skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some feedback:

- the rounded corners remind me of the 2000s, and they kind of hurt my eyes; they take attention away from the text

- I search for some niche CS topics; all the links I see I've seen on other search engines as well ...

- ... which kind of makes this "google with a different layout" and some "categories", not terrible, but also not that different

Now here's a challenge: Do some smart on-the-fly abstractive multi-document summarization and display a fluent mix of text, images and videos on a topic. Like a report. That would be a game changer, I'd think.

If someone can pull this off, that might be you, Richard :)
It's not a comeback until you push the first kwh to the grid for the price you said you'd build the new generator for. Japan turning back on mothballed reactors is a Big Deal (and a quick win for avoiding CO2 emissions), but getting new reactors built in less than a decade or for less than billons of dollars is where the proof lies. Talk and promises are cheap, action has a cost and can't be faked.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... (Lazard’s latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 15.0) shows the continued cost-competitiveness of certain renewable energy technologies on a subsidized basis and the marginal cost of coal, nuclear and combined cycle gas generation.)
13 Ways of Looking at the Number 13
This may be the one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ApH-0YHkA

After Superphenix I don't think they are in any hurry to develop the LMFBR.
What about all the config management infrastructure to manage those nginx instances?

What is the amount of work required every time some team wants to spin up new stuff? What is the turnaround time between when they file the ticket and the work being completed?
That's because US immigration policy selects for immigrants with significant wealth or specialized educations and experience. Our policy specifically selects for high earners and the already wealthy.

You can see this effect clearly from your own source, where Australian Americans and South African Americans both have higher median incomes than almost all Asian American households, as well as white Americans. Same thing goes for Pakistani, Iranian, Lebonese and Austrian Americans compared to other groups in the US.
Sad to hear. The ones i had were from 1996. Even though it was 2017, they still ran very well. Was that before the Whirlpool acquisition?
Why would France, which has specifically built its civilian nuclear fleet for independence from the US, want to rely on the American company Westinghouse?
The upsert strategy mentioned (using ON CONFLICT to update instead of insert) has a catch, if your PK is a sequence it will increment even though the insert has failed.

It's not a huge deal in most cases, is a bigger issue if you are running any sort of scheduled ETL to update (or insert new) things.
It’s not like the USA wants to pay more. If they can get away with paying less for the work, they will.
Interesting point, I hadn't considered this.
I just enrolled this past weekend actually, I got my associate's in CS a few years ago and am finally in a financial situation to finish up my the bachelor's.

What exactly is the course content like? From previous online courses I've taken from Coursera/Pluralsight/other platforms video lectures seem to be the the norm which I actually really hate, I rarely attended lectures and instead would just read the material, turn the HW in, and come in for quizzes/exams. Watching and listending is just not the way I learn, something about reading it makes it sink it better. And do they still require you to buy additional textbooks or is all the necessary content included in the course modules?

How engaged/competent are the instructors assigned to the courses? If I have questions is it easy to get a hold of them, and do they actually know the material enough to be able to adequately explain things and guide students to better understand the material?
You're making the case that you don't actually need the degree. You're far better off without it, if you're going to end up with a job that pays the same regardless. The problem seems to be no one is being properly warned before making the decision, or those warnings aren't being heeded.
Nah it's cool they got Nord Stream 2, so they good.

Russia will provide them all the energy they need, and the US will provide them defense against Russia. Perfect!

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Is it still morally sound if you outsource the immorality elsewhere?
No offense taken. My mistake. None of my 32 bit Carbon apps have worked for a few years and I wrongly assumed the rest of it was gone.
I dunno if hypocrisy is the right word. But there's certainly fallacies going on.

I had a discussion with a liberal cousin of mine who was complaining about gentrification. And I do think that 'gentrification' (or the demonization of it at least) seems to be common in leftist / liberal discussion groups.

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Lets really talk about it though. Gentrification is caused by the rise of housing prices in an area. The rise in housing prices causes... yes... land-owners to mostly win (land owners are then taxed more, they complain about it but lets be frank: paying their fair share of the gains is fair), and renters to pay more money.

That 'renters pay more money' part is the crux of the problem, because raising the rent prices causes them to be displaced (they no longer can afford the area and are forced out).

I don't think anyone disagrees that displacement is a traumatic experience, especially if it was forced upon you by things outside of your control (be it weather, be it crime, or 'gentrification' causing your rent prices to become unattainable).

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Where I think liberals get things wrong, is that the traditional conservative viewpoint is that you want to encourage people to be homeowners instead. Sure, not everyone can afford a house, but home ownership literally solves this problem. When housing prices rise in an area, let the owner of the house benefit (and hopefully they aren't renting).

Furthermore: this should solve the NIMBY problems largely, because home owners will want to do things that improve their home values (because they'll largely benefit from the rise in home prices). So the people in your own, if they are owners, will want better schools, better transporation, lower crime, etc. etc. All the things associated with rising home prices.

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But if the liberal "anti-gentrification" viewpoint is: forcibly prevent housing prices from rising (through a variety of means: rent controls, or even sabotaging useful transportation projects to prevent progress), then that's certainly not helpful to anybody.

And its not like I'm dumb about it either: we know that liberals will use excuses like the environment to stop a road from being built, or new train tracks from being laid down, or whatever (even if these mass-transit options would benefit the community). Attracting the NIMBY vote is certainly a thing liberals like to do.

Well, conservatives too to be frank, but its done through different language. (Conservatives can be NIMBY, but they'll never use the environment and/or gentrification as an excuse).
At least Bonzai Buddy was cute. Also I thought I was the only weirdo who sorta kept track of my not-using-chrome streak. If we met for lunch I'm sure everyone else at the table would find themselves staring off into space as our conversation became increasingly difficult to relate to.
I could do that with my old phone using vnc without needing Dex.

My new phone has Dex but I don't really see how it's any better than just hooking to the TV by MHL HDMI adapter was. I don't really understand what Dex offers over the old MHL.
Pretty much everyone in the west gets a credit score the math of which is nebulous and proprietary. It is increased by acting in a desireable manner even if that manner is unhealthy or unproductive for the individual - and a lot of random BS can go into the math that we can't even see.

In the west these things aren't public so it isn't the government grading you - but you still are very much being graded by private corporations. Since we have no idea what they're actually using to grade us we can't confidently say they aren't using any "social misbehavior" we'd find offensive.

If these programs were run by the government we could file FOIA requests - but with private organizations we're S.O.L.
Aren't reactors like that typically a proliferation risk? That might not be an issue as long as France doesn't decide to start selling its nuclear power plants to questionable countries again.
Having an arrest on your record is enough to bar your from job and housing, even if charges were dropped or you were found not guilty. That alone is enough of a chilling effect to affect behavior: for example, staying away from protests or not questioning a police officer.

Again, we are already there.
It would be great to have a dependency graph or labels in the alerts, so they are easily mapped to the things that can break and are important enough to be monitored.

We just had a short outage where an editor removed the index page in the cms which is central to the site. It's stupid that this is possible but we just operate the cms while we build and operate everything around it for our customer.

I think a large part of our alerts where triggered all at once but the one thing they had in common was that the alerts all pointed to the index page in the cms. E.g. the public www alert for index, the public api alert for index, the preview www alert for index, the preview api alert for index....
MS was patching Win XP long after the EOL to fix bot net problems.

There also are alot of antivirus software users could get.
I have been hiring from overseas for a while; great talent at awesome rates. As a CS student in the USA, I would assume I am competing against the rest of the world right now.
But as it stands right now, people are equally incentivized to take degrees for passion as they are for profit, possibly to their own detriment when one comes with misery from poverty and the other with misery from golden handcuffs.

Not everyone is cut out for a STEM career. You can't turn cavemen into electrical engineers if the aptitude isn't there, right?

It's not a big leap to say that some people will prioritize greed over compatibility and end up risking being able to cheat their way through or flunking out / being expelled if they fail with nothing but either a degree they aren't qualified to possess or a debt they aren't able to repay.

A lot of people in IT would be happier as truck drivers, a lot of engineers would be happier as welders. It always boils down to balancing the money with the passion, and the current system is balanced to the college's coffers.

I did preface my original statement by saying that I don't know if there is a good solution. I proffered a solution knowing that it wasn't a good solution because there are things I with my single brain simply am not capable of calculating for, but I believe we can all agree that the current system has some significant flaws that should be addressed, right?
Also, everything you do on your Windows PC (and soon on a Mac).
Look at the prosecution of Aaron Schwartz, where the prosecutor plainly indicated Aaron’s political views were motivation for being so zealous.
Agreed, I don't think his premise of "families keep producing such talent, generation after generation" is solid.

On a side note, I was also surprised the Bernoulli Family wasn't mentioned.
Was your friend in engineering? And what kind of level was your friend shooting for? Because yeah, if you are shooting for a director or a partner level position, you better have a degree. But for a regular senior engineer position? Not at all.

Also, i don't know when your friend tried to get re-hired and at which level. The whole "we don't care as much about degrees anymore" is a fairly recent thing, I would say 5 or so years. And of course, if your friend only worked at MSFT for a few years, then left to do school, and then tried to come back, they would be probably still shooting for a close-to-entry level position, not a senior. And entry-level without a degree or something else to compensate for it is going to be really tough. Normally it is compensated by either years of experience or something else (side projects, major open-source contribs, etc.), hence why I never saw someone without a degree at entry-level, but plenty who are senior engineers.
I think you missed a key point in the GP's comment. This HAS to be about competing in use for movies, not game development. Unreal has made huge strides in being used for green screen backgrounds rendered in real time and I don't know what else.

This feels like a huge whiff to me, Unity needs to focus on games and just make money there. Games is a bigger market than movies at this point and there is plenty of room to grow there, especially if they can continue to make it easier for individuals/small groups to make a game in their spare time.
There are many languages that are easier to follow than C#. Every import in Go or Node is explicit. You don't need an IDE to tell you which package a method originates from.

Anyway, my point is there are very legitimate reasons why most startups don't use .NET. And it rarely has anything to do with being cool.
Thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah, it really is hard. Time and motivation are rare currencies. There is just so much shit to do in "life-ing." I hope that you get to do the things that make you happy.
Good:
It is stable and relatively well understood by most react developers. Redux toolkit eliminate most of the boilerplate and tooling and ecosystem is great. Make a lot of things super easy to implement.

Bad:
Make unit testing harder. It is harder to share connected components. Performance can suffer if you are not careful enough. It is unclear how Redux will work with new APIs like suspense.

After many years using redux, my general advice is to create many small reducers with flat structure. Favor thunks over middlewares. Do not access state directly, use reselect selectors by default. Use hooks over hoc from react-redux.
... Or you can just use Firefox. I'm not kidding. ><
The Atom C3000 family is really cursed, it seems.
my company offers unlimited PTO, then also makes us take at least one day per month, then also has a $2000 travel stipend to encourage us to use PTO. on top of that it is a very 9-5 oriented culture. They do exist, and this is at a Series A startup.
One viewpoint is that for each opportunity, 90% of competent candidates don't show up. Showing up gets you ahead of 90% of competitors.
Wasn't many of the reactors shut down in Europe in need of being decommissioned anyway? You shouldn't run a nuclear reactor forever and ever, and most of the reactors in Europe are quite old.

I know there are cases of decommissioning too early, or even a reactor that was fully built but not even started operation (I think Tom Scott had a video on that?), but I don't think that's the common case.
Are AMD and NVidia GPUs on par nowadays? Or is it still an NVidia-first world when it comes to compute support.
Comet can streamline machine learning on Gitlab
Just from a webdev perspective, please add titles to your links and icons. I should be able to hover over those up and down arrows and know they're for voting. I should be able to hover links and see the full link text even it's clipped in the card.

These are basic accessibility things that any good web developer should be adding in by default.
Some really great resources for kids to learn to program games:

CodeCombat

Construct 3
Tor has long been billed as a tool for journalists to fly under the radar and avoid persecution, but it's great to hear these case studies from the horse's mouth. Thanks to you and other journalists who risk life and limb to report on and within these abusive regimes.
Smart man. I can't believe I'm saying this about _Macron_. We _have to_ figure out a way to build reactors cheaply and safely, and you can't do that without the political will, unfortunately. If you could, electricity would be "too cheap to meter" by now already.
In the unity announcement they go over some of the tools weta have created: https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-weta-digital
Analysis ready data archive using earth observations of Switzerland
Well, there are many aspects of life. Any given game only has a limited scope.

For example, most people have family and friends who aren't "competing" with you for every dollar/meal/car/house.

This gives you a safe place, respite from the wearying competitive world and hopefully some enjoyment.

In regards to the competitive workplace though, yeah, you could say games could be a metaphor in that regard. Again though, workplaces are varied and larger in scope. People can also jump between workplaces to their benefit - which AFAIK doesn't work with games.
Every damage to the lung coming in shape of an infection produces fibrous material within the soft and spongy lungs. This minimize the volume of the "sponge" lung and in the end reduces the ability to do that gas exchange.
Also, it seems COVID is not a respiratory disease but Rather a blood vessel disease.
Your lungs have a lot of capillary blood vessels that, when get attacked by spike of the virus just get thrombosed out of the system by our defense. The bloods gas/exchange stops functioning properly. That damage sometimes never reverts.
That's why the people can't breathe properly after infection. And that causes stress. Not the other way around.

Also if one have been in needed for artificial rebreathening, alone that, blowing in pressurized air into lungs of exactly 1 bar or something, is a damage by itself. So that's why people can't breathe persistently for a long time.

It's not psychology :) it's damage and scars everywhere in the substance.
I've just switched to one of my pinned Home Assistant tabs. One of my Node-RED flows has a function node with a wodge of JavaScript in it. The editor JS is simple but has colour syntax highlighting. I'm using it to send settings to some quite complicated Zwave devices. There is a Zwave set node that does the complex stuff that I really don't need to worry about, I just pump settings into it.

Another flow I did unlocks an AD account via LDAP! I used a function node to build up a quite horrific looking command line that is passed through a ssh connection to the host system (HA and NR are containers) to run against AD.

You can do an awful lot with NR out of the box and with all the contrib stuff it rapidly becomes even more impressive. Just enough programming for me. I write a program or two as needed and no more and it doesn't detract from the flow thing either.
> It's also indistinguishable from their on-campus MS in CS

This isn't exactly true. Only a fraction of all classes are available for the online program. The computational perception & robotics specialization for instance has a very limited selection of classes available. Plus, you don't get the benefit of in-person networking with your peers and professors, but that's just the price of being remote.
Meat Manifesto: My Covenant to Our Shareholders
I get the fascination with base load and the incredible amount of energy compared to chemical based alternatives. But:
1. What will the net online time be? (Lots of these plants go in maintenance for long stretches of time)
2. Spent fuel?
3. Proliferation risk?
4. Accident mitigation?
I'm not sure how appropriate it is to take a serious comment where the author has a genuinely unpopular opinion and say you laughed really hard at it.
Also things like "finger" looking up their home directory and showing you their .plan file. Not saying it was a good choice then, let alone now, but the number of Chesterton's Fence violations in this presentation is pretty high.
Someone needs to reboot Factsheet 5.
It’s possible. A lot of top universities already do need-blind admissions, so I don’t think it’s an unsolvable hurdle.
I really hope this is sarcasm.
This is a move in the right direction however, albeit a bit unexpected!
Ah yes, thanks! I have used a similar USB dongle. I was wondering if it was a special built-in tray or slot in the laptop.
> To save 2 keystrokes?

A lot more keystrokes if you are using meaningful argument and/or hash key names, but the big benefit is, IMO, readability (at least, that's the big benefit I see with the very similar syntax in JS.)
Privilege is a good thing.

We should try to give everyone privilege.
"For the majority of human existencr the diet which helped survival the most was high calorie because it meant they weren't starving."

So? That doesn't change the fact that our bodies were optimized around the macro and micro nutrients inside the foods that our ancestors ate.

Just like how our bodies were optimized to extract vitamin D from the abundant sunlignt, and to get benefits from physical activity.

"Paleo is dumb because it ignores all other greater selective factors"

What does this mean? What other selective factors?

"It would be like judging wearing kevlar vests as good protection from cancer and heart disease because after you empty a revolver of hollow points into every fifty year old subject's chests the ones wearing kevlar lived the longest."

Just explain the reason itself. I don't understand this analogy.
I am developer with over 20 years of experience. I have learned programming from books where computers were generally not available where I grew up.

But my son is learning programming (started when he was 6, he just turned 8 recently).

He started by goofing off with some robots programmed in visual languages. Then moved to goofing off even more in Scratch. When pandemic started we found a school that teaches programming online and they used Scratch to program Minecraft which got my son hooked up -- he likes Minecraft a lot and having it do stuff that wouldn't otherwise be possible was a huge motivation for him to learn. He is now attending a second semester in that school and they are using Kodu for some more advanced, 3d goofing off.

My son became big fan of Undertale recently and he approached me to learn to make some fan content based on Undertale. We did some research and found Undertale was made in Game Maker -- a game engine for 2d games. So this is what we just recently started learning. He is excited to finally start learning something that can be used to make professionally looking games and says that if it was good enough to make Undertale it is good enough for him:)

He also just got his own Minecraft server (ehm... Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM) and I am hoping that when he is bored with vanilla gameplay with his school friends he will want to start modding the game in some ways.
A criminal background check is not connected to your credit score and a convicted criminal charge is not the same as political dissent. Stop moving goal posts.

I was arrested once and I got the charge expunged with community service. Hasn't affected my job applications so far.
Monoclonal antibodies like Regeneron are typically not generic yet, and are substantially more profitable than the vaccines... so, no.

(Regeneron costs $2,100/dose. The Pfizer/Moderna vaccines cost around $20.)
I've walked a fairly similar path as you did (to an extent, I did get into code and systems as a teenager, but I've got little to no formal engineering education and drifted away from code for a decade) and getting decent opportunities is nearly impossible unless you're in Paris and pretty good at networking. Most of the work available is menial, with little prospects and pays the median salary (which is trash by EU standards, much less US).
Thanks! That's interesting.
>"Why is a group of adults hiding behind a piece of paper allowed to be saved from their poor choices while an individual not?"

The piece of paper is the law, which does not allow for defaults on these loans. These laws were created to allow students to take massive loans, and transfer their future earnings to a school. I would agree that something should change, but the schools will fight tooth and nail to prevent it.