skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I chose an inexact word - buying from them is not a gift but a business transaction, it does not imply endorsing those aspects.

IMHO the core concept of a civilized society is the ability to have reasonable interactions even if people strongly disagree or hate each other - thus the legitimacy of doing business with, supplying products to everyone and using everyone's products.

To use a different controversy as an example where both sides are somewhat large, we do see both ends of the abortion debate consider each other as grossly unethical, sufficiently unethical to justify asking for a boycott of vocal supporters of the opposite side. That's understandable, you have freedom of association and you can not patronize someone you despise, however, once you start to demand that others join your boycott and say it's an ethical duty or "with us or against us" IMHO that's crossing the line of how a civilized society should behave; people holding all kinds of opinions (including various opinions I despise and consider harmful) are still part of our society, and we should be able to combine criticizing the abhorrent opinions while still allowing those people to participate in society - i.e. buying from them, selling to them, employing them, working for them, renting them apartments and renting from them as landlords - and "platforming entities" as well, even if they are from your "enemy outgroup". I very much do not want internet service providers or pamphlet printing companies or fast food deliveries to start refusing service to my political opponents vocally advocating for things I consider ethically despicable - that form of exclusion is simply not appropriate, and I would not consider it fair if I was on the receiving end, so what's sauce for goose is sauce for gander.

Asking for a proper exclusion of an unliked group or opinion reminds me of all kinds of centuries-old historical issues of boycotting shops because they were ran by [people from the political party hated in this neighbourhood] or [someone who doesn't go to the same church as us] or [this ethnic group with whom we had/have war], which (at least in retrospective) seem unethical - IMHO it's much safer to draw the line at excess inclusion rather than excess exclusion.
Fossil backup isn't tenable past 2050 at the latest.
My reading of the article is not that it promotes "anti-intellectualism" or that it argues to remove all implicit precedence or associativity rules.

I think it actually gives a nuanced answer to your question "where do you draw the line", namely: With a partial precedence scheme, one does not need explicit parentheses for those operator combinations for which the precedence is "clear enough". E.g., in "3 + 2 * 4" precedence is clear to virtually all programmers because it follows standard rules from math ("PEMDAS"), so that is why the precedence table in the post specifies an ordering. However, especially for operators which are less frequently used, or where precedence does differ between languages, one should give parentheses for clarity. I think this is a very sensible argument.

I have certainly made errors because of unclear precedence (e.g., with boolean operators, exponentiation, casting etc.) in the past. And given that there even is a CWE number (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/783.html) for this kind of error, it seems frequent enough to warrant discussion.
It seems like modern languages adopt more and more ideas from functional programming as time goes by (garbage collection, closures and higher-order functions, parametric polymorphism, immutable values, algebraic types). Modern languages designed for general-purpose use are mostly hybrids, and the functional influence has been steadily growing over the decades.

What influence has Forth had?
> There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and "most people" wouldn't have trouble answering if C comes before or after J.

Maybe we need a song to teach operator precedence. The PEMDAS acronym doesn't have the same lasting impact as the alphabet song it seems. Does Sesame Street feature any segments on arithmetic? I don't remember any from when I was a kid. Are kids who watch Sesame Street too young for that?
High-voltage DC links can already transfer gigawatts of power over a few thousand km. So it's within the realm of possibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
This is a good point. I've been playing with android dev for the last month. The UI layout is nice for us "backend" types. Just make sure you stay in the XML view.
Forth is not under the radar in any sense. It is much more popular and well known than any underground band.
Study the teachings of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

There is a Reddit community for that: r/brkb

https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/

Understand the concept of intrinsic value (versus market price).

Think of shares as "part of a business".

Watch the professionals at Berkshire Hathaway: what are they doing today?
I have this idea for a while. I even got the domain name experthours.com (since 2015) where I wanted ppl to find and talk to tech experts. Say u r looking for an expert in kubernetes and want to hire them for a 3 hour consulting project . Later on may be expand to other fields.

The challenge is how to ensure someone really is an expert. Barrier to entry needs to be high otherwise it will attract wannabes. But then how do u get enough experts ?

Just never got to it :) May be I should. U wanna partner up ?
Haskell is very widely used though, that is not a reasonable comparison.
Correction: I meant “bang for the buck” (^_^)
Either we use it and learn to use it or we wipe out wide swathes of the human population over the next hundred years. I'm sure the millions who die and suffer over the next few decades will be grateful to your absolute principles.
Perhaps a machine learning model trained on the masters would be a better approach.
Same. Text can sometimes be hard. That text is fairly lucid. The tone and humor stand out fairly well. Like the author said: competent.

...which means a percentage of us will take it differently than intended.
How many of those 75-88% were truly preventable deaths? And how many of those "other causes" were truly preventable?

If a 90 year old man with failing health catches Covid is that a truly preventable death? Its at least murky what is meant there.

My great uncle had both legs amputated the day before he died in some vain attempt to extend his life. Was that intervention necessary? He was doomed to die by all estimates within the week.
I think whole swathes of the SWE community are behind the times when it comes to responding to crisis.

There are models for how to handle this stuff in other industries. What comes to mind is "Tiger Teams" and "EMS services". Both of these involve the deliberate creation of special organizational structures that respond to crisis. For both of them that means contingency planning and, importantly, practice. It's largely about training for things that might happen and thus being ready when they do happen-- even if they're not exactly what was expected.

Sadly, the model for crisis management in SWE (in most places) is just throwing around the word "accountability", putting people in the hot-seat, and hoping for the best. You end up with "hero-based" crisis management. In fiction, that works out great (James Bond types always win), but in reality you just end up with stressed-out people and flaky systems.
Okay. You fund it, I'll build it.
Coming soon: a 50 RMB tax on each livestream sale for "common prosperity". And by "common prosperity" I mean bail out Evergrande.
> All locomotives more than 18 years old. Proof on file in pursuance of Title 18, USC2257

I love this site already.
Honestly curious, isn't mobile work mostly about user interfaces? Doesn't seem like what OP is looking for.
> we can also come up with scenarios that involve real harms. […] I personally use Google Analytics to track visitors to my website.

This was a well-written fun read, and I also both care about privacy a lot and have also used Google Analytics on a site too, but at the same time I’m a little bit floored how quickly his own use of GA was assumed benign while Wacom’s was assumed malicious. (Using GA is handing tracking data to Google, after all.) I don’t think the “it’s just a mouse” is a valid justification for this double standard. My browser is “just a viewer”; I’m getting tracked before I click on anything on your page. If we’re going to care about privacy deeply, I think we need to be a little more rigorous together.

This makes me wonder something as a developer - it’s not just tempting to have analytics and telemetry, it’s very, very valuable data if you care about the customer experience. And for companies that don’t do anything with this data other than improve the customer experience and fix crashes, this data is also valuable to the customers and users. So the big question here for developers is how can we collect usage data safely without compromising privacy? What data is safe to track, and what data is not safe to track? Personally I assume there are many kinds of seemingly innocuous data that could be misused. Even tracking mouse location can reveal things to an adversary. What can we do as developers to prevent customer experience from becoming adversarial? Is the only answer to not send any data? Or is there a technical way to establish and maintain trust between users and apps?
Epigallocatechin gallate blocks infection of SARS-CoV-2 and new variants
You're just throwing up arguments to see what sticks here. Almost everything you're saying is wrong or misdirected.

> Never mind that the plants consume CO2.

The linked technique is literally about getting more plants to grow to consume CO2.

> Or that we are wise enough to know what is the correct cooling/heating rate for the planet.

Strawman. You don't have to have a perfect master plan to know that "wildly distorted CO2 levels from the geological baseline of the last epoch" is almost certainly the WRONG level from the perspective of existing ecosystems. You don't need to be able to engineer a perfect wheelbarrow to fix a broken handle with duct tape.

> Or that CO2, is even the right metric at all.

Same deal. It's pretty clearly a metric, and something we're messing up. You're right that there are other greenhouse forcing mechanisms (methane being the big one). That doesn't constitute an argument for "don't fix CO2". You don't skip an alignment appointment on your car because it also has a rattle under the hood.
FWIW: Selling by weight seems to be common (and quick) in Minnesota.
I agree with the parent's claim. This kind of consequentialist thinking is highly fashionable and increasingly vacuous.

We should be less concerned with consequences and more concerned with actions in themselves. Buying an iphone is not "supporting slave labor". Paying taxes is not supporting your government's foreign policy. Turning on the heater is not killing the planet.

> eliding the simple fact that buying products from a company, shitty or otherwise, is literally supporting that company and its owners.

No, it's literally paying money in exchange for a good or service.

> I can't think of a more meaningful way to support something than to give it money...

You can't? That's somewhat shocking.
Well, I do use fossil fuels in various ways (I have a car, I have a heated home, and I consume electricity which is approx. half fossil locally) - and yes, I do not consider continuing to do so unethical. It would be preferable to use less fossil fuels, which is a consideration for me, but I definitely do not consider that there's an ethical duty for me to use zero fossil fuels.

While we can (and should!) agitate for policy changes to reduce fossil fuel usage, it's appropriate to request that, I do not consider that it would be ethically appropriate for me or you to demand total "fossil abstinence" from any person around us - freedom and respecting others' freedom is also a valid ethical value, and actually imposing your will on others requires substantial justification, and having ethical ends do not imply all means would be ethical.
You might be in the minority, but not alone. I had same experience with Witcher 3 and AAAs in general. I find that games with good procedural gameplay and an inherently emerging story are the best fit for me. E.g. Kenshi, Dwarf Fortress come to mind. Kingdom Come is a counter-example, where it's fairly mainstream, but I found writing great and the world procedural (alive) enough for me to thoroughly immerse in. Can't wait for the sequel. I like a lot of multiplayer games too: sourcing randomness and intelligence from actual people works well.
Styropyro is one of the most universally reviled science YouTube channels among practicing scientists. Beyond doing really dumb shit, he runs an absolute cesspool of a discord server overrun with 14 year olds who build very dangerous laser contraptions, and then buy the cheapest, shittiest laser safety goggles, which are completely ineffective. He makes doing dangerous things in a completely unprepared way look cool.
Conspiratorial rant? Please.
It is question of when, not how.
Last time I checked, tracking and surveillance are normalized. People like to participate in "technology experiments". After Snowden what is changed in general? Nothing special. You have listening devices like Alexa & Echo, one web browser - Chrome, Ring, and people love it. So it is very logical, moving forward genetic tech to create a new "market" and people to love it.:)
if the house is on fire, putting out the fire good, regardless of what other deficiencies the house might have.
That sounds like it’s still a cut-scene, just one done in-engine. Does the player have any control over the encounter, like shooting the marine or the scientist, before the scene begins?
It's also why I come to HN: for the random.
It might not be the only issue, but it is clearly part of it - if there was no patent in the first place we wouldn't be discussing their unwillingness to license.
I imagine nuclear + solar + wind + battery setups like Tesla's grid batteries would work just fine, anyone with enough knowledge of nuclear grid power that can chime in?
Is this unironically how you speak or just because you feel you have to because you think this is how "real business men" speak?

Saying "Initial startup costs fo equipment and ongoing cost of maintenance will not see any sane sort of return" would have sufficed
Each word has a 4-bit field correspond to its purpose so you could use some other method than color. https://colorforth.github.io/parsed.html

I wonder if simply choosing better colors depending on the type of color blindness would be a quick fix, starting with not using red and green.
Android and iOS phones definitely track EVERY app usage down to the millisecond - and they have since pretty much the beginning...
> New reactors coming that are way, way less expensive.

They've been "coming" since the 1960's. Start yelling about building stuff when they've arrived.
Microsoft Edge Stable Released for Linux
Take a "sample" of pumpkins, weigh them, have the humans write down their prices and fit a pumpkin weight -> price model. A pumpkin is sort of a hollow shell if you discount the weight of the goop inside, so the weight should increase with the square of the diameter.
If I am not mistaken, there was, back in the day, a small program called Proxomitron that did this.
Apple does the same thing. Phones home for every application you open.
Ableton has a radically different interface from previous DAWs
Physics won’t change in a thousand years and it’s very unlikely we’ll find anything more powerful and energy-dense beyond nuclear fission and fusion.
I was asked by and cooperated with adults from 14 yrs onwards. At 17 I was at one of the Dutch major publishers.

Also, The Dude.
I think one way is to show the actual data being sent, rather than a black box with a sign “trust us, send us your telemetry”

Some companies allow you to see what they are going to sent. It still takes trust, but it goes a long way.
I believe author of the resume was familiar with

http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

I dare anyone to get 100% on the first try
Short of a comprehensive political challenge to the American oligarchy that prioritizes the dominance of the American empire over the well-being of American citizens, essentially nothing can be done about this kind of thing in the United States.

Understand the GDPR is only able to exist as a tool of leverage in international markets. The benefits to individual privacy are little more than a means to that end.
I wonder if this is correct. Setting the nuclear slider to max single-handedly reduces emissions by 30%, decreases energy costs rather than increases, does not require land use change, improves air quality, and also reduces electricity demand by using the waste heat for district heating.

Now add: (1.) electrification of freight transport, (2.) tackling the (relatively) quick wins in industry electrification, and (3.) carbon capture, and one gets to 75% emissions reduction with less than one percent of cost increase and zero behavioural changes (such as eating less meat or flying less often) are required.

I can't find any other combination in this calculator that leaves nature so untouched, requires so little land use, requires no behaviour adjustment, or is so cheap while still reducing emissions meaningfully. (Well, geothermal is nearly as good but then its maximum potential is only a small percentage of energy demand and it's also a bit more expensive per Joule.)

Probably the most unrealistic part is public support for the choice, but in a perfect world? Would it be this simple?!
Muh conspiracy. Muh capitalism.

Have you not considered that the groups of people coming up with these policies have a much higher level view and are much more qualified to make these decisions than you eating Cheetos in your gaming chair.
> It would take at least ten years to educate the nuclear engineers needed to build dozens or even hundreds of them. And even then they don't have experience, they are juniors building very complex multi billion dollar installations.

How did they do it in the past then? The first power station opened in 1956 when the technology was secretive and when there was no internet. The real problem looks completely because of red tape and NIMBY

Edit: You are also misinformed, there are Gen III reactors in operation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APR-1400
Mobile is the default interface through which non-technical people interact with the digital world. It’s the prerequisite for building products and services. If OP can master that and create stuff that fits the character of their local market, they will be able to transcend the life of a third-world salary person and have a chance to own entire markets.

Usually multinationals will establish a local office, often involving sending off some MBA type on a lavish vacation expedition, to get into a country/region. Due to perception reasons alone, I just don’t think the best talent in the world is easily motivated to move to Iraq. Even if Iraq is lumped into some “EMEA” office, it’s probably not a high priority getting tons of resources. OP has rare home court advantage. They should leverage it for maximum benefit, and then help improve the lives of others.
Have you tried a vr headset? The sense of presence is powerful and might be the base of something big. Try before you judge.
At some point, you have to wonder: why does the nuclear industry seem to just suck at lobbying?

The wind lobby has professionals who made the case to people who matter. That's not evil, that's your - the industries - job.

At a high level the nuclear industry, sorry to say, honestly doesn't care. It's the Boeing of the energy world, except even more so: wring every last drop out of dead tech, and never invest a cent.
It's worth mentioning that an excellent FOSS alternative is LuLu -- https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html or https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu [last commit a week ago!]
Probably a small learning for all of us here - test your code with the data you already hold in production.
"Homeless" means without a home. "Unhomed" sounds like someone did it to him, and furthermore is not a word.
Indeed, it sounds like an eighth grade project.
> “Fifty Shades of Grey” was completely criticized on all fronts by reviewers, but still became one of the top bestsellers.
> [...]
> Most of the stories created today are low-quality ones. And that was always so. Only when we look at the past creations, we can only experience those that were good enough to be preserved.

I'm pretty sure that Fifty Shades of Grey wasn't successful for its story, but for discussing sex and specifically BDSM in a more open way than what was previously seen in "mainstream" movies.

Overall, a lot of works that, on the surface, aren't very impressive by current standards, but still managed to stand out in a novel way. Fifty shades and Half Life are two examples, but you could say exactly the same thing about Minecraft, DOOM, most of the classical movies, most of the old "legendary" cars and a lot more. Things don't become classics by standing the test of time - if you discount nostalgia, a lot of "classical" stuff is crap by todays standard -, but by founding the genre they're later beaten in.
Parent didn't mention censorship.

You're considering that everyone watching this video knows who styropyro is and have watched all his past videos, including the ones with safety instructions (which may sound like a waste of time to some people with other cooler videos to watch). This looks like the curse of knowledge at play, because there is a demographic that may think it's fine to try this at home. My suggestion would be to simply include more visual disclaimers, because his presentation makes it look like it isn't dangerous, despite him warning sometimes (but always half joking). The current disclaimers are easily missed since there are some people who skip the video to the good parts and don't watch everything.

And just making clear that I want him to keep the jokes (like the moment at 3:20). Those are the best parts. ElectroBOOM does stuff like that too and it's great, but I think it conveys better how painful/dangerous it is. Perhaps if he includes an intro where he warns without jokes, and then adds some visual warnings throughout the video, would be enough. For instance, in this joke, it wasn't shown to a newcomer what he did to ensure it's safe to poke the microwave around like that.
Not the author but I've been writing code on a daily basis since I was 8yo, and I'm pretty sure there are others out there.

With an early start, professional-ish work around 15yo seems perfectly doable.
CT Scan of a Pumpkin
Germany has a large share (50%) of renewables and their specific CO2 emissions per kWh are up to ten times higher as compared to France with 70% nuclear.

Volatile renewables don’t effectively help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...
No joke about that discord.
It's abysmal.
If each pumpkin was passed down a conveyor belt in a single file line then it's diameter could be easily measured with an array of light sensors aimed vertically which could be used to set the price in the checkout system. Different customer's orders could be separated by a board that spanned the full width of the sensor array, which would stop the conveyor until it was removed.
MUMPS does this, but unfortunately MUMPS is a horroshow of a language.
Luckily the UPC is a complete pipe dream and may never see the light of day. It’s been ‘around the corner’ for nearly a decade.