skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between this and gas boiler bans I can only assume bojo is trying to sink green targets by setting unrealistic, intentionally unaffordable and very unpopular ones.
sadly, his "end of history" thesis is turning out to be a replay of history that is the situation that preceded WWI, at an even more global scale. hopefully it doesn't replay the great war too
> As I've said, you're not overnighting to other countries. Once you bring them to your local international airport they can take it from there. I didn't change what I said, I just clarified the wording.

Ok so 224k wasted doses in Louisiana over around 6 months, 180 days. That's not even 2k doses per day, let's round up. There are probably more than 100 vaccination locations around Louisiana, so we're talking about no more than 20 doses per location being wasted (on average). Somehow, we're expected to totally reverse the distribution system every single night to collect at most 2k doses to take to an international airport and have, what, the other countries pay to have them shipped ASAP to their country. Let's say only 100 countries are sending aircraft, that's 20 doses that they're trying to get back to their people each day from Louisiana.

That's a totally reasonable approach, versus, say, getting them the initial batches instead.

> You'll be surprised but generally plane flights take less than a week.

Yes, but for 20 doses a day I doubt most countries would send or contract aircraft from Louisiana.
I'm not completely sure the point you are intending to make, but yes - there is a reason why so many great German thinkers were Lutheran or had Lutheran ties. It is exemplified by Luther's Table Talks at the pfarrhaus. Basically, it was a regular activity to gather at the pastor's house and debate / discuss / philosophize. Thus this became part of the culture.
I think the point is not really to compare Java to Rust but highlight that in Java you pay a significant performance penalty (relative to representing Optional.empty() as null).
Because 90 percent of the profession is trivial?
I switched employers and am using a PC now instead of a Mac and man, I hate it. I’d get 4 or 5 hours of battery life on my 15” Intel MacBook Pro, and get maybe 45 minutes while doing identical tasks. Even the MacBook literally running Parallels and Visual Studio on the MacBook could last for a few hours. Its absolutely insufferable, the laptop is barely useable unless it’s plugged in, and it has a GPU (but I’m not playing games and a 1080p screen. Why the hell is it using so much power? Is this just what it’s like for Windows laptops, and why?

And Don’t even get me started on how the Bluetooth audio stack constantly messes up and has problems, Slack will randomly tell me it can’t find my audio device. My Mac just never had these issues, aside from a few problems initially on running a dock that supported 3 4K monitors.
My Consumer Reports (online) subscription is probably the best $10 per year I spend
1) availability!
I don’t disagree but I didn’t get any of that from that opening statement. It seems to be arguing for diversity in UI which I happen to think is usually a terrible idea.
Good. Bloody good in fact. If we can get ahead of everyone in making the Rolls Royce SMRs we could sell them to the rest of the world and maybe have some hi-tech high skill jobs in the UK.

SSE however done agree and think we can get by with only renewables.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/offshore-power-will-fail-...
Non paywalled
https://archive.is/2021.07.25-233934/https://www.thetimes.co...
Why is a ban on gas furnaces so important, when you can burn coal in your stove and oil for heating and both are still very common (at least here in germany)?

I thought gas is way better than coal or oil, because it burns cleaner?
> and it only came with a touchscreen gloss finish

Why do so many laptops only have a 3/4K option with a glossy finish? Personally, I can't stand glossy screens - sure, the colours look good in a showroom, but they're just too reflective in real-world use.
> I agree, inkjets should’ve died a long time ago.

Aren’t inkjets better for photos?

www.ldproducts.com/blog/pros-cons-of-inkjet-and-laser-printers/amp/
> It is very hard to argue America is as wealthy or innovative as it was, or as China is proving to be.

The hard thing about it is agreeing on terms and providing data, but I don't think that's what you mean.
"it didn't get there under its own power"

Existing power infrastructure has already paid its capital costs, meaning they have a massive incumbent advantage. Coal and gas power also haven't historically had to pay for their externalities, which is another distortion in their favor. This means that without extra incentives, you're stuck with coal until the plants need to be replaced, which essentially means until something truly magical happens or forever, whichever comes first.

So, you can look at the subsidies for solar as offsets for the incumbent advantages and externality subsidies enjoyed by fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the LCOE of solar has improved exponentially with scale and semiconductor improvements, which gets close to the 'something magical.'
I've been using git for years and I've never heard of these. Thanks for shouting them out.

This is something I've been thinking about lately. I feel like every tutorial needs a list of documentation right at the top before it gets into whatever specific path through the "forest of knowledge" of the topic at hand.
Project didn't have a name. It was some simple dashboards with sliders that allowed you to expand and contract the scope of what was considered a market campaign sale, along with some timelines (basically gantt charts)of the products and when campaigns were run. This way the owner could look pretty pictures easily and see the data was all over the place. The website or webapp if you want to be generous was never used again after that.

No one clapped the 4 people in marketing were not happy to lose their jobs. Marketing got moved to an accounting process where the handful of advertising things that seemed to work were kept on a monthly set budget.

This was a smallish family owned rather dysfunctional company as I grew to learn. I was able to have a meeting about this directly with the owners, by a meeting I mean drinks a bar/pub till 2am. Yeah 50x was probably an exaggeration as I don't know to the penny but several times is still a lot for a useless department.(also doesn't include salaries which IT had much more of) This was pretty much the only positive thing that happened there after that it was all downhill and the owners got bored with nerds that could no longer produce outsize ROI on their usefulness and we got laid off as well.

Its actually kind of sad that someone called it "obviously false" not all of us are basement dwelling introverts afraid to challenge the status quo.

Also to the other sarcastic jerk, SaleForce calls their report page "Einstein" Insights or something close.
I want my UI’s to be usable. I want it to be immediately obvious what I need to do. I want them to become invisible in the same way good tools do. I don’t want my hammer to be quirky, I want it to be an extension of my hand.

EDIT - Yeah. I have a certain fondness for Kai’s. But I had time to get used to them. It’s one UI in a thousand where I have time to get bedded in with it’s quirks. For all the rest - be boring.
Your co-worker may be mistaken. ~75 would only make sense if he was saying of known deposits. And even then, there is about 50 million tons of known deposits, and the currently open mines only account for about a tenth of that... I'm not sure we'd need to burn through the resulting refined product of 50 million tons of pitchblende to run the entire planet for 75 years.

This also ignores the rest of the intended refinement chain: thorium and other reactor fuel sources.
But that's the point: the assets they have are not safe as treasury bills, and in a significant part they are backed by risky assets, including other stuff that depends on crypto, so if ever there is a bank run they will not be able to keep up with the redemptions.

The fun bit is that few can actually redeem, and most of those who could have a vested interest in never doing it anyway!
I am sure a few old HNer will tell you, C dominated because of UNIX, and the rest is history.
> You just reduce supply to expected levels of demands instead of throwing out millions of doses at an increasing rate.

I imagine the effectiveness of anti-vax propaganda is tough to incorporate into distribution forecasts.
>I really like the idea of NixOS, but there not being a single clear guide of how to set everything up (and the messy documentation) is the biggest thing holding me back.

Yeah this part is messy, and why I always disclaim that I had a learning curve of several months to make the transition. However, my system setup is a little more complex than the standard install - mirrored ZFS root drives on dual m.2 drives, with mirrored boot partitions. That wasn't in the docs, needed a blog post to explain it [1].

>I also really don't like wasting so much time on tinkering with my system the way I used to do.

I've found that once you get everything configured to your liking, you spend similar or less time tinkering than on other OS's, just because the entire system config is captured in a single config file now. There's some up-front learning and work required, but after that it's smooth sailing.

[1]:https://elis.nu/blog/2019/08/encrypted-zfs-mirror-with-mirro...
> but how will you differentiate a call that you want to perform at compile-time vs at run-time?

You could never do that to begin with. The compiler was always free to evaluate your function at compile time (and already did so in some cases).

> e.g. if you want to run some unit tests to check the two algos

Just make two separate functions and compare their outputs. That's what functions are for! So you don't put everything in one giant block of code.

> i'd rather not introduce a template struct just to get a constexpr context, à la

The standard library could do that for you instead of introducing a new keyword. In fact it practically already did so with std::integral_constant; they just need to update it for C++20 to avoid the redundancy.

Or they could've introduced a [[pure]] attribute, or other less intrusive mechanisms. The keyword wasn't necessary for anything you mentioned.

Also, as the sibling comment said, you might want to check out consteval.
Wait until they start developing ToCs, then its a real problem.
Technically, you can define a median for ordinal data, like age and household income. Median for categorical data like college education and race is mostly nonsensical, except maybe you could say that a median only exists if there is a category that has more than 50% of population. I still think the title is misleading.
My friends couldn't stop praising the UX but even after a long time trying to get used to it I still am annoyed by the application switching keyboard shortcuts, lack of ability to set system wide shortcuts for launching basic things like terminal.

Hammerspoon is the answer to all of these. The common solution is to rebind caps lock (using Karabiner Elements) to be “hyper” (cmd + alt + shift + ctrl) and then bind global keyboard shortcuts with that using Hammerspoon.
12, 60, 200 - have been a intense month for fundraise and getting the new version of product out
To be fair Goya didn't publicly display that either. The Black Paintings were all painted directly on the walls on the inside of his house.
It kind of sounds like you believe that we should prevent everyone from become successful (upper-middle class), rather than implementing policies that try and enable upward mobility for everyone.
Yes dye subs do a great job and they don't gunk up. But unfortunately as you said they are only for photos, they require special paper, and they only print in smaller sizes (i.e. you cannot use one to print a color page of a business report). Their supply costs are high too but that's not a big deal if you use them rarely.
NSFW is probably quite a lower threshold than not for children generally. I have a couple pieces of art in my house that I definitely would not put up in a work office if I had one, a screen saver on a work laptop etc. I'm not sure it's even so much the case that someone would take offence but that people would be concerned that someone might and/or think (probably correctly) that I was trying to test the limits of what was appropriate for a work setting.

That said, someone will get upset at just about anything.
> I really don't see a reason for inkjet printers to exist, I hope they will disappear from the market.

They're still useful for cheap printed confections. You can use them with edible ink and paper. It's quite nice to print photos on cakes and stuff.
We will not have fusion by 2035, probably not even by 2050.
yea because of this sentence TIL that a Union Jack is not actually symmetrical if you look closely
For better or worse the EU gets down to working out something that all members can agree and why much change can be vetoes by a single member.

That all said we are hosting COP26 climate summit - though like many - the Queen sums up what we all think: - https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britains-queen-irritated-by...
I’ve experienced people borrowing behavioral tics and tendencies from each other. I personally think there’s something about tics that’s easily transmissible. It’s almost like people are overly compelled to repeat/assimilate those behaviors. The science on it is thin afaik.
The parent compliments one apparent position ("rationality") and insults another, which only inflames conversation. What are these positions? Who specifically is saying what, specifically? What is your analysis?

I get that it's cool to demean certain kinds of activists, if the implicit point is about trendiness.
Several ways of defining the Golden Ratio allow either, or both. One convention is that upper-case Phi or Φ is 1.618[...], while lower-case phi or φ is 0.618[...].

The values are related by φ = 1/Φ, as well as Φ = φ + 1. Both of these relations can be derived from the fact that they are the ratios of a Golden Rectangle--if a square has length one, then adding a rectangle with height φ to the side will give a rectangle of length Φ, and the rectangles are Similar.
It's called a plotter but it's really just a large inkjet printer these days.
Edit: Whoops, just had a chance to read these comments more carefully. I didn't realize you're talking about C rather than C++. I didn't ignore them; I just wasn't aware of those proposals. (Certainly I haven't seen them on HN, and I don't keep up with all the proposals.)
TIL 1/phi=phi-1
No I mixed them up and will edit that now - thank you.
Personally I think the new Vive Flow looks awesome (physically). I'm doubtful it'll be a good headset because of the specs. The refresh rate is only 75Hz. Everyone is aware that 90Hz is the minimum required to remove motion sickness for most humans. Phone as a controller, I'm doubtful this will work well. HTC Focus 3 still seems like the headset to beat
OL3 is not yet producing power, apparently turbines didn't like spending a decade waiting for use and need some maintenance. Current estimation is that reactor will be started in January 2022 and regular electricity production will start in March.
> I used the figures in the 2018 Zerrahn et al. article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211...

Thanks for the link !

> Maybe you've just taken Sinn's approach instead of Zerrahn's? That number would seem to fit it.

I wasn't aware of that paper (thanks again!), but from skimming Sinn's paper, our methodology seems to be pretty similar. I'm even more excited to read Zerrahn's paper now!
Huh. Never noticed the swastikas before.
This is a very poor replacement for something that really should be instant and cerebral like app shortcuts.
Mapped: Human Impact on the Earth’s Surface
Your point is clear enough, but both the parent & grandparent comments are misuing the terminology.

Earthquake sizes are usually expressed via Richter scale or Moment Magnitude Scale values, which both attempt to quantify the total energy released by the quake. These scales do NOT quantify the force experienced at any particular location, which depends heavily on distance from the epicenter and local geology. For that kind of quantity, you would use a seismic intensity scale (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales).

So it's wrong to say that a quake "...would not be 8 when it reaches Diablo Canyon" because the value '8' is an MMS or Richter value. Instead, you could say that "...the damage potential would be reduced by the distance to Diablo Canyon."
At least in the UK, using coal or oil is very uncommon, while gas is very common.

So gas is the bigger problem to resolve. We need to get rid of them all eventually.
>The "proper"™ solution to those design flaws was implemented in Mesos

And yet somehow Mesos failed... sigh.
Switching from the bundled JBR 11 to Corretto 15 launches fine in PyCharm, except the editor font is not what I'm used to with the regular JBR, so I will have to install that separately from the IDE, and hope it picks it up.

It does feel snappier though, judging by some of the window operations, which always feel rather spongy and slow, even after the JVM has had a chance to warm up.

JB should consider this change!
> nothing that prevents an Optional variable from actually being null

That's why you're supposed to use Optional<Optional<X>>. ;-)
"man git", second paragraph.
Sometimes the compilers will do insane stuff that causes bugs if you enable too much optimization. Usually because of strict aliasing violations causing undefined behavior.
That's often what "header only" libraries really are -- you create your own .cpp file, define a particular preprocessor symbol, and then include the header which will then produce the implementation in that translation unit. Without the symbol defined you only get the interface, suitable for including in other translation units.
France only has nuclear plants because they were built a long time ago. Except the EPR in Flamanville, there is no other projects to build nuclear plants. And they closed one, one year ago (The ones announced by Macron, are just politic tactic to gain votes in the next election, and are not real yet).

France is far from being rational on this topic
I think we’re heading for programming as 80% a job program for INTJ/P and aspergers people and 20% as a technical profession.

You can mass throw neets at le epic coding bootcamp and hire those that perform decently. Like a repeat of the outsourcing trend during the 2000s.
Isn't Microsoft embarrassed about this?

Yeah, I was astounded when I recently found out about the "modern standby" idiocy. I've almost always used Mac laptops, but I just assumed that at some point in the last 20 years the PC world would figure out reliable sleep. And it seems like they mostly did, and then Microsoft broke it for no good reason?
or the california government
> Germany's lobby to continue burning fossil fuels and spewing the resulting GHGs into atmosphere

Isn't Germany a world leader in implementing renewable energy?
I think China is testing a thorium reactor now.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02459-w

China is leading the way, both in terms of adding coal capacity right now to address the power outages while also building out nuclear capacity for the future.

The ability to act rationally like this when popular movements turn irrational is one advantage of an authoritarian system. No doubt many in the west are looking somewhat enviously at China.
Sure, but as I said above, unless you're printing a lot of photos, you're better of sticking to photo printer services (online or in-store) for printing photos.

Most people don't print enough photos to justify the pain of owning an inkjet printer.
Ask HN: How do large private infrastructure projects get started?
I'm curious to learn more about how large, private, high upfront investment projects get started and built. For example, sports stadiums, cinemas and concert halls/theaters, ice rinks and public swimming pools.

I understand some amount are started by the city, region or country itself. What about the private ones? And what are the differences between Europe and the US in that regard?

Bit of a long shot question but it's difficult to even know what to look for to learn about this. If you know that field I'd love to talk to you directly!
> Focusing on self first is not inherently selfishness.

Agreed, but focusing on self-only is proclaimed to be selfish, is it not? Have Western nations not had the means for many years to dramatically decrease deaths in foreign countries for relatively modest sacrifices?

There are certainly no shortage of persuasive memes, platitudes, and general rhetoric that exert significant influence on people's perception of this matter, but I prefer addressing it from a strict epistemic perspective.
Yes, it's true that all these things are important and there is nothing bad with wanting them.

But lot of people are treated like second class citizens because of their passport in Netherlands (or in America, for that reason). There are a lot of people who get treated worse in their native countries. And her story is nothing out of ordinary.

Sure, it might be hard to get a bank account opened. But on the other hand, she most likely could travel to Netherlands without a visa -- this is very difficult, expensive and time-consuming process for the rest of us. I dare say the paperwork to just to get a work visa for a citizen of most countries in the world is probably greater than her taxes forms (and they also include information about the source of the money, by the way).

Also, where I'm from, lots of young men would love to renounce their nationality just to avoid conscription. We don't have the chance: you need to have another country's citizenship just to renounce yours.

So being in a position when you just can renounce your nationality is a great privilege, and I don't see her acknowledging that.

The whole system with citizenships and visas is severely broken, and she is not the one who is harmed the most. So it's difficult to empathise with someone who has it much easier than we do.
And IETR.
Reviews and anecdotes can be misleading in some cases. I bought a cheap secondhand Xerox Phaser printer, which has some horrible reviews online, and its previous owner was getting rid of it because of network connection issues. The network connectivity issue was fixed with a firmware update, and I've found it to be an excellent printer - useful documentation, supports every printing protocol under the sun, and the cost of aftermarket drum/toner replacements work out to less than half a cent per page.
Neal Stephenson’s, but I think it caught on due to Zuckerberg calling Facebook VR platform “the metaverse”, and it got immediately coopted by the cryptosphere (I remember seeing Decentraland first use the term, and they’re affiliated to some other big NFT players, like BAYC, so they’re definitely very good at generating hype). Roblox, Fortnite and others were already using the term for a little while, but it seems it became a larger meme after FB’s keynote

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
>It's not unique at that though. FreeBSD has had this for a decade. And Ubuntu is adding it now as an installer option.

Right, but FreeBSD isn't Linux, if you want both ZFS and the Linux ecosystem, then I would argue NixOS is the best at that right now.

I tried Ubuntu and ZFS recently in a VM just to see how it worked. The installer handles a simple, standard ZFS config just fine. But if you want to do anything more complex, then you're doing manual configuration, at which point it's better to just use NixOS, where all the manual config is done in the main NixOS config file.
If nothing else, constexpr as a keyword lets you force it to happen and fail if it can't happen, rather than silently reverting back to runtime execution. I don't think it's certain that C++ will remove the keyword.
Was, the conservative party dismantled that pretty quickly.