skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Let's agree that it's all deterministic. But answer this. Is the outcome going to be different if you decide to do something different? Deterministic or not - your experience of free will / anguish over choice does not change.
> The actual cost of generating electricity by nuclear power is not published by EDF or the French government but is estimated to be between €59/MWh and €83/MWh (~$67-95).

Way cheaper than nuclear in USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#:~:t....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_sourc...
Funny, I had this exact discussion with a colleague at work the other day. She claimed this is nonsense and won't change anybody's mind.

Then she mentioned that she just had bought a new car. I asked what kind, it's a hybrid. I asked why? Well, because her old car was using so much fuel, and with recent price hikes, that became too expensive, so she just bought one that was significantly more fuel efficient.

The _exact_ same person! Just 2 minutes after claiming monetary incentives don't work demonstrated that it actually worked for her!

I have high hopes that price hikes are what convinces people to change their behavior. Not ads, not appealing to ethics or conciousness or "the future of your kids" or pictures of dying polar bears. You need to feel it in your wallet, then you act, plain and simple.
The main reason behind this is to enforce decision of letting Russian gas in i.e. to have NS2 officially opened. With power shortages -- in the whole Europe -- that this shutdown will only make worse, blocking NS2 will no longer look as a viable option.

Tough times are coming.
I can see that login via private key is cool for some people, and being able to login via a private key some other party maintains for you would work for "normal" users. But I could also implement that without bringing in a block chain, right? Wouldn't we expect that Google and the current authN providers just implement that if it ever became popular?
Some of us just like to work on distributed systems, formal methods, compilers, etc… I’m skeptical about the whole thing and so are many colleagues I’ve worked with but the technical challenges are interesting.
This is ridiculous! The house owners were convinced that there couldn't take place a flooding in that area! Most of them had no insuranced for flooding either. No specialist of any kind has predicted such a scenario...
> I'll eat my hat (I wear a fedora).

You should do that regardless.
> no one knows exactly how many vegetative-state patients there are in the world (in the United States, it has been estimated that there are between 15,000 and 40,000)

Last I read, Medicare would pay for this -- perhaps at the request of relatives in denial? And so there's a "ventilator farm" industry, one that maintains a very low public profile.

Anyone with current inside knowledge here to clue in the rest of us?
I'm not anti-crypto per-se and my guess is most people like me aren't opposed to the ideas behind it but the reality is there is massive fraud(-adjacent) stuff happening and while some of the ideas might be ethically noble, most of them aren't. The result being (for me at least) that skepticism is best.
I didn't even know it was a thing, until my father did it when moving for work, while looking for a permanent house to purchase.

Can't offer any details, but this [0] seems to have a range of links and the basics. I gather it's something like Airbnb, but in reverse (homeowners looking for quality person). I imagine it's mostly person and reputation based (e.g. I present as a responsible professional + here are some expensive houses I have been entrusted successfully with).

If you know any real estate agents, you can also ask them where they find temporary placements (i.e. home currently on the market, which are usually paid) as a "resume" starter. But I imagine you'd probably be looking for non-real-estate listings long term. As they usually those require you to be available on short notice to vacate for people to walk through.

And the bigger points are (1) must be flexible in "finding somewhere else" or "vacating within a few months" & (2) be able to live in a place with a light touch (no parties, destructive living, pets, etc.).

[0] https://estatesitting.com/long-term-house-sitter/
It sounds like it's not that COVID itself is any deadlier to people who need dialysis, but rather that the mitigation rules make it much more difficult to get dialysis if you have or think you have COVID.
I think it could be something built upon lifetime analysis. I think a sufficiently complex compiler could use the data available already today to infer thread affinity and other rules.
There isn't a year between them.
My house on the countryside and self sustaining lifestyle (obviously not totally hermitic, but way more than the average person) votes for the system very loudly I'd say.

I am very interested in the history of money, but it made me a Marxist, or rather a Trotskyist ;)
Don't forget successful more then two decades long effort to torpedo the pipeline from Norway to Poland while forcing through Nordstream that goes around.

The EU have a consistent policy of leaving Putin an option to put pressure or just straight up capture some land to the East of German border by making sure the gas won't stop flowing in case that happens.
I guess they match a bit better than I first judged. It will be interesting to see what happens to these companies if their stock prices ever cool off.
Yeah, and even if they can't sell collected data because we all agreed to just put them on a blockchain aggregates and whatnot will still be valuable assets.
This isn't an issue that can be solved by technology. It will need regulation/laws and I don't see that happening.
As a leading politician of the German social democratic party famously said: a kwh you don't use is least expensive. I guess they'll save plenty of money when there's power rationing.
everyone is different from one another. so you differentiate yourself by being different others...? seems very circular.

You are absolutely free to drop out of the "rat race", aka the evolutionary process, which admittedly can be quite stressful. Just have to accept the consequences first, every choice comes with trade offs.

The diatribes against well established condition as some sort of a pharma conspiracy is just the defence mechanism to avoid facing the disability. Not an uncommon strategy, but probably not very productive.

ADHD is most effectively treated with basic 100 year old generic drugs, as well many thousand old remedies like nicotine. What's next, common cold is the aspirin lobby conspiracy?

Guess what, some people manage to live happy lives, have happy families and success in business (that you call rat race) despite being fully paralyzed waist-down, and some even with limbs severed.

I know some of those personally. I also know others, that chose instead to do nothing but complain. I'm sure you can guess the outcomes easily.

Best of luck in the new year.
Like many others in the comments here I can only offer my own personal observation. I used to be super shy, now I'm not.

I used to juggle alone, just preoccupied with the patterns for years - then a friend who made a living from performing told me I could do it too, and took me to busk with him. The first show I did, I was shaking with anxiety..

Nowadays there isn't a social situation I couldn't handle. Please don't tell yourself, "I'm a nerd, I can't socialise", the truth is, you just need to try. It's going to be awkward at first, yes.

It sounds weird but try to work out things to try out, rehearse what to say, before you are in a social situation (like actually in front of the mirror). Pay attention to others and work out what approach works for you. Most of all, go for it and talk to someone. Then do it again.

By the way, happy New Year!
On post-docker pre-kubernetes time I used `--cpuset-cpus` on docker args to dedicate specific cpus to redis instances, using CoreOS and fleet for cluster orchestration.
Freezing to death is free... And great for climate.

Intercontinental connections are possible, but what options we have Africa, Russia and Middle-East? Not exactly stable options. So local production is only real solution and nuclear is very reasonable option from carbon standpoint.
Do you have any idea what comprises the source code for most traditional banking infrastructure? It ain't modern functional languages, I'll tell ya that much. >_>
Why not just mix human rights in China also into the discussion? Make everybody into vegans cause animal cruelty? Police brutality? School crisis?

Obviously different problems are always best tackled in combination! Practically guarantees success. /s

And obviously geopolitical bullies should just not be talked to. Hm so let's see who is left to talk to then. Russia, China, U.S., NATO, none of those won't an option anymore. Good to keep your principles. And good luck doing anything good to the climate with the strategy of only talking to yourself (assuming your country isn't a geopolitical bully itself, which is likely quite a stretch, given the odds.)
Looks like pandering to Greens/anti-nuclear people, but honestly, I don't know. To me, it appears borderline insane, but there's probably something that I am missing.
They're pursuing their own interests just fine; Schröder got a nice position on the board of the nordstream project.
I've also noticed that the nuts go on top. I've always wondered if this was so it was completely obvious if a bolt dropped out (i.e. sunlight coming through the hole).
France seems to be confident regarding nuclear safety.

Most of that engineering is done in-house as well. I wonder what explains this different attitude as compared to their neighbors.
> However, $250/year is also not what I consider a "FAANG salary" (whatever that means).

I worked there as a junior. The people I worked with had 500k+ and didn't work more than me. I have very low living expenses though and didn't want to stay in the HCOL area so I quit because I got more money than I needed.
I tend to agree with your approach. Charging more for electricity and other energy will likely reduce demand and consumption.

I recently purchased a hybrid vehicle, and I find myself much more conscientious about how much energy I am using.

I wonder: if every house only had a certain allotment of energy each day to use at the “regular” price, would energy consumption go down?
or you could use a drone with a sufficiently zoomed in and stabilized camera.
This makes no sense. The gas going through the pipeline is already expensive and it's already used to heat poor peoples homes. Meanwhile, Nato's military power is pretty much irrelevant if the countries of Nato can't piss of Russia because of fear that Putin will close down the pipeline in the middle of winter and watch pensioners freeze to death in their homes.

The single most important move to save the EU from Putin and to decarbonise is to fund green energy like wind, solar and particularly invest in energy storage solutions to smooth out unreliable sources. It's very difficult to compete with Gas turbines in terms of supply and responsiveness.
Because the developers don't have direct interaction with them via tech support.

Developers have no clue how the people actually do. They just smugly think the user is using it wrong

It's like picture of a gate leading to a normal walkway and a foot trail has been carved around the swinging gate
I think you could go even further and add that a lot of power users who you'd think would want decentralized identity don't want it either, for the same reasons you mention.
The Japanese aren’t exactly known for being sloppy or cutting corners. What is the cultural difference you’re referring to?
A few hours later...
Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix, once said, "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us" I worked for HBO when he said that, and took it very seriously.
What did you expect? It's BoingBoing. Not really at the pinnacle of American journalism.
It's true that you'll always have your problems with you. It's also true that "wherever you go, there you are."

But for every set of problems S₁ ... there's a secondary set S₂ that consists basically of "thinking too damn much about S₁" along with a heaping portion of "why me, why me, why me?". The growth of which starts to take on a life of its own, and to greatly leverage the suffering that S₁ would otherwise cause on its own.

So part of the basic healing mechanism of the change-of-coordinates approach is that, while it doesn't reduce the size of S₁ directly ... it does help reduce the run-away swelling of S₂ very substantially. Which allows slow-acting but powerful natural healing factors (the passage of time, as a sibling commenter point out) to focus much better on S₁.

Until one day, you're going about your business ... and you realize you haven't thought about S₁ in a while. Not just for a couple of hours, but for a like a full day or more. That's when you start to realize that it's at least possible to move on.
https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/770/floodi...
One past thread:

List of games that Buddha would not play - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24136469 - Aug 2020 (9 comments)
Curiously, toy swords are OK. Also no objection to dolls or action figures. So Star Wars fans can continue to enjoy their light sabers.
I generally enjoy reading David Perell's article but he generally frustrates me with his ad-hoc mix of science/research and his personal opinions. Example - he references the 300% increase in college degrees amongst the population since 1970 and the pressure it places upon everyone else to "get a degree" and then turns around and bashes the idea of ADHD medications with ZERO evidence of its supposed dangers:

"To their credit, my parents didn’t drug me. I had all the features of a kid who would have binged ADHD medications like shots at a New Year’s party. No matter how badly I acted, my parents never caved into the twisted logic that leads doctors to hand out prescription pills faster than candy on Halloween."

Maybe if his parents HAD drugged him he wouldn't have been such a mess in middle school.

I find him to generally be thought provoking but his immaturity (and youth) as a human shows through in a lot of his writing at times...
I also spent months preparing for the interviews. People here also talk about being able to build complex systems "in a weekend". I tell myself it's OK if it takes me longer to prepare for certain things to do a good job; the important thing is that I do a good job.
In 20 years they will be pressured by their green neighbors to shut down and will be stuck with a pile of hard to get rid of nuclear junk.
> We are very much on the slippery slope of elected officials making prosecutors punish people they don't like.

Are you living under a rock? This has been happening for a while.
USA related information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734146
This is why I switched to Debian for production a long time ago. I'm not dealing with RH/IBM shenanigans let alone having to migrate everything to a new OS.
> You should learn Lisp, no matter what kind of developer you are. But by today's standards, Lisp a pretty antiquated language which still hasn't caught up to modern trends (static types, asynchronism, etc...) and with a very poor tooling (lack of IDE's) and library ecosystem (building websites, parallelism, GUI, etc...).

Literally all of these things are present in Common Lisp (ok the static types "full experience" leads you to something like Coalton: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton however the plain SBCL experience does have some compile-time type checking). Meanwhile many so-called modern languages still lack Lisp's incremental compilation let alone the full interactive development experience such a feature can help support, an OOP system as flexible as CLOS, they can't gracefully manipulate their own code as data, they don't have anything like the condition system...
They shouldn’t have changed the definition. I saw them as the same as flu shots. They call them seasonal flu vaccines, the COVID ones have the same issues but decrease their efficiency rapidly.

If people knew it would lose its efficiency so rapidly I doubt they’d have used it, or gotten 2 shots in quick succession.
It saddens me that this is even necessary. On one hand I want to say "kudos!" for recognizing the inherent hazard to their staff, but the cynical side of me also says "is avoiding cancellations worth flight attendants risking their health or safety?"

I don't have an answer. Food for thought. For myself I don't think there's enough hazard pay available to get me on a plane with a bunch of stressed out people who just spent their maskless holiday travelling with strangers and to maskless family gatherings, whether masks are required on the aircraft or not.
Ready. Aim. Fire. not Ready. Fire. Aim.

Debugging is hard, and requires patience and practice.
From what I know USENET is more like Mastodon. Nostr has similarities with Mastodon but it's much more flexible, scalable, not to mention the public key infrastructure.
How to win votes? In the end it's all politics, where feelings are more important than true solutions.
Is Innovation in Human Nature? (2016)
Is 4 uninitialized variables?
While emergency care might only account for <10% of overall medical spending in the US, I would imagine its the leading cause of unexpected medical debt. Sure, over the course of my lifetime all my general practice visits, various medications, durable medical equipment, dental cleanings, eye exams, nursing home, hospice, etc. will probably total to >90% of my overall lifetime healthcare spend compared to the maybe 1 or 2 emergency room visits I'll have. All of that stuff I'm already shopping around for when I determine if they're in-network our out of network. Seeing their list of silly prices does not really make a difference, as those silly prices aren't what I would be paying anyways. That's just their book prices, not the whatever member network special discount coupon haggle price shenanigans the insurance industry is doing.

The big troubling expenses are the emergency room visits where it turns out the guy who set your broken bone is now out of network and so you're billed some stupid price. Or as the above poster mentioned they were temporarily without coverage at that time and had an accident. In this case having the prices published ahead of time didn't really do you any good, as even the basic information of "is this doctor in-network or not" wasn't even able to be accurately looked up and compared.

And as for these stupid expensive list prices being published ahead of time making an impact to those without insurance, it probably doesn't change the math too much for the majority of those people. If they were unable to afford the crazy prices of insurance they're probably unable to pay the crazy non-insured list prices for non-emergency care, so they'll probably forgo it until their ailments get into emergency situations.

I'm still unsure how it actually helps. Can you fill me in on that?
Archive link: https://archive.fo/NA0Zd
Wow, thanks for your recommendation. Only English poetry I read are Tennyson and Keats. And some Whitman.

I also read poetry in Bengali, Sanskrit (Kalidasa only), and Urdu.

I am pretty much limited to the classics except for Bengali.

I need to broaden my horizon in terms of new poetry.

It is an exploitation vs exploration problem for me. And as I have very little time for poetry, I definitely tend to exploit more.

I will definitely check out your recommendation.
Almost every nation with nuclear power has underestimated decommissioning costs. Those costs will go on long after the lifespan of the power plant.
Chess is played on a board of 8 rows, so that's out.
Russian gas makes up only 1/3rd of Germany's total amount of imported gas and only because it's cheap. If the Russians really were to turn off the valve, the amount could be made up for with other sources. By far not instantly, but nobody would freeze to death, either.

Germany's alleged dependence on Russian gas is mostly a fairytale of US propaganda.
Sorry milord, continue working earnestly a little bit more before we have to bow and kiss your golden moonshaped shoes.

What do you guys work on all day long ? How to convert a DOGE to USDT to BTC then to a bored ape NFT looking to the right ? Hope you dont work at SafeMoon or other such "project" you guys call "crypto" because there's 1 hash function somewhere and one key elsewhere :p
Tesla has navigated the chip shortage better than most
Actually, a legacy can honor death by focusing on what is lasts rather than what doesn't.

My children and my children's children—generations upon generations will have been shaped in some part by me. That's where my focus ought to be. That's what I aim for.

What legacy _will_ you have?
"infinitesimal risk" would be something that is unlikely to happen once in a million years or even the lifetime of the planet which is clearly not the case. It's "acceptable risk" or "justifiable risk" at best.
Survivors of Fukushima? You mean all of them? Nobody died at Fukushima...or Three Mile Island. President Carter visited it while it was still melting down.

Yes, people died at Chernobyl, and we all know why (incompetence and lies). Are you suggesting the German nuclear industry is comparable to the Soviets?
>heat death of the universe is our ultimate destiny

We have bigger and more urgent and realistic fish to fry before worrying about heat death. Insofar as you care about the health and well-being of humanity as a whole, and the biosphere in which we are embedded, then you cannot let yourself zoom out so far in ethical concerns, or else you become effectively antisocial.

We have nested problems at the global, national, and local level that all need attention. But of course it is relatively easy to get to the bleeding edge of Spyro speed-running than it is to get to the bleeding edge of solving real-world problems that have faced humanity, in one form or another, for thousands of years.

Life is partly about the journey, but if a side effect of your life is to chew up the biosphere to make cool new toys and experiences for you, then yes, I think you're better off taking up Spyro. Even better, though, if you recognize a challenge that some larger group faces, and apply yourself to solving that, at least part time.
The photo is already heavily denoised per the sibling comment — possible they could do more but it's difficult when the sensor and lens are so small.
As others have noted, one has to get either ME, NH, or VT on board to get power to southern New England.

https://www.nhpr.org/northern-pass
For web developers: Ruby and Rails. Because both Ruby & Rails are evolving at a faster pace than I've seen in a decade, and web-scale companies like GitHub, Shopify, and Stripe are finding new ways to squeeze every drop of performance out of the platform while prioritizing programmer happiness.
Happy New year everyone. Certainly I have plans for the new year like every year, however this time I want to make sure I stick or complete one thing in list of things I want to do this year. I wish I have positive energy that I have during end of year and first few days of the new year where I want to learn so many new things throughout the year . May be it is my excitement about doing so many things which may be not practically possible that you causes the disappointment
The book is not something you give the kids to read. It is something you read in order to be able to shape then in a certain way.

It is not about exposing them to ideas, it is about making them certain way, because it sounds cool.

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But also with exposure of ideas, pretty much no one exposes jids to all ideas equally with no framing. Approving or disapproving framing is there, whether direct or subtle.
Those houses aren't nuclear reactors. The safety measures were exponentially less stringent.
Seems like it was left up to the flight attendants themselves (and union) to decide. They probably have a decent idea of what risk/reward ratio they're comfortable with.