skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, see, people don't work that way. If you say that the risk of dying from Covid is 1%, and the risk from the vaccine is 0.001%, (at least some) people can look at those numbers and figure out what's reasonable to do. But if you say that the risk from Covid is 1% and the vaccine is "safe", then people think you mean the risk from the vaccine is 0, and they say, "You're lying; my cousin's co-worker's nephew got sick from it", and they will refuse to take it.

Be honest about the risk of the vaccine. It's less, but it's not zero. Tell people that - all of that. Neither BSing them nor trying to force them has worked; try telling them the truth. Officially, consistently, tell them all of the truth - the risk as well as the safety.

[Edit: Of course, telling them the truth may not actually work either... at least, not if you define "work" as "they get the vaccine". But even so, at least they had the information to make a real choice.]
> Needing a PhD in category theory to produce a side effect will no doubt make some other paradigm seem appealing in the future.

I think it’s only really Haskell (and perhaps languages like Idris) that’s super strict on side effects.

In Rust it’s a simple mut annotation, and perhaps a mutex (and you’ll want that in C too of course) if you’re working across threads.
Natural gas costs don't include the external costs like climate change, so it looks better than it is.
We have to stop using fossil fuel soon to prevent really catastrophic changes, so then other sources are needed.
>no disrespect but i know plenty of liberals who will not get the vaccine

No disrespect, just statistics [1].

Democrat:Republican ratio among is about 3:5 among the unvaccinated (and about 2:1 among the vaccinated).

>you make them a slave to your narrative, and if they become slaves, they will push to make you a slave as well by whatever means necessary

With all due respect, the example you gave of that is the behavior of the Republican party (abortion bans in Texas). I can provide many more examples from that side, and it seems to be disproportionately popular with people who support that party.

I don't see this happening with non-Republican supporters.

I also have an issue with "you make them a slave to your narrative". The enslaving effect of abortion bans is easily understood; but in which way was Texas "enslaved" by anything Biden's administration did to do that?

It really seems like you're drawing a false equivalence here, because as far as I can see, it's less eye-for-an-eye and more one of the parties going wild with poking eyes out, and getting hurt and offended by the "narrative" of anyone wearing glasses.

[1]https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-co...
exactly.. the 'only' billion dollar mistake in JS in regards to null is that typeof null === 'object' => true
Executive orders only allow decisions within the scope of existing laws. So you can move enforcement resources around to prioritize certain things, direct the military to hit different targets, etc. But the executive branch can't just stand up a new daycare program. In plenty of other countries, a change in party control leads to wild changes. Not in the USA.

And whether the legislative branch is theatrical and the judicial branch partisan has nothing to do with the separation of powers. Ok, so they may not work all that well. They are still constrained significantly by each other.
Here is the clickable link: https://htmlplanetforkids.com
Surprised nobody has yet mentioned the book/movie "Contact" here.
I had to look up when did the Japanese monarchy lost its own military capacity - it was the aftermath of Jōkyū Disturbance(1221). Kamakura shogunate defeated force of a retired emperor and began disarming the Kyoto royal court(government). Since then, and through Meiji Restoration(1867) that transferred shogunate control back to Kyoto then to Meiji Government in Tokyo City, the pre-modern formal government in Kyoto remained a puppet of military shogunates and later democratic governments.

"The emperor of Japan ruled over a number of subordinate" is technically correct but it's mere matter of formality, or it could be said that formality had been their point of existence for along time. They've been out of the game for long time, not even around invention of gunpowder, but around the emergence of curved Japanese swords.
Three cheers to the special relationship -- specifically as it extends to nuclear fusion!
The reality still is, if you don’t carefully specify the kind of masks people are supposed to use (or even specify they have to use non-medical masks!) the effect, if any, is so small it isn’t measurable.

It’s just such a great virtue signal that people keep clinging to it.
Prominent Democrats also cast doubt on vaccine safety. The governor of California essentially stated that he didn't trust the FDA and insisted on doing another safety review before authorizing vaccines for use in the state. This was inexcusable political behavior on both sides.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-califo...
It's even funnier how fast you got downvoted.

The nuclear band wagon is strong here.
This.

The one major stumbling block not mentioned in the article is accessibility. OffscreenCanvas offers nothing to solving that problem.

Also, I don't understand people who complain that 2d canvas is slow; it isn't. What slows things down is poor planning and execution of the animation. For instance - does the entire Mandlebrot Set need to be calculated on every RequestAnimationFrame iteration? If I was tackling the problem I'd only calculate the data when one of the significant parameters changed - in a worker farm, wasm, whatever - and only update the display canvas when the results emerged.

My canvas library[1] relies heavily in normal canvases not attached to the DOM. Not only does it speed things up massively, it also allows the library to do things like make the canvas responsive[2].

[1] - Scrawl-canvas - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - CodePen demo of a responsive canvas - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/jOmWwWy
Censorship exists, but that is not at all the same thing as forcing people to have a certain opinion.

This Harvard paper explains that, instead, censorship's role is to silence movements. Pro-government posts are censored when they have the potential to go viral. Anti-government posts that don't go viral, aren't censored. "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression" https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...

Furthermore, censorship exists simultaneously with government responsiveness. That is, they actively monitor social media for grievances and they actively address these grievances (as in actually addressing, not arresting people for arresting). Nowadays social media is one of the major channels for government feedback. New law proposals are regularly formed based on mass complaints on social media (which may or may not also end up getting censored). This is a relatively new thing, developed in the past 15 years or so.

Punishments are not that common. You'd have to reach Julian Assange level for that to happen. Censoring without any further consequences is the norm.
The risk is different. For coal, more or less everybody gets a few years off of their life expectancy, some a bit more who live closer to a plant, but roughly speaking, it's something everybody suffers from. With nuclear, those who live closer to a plant risk much more devastating damage in case something goes wrong. If you normalize both then nuclear comes out much safer, but that's not how humans work. I live 60km from a very old reactor that is 20 years past its designed runtime, has several shutdowns a year, had a few leaks "that didn't pose any danger to people". We just gonna keep it running because nothing bad happened yet, until something bad happens. Capitalism at work.

But indeed the waste storage is by far the greatest problem. Not for us luckily, we get some cheap electricity and coming generations can deal with the waste we shoved in some hole. Expecting that the way we store the waste is safe for thousands of years is naive. Germany hasn't found a final destination and is just shipping that stuff around. Someone thought it was a good idea to store it near east Germany, until east Germany was no more and suddenly it was in the middle of the country in an unsuited location. Someone thought it was a good idea to store it in a salt mine, until the containers started corroding from salt water. But that was back when humans were still stupid and didn't know salt water corrodes things. Luckily we reached end of history now and do everything right. I'm positive the next location will not be picked by political motives.
The same former President who kicked off Operation Warp Speed to develop and distribute the vaccines? https://www.businessinsider.com/operation-warp-speed-us-coro...

The same former President who said he's "proud" to be vaccinated and wishes more people would get vaccinated? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-pushes-...

The reason the US is not cohesive is precisely because of people like you.
Fortunately we don’t need many storage places. Nuclear waste is very compact.
Ah yes, random people claiming they have credentials in YouTube videos. The most rigorous of sources
The standard reference, if there is one, is Benjamin Pierce's "Types and Programming Languages" book.
Only the US has access to Yucca Mountain; my country doesn't. Not sure how Yucca Mountain is relevant for the all other non-US, non-Finnish countries talked about by GGP.
The CRTP Interface Technique
The lane by lane is more harm than help IMHO.

You often get an instruction like "use the left 2 lanes". But where you are when the instruction is given, the leftmost lane might be a forced early left turn. If you're unfamiliar with the location, this requires a lot of extra cognitive load, vs simply not giving that specificity at all.

As well, traffic conditions change rapidly and the lane by lane doesn't account for that.

In some easier situations, it's great, but it's a negative in more complex situations.
This is not true.. 1 billion an hour is 8.76 trillion a year yet you say "billions" an hour which would make it at least 17.52 trillion a year which is basically the entire GDP of the us.

Certainly oil companies are subsidized but not "to the tune of" the entire US GDP.
How far are we from a phone that: ships fully formed - no flashing and stuff, has reliable supply chain and production, is open source only, usable on a daily basis (stable, normal battery life, all basic apps, easy upgrades) and ideally repairable / recyclable as much as possible?

I would leave "high-end" specs and price constraints out of scope to make this a reality sooner than later.

There are several contenders and combos /e/, lineageOS, pinephone, fairphone etc and I wish them all godspeed (also other small efforts out there I am not aware of), but its not clear which one is ready for just the simple, honest, society and environment friendly mobile computing that we should have had all along and it is really a crime that we don't.
Yeah I feel the end of life has not yet been factored in the price (ie the cost of dismantling the reactor or maintaining it alive forever). It would be very aligned with the general philosophy of nuclear ^^ (ie "the next generations will either figure it out or pay the price")
Because he's American. By and large, they love cars.
This is the way to go. Many will also have private offices that provide the perfect balance between quiet space and socializing opportunities.
Fair, I should have been more clear when I said "interpreter" what I really meant is "the chrome debugger" which is one of JS/Node's absolute killer features. I believe support there is on it's way, though I very much doubt it'll convince me of TS' value.

I used to be much more bullish on TS, I like the idea of strong typing in general but the more I use TS the more I feel like it's just the worst of both worlds. I much prefer my types to be deeply embedded in the language design, types as varnish don't make sense to me anymore.
I wonder how the cost of nuclear stacks up against the cost of fossil fuels when you don't cook the books (externalize the costs of pollution)?
Doing Business in Canada
I find the Pixel experience to be superior. But I took each of the areas where Pixel is better, item by item, and scored their value, and came out with a score recommending I keep the iPhone: https://www.arencambre.com/iphones-are-inferior-to-android-p...

Context: I made that right after I got an iPhone 12 Pro Max. It was running iOS 14. iOS 15 may bias the score towards Apple even more with the current phone, and iPhone 13 biases it a bit more.

I still like Android better.
That's not how homeostasis works.
Source please. I know a number of PHDs, and they were all early in line to get vaccines. I have not seen numbers for PHDs (only MDs), but I would be willing to wager that the vaccine rates for PHDs have been high the whole time. Certainly not without notable exceptions, but you get kooks in every group.
I did expect this to be about them reacting to climate change and other human factors, as there's been many stories like this recently. But I suppose a couple million years is a blink of the eye for a family this ancient.
The usual method is to increase the voltage, rather than the wire gauge. That's why we have 1.1 million volt transmission wires.
Just look at data of percentage of people vaccinated in the western world where supply is actually available for anyone to take the vaccine right now. The US is last.

There is something specific to the US here.
>Germany is firing up coal plants

They've been steadily reducing the % of coal in their electricity usage:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...

The last coal fired plant has already been built and the last one will be switched off in 2038.
> I had to heavily impose a set of best practice guidelines.

I'm curious, why calling them "best practices" in this case rather than just guidelines? Or conventions?
From 2017.
My tin-foil brain thinks this is by design. But not "tell the call center folks to lie," conspiracy design.

More like: Find the cheapest call center that is already leveraged really thin with clients. Then get someone in dev who is overworked and not used to writing outside docs to write the scripts/workflows. Of course, give that person an unreasonably short schedule to finish because they have "better things to do."

Finally, fingers-crossed nothing blows up... monkey-patch when it inevitably does. Repeat with each new feature rollout...

It seems like the steady-state for this is customers realizing the call-center folks don't have any real info and stop calling.
People were dying from self-administered HCQ as a supposed prophylactic because politicians seeking to downplay the severity of COVID were contradicting their health officials and insisting that it would work miracles and should be available outside hospitals long before that reprehensible fake "study" came out. And yes, they were ridiculed for it by certain sections of the media, and rightly so.
That "study" certainly made things worse, but it was far from the only source of doubt on hydrochloroquine hype, and a study published in May can't be blamed for a pattern which started in March.
They won't be included in the App Store's search, just on whatever store they're shipped on. And search is tough even on a single app store.
Whether or not capitalism can be classified as oligarchic or democratic, I would argue that capitalism has pervaded the world and is a stronger force at this point than any political system, ruler, or ideology. Redefining terms when it is convenient, without even providing a definition, I might add does not negate the fact that when many contribute that system can be classified as participatory rather then exclusive.
This is a pretty privileged viewpoint imo.

This one small thing lost the public's trust?

Not the fact that cops used to pull me over for no reason because I lived in a poor neighborhood? Not the fact that my family member's lives were ruined because of tiny drug-related infractions? Not the fact that we went on a pointless 20+ year war for no reason (just the one within my lifetime)? Really. Wearing a mask is the breaking point here?

How easy are people's lives? They have everything going for them except they have to wear a mask so THEN they lose faith in the system.

Fucking spare me.
On the other hand, nuclear is far, far safer than almost every other kind of energy source. If we allowed nuclear to be as unsafe as coal, how much cheaper might it be?
It doesn't have to be rational. Vaccines mandates are already common for school children, nurses, (and maybe teachers, but I'm not sure about that one)

The rage over masks (and things like "CRT") is being intentionally stoked to win elections. The plan is to make it an us vs them issue. Again, it's intentional and cynical.

If you stoke rage about mask wearing (and vaccines) you can position yourself as also being a valiant anti-mask/anti-vax candidate and win elections on this issue.
Lambdas can be dirt cheap if you use them well. But that's always what happens. I recently saw a report about contractor who used them for crawling websites. Their client saw a surprise $12k bill for Lambda, when a simple Scrapy crawler on a low-end instance would have cost them < $100/month for the same load.

Why? Because if you spin up a ton of Lambda invocations and have them sit around waiting for the network, you pay for each CPU to sit idle, rather than having just one CPU stay busy managing a bunch of async IO.
Arcing powerlines generally doesn't cause irreparable damage. Sometimes a swarm of birds will trigger a swarm. The protection circuit normally trips and it's fine.

Over a substation I could see it causing a lot more damage though.
Respectfully, I think you're demonstrating the sort of thinking the corpus of research surrounding this seeks to shine a spotlight on: blaming the victim, rather than focusing on safe and forgiving design.

Should our built environment be such that falling down in public should end your life? Do people deserve to die simply because they want to cross the street? Why do we design residential neighborhoods where parents are afraid of letting their kids play outside due to traffic? Do drivers of 4,000+ lbs of steel and glass bear greater responsibility than pedestrians and bicyclists.

In the article you mention with the woman falling into the street, the article makes no mention of street design. Further, emphasis is placed on the victim, but nothing is said of the driver.

- What is the speed limit on that road? Fast-moving vehicles will require faster reaction time and longer stopping distances. Maybe areas that mix traffic with VRUs need to be reworked.

- Did the driver appear to make any effort to stop? If so, why doesn't the article mention it if they already have video evidence? If not, did the driver not see the woman? Was the driver distracted?

- Did poor illumination contribute to this collision? (If so, that's a design element: street lighting).

> I gather that the intent is not to make the reporting more neutral or accurate, but to change the framing in a direction that vision zero finds more appealing.

I'm posting this to demonstrate my work and seek honest and meaningful criticism to improve the tool and help improve public discourse around a public safety matter that is killing 30k-40k people per year in the U.S., and injuring millions. You can avoid the underhanded and snarky quip.
See also: https://github.com/offa/android-foss#-firewall (In particular, AfWall+ for rooted device is quite powerful)
The public hasn't trusted the US government in a long time, probably since Nixon. Recent examples of lies are Iraq WMDs, Iraq involvement with 9/11, Afghanistan progress, and NSA surveillance. Follow that with persecution of whistleblowers and the government seems like it's gone rogue to many.
Agree though I don’t think it’s mutually exclusive. Trump doesn’t like the look of panic because it would make him look bad. Or make the stock market tank, or whatever. I don’t for a second think that his desire to avoid panic was because that would be better for the country (I honestly don’t even think it occurred to him that that would be a valid excuse for downplaying).
Yes, we also need "only one", except in my country it's basically impossible to go a few kilometers from any spot without hitting a settlement (and if you can do that, your point of origin was probably inside a protected national park). That's probably why we still don't have a storage place despite even having reasonable (even if not perfect) geology for it.
The NIF is a facility for conducting experiments. The goal for the field is fusion power, and these experiments may wind up contributing toward it, but it will never be anything more than a stepping stone. The primary purpose of the NIF is validating computer models for simulating nuclear reactions. These models are used both for the design of nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. They also develop technologies to support their activities, such as new sensors and laser control methods. Compare this program to say a mars rover where we don't expect the rover itself to do anything of great practical utility, but the lessons learned along the way have many potential applications both directly for future missions, and indirectly for spinoff technologies.
Azure Functions, in my opinion, should mostly be used in cases when you want to do some work over some time every now and then. It will also probably be cheaper to use something else in your case. In later versions of AF you can use a real Startup file to mitigate some life cycle related issues.
> which is less variable, and more reliable.

I am reading the opposite, in studies on Delta variant, or those whose last shot was more than 6 months prior....some studies suggesting decreases below natural.
What stops you from using the "even tinier piece pellet of hydrogen"[sic] from initiating fusion in a slightly less tiny pellet of hydrogen that it's sitting on top of, which initiates fusion in a slightly less tiny pellet of hydrogen, and so on? Aside from concern for your own survival, of course.

Maybe if you can't fathom the precision required to irradiate the NIF hohlraum sufficiently isotropically to achieve ignition in the first place, you shouldn't be trying to answer this question.
What she said, she will trust doctors or scientists over trump.

I have antivaxxers in my family, and it is the reverse, they trust trump over scientists and doctors. And when given argument, that trump himself said to take vaccine and that he took it himself, their response is that it was a placebo and this was step just to appeal to moderates, heh...
People reading the news aren't the only people who use traffic crash reports. They are also used (and can subtly influence) the people who make decisions about road planning. The culture we have of blaming pedestrians/cyclists and exonerating drivers (when, to be clear, the drivers are the ones creating the danger) leads directly to planning decisions that perpetuate road conditions that would be unconscionably dangerous in any other engineering field.
The hyperbole isn't needed.

Billions of dollars an hour is 17 Trillion dollars a year.

They're not being subsidized by that much
If we take a game console or PC running at 250 watts (made up number), 4 hours is already a kilowatt-hour. Kilowatt-hours sounds like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not.
Representative democracy helps in this regard.