skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) Extrememly high construction costs and cost overruns.

This is partly because nuclear is unfairly maligned and is forced to do things with 10x the safety requirements of (e.g.) coal and partly because we have not tried a nuclear rollout at 'scale' (i.e. multiples of a standardized system being planned for construction).

> 2) Requires more cooling water than any other power source.

Fair enough, but this hardly seems like a show-stopper, especially with improved recycling methods.

> 3) Highly radioactive 'spent fuel' must be stored indefinitely.

This seems like a small price to pay to implement a solution that would save tens of thousands+ lives per year (i.e. storing the highly radioactive after-products in the air, as with burning massive amounts of coal).

From [0]:
>> In fact, the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards.

An oversimplification, perhaps, but still valid, especially since new reactors have been designed to reuse spent fuel (hinted at in [0]) anyway and it wouldn't likely need to be permanent storage.

> 4) Uranium ore mining and processing consumes significant energy, of the fossil fuel form typically.

This is not unique to nuclear energy and it would obviously use less 'fossil fuel form' energy with every new plant brought online.

> 5) Catastrophic failure scenarios (Fukushima, Chernobyl)

Only if we stick to out-dated designs forever.

> 6) Major security issues with high costs.

Also fair, but any major center of infrastructure should have high security. The security issues that are more unique to nuclear can/have be/been addressed in new reactor designs (different fuel types, reactors that can't cause meltdowns/explosive scenarios).

> 7) Poor compatibility with intermittent and varying energy sources (i.e. solar, wind), as does coal.

I'm pretty sure this will be the case for any large, power producing center. Any large-scale solar or wind project will include battery storage anyway, which would act as a transitional buffer between the sources.

[0]: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
There was no advance notice of an antisatellite weapons test.

There was advance notice of a rocket launch ("Notice to Airmen" (NOTAM) from the Russian government -- hazards to airplanes), but nothing about orbital hazards.

https://msi.nga.mil/api/publications/download?type=view&key=...

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1460305735317868545 (map)
> For the interaction and engagement pipeline, we collect and process data from various real-time streams and server and client logs, to extract Tweet and user interaction data with various levels of aggregations, time granularities, and other metrics dimensions. That aggregated interaction data is particularly important and is the source of truth for Twitter’s ads revenue services and data product services to retrieve information on impression and engagement metrics.

All this engineering talent and effort to track dwell times and clicks for ads. At some point, I think we need to take a critical look at the ad economy and whether continued investments actually help anybody, or rather just give certain parties competitive advantages in selling ads. Smart regulations can perhaps make ads "dumber" and drive a lot of the engineering away, as well as being a boon to privacy, while still leaving sites with a way to generate revenue from content.
Tethering has always been allowed on my Australian phones.
It is always the algorithm to blame, never the people who wrote it, audited it, etc.
Exactly, at least it's clearer in the vast majority of cases where that's what I actually mean (but golang won't let me encode easily).

The way golang ~makes me encodes it makes using these functions annoying, because then you ~need to test for the nonsense cases where you have neither an error or a result, and maybe where you have both.
They're running A/B tests... You like variant A, the majority picked variant B. Otherwise, someone new was hired and needed a project.
If this is a surprise to you, then you fundamentally misunderstand how Google works.
You would determine that specific charity is not trustworthy and move your giving to a charity that transparently releases their spending.

There are many charities that exist solely to shelter tax money and give kickbacks to the administration. My recommendation would be to avoid those.

You could also determine to give to your local church if you have evidence they're trustworthy. You could also start your own and have direct control over how the money is gifted.

Although the government does provide reports as to how money is spent, the individual has very little influence over how that money is actually spent other than via voting or running for office. Being not forced to be a victim of theft allows power to be retained by the individual and exercised with each dollar spent.
Such a sad, destructive act from a country facing the upcoming insignificance of its space program as China has shown disinterest in partnering with them in space and SpaceX has freed NASA from paying dearly for US astronauts to fly on Soyuz to the ISS.
Nice to be able to get good assert messages automatically like you could with the C preprocessor.
I think it’s worse than that. IIRC I had the second model of Android phone ever released in the UK, and even that phone’s notification system was superior to iOS of 2021.

I’ve always assumed patents are to blame - I mean, surely no one at Apple uses their iOS notifications and thinks “yes, that system is perfect in every way”? There must be other factors at work?
I don't know why anyone thinks it is acceptable for human lives to be considered more or less valuable depending on which arbitrary geographical division they were born within. Why don't we just murder and eat each other then? That is how barbaric we are.
When I think of "call by expression" I think of R. Are there other languages that are call by expression?

I don't know how this compares to others. But it seems weird to me that you get only the value and only the text expression. There's no AST. You don't get some first-class closure of the elements that make up the expression that you could compute on. You also seem to have to compute the expression ahead of time.

Ideally I'd love to have a full AST of the expression, with all the intermediary values filled in. Or perhaps, like, an AST with nothing computed, that I can then compute myself.

So I guess, like, the intent here is not call by expression. It's meant to inform, but not to allow the callee to compute.
You can drag down with two fingers held apart to select the messages. I use that fairly often, especially with search results. It's still not as fast as having a select-all button but does give you a chance to notice that not all of the messages are the same.
Indeed, no tasty food doesn’t imply no good (e.g. relatively nutritious) food.
Do you say it's almost like super normal stimulation?

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/#pa...

I would say this is what it's like.
>YouTube would long be an enemy of pretty much everyone.

They're barreling down that path as we speak.. You'll have to forgive the general public for being a little slow to get with the program. There was kind of a pandemic going on.
Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2014)
Power and water are probably the first to go, so..

- Solar panels, batteries, inverters.
- Water purification
This essay seems to conflate skill with... oh, let's call it vision.

Skill is the difference between Picasso's scribbles and the dribbles of a random 8-year-old. Or between pg and Bellini. It's the ability to convey what you want to convey.

Vision is harder to pin down. It's deciding to convey something worthwhile. And that's the hard part. What's worthwhile? It's so dependent on context. Is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel meaningful to somebody that has never heard of Christianity? Is impressionism all that impressive without the photograph? For that matter, why aren't we impressed by new works of impressionism? How come some artists aren't celebrated in their own time?

So yeah, clearly there's such a thing as skillful art, and maybe being able to recognize that could be considered "good taste". But I'm not sure that there's such a thing as objectively meaningful art. If there is, it'd take more than a few paragraphs to prove it.
I wrote a similar Python library to do Beautiful Soup scraping with basic PageRank and a Flask web app: https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-search
What makes you think European and Canadian are less politicized over Covid?

Canada usually waits for fda approval and data before it approves most things.
Reminds me of the Wells Fargo scandal.

And when it all hits the fan, blame and fire the "bad apples" (low level employees), not the people who created the incentive system that turned thousands of low wage earners into "bad apples".
Meanwhile, it was one of the most popular provisions in the bill. https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/9/17/the-build-bac..., 3rd chart
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I see it's no longer being updated. Does the Windows version[1] work on macOS using Wine/CrossOver?

1. https://wxtoimgrestored.xyz/downloads/
That was an incredibly dumb thing to do. Let's hope that the bulk of it de-orbits soon.
As members of a representative state, we do have the responsibility to decide how people live and die.

People who say they don't want to play god are just saying they're okay with someone else dirtying their hands, because whether in a democracy or an authoritarian government, someone will be making these decisions.
Hacker news values intellectual curiosity, so why dismissing something so interesting as a waste of time?

Moreover, the code is beautifully written, the project is useful and the rules of HN ask you not to dismiss project just the way you did.
This looks awesome! It's to a large part like a modern shell environment I try to imagine since some time. Maybe it needs more data-flow spread-sheet features, need to check it out, but the screenshots strongly point into the right direction.

Funny coincidence that it's build in Pharo which I've mentioned here in another comment. :-)
The Danger of Loving Your Job
Genuinely, who cares about the award? I don't think anyone will assume that YouTube abides by free speech just because their CEO won an award no one's ever heard about.
That reminds me of the "Mojave Experiment" where Microsoft demoed the new version of Windows and after people said they liked it they revealed that it was just the same Windows Vista that people thought they didn't like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Experiment
This received a lot more interest than I anticipated. Thanks for all the comments! I read them all even if I don't respond.
> Isn't it illegal for 17 year olds to carry assault rifles and point them at others (prior to the incident where life wasn't threatened) as admitted in court.

That charge was dropped because Kyle was not carrying a short-barreled rifle.

However, ADA Binger did take Kyle's rifle, pointed it at the jury without checking it (saying his assistant had), and had his finger on the trigger while doing so.

Thankfully he didn't go full Baldwin, because there was no clip and no round in the chamber and the judge made them check it afterwards, but you can watch the stream if you want to see how it went down.
C# continues to quietly release incredible features to little fanfare. I hear the same from the Rust and Zig communities. Really feels like we’re in the golden age of language usability and development.

One thing I’d like to see in C# is the theft of the .. operator from Dart so that you can chain calls on a single object without needing to return that object in each call.
Sacrifice money in the bear term for time to study. Get a job like security guard where you can listen to classes on the job (to the extent it's possible to do both).

Be promiscuous with your study materials. The great freedom of being self taught is you don't have to stick with a book, or even a topic, that's not working.

When you feel unmotivated, meditate. Not in a woo woo feel the universe way, but in a practical one -- stepping back, considering your priorities and your history and the possibilities afforded by the world.

And if possible, find peers who care about the same thing(s). If you can't find them locally, you can always find them online.
> Media companies, knowing there are already a bunch of people inclined to feel one way or the other, find it convenient to pander to people with these preformed opinions or biases.

We're finding out that this is a case of eating your seed corn.

If you give people two contradictory narratives where it's not obvious which one is true, they're going to prefer the one that flatters their ego. So the ego flattering is short-term profitable.

But eventually there is a story people are interested in enough to actually watch the trial, or read the source documents. Or someone else does that and points them right to the place where the media narrative disintegrates.

Then it's not two contradictory narratives where it's not obvious which one is true. The one the media outlet is giving them is demonstrably false. Which makes them more skeptical next time, and when they look, it's false again. And again.

The result is a loss of trust.

What happens then? Have a look at their ratings.
Undeniably impressive, but it's funny that it all lands in a UI where you can no longer tie together a thread (of said events) into something readable. Doesn't twitter get why all those 3rd party sites that string things back together are popular?
Stephen Wolfram has a knack for very beautiful visuals in his work, that including Mathematica itself.
One of the things I think about is how do you make stuff in the apocalypse?

Take soap for instance. People have made soap since the dawn of time - you just need fat and lye. But how do you actually.. do it?

For that you need instructions, which means either a library of books vulnerable to all sorts of ills, or a collection of pdfs and movies. If you go the digital route you need some kind of viewer.
I feel like an object lesson here would be context.Context in Go, which sort of rhymes with Result types in a way … I figure this sort of programming in Go post-generics won’t emerge as uniform baseline but thematic variations will arise in some particular domains. But I really don’t know.
This thing is ugly as sin.

Look at this instead y'all. Rejoice yourself:

https://youtu.be/uRAGzKJvQ7Y?t=158
I still see the up/down counts.
Yeah. I'm disappointed in all the downvotes and flags the parent post got (I briefly managed to resurrect it via a vouch, but it quickly got killed again). It was worded in a terrible, heartless way, but it's not wrong.

The child was doomed from the day they got those test results in. Their doctor was clear with them that the diagnosed condition wasn't something survivable. Why should taxpayers be burdened with medical costs ("millions of dollars", according to OP) in this kind of situation? Why should parents be allowed to cause and prolong the suffering of that poor child, who had to endure so much pain in her short life? I'm sure their intentions were good, but the outcome was so much worse for everyone involved than if they'd terminated the pregnancy. How can we incentivize people to make better decisions in these sorts of situations, when doing the right thing is such a difficult, emotionally-harrowing thing to do?
And it'll be easily blocked by someone wearing a face mask and sunglasses
Not only that but a huge portion of people will simply not swap away from the OS they know under any circumstances.

Windows 12 could require all users to get punched in the face to log in and most people would say, "Yeah, it sucks but it's better than spending $1,800 on a Mac. Plus my video games..."
Do expression trees [0] line up with what R has? I'm not familiar with R's "call by expression" syntax.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
I haven't understood why this is a thing. Court proceedings are (at least in theory) open to the public, I thought.
Syncthing was a godsend when I was in college, but it was surprisingly hard to convince my peers (pun intended) that it was worth using instead of Google Drive/OneDrive. For most of them, the hangup came down to the setup process- the incumbent cloud-based file sync tools are braindead easy to use. Just log in, and boom, there are your files. Syncthing's setup process is clunky by comparison, but more importantly it's a workflow that people aren't really familiar with.
If you can be disgusted by what someone says, then of course you can be disgusted by different opinions. Opinions can express the best of humanity, or it's absolute worst.
I just thought one thing no one seems to have point out yet. Apple framed this as a standard practice in business.

Yes, in a Supermarket, they will advertise your product on your behave. But customer dont run to Kraft Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble or Coca Cola for refund. They go straight to the store they bought it with. Or a better analogy would be tools ( multi usage ) rather than consumables. Consumer buying a tool will still return their tools to Home Depot rather than making complain about the tools maker not doing refund. But with Software that is not the case. Nearly all software are treated as "services" by consumer whether they are charged with subscription or not. And customer will act the same if they bought a services from Walmart. Let say Disney+ or Netflix. They will go to Disney and Netflix to complain or refund, not Walmart.

I think this distinction is quite profound ( to me at least ). Because we often use the product analogy with Software and Subscription. We even have a term SaaS ( Software as Services ) when in fact nearly all software are in some way treated as services by consumers. And of course Software developer have long thought of it as services due to its constantly updating nature.

So this mismatch, between how App Store operate, how Apps are priced and how consumer behaves with software seems to be fundamentally wrong.
You're right. I overlooked that part of their question.
I’m not sure. The bloat meter in my mind certainly goes up when these programs start phoning home to update stocks or whatever. (Despite me never even opening that program).

I should definitely have the option to turn this crap off if I want to - without needing a 3rd party program like little snitch to do so.
I played against the California School of the Deaf in football back in 2014. It was an interesting experience, a decent amount of confusion about when the plays were over unfortunately, which led to some late hits and jostles, but overall it was mostly like any other football game.

They beat us by a score or something, and our coach showed us how to sign "good game" for after
No. How the space on the block chain is used doesn't really factor into that.

The ceiling for the power usage of bitcoin can be estimated by taking the value of the bitcoin that is mined in total each hour (say 6 blocks/hour * 6.25 BTC * 60K $/BTC = 2.25M dollars/hour) and dividing it by the cost of electricity (e.g. (2.25M $/hour) / 0.05 $/kWh = 45 gigawatt). As long as miners are using less electricity than that, they can make more profit by expanding their operations.

(It's a bit more complicated because of capital costs and operational costs other than electricity etc. but I think it's a good rough estimate to start with.)
And study economics, particularly of the labor market. Nothing has helped me make good decisions more than that. I wish I had done it ten years earlier
Where does the 40*3 term come from? I'm assuming the 5/(40*2) is 5 years of subsidy out of two 40-year careers. I can't figure where the 3 term is coming from unless it's 2 children from 3 total people or something else that I'm missing.
Vacuum sealer makes a good laminator in a pinch as well.
The Law of Conservation of Energy heartily disagrees
New satellites should be equipped with appropriate armor and shielding at this point. Space debris isn’t going anywhere and will likely increase exponentially.
Zero-Knowledge Proof
Prevent Zoom from consuming all your CPU on Linux
Largest, Most Powerful Wind Turbine Stands Complete
I won't use the official app or twitter.com for exactly this reason - I want to read things chronologically, not in a disjointed fashion with occasional adverts thrown in too.
Something that has been nagging me for my workflow is how Git handles --autosquash.

I really like the idea, and wrote my personal little `git autosquash` command that tries to figure out the oldest commit it has to run `git rebase -ir --autosquash` on in order to merge all current "fixup! …" commits into their counterparts.

However, doing this in a simple shell script is rather dodgy if you run into more generic commit messages. Personally, I'd love it if git allowed me to create "fixup! <commit hash>" commits instead. I mean -- it's a fixup. It's not supposed to be readable anyway.
Things that are dying and becoming irrelevant often have violent fits as the end draws near.

I hope for myself to walk with eyes wide open into my end with courage and peace.
Pretty sure YouTube employees have already classified all government channels and public access channels as such. There's a notice below those videos that indicates it. And if not, it should be done anyway.
To counteract the gyroscopic effect you'd need 2 frisbees with attached axes spinning in opposite directions. Lots of choices for which way to arrange them - side-by-side, forward-back, vertically, some staggered formation...
I wish all keyboards had rotary encoders for volume control. It is so much nicer to use than spamming vol+/vol- buttons
I might be misremembering things, but didn't WinXP also require a paid add-on to enable MP3 support?
Cars are also apprecating in value.

What other economic oddities are happening at the moment?
The semantic web (the original Web 3.0) was mostly a formal top-down/academic/librarian approach to indexing information. When Tim Berners-Lee won the Draper prize, his talk was basically about the Semantic Web. But even more informal tags/folksonomies (think services like del.icio.us initially) never really took off. Mainstream consumers have zero interest in curating content. Pretty much only researchers (like Sir TBL) do as well as journalists, analysts, etc.
It's true, the product is much worse than it was 10 years ago (I don't use it anymore since it's such a chore), but I don't think a company that has been obsessed with growth for growth's sake is really capable of that level of introspection. That'd be a difficult pill to swallow. Billions of dollars and thousands of human-hours spent to make something...worse. And since all that we really have at the end of the day is a desire/need to work on something that we feel is valuable, what's the point in asking the question?
What a pointless comment. It's much more nuanced than giving people free money. Next you'd be saying it's not callous to not help someone out of a burning building unless they paid their taxes for the fire fighters.
I did read the article, however the way I should have phrased it was that I was curious if the conversation the week prior from HN spawned this article. Always assume the most charitable interpretation before responding.