skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's check the stats on the newest nuclear power plant built in France:

> A third reactor at the site, an EPR unit, began construction in 2007 with its commercial introduction scheduled for 2012. As of 2020 the project is more than five times over budget and years behind schedule. Various safety problems have been raised, including weakness in the steel used in the reactor. In July 2019, further delays were announced, pushing back the commercial date to the end 2022.

> EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months. The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.

10 years late (so far) and 15 bil over budget (so far).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
>Surely the choice should fall on the user.

It does, the user can choose to use GTK or Qt apps.

>Which is why we would like all of these to be configurable.

So making it all configurable is just guaranteeing that the app is broken out of the box and needs to have all this stuff set up before it even works correctly. Not exactly a user-friendly way to ship a program.

>What if I, as a user of a tiling wm don't want any decorations?

You may have to accept that some apps are not built to work in a tiling WM. In my experience, you will have a lot of trouble with some apps for various other reasons too, not just the decorations.

>That everything supports it afaik. (except mutter?)

I'm confused, you said everything supports it, but then immediately listed something that didn't support it.
I searched for a TTS service recently and found wellsaidlabs. It’s a saas product but the quality is astonishing. It’s also fast to render the audio, approximately 2 times the length of the audio file.
Here is an article of the mit technology review magasine about it
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/09/1028140/ai-voice...
Thank goodness I didn't use this site back in the day... I sure as hell would have been freaked out by it suddenly knowing my first name
Do not taunt the happy fun laptop.
Some people argue that an even more optimal approach is to develop/harvest the cognitive and social capabilities to conceptualize (cognitive) and discuss (cognitive+social) such people in terms other than "idiot", and that in doing so it may become apparent (fleetingly at first, more constant with practice) that all people are ~idiots on an absolute scale.
I'll post this every time someone tries to launder Luke Smith through HN: he is a reactionary with a relatively popular YouTube channel in which he openly espouses and trades in racist talking points[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA
I was able to use it to trace causality because the code base I used it for was simple enough that given the relationships between each variable and function call I was able to construct the call graph for a particular set of inputs myself.
> we do video calls and meetings all the time. Probably an hour every day or more is spent in direct contact.

That's not all the time my friend. My usual day is 3-5 hours on conf calls, you gain 'popularity' as your time / seniority at the company rises. I get 50% of my actual work done during those meetings, while others talk in matters unrelated/distantly related to my work.

Video all the time? No, thank you. Our top 10 bank in the world is managing just fine without a single video call since forever. You get used to it very quickly, and the freedom it gives you is magical.
https://www.kevinstock.io/health/vitamins-and-minerals-plant...

There are links to various studies in the article.
The problem is all-encompassing selfishness. I remember (being gen X), that they said that about my generation, but I've never seen anything like what I see now.

Pretending to act on someone's behalf while belittling them (a recent case being changing Lantio/Latina to latinX because virtue signalling), all the lies everywhere (look at this perfect sponsored life I live).

My city now sports nothing but black flags and stickers, or thin blue line flags. BLM were bullied from showing support publicly.

People would rather complain than help the homeless.

Home owners will screw over the rest of society to protect their 'investment'.

Businesses treat their employees worse than ever while paying them the lowest ever.

The rich oay nothing in taxes.

The list goes on and on.

The Internet isn't making people crazy.

People have been fucking crazy this just lets them have the aforementioned megaphone.

The solution at this point is starting over.
> Imagine if you had money to invest back then, throw it into Apple and let it ride.

In 2005, AAPL was (split-adjusted?) in the $1-2 range. In 2006 it peaked at $2.60 and went down to $1.60 (split-adjust) before recovering:

* https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/stock-p...

Plenty of people had money to invest, but to think that Apple would become as huge as it is now would be quite the act of faith in its vision IMHO. Especially since this was just a few years after the Dot-com bubble (AMZN being down 90% off its high at one point).

It's very hard to predict the future:

> When asked whether Domino’s Pizza or Google had a higher return for investors since their 2004 IPOs, most people would likely say the tech giant with the world’s most visited website.

> But Domino’s, including its dividends, would have netted you a higher return.

> If you had invested $1,000 in Domino’s when it went public on July 13, 2004, that investment would be worth more than $56,000 as of last Thursday, according to CNBC calculations. Its share price on Tuesday was hovering around $374.

> As for Google, a $1,000 investment made at IPO, on Aug. 19, 2004, would be worth more than $35,000 as of last Thursday. Its current share price was hovering around $1,426.

[…]

> Following this brand revamp [in 2009], Domino’s saw its stock gain more than 2,000% from 2010 to 2017. It also outperformed big-name companies during that period, including Amazon, Apple and Netflix.

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/dominos-stock-yields-higher-...

Not sure how things where things have gone, post-pandemic, since the article was published.
You cut off the critical part of the parent's comment: "(or well, with such a low chance it may as well be)".

If you're objecting to the idea that well-accepted scientific theories can't put a "very low probability" on certain things being observed ... what? That's exactly what a scientific theory -- or indeed, any well-posed belief -- should do!
William Shatner's Going to Space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Ship
Given they are talking about sailing-off, I'd venture they mean the island west of the isle-on-which-England-resides.
No, it is not. They clearly tell you this when you switch to Icognito mode.
> One of the major reasons I hold the medical and bio community is such low esteem - they don't know what they don't know yet act as if they do.

On one hand, this is due to poor science journalism. The media loves nutritional research because telling people what they are doing wrong generates clicks. It is very easy to sensationalize. "A small correlation between celery and colon cancer in a specific population from a specific region" (or whatever) in a scientific paper becomes "Celery slowly killing you, Harvard researchers prove".

One the other hand, this is how science works. We do experiments, get the results of those experiments, and try to make the best use of the data we have. Usually, the truth is much more complicated, but there are always bigger and more complicated experiments which need to be done to understand this more complicated truth. This happens all the time in all fields of science, but isn't as visible to the broader public because most research isn't all that relevant or interesting to non-scientists.

It is REALLY hard to design good (ethical) experiments in nutrition. The scientific consensus now is very different than what it will be in 10 years, because we will have more data and higher quality data. This will allow researchers to continue to incorporate more complexities and nonlinear effects. So you're right in that "linear thinking" is not ideal, but a linear model is better than no model.
Next in line is Microsoft because the transparency effects in the upcoming Windows 11 do not actually make computer screens transparent as one might expect from windows.

The focus seems to be the idea that Google knew about misconceptions and did not adequately address them, even with the prominent disclaimer. It seems like an arbitrary focus because there are so many other ways users misunderstand computers. I would think that EULAs would be a better target. Legislation requiring simpler summaries along the lines of Creative Commons licences would go a long way toward better informed users.
Countries are already (mostly mandatory) subscription based
I always took it to mean that the people are spread out rather than co-located.
I disagree that forced interoperability will somehow make they emergence of "winner-take-all"-style tech giants less likely, and I think the last ~25 year history of the Internet proves that.

I mean, in the late 90s everyone was talking about how the Internet would "democratize information", because anyone could become a content publisher from their garage. The story then was about how "the power" was concentrated in huge media companies, and the Internet would change that.

But when the barrier to entry is tiny, and indeed the barrier to switching is so low, it means that any competitor that is even just a tad better than the other guys will vacuum up all the business. It's indeed actually this more open framework that leads to higher concentrations of wealth and power, not the other way around.
Some will quit (or, technically, be fired for failing to comply with job requirements)

But the numbers suggest that most of the people who threaten to quit when surveyed don’t actually quit when they’re forced to choose: https://theconversation.com/half-of-unvaccinated-workers-say...

The remainder of hospital workers who refuse to vaccinate against a highly contagious disease that is particularly deadly to vulnerable patients (such as hospitalized patients) are clearly unqualified to be working with vulnerable patients anyway.

The headlines are trying to make this sound like a catastrophic wave of employee losses, but in practice it’s barely a blip on the radar.
I used to think like that, but org files can be exported to pretty much anything (including markdown). I write my blog posts[0] in org then export them in markdown just fine. I use Vim (well, Neovim) solely for coding.

0: rmpr.xyz
Interesting...seems a fork of kopano for some things
https://marijuanapy.com/kopano-vs-grammm-dispute-over-open-s...

They then use upstream of jitsi onlyoffice and piler for video chat files and archiving.
Yes seeing millionaires go up in space doesn't help to get normal people motivated to change their habits.
How Did I Prevent a DDoS Attack?
Most doctors are also quite a bit behind on the science around cholesterol. Most of them still just measure HDL and LDL and consider LDL to be "bad". There is some hope however. Some doctors are starting to do lipid panels on the LDL to get a spectrum analysis of small dense particles to large buoyant particles. There is light at the end of the tunnel, at least for the doctors that are not being coerced into pushing statins.
In my opinion regulation should be implemented to explicitly forbid using someone's willingness to pay to raise prices but that's besides the point here - my point is that until Facebook offers a paid version at a reasonable price (and I think current average revenue per user would be reasonable) it would be misleading to say that people have chosen and prefer free with ads/spying over paid when the paid option simply doesn't exist.
Math Is Personal
A previous boss was like this. Couldn’t avail himself for any of the status updates when I tried to-dutifully-keep him informed on project status, but would then show up to my team planning meetings, be confused, or get upset when he found out we were either not where he expect us to be in terms of progress, or that a minor decision was made among the group that he wasn’t roped in on (but doesn’t require senior management approval or consent)

Meanwhile in my “Sent” (aka “CYA”) folder…you can guess where this is going.
Lighting tricks that will make small rooms feel gigantic
There have been various in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154, first one in 2011 I believe. There are a few more not mentioned there, such as https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk and https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/01213036b58e510dc074

I personally don't care as one can use flatpak portals nowadays (qt makes it really easy for non-flatpak applications to use, but I haven't seen how I can do it in non-flatpak gtk applications).
I have a Honda that seems to have solved all those problems. It doesn't really "take time" to measure velocity, at least in the context of moving objects with inertia and human reaction time.

There is a way to deal with emergency braking that could be considered obvious and yet ingenious, if you have radar or something that can identify solid objects.

Instinctively, you'd think these systems are complicated, and impossible to guaranteed correct behavior with.

But you might set the threshold so that braking triggers slightly after avoiding an accident is physically impossible given the required acceleration vector. That basically guarantees that you can't make things worse.
What is the difference with LiveView?
I find it remarkable and astounding that someone was able to spend multiple tweets explaining what the author “accomplished”.

Really, scarily, stunningly? When words are used this way they lose their meanings.

And the comparison to Mozart? My God. How insulting to the compsoser.

Clearly, this guy hasn’t seen much.
Some people with non-technical backgrounds probably did make this assumption. Whether it's reasonable is, I suppose, debatable.
by that def, developers shouldn't need to know Kubernetes as well..

however, with the raise of devops culture, everyone should know the stack so they can use the platform effectively. everyone needs to up skill.
Respectfully, I think you missed the point.

The village is full of "idiots", but they're people who suffered serious head injuries, people who have been mercilessly exploited from birth, people who have trauma and no possible outlet other than the internet.

And a lot of the rest of the village is full of people who are "alright Jack", people who think the "idiots" deserve their fate, people who need someone with a hammer to remind them of empathy. Wink.
That Google is tracking everything you do on the browser is the problem here, not incognito.
This article is suspect to me. Only 3 references, none of which are actually studying depression and diet.

If this was true, wouldn't we see depression in communities with lower cholesterol, Communities like the Seventh Day Adventists, many of which are vegetarian or vegan?

Personal opinion, articles of this quality are to keep the public confused on diet and maintain the status quo. The food industry is a giant money machine. It can't survive if you're eating boring old unprocessed plants for the majority of your diet.

Here's a more reputable meta study on the subject of diet and depression. It's long so skip to the conclusion if you want the unsurprising results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084175/
> convincing someone with disaffected sentiments to "take action"

It's good that the FBI got to them before someone with 'legit' bombs did.
Why is China building as we speak 184 coal plants than?

https://www.canadianenergycentre.ca/commentary-china-is-buil...
I would be okay with a modest battery pack with 250km to 300km of range in a Miata or Lotus in exchange for some lightness.

I can’t remember the last time I drove more than 200km in a single trip in my Miata, and it’s my daily driver.
I created Larynx (https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx) to address shortcomings I saw in Linux speech synthesis:

* Licensing (MIT)

* Quality (judge for yourself: https://rhasspy.github.io/larynx/)

* Speed (faster than real-time on amd64/aarch64)

* Voices/language support (9 languages, 50 voices)

I'm working now on integrating Larynx with speech-dispatcher/Orca. The next version of Larynx will also support a subset of SSML :)
Same here - My UDM Pro is over 90 days uptime, and that last reboot was only because I did an upgrade. I have heard of some people having problems, but mine has been flawless so far.
In those cases, someone claimed a idea as his work, when initially he opposed it.
And this was gramms response
https://grommunio.com/news/statement-grommunio-to-kopano/
Whoops, I remembered wrong. Isn't there some neurotransmitter that is made from cholesterol?
How did this work when swapping horses of different fitness? Did people have to negotiate the price differential every time? I can see how it would work for a network like the pony express, but harder to imagine for individuals.
'Hi @idk, we have a few issues on our end that are causing a delay for some add-ons to be signed or released right now. We’re still trying to work through the backlog (and we understand that some developers have been waiting quite awhile for a review) but it still may take some time to get to everyone.'

Mozilla's response. Interesting
Given that there is a fixed set of Alphabets, I would rather use Counters. It avoids for loops (the biggest source of non-efficiency in python) and is imho is much more idiomatic.
>The solution at this point is starting over.

If you don't like what the mirror shows you, breaking the mirror or replacing it won't solve the problem.
> Nuclear contamination can be cleaned. The majority of the Fukushima exclusion zone has been cleaned and reopened. There's no motivation to do this in Chernobyl because the town of Chernobyl only existed to support the nuclear power plant.

And somewhat oddly he Chernobyl Exclusion Zone literally shows that nuclear accidents are good for the environment, as human activity turns out to be way worse for wildlife than elevated radiations.
???

I still have “when I was 9” up top. You mean on my reply? You are right, I did say 9.

I just tried to be clear and concise. Sorry if it’s causing grief. Was not my intention!
Reminds me of this comment on here a few years back:

This is interesting. I'm starting to make a computer security course right now and I've chosen to put it on pornhub. The monetization options are better for creators (I can sell videos!). Obviously, pornhub is going to restrict the audience a bit, so I've been toying with the idea of making a video hosting site with solid monetization options and categories of ads beyond porn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473159
> No, not really. On those other platforms you would link against the toolkit.

This is factually incorrect. On Win32, window borders are drawn out-of-process by the OS. You do need to link to CreateWindow in user32, but that’s only vaguely a “UI toolkit” as CreateWindow is closer to a syscall than a library function.

macOS internals are harder for me to ascertain, but it seems similar in how responsibility is split between OS and application.

Besides that, GTK is not the canonical toolkit of Linux or Wayland. So this is not a reasonable option even if it would be on another system.

> Every time I used a tiling WM, almost every single app looked and acted wildly out of place. A tiling WM is simply not an application platform. I've honestly found that tiling WMs are only good for arranging terminal windows, they make most other GUI applications behave badly.

They make GTK apps behave badly, but most Qt stuff works pretty reasonably.

Anyways, if you dislike tiling WMs that’s fine, but I don’t and I want my apps to act decently, like apps designed to work with tiling WMs tend to work (which is not a huge ask at all, considering they don’t ask for much other than accurate window hints and no custom borders.)

> No, this isn't true, you may be confused as to what xdg-decoration actually is. If you don't implement xdg-decoration and you use libdecor then the behavior is the same as if xdg-decoration turns off the decorations, libdecor will draw its own.

That’s not a good solution. That just means my app will look like crap if the compositor doesn’t support xdg-decoration.

> So it doesn't really matter if either of us view it as a feature or bug. From the perspective of the window manager, decorations are still an optional thing just as they were in X11.

The difference is not whether or not window borders are optional. The difference is whether the app or the compositor handles window borders. And for that, this opinion is literally the crux of the issue.
Genome-Edited Tomato Goes on Shelves in Japan
That's because the parent comment's rule was incomplete. The correct rule would be: lid closed, with no external displays or external power connected.
Wonder how many people are still working on Firefox at Mozilla. Seems to me the users voted for Chrome and soon there won't be a Firefox to talk of.

Users are stupid, can't fix that.
How well supported is lldb (1) from within GNU Emacs on macOS?
For sure. This bald assertion in the post blew me away: "Working in a distributed team means working asynchronously."

This is just false. You and I live other approaches every day. I believe his way of working is fine for him, and he's welcome to it. But that doesn't justify sweeping dismissal of everybody else's experience.
Automotive EE here, more than 1/2 the electronics in a Ferrari are available in the Fiat base line. The 500 specially typically shares the same body, radio frequency hub, and engine controller is the same in the McClaren 570 (unrelated but personally interesting), and almost certainly somewhere in the Ferrari line, it’s a common part, software is different obviously. It goes on from there, window motors, steering angle sensor, airbag hardware, the electronic pedal is from the bla bla bla.

Last I saw one of the Ferrari “Touring” models was hotter, nicer Maserati Levante for like $300,000 more.

Basically the only things unique to supercars, past the body and chassis are the bad parts. The parts the drain the battery constantly and require you to store it with a trickle charger attached. Or have a rep fly out to unlock the battery panel because it refuses to open when completely dead (personal experience with a LaFerrari).

Supercars, are not cars. If you have any experience with them you know what this means. The engineering that goes into a RAV4 is a lot more in hours and dollars.

So this topic is a bit silly to me, they’re extremely niche machines. I wouldn’t classify them as transportation even if they fit all the checkboxes.
The Punisher is not a good mindset for cops to follow. It's vigilantism of the worst kind.

He works as a comic book character, a character with deep flaws. But the Punisher is not a figure to look up to at all.
Indeed not. We've been putting engines mid-bay since at least the 60s. If you want to compare this Tesla or the Taycan fairly, you have to compare it to a mid-engined car. Like the Corvette C8 (The C7 vette's record's better than either EV anyway, but I digress)

Low center of gravity is good, but no one would add dead weight just to lower the CoM. Stiffen up the springs and the lighter car is ahead by a lot.

[EDIT] Also, we've had boxer engines in race cars since at least the 40s.
> It's primarily a testament to how simply mind bogglingly slow Python is outside of its optimised numerical science ecosystem.

CPython's slowness doesn't boggle my mind at all. It's a bytecode interpreter for an incredibly dynamic language that states simplicity of implementation as a goal. I would say performance is actually pretty impressive considering all that. What _does_ boggle my mind is the performance of cutting-edge optimizing compilers like LLVM and V8!

At least there is a benefit to a simple implementation: Someone like me can dive into CPython's source and find out how things work.