skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Also, if there is a major accident, it is not the power companies or their investors that will pay the cost, it is the tax payers and the rest of society

So you mean exactly how with coal the entire society bears the cost of just running the plants? Even if we set climate change aside for a second, there are huge health downsides to burning coal. I mention coal specifically because we're talking about the contrast with Germany here.

>>Same with decommissioning the nuclear plants, for which the companies are supposed to hold back some funds, but they just undercalculate that, go bankrupt and the taxpayer pays up.

The only issue I have with this is that nuclear power plants should have never been operated by private companies in the first place. They should have been national property and taxpayer funded from start to finish.
you sound like someone who would say they cant read Shakespeare because he writes fiction so he has nothing to say about the human condition.
Based on the n=1 study that is myself, I would call it "the favourite poem of people who don't like poetry", which is either high praise or the opposite.

Those lines also speak to our times.
It sounded like speech synthesis to me.
Nuclear in Germany was in its death bed already by the nineties.

It was killed by the massive costs, also fueled by failed experiments in "next generation" reactors that are still further away from feasibility than fusion power. And, to a lesser degree, nimbyism.
China’s Corporate Social Credit System: How Businesses Can Prepare
Sounds a bit like the interviewing problem, eh? Maintaining a quality bar fundamentally seems to involve a high false negative rate.
1) Innovative idea with authentic and logical concept
2) Create a new business, invest starting amount at your end and achieve a level results show the performance to investor and grab the Funding for your business
Racket/gui is far from having every feature under the sun like JavaFX or QT, but what it lacks in breadth it makes up in flexibility and customizability. It's seriously one of the very best cross-platform, easy to set up solutions available.
Different people respond to different aspects of art. To me, original Mona Lisa has always looked boring and somewhat depressing. The copy here is the opposite - it feels energetic, lively, content. Even if it's just the color balance that's the difference, I find it to be a huge one.

Between your perspective and mine, there's of course countless others - few paintings have had as much said and written about them as Mona Lisa. But, it turns out, most of those words were written not about what da Vinci painted, but what his work decayed into. It makes me view all those words in a completely different light.
Oh Thank You. I always thought Tomato was dead, and the only living thing that carry its legacy was ASUSWRT.

Time to play with it on my old ( no longer updated ) ASUS Router.
In a few decades, when the block subsidy dwindles to insignificance, Bitcoin relies on a constant backlog of high fee paying transactions to provide security. If that cannot be maintained and Bitcoin becomes prone to 51% attacks, then one can imagine Bitcoin adding a tail emission.

A cryptocurrency with a fixed emission of 1 coin per second forever is more guaranteed never to change, as it is already as simple, non-arbitrary and fair as possible.
Yes, and in the meanwhile they live in a cleaner place, whereas in Germany people breathe toxic particles in the air (including radioactive particles released by burning coal)

Also, there are possible solutions to nuclear waste, such as auto-breeding reactors that basically burn waste, or energy amplifiers... that also reduce nuclear waste to waste products with much more manageable half lifes.

IMO Being a luddite with nuclear energy means not looking at reality for what it is
Wait, they're just photoshoping her face? That's a whole less impressive than I thought.
Ask HN: California or Delaware virtual address for Delaware LLC startup?
I have a startup registered in Delaware, but we have no physical location (WFH). So, I am planning to get a virtual address from earthclassmail or virtualpostmail. Which state should I pick for virtual address? California or Delaware? Is there tax implication in picking either of these?
Bit Packing like a Madman (2016)
Show HN: Schematic and Firmware for Nixie Clock
German here. In hindsight it was very stupid to go out of nuclear in a panic attack just to burn coal and buy nuclear from France instead. A big fail.
Inuit Tactile Maps of Greenland (2017)
The irony is that the German Greens are one of the reasons Germany burns so much coal, instead of using nuclear like France :(
I drives me slightly crazy that an article about a fantastically technical subject such as "NULL pointer dereferences in the (Linux) kernel" immediately uses incorrect C code with undefined behavior to illustrate something.

This:

printf("The argv pointer = %d\n", argv);

is not okay, you cannot pass a pointer-sized value when you tell printf() you're passing an integer. It needs to be:

printf("The argv pointer = %p\n", (void *) argv);

You should use %p which is for printing pointers, and cast to void pointer.

Edit1: Oh, and I realize it "worked" for the author, no nasal demons [1] appeared and the code printed a number. That's just being lucky, and it's not a very nice foundation to base an argument on.

Edit2: Okay, now I read a little bit further and I'm pretty sure the author lives in the "pointers are just integers, and NULL is zero" world, which is of course not a world that co-exists with our own.

There is no guarantee that the in-memory representation of a NULL pointer is "all bits zero", that is implementation-defined and completely up the the architecture you're running on (and the compiler).

I realize that in practice, on common hardware, NULL is typically implemented as all-bits-zero, but that is not defined by the language. I don't even know if I make sense, obviously I'm a C buff and take these things rather seriously.

[1]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
The awe and wonder I get from an old building comes from 3 things:

1. This building is beautiful.
2. How did they build this all that time ago? For example, the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, or a large stone cathedral built 800 years ago.
3. The sense of unbroken continuous activity in this building from the time it was built until now. Which connects me to history and a sense that by being in this place I am a part of something bigger than myself. This is stronger if the type of activity in the building has stayed the same for all that time. E.g. Attending a service in an 800 year old Cathedral makes you feel awe.

#1 Is still relevant if the building is restored, but #2 isn't.

#3 is interesting. If a building was damaged but restored immediately then the sense of continuity might remain intact. But if a building was left unoccupied, or it's use has changed then this effect is lessened. For example, visiting a 500 year old pub is better than visiting a 500 year old building that was recently turned into a pub. Visiting a royal palace in England has some quality to it that visiting Versailles doesn't have because there is no longer a French monarchy. Stonehenge is very impressive (because of #2) and even though some groups have started using it for rituals, there is no real connection to the original builders so it lacks awe on the #3 dimension.
Side effects aren't the only reason the compiler can be undecidable though. It depends on the type system, not just referential transparency. Look at Cayenne or ATS. Also, don't forget it's possible to still possible to DoS the system (although this is already more than possible with C++ and such, so what are we complaining about.)

Yeah, dependent types would be nonsensical for code that isn't functional. Marking which parts are and aren't is a good idea. Idris did something similar for totality checking. I think it'd be nice to have a system which differentiated between functions and procedures though.
Restoration using traditional and well-documented techniques are perfectly "authentic".

Except people don't want "authentic", they want what they know. No one is suggestion restoring the pyramids to their original look because then they would look 'fake' to most people.

You see it in more mundane situations as well. If a houses was red for 300 years and then white for 150 years, and someone wants to paint it red again a lot of people will complain because that building has 'always' been white and red will feel inauthentic, even if you can prove with historical documentation that red was the original 'authentic' color.
Oof... right in the feels. Are... are we old now?
That might be a good solution, I also am against privatization of some strategic assets, and energy production is obviously one of them
Software, plumbing, and car mechanics don't need a degree. They are technician work.

However, if you can have a much more fun life if you have a deep understanding of things like signal processing, image processing, differential equations, control systems, dynamics, etc.

Those let you do things like building medical imaging systems, autonomous robots, or deep learning systems. They're much more intellectually fulfilling than just coding, which loses its charm after a bit. You're also not competing against low-cost coders, which isn't a problem in the current market, but economies are cyclical. When the next recession comes, having more specialized skills is more helpful.

These do require mentorship, guidance, and some form of study.

As much as coming into university straight out of high school is often a bad idea, so is skipping it altogether.

The key problem is these aren't skills you can pick up incrementally. They take years of focused study. For example, you can't learn control systems without diff. eq. which in turn requires calculus. There's little immediate reward to learning calculus and diff eq, and little way to know what's important without expert guidance.
Kotlin Classes
Ive quit FB and Twitter, never had IG.

Hacker News and soemtimes Reddit is all I visit.

I did feel better after quitting Twitter, seeing as what an rage fest it was
when I hack it into python, it’s slightly annoying. when done properly, no, it’s no worse than f(a+g(b+c())), which is everywhere in code already. And debuggers / error messages should indicate what sub expression caused it, which would clean that up
You (and most other western commentators) underestimate just how long the road is.
Have there been any technological advances regarding the wind and solar's capability of providing a base load? While Germany has been subsidizing wind and solar aggressively and even pushed back on the construction of coal plants in some areas, AFAIK nobody got a solution to tackle the inherent unreliability of green energy. The German government ought to have a plan for this, I hope?
A wasteless means of payment and accounting is wishful thinking, from my point of view.

We don't really use cash anymore, but a digital representation of it. This comes with a lot of electricity consumption on datacenters, among other waste.

For example: financial institutions have to waste a lot of resources just to keep the system "safe", for you, the government, etc. Requires extensive cybersecurity, bureaucratic and legal spending.
"Facebook posts or locking residents of an entire apartment complex in their homes with no one allowed to leave."

This IS the correct procedure during a disease pandemic. To halt the process of a disease it's been a common and effective practice throughout the centuries and across many countries to isolate those infected along with their close contacts for a period of time until the disease is over/can no longer propagate.

What do you specially find wrong with it and why? Sure it's inconvenient for those involved but it's the least harmful action for everyone - all of society benefits this way.

Clearly you don't know your history or you'd realize it was common practice. For example, until quite recently Sydney had a quarantine station at North Head for well over a century until the Government stupidly shut it down and turned it into a hotel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head_Quarantine_Statio...

Clearly, isolating people like this is new to you. Get used to the fact that it's not a new practice and the fact that you'll likely see it again in the future.

The same goes for the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. Unvaccinated people are threat to the life and health of others so society has the right to isolate them for its own safety. This practice is not new either, it's been practiced ever since vaccination became common practice.

The them and us problem is simply solved by 'them' not being so damned selfish and getting vaccinated like the rest of society.

Please note: the matter of coercion with respect to public health matters is NOT like other forms of government coercion or government surveillance for political reasons. They are two completely separate matters - or they ought to be. If any of these COVID measures are later abused by Government then the citizenry has full rights to object in every way possible. Government has absolutely no right to take advantage of this tragic heath problem and it is incumbent on citizens to ensure that it does not.
Me too. I lost many an hour playing brick-breaker whilst sat on the toilet instead of working.
>>Nuclear power is green for the duration of our lifetimes, at the cost of a near eternity of fallout.

We have a permanent, forever solution to nuclear waste, it's just that no one wants to pay for it. It's easier to just keep kicking the ball down than solve the issue permanently.

It's called deep borehole disposal - you drill a hole down to Earth's crust(~5km or deeper), fill the bottom 1-2km with nuclear waste, fill it back up. Literally solves the problem forever. It's not coming back up on anything shorter than a geological timescale, and the land above the borehole is perfectly safe to live on.

The main reasons why it wasn't and isn't pursued is

1) cost - drilling itself is "solved" but inventing new storage casks that would fit the hole and re-processing the waste to fit is a new engineering challenge which would cost money

2) the idea that nuclear fuel, even spent, can be reused - either in breeder reactors, or for other purposes. If you bury it 5km deep it's almost impossible to retrieve it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal

The above is why I'm kinda annoyed when people say that nuclear is bad because we just produce waste that will pollute for centuries. Like, yes, but we also know what to do with it, we're just unwilling to pay for it.
A coal plant is an ongoing accident all day every day.

When do "these accidents" happen again and again? France hasn't had a single nuclear disaster in 50 years of operation

Fukushima is a pretty good demonstration that even when everything goes wrong, the consequences aren't that bad.
The corollary of all of this is that copying, mimicry and imitation is not lesser art.

Historically Asian artists and musicians imitated master's styles. Only after you are fully mastering the previous style, you can add something little of your own. "Confucian notion that all forms of creativity are for the collective; any copying or imitating is a high form of flattery, honoring one’s ancestors" [1]

This can extend to intellectual property and copying in industrial production. Making copies of products of others is seen very differently in China "Mutual reliance and sharing for the good of all have been most important for centuries in China, quite unlike the American belief of ownership of copyright and prot protection for the copyright holder."[1] "Intellectual property rights also do not show up in philosophical works or in literature, because of the
general belief that knowledge cannot be owned. As
we have seen, copying was a virtue in artistic production, and profiting from knowledge and artistic
production was immoral." [2]

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[1] The Dissonance between Culture and Intellectual Property in China.
Southeast Review of Asian Studies . 2008, Vol. 30, p182-187. 6p.

[2] Intellectual Property Rights and Chinese Tradition Section: Philosophical Foundations.
Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Nov., 2006), pp. 1-9 (9 pages)
Increasingly, you can replace "is" with "was."

Over time, MIT's acceptance of diversity, intellectual and otherwise, has waned. Right now, it's the top university brand in the world. That's a tightrope political game to play, and MIT optimizes to it very well. It's been a slow process for many decades, but it's really accelerated recently.

I'm not sure what the better schools are now. I've heard good things about Georgia Tech.

We do need nerd camps and nerd schools still. The old MIT was awesome.
Yes, same amount of bits, but different number of digits and thus screen real estate.

I was speaking from personal experience. One of the reasons I made it easy to toggle between F and C in my app was so I could adjust from F to C (in Korea). I think it worked and I am comfortable using both C and F now (although I admit I am more accustomed to F).

However, one thing I noticed when I switch to C in my app is I get less information. I have seen systems that double the C reading to get a similar precision as F, but then it is no longer really C.

My point was not that temperatures don't go over 100F, but that F uses the entire range of 2-digit readings. C only uses half of the positive 2-digit range.

Also because freezing in F is above 0, you can show a useful range of temperatures below freezing before having to add a negative sign.

So I still argue F is more information-dense than C given a 2-digit temperature reading for weather.
There was nothing substantive in the article because it got edited soon after his tweet. https://web.archive.org/web/20210913110658/https://www.infow...
I think the real reason is that the german environmental movement is closely tied to the former nuclear disarmament movement, and nuclear power had become somehow mixed up in it. It's a real tragedy
I have GBoard in three languages, it guesses the language from the first few words and then 'sticks' to it for the rest of the message.

Occasionally it guesses the wrong language if the first word or two are ambiguous, but by manually typing out a word in the right language it quickly adjusts itself.

Or if some languages are only used occasionally, you can just put them on a dedicated keyboard and switch with a long press of the spacebar.
Just some context so people understand this better: This is not an indication of some "back to coal" trend.

Wind has overtaken coal for the first time last year. Now for a few months the situation is back to coal as the most important source. These things obviously fluctuate and thus it's not a linear trend, but the overall trend is still that renewables are growing and coal is in decline.

(And to be sure I'm not misunderstood: That doesn't change the fact that the high coal use in Germany is a big problem and the wind buildout is far too slow.)
German speaking: Although, to be fair, most Germans are scared by nuclear power plants independent of their affiliation with the Green party. That is one of the reasons Chancelor Merkel (a conservative) reverted her stance on nuclear years ago.
Hiding "artificial" things isn't universal in the west. From the 1950s, plastic was very much in style.

It's a backlash starting in the 90s against some excesses (pollution, traffic, Tschernobyl) that saw a rising appreciation for the "natural".

That had benefits such as the environmental movement and liveable cities. But it can, again, be misunderstood. The naturalistic fallacy that is not trusting vaccines because "ingredients") is also one of way it manifests, although it's almost entirely on the political right because culture war forces are stronger. It's the third time in a row the right has frankensteined a putatively left-wing concept, after Christianity and Postmodernism.

For architecture, the Bauhaus' form-follows-function ideas are still the starting point. They carry some economic policy ideas as well, from the times after WW2 when housing needed to be rebuild and any ornamental excess was seen as resources that were wasted while people were starving and homeless. Thus came the high-rises (in both east and west Europe).

This idea of "wastefulness" endures. If you rebuild something old, you will be wasteful in that you recreate structures and use materials and maybe methods that have long been superseded. You might also find yourself defending rather outdated ideas of class difference trying to explain why ceiling heights go down as you go up the floors, with the 1st floor "bel êtage" having 15' ceilings and the top floor's servant quarters barely more than half that.

The stucco decoration on a facade used to show that you were rich, because these were elaborately hand-crafted in-place at the time. Now, they are stamped in a factory and glued on. They are tacky because it is false signalling.
Agreed they are pretty much the same inconvenience level, but for me that level is too much either way. Maybe it's just my workflow, but I always preffered step-by-step debugging compared to REPL which is why I like to see many intermediate results being named.
Firefox is great on desktop, been my primary browser for 15+ years.

Sadly though, the mobile version (still) lacks support for "pull to refresh" gesture. Other than that, mobile FF is great (privacy features, browser addons...).
Buy puts on any Chinese ETF?
Yeah -- my experience is kids who have unconventional experiences do better socially than the ones who go through conventional school.
It's the case for France. Electricité de France (EDF) operates the nuclear plants and is owned at 84.5% by the French State

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_de_Franc...
Very true and it will become affordable at some point, also why we choose to store waste, for now.

On a brighter side, fusion is making progress and produces no waste.
What do you think of E2E encryption in apps like Signal? Does the same logic apply?
Sure, I'll do that. It's not as hard as you make it sound. Spam classifiers work fine for example. Nobody complains about special exemption lists for the Gmail spam filter because it doesn't need any. The term spam is not precisely defined but a strong social consensus exists on what the word means and that's sufficient for voting on mail streams to work. So I'd just build one of those and collect my big pile of cash.

But that's not the sort of content classification you mean, is it.

So the problem isn't technical. Rather it's an entirely self inflicted problem by Facebook. The cause is an attempt to broker a compromise between the original spirit of the site and internal activists who are bent on controlling information and manipulating opinion. The reason they make so many bad judgement calls is because they're not trying to impose clearly defined rules, but rather, ever shifting and deliberately ill-posed left wing standards like "misinformation" or "hate speech". Because these terms are defined and redefined on a near daily basis by ideological warriors and not some kind of universal social consensus, it is absolutely inevitable that the site ends up like this. A death spiral in which no amount of moderation can ever be sufficient for some of their loudest employees simply cannot be avoided once you cross the Rubicon of arbitrary vague censorship rules.

If Facebook want to reduce the number of embarrassing incidents, they can do it tomorrow. All they have to do is stop trying to label misinformation or auto-classify posts as racist/terrorism-supporting/etc. Stand up and loudly defend the morality of freedom of speech. Refocus their abuse teams on auto-generated commercial spam, like webmail companies do, and leave the rest alone. This isn't hard, they did it in the early days of the site. It may mean firing employees who don't agree, but those employees would never get tired of waging war against opinions they don't like no matter how much was spent on moderation, so it's ultimately futile trying to please them.