skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless there is a higher risk of war. Can you imagine if WWII had been a bit more technologically advanced, with bombing raids on nuclear reactors? Here’s a report on their vulnerability in a modern war.

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
This is really playing the semantics game and I think it's disingenuous. The fact is, those other highly trusted authorities, both governmental and independent, were going to say the vaccine was safe anyway. It's all part of the "Trump will do whatever he wants, he's a dictator" narrative that largely was never true. You'll recall that he had every opportunity, supposedly, to approve the vaccines before the election. But he didn't.

In reality, the people who said "we're not taking a vaccine only Trump says is safe" were playing a political game, spreading FUD about a very good thing (the vaccine) because this was the only issue on which Trump could ever lose the election. So every single media organization, and Joe Biden himself, made sure to spread FUD about the vaccine (making sure to add "Trump" to their reasoning, so as not to appear anti-science), right up until the election was over, and then suddenly everyone who still had some doubts was an awful anti-vaxxer who desperately wanted to eat horse paste.

So you can't have your cake and eat it too and be all "haha, we were just kidding, why don't you think the vax is safe that's so weird".

To think it was all done so we could pay an extra $1.50 per gallon of gas, though.
I’ve always loved this description of how DNA and programming differ:

“ Do genes behave like lines of computer code? Our April puzzle discussed ways in which genes hold true to this analogy: They have control structures commonplace in computer programs, such as “if-then” logic, “do loops,” timing routines and cascading “subroutine calls.” We also listed some ways that DNA programs differ from ordinary computer programs: Genes program three-dimensional structures from scratch in a water-based medium, using massive parallelism and swarm programming while making use of, and being constrained by, the laws of physics and chemistry.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dna-computer-program-puzz...
I'm pretty sure given the enormity of the entire field of programming, the only things Every programmer should know are:

1. if and loops

2. Readability is very good. Comments help.

3. pointers/references vs values

I think these are the only things that are truly universally necessary to understand, whether you're writing assembly, for the web, for a game, or anything else that executes code.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope – Official Mission Trailer
"We no longer produce electricity with coal or nuclear! We just buy it from other countries and then browbeat them about environmental responsibility!" doesn't seem like a sustainable energy policy.
I added the original source so you can explore in more detail. You can see that in previous spikes there was a short delay, but in general they rose in tandem. All evidence points to Omicron as far less lethal than Delta.
Do you have a link for those charts?
It has been discussed many times before - the issue with the SA data is that 80% of the population have been exposed to the virus (either had it or have been vaccinated) so the deaths not budging there can be very misleading for countries with lower vaccination rates.
I don’t think I understand what you mean. What would have been different about listener interfaces if lambdas and method references had been available?
The only thing that matters is revenue, and if it can't be easily measured against revenue it doesn't exist. I am so tired of this line of reasoning. It's poisoning the industry, ruining products, and sucking the joy out of work.

What about making a quality product because you have a passion for it? Nope, make a broken MVP and move on to the next customer.

If I can't maintain a metric until I can tie it to revenue, then I guess I don't get cpu usage on our database. Or disk usage. Or response time for anything that only employees touch. Bad data and errors are fine as long as no one complains. Actually, if we produce a shitty product long enough everyone will get used to it and stop complaining. If we stop measuring error rates we can stop wasting time on fixing things right? Tests and code refactors just get in the way of delivering that MVP. Rewards are doled out for fixing an outage, and preventing them is a cost-center to be eliminated.

On the flip side, now we've got KPIs for our ability to push things through the corporate bureaucracy. I didn't become a programmer so I can waste time estimating how long it'll take to produce a design doc that'll be useless by the time I get to implementation, just so a bureaucrat can decide if some deeply technical problem they don't understand should be fixed.

There has to be a better way.
A US company wouldn't be selling a CCL-restricted product to a foreign state without going through USG review -- or at least, they'd get to do that once, before DOJ comes in with the search warrants.
Well, not sure what to tell you mate. You can make the case that Google Chrome is a monopoly that should be brought to heel by the Law, under new legislation if necessary, or you can’t.

Again, I don’t even particularly like Google Chrome, but do you know the only reason I keep a Chromium-based browser installed at all is? Government websites. Not Chrome though, currently it’s Brave with all the crypto stuff turned off. I don’t even need one for anything else. To the extent that Google Chrome is entrenched, it’s the same entities whose powers you mean to bring to bear on them helping them stay entrenched.
Your server could just be an outlier. Doesn’t really say anything about AWS or any cloud provider.
price of 1MWh on Dec 21 2020: 45€

price of 1MWh on Dec 21 2021: 316€

https://www.wiwo.de/my/unternehmen/energie/knappheitspreise-...
In hot places with widespread air conditioning there is also usually a summer peak (people go indoors and close windows, just as they do in cooler places in winter). SA has had peaks in both winter and summer.
Chomsky spent a good part of his career claiming the Cambodian Genocide was just US propaganda.
Interactive live charts can be found at https://energy-charts.info/?l=en

Direct link to charts: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&...
They would have at least a sales account.
Most replies to this are making a category error. Parser combinators aren't a parsing technology, they're a library interface. You can use any parsing technology as a backend to an interface that is built in terms of combinators. That most of them are essentially recursive-descent is a result of common implementation decisions, not a requirement of the interface.

And that's why parsing research doesn't pay much attention to it - it's an interface, not a different approach to handling data while parsing. It's all about ergonomics of using a parser, not about the capability and performance characteristics of parsing.

Should more research pay attention to that? Probably. BISON/YACC/ANTLR are all hell to use. Combinator-based libraries are easier, but current designs lack things like extending parsers without modifying them. There's a lot of research that could be done that would care about this aspect of parsers, but it doesn't seem to be for now.
What I don't understand is that Merkel is allegedly smart, yet she made this decision.
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
Beyond the Third Dimension
Also not a neurologist, but my reading of it was not the brain is "completely structureless" by any means. More that the 'structures' aren't clearly defined and, crucially, that the 'structures' don't act completely independently from the rest of the brain.

"Pretty much everything that your brain creates, from sights and sounds to memories and emotions, _involves your whole brain_."

They briefly mention that our notion of distinct brain structures may be influenced by our hyper-focus on certain areas of the brain, rather than wholistic study of the brain (because it's expensive).

As a kid, I certainly thought each portion of the brain was independent. As in, I believed that my motor functions came from the clearly distinct "motor function structure" of the brain and without that structure, I would have no motor function at all (and with no ability to regain motor function). I think that is the myth they are referring to.
Order of magnitude as large as the group that commutes by car today.
What I hope to see is a popularization of business models where no personal data is kept, because that is less expensive in terms of compliance costs, more beneficial to the consumer, and hopefully more attractive to the consumer as well. We can see the dawn of a new age in other comments in this thread where people talk about not collecting any data on their blog visitors!

Right now it is difficult to build businesses under such models because most institutions, frameworks, and tools shunt you towards hoarding all data. Over time, I hope that better tools will emerge so that building better businesses becomes easier.

There are people elsethread bemoaning not only the unfortunate artificial costs created by this email experiment, but the compliance costs of privacy-protecting legislation in general. But businesses should be paying those compliance costs, because it's an iron law at this point that business-collected personal data will leak yet individuals bear the costs when the data leaks.

To my mind, this experiment went awry in the same way that privacy-abusing businesses go awry: the organization reaped a benefit while the externalized costs were borne by outside individuals.

However, I'm inclined to forgive the researchers, as I think they will learn from this and find ways to collect data which cause less alarm and imposition. Similarly, I would hope that individuals pursuing their rights under privacy legislation would start off gently but firmly, giving small entities time to adapt. But simultaneously, I have an appreciation for those with bulldog tenacity who go after recalcitrant businesses (e.g. the heroes who have gone after Equifax in small claims court).
The obvious reasons this is bad are that it increases German dependence on Russian oil and burning fossil fuels for energy. What are the arguments in favor of it, from the point of view of the German politicians and/or activists that are pushing for it? It has to be more thought out than "Nuclear bad". I'm just trying to understand.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that nuclear doesn't ramp up/down very well either.

Correct. Nuclear reactors can't be turned on/off quickly. They are suitable to handle the base load, in other words, but can't be used as peakers.

> Wind and solar don't even make sense for Germany given their climate/geography.

Uhm, respectfully, that is a load of nonsense. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany

> Germany should ditch the green and use its amazing engineering to build better nuclear reactors, IMO.

Well, if they start that plan today, it may be done in 30 years. Which is way, way, way too late.

Imo, the more sensible path here is to keep the existing nuclear plants running, decommission the that awful lignite power generation asap, while building out energy storage capacity (grid scale batteries - there are many kinds of approaches, e.g. electrical batteries, reservoir storage and some seriously weird ones involving lots of blocks of concrete). That could be done in the space of a decade.

Any new nuclear plants would not even be out of the design stage in 10 years.
The challenge is that the formal understanding of a language constantly evolves and there isn’t always even a consensus in the field itself, so perhaps UK school system has/had a point here.

Unless I’m going into linguistics or some adjacent field, doubtful I’ll need it—and if I do, I might be better off learning it later when I can appreciate the nuance (rather than as a small child, liable to treat as ground truth the whatever formal model that happened to be popular at the time) and from a linguist (rather than elementary school teacher).
If WWII had nuclear technology in play, bombing raids on nuclear reactors would've been one of the smaller problems. Then again, if MAD had been around pre-WWII it may have never happened.
It typically takes three weeks to go from being a case to dead, given how quickly it was rising it was very hard to get a good sense of how many people were likely to die before it was already infecting huge numbers of people.

That's not panic, that's justifiable concern about a new strain of a virus that has killed millions of people around the world already.
- Vaccinated who have had serious side effects and wish they didn’t take it

- unvaccinated who get covid and are fine (the vast majority)

- someone vaccinated who still got severely sick and may die

Pretty much any other slant of “news”.
Similarly: Google Forms being used for phishing, Google Calendar invite spam... I've even heard of Google Photos being used for spam (by "sharing" photos, or by posting photos with text as the target of a spam campaign).

Spammers ruin everything.
How would that work here?

"Load" is players finishing games and requiring new match pairings / rating updates for the tournament to continue. You can tell them to wait, sure. But as long as the rate of games finishing exceeds the rate at which they can process them I don't see how that would improve the situation, the tournament would be stuck anyway.

One option is to eg. limit the total number of players in the tournament up front but they explicitly said they didn't want to do that.
Does "Green" have the same set of meanings in Germany as in the US?

Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder . . . served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, during which his most important political initiative was Agenda 2010. As Chancellor, he led a coalition government of his Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Alliance 90/The Greens. . . . Schröder has been chairman of Russian energy company Rosneft since 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der

PJSC Rosneft Oil Company (Russian: Росне́фть, tr. Rosnéft', IPA: [ˌrosˈnʲeftʲ] stylized as ROSNEFT) is a Russian integrated energy company headquartered in Moscow. Rosneft specializes in the exploration, extraction, production, refining, transport, and sale of petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company is controlled by the Russian government through the Rosneftegaz holding company. Its name is a portmanteau of the Russian words Rossiyskaya neft (Russian: Российская нефть, lit. 'Russian oil').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosneft
Git blame is also super helpful when reading individual files, as it gives you a line by line commit history.

I recently used it in a major re factor of a file (I didn't write) as it gave me background info (commit messages) on why the code ended up looking like that.
Hospitalization lags cases, and deaths lag hospitalization.

So if you're seeing many cases, that's a bad sign for the future, and it takes a while to figure out for sure.

In a global pandemic, it's best to be safe on these things, because the alternative is that you celebrate early and look like a tit (not to mention all the deaths).
That's the core thing is the discover of well thought out abstractions for a specific domain. I glossed over a lot of the specific details, but I iterated the pitfalls that I have seen and how I'm thinking about the abstractions I'm using.
We'll see.

But one thing to keep in mind.

China has almost 13 times more people than Japan had at its peak.

China is 30 times bigger than Japan.

If China reaches Japan's level of development, its GDP will be ~56tn. For comparison, the US GDP is ~21tn.
As a datapoint, my county publishes daily hospitalizations by vaccination status. Some vaccinated people are showing up, maybe 15-20%. So less than 90% unvaccinated there. But that is just hospitalization. For more serious outcomes I'd guess the unvaccinated percentage is higher even than 90%.
Huh. Intriguing concept. I imagine being in the cloud adds some latency to the experience?
I am cautiously optimistic about the severity of Omicron. But as others have pointed out before: deaths trail infections by 2-4 weeks.

Omicron was first reported to the WHO on 11/24 and wasn't categorized as a variant of concern until 11/26. It hasn't even been a month since it was acknowledged much less has become the dominant variant in most places.
Radio Free Asia/Liberty/etc. don't pretend to be someone else while they are broadcasting.
New Study Provides Analysis of European Space Market [pdf]
It's not specific to the USA, in France the situation is the same, most of the young women want the 'alpha male' so if you're not one, you have to wait until you're older..

It made being young much less pleasant than it ought to be, plus it means that we were a bit old when we had children..
I thought the paragraph preceding that one gave the context:

> The blacklisting, which came in November, means that NSO cannot buy any equipment, service, or intellectual property from US-based companies without approval, crippling a company whose terminals ran on servers from Dell and Intel, routers from Cisco, and whose desktop computers run on Windows operating systems, according to a spec sheet from a sale to Ghana, in West Africa
The book Real-Time Phoenix is good for designing realtime systems.

For a good introduction to Elixir, I loved Elixir in Action which also covers OTP.

If you want a good Phoenix resource, the book Programming Phoenix is good.

Finally, the docs in Elixir and Phoenix are great.
Well, Germany's wind was done without a thought about how to implement storage; it did not have to; it was a perfect egotistic game-theoretic play:

The EU energy market mandates that wind and solar production must be bought before everything else. What happens at the moment is France's nuclear reduces production when Germany's wind is over-producing; there is no energy storage at all.

So right now, on top of wind uselessly adding to max production capacity, it thrashes zero-CO2 nuclear-allocated capital's effectiveness. That's a form of capital theft.

And on top of that, Germany's huge coal baseline continues producing just as before:

https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE

Really, the EU rules should be changed so as to account for driveability in energy production.
Make S.F. Great Again
- New Breed of S.F.ians.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
A Tinder message box as opposed to a conversation with a real life person?
What's the point? They're not looking for people in Korea.
Deaths have literally just shot up in SA in the last few days. The 7 day average has doubled in two weeks.
> Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn't budge. At all.

> https://i.imgur.com/TgRmz4F.png [1]

Death always lag infections. That chart is a horrible representation because it doesn't give a good sense of the intermediate dates. But you can still tell with the "7-day average" string.

On the first/infection chart you see the graph touching the word "average" while the second/death chart you can clearly see the graph shifted away from the word "average".

By the same reasoning, the death count could still spike albeit not as high.
Making a blind guess for the 1st day ban, did author use someone else's photos?
It’s not relevant because personal blogs could actually be collecting data.

Also in the usa most lawyers offer a free initial consultation.
Agreed, if any major US markets reintroduce restrictions, I’ll move back to one of them just to vote the governor and health director out in favor of some hardcore health gambler like De Santis.

I played along, now they’re done.

edit: the responder assumed something that wasn’t said, and then wrote an essay about something thats not happening and an example from Mississippi. Maybe to save time from having a natural flow of conversation, maybe its what they actually beleive. Either way this is called a strawman argument.
> I don't see how wind and solar don't make sense.

Wind and solar make total sense. All we need to do is overbuild wind/solar generation + invest in energy storage capacity. This can be done relatively quickly, certainly much more quickly than building new nuclear plants.
I don't get it. How are people using this flexibility to get things done in practice, and what uses aren't allowed by the jail model?
There is a recently released preprint that concludes that omicron-infected have an 80% reduced likelihood to be hospitalised compared to non-omicron infections.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v...

Of course, it's not yet peer-reviewed, and doesn't model the possible outcomes based on the conclusions, but it certainly seems to be great news.
That’s interesting. I wonder how much that applies to South Asians though. I think most of the dating advice in these threads is tailored towards white people who have different experiences from other POC.
> The nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl (in today’s Ukraine) in April 1986 caused widespread fear of nuclear power and strengthened the anti-nuclear sentiment

That was a really unfortunate point in the history of our species. Not only because of the lives that were lost or the land that got irradiated, but that event will be indirectly responsible for countless deaths over decades. Not because of anything related to the radiation, but for putting the brakes on deployment of nuclear reactors. We could have safe and plentiful energy by now, with very little downside.

If that sounds ludicrous, consider this: imagine someone saw the wright flyer and said "we'll be using those things to transport millions of passengers at hundreds of miles per hour". That would sound insane as those things were dangerous. Not so much now (although we have paid a price).

Similarly, nuclear tech has advanced significantly. We have designs that cannot meltdown. We have designs that don't cause weapon proliferation. We can reprocess the 'waste'. We can use different types of fuels, some more plentiful than uranium. Instead, we are stuck operating old clunkers. There are still RBMK reactors in operation today (although they have been retrofitted, but still).

Chernobyl was a criminally flawed design one step above what the radioactive boy scout managed to build. That abomination should have never seen the light of the day - and if it did, it should have had a contention building.

If we were really worried about safety and health we should have a planetary-wide ban on coal plants. Not just for global warming, but for all the health issues they cause. Including radiation.

I am a huge fan of renewables (specially solar) and very hopeful on battery storage technologies. But we do have extremely power intensive processes (think aluminum plants) for which we need reliable power that's difficult to satisfy with renewables. Fusion is always 10 years away. Hydro is not available everywhere and can be disrupted as the climate changes.
To reiterate, the first paper does not specifically pertain to dating apps, and the methodology of the second article is flawed (you want to know whether people meet online, so you ask people of whom >50% you found online, great technique)—so it might save someone who cares about that kind of stuff a click (a few clicks actually, since the methodology is buried in a separate article). If you don’t fall into that category, feel free to move along.

And I don’t know the author of the second article personally, but if I did of course I would point out an issue with their data.
Edit: wrong comment, responded to the top comment instead