skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll open source the 33Kb extension soon so you can see that all it does is changing one setting.
I understand the distrust, I hate sketchy extensions also.
Sadly, it's the only way to become your default as a new search engine :)
No scripting languages?
That doesn't leave a lot of room for "evolving understanding as more study is made" which may come back to bite, later.
We're on HN. There are people with expertise in the field. You can also vet everything I've stated. I've linked sources and pulled from my own experience. You would not be arguing with me if this was on database processing or something computer related. But we're talking a hot topic and one that is known to be extremely complicated. Sorry that you think my education and experience in the field is dismissive of the views of someone who claims to have neither.
Plutonium-239 (and neptunium-237 not used in weapons AFAIK ) are the most long lived isotopes of HLW ( High Level Wastes) yes. There are also other isotopes and other types of waste. We don't have yet data for any civilian waste disposal ( Yuccta mountain project is effectively dead now.

We currently do not have a viable economically well understood solution, not hypothetical plans which may work to use plutonium effectively [1] at costs we have no idea about or disposal facility for which costs are not really known yet for all types (HLW/ILW and LLW) waste products we cannot talk costs of ownership.[2]

That doesn't mean we shouldn't do nuclear or not build new plants, but without knowing these costs any estimate of cost of ownership is useless numbers in the air as nobody knows what it is going to actually cost yet.

[1] Again engineering and economics, engineering maybe well understood, costs are not, we don't know the costs until we build a few, nuclear is notorious for widely over running cost estimates compared to any other power generation method.

[2] We don't need to measure thousand years of disposal to know the costs, we just need to run an actual disposal site for few years to really estimate the costs .
I don't bake much but for all my other cooking, I can mess with most ingredients by 100% with little delta in the experience. Sure it tastes a little different but I'm not a factory, this is home cooking. This also makes you much more resilient to missing an ingredient.

Making Coq-au-Vin, and use double the chicken? Probably not a problem. Add carrots, 0 carrots, totally fine.

Barbeque? You can do all sorts of things with the spice mix, it'll likely come out fine.

Making mac and cheese? 4x the cheese, totally fine, just keep adding it till it melts. Too thick? Add cream. Not tasty enough, add some bbq sauce. Measure? Why!

I commonly use a Pinch and a Dash of seasoning. Really it's tasting it and knowing what's off and being able to balance.

Because here's a real truth: every batch of a given ingredient likely has different strength. Dried, fresh, been in the jar for 2 years, brand new from the store, McCormick vs Store Brand vs Different part of the country/world... Also your vegetables will taste different depending on time of year, location, variety, as will your meats, dairy, cheeses, etc, literally everything.
I think the issue is when the positivity gets in the way of acknowledging the situation. Sometimes "damn, that sucks man" are the words I need to hear.
This is about being able to package and provide the Weta toolset to Unity developers. Imagine making video games with the Weta toolset.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/college-graduate-starting-sa...

Those with college degrees make more. So if you forgive student loan debt, you're giving a ton of money to people who are largely doing very well.

One can make a large variety of very stupid life-altering choices at 25, these people should have known better. I would say, again unless you're trying to be a doctor or a lawyer your student loans should be capped at 100k. That would eliminate most of the most outrageous behavior. I know for myself I took a modest 20,000 or so in loans and that changed my life forever. That allowed me to go to college, and escape my horrible family who like not paying bills and getting evicted.

If you forgive the student loans, the counter argument becomes get rid of the student loans and then people who are responsible with them. Like myself, no longer have a ladder out of poverty. Honest to God, I have no sympathy for someone who with a college education decides it would be a good idea to take out another $200,000 in loans in order to get into a low paying field. Likewise if someone went and took their inheritance and bet it all on bitcoin, I wouldn't want a law passed reimbursing them.
> The OP thinks that humans read thinner columns faster. Generally, this seems not to be the case, so maybe we should treat his main conclusion with some skepticism.

> In any case, it's probably best to refer to the scientific literature.

You might not think so if you read the literature review which takes up most of that paper. The literature covered is generally focused on questions of no obvious interest and then, even in its own terms, finds little or no effect. Particularly funny is the paper (Youngman and Scharff (1998), covered in §2.7) comparing the independent effect of physical line length vs physical margin length. Or in other words, they investigated whether it's faster to (1) read six inches of text with half an inch of blank page to the right of the text, or to (2) read six inches of text with a full inch of blank page to the right of the text.

The paper you cite also goes out of its way to express the authors' dismay over the extreme nature of one experiment invalidating the finding they wish to support:

> The study also fails to replicate [the finding of] Dyson and Kipping (1998a) and earlier studies that more characters per line can result in faster reading. The difference may be due to the extreme nature of the longest line, i.e. 132 characters in 12 point Arial (rather than 10 point Arial used by Dyson and Kipping). The line length therefore not only has more characters but is also physically longer because of the larger type size.

later:

> A setting with no margin would not be typical practice, but may have been included to assess an extreme of a variable in a similar manner to using 132 characters per line.

How unfair!

Of course, as I read your comment on Hacker News, it contains a line of 130 characters.

This paper isn't even trying to address the questions you think it's addressing.
What exactly does this mean? What is 1.5 mJ compared to input energy?
I was responding to the comment that said GitHub + static hosting (this). I'm saying that you don't need external static hosting if you're already using GitHub, because GitHub has that out of the box at the flip of a switch (I don't mean the Jekyll and markdown stuff either — literally put an index.html at the root of your repo, and if you want a custom domain just tweak your DNS, otherwise use x.github.io)
> ERROR: permission denied for table users

I would hesitate to call this a useful feature. This error message doesn’t tell you about the actual problem at all.

How about something like:

Permission denied, cannot select other than (id, name) from table users
zstd is almost always a better choice than lz4 if you have a superscalar, vectorizing CPU. This is certainly the case for any datacenter, desktop, or modern laptop CPU out there (although you need to tune zstd accordingly). Even newer phone CPUs are probably better off with zstd. The only place where lz4 is truly appropriate is in embedded/very low power applications, and maybe for opportunistic compression in general purpose applications where it's not known how compressible the data will be. It's worth noting that both algorithms were created by the same person, Yann Collet.
I'm super glad that you're doing the thing you love. My son helped out in game dev. He's credited as "best ideas ever" and he is also demanding a cut of profits.
Part of that "somehow" may have been Microsoft. They provided a C development environment for MS-DOS, and developed Windows in C, imitating Unix. That probably came in via Xenix. (MS-DOS originally had "Xenix" system calls and features aped after Unix, which tells you that the developers were familiar with Xenix and thus had contact with C and Unix.) Windows API's being expressed in C might have been the catalyst that caused C to explode in the consumer PC scene.

People in the computing field would have known about C in connection with Unix, but Microsoft brought system software written in C to the mass consumer market, smack in the 1980's. That would have raised the profile of C as something proven that could be used to deliver; and you could use the compiler from that same vendor, if you wanted.
Lol.
We actually spend zero dollars on press.
> A certificate of authenticity has value in as much as it certifies authenticity, not because someone important has signed it.

I think you missed the point, someone has issued the certificate and it only matters if you value that person's or entity's opinion. If you don't then it's just a meaningless piece of paper.

For example, PSA grades playing cards. A rare card that is graded highly by PSA will generally make it much more valuable than an ungraded version of the same card. However, if someone send me a card in the mail and I grade it a 10 and send it back, that means nothing because nobody cares about my opinion on cards.

Similarity, if PSA were to issue NFTs, they would have value specifically because it was PSA who authored the NFTs. I could take the exact same data and author an NFT myself, but nobody would care because they specifically want the one that was created by PSA, and that is something that is verifiable and that I cannot duplicate. They don't want it for any real tangible reason, they want it so they can say "I own an NFT from PSA".
Honestly this move seemed inevitable. Renewables wouldn't fill this gap quickly enough and other sources are both dirty and require significant imports. Being dependent on energy imports can and should be interpreted as a threat to autonomy in an increasingly unstable region.

Fukushima was a once in a century disaster (if not more?) but there are definitely learnings that can help prevent other similar disasters.
Six Rules of Hiring for Growth
Some people make purchase decisions using criteria other than technical utilitarianism alone. But there’s more than a few qualitative differences between any 12 year old Dell and a 2020 M1 Air other than being a status symbol.
He has violated them once and got punished for that. And then there are 100s of claims by uneducated people that he 'constantly' violates the law.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Wind+Turbine+Blades+Can’t+Be...

the first link is basically your second link [2]. the rest are mostly links about that the problem from non recyclable is mostly a problem that only exists, because these fiberglass blades are dirt cheap compared to alternatives and it's cheaper to dump them in landfills.
in fact in 4 european countries it's forbidden to put them into landfills. in fact a spain company _can_ recycle fiber to fiber glass to 100% (reciclalia) and they do it even for differnt uses cases (formula 1 and aerospace).
of course if landfills are accepted in a country it's cheaper than to recycle. dumping is always cheaper than recycling thats why we dump so much (not just wind turbines...) in fact in germany a lot of our "recycling process" is asically thermal recycling which is not "real" recycling. we basically cheat the stats.
a shit ton of stuff can be recycled if somebody wants to, which is often not the case, not even on a governement level and sometimes it's just stupid to even create non recycable waste for no reason (which happens often in the food industry because the non recycable case is often cheaper)
I also like the modernist cuisine format, example here:

https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-and-cheese/
Workplace health and safety in a dev shop, can you elaborate on that? All I can think of is temperamental printers, crappy chairs and expired snacks in the honor box.
> We also found that many people will just do a quick search for "asd" or "weather" and then leave because those searches aren't really differentiated (and just can't really be).

This is an interesting point, I've seen other apps tackling this issue providing different pre-defined use cases that you can just click to use them. For example, online apps where you can upload a photo and get a somehow tweaked version of it (like cartooning your face or something like that), so users that want to give it a quick try can click on pre-uploaded pictures from a list and see results.

For this case maybe providing a good handful of search use cases where users wanting to give it a quick try could just click and see results could work to keep them away of dumb queries.

Good luck!
From the article: '“Without the incentives in place to reward good journalism, low quality journalism flourishes.”'
https://tidbits.com/2021/05/27/an-m1-mac-cant-boot-from-an-e...

I don't see any reports but there is evidence that should the soldered on SSD fail the entire device is borked short of board level repair.
Its fine for most day to day tasks, for example I have a simple "~/d" symlink to my windows "Downloads" folder that I can use to fetch files I've downloaded in windows Chrome.
Yea. If you want to alter your search settings and have real agency and control over your results... you'll need to create an account to save those settings.
You can also use it without changing your settings :)
> Sad to see another one of New Zealand's large, well known employers get sold.

Isn’t selling a success? That’s the whole idea!
Sometimes you want your keys to be smaller, so that more of your important indexes would fit in RAM, making searches and joins faster.
Yea, Vivaldi has some extension bug but you can manually set your defaults or go into incognito mode to try it out without the extension.
Archived version to bypass the paywall: https://archive.ph/vV4Aa
Sending physical mail can be effective, too, and can use less of your time in a trade for additional walltime.
Gloria: See. if I'm thirsty. I don't want a glass of water, I want you to sympathize. I want you to say, "Gloria, I too know what it feels like to be thirsty. I too have had a dry mouth." I want you to connect with me through sharing and understanding the concept of dry mouthedness.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/White_Men_Can%27t_Jump
>Not a problem for foreign companies that can and do pay "like the US", because they compete globally.

Do they really though? How many non-US companies are paying $150k+ to mid level front end developers? I don't think that exists anywhere else.
KR1801VM2 (KP1801BM2) are on eBay.

You won't be able to use them in a system at the current time though.
Respectfully: because nobody knows who the fuck you are, and your reasoning doesn't make sense.

You want to offer a privacy focused search service, but the users need to install an extension because otherwise <some gibberish about google evil here> instead of just having a regular web frontend for the masses to try. Then it's too hard for lusers to switch; you created this problem for yourself.

The more you respond, the more it looks like this is some poorly thought out lead capture, or you're so focused on the service you don't understand the broader security concerns.
Things I learned from running a virtual meetup for 18 months
I prefer WSL2 over OSX, just from the fact that apt is so much quicker and reliable than brew.
>we don't want to block our users. we are just trying to make it convenient and easy to have navbar searches

You are, quite literally, blocking potential users by putting a wall up in front of your search engine instead of trusting them to just remember to search at "you.com". Your workarounds are just more walls (opening an incognito window, adding URL parameters, etc) that aren't feasible: if you don't trust someone to remember "you.com", they're definitely not going to remember to also add `&fromSearchBar=false` to their queries.

It comes off as user-hostile. It makes me think you think so little of me (or other users) that I need my hand held through changing my search engine. I don't, and I don't appreciate a search engine treating me like I'm stupid.
With the release of Windows 11, I also thought this would be a good opportunity to change my daily driver to Linux. I'm a Unity developer.

I downloaded the latest Ubuntu release and figured out how to mount it with Rufus on a USB and install it to my PC. The 3rd party drivers actually worked out of the box (GPU, 4k monitor) unlike the last time I tried Ubuntu.

From there on, literally NOTHING worked in my development workflow. Download Unity Hub? Won't let me sign in because of an unattended bug with oauth (with no older builds available). Get Rider and MSBuild off of Applications? It won't compile any code. Even GitKraken (a favorite tool of mine) would instantly crash when I browse to a window.

The amount of pain and frustration escalates to a level 10 very fast every time I try Linux. I heard a quote that there are no bad OSes, just bad developers. I can imagine a world where there are enough users for every category of software where things work out of the box. I'm sadly not seeing this, and am incredibly discouraged.

Using Linux is like buying a car, but upon delivery the car body is placed in your driveway, and the engine and transmission are laid out on your front lawn with the expectation that you can build a car yourself.
I just don't see the readability arguments. I think it hurts readability in a big way, especially in JS where it can be mistaken for destructuring. I've seen firsthand people who defend this syntax get confused. Sure, it's brief confusion, but if anything introduces any kind of confusion at all, I don't see the benefit. `foo: foo` is verbose, sure, but I don't know how one could argue that it isn't readable. It's about as clear as you can get.
You can buy all the SIM cards you want with cash, but the numbers you dial will be made available and by gleaning the data they can determine who you are.
I work for a remote-first company and our team is spread across three timezones. It's a PITA.
There's another: a business creates new lists and adds old customers to it. Some popular websites have multiple categories of marketing lists that can be unsubscribed from one by one.
yea i'm not going to install an extension. but actually you CAN try it with the little text box at the top.

took me a second look to find it. the spammy design doesn't actually make it obvious. kinda like yahoo's clutter vs google's minimalist homepage all over again.
Sure, but specifically the video highlights a town that does it the best, and it might be biased but the claim is very strong that it really is used widely and quite nice.

To put it the other way, driving in the most heavy snowy weather isn't ideal either.
Sure, but is the peace of mind that it didn't come out of human worth stepping in something large enough that it gets around and into your shoes?
Extreme weather events can result in both extreme energy demand and edge cases for intermittent energy production. We can’t just rely on the low probability of our energy sources dropping out at the same time. That’s just begging for a catastrophic black swan event. Heat and cold can kill during a power outage. At least we need massive peaker capacity (with pipes that don’t freeze), and that’s part of the price tag.
If you say it's a 'basic fact', who can disagree?
Do you get a low interest rate loan guaranteed by taxpayers when you bought that car? With provisions that payments would only be required after you got a job and that they would be capped as a percentage of income? And did you know that the loan was non-dischargeable when you took it out?

If you can say yes to all of the above, then you shouldn't be able to discharge it in bankruptcy, either.
Europe undervalues their engineers - and it seems like it's some sort of cultural thing that favors management. Their tax structure isn't great either, there's a reason zero billion dollar companies were founded in Europe (with the possible exception of Spotify). There's also the cultural pessimism and ambition being 'uncool' - there's a similar thing in Australia/New Zealand (at least I've heard from immigrant friends that moved from there). The 'tallest poppy gets chopped down' basically the opposite of the American idiom 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease'.

Even outside of Europe places like Toronto don't operate with the right investment mindset to actually create wealth: https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/11/why-the-canadian-tech-scene...

American optimism and ambition, really valuing engineers, generous equity and culture are a big part of this. Companies outside of America have been losing talent because they've been fucking this up, I expect things to get worse for them as geography is even less of an issue for working for American companies than it already is.

Devon is basically making this point, but the title is confusing. It's not the US companies that will lose the monopoly on talent, it's the US geography. The US companies will increase their monopoly.
curious to know what instance type are you using for AWS? Are they i3 instances?
People don't want to install an extension!!

Once installed, an extension can be updated to do bad things.

Open source or otherwise, people don't want extensions. Stand on the merit of your website rather than trying to force people to install an extension.
The question we’ve stopped asking about teenagers and social media
>Plus, you don’t have to retrofit the entire automobile fleet.

The entire transportation fleet, a good chunk of the grid and a good chunk of the infrastructure for heating things.
Weta does also run their own datacenter for local rendering; they use some network automation stuff I put together to run some of the DC switching side of things. They have internally developed render farm scheduling systems, lots of hardware competence and run up against hardware bottlenecks they solve in innovative ways. Unity could see render speed increases, better pipelines and other useful libraries included that will improve the development experience for unity games.
> I like Wikipedia but does it really take that many people and that much money to run it?

Just take a look at how fast people around the globe are editing it.

https://wikistream.toolforge.org/

Not that I like those tactics to beg for money but, yes, keeping it running while ensuring accuracy requires a lot of staff.
Don't forget Gron: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
> The Chinese have committed

This may be more complicated than that, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29159944

> Japan reactivating nuclear reactors:

Japan invested on nuclear then nowadays don't want it anymore but now needs energy. One has to see them canceling their planned phase-out, as "in March 2021, only 11 percent of Japanese said they wanted that nuclear energy generation be discontinued immediately. Another 49 percent was asking for a gradual exit from nuclear energy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan#Post-Fu... )

> UK. Rolls-Royce gets funding

"£195m cash injection from private firms and a £210m grant" are ridiculous sums. In France Macron announced 1 billion €: given that nuclear research already burnt ~900 millions € per year (public research), a fair part of the 2.2 billions allocated to the CEA's civilian programs, this isn't decisive.
For me, I get depressed when I feel "stuck" in my circumstances (mostly a directionless project, bad boss, or cancerous working environment, or all of the above). I suppose going on a "trip" would alleviate that significantly, at least for a while. Then you'll get used to it and you'll be back to square one you can't escape without fixing the root cause. So any enthusiasm for this is going to have to be tempered by long term studies and outcomes. Any significant change in one's circumstances can _tactically_ alleviate depression somewhat.