skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe cost projections for fusion. If you look at them, they're filled with assumptions that aren't supported by much of anything(*), but magically make the technology just competitive. As the competition has improved, the assumptions have gotten more desperate. They're less "this is what the technology will cost" and more "this is the least ridiculous set of assumptions we could find that would let our technology not be dead."

If you apply the same level of assumptions to, say, light water fission reactors, I'm sure you'd get cost estimates vastly lower than what they actually cost in practice.

(*) For example, one paper assuming the efficiency of converting thermal energy to power in the fusion reactor is 60%, a level that combined cycle power plants achieve by expanding combustion gas that starts at a temperature that would soften or even melt the turbine blades.
It’s way more than 900k locked down - Victoria, NSW and South Australia are locked down. That’s a sizeable chunk of the population.
People apparently disagree, but I'm with you. The idea that antivirus software is actually a worthwhile mitigation tool is a relic from the 90s. Malware defeats antivirus all the time, and sometimes even exploits it directly. Meanwhile, aggressive antivirus software is eating a percentage of every single task you do on your computer, actively impeding your work every second of your day.

The tradeoff is not worth it, in my professional opinion.
I run a business and employ several software developers. What you are saying has absolutely not been my experience.
Well nothing's simulated, it's essentially just an animated 3D model, right? Think about how complex scenes Blender can render in real-time.

It's pathfinding and AI that murder video game performance.
Man, German can be such a nice, beautiful language for stuff like that!
This article is about the poor state of research in the software field. The 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' bit is just a glaring example of that. The article isn't in any major way refuting 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production', it's just stating that the study may not exist, so there's no need to defend your beliefs as many are doing in the comments.
This has been my go to resource for choosing the fonts before starting a new LaTeX project.
There is LOTS of context missing before we get to the 1804 massacre of the remaining whites in Haiti.

Thirteen years of conflict and war took place before this happened. Why? Enslaved people wanted what the French Declaration of the Rights of Man guaranteed, that "all men free and equal."

In struggling for this Haitians were bounced around like a football, between the great powers of France, Spain, and Britain.

Every attempt at autonomy or freedom was met with outright force or duplicity aimed at returning Haiti to the status quo of one of the most brutal forms of slavery in history.

What's the saying? Fool me once...

Dessalines, who ordered the 1804 massacre, had seen all of this, topped off by the French just a few years before taking out Toussaint Louverture, who was forgiving of whites.

He had also seen brutality the likes of which we cannot imagine

the French staged mass executions via firing squads, hanging, and drowning Haitians in bags

Rochambeau invented a new means of mass execution, which he called "fumigational-sulphurous baths": killing hundreds of Haitians in the holds of ships by burning sulphur to make sulphur dioxide to gas them.

Should you still think the Haitians more brutal than others, do read up on the British and French exploits in continental Europe during the Peninsular Wars. God help you should you find yourself a non-combatant in a place just taken by siege.

Haiti was born in brutal slavery. It has been meddled with incessantly throughout its history by greater powers. If we want to trace a line back, those are the dots to look at connecting.
The author has also written a Rust project: a minimal Linux container framework. I guess these projects are for learning purposes...
WTF, a snapshot-based fuzzer for attacking targets running on Microsoft Windows
we've also spent an awful lot of time NOT LOCKED DOWN when everyone else is either dying in masses or in prolonged half assed lockdowns.

Our economy is bumping along nicely and the general state of the place is pretty solid.
Yes, the interviewees are prepped before the show starts. This is pretty well known.
Use TypeScript to make DDD come true
right, the final implication is that it could be any chemical that walked it way up the foodchain from roundup to PCBs.it could also be plasticizers or the diet of things we eat or get milk and eggs from. My point is it also could be something we don't get exposed to anymore that kept us from gaining weight in the past. Nicotine is what gave me that idea, but it doesn't really fit. Was never that ubiquitous, and it wouldn't explain obesity rates in children well.
Just delete the things when requested. No need to make it more complicated than that.
Since as I understand you are expanding to LatAm, as someone having worked in Colombia for the last 5 years on b2b and b2c tech products for people on the low to mid side of the socio-economic spectrum, some top of mind thoughts. Hope it helps.

- Living paycheck to paycheck is a problem, but the underlying cause is more often than not having a job month by month. Even more so since the pandemic. The majority of people work in informality, only have contractor contracts or work for temp agencies with the outlook to eventually get hired into the client company.

- There is very little trust within society. People are very skeptical, justifiably so, to get screwed over by new financial products. Also employers have very little trust in their employees. At least from an European perspective it is ridiculous what hoops people have to jump trough to get basic jobs. Background checks, lie detector, medical exams, etc. Which means it can easily take 1 month+ from first interview to starting work.

- Economic gap is massive. The decision makers you are going to sell your product to often live and have lived their entire lives in completely different universes than the potential users. So you are going to have mixed experience how empathetic they are to the cause. Some certainly are and want to make a change.

- Many people don't have bank accounts where you could transfer the money to. As far as I know this has changed quite a bit during pandemic but cash and cheques are still very common.

- The very small amounts ($50-70) you mention are quite a bit of money here. Minimum salary is $260. A small amount here would be more like <=$5. Don't have in my head what the fees and taxes on bank transactions are.

- The users are going to have a ~$50 android phone laden with ISP nonsense, outdated OS, pre-paid expensive data plans and flakey internet connections where they live. So the app needs not just be shiny, but efficient.

Within the group we also launched products in Mexico and Peru, where some things are different but haven't been involved much in that. Happy to chat about if you are interested.
Another alternative, which may be somewhat controversial, was introduced years ago in Menéame [0], a Spanish website which is somewhat of a cross between Slashdot and Reddit. In summary, they made the votes public. For every comment, you can see who gave it an upvote and who gave it a downvote.

In my opinion the change was worth it. The positive effects are that it strongly discourages organised vote brigading, cheap "I disagree" downvotes, and shy upvotes supporting actual nasty comments. Of course, even if this were possible to implement on Reddit's backend, the sheer scale of votes in the thousands would probably make it unfeasible. However, it would be a very good way to tackle cross-subreddit vote brigading, and would for instance make /r/SubredditDrama's "Do not vote in linked threads" rule much easier to enforce, rather than relying on the honour system.

[0] https://www.meneame.net
I doubt either of us were in the relevant rooms, but the API is very obviously a DX-ification of Nvidia's OptiX (the software-based raytracing solution that they released long before HW raytracing). Furthermore, Nvidia released OpenGL and Vulkan extensions for raytracing long before the release of DX12 Ultimate. Do you think Microsoft would have allowed that if it was a genuine co-development by the two companies?
deku tree's foliage is massive!
For in space infrastructure (that has the potential to bring immeasurable energy and resources long term) anyways available outside the Earth gravity well is a valuable resource, even just for stuff like radiation shielding.
Honestly, me. I run ultra-marathons, I have a decent job, I have Type 1 diabetes (not terminal obviously), I’m about 40 years old.

If given a guaranteed to work and painless option of suicide, I’d plan to not work for a few years, drain my savings, and call it good.

Sure there are things I like and find happiness in. But what’s the point? I’ve had about enough.
Raptor Maps (YC S16) Is Hiring Its First Engineering Manager
This is interesting. You say "side project" and I hear "hobby."

(Unless, of course, this candidate was starting a brewery, in which case, that is a hobby turned side project.)
> There have been some hard right subs, but most of the larger ones are banned now.

I can't even begin to express the emotion from the thought that someone may decide to erase a part of your life. This is what puts me off social networks in general.
https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/technical-perfor... Good read if you're interested in the technicalities. They do bury high voltage (380kV) AC lines, sometimes even construct a tunnel for them, but I doubt they'll do that in this case.
Why? Google Sheets has terrible performance.
Thanks for pointing out, fixed!
FreeBSD already supported something like this effectively, but in my opinion better way.

You can call cap_enter(), which disables open(), unlink(), mkdir(), etc. entirely. You can, however, still use openat(), unlinkat(), mkdirat() with relative paths that expand to a location underneath a directory file descriptor. This achieves the same thing, except that you can now have as many chroots as you want. Not just one.

Unfortunately, the idea never caught on, because virtually no software on UNIX uses the *at() functions. Also: the non-*at() functions are still available as symbols, meaning that you can't perform simple compile-time checks to ensure that you application works properly when this form of sandboxing is enabled. Turns out that off-the-shelf software (e.g., libraries) end up misbehaving in unpredictable ways if you disable ~50% of the POSIX API.

It's a shame, because this feature effectively requires you to treat the file system in an object oriented/dependency injected way. Pretty good from a reusability/testability perspective.
> I disagree with your overall point that reddit is diverse

To make it clear, I know that the whole Reddit demographic is not representative.

However, each channel subreddit has a different demographic. Too much of a male perspective? Go to r/TwoXChromosomes/. Too libertarian or heteronormative? You can find your channels too.

I once posted my praise (and interactive exploration) of NSFW content (https://observablehq.com/@stared/tree-of-reddit-sex-life, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19640562). In short - I don't know any other place with that much openness to different body types, styles of grooming, etc.
Daimler prepares for all-electric shift by 2030
Botox is also used to treat severe cases of migraine patients, where they knock out nerves along the migraine pathways. The patients will still have incidents, just with much less pain as the nerves in the pathway are paralyzed.
I don’t understand what you mean.
>Different subreddits will have different majorities with different views, no?

No, not really.

Ignoring standard left/right policy bickering points you are still going to catch a lot of hate on Reddit if you don't think people are fundamentally untrustworthy by default and that centralized authorities (be they governments, academia, professional organizations or BigCo) are fundamentally trustworthy and credible by default.

Offend upper middle class consumer sensibilities and you'll catch a whole lot of hate from that direction too.
Even if 'it's orders of magnitude' it still must be orders of magnitude cheaper than for some other industry. I bet recalling millions of cars due to some small mechanical bug is very expensive.
I will contend that antivirus is a net-positive to absolutely nobody. Not technically adept users, not office workers, not grandma, nobody.

It slows down literally everything you do with your computer in the best case. In the worst case it breaks things and is itself an exploitation avenue. Mostly it just isn't actually very good at its job and malware defeats it regularly.

This is a bad tradeoff and other mitigation strategies make more sense in every scenario I can conceive of.
Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/job-market-soften...
Maybe we need a whois.archive.org.
This data is old, and the title is inaccurate.

Today in Sydney (22/7/21, 11:01 am) we had:

- 85K tests
- 124 cases
- 48 in community whilst infectious (39%)

For those interested in Australian COVID-19 data, this site is pretty good: https://www.covid19data.com.au/
This is an oversimplification of the problem. Nobody is interested in the cost of "a bug", but their set of bugs. The cost is not just salary, it's also "missed sales". It may be the one bug, otherwise harmless, that shifts the opinion of a major decision maker. It may be the bug that causes some amount of users to finally look elsewhere, already being frustrated from previous bugs. It may be the bug that triggers a disgruntled user to write a rant on your product that ends up as a top google search result.
O&O ShutUp10: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
As someone who thinks it's morally wrong to have billionaires in a society let me try to make an argument why I think so.

If a person has a billion dollars it does not exist in a vacuum. It interacts heavily within the economy in which it exists and more importantly with the people who participate in that economy.

Think for example the amount of people employed to do work in order to service a billionaire. A vast estate requires 24 hour staff, a sports car fleet requires thousands upon thousands hours of labor to produce. The logistics of a private jet demands a lot of effort from a lot of people. In order to service a single individual we require, in aggregate, countless of human lives spent toiling.

I am not arguing that the effect of increased economic activity and employment are not desirable. And one can make a decent case that a billionaire's time is incredibly valuable which to an extent may justify spending larger resources in service to this lifestyle. I just think the idea of many humans spending their lives in order to satisfy a single human is absurd no matter which societal model organizes this arrangement.

It can be argued that the people who service the billionaire are better off having found employment within or in relation to someones billion dollar estate. Though I think it is even easier to argue that we can find many hypothetical arrangements that are far more just and moral for these people.

There is also an argument to be made about the large amounts of undemocratic power that a billion dollar in private wealth entails. If the billionaire holds majority stakes within prominent industries we are delegating important decisions to opaque power with unknown agendas that we can not hope to influence in meaningful ways. As I firmly believe that a moral society is actively democratic this feels deeply wrong.

With that said, I do not have any good quick fixes. Because the reasons I outlined I feel that the presence of billionaires reveal that human society has yet to reach its moral potential. I have no illusions that reaching that goal will be either a simple or fast process. I prefer billionaires to having a nobility class. Though I hope that we as a species recognize that deeply inequitable social arrangements is something we want to move away from.
It might have been social science.
> risk of discriminating against qualified candidates who don't have time for side projects because of other commitments

This is true and should be considered, but it’s also kind of the part. If the goal is to find the best candidate, then discriminating against people who won’t have as much time to do side projects, read, study and train more, etc will be likely.

I think it’s fair to consider these things and candidates shouldn’t be treated equally in this way.
Yeah, but this is the point. It really depends on the context.

Trying to fix every bug in the pure informational website but missing your product launch?
Not worth it, just fix it later. (or not at all, have you surfed the web with the console open? It is flooded with warnings and errors)

But miss the critical bug in the webshop, that cause customers to legally buy for free? That is expensive.
sweet view of hyrule castle and death mountain:

https://noclip.website/#zelview/spot00_scene;ShareData=AEK}r...
What are you trying to say, exactly? "Confidential computing" doesn't _use_ anything, it's a technology for working with encrypted data, mate.
If someone views a modern electrical utility in a Western country as unreliable then they either have no idea what they are talking about or have unreasonable expectations.

See NERC's reliability report for 2020 - even accounting for fires, the average transmission capacity loss for the entire USA and Canada was mostly under 0.5%. (Page 65)

https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/PA/Performance%20Analysis%20DL/...

Solar and batteries aren't a substitute for grid transmission infrastructure and cannot match the amounts of energy a good transmission grid can deliver. The best part of the grid - you don't have to worry about balancing or when you need energy. You just flip a switch.

Yes, PG&E could have done more and their investment choices led to lots of damage and loss but let's not jump the gun and term their grid unreliable. They are held to NERC's standards which are among the best in the world.
An excellent resource. With `fontspec` and `xelatex` or `lualatex`, choosing a font can sometimes be as easy as this:

\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\setsansfont{Myriad Pro}
\setmonofont{IBM Plex Mono}

No additional packages required!
There are many reasons why there are not many PL startups. From my perspective--as a PL tool developer for 40 years--is that we still do not have reliable formal grammars that describe the syntax and static semantics for a given programming language. That is a crux because it is difficult to write a tool for a language when we cannot even define what that language is. When you ask where to find a grammar for the language, the default answer is to just use an "official" implementation. That often requires a large amount of time to find and understand an API--and then locks you into that implementation. Some of the popular languages publish a grammar derived by a human reading the implementation after the fact, prone to errors. For C#, the standards committee is still trying to describe version 6 of the language (https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/tree/main/spec), and we are now on version 10. An Antlr4 grammar for C# is mechanically reverse engineered from the IR, but it does not work out of the box--it contains several mutual left recursions and does not correctly describe the operator precedence and associativity. Julia does not even have a formal grammar published for the language. You cannot easily refactor a formal grammar from something that does not even exist, and have to write it from scratch. Often, what is published is out of sync from the implementation, not versioned, tied to a particular parser generator and target language with semantic predicates. The quality is suspect because you are unsure whether it even follows a spec. No one bothers to enumerate the refactorings involved in modifying the grammar to fit a parser generator, or for optimization, e.g., speed or memory. Yes, I can agree: “[t]here's definitely a need for SOMETHING, as developers have so much pain.”
The jobless rate fell to 4.9 per cent in June but some economists have predicted a rise back above 5 per cent this month as a result of the lockdowns.

and yet still the envy of most the developed nations....

Covid is going to screw us all. I prefer our decision to manage how we get screwed, rather than the UK/US examples of "Some of you may die, I'm willing to accept that loss"
would love to see mario64
Does this even need a study? Isn’t it simply obvious? Perhaps less so with online applications and continuous updates but in the classical model of software development that most of the industry still depends on the costs and hassles of fixing a bug will obviously increase the further a piece of code goes along the development pipeline the more people, communications and effort it requires to right it. A stitch in time saves nine goes the saying. This reality is at odds with the cult of “move fast and break things” that seems to be somewhat popular these days. In any sector where quality is a factor this will always lead to increased expense and stress.

Of course if you’re just running a website and you’ve got a nice network effect going on, or you’ve got your customers locked into contracts based on matters other than the users’ satisfaction all of a sudden matters of quality become a “cost” and you all of a sudden have to come up with this hokum to try and discourage your developers from doing a good job contra their intuition.

I have a close acquaintance who works in medlab and frustratingly we’ve seen this mentality creeping into the equipment even they use where the system can be down for days at a time due to some software update and then they won’t even properly resource field engineers because they then refuse to reap the costs that the 100x model predicts. Certainly they’re probably saving pennies on the dime but who ends up bearing costs but users and healthcare budgets.

There are those that will quibble this is but an anecdote but you can see this kind of sloppy crack-handedness creeping in everywhere. Oh ship it today we can fix it tomorrow when we ship a whole slew of new bugs too.

Sorry. A bit of a sideways rant.
I assume by the downvotes its not a home vs professional issue?

In which case Im more glad i didnt waste money on the professional version, than I am sorry you would prefer my personal experience be kept quiet.
> Yeah using language that upsets people is bad

There are people who get upset about the language used to communicate results of scientific studies proving the efficiency of vaccines against the ongoing pandemic.
Kids get upset at the language “No” even when uttered to tell them that they can’t go out and play with a chainsaw, purely for their own protection.

You cannot determine if language or language usage is bad purely from the response of others even if they get extremely upset about it.
The problem is, is supposedly, upvote = adds to the conversation, downvote = detracts from conversation.

In reality, upvote = I agree, downvote = I disagree.

However I don't think anything can save twitter from being a toxic platform.

What makes it especially toxic, I think, is its lack of separation of communities.

Reddit is toxic sometimes, but at least there is some separation: if you just want to talk about knitting, you can avoid the people talking about politics.

I think it's important to be able to have controversial debates in real life, as body language and audience response seems to keep people from being truly awful.

The Quakers have an interesting history of trying to facilitate such controversial debates. They have been involved in some contemporary ones too.

https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/210/Inte...

It's concerning to me, how much of real life discussion we have lost due to the pandemic.