skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ctrl + c is accepted, it means "interrupt the current operation", like it does if you are in bash.

If there's no current operation, Python has no way of knowing for sure if you intended to exit, or if you intended to interrupt an operation, but the operation finished before you pressed the key combo.

Python's behavior here is good UX. A key combo that does two different things depending on the current state of the program, and the program's state is changing right in front of you... that would suck.
If I read https://berniesanders.com/issues/ all points except immigration and the green new deal would be considered quite right wing points in denmark, not just a little bit to the right of center.
I’d like phone number input boxes to handle the country id in a sensible way instead of accepting the input as the wrong number.
On which OS and compared to what? The OS’s native framework? I can believe that.
But eg. on Linux, it is a native framework looking perfectly fine. And on Windows, their own native apps can look out of place in the intermix of 3 generations of “native” frameworks.
Lol yes only radioactive for 1000 years is a “solved problem”. Clown
> Software engineers should do anything that requires them to keep their written communication skills sharp.

In my opinion, code is nicest when it is written communication. When it is almost the same as teaching someone about a problem domain.
Recruitment Simplified
That may have been the case in 2011 when that article was written, but I have just tested this now and my facebook does not accept my password with the case reversed by having the caps lock key on.
Citymapper has great public transport navigation in many areas including Prague.

Apple Maps is becoming better every day, especially for navigation, the place where it lacks is the poi database.

OpenStreetMaps also has a large poi database.

Even though it isn’t as feature filled as the database used by Google Maps, at least you can be sure your app isn’t hiding a restaurant because they didn’t pay for an ad. Which is what happens if you use Google Maps.
They've always been a bunch of liars. No surprise they'd have fake accounts.
Storytelling – Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
And yet again, Wikipedia fails. And Wales wants Facebook to adopt its volunteer admin/editor paradigm. The amount of bad faith bullies on that platform is ridiculous. One in particular is BrownHairedGirl, who single single-handedly managed to remove about half of the active Australian contributors from the site.
>only France has really closed the fuel cycle

No. Fuel reprocessing close to the France's technological level is also performed routinely in Russia and Japan. And "closed fuel cycle" usually means using uranium-238 for energy generation at the level of not needing to mine new uranium and instead being able to use existing dumps of depleted uranium.

The closest country to properly closing fuel cycle is Russia with its BN [0] and BREST [1] reactors. But the biggest problem is economic feasibility. Cost of uranium is relatively low and ocean extraction puts relatively low cap on it. Unfortunately the ability to "burn" waste has low economic appeal in the economic system which hardly can think several decades ahead.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)
Even cofounder position cannot guarantee successful exit.
It is all about the small font things in contracts, understanding of the reality of the situation and not taking anything at face value.

It is not impossible outside the "luck factor", but in this point in time things are refined and well executed and this "get lucky" is usually propagandist in his nature.

I am on different spectrum. I live in 'qualified personal' territory. Everything that I fight for is measured in Hourly Wage.
Nothing more, nothing less.
That makes sense if you are making a contact book or social profile. I was focusing on the case where I want the number as contact information. I want to validate up front that it is a number that I can actually call and don't really care about how the user wants to format it.
In Python, it is expected that typing an identifier will not cause an action to happen... so this is consistent with that expectation.
Moved to Germany from the UK.

In practical terms, Germany is so far ahead it's not comparable. The quality of life here is better making minimum wage here than it is if you're on a decent wage in the UK. A lot of the difference is housing - in the UK, you're usually paying a lot of money to live in a shithole. Also, as other commentators have noted, everything is falling apart in the UK, so even if you have money, you can look forward to taking trains that break all the time, driving on roads that have holes in them, etc.

In mainstream cultural terms, a lot of germans don't like foreigners, and are pretty rude if they pick up that you're not german, although a lot of that is modulated by where you're from. That extends to germans who work for the state - the auslanderbehoerde is pretty famous for being generally miserable to deal with. The state's basic policy is 'assimilation', so you're basically expected to leave your culture at the door and become 'German', and the state has a pretty narrow definition of what that means (Oktoberfest, christian religious holidays, slightly dubious history etc), and depending on where you're from, you'll have to do courses on this stuff, which can be pretty depressing.

If you're black, there's a certain level of racially-motivated violence in some places, although I think the basic level of violent street crime compares favourably to the UK - it compares extremely favourably if you're white. Still, because of the aforementioned rudeness thing, friends I've had who migrated from Africa generally have a pretty bad time living here.

Culturally, in the broader sense, Germany is great. The music scene is great here, the art scene, classical music, the food and youth culture etc are all really good, and very welcoming to foreigners. You meet people with a very broad range of views and lifestyles, there are parks and galleries and playgrounds and all sorts of stuff that makes you feel like you're actually living in a 'culture' worth engaging in, not just a bunch of people decompressing after a work-week.

The thing I like most about living in Germany is it's a pretty reasonable country. If you deal with institutions, they'll generally talk to you as a rational human. If you live in a city, the city will generally maintain parks and public spaces because they'll see that as important to the community. Money is set aside for cultural life, youth recreation, sports, etc.
Flying Toasters is my macOS screensaver. There’s a company that makes a modern port (Infinisys Ltd).
You nailed it. The beer thing was just adding some local color.

drstewart's comment is a great example of what I mean by the US not being a functioning society. What you have there now is a conglomeration of individuals all with their knives out waiting for anyone around then to trip up in the most trivial way. I believe this is caused by the anxiety I mentioned already, and it in turn causes anxiety in everyone else. Everyone becomes negatively charged and thus they repel each other.
No problem, we just burn more coal then, oh wait ..
You think there would not be significant regulations around placing lots of SMRs on some central site? Apart from the fact that the whole business of SMRs is still just pie in the sky stuff so far, why would we do it if solar&wind is cheaper and less dangerous?
Renewables aren't ready to take over from fossil fuels yet as baseload power, aside from hydroelectric, which isn't able to be built everywhere and can come with its own significant environmental and social costs. The dangers of nuclear power are about on par with that of renewables, and orders of magnitude below that of fossil fuels. It's competitive cost-wise with other energy sources, with greater initial capital investment in the plants but low costs over the lifetime of a plant.

I'm not saying don't invest in renewables, renewables are great. But they're not going to be a panacea.
Reminds me of DESQView. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
From all software development I've done I know one thing - you ask for confirmation before doing something destructive, at least once. And no, installing it doesn't mean consent...
And then you see it's capitalized and change it.
I'm mildly surprised that the view rectangle in the "mini-map" in the bottom right is not draggable with the usual semantics of panning the view. Or at least if it's supposed to work that way, it doesn't in my browser.
Why use the GMail app over the built-in client?
That's a nice feature.

It got me thinking - imagine wanting to let users log in with a single character typo in their password, could you do this without storing hashes of all edit distance 1 passwords?
Only the weak are lonely. Only the weak seek power over others. No wonder CEOs are lonely. This guy needs to man up and accept that his feelings don't matter to anybody but him.
So in the land of the free you can’t use solar from your own roof because that would be communism.
It's difficult, they removed James Heilman from medical articles because he was adding verified prices to medicines. And he's a ER doc.

Edit: note a followup article to the one you posted is here:

https://www.healthitoutcomes.com/doc/was-study-of-wikipedia-...
<3 Thanks! Cool work!
This is different, there is no special case handling here for you typing "exit".

Python functions are invoked with parenthesis, while typing a name without parenthesis retrieves the content of a variable. The Python CLI helpfully sets the "exit" variable to that string so that you don't get a confusing NameError when you make this mistake.
That‘s great news. I‘m guessing big apps like Maps and Youtube will become a lot nicer while the small ones will be mediocre Flutter versions.
This looks like VTM https://vtm.netxs.online/ it can be tested online by doing ssh vtm@netxs.online
This may be a valid argument, but it's an irrelevant argument. 10-20 years ago we should have been building hundreds of nuclear plants world-wide. But we didn't and now the economics have shifted. Nuclear has gotten more expensive due to the loss of expertise and solar/wind/batteries have gotten crazy cheap.

Why build nuclear for $200/MWh after a 20 year build delay when you can get solar+batteries for $40/MWh in 6 months? (https://www.energy-storage.news/news/developer-8minute-says-...)
Taxing something vs not taxing it (while shareholders still receive a benefit) is a pretty large difference.
Using Ctrl + D to exit a shell and Ctrl + C to interrupt/break off the current line is a rather strong convention. Bash does this too, and many other REPL's and shells (Ruby's irb for one).

A lot of technical folk who rely on this immediately notice when some shell doesn't do this (exiting instead of breaking of the current input line). I have this with Hbase's hbase shell. I've dropped out of that by accident dozens of times because Ctrl + C interrupts the whole shell.
This whole thread is clearly and explicitly about nuclear waste. If you want to discuss some other aspect of nuclear power you're welcome to do so, but please don't accuse people of being dishonest just because they are sticking to the subject of conversation.
> A handful of people left

They lost close to half of their engineering team, significant percentages of their operations teams, and many senior leaders.
I was briefly an intern in a company in which the only part of the password that was checked were the first four characters. I don'y know whether it was due to using PIN numbers in the past or they just wanted people to feel safe but not call IT constantly about the account not working...
I wonder whether they're still doing that...
Let's put that number in context. USD 1.5T is 2/3 (or 3/4) of the total cost US spent on their forever war in Afghanistan.[0,1]

Clearly doable for a dedicated nation, given that US lost the war, lost the 20 years, and with their botched withdrawal handed the country back to the very same political power they wanted to drive out in the first place.

In comparison, spending less than the cost of a lost war and having a guaranteed result of being able to walk into an empty territory sounds like a bargain.

0: https://theconversation.com/calculating-the-costs-of-the-afg...

1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47391821
I like this feature because I'll use ctrl+C to cancel the current line I'm writing like I would in a terminal. Psql does the same thing, but I started using mysql recently and I keep getting booted out of the app because I want to cancel the current line ):
This depends on the implementation of the keyboard, which is not something you can rely on.
"its own spent fuel is only dangerous for on the order of a thousand years (600-1200), instead of the 30,000 from current US designs", hmmm, I get it, by reducing the dangerous period of nuclear waste from 30000 year to 600~1200 years resolves the problem per the author... Hopefully there was a typo, it was really meant to be 600 days instead of 600 years, or vent it was really meant 600 months, I just cannot see how that could be deemed as a solution.
France can be tough!

Low salaries, high taxes, high prices around Paris area, heavy administration (I don’t wish anyone going to a prefecture!), hard to find information about services, hard and expensive to find apartment or relocate, congested public transport, mono-lingual static culture, hard to make friend with French, public litter and lack of cleanliness, periodic strikes, small apartments (in EU in general), complexity of system, no-skin-in-the-game nature of public system produces a lot of dysfunction everywhere, etc.

I for one gave up!
It is indeed [0], but there's about 14% of the browser world who can't benefit from it yet [1].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

[1] https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_htmlelement_autocapitalize
Back of the napkin calculation says that if theoretically the US diverted 2 years of its military budget to nuclear power plants it could make enough modern nuclear power plants to get 70% of its needed power from those nuclear plants.
But it seems to that maintaining 800 bases around the world and dropping bombs far away is less expensive judging by priorities where the money is spent.
So do you confirm the availability of "horror stories", as mentioned? Kindly share why you consider Austria a nightmare.

I got mixed signals from the place. While some people are extremely friendly, I also perceived quite a defensive atmosphere. Something solid on the surface but struggling below it, like a defence of daily routine - not really lively or happy. But it could also depend on the region, I guess.
> Fuel reprocessing close to the France's technological level is also performed routinely in Russia and Japan.

...at a rate much smaller than what France is doing. Maybe that's what was meant by GP's statement? (https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c... -- also notice that this page claims that Japan is yet to start its reprocessing plant, so according to that, it's not being "performed routinely in Japan" just yet.)
This is definitely a feature and not a bug. I was a little worried when we implemented this 5 years ago, but it turns out there's no real security risk here. My app was a financial app and so many people had trouble logging in on mobile that we basically had to implement this.
Most do, though, because there does tend to be a more correct position on this class of stuff.
I'm feeling like you're trolling now, but I'll bite anyway:

1. The one line you are harping on is half way down a list of things, not at the top.
2. It's obviously just a literary indulgence to add some local color
3. I've spent 2.5 years traveling rough and solo through the Global South which I hope counts for something. I'm gonna guess you consider any kind of pleasure travel to be privilege though.
If you want to use Notes and don’t want to trust Apple, you can store the notes on any IMAP server you like.

I don’t know if it is possible to store Reminders outside of iCloud, I don’t really use it.
I'm a Brit - got a grad job at SCO in 1998, then moved to Sun in 2000 when SCO imploded, then decided to emigrate when Sun started imploding in 2005. I was initially planning to move to Israel - I'm Jewish, so don't need a visa, I speak decent Hebrew, got friends and family there, and there's plenty of tech work, but I got... diverted.

16 years later, I'm still in Hong Kong, having initially come to work for a bra company owned by a distant branch of my family, in more ways than one. Since then I've worked for an IT services company, amongst other things debugging SuSE servers in the back room of 7-11 stores, freelanced for a decade or so, built a few sites and Android apps during that period, worked for an Asia-wide 'Uber for cargo' start-up, and have now been contracting at a large bank doing devops for the past year.

Hong Kong is/was a very easy place to live as a Westerner. Everything official is bilingual, it is/was a transport hub so it was very easy to get home or anywhere else - before the Covid lockdown ended that - plenty of international food, brands, and other expats, and there is/was a fairly active local tech scene. It is/was fairly easy to get a work visa for a 'professional'-level job, but I actually got a special visa which allowed me to work, freelance, have my own business, etc. without needing to be sponsored by an employer, and after 7 years you become a permanent resident which means no more visa needed. That said, moving to Hong Kong was much more of a whim than a plan - it happened to work out pretty well, overall, but it would have been easy to back out and move back to the UK/EU if things hadn't gone well.

I have vague, but slowly firming-up, plans to leave Hong Kong next year, for all the obvious reasons (feel free to ask if they're not obvious!). Unfortunately(?), my local partner is very uninterested in leaving, so it's likely I'll be travelling solo, and my unformed plan at the moment would be to spend a bit of time in UK, maybe bum around Europe for a bit to decompress, then look into Israel - again.
Why should we use nuclear power at all, when renewables already have a far lower levelized cost of energy[1]? Is there any reason why only using renewable energy sources would be impossible?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_energy
Do people a favor and remove the listing for them.
I have lived and worked in England, Scotland, in the US, Switzerland and in Germany.

USA: best opportunities for smart people to engage in big-impact work. People are too crazy about work. Depending on the city, can also be unsafe.
Switzerland: extremely high financial compensation but also high cost of living despite low taxation. People love nature but many are too materialistic.
UK: Was the most interesting country to live in up to 2016, no sadly going isolationist.
Germany: good quality of life but a bit boring apart from a few hip cities like Berlin or Cologne.

Although the weather there sucks, living in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been fantastic experience, and it tops all other places. The only disadvantage is that due to Brexit (most Scots were and are against it) it is (now) outside of the EU.

The fact that all EU citizens have complete freedom of movement is priceless (to me).
This deprecated sources list is an excellent resource. I couldn’t find a similar one on the Portuguese language site. Are there such lists for non English sources?
This is definitely not true (shrug) Attrition has more than doubled and most engineering teams are critically understaffed.
This works fine for _small_ systems. But with large data sets, where you actually want to act upon the data, it's impossible to have it stored as text.

One lazy solution would of course be to index that data into Elasticsearch (or similar solutions), but you will end up with database records that have missing or invalid indexed data at some point.

A NoSQL solution is far from perfect, but for us it was _a lot_ better than just storing it as text somewhere.
> Hydrogen is a great battery

Indeed, but the round trip efficiency is hardly exceeding 30 to 40%.
Ah. Didn't appreciate that. To be fair, it took Apple so long to implement this I've never learned to use the feature.
I went to work for an HFT largely for non-compensation reasons. I had friends I liked working there and the technical challenges were extremely interesting. I learned a ton that has been really helpful sense in my career outside of HFT. Most of the engineers I worked with had similar motivations. I actually think my time in Silicon Valley startups has had me interacting with people more interested in compensation than any of my time in trading.

(None of this matters to the larger discussion but wanted to offer you a perspective of someone who has actually made the choice you are using as an example)
Try:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/anti-vaccine-protesters-in-new-y...
> Regulating tech is a great idea (assuming the regulations are thoughtful and productive, of course),

I’m not nearly as enthusiastic for these calls to bring heavy regulation on to the tech industry.

Articles like this have a hypothetical ideal mental image of regulations that will punish only the bad guys while protecting themselves and the content they like. There’s also an implicit assumption that regulation will only apply to Facebook, without bringing negative effects on to the sites and services the tech community prefers.

This article may be well-meaning in intentions, but how would such regulation work in practice? Writing regulation that outlaws companies from forbidding customer API automation sounds good if you’re a tech user who wants to automate some clicks, but would that also mean that spammers must have free reign on the API as well? How would such a law be structured to force sites to allow consumers to use “good” tools while also allowing them to catch and stop the “bad” tools like auto-friend bots?

Some of these arguments are starting to feel like utopian fallacies where people want impossibly perfect regulations applied with the assumption that only their enemies will be affected. I’m also surprised to see authors like Cory Doctorow advocating for more government control and regulation of popular internet communication sites. Once we open that Pandora’s box of government control, it’s hard to imagine future politicians won’t be teaching for it as a way to push their agenda.
Ireland is the name of the state in the English language.

The name of the state is not the Republic of Ireland - that is the description of the state.

Additionally, we don't call Ireland Éire unless we're conversing in the Irish language.
>drstewart's comment is a great example of what I mean by the US not being a functioning society.

Talk about trolling - pretty convenient to just hand wave any criticism of your own talking points away as proof of them.

No, there's no subconscious anxiety here. I'll remind you that you brought up all the negative stereotyping and accusations, so maybe there's an imminent failure of Austrian society at play?
We don't have skeletons, we know about them and are actively addressing them. Not fast enough, or well enough IMO, but it is happening.
The alien rat pack of STEM:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

-

My favorite interaction is of von Neumann with Shannon regarding the coining of entropy:

What von Neumann Said to Shannon
When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage!

http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-s...
Not the poster but I use it because Mail didn’t support notifications. I’m not sure if that’s still true. A lot of Gmail specific features tend to work better with their app.