skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France is pretty much winding their industry down. The only one under construction is Flammanville 3 [0] which is currently projected to cost €19.1 billion compared to the initial budget of €3.3 billion. The current goal is 50% reduction to 2035 with no new plans being decided until Flammanville 3 is completed. [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Recent...
I was suggesting that you spread a line 20km wide by blowing the "paint" molecules out the top of your rover, which makes it 2000 times faster than what you're suggesting. You can't do that on Earth because your vaporized paint immediately crashes into air when it gets out of your smokestack, so it doesn't go high enough to land 10km away, and so smoke just sort of blows around in the wind.

(I think in reality it might be more like only 100 times faster, because I don't think you can maintain 40km/h.)
Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future
More that I need a smart phone for work and life but there are no viable alternatives to iOS and Android, and I trust Apple slightly more than Google not to spy on me and use it against me
USans are only 5% of the world population, and even they have better access to healthcare than 40 years ago. Most of the rest of America (everything except Colombia, Venezuela, the US, and parts of Peru and El Salvador) does have affordable healthcare.
You just moved the problem to a different layer.

In your case you would end up calling your function like this: DoToppings(true, false, true, true);

Whereas in my case you would call the builder directly with (only) the params you want different than the defaults.

You could use named arguments, but that doesn't solve the problem completely. You will still have a large method signature, hard to use, harder to refactor, harder to test, error prone.

It also causes a lot of redundant code: the called usually only cares about one or 2 arguments, it's rare that you *need* to pass more. The rest of the args are filled in by defaults in the implementation. There could be elegant ways to handle the defaults, like overloading methods or just passing in defaults in the method signature. Default value are pretty bad IMO, for all the reasons above. Btw, if you *need* to pass that many arguments to a function, that is another code smell worth it's own discussion.

Multiple overloaded methods could have about the same amount of code int he implementation like the builder pattern, but they have a huge drawback: the caller cannot mix and match which arguments they want to pass in. If you have 4 arguments, there would be quite a high combination of parameters (18 possibilities? - 18 functions); Using the builder pattern you have to implement 4 methods only, and you're covering all the possible combinations the client might want. You can also limit some combinations in elegant ways right in the IDE while the developer is writing the code.

Think of FluentAssertions https://fluentassertions.com/introduction They have literally hundreds of possible assertions that are represented by object instances. You can combine them in an almost infinite number of possibilities.

Sure, there is no black and white, and depends on the language, the builder pattern is a good tool to have in the toolbox.
Thanks for your article, the first pic made me and my colleague laugh really hard.
The first one will probably look confusing if you're looking at the repo through a web interface though. Or if you're looking at examples in a readme. I have personally never been limited by my "raw code writing speed", and if that was the case, I would look into touch typing/autocompletion before sacrificing readability.
Or a computer simulation running at 1 trillion X "real time".
It does! Thanks! I think my query was just an impossible one.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=University%20o...
Hardest part of reading code is knowing where to start. I wasn't around at this point, but I can only imagine the horror of a C programmer seeing their beautiful art broken apart into a bunch of nonsensical files in C++.

I like that Golang started to undo some of this issue of hundreds of little files that jump all over.
Do a lot of people take out loans they never use? If you get a loan to buy a house, the seller gets the money immediately and uses it to buy another house. You've just put a whole house's worth of debt into circulation.
I think that you can't get as good as you would like to be at reading code: if you are a good code writer, then there aren't so much improvements you can get to your reading skills. Bad code will resist to such skills anyway, because bad code is full of that-bad-code-specific lack of modularity, interfaces, unexpected side effects and dependencies and so forth. You can only get good at reading better "locally", and you can get better at "navigating". But the complexity is in the global architecture and its errors, so you will have to dig, understand what's going on, what code matters, what is dead, how apparently unrelated things actually affect each other. So what I believe is the key, is exactly what somebody replied to the tweet mentioned in this post, that is: learn to write simple code, it is the real point because most of the time you read your own code, fortunately.
Something makes me think that storing weeks worth of electricity isn't going to happen in the near future (< 30 years).

Storing hydrogen isn't that easy/cheap either.

So I'd guess we're going to see storage of energy in the form of liquid/liquefiable hydrocarbons (synthesized from hydrogen) like methanol or propane.
It was the cheapest just 10 years ago.
embrace... "extinguish", etc
Can’t find my recommendations for J. Scott Turner’s “The Extended Organism”

To summarise: organisms evolving to change the environment around them to their benefit. I went to Foyle’s one day with butlying a book on Termite mounds in mind, that is one chapter in the book.

I found out too late that UCL had hosted a talk by Dr Turner a year too late.
I've thought about this a lot, though if you google around you'll find people who dispute this claim. Still, it makes sense to me.

If you have single income households, and all of a sudden everyone's a double income households, you're not any better off. You'll get inflation, especially in housing. People will point out that stay at home moms weren't THAT pervasive, even decades ago (not as pervasive as us younglins would think), and that may be correct, but double professionals as a common thing is still more recent. We're making some (slow) progress toward wage equity on top of all of it too. That's a good thing, but it doesn't change much when people are bidding against each other.

But all things are not equal: It's not as simple as "back then it was 1 income families against 1 income families and now its 2 vs 2".

Not at all! Now you have 1 income families, 2 income families, 2 income families with no kids, 2 income families where both are software engineers, etc. All of these always existed in some form, but now it's very visible.

If my partner and I (we're DINKs, both in software engineering and highly successful) go to bid on a home, and a single working parent with a partner who stay at home, and 3 kids, try to outbid us... Well, let's hope for them that the single earner is a world famous neurosurgeon, else they're not getting that home.
Thanks for this explanation :)
Blogging will not return to its former glory when you think it's a blogging platform problem. It has absolutely nothing to do with the product.

What happened is mobile. People consume the vast majority of digital content via their phone, therefore short form content wins. Tweets and 5 second videos, not lectures. Besides the content being short form, "engagement content" wins. Say something stupid, controversial, rude...you win. You'll get seen. Your reasonable and balanced take....crickets.

The other thing that happened is that the internet got a lot more crowded. Which basically means that everything gets gamed. All eye balls on 0.001% of content and no eye balls on 99.999% of other content creators.

Even in what little remains of blogging, everything is gamed. Have a look at blogging platform Medium. Every single category and topic is spammed with low effort garbage, burying genuine and more serious authors. The genuine reader can no longer find their jewels, and the genuine author considers it all pointless now.

No blogging platform can fix any of the above problems.
NASA reviews private space stations, expects $1B+/year savings after ISS retires
Oh, I play this game when I don't know the name of something. Get in the page of a similar concept, bubble up and then down.
This is some good climate news for once. The fast pace of renewable energy rollout can and will help us avoid catastrophe.
Does it matter? From an individual's perspective, if you can make the monthly payment then all is well. Sure, the market may tank but all that does is effect your ability to move.
Because they at least can store months worth of gas/oil/coal on their own territory.
That’s what I’m getting at. Broad claims like “fasting isn’t unhealthy” need more narrow definitions about what constitutes a “fast”
Airwallex raises $200M at a $4B valuation to double down on business banking
Sean Parent was key on that whole process, given his role at Adobe and Apple, hear his interviews here,

https://adspthepodcast.com/
Booking is 5K employees.
>If you've missed the voter suppression thus far, you and I both know that you won't listen to any evidence or argument otherwise.

I want specific examples. Shouldn't be hard if it's so prevalent.

>They are claiming the electoral college is undemocratic. Which it is, by the very definition

Yeah we're a republic. Do you know why? Because it protects the minority. You might want to consider what happens when you're inevitably in the minority at some point. Unless you just assume that you're going to agree with everything the population centers in the coastal areas want?

>There are many more ideologies than capitalist and communist. The world is not black and white.

Yep thanks for proving my point. OP's comment WAS black and white. He blamed it specifically on capitalism. It's a power issue not a capitalism issue. Historically capitalism is much less likely to end up with the power in the hands of the few than any other economic system.
I'm pro-nuclear but your argument is the same used by people saying "what's the point of my country reducing its CO2 emissions because it's only contributing to X% (X << 10) of global emissions?"

Some of France's neighbor are asking for the shutdown of some nuclear plants. It's much easier to ask this when you don't have any yourself
Blogs like the author is looking for still exist (I write one at https://jamesvandyne.com) and there's heaps more on https://micro.blog.

Blogs that aren't SEO fluff to get adsense money just don't appear in the search results. Discovery is the real issue. Finding these blogs independently or outside is nigh impossible.

I've been thinking it might be fun to make a GeoCities-esque neighborhood directory site that you could add your blog to help with discovery. But could you (I) change my habits to stumble upon sites in the neighborhoods instead of opening HN/Twitter?
Creating a 10M visits a month community at DZone
"System injection" is apparently the major novelty in this language. But it's not described in detail, and I'm not finding it on Google. What is it? Is it important?
It's the incentives that are in place. Most enterprises buy products based on feature sets. Therefore, enterprise software companies prioritize delivering features.
Musicians have been happy with their simple keyboards for hundreds of years. Why wouldn't software developers be using theirs in a hundred years?
Clubhouse and False Promises of Trendy Startups
I’m not an expert for sure though my read is the most expedient way out of this situation is plasma donation / transplantation.
In Germany, they are not that pathetic. You can theoretically be fined upto 50.000€ for mowing on Sundays. The two days before Easter, even dancing is forbidden in many federal states.
This was an amusing "extraction":

> I have not yet read the good book Atlas Shrugged but be sure to check it out based on your recommendation.

You're delusional. Where did I ever recommend reading
Atlas Shrugged? Ayn Rand is nuts.
You're right, I misunderstood some of Aaron's explanations. He clarified later that this is just garden-variety spam, which is still pretty dark and wicked, just not in the same way.
Project Deluge: Archives of Xbox, PS2, Dreamcast Prototype Games and More
Do they typically differ?
Cortex (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Engineers to Solve Microservice Complexity
To my knowledge, /jk Rowling doesn't allow people to sell Harry Potter fanfic, even though she's fine with its existence.
actually grabbed it from Keybase -> Googled name -> LinkedIn :)
I can't remember if Apple themselves hosted AUX or not on their website, alongside System 6 and 7.5, or if you could get them, ahem, from other locations.

Anyways, remarkably, A/UX could run on a Macintosh LC II and III. The LC III was remarkable in that if you found the right DIMM, it wouldn't reject a 32MB SIMM RAM chip. Long story short, you could buy an Mac LC II for $10 in 2000, and install A/UX on there. The tricky thing was that Macs all used SCSI drives back then, and most macs required the SCSI drive to have a special bit flipped (in, I guess, firmware? or bootloader?) that marked it as a Mac hardware scsi drive.

A/UX was unique in that 1. it did not require a Mac specific SCSI drive and 2. utilities existed to convert any scsi drive to be marked as a "Mac hardware" scsi drive.

TL;DR ran A/UX for a couple of weeks on a $10 Macintosh LC II that I bought at a computer consignment shop in the early 2000s
No, you have either already seen and dismissed many, many specific examples, or are simply willfully ignorant.

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-vot...

Democracy and republic are not incompatible, you don't know what republic means (or democracy for that matter), and the only minority it protects is the wealthy. Furthermore, the person you replied to was replying to a comment which stated, and I quote, "How about simply fix the laws through Democratic processes".

OP's comment was NOT black and white. They did NOT say Communism was the solution. You, however, assumed that was what they meant, and proceeded to use that as a basis to attack their position, despite providing zero evidence to back up your attack - even if they HAD said Communism was the solution.

As your entire comment history is bad-faith, I'm done with this thread. Bye-bye.
I crossed a huge milestone last week. I actually found something I was looking for in confluence.
>” Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass"

Is that misplaced nationalistic defensiveness?

you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks surf side isn’t a scandal.

One scandal doesn’t make it impossible or hypocritical to call out other scandals.
DRNets can solve Sudoku, speed scientific discovery – Cornell Chronicle
I don't have all of the math for all the scenarios you describe, but still, overall you're completely correct.

If you account for inflation and interest rates, and look at median home price, a home earlier this year was CHEAPER than home in 2005. Roughly the same monthly payments before accounting for inflation, because of the interest rates (6.X% vs 2.5-2.8%ish). That alone makes a huge difference.

People are also becoming more financially literate. Once folks are able to crunch all of the numbers on their own, start calculating how much rent costs, how much money they will make from asset valuation, how much they can save from using HELOCs instead of credit or other types of loans, they're willing to spend more, too. There's the tax deductions, but that got gutted, so it's not that big anymore.

one can say the down payment increases, but it increased slower than the market did, so if you just sat on investments since 2005, you can make a BIGGER down payment now than then, proportionally. At current interest rates, even with PMI, you're potentially better off doing a 3% + PMI than putting a large down payment (unless you're expecting a market apocalypse the likes of which the US has never seen).

We could crank up the interest rates to 10% and home values would tank. It wouldn't reduce monthly home costs any though.
I have a lot of older relatives that love the "hand-me-downs" of older iPhones and other i-gadgets. They're not power users, they just want to FaceTime with their grandkids and take photos of the flowers they grew in their yard.

This is one reason I pay the Apple premium: as a family, we get a lot more mileage out of the devices. Also, I don't have to stress about security, because I know they will be protected by updates and cloud backup for years and years to come.
Edit: Deleted my original posting. Getting some pretty hostile vibes on basic attempts to contribute to this thread.
I've tried the same thing, adding a low price just as a filter. It works, but it's kind of a shocking lesson in human nature. Offer a $100 item for free and you will never sleep again thanks to all the responses, but try to sell it for $5 and you may not get a response for days.
How can I test this browser to make sure my web sites works on it !?
Mayor Breed critiques SF's mask mandate, 'fun police' after nightclub trip
IMO bitbucket is okay. Its UX for PRs is amazing, 1000x better than Githubs. Especially its side by side diff.

This concludes, and fully encompasses, everything good that I have to say about Atlassian products.
Same as ordering the post office to stop processing mail because someone sent a copy of a book in the mail...
Queensland police to trial AI tool designed to predict domestic violence
I just installed iOS 15 an hour ago. So I checked to see if the new Apple Maps' ratings was in there. There is now a "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" button that allows you approve or disapprove of a restaurants Food & Drink, Customer Service, Atmosphere, and Overall experience. It also uses your on device location data to suggest photos that you took while at the restaurant, to include in your review. So it looks like it's finally live! (At least for some people)

Interestingly enough, it still has Yelp reviews beneath it. Hopefully that just gets removed completely once Apple has collected enough of their own reviews.
It's unbelievably bad. This is literally the only thing you need a wiki for. I can't believe this is the market leader. Notion is going to crush them.
Going Viral (For Tech Companies)
A real innovation would be to open US funded and US led medical training centers in developing countries where you expand the healthcare options to the local population. That way more doctors can be trained by the high US standard of care, on more available cases, while more people get better care. If you want to be able to afford that financially, you need waivers on liability for the care provided. Smaller countries with high standards of care are already inverse examples of that - something along the lines of 80% of healthcare professionals trained in Bulgaria leave the country for better pay elsewhere.
>>Would love to see some of your reasoning for how exactly this outcome restricted other workers rights?

It prevents other workers from underbidding them, by making it illegal for the employer to hire those workers due to the contract liberty suppressing mandate to engage exclusively in collective bargaining with the union.

Forcing companies to pay more than market wages is also bad for society at large by discouraging investment into such companies. More investment into companies leads to lower consumer prices which translates to an effective wage hike for all workers.
Scratching my head over this, too... I have over 50 ebooks on my phone, it barely even registers compared to the videos and apps. All perfectly searchable, too.
The irony is that Java and .NET already trailed that path 20 years ago.
Researchers Develop Toolkit to Test Apple Security, Find Vulnerability
>What actually happened is that Sweden has significantly lower per-capita COVID mortality than the EU average.

Sweden is also significantly higher than all its immediate neighbors who have 1/3rd to 1/10th the mortality.

>These policies directly failed on their own terms, and no studies or inter-country comparisons are even needed to prove that.

...So we don't need to talk about Sweden after all?

>e.g. the differences between North and South Dakota (no outcome differences, very different policies).

North Dakota (with late lockdowns) beat South Dakota (no lockdowns) by about the same margin that Sweden beat the EU average (10~15%). Why is the difference "significant" for Sweden, but "nonexistent" for the Dakotas?
When a couple markets in housing are going up like crazy? Sure. When essentially all asset classes or supply constrained service/goods globally are going up everywhere at record rates? It’s hard to not see the need to at least consider it. Especially after the massive amount of money printing still ongoing.
I switched to iPhone and can’t even remember the name of the app anymore, sorry

But the good news is that I got it from the Play Store back then and you didn’t even need to jailbreak.
This kids a middle management wet dream for easy abuse labor. Is willing to drop out of secure education for in-secure work. No long term fin capital from years worked to weather a rough employment period. No further education tickets to class him as a threat to taking managements jobs.

Basically lining himself up to be a slave to the system.... He will make a good cog in the machine.
Not saying that I believe in this, but I have spoken with many believers. You won't change any minds with such reasoning: I've heard from a few with faith that evolution is compatible with Creation, because god provides the 'why' and evolution is merely 'how'. Same with an airburst -- it's merely the mechanism by which god (allegedly) punished men for doinking.
> I always wondered whether they knew

Surely you don't mean that they'd have an understanding what the function of a battery is, so I'm not quite sure what you mean?
Do you mean fiscal policy? You absolutely can infuse trillions of dollars into the economy without causing inflation after the economy takes a $4T hit from a pandemic; the government spending will be what prevents disastrous deflation.

People worry about inflation, but forget how awful deflation is.

(And on a side-rant, it’s really bizarre how the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany is cited as enabling the rise of the Nazi party. The timing doesn’t work. They came to power during the depression-era deflation.)
> I don't know if Apple is handicapping Google maps on iOS (ie locking system APIs)

It isn't
80 per cent is what you call extremely inefficient ... what percentage would be "efficient" then in your opinion?

> Accounting for the accepted use of the higher heat value (because inefficiency via heat can be redirected back into the system to create the steam required by the catalyst), average working efficiencies for PEM electrolysis are around 80% ... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water#Industri...]