skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is storing nuclear waste is accepted practice today expected from every country having a plant, storing chemical emissions(CO2) is not.

A enforced storage/cleanup would be ideal yes, U.S. has never agreed to any standards, even know while Kerry talking about shutting down Coal by 2030 from nowhere, the U.S. government explicitly did not join the pledge to shutdown coal in 2030s like some countries did last week in COP26, and has always refused to get into any international binding agreement.

From a economic perspective what you are mandated to pay for [1] today is how you model costs of the project. Running a nuclear plant today means you have to keep spent in fuel on premise with no horizon for that status quo to change. Economic model for actual money going to be spent now ( not environmental or social costs models of indirect costs) has to factor that in the cost of ownership of a plant.

Is that unfair because fossil fuels has indirect costs ? yes it is, but that does not matter from an economic decision making point of view when financing a new power plant today. Carbon tax is not a solution either as currently being envisioned [1]

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[1] The carbon tax that is being discussed in the U.S. would be a disaster .

a) The tax rate is quite low which will supposedly increase over the years. The political pendulum in the U.S. almost guarantees that when republicans come to power in 2024 or later they are going repeal/relax a carbon tax like with Paris Agreement. U.S. is not currently in position to make serious long term commitments on any policy.

b) The polluters want limits *relaxed* as part of the tax deal. That means they want to be able to pollute as much as they want and just pay a small tax to do so ,which is why it is actually supported by some republicans I suppose.

c) Finally there is no plans on how to use the money to *remove* CO2 from the atmosphere, reducing emissions with that money with green investments is not good enough as polluters are in theory paying the government to take care of the problem and will pollute as they wish so government needs to clean the CO2 up. CCS is not viable economically today certainly not at the tax rate being proposed.
This is interesting for replacing small wind turbines, which often break before they recovered their embodied energy[1], but I have a hard time seeing this technology replace large scale commercial wind turbines. Kite based wind power has been talked about for years, but somehow it fails to materialize. I assume cost and safety concerns play a role.

[1]http://theoildrum.com/node/6954
What does Aunty Helen think?
I would name Gameboy for that
I'm making the point it's hardly open and shut
The use of python in most ML/AI research is not even a "glue" language.

It is used as a shell. It's merely an interface to some gigantic, highly optimized libraries (numpy, scipy, and later, Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc.), and it does a very decent job at being an interface.

- The language is easy to grasp, at least the part that is used in data science and ML;

- The syntax is "familiar", as compared with R;

- There are many more general purpose libraries in Python than in R;

- There's no memory management problems;

- The standard library is packed with batteries;

- No compiling, which is important for being a shell;

- It's better than bash etc. at dealing with non-text data, especially numerical values;

- The community was already writing extensions in C;

Some other language could work well, too, had someone written a numpy for it at the time. But there really aren't that many people who are capable, interested, and invested enough to write such a marvelous library.
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C++ has a version of that notation, with minor (and IMHO unnecesssary) restrictions that probably impose no hardship.
> how is it even possible to handwave away systemic racism and bias "that benefits white people specifically" as anything other that white supremacy?

Your way of grouping people by race is kind of arbitrary. It puts together rich and poor when they only share a skin color. How is white supremacy working in Bulgaria, for example?
I can only provide anecdotal material, but back in 2007-2014 when I was a particle physics researcher, we saw a high uptake of python for steering data analysis jobs. The actual calculations were done in C++. Gradually over the years, as more students joined the LHC conquest, our tools evolved to allow more of the analyses to be directly programmed in Python. R was never a thing among the 10000+ physicists in our community. These people have since then drifted around the world working on Big Data, ML and recently Data Science. It’s hard to keep count, but I routinely recognize fellow particle physicists at various ML companies.

For the curious, our primary hammer was “ROOT” https://root.cern - note its well-evolved ability to connect Python and C++ code.
> Anyone can write a rough command line tool that monitors the clipboard and prints to stdout.

There's a good chance that this will solve 95% of all needs. Most of the features suggested in the article beyond the original premise are unnecessary.
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It doesn't need to / you could theoretically do it in C++. It's just that Python (as with other scripting languages) provides really nice, high-level expressiveness and also has a decent module system. You can write code in the REPL or just write a quick-and-dirty script and test it out without write-compile-run cycles.

NumPy is highly optimized for things like matrix math. You get great speed with the C-level module, and you drive it with really simple Python code. So you want to multiply two matrices? The code literally looks no different than multiplying two scalars. That's Python's superpower.

I haven't written C++ in nearly 20 years; maybe it's good enough to be able to do ML work. But the heavy lifting library in C/C++ plus the high-level driving Python is a really good fit.
I'd also like to point out that much depends on what kind of software you are developing.

My main job for the past 5-6 years is system integration and I had a chance to compare Ruby and Go in this field.

And this is definitely where I'd prefer Go to most other languages. You don't need clever code most of the time, you need really clear and safe code that will run for a decade after deployment.
This was supposed to be a student hobby project, not a company product release. You are thinking of this problem from the perspective of an enterprise programmer, not of a hobbyist enthusiast.
(Though counterpoint: destroying something is often the fastest way of finding out what its use was. Needs a certain willingness to be run over by a charging bull though.)
I wrote recipe-filter thanks to a comment here on HN years ago!

https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter
One of hidden pros is that UUID has no gaps visible to product owner or manager. More than once in my life I have try convince people, that the gap in sequence caused by transaction rollback is OK. Several times we were «fixing data» in db manually
Yeah and what about awk!?

Partially joking, but not totally, and I can appreciate why people might say this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5725291

(I pasted the HN link because the original seems to be down)
I'm not certain if you're being tongue-in-cheek or not, but I would think that often this would be positive net-value to content quality. If it takes a troll or a bot to stimulate quality discussion... so be it, I suppose.
This was a minority view inflated by poor journalism. Climate science as a whole was veering toward the "Earth gets warmer" conclusion.(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/06/...)

I note your article also waves the "follow the money" insinuation that scientists are being bought writ-large by government grants even though these are but a trickle compared to the profits from selling fossil fuels.
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The "no-BS" feature isn't working:

"Unlock New York Times recipes and your personal recipe box with a free account."
Extending the comment a little: I'm crediting CPython for the nice APIs, but really I should be crediting David Beazley's SWIG. That got the ball rolling on a lot of projects.
In 1994 there were people playing Doom with VR headsets on Lisbon Expo (IT related).

Many of us don't get it, because we have seen the sales pitch come back every couple of years.
Because one provides infrastructure as a service and the other is a two sided marketplace, completely different businesses.
I see. Well, you are correct. I'm sure that a particularly motivated entity with access to my Telegram could find something on me, and coercing foreigners with blackmail could be a good strategy for any government.
> A reactor operating for only 7 minutes every 30 minutes is not attractive

It just means have 4 reactors on site operating sequentially, doesn't it?
SEPP was always a backwards solution for me. If someone is able to retire early why would they be putting all their savings into retirement accounts? Surely, they would have some more liquid/penalty-free accounts to draw upon until they retire.
That devolves into the age-old debate of restriction vs regulation. What devices should children have access to, and what devices are a problem? A laptop can just as well be used as badly as a cellphone in this context. Video games on home consoles can have just as much of a psychological effect as hate-mongering social media. I have had similar opinions (even reflected them in a past comment), but upon some feedback and introspection I've come to realize that forbidding kids from accessing something as ubiquitous as cellphones can't be viable. There is no set standard where you can draw a line that an individual is mature enough to handle social media, and there's no set consensus about when and how harmful it is that it would warrant bans. A handful of researches and surveys show that a section of children may face self-esteem issues from Instagram, but that's really not much to go on.

btw, I share the same bewilderment for children participating unrestricted in social media. I just don't have an answer to a practical standard of restriction. It seems like this generation's children will grow up having social media as a natural, integral part of society. So what it should boil down to, in my opinion, is to make social media spaces as safe, civil and habitable with laws, as you make the open world that children are exposed to. Regulate these platforms stringently, with constant supervision from public bodies, just as the police monitors real-life public spaces.
My wife and I share the same account to have the same info available on all our devices. This means shopping lists too and thanks to the lightning fast sync our shopping has become distributed, effectively halving the time we spent at the store.

We tried several other apps and this one is worth every penny. Some of my favourite features:
- Customize aisles
- Auto stacking in shopping list
- Clickable timers
- Custom import from web
- Well working scaling

Strongly recommending this app to anyone.

Sidenote: If available, use a portable scanner at the store. This reduces the amount of times you touch an item significantly, speeding up the experience.

Sidenote 2: To make auto stacking in the shopping list work the item name needs to be identical. We found that separating ingredient from processing works best. So 2 kg potatoes as ingredient and cutting in half in the directions instead of 2 kg of potateos cut in half as ingredient.
It seems like things displaying diffs could use a specific color for lines only changed by formatting or indentation (indentation can have significant meaning like in Python but this would probably be good enough)
many companies have informal on call, or just some kind of "support"
The linked text is pretty bad, having many mistakes. Please see the two comments at the end of the page.

For a better overview on what the projections are, please see http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-f... , or the original paper by Futamura.
> c) a strong central government

Tangential to this, as an initial fan of the Federalist Papers (and of the people who wrote/were behind them) reading the Antifederalist Papers from that same era really opened my eyes, the people (anonymously) writing in there about the perils of centralised government in North America really touched on many points that are still valid now, ~230 years after they were written. You could also see in those writings that the mid-19th century Civil War was really hard to avoid, and not only because of slavery. For the record, I'm not an US citizen and I've never set foot in the US, maybe these facts about the Antifederalist Papers are really well-known across the pond and I'm only stating the obvious in here.
I have solar in The Netherlands. It makes financial sense over 7-10 years.
The single most greatest question we should ask all the climate change alarmists.

Unfortunately, they have no realistic solutions and continue to scream at others and cause wanton chaos and panic. Year after year, they are just as bad as the ones in power that are not doing anything.

Both screaming, yelling, panicking and being idle are not solutions.

But at least you can't scream or say that technologists in companies developing EVs or net-zero solutions in other vehicles are not doing anything. That is what we need more of, and that is far significantly better than the talking and screaming that is going on at these conferences; even when they all flew in private jets to have these talks about 'climate change' but they are making the process quicker instead.

Perhaps having a Zoom / Skype conference call, would be much greener than representatives from 200+ countries flying in and out of the conference.
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>Most homes have a basement or a crawl space.

Not sure if this is true or not in total, but in the Southern US, the vast majority of houses have neither.
That is one month salary for plenty of people in Portugal, hardly budget.
7:1 decrease in positive:negative contributions seen when 137 Fandom sites started requiring accounts.

The negative contributions seem to catalyze an outsized positive response.

Reflects the experience of Wikipedia as well.

Apparently crowds know how to deal with themselves.
Nuclear energy is THE power source of NIMBY-ism, relatively clean, ecological, always available but just so long as it's next door to somebody else. The Germany plans to do away with this power source with come back to bite them badly in the next thirty years.
Precisely this. Tor browser after this update looks pretty FU'ed. I hope they are going to fix this one ASAP.

This update is actually so messed up, that I had to delete my whole profile and start from scratch, because everything was missing, including icons and text. It starts and is usable with the fresh profile, but this should seriously be fixed.
To add, execution plans presented by MariaDB are also nearly useless.
Pretty much this: https://xkcd.com/386/
Thank you for embodying the straw man we are trying to argue against.

I guess the issue is "we" here. Sure "humanity" as a "we" has all the tools. But humanity has all the tools to solve world hunger and perhaps reach net Zero green house gas emissions.

The metaverse is being sold as some sort of universal VR app, but it's being pursued through a capitalist system.

It won't work. "It" referring to whatever Facebook pumps out and calls the metaverse. It'll just be another game. In order to "work" or to realize its massive ambiguous vision it has to reach critical mass of adoption such that any competitor simply must build onto the Facebook controlled platform. I think we are years away from seeing that, and I don't think the people pursuing the metaverse right now are capable of building it.

The only company I see actually open sourcing the tech is Nvidia.

Nvidia is closer to building the metaverse than Facebook is, mark my words on that.

But either way, the metaverse is a bit of a joke. It's kinda like saying "VR chat, but like _really good_".

I think eventually maybe we get there, but it could be literal lifetimes away. I think the haters are afraid that the companies pursuing metaverse are just wasting human and financial capital that needs to be allocated towards potential existential crises, or barring that, just towards more important or more immediately useful things.

These capitalist companies want to be the platform owner of the metaverse, ala apple to the App Store. It's not a vision of the future that is powering them, it's a faint mirage of $ and power. It's envy of the app store. That's what I think powers the resentment of the metaverse that so many people feel.
> They encourage consumption over action

Unless "action" excludes things like "liking", commenting, and posting, this isn't true. Most feeds start out by trying to encourage "like" interactions because that's generally the easiest thing to directly optimize for. Next they encourage things like getting the viewer to post their own content, or leave a comment, or share the post.

I'd be happy to write more about how these algorithms work if you're interested.
My guess is that Iin 99% collision could occur during insert. Most of the time db will just not allow to insert duplicated record.
Just some random thoughts with subjective opinions:

- Too much whitespace in my opinion.

- Rows instead of columns feel a bit alien and are uncomfortable to use.

- Missing tooltips (E.g. the buttons with the arrows: Are this upvote/downvote buttons or buttons to change the order of the sections, this is not clear without clicking)

- Doesn't have a automatic dark mode (Well, it's a beta product, so I wouldn't expect it)

- Some images look wrong (Firefox 94, Fedora): https://imgur.com/a/bKdTYPj

The news selections is at least for events in germany not that good: A lot of at least for me unknown newspapers, no Spiegel, Zeit, Süddeutsche, ... (Searchterm: "3g bayern")
Awesome for you. There are other 7.9 billion people in the world who don’t live in California. They’re consumers too who don’t want to be **ed by developers too.
Python became the de facto glue language for supercomputing a very long time ago because you could easily bind C code into it. If you needed linear algebra etc to run on a massive supercomputer, there were highly optimized Python libraries for that so the researcher didn’t have to write C/C++/Fortran. This massively improved iteration times for a lot of scientific computing efforts with only a modest loss of performance. By the time data science/ML/AI/etc became a thing these tools were already very mature and also relevant.

The tl;dr: Python had the advantage of a mature legacy in supercomputing doing many of the same types of computations done in AI/ML. Those libraries and bindings provided a massive leg up versus other scripting languages that did not have this kind of capability effectively built-in.
Unity is betting big on VFX Virtual Production, what a huge step this is. Unreal is of course ahead in this space, with major productions like Mandalorian to back it up. This is very interesting and exciting to see what will happen.
Weta is so beloved in the industry, and has so much expertise, hope nothing is lost in this transition.
It's not only plutonium, it's an unholy mess of everything from completely inert materials to extremely hazardous. Nuclear fission is not at all equivalent to a nice chemical reaction where A + B = C.

See this graph for the spread based on Z number (Protons + Neutrons).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#/media/File%...
For goodness' sake, there's a middle ground for making your product sticky that doesn't need people to commit to stop using Google Search without trying your product once!

Let me repeat that - you're asking me to give up Google Search, one of the seven wonders of the online world! Yes, I know, you can still go to google.com. But based on your messaging you clearly understand that a search engine that isn't in the search bar is one that doesn't exist. And maybe you know beyond a doubt that your product is better, but you sure haven't earned that trust with the rest of us yet!

Here is the middle ground: Ask users to add you to their chrome://settings/searchEngines with a one-letter shortcut, so they can search with You by typing "y <searchterm>". You're targeting technical users; we know how to work with hacks like that. There may even be a way to set this up programmatically.

I already have custom search engines set up for language study and Wolfram Alpha, and use them all the time. The evidence that this is effective is that Google seems to have intentionally crippled the keywords for competing search engines in its defaults, despite the known antitrust risks. This is an easy trial option, and if users start using your engine more, you can occasionally nudge them about making you their default.

I've just added you to my one-letter list, because a nice user shared a GET request that showed me your search results, and they seem interesting. And also monopolies are bad for the end user. But the very fact that you're making demands like this implies such a strange thinking about your relationship with users that I've got one foot out the door already.

(Edit: Okay, despite the above, after more tests via one letter shortcut your ideas about search actually do seem very decent. I guess this means Google really does have it too easy at the moment. If this is what ends up fixing your onboarding, remember me when you IPO, please and thank you)
Looks very interesting.
Didn't find a word about birds' safety on your landing page.
This is even less visible to birds than traditional turbines, if I am not mistaken.
Employers like it for retention
I can't recommend this material enough. It's amazing to hear about the German electronic air defense in WWII. I had no idea. Interesting to hear about how Stanford got involved as well.

From Description of the lecture that summarizes this stuff [1]:

"Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.

In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today. "

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
For a community that really valued anonymous posting, couldn't you let members vouch for anonymous posts before making them visible? If no one vouches then they disappear.

Like, hacker news almost allows anonymous posting because the account creation is so simple.
"A Dollar-by-Dollar Tour of the National Security State"
Also dang did that to the other big Show HN story yesterday: "Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer" so it seems to be a new thing he does independently of if the post is by a YC company or not.
I'm not sure I could find sources on the web any more easily than you. (Maybe start by looking at references in David Beazley's old talks?) I was in physics at the time, and what happened there was that Python basically enveloped Fortran & C++, letting people use the existing code without getting bogged down in complicated invocations.