a privacy issue.
> Wall Street doesn’t insider trade because it’s stupid and there are lower-hanging fruit.

They do, its just that the CEO does not go to to jail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cohen_(businessman)#SEC_...
It is zero at night. 2x zero is still zero.

This kind of thinking is exactly what's wrong with armchair modeling of renewables.
> Microsoft waters

Microsoft and Google have a fundamentally different approach to enterprise software than Google.
Microsoft is the mediocre Apple of enterprise tech, before Apple even got that reputation.

EVERYTHING IS INTEGRATED. Microsoft makes it so insanely easy to stay within the microsoft ecosystem, that using a mediocre software created by Microsoft is always a better option than a 3rd party tool. (See slacks getting clobbered by teams, despite slacks being significantly faster)

Part of what makes MSFT click is that they they go above and beyond to create a tool everyone can use. Additionally, they are obsessed with customers to a point that their tools lose all personality. This is bad if you want something that is opinionated in exactly the way you want (see Obsidian vs OneNote), but great for companies that want to offer an inoffensive tool that is serviceable for all its employees.

An incumbent is fearsome when it uses every little advantage in its greater product offering to embed itself as the obvious option. (Apple for consumer tech, MSFT for enterprise tech). Google has refused to implement the kind of top down organizational structure needed to enforce such integration in its product lineup. This is the company that couldn't sync its grocery lists with google keep. As long as it stays true, Google will never be able to leverage the advantage of an incumbent. It's a shame too, their products are honestly quite good.
All dryers I have used in North America (Canada, not the US) were electric but simply dumped the hot and moist air to the outside. Compared to my current heat pump dryer (in Europe) they were horribly inefficient.
>the discord client in chromium.

running in-browser is not the same as installing their electron client.
I think mankyd knew that. I'm thinking the exploit would be installing a bad app that enforces redirects for mybank.com, youbank.com, usabank.com, ukbank.com, allbanks.com to their malicious app. Then the app just knows how to pretend to be the login screen for all these apps and bam you get a whole ton of passwords. The key thing would be for the app not to show the url of their malicious site.
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I was looking at how people are thinking between GUI and datascience and came across this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16845666. In the past I have read GUI is basically a reification of command-line. Do we still think this way. Just what do we need as GUI for datascience.
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I still miss Google Reader. I wonder if Google wishes it had kept it running now that their efforts to launch social networks failed and Twitter/Facebook have taken over much of the space that RSS used to occupy. Google could have built such a huge dataset of individual-level reader preferences (not saying that's the best use of RSS, just that there's a business case).
That link you posted is referring to a completely different API, the File System Access API. There are a bunch of different APIs with extremely similar names in this space, with very different levels of browser support.

1. FileSystem API: (Note that this is one word, "FileSystem.") This deprecated API simulates a local file system that web apps can navigate around. With this API, you can develop apps that can read, write, and create files and directories in a sandboxed, virtual file system, but you can't use it to access files in the user's Documents folder.

You can polyfill this API, and IMO it's not very useful. It's typically backed by actual files, but there's no expectation that users will directly access that folder.

https://caniuse.com/filesystem
https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_filesystem

2. File System Access API (formerly known as Native File System API and prior to that it was called Writeable Files API): This API lets webapps launch a picker to select a file or folder; from then on, the webapp can write to that file/folder without prompting the user (until you close the tab).

Without this API, if your webapp has a file you'd like to write, all you can do is let the user download it. Downloaded files always either automagically appear in the Downloads folder (and do not permit overwriting existing files; identical names get autorenamed), or they launch a picker, which nags the user with "Are you sure your want to replace this file?"

The FSA API cannot be polyfilled, and it's impossible-ish to implement a good web-based text editor without it. (Imagine if your favorite editor could only generate new files and never overwrite old ones, or if it nagged you "are you sure?" every time you tried to save your changes.)

That's the API you linked to above. There, a guy says he thinks it should be harmful, but that's not the standards position that Mozilla actually adopted. They currently mark it as "defer" (though they may decide to come around and mark it "harmful") https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-s...

https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

3. File Handling API: This is what TFA is about. It allows your webapp to say "I handle .txt files; when someone double clicks on a .txt file, open it in my webapp."

Mozilla lists this API as "defer" as well. https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#wicg-file-han...

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/158 is where they discussed that. (Note this is issue 158, as opposed to issue 154 in your link.) I agree with Mozilla that it makes no sense to implement the File Handling API without the File System Access API.
> There are no penalties for making bad choices that only affect <<you>>. But almost every choice you make, good or bad, affects someone else.

Sure there are, easiest one to reach for is the consumption (or even ownership) of various drugs.

Beyond that there's prostitution in many jurisdictions, and no doubt there are other "victimless" crimes still on the books (basically those formed around morality - and therefore moral harm - rather than an otherwise identifiable harm or loss).

The problem with reaching for the "almost every choice you make affects someone" trope is that it's very easy to use it to justify any moral panic you choose. Sodomy (and by that I mean non-procreative sexual activity) is an excellent example whose laws were still active in some states up to 2014* (and maybe still).

* https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/21/12-stat...
Having one Fukushima every year would be vastly superior to the total ecosystem collapse we're heading towards.
Baseload isn't really relevant when talking about meeting demand. What's important is that for any point in time all the energy sources added up are equal to the demand. System operators will use the cheapest source first, which is always renewables, then (at least in the UK) it'll typically use gas generation to meet the shortfall. Gas is particularly good for this because it can easily be turned up and down. In all this, baseload isn't really a relevant concept.

In the UK, where there's a semblance of a free market in electricity generation, it's been possible for decades for nuclear power stations to be build by private industry. None have because they just can't compete economically. The cases where they have been built have all been when the government intervened in the market and heavily subsidized them. Nobody really knows why!
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I've never heard of asset forfeiture being abused in the bigger cities. And the small town cops in my area are known for harassing African Americans more than the city cops (the city cops have significant numbers of African Americans: less than the proportion of the population but way better than the town-cops)

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> https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description

Uhhhhh. That's... not really a problem on my scale. I mean, yeah, that's a hassle but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZwRBXfFmU

This here is small town cop harassing an African American. And we only know about it because he's an Army Officer (a low ranking one, but still, the Army sticks up for their members).

Who knows how many African Americans did those small town cops harassed before they messed with the wrong man?

Don't get me wrong here: any kind of stop is a big hassle. But... my bar for "serious police misbehavior" is set at a certain level based on what's going on in my area. The blogpost, while a hassle, is not anywhere close to some of the stories I'm hearing just in the past couple of months.

> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-...

Sounds to me that someone was double-checking the results and caught the problem. We don't have those assurances in other locations.

In a city, you have a citizen's board, good defense lawyers, and other "defenses" who can stand up to injustice from the police departments. That's WHY a city-cop can get their ass busted if they make these kinds of mistakes. I mean yeah, it sucks that they're still finding injustices, but at least people are tasked with finding abuse.

In a small town cop where the Sheriff is elected every 4 years by a population who just doesn't give a care, no one has any recourse or defense system against the Sheriff or their deputies. None at all. Its "Wild West" mode, where Sheriff can do whatever the heck they want, and the citizens are ignorant of the injustices their Sheriff does (so they keep electing them over and over again).

I have more faith in Police Commissioner systems, or straight up adversarial systems like NYPC (which has an adversarial Citizen's Review Board to represent citizens: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/index.page).
That's not an unusual temperature in the summer in Central Europe. Still, people do fine without AC. I find this "I'm not going to suffer through that" attitude strangely disconcerting.

On the flip side, the costs for building a house are getting higher in higher every year not in small parts because the requirements for insulation and energy efficiency where I currently live in Europe have started to become borderline ridiculous.
I never understood why people are so resistant to doing things by themselves.

Just do it, no one gives a shit.
I signed up using my free account while it was gsuite. Gsuite changed to Workspace, I stopped paying for Workspace and now I can't use my original free services, and I get a blurb explaining this is because I unsubscribed from Workspace.

Possible I'm doing something wrong so I'd love to know what it is, but as far as I can tell, I can't get my free tier back.
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I have a cable with an molded-in adapter that makes a selling point big deal on the retail packaging about using a genuine Prolific chip. :)
I agree with this general sentiment. Many people have an idealized vision of WFH and aren't paying attention to the challenges.

Another factor I haven't seen much discussion of is people with vs without children. WFH with children presents a whole new slew of challenges.
Converting energy into anything that can be stored long time is an absolute waste.

* The best option is storing it as potential energy for water, i.e. using a pump and a dam. That's 90% efficient, except, we can't exactly build dams everywhere.

* Power to gas to power has a dreadful 10% efficiency ratio, and it also requires energy to make. So, you use a ton of energy to store very little energy.

* Conversion to hydrogen has the same problems. Best we can do 25%. What do you do when you only have a tiny bit of excess energy? The process takes a constant amount of energy in, so you need a constant power source. Nuclear reactors, ideally.

Storing nuclear waste isn't hard. France is building a storage place that will handle all our nuclear waste produced until 2080, safely for hundreds of years. The project cost 25 billion euros, and that includes looking for potential places, running tests, and everything else involved in new things. Future projets would be much cheaper. Considering the country is subsidizing renewables to the tune of 70 billion, it costs us one third of the price for a solution of literally a lifetime. That's also taking into account that, ultimately, very little of the nuclear waste is truly oh-shit-oh-shit dangerous. With a simple phone call, you can most likely go visit a low activity waste storage location, which is 90% of the waste we produce, and you can just go dance on storage tanks. Radioactivity is basically nil.

Additionally, waste is only waste because we can't use it. Look at projects like Superphénix and breeder reactors, and suddenly you've got all this stored "waste" able to produce much more energy.
There are other nuclear fuels as well.
Nuclear gets a lot of support from the fossil fuel industry and also the defence industry, unsurprisingly enough. There are some interesting points against embracing more nuclear energy which go beyond the usual fears of its danger and waste disposal. /r/uninsurable is a space that discusses these a lot. They aren't necessarily more correct but it does seem there is a lot of misinformation out there about nuclear energy and we should definitely be skeptical when it is being pushed hard and evaluate who is doing so and why.
Neither molten salt nor wind are zero at night. In fact, wind usually is higher at night than during the day.
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What "certain toxic elements than never break down" would that be? Typical lifespans are estimated to be 25-30 years. I doubt that any other power plant will run that long without requiring major maintenance.
You get an insurance card that you can take to any doctor that accepts Medicaid, they'll treat you for free or for a nominal (say, $5) copay and bill the state. Mental health treatment is covered, prescription drugs are covered, the only major thing it's missing, as far as I know, is dental. But the main catch is that many doctors don't accept it, since Medicare generally reimburses at a lower rate than private insurance. Anecdotally, I was on Medicare in the rural Midwest several years ago and I think I had two choices of GP within a 25 mile radius.

Everyone doesn't have it because it's means-tested - if you make more than very roughly $1,200 a month you don't qualify. You still qualify for income-based subsidies at that point (under a totally different government program), but at higher income levels the expectation is that either you pay for your own health insurance premiums out of pocket, or your employer pays them for you. It's all very complicated, but that complexity is the price we pay so that we higher-income Americans can say that our employer is paying a "premium" and not a "tax." Evidently some of us care an awful lot about that sort of thing.
That's how progress works. I would hope in 60 years time they're not still considering 2021 to have been the peak of technology
In similar vein, there’s this[1] cool looking thing in Germany.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoo...
Stop and frisk without pretext of a crime was found to be unconstitutional since the 60s but NYPD was going to do it anyway until it was reaffirmed in 2014.
Yeah, I am sure (or at least for the time I left school around 15 years ago) I’d even include upper-lower class.
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Thanks for the sources. I can concede that most people do not support a reduced or lower-funded police presence.

As for the second part: someone simply choosing to be a police officer doesn't mean they should be demonized. Complying with the "blue wall of silence" by refusing to take an active stand against police misconduct, however, I believe warrants public backlash. The thing is, far too many officers are content to not say anything. And that is a large part of why they have seen more backlash recently.
Anecdotes are not a way to prove an institutional problem.
> became so big and complex that it was beyond's anyone's ability to manage,

No that is now true, people wanted to regulate derivatives but Alan Greenspan and others who were in power decided not to.