skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every one experience is anecdotal, and as such statistically insignificant. We get into trouble not when people tell their own statistically insignificant stories, but when someone tries to speak for others.

Generalizations, especially by someone who has no overview (e.g. doing some kind of a study on the topic) are not interesting. They are as if the photoreceptor cells in your eyes would talk to each other, while you look at the sky. "I see blue" most would say. "I see black", some would say. Then, some cell seeing blue could make the generalization that all are seeing blue except for some outliers. And you would remain blind to the fact that birds (appearing black) are flying in the sky. We need data points and personal experiences, not generalizations, to get a sharper picture.

Anecdotally, I teach first year students at a design university. They use generalizations all the time in language and in thinking about highly personal experiences (e.g. when asked to describe how they felt using one object compared to using another some would say "one feels" instead of "I feel"), thus pushing their realities onto others. It is as if generalizations are taught in schools as being more valuable, more valid, and personal experiences as anecdotal and invalid. Of course, the ability to deduct, to generalize is important for the process of reasoning. But it gets in the way when talking about what we actually feel and perceive.
https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Electronic+F...

Nothing looks particularly nefarious.
Interestingly, humans tend to underestimate complexity even when it's right under their noses. In music world you can see it everywhere with your average band attempting cover versions of popular songs. It's the reason the results often sound nothing like the originals: melodies vastly simplified, textural sounds are omitted, harmonizing melodies absent, rhythm parts dumbed down, timbres approximated. "Yeah, it's a simple song with 4 chords, we can rehearse it in a day or two".

When your ear develops, you can hear that the real simple song is an outlier.
My first choice to implement a side scroller would have been SDL2.

Can someone explain to me what would be the advantages of preferring OpenBOR to SDL2?
IMHO being hit by a natural disaster is by far better than the same + also radiation (not even mentioning lack of electricity). I wouldn't mind a nuclear power plant to cost twice its normal cost if that could make the latter completely impossible.
The environmental impact would be counterproductive. I'd be happy if the repair manuals that already exist were open and accessible. It blows my mind that I can't legally obtain the repair manuals for my vehicles.
The Go is not very useful though. It lacks 6DOF tracking, controllers etc. It's just a glorified google cardboard :)
I agree, the last word is kind of key here. They never said they "don't intend to support" just not yet. Very different statement.
> Maybe the green party elector finally realised that the battle against CO2 doesn't need to be 100% renewable?

I wish it was it, but it's not what's happening. Macron is currently campaigning for his reelection and has decided to adopt a really conservative tone for his campaign: it's all about “fighting islamism”, reducing welfare, etc., etc., the strong nuclear narrative fits clearly in this tone.

> Regarding the closing of Fessenheim, it seems like a sensible decision. The central was designed to last 40 years and long exceeded its expiration date. In the last 10 years it had roughly one incident per year with graver and graver consequences.

It was designed for 40 years, but so did every other plants that were given a extended lifetime approval. Actually, it's not uncommon at all to design a power plant with a specific lifetime in mind, and extending it afterwards when you realize it hasn't wore out too much (fun facts, some systems were dead long before reaching the 40 years span they had been designed for, and have been replaced even though it wasn't part of the original plan). And as I said, Fessenheim was one of the best plant of that generation when it comes to incidents, it had a much better rating than several plants built a bit later and which will still be in service for the next decade.

> And in any case, France would have started lose a lot of money because, due to the geographical position and the risk it pose, its neighbours, Switzerland and Germany were not really happy with it

I don't know where you take that from but in reality, France have to pay a huge sum of money to Germany as compensation for the shut-down because part of Fessenheim's plant (17.5%) was owned by the land of Bade-Wurtemberg. The overall price that will be paid until the end of the compensation period (supposed to last until 2041) is still unknown because it will depend on the market price of electricity on that period, but it's expected to be between a faction of billion to a few billion euros.[1]

> The fact that a politician had to take this decision (and not engineers) is in my opinion the most shocking part. It shows that the ANS probably became complacent with the state of security of centrals. Probably similar to finanicial markets or aviation regulators. And generally when that happens it's the begining of catastrophes.

This is indeed a serious risk with regulation authorities, but in the case of the ASN it's proven pretty reliable in recent days: rthe 50 years lifetime extension was granted in exchange of a huge overhaul of the existing plants (“le grand carénage)” costing several billions, to add a lot of new safety equipment, most of them designed with the Fukushima accident in mind.

[1]: https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2017/04/05/20002-2017040...
I wonder if this little gem [0] I found, on my way back from the Lake District, will be one of the victims. It's legit a potential film set for wartime movies.

[0] https://photos.app.goo.gl/puj8MHhe7nuVk6L39
Is it really "misinformation" if you believe that government could be lying about something? They lie all the time about all sorts of things.
The best time to invest in nuclear was 40 years ago. The second best time is now.
ignores long term storage issues
consequences of having a considerable area contaminated and uninhabitable for basically forever are not to be understated. humanity does not have the tools to predict black swans which lead to such results.
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Ideally that lint would be on by default though. Most code doesn't use non-ASCII identifiers. It's not happened though because of uhm. political reasons.
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The Community Heartbeat Trust are helping to convert phone booths into defib stations. Great idea in my opinion

https://www.communityheartbeat.org.uk/convert-phone-box
I’d love to hear about those US based companies paying EU based ICs $200k / year and for the respective position to not be a beyond-senior-contributor thing (so maybe 0.0001% of jobs out there).
In my older ThinkPad, the SIM was a slot behind the battery. In a later model, it's a tray that has to be opened with a paperclip next to the card reader. The modem itself is a mini PCIe card like they're used for some laptop SSDs and antennas are in the screen like wifi antennas.
Almost certainly used for tourist photo ops above every other use.

This seems to be why Malta still have theirs. (You can find the iconic british phone boxes in the streets of Valetta.)

All of that said - it’s respectable that they’re looking out for those in need prior to decommissioning the telephone functions within.
Actually some companies that got hundreds of millions of funding are pitching commercial viability this decade. That's the reason these investments are happening. The breakthrough is basically that funding is now happening because the technology has progressed enough for investors to be willing to start taking that risk. They wouldn't do that on a 30 year plan.

The fallacy is believing that because it has historically been so far away that is still that far away.

E.g. Helion, a y combinator backed company (our beloved HN overlords), just raised half a billion from investors for a series E round that include Peter Thiel and a few others with well earned reputations for making lucrative investments. I think there's a good chance that we'll have operational fusion plants next decade already. It's not money in the bank yet but clearly enough of a chance for the likes of Peter Thiel to commit some serious money to this.

Helion is pitching 1 cent per khw. That completely kills the business case for new nuclear plants. The payoff on those investments is going to be insanely good if this works as advertised.
VsCode: a single thin column is possible: turn on Zen Mode, word Wrap, and slide the bar for a thin editor.
> No claims of magic, but crypto is undeniably well-suited for and utilized by criminals.

All right, but not all crypto is used or crime, in fact most of this volume is used for speculation, hoarding and to circumvent capital controls (getting one's dough out of China).

The thing is that most of it is traceable. Me and my colleagues have witnessed the CEO of a company in a neighbouring office being arrested and extradited to the US on charges of money laudring and fraud using crypto assets (BTC and ETH specifically). So the arrest/indictment of these two doesn't come as a surprise, it was bound to happen as soon as they got caught or stepped out of Russia.
Who even benefits from payphones still existing?

The cheapest PAYG contract offered by BT's subsidiary EE gets you 500 minutes of phone calls for 10 pounds. Which also buys you 10GB of internet and unlimited texts.

Meanwhile, 500 minutes of phone calls from a BT payphone would set you back 250 pounds!

So, it's obviously not the poor who benefits from pay phones. Except maybe a subset of homeless people who can't commit to a PAYG contract. Seems like it'd be more economical for BT/EE to just handout phones at homeless shelters and shutdown this ridiculous relic.

https://shop.ee.co.uk/sim-only/pay-as-you-go-phones

https://www.bt.com/pricing/current/Call_Charges_boo/3545_d0e...
So?

Linux works fine for me on the desktop. That’s what I care about. Melt neighbour may prefer BSD, or OSX, or windows, that’s fine

The idea that it’s a war to be won is sad. The only “war” should be against monoculture, and HN in particular loves monoculture.
If that is the case then the loan is just an unorthodox method of taxation. In that sense there should obviously be a limit to how much tax you owe to the government otherwise it becomes abusive. It also means that the government shouldn't expect you to repay the whole sum.
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> ancestors immigrated as adults, then very likely they didn't learn the national language well, if at all.

This might be true in most cases but it is certainly possible to become "native speaker" fluent in a foreign language as an adult.

I married a Danish woman and moved to Denmark at 24, which I think qualifies as adult.

After 6 months, I could participate reasonably well in any conversation. After doing various jobs, many years later, I requalified as a teacher where I got the highest grades possible in Danish. Several native speakers failed the course.

I speak with a slight accent but it's not an english accent. Some native speakers think I might be Norwegian or German and some think it's a Danish regional accent.

I grew up in South Africa speaking British English.

IMO, it was easy for me because I have an academic background, read a lot and was curious and eager to learn. Also, it was fun and empowering, while not speaking the language in the beginning felt like being deaf.

I'm now divorced from my Danish wife and have a Vietnamese girlfriend. Vietnamese is a tricky language. Fairly easy grammar, but incredibly difficult pronunciation XD
The web itself is free of restrictions it's kind of odd anyone could reasonably try to use those arguments.
Walter, the things you're saying are patently untrue. Many, many countries and municipalities do not have fixed pricing, so you're looking at this from inside a personal bubble, which does not reflect reality for the rest of the world. So with that in mind, what you're actually proposing is a solution that works for some homes, in some municipalities, under very specific circumstances.

I can't imagine anyone wanting to start a business strictly based around a last-mile solution, when other solutions already exist and are substantially more efficient and scalable.

You're also assuming that the regulatory bodies for each municipality inherently want things to be efficient and customer-friendly, but that's just not how it works. In the US alone, all you need is to look at the disaster in Texas this past winter, where prices jumped to 180x their usual rates -- and for brazenly nefarious reasons.
Open source doesn't automatically mean community driven. Signal could have an entirely closed roadmap and plan, while still allowing you to see the source and fork it if you want something different. It's over the top to call that "open source in name only". It's real open source, you can do what you want with the source. The project roadmap is just not community driven.
Actual article titles:

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That seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. We don't all want to go back to the IT stone age of 1963.
Because people like to contradict someone more than they like to help someone.
They did all the local reviews and reporting on businesses.

YMMV but growing up in the 70s and 80s and working in the 90s in several startups in Germany, the local newspaper and their clique in smaller towns (50-100k people) controlled business perceptions and could make you fly or crash.

I'm happy for Google reviews today, because Google has an agenda, but not about ratings on your businesses - not like the local newspaper which is controlled by the pals of your competition.
Probably the author tried to mean for web development? It is actually surprising how the PHP ecosystem reinvented itself in the last years, improving PHP itself and getting good ideas from other ecosystems (i.e ruby and rails) and offering it in a great bundle of robust code and great documentation. But killing python in all domains? It won't happen. Maybe we could see it recovering market share lost for django, ruby on rails or node.js.
My favourite use is turning them into coffee shops

https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/lon...
I called the non emergency line for a break-in I saw the end of. The person on the other end must have had a bad day or something, they were pissed off

"Well if it's no longer in progress why have you called?"

Well shit, good point. Why am I being a grass? Let the people that had their stuff taken from them figure it out

Emergency isn't much better, was actively being mugged and managed to get a call out. They were more interested in getting my personal details (no, not my location, they had that)... I'm actively running from a guy that wants to kick my ass, can I maybe give this to the officer I later found out was literally round the corner?

Honestly it's a call and hope sort of service. I wouldn't rely on it for anything police related anyway. Not had to use it for medical/fire luckily
If anything, Fukushima shows that even doing it wrong (not accounting for one-in-the-hundred-years disaster) is still very safe.
> Unfortunately the sun doesn't shine everywhere all the time (especially in higher latitudes during their winter), and wind power is not perfect everywhere either, so nuclear will be a necessary evil as part of the mix alongside other low carbon options.

No, it wont be necessary, because there are solutions to storage as well.
Jumping into Web3
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> And if VSCode seems fast on your machine, you should check out emacs! ;)

I did, I rely heavily on code completion, hinting, linting, marking unused variables, lighting big red light when I made type error... you get the point. And I have two conclusions. First is that setting all up how i like it was a pain, I finally had to use Doom Emacs as a boilerplate (kudos for hlissner, I believe this is best Emacs hope for new users), and it made it bearable, but whole setup felt really slow when UI had to take second or two before showing my precious type error.

Now, I really believe you when you are saying that i could make it faster. It's just that I would have to put evenings just to be basically in the same place.

Additionally, I would replace the most popular editor with one that has an almost negligible share of the "market".

The "it burns CPU on blinking the cursor" argument doesn't appeal to me at all, because it's not like the computer is unresponsive because that cursor is blinking, or even noticeably slower. I have to spend dozens of hours learning and configuring emacs to make parameters I don't notice improve?
That's a café and a pub. We're talking about digital goods. Physical goods are obviously excepted otherwise there would be no Amazon or Uber app.
Drone used for targeted attack on energy infrastructure
Sounds like hyperbole, but i do feel like i loose track and some situation awareness when i use a 34" super-widescreen
I love the cookbook app for this, you can point it at a URL and it parses the important bits, ingredients, method, pictures etc. and saves the recipe. But it also saves a link to the original incase you want that story.

I primarily use it because it was the only app I could find with a good OCR mode for importing recipes from physical cook books.
Currently, there is no automated messaging yet, and we're doing the outreach manually. So we just don't work with people who want to get meetings by spamming investors. We only work with the customers who need help with getting intros from the people they already know.

I have 3 anti-spam hypotheses to test:

1/ Daily message limits. Spamming only works if you send large volumes of emails. Strict daily limits should make our tool not suitable for spammers.

2/ Allow the "intro ask" emails to 1st-degree connections only.

3/ Allow cold emails to relevant investors only.

I hope all these restrictions will guide our users to use our tool as intended - for building healthy relationships with investors using healthy methods.

If the restrictions won't work, I'm going to figure out something else. As Michael Siebel once said, startups should choose their customers carefully. We want to build an investor relationships management platform, and there is no place for spammers.

Any suggestions on fighting spammers are welcome.
I'm wondering why they don't want to support the M1 platform at this time and feel they cannot discuss the reason. For a secure messaging app that smells like there could be some issues with guaranteeing security on the M1 platform. Maybe because they can't see what Apple is doing behind the scenes?

I'm not saying M1 had backdoors, just curious that maybe they don't have enough access (or time) to guarantee things?
Ticket: IDEA-282266 Not all invisible characters are reported

I didn't want to link because of loss of anonymity... :(

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-282266
The multiple scripts per variable thing is implemented in Rust via a lint. For the explicit enabling of single scripts, I have suggested that for Rust, but sadly people preferred allowing all identifiers (while giving an option to only have ascii but I'd argue this is unfair for anyone who only wants to use a specific non-ascii language, why do they have to suddenly allow all languages in their code base?). There are also practical concerns, like who says what a language is, which characters it contains, how that language is called, etc? Someone has to maintain all these lists.
Indeed, which may be helpful if a serving police officer intends to murder you and is also willing to allow you to make the call.
It's a nice idea but people will insist that they should have the right to get $115k in debt for a degree that doesn't let them repay their debt.
Where to should I send my proof of citizenship and results of testing for STDs?
We gotta shot down the western civilization!
It consumes energy!
You may be interested in this analysis on various recipe formats, along with the proposed "RxOL" notation for explicitly expressing recipes as such a tree based structure[0].

Personally I find RxOL hard to read & edit though, so I have been thinking about whether it would be doable able to infer such tree structures from CookLang's more readable recipe format[1][2].

Ingredients and times are already marked, so surely verbs & follow up mentions of ingredients can be extracted from the text without further annotation? Haven't tried doing it yet though.

[0] http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/CompCook.html

[1] https://cooklang.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997309
Interesting... it doesn't seem to allow putting charts next to the spreadsheet though
>> What breakthroughs

Superconducting magnets and faster computers to accurately model magnetic containment.
Exactly. PHP defines itself as "a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development". Python is for everything else. Even though Python is great as well for web dev, maybe it is not the default choice as it is for data analysis for instance.
I guess people who loose their mobile phone and need to contact someone asap.
> you can even phone 999 if you're alone and have been stopped by a lone policeman

Oh no no no, the Metropolitan Police advised to "flag down a bus" in that case. And the Prime Minister agrees: https://news.sky.com/story/sarah-everard-murder-pm-vows-to-s...
How can you call it clean when there is a unresolved waste problem?
Australia's Telstra has reversed its position on closing phone boxes, as they have now realised the value of the real estate they occupy. They are now placing 5G base stations and WiFi access points on phone boxes, and have a bonus revenue stream from advertising hoardings. It's not worth charging for the calls so calls from public phones are now free.

They are probably kicking themselves for previously doing away with so many phone boxes, as in the past they had saturation coverage of the cities with lots of 1m^2 blocks of real estate: perfect for 5G.
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The hitman is committing a crime. You are hiring the hitman to commit that crime.

The data broker selling your information is not committing a crime, so the situation is not at all comparable.
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Actually, there was a significant regression. Many many years ago, Oracle decided to drop the support for the gpl-licensed readline altogether, likely because they can't ship it with MySQL Enterprise. To this day, Percona still carries a small patch to add that functionality back, which is great because I wouldn't touch any CLI without readline.