skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wind and solar are heavily subsidized and nuclear is, arguably, over regulated despite being statistically the safest source of energy (as measured in deaths / twh)
I hope that you'll pay him. If you don't it will be an indication of lack of clues
For fishing, a plus for quotas is they can make it safer.

The way crab fishing used to work in the Bering Sea for example is that each for each crab season the agencies that manage the fisheries would determine a total amount that the fishery could support that year, and then the fleet would go out and catch that. This was called the derby system.

As each boat caught crab it would report its catch, and when the total across all boats hit the limit the season ended and everyone had to stop fishing.

Safety took a back seed to fishing speed in this environment, because if anything slowed down fishing or made you miss some fishing time it could dramatically lower your catch.

They replaced that with a quota system. For each type of crab's season each boat gets a quota and the season runs a fixed time.

Under the quota system the boats have plenty of time to catch their quotes without having to compromise safety as much.

Under the derby system, the Alaska crab fleet was averaging a little over 7 deaths a year. After the switch to the quote system it was around 1 death every 5 or 6 years.

Big parts of this decrease can directly be attributed to the change from derby to quotas. Around 2/3 of the derby deaths were due to boats piled high with crab traps capsizing. They went out, dropped everything they had, waiting 12-24 hours, and pulled them. Empty those into the crab tanks and go lay the traps again.

Under quota, the boats aren't in such a hurry. When they lay traps they leave them down for 36-48 hours. They can lay some traps and then go pick up more and lay them before it is time to pull the first group so they don't need to go out with the boat piled to near overload with traps.

Being about to keep the traps down longer helps them in other ways, too, not safety related. The traps are designed so smaller crab that aren't big enough to legally take can escape, but that takes them time. When you pull in 12-24 hours you get a lot of small crab that haven't escaped yet, meaning more work for the crew to separate them and throw them back.

After 36-48 hours a lot more of the small crabs have left so less work for the crew. Also it is pretty traumatic for a crab to be caught and then thrown back, and many don't survive that. In the derby days this killed enough young crabs that it reduced the available harvest in future seasons. Stopping that reversed a long decline in some crab populations.
Japan is turning the nukes back on, France with the Eastern Europeans is taking on Germany's reckless move https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/11/led-by-france-10-eu-coun... . The current energy crunch is demonstrating how "renewables now, nukes of off now, batteries later" is irresponsible both environmentally and politically, I hope it's a turning point.

At the vary least, turning off the nukes is a reward one earns after the transition is demonstrated end-to-end, with the grid storage and renewables both in place.
> Is it really that common that people expect their current employer to subsidize their “skill growth”

Yes, that's common in professions.

> when they know they are just going to hop to another company in the near term?

That's a consequence of employers not willing to keep paying market rate over time. The only way to get back to that rate is to go somewhere else.

Also, most employers are expecting to hire already competent proffesionals, and invest nothing into training people in-house. So for each person that jumps ship, when they hire a replacement, they enjoy a subsidy of said replacement having secretly trained themselves on previous employers' dime.
Do banking applications work? I mean as in "I buy X online. It requires me to login to my bank application and press 'confirm'. I perform this sequence, and online purchase is completed. "?
I think if you get to this point with lambda you're probably overthinking it. I think language runtime choice is important because some choices do have a cost, but likewise, choosing lambda is a tradeoff -- you don't have to manage servers, but some of the startup and runtime operations will be hidden to you. If you're okay with the possible additional latency and don't want to manage servers, it's fine. If you do and want to eke performance, it might not be.

Larger lambdas mean a higher likelihood of concurrent access, which will result in cold starts when there is contention. Your cold starts will be slower with more code (It's not clear how much the size of your image affects start time, but it does have SOME impact).

It's best to just not worry about these kinds of optimizations -- that's what lambda is for. If you *want* to worry about optimizing, the best optimization is running a server that is actively listening.

Scope your lambda codebase in a way that makes sense. It's fine if your lambda takes multiple event types or does routing, but you're making the test surface more complex. Just like subnets, VPCs and everything else in AWS, you can scope them pretty much however you want and there's no hard fast rule saying "put more code in one" or "put less code in one", but by there are patterns that make sense and generally lots of individual transactions are easier to track and manage unless you have an explicit use case that requires scoping it to one lambda, in which case do that.

There are a few cases where I've advocated for bigger lambdas vs smaller ones:

* grapqhl (there still isn't a very good graphql router and data aggregator, so just handling the whole /graphql route makes the most sense)

* Limited concurrency lambdas. If you have a downstream that can only handle 10 concurrent transactions but you have multiple lambda interactions that hit that service, it might be better to at least bundle all of the downstream interactions into one lambda to limit the concurrency on it.
Shameless plug, I had the exact same problem with wanting to deploy some apps to a server (either home, on production at work, or IoT/Raspberry Pis), and I didn't like any of the options (Ansible is too dependent on the machine's state, Kubernetes is too complicated and heavy), so I wrote 200 lines of code and made this, which I love:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster

It basically pulls the repos you specify and runs `docker-compose up` on them, but does it in an opinionated way to make it easy for you to administrate the machines.
The thing you are missing is that in addition to fusion power research (which is valuable and NIF has made major contributions to) there is also fusion weapons research. Inertal confinement is (kinda) close to the conditions inside a fusion bomb, and NIF also has a mandate to research those conditions. For that kind of research, a single pulse of fusion ignition is exactly the kind of data they need. Since we have a nuclear weapon test ban, and computer simulations need some kind of ground truth to be calibrated against, achieving fusion ignition in a lab is valuable to NIF for that reason alone.
i read that they offer C as well. wonder what those times look like
It certainly does not help that search will cater to whatever it is you are looking for with helpful articles supporting just about any viewpoint.

To your point, if there is no helping 'these folks', the logical conclusion is to take guardrails down and let god sort them out.

I will admit I am still coming to terms with all this.
I watched some videos about influencers' daily grind, and I think it's just a different kind of entrepreneurship. They are basically internet-enabled, self-managed celebrities. The social role is not that different that of a "traditional" actor or entertainer, but the effort is grass-roots more often than not.

Job security is shit though. Among other trappings, like a cancel mob.
I have this too.

Listening to music when the programming task is simple helps me somewhat. Apparently, it scratches part of the "social itch".

YMMV
If someone collapses into the street, the driver should be able to stop in time, unless they are going to fast. Who I can think to blame here:
* The auto manufacturer for not having sensors to detect this.

* The city for making car dependent areas

* The city for making roads that have cars drive so fast by pedestrians, that the pedestrian can die if hit

* The driver for not driving more reasonably

* The city for not having a barrier between the sidewalk and the road, China has these in a lot of areas, a curb with a hedge between the side walks and roads, or a fence.

The pedestrian who collapses is the last to blame in my view.
The issue with Android is it's extremely restrictive from a firewall perspective, I guess exactly as designed.

I cannot dictate what apps chat over the internet or to what IP's (say, a setting to only allow EU-only addresses).

Of course this means - rightfully or wrongly - you have to move this to another layer - probably PiHole or router level, but even then there could be gaps (can it use mobile data with you unaware?).

I am surprised major OS' still don't allow users to configure this yet. it's pretty basic stuff.
It feels like a game of political chicken to me.

Like, "if you won't trust the voting public enough to give them the whole truth and instead treat them like blubbering fools, how can you--with a straight face--pretend that their ability to pick leaders or vote on actual issues is a correct way to run a country?"

So instead of compliance, they'll bring the whole damn thing down in protest. I don't think the plurality of those who refuse the vaccine actively deny the existence of the virus, or even the efficacy and safety of the vaccine. I feel they're just absolutely sick of the hypocrisy and pandering by "leaders" who refuse to lead by example on much of anything.

As many before me have said, you'll always have the kooks that deny science but I honest-to-God think those are the minority.
People may or may not have believed a lot of things, but if you are asserting that they didn't know that respiratory viruses primarily spread via the respiratory system you must be joking?

If you can show me even a single document dated from before Fall-2019 that expresses a concern that untrained users of n95 masks may INCREASE their chances of infection by coronaviruses, cold viruses, flu virus (basically anything other than Ebola or other hemorrhagic fevers) somehow, then I will happily agree that this was an area of debate and perhaps competent (but incorrect) advice to avoid mask usage.

However, if no such evidence exists, you should agree with me that the evidence points to incompetent and/or intentionally misleading guidance.
> governments are now more terrified of people losing their minds

The empirical evidence from the covid experience seems to justify their fears that a segment of the population will lose their minds.
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I think it's easy to miss how fragile society is. Imagine your power grid goes down (storm, hurricane, even just too cold like in Texas). A day or two later the cell towers start dropping off. This can happen in the USA (like in Texas last winter).

Ham radios have totally been used to help get meds, it's one of the use cases for winmail, it's much more accurate to have an email like service than it is to have two ham radio folks spelling long drug names pheonetically ... twice, to help ensure a life safe drug is correctly identified.
> However, 58% thought that nuclear power caused climate change while only 46% thought that coal burning did so

This raises some interesting thoughts about the nature and importance of democracy.
From CDC's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (2018):

1. Be First

2. Be Right.

3. Be Credible.

4. Express Empathy.

5. Promote Action.

6. Show Respect.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/ppt/CERC_Introduction.pdf

https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/manual/index.asp
two things:
1. the NAACP is political activist organization, not a charity.
2. i'm not sure this is sound logic. if the NAACP sees something as advancing black people, then why can't they advocate for that?
What the site does not seem to talk about is that an internal commission in 2011 found[1] that the real cost per kWh is around 50-56c. Nuclear power in France is heavily subsidized, directly and indirectly.

[1] https://bit.ly/3DAGW2s
I'll also say don't expect to socialize at work. It should be a given now but you should never ever ask a co worker out.

It's too risky for everyone involved. Conduct which is okay at a bar or a party has no place in an office.

That said I have made great friends at work. This should be a bonus. If you want to make friends and date do that at a bar , alumni events , concerts, etc.

If you step to a girl and ask if you can buy her a beer at a pub, the worst that happens is she'll say no. If you do it at work, you might come off as rude , seriously don't date co workers. It's easy for HR to get rid of you.

For my part I've had a gay co worker aggressively hit on me. At a bar I'd laugh this off ( or even let him buy me a drink ). At work I felt very uncomfortable. No I don't want to know I look like your husband, why is that an appropriate thing to say in the office!
Not to detract from the article, but given:

> It took 3-4 months to get 4.2 TB of data

Maybe send an email and ask someone to mail a couple of hard drives? (offering to reimburse hw, labour and shipping obviously).
What kind of companies offer this and what kind of positions am I looking for?
TBF there are somewhat testable questions to the simulation hypothesis.

As for the omnipotent omniscient All-Seeing creator, not so much beyond the arguably anthropic nature of the universe.

Not big on either of these being true but happy to admit and embrace the mystery
Every large store has items that don't exist in the database, the question is how long they've been gone.

Strangely enough, it's relatively easy to find stuff at Walmart that won't scan in the app or online, but is found by the registers, so something isn't fully connected.

Target being out of stock can be nice, order online for pickup and then they say they can't find it and ship it instead.
The Research Mentality and how to adopt it for product-led growth
Even if it doesn't cost you in monthly payments to a tech company it still costs you in "our own SRE expertise to run our own open stack cloud" so salaries, benefits, 401k contributions, etc.

> I can’t wait until 20 years from now when all of the proprietary shit looks ridiculous in hindsight.

I'd posit that in 20 years there will still be tech which is more efficiently managed by a central provider, rather than having each company hiring their own independent expertise.
Correct. And having been IN Google Maps for a while, I can tell you that they have staff devoted 100% to keeping track of these political disputes.
My first question wasn’t rhetorical, knowing where you stand could help any further discussion, should it occur, be meaningful.

What you instead wrote in response makes sense to me only under the assumption that people have a choice—to have CCP or not to have CCP—and that they choose to have CCP; if you’re saying that assumption is correct then we have sufficiently differing views of reality (perhaps you know something I don’t, etc.) that we’d be talking past each other.

Newspaper pieces on how %opposition% is %something negative%—written as if it was somehow relevant and even vitally important, creating an illusion of pluralism in absence of any real possibility for the reader to effect any change—were a thing in USSR from what I hear; based on your summary of the essay I smell the same old fish wrapped in a fresh newspaper.
Are you sure it wasn’t that the road moved under the pedestrian’s feet locating her in front of the vehicle comoving with the road in one direction and along it in another?

I think you haven’t presented evidence.
How can there be informed consent with censorship?
I don’t think humans evolved to be alone/work alone 8 hours a day 5 days a week. We’ve almost always worked in some sort of a community/tribe each day
I've been prodding friends in the climate movement about their community's historical opposition to nuclear power lately. In my view, opposing nuclear power after 1989 (Hansen's testimony to the US Senate) is anti-climate.

I've held up France as an example of where we could be in an alternate history where states did not bow to anti-nuclear activism. Unfortunately, from the article, it seems France is heading in that direction as well.

> In October 2014 the Energy Transition for Green Growth bill was passed by the National Assembly and so went onto the Senate. This set a target of 50% for nuclear contribution to electricity supply by 2025, and capped nuclear power capacity at 63.2 GWe, the level at the time. This meant that EDF would have to shut at least 1650 GWe of nuclear capacity when its Flamanville 3 EPR starts commercial operation.

A sad decision to see in the only pro nuclear power democracy. And a sad decision for climate, because for decades past and for decades to come, anti-nuclear is pro-coal.

*edit, the French government also seems to be slow-walking the tragic mandate:

> In October 2016 the government postponed until after the 2017 presidential and National Assembly elections any decision on which, if any, reactors would close in order to reduce the nuclear share to 50%. In 2017 France postponed its 2025 target for reducing the share of nuclear to 50%. In December 2017 the French President stated that nuclear is "the most carbon-free way to produce electricity with renewables." In November 2018, a draft of the country's new energy plan confirmed that 2035 was the new target date for the reduction of nuclear's share to 50%. The plan states that 14 of the country's nuclear reactors will shut down by 2035, 4-6 of those by 2030. However the plan also states that the option to build new nuclear reactors remains.
That stinks.

I like the best of both worlds:

* publish as much as you can online (it's not like another page in the CMS costs you anything, really)
* make it very easy and clear how to contact a human, in case the online content doesn't answer my question

But I could see how implementing only one or the other would be counterproductive.
this x1000. My main frustration with imperative programming has become the devops plumbing and defensive nature in code that was needed to get something done.

Switching to Elixir
- learning what OTP brings to the table, e.g. observers, genservers
- distillery compiled binaries per OS, negating the need for a lot of the devops complexity, e.g. docker, node,
- the switch to esbuild and liveview for less JS cruft
- FP transforming of immutable data to more immutable data vs managing state

TBH all of it has been a breath of fresh air.
Would more cheap (in all ways) energy be a bad thing? I don't think so, people pay money for that sort of thing.
Seth Godin's guide to becoming 'irreplaceable' at work
It is hard to understate the damage. The loss of national cohesion, the exacerbated division caused by the "choose your own reality" consequences of no longer having trustworthy institutions. And maybe worse of all, the self-fulfilling nature of distrust. When you do not trust someone, and they know it, they have no incentive to behave in a trust-worthy manner. It will take a long time to dig the country's self-image out of the hole dug during the pandemic.
"Nuclear waste is difficult to deal with."

This is false. It is easier and safer to store the waste from modern nuclear power plants than waste from production and used solar panels (which are conveniently outsourced to China now due to poor env regulations there)
If nuclear core meltdowns can be fully contained by design the risk is mitigated. For instance with newer designs of smaller portable reactors by NuScale
Some will, however I have heard some of these apps have janky hooks into Android's trust system which will break them on non-google distros.

Personally I wouldn't suggest having banking apps on a phone.

You can always use the web browser if you absolutely must access those accounts.
Those negotiations are off the table. Living apart is also something I'm not allowed to do.
Dude. Chill! I just like to be the black sheep. Besides that I took the red and the blue pill, seeing the one universal truth, which is is Lila spotted with Lalall.

Baa, baa, baa! (Blowing rings of purple haze at you)

edit: btw. (·) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
The difference is that with GPUs nearly every model has a different layout of components around the actual chip, and those components need to be cooled too, so making a universal cold plate for them can be really challenging. The AIO I bought for my last computer could be used with any CPU, AMD or Intel, released in the past decade. The water block I bought for the GPU I put in my desktop two computers ago could only be used with reference designs of the AMD R9 290 or 290x.

There are models of GPUs with AIOs, EVGA makes their Hydro series, Gigabyte has their waterforce series. They just usually aren't worth the cost since you have to design a new full cover block not just got every generation but also usually for different cards in the same gen too.

Lastly, TDP is not a defined standard and each manufacturer defines it differently. Intel for example defines TDP as the maximum allowable power draw under full load. How that translates to actual heat output depends on architecture and process node. Intel's most recent chips for example all max out at just over 100 watts TDP, but they're known to need 200+ watts of heat dissipation for sustained workloads.
Aside from the "prime mover" disagreement mentioned by a sibling comment, how do you know that those taking the simulation hypothesis seriously are not taking the idea of "God" seriously?
There are still many people - especially in the US - who are concerned about (or adamantly opposed to) receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. While this is often framed as a conservative-vs-liberal issue within the US, that doesn't line up with the data. Vaccination rates seem to correlate more strongly with a group's trust in the government. Conservatives do tend to have less trust in the government than liberals, but the difference is even more pronounced when comparing affluent groups to historically marginalized groups - regardless of political leanings.

Trust is hard to earn and easy to spend. But it is an invaluable resource for a government to have. Hopefully we learn that some day.
As an older developer, I can say you are facing an increasing headwind from the industry as you age. Yes, you can bust your gonads ever more to both keep up with changes and compensate for the negative stereotypes of "oldbies" to socially fit in (or fake it well), but a headwind is a headwind. The industry simply is not friendly to the aged, relative speaking. The "geezer monkey" on your back grows ever heavier, real or perceived.

A lot of it is caused by change for the sake of change. Fads are quickly jumped into without stopping to think, creating unnecessary change. If possible, let somebody else be the guinea pig. However, developers are afraid of "buzzword rot" on their resumes, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of change-or-die: you have to throw out old stuff to keep up, and keeping up results in throwing out old stuff because people stop using it, making support dry up.

IT is really a fashion industry, and less a technology industry. Let's face it: fashion and sex are mostly for the young. I'm just the messenger.

Some more advice: stay away from the UI industry: it changes the fastest and is most subject to fads. Try to focus on the back-end if possible.
Still working on this, but might give someone a laugh :) Problem 1 from Project Euler in TypeScripts Types

https://github.com/iiTzEddyGG/typing-euler/blob/master/src/p...
These people grew up on Wow and are familiar with Soon™.
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