skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US and Japan the fraction of primary energy supplied by nuclear power is almost negligible (8% [1] and 3% [2]). Even the famously large French nuclear industry only manages 39% [3].

See the province of Ontario where 50-70% of power is from nuclear generation ("Supply" tab):

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data

A steady 10,000 MW. Hydro tends to supply another 3000 MW for baseload. As wind fluctuates, gas turbines can brought online as needed.

We could use another 3000MW of nuclear capacity IMHO.

(I live 50km from one of the nuke plants.)
How Do Zero Commissions Currency Exchanges Work?
This is a brilliant illustration of survivor bias.

I sometimes wish I hadn't thinned my cable collection in the late teens, I could show you fifteen connectors which haven't lasted as long as, say, Micro-B.
The broken form thing reminds me of when I tried to send a message to California FTB (basically the IRS for California).

Kept getting this cryptic error: "Field contains invalid characters or format."

Eventually I found through trial and error that the problem was APOSTROPHES. So I'm, it's, that's, they're, etc are all out.

It amazes me that not only do they not support such commonly used phrases in their messaging system (which pretty clearly means they've never tested it with any thing remotely resembling a real world message), but also that they couldn't even have the decency to give a more descriptive message so I didn't have to go on a punctuation whack-a-mole.
The Highway Code: 8 changes you need to know from 29 January 2022
https://prettier.io/docs/en/option-philosophy.html

>Yet the more options Prettier has, the further from the above goal it gets. The debates over styles just turn into debates over which Prettier options to use. Formatting wars break out with renewed vigour: “Which option values are better? Why? Did we make the right choices?”

>And it’s not the only cost options have. To learn more about their downsides, see the issue about resisting adding configuration, which has more s than any option request issue.

>So why are there any options at all?

>A few were added during Prettier’s infancy to make it take off at all.
>A couple were added after “great demand.”
>Some were added for compatibility reasons.
Ridiculous “article” extrapolating from a single sample of two different phones used at different times.

This is like writing an article “NEVER EVER TAKE AN UBER, ALWAYS LYFT” after you one Lyft in Chicago was good, but your one Uber in NYC was 10 minutes late
It's optimized to the way the x86 works, for example, near/far pointer support. AFAIK gcc and clang do not support near/far.
Not everyone buys into the cattle not pets thing. It's mainly a thing related to auto deployment strategies. Which are great for the cloud with its quick auto scaling capabilities. The ideal vision there is that you shouldn't even have the ability to log in to a server. But there are other usecases where a known environment you can poke around in is more useful IMO.

As an example, in cloud environments not much time is spent investigating issues. When something fails the solution is often to just wipe and redeploy. I prefer fully understanding the problem and having the tools to troubleshoot. Especially because in my work the servers still have different roles.
I'm sorry but I don't agree. Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc. Trying to get those deals over the phone is a chore. Ordering specific toppings can be a chore since it's a relay back and forth vs a button. Multiple pizzas with multiple toppings? The delay just compounds. If you live alone and order one pizza or one style of specific themed pizzas then sure, it might be faster, if that's the metric of "best" but in no way is the phone superior to the app or website. Ever call a pizza place when they are slammed, usually when you order pizza? The guy or girl on the phone is in an absolute rush to get you off the phone for the next person who still uses the phone to call in. I just don't agree.

There is one exception to this rule, pizza places who are not the big three. The mom and pop who doesn't have an app.
I mean, there are people who work for ideological reasons instead(hackers working for FBI/MI5 despite low pay for instance), and in sure there are people in Israel who take this job to do the service to their country and such, and not just the salary.
> punish Germany as hard as possible is what created WW2 in the first place

People like simplistic arguments for WW2. But the truth is that the terms given to Germany weren't that hash, certainly not as harsh as the terms imposed by Germany on Russia and Romania in the separate peace treaties before the end of the war.
network neutrality ...
Yes, I know. We're basically in agreement on the broader points, but I don't agree with your second sentence, and you seem to have the opposite bias in terms of how to act under uncertainty:

> What I am saying is their adamant declarations of "masks don't work for the public", which note is an affirmative declaration, were false, and never had any supporting evidence.

There's no such thing as an affirmative declaration of the null hypothesis. You either have proof that something works, or you do not. If you do not have evidence that X works, or the evidence is ambiguous, your conclusion is the null hypothesis (that X doesn't work)...but that doesn't mean that you have to scream it from the rooftops. You can just say "we don't know; the evidence is poor."

The only accurate thing you can say in the "mask debate" is that strong declarations both ways are wrong. The original declarations were wrong, and the declarations now are also wrong. If you look at the data you can't judge either way (with the exception of cloth masks, which are looking quite poor), and so we must equivocate.

The only way you can possibly go on this issue and still be correct is to use nuance. And if you do that, then it's a question of how you use medical evidence to advocate for interventions.
Web 3.0, the official definition (2007)
An interesting old post by Jason Calacanis.
Weird. Literally the opposite of my experience.

I don’t do delivery except pizza because I don’t want to pay a premium for cold food. Websites always have built in timers that take longer. Usually 45m.

Meanwhile I can call a pizza place, have pizza and wings ready in 15m, pay cash or whatever and have hot food. Order online, chances are it’s sitting there for 10m to avoid getting penalized on the SLA for online order pickup.

Plus, shitty middlemen like DoorDash are gross. Why would I want to have someone take a vig off my business and have a worse experience by any measurement?
I have to agree. It seems ok for small & lightweight devices (ahem, phones..), but I would like something bigger and more rugged for larger devices.

Another issue is I can't seem to find good cables. Most of the cables I have seem too big and bulky with respect to the receptacle, working as strong long levers.. I feel like I have to be extra careful around connected USB-C cables to avoid damage by knocking something.

Weirdly enough the best USB-C cable I have yet is the charging cable that came with Sennheiser Momentum (3?). It's actually quite thin, flexible, and doesn't have a ton of bulk around the connector. I've used it regularly for charging my phone, headphones, and also for soldering.
The goal is to be able to point the finger at someone else when there is a problem.
You understand that "proprietary" has an actual definition? And, that definition is not, in fact, "non-standard", nor is it "costs money to use"?

"Proprietary" means "owned by somebody who restricts access". Access, in this case, refers to rights to run encoders, and to deliver decoders. VP8, VP9, and AV1 are also defined by published and recognized standards, but are additionally not subject to restrictions on use. This has nothing to do with money, and suggesting it does is disingenuous.

Also, do you get that Apple's reasons for anything they choose are at best obscure, where not actually fraudulent?

We all can only guess at Apple's reasons for anything, even where they seem to say what their reasons are, because Apple is under no obligation to reveal the whole truth about their reasons.

That Apple does not support VPx and AV1 is more reasonably guessed, from observation of historical behavior, to be a consequence of their preference for proprietary, exclusionary business models, most probably because they better limit competition.
>> LaManna noted that any taxpayer who does not want to use ID.me can opt against filing his or her taxes online.

This statement seems absurd. The IRS website doesn't support filing taxes online like a normal country because the tax preparation companies have lobbied to prevent it.
Has anyone here used Apple's built in Voice Control[1] feature in MacOS? I imagine having something built in the OS is better than third party software, but I haven't used any so I don't know

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210539
Poked around a bit more, and yep! I think I didn't notice since I so rarely see that "add things to this space" UI.

Thanks! I've got Stuff™ to organize now.
well... it's over 25 years... and thanks for making me feel old AF ;-)
That's utterly hilarious
https://plutus-pioneer-program.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pion...
The coupons are the biggest advantage to placing orders online. If you place your order over the phone, they aren't going to offer any promos - they'll gladly charge you $16 for a medium 1 topping. Gotta get the coupon to get the 5.99 special.
So is that the extent of it?

the point of the program is that inventions are a result of previous inventions and influenced buy the society in which they are developed. If you looks at any given invention you can trace the “ancestral” inventions back to further ancestral inventions and learn a lot about how the conditions around them affect the outcome. The program runs that tracing back from earlier to more recent to see the effects.

there is a lot of material in there and I would not be surprised if a few things turn out to either incorrect or incomplete in hind site.
The short of it is that fsync on Linux used to be really bad at reporting errors (POSIX APIs are still bad, but we've now sorted out some ways to work around this particular source of pain)

IIRC, after an IO error you could get into a situation where on the next fsync postgres thought things were back on track, but Linux had actually just thrown away some data.
For a few months now google search has been basically useless. The only thing that you get nowadays is just SEO spam and mainstream sites. At this point even bing/ddg is better.
Because it was either agree to those terms, or don't license Windows -- by an enormous margin the most popular PC OS -- for OEM distribution at all.
if i recall, it rose to prominence against a backdrop of frustration with myisam not supporting transactions and stored procedures among several other things.

early postgres had its own complications though. myisam was limited, but save for dumps it basically ran itself. postgres required tuning and manually run maintenance operations. it was not a drop in replacement for myisam like innodb was...
I've done this. I won second place at the county level, behind someone who built a dot-matrix printer, and also got a medal from the US Army. Was it safe? No. But it was the late 1970s when things were "looser".

I was able to cause a 4' long fluorescent bulb to light up at 15 feet away. And destroyed TV & radio reception for the neighbors while it was running. Being a big fan of Nikola Tesla at the time, my experiment was measuring the wireless delivery of power using an AC voltmeter at various distances. But mostly I built it because it was cool.

I used a 15kv neon sign transformer. The capacitor was made from two copper sheets glued to opposite sides of some picture frame glass, which was epoxied into a wooden frame (no metal fasteners allowed!). The spark gap was two threaded rods on a plastic frame so that I could adjust the frequency. The primary coil was bulk sparkplug wire. The secondary was two spools of magnet wire laid down on a 6" diameter PVC drain pipe, with several coats of lacquer sprayed over it (that gave me pneumonia from the fumes). I went through about 3 capacitors before I got a good one because the glass would crack in the family oven when I cured the epoxy.
I think we're up for a revision because it needs some kind of breakaway feature. At work we keep seeing laptops with broken ports because someone tripped over the charging USB-C cable and instead of it popping out, the lateral force just breaks the port. Now I'm super paranoid about it and miss the magsafe connector. My Air just has USB-C and I think that decision may have been a step backwards in some ways.

Otherwise its excellent and probably will last a long time, but for charging laptops, its a little concerning.
Seems like they intentionally caused this for additional YouTube content?
Can't pass up a chance to share the delight that is (was?) PizzaTool: https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
This is completely the opposite of my expectation. Gathering requirements should not be a manager's task at all, let alone writing them down.
This looks fantastic. Does anyone know of an opposite tool? One that identifies as a source and works out the demands of a sink?

The price is fine, and even just this one would save me loads of debugging efforts at home.
That's terrible! Specifically what channels?*

*This is a bad joke
My daughter is only a month older and I share your feelings. I'm glad you posted that comment above, I often feel intimidated about admitting how little I truly know about parenting.
Not OP, but…

They're not in the same league, although this isn't a knock on fugitive as they have different goals.

If you don't want to try magit¹ itself, then vimagit² is a reasonable approximation within vim. It gives you the same kind of workflow as magit, but doesn't quite feel as polished IME.

¹ You don't need to be an emacs user to use magit, you can treat magit as a standalone application.

² https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit
Coyote J. Calhoun gets Fired from Z-102, Live On The Air
s2=255 in the INIT string of modem. Solved! (If I remember correctly).
> Initial release 8 July 1996;

> 25 years ago
PEP-8 is the de-facto standard for python. Why would a formatter for python support anything (such as tabs) that deviates from that? There might be code that does not adhere to PEP-8, but to me this is not a justification, just some people distancing themselves from the python core community.
This kind of information is usually deep inside EC (embedded controller) and what they expose to the host system is limited. So, maybe it's possible, but I am not aware of a practical option.

Update: it seems that Linux gives some stats about it: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1351186/how-to-debug-usb-c-p...
Papa Murphy’s app is horrible.

It feels like if a computer generated it… or a “wizard” from the 1990. So many pages and adding toppings on to the pizza is treated like an exception where you have to click a checkbox just to indicate you want your pizza to have toppings….

Meanwhile the Dominos pizza app is super fast and easy, provides updates on status.
tbh I think that's basically reasonable for corporate-controlled accounts. They can verify that you are you, and recover the account (or get you a new equivalent one) pretty much no matter what you screw up. It might take a couple days, but it'll happen eventually.

Individuals do not have that kind of power over their own accounts. So if you screw up, you're screwed for good. 2FA means third parties can screw me over at any time, I see no reason to take that increased risk.
I still have a couple that use AA batteries. The need to switch to an internal battery that when dies renders the mouse useless is the Apple way. The charging port on the bottom is the kiss on the nose for Apple design.
Other options may include the intellectual challenge, using the spyware for personal gains, and holding a grudge against Google/Apple.
No. I hope I never have to make another phone call in my life. One click in the app and the pizza is at my door step 30 minutes later. Can't beat that.
Are you sure? It does not for me. Although I am using my distro's release of Firefox. I will be trying it on my windows pc with the official FF release later.
Without additional configuration cgo breaks cross-compilation.
Fold the lines with logs. Problem solved.
Is this a problem anyone actually has?

Not just that, what about transferring shares of a business requires the business to have tokens issued on a blockchain?
Huawei is demanding SEK 5B from the state after the 5G porting
Buggy restaurant websites pushed me the other way actually. If I am not in the mood to deal with a potentially/known buggy site, I will use DoorDash pickup instead. Costs a couple extra dollars, but would rather pay that than fill out a form 5 times, especially for complicated orders.
> Obviously people don’t set out to poorly design or under engineer a nuclear power plant.

But quite importantly, in both of those cases the failure scenarios were not unknown (though the risk was deemed acceptable, for whatever reasons). Unknown failure scenarios don't really happen in this space -- such a thing is neither acceptable nor expected.

> Humans are fallible.

But of course, this I can't argue with. Nor that Chernobyl and Fukushima did in fact happen.

> Choosing a strategy that can go horribly wrong due to human error is not wise in my opinion.

So what it boils down to, in my mind, is a numbers game. We know that climate change has the potential for killing hundreds of millions of people, if not more. We know that coal power plants routinely and completely expectedly kill a bunch of people (the numbers really are staggering for something so common).

So the point I'm making is that Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the general risk with nuclear, should not on its own stop us from building out nuclear. It has to be a balance with the risks of the other options. (large-scale battery capacity and the economics of nuclear are additional jokers in this debate, but let's not get into that)

> While Fukushima wasn’t that bad, it could have been terrible. It had the potential...

Finally -- while I understand where you're coming from -- this particular argument doesn't sit that well with me. It's a little too easy to use this as a "slippery slope" style appeal to emotions, rather than objective evidence. To turn it around: climate change has the potential to wipe out humanity. We should shut down literally all coal power plants tomorrow, and start building thousands of nuclear power plants.

This is of course not a reasonable argument, and nor is it reasonable of me to completely denounce your concern here. So this is where the details of the risk/benefits analysis matters, and above all it has to be an evidence-based argument. I don't think emotive arguments about how bad Fukushima or Chernobyl was or could have been, have a place in this debate.
The opposite tool exists, it's awesome (on paper, anyway), but I could not afford it ($1200). Meet Acroname USBHub3c Pro: https://acroname.com/store/programmable-industrial-power-del...
If interested, for more data including names and dates, try Carroll Quigley's Anglo-American Establishment or his Tragedy and Hope. For a shorter version, try Joe Plummer's Tragedy and Hope 101.

If true, not all is as it appears. But then, in the day and age of propaganda, when is it?
The Prettier team has gone on to say they regret giving people several of the configuration options they did though and have a page dedicated to their option philosophy. https://prettier.io/docs/en/option-philosophy.html
Other likely scenarios which aren't a problem on the web

- the restaurant is busy, nobody answers the phone.

- the restaurant is busy, somebody does answer the phone but they can't hear you over the noise of the patrons.

- the person who answers the phone marks down your order incorrectly
IANAEG (...Not An Evil Genius), but it seems safe to assume that a lot of folks in that line of work do not share much of your worldview or value system, to need to do any "rationalizing" before doing such things.

(Actually, you might want to read a few works of fiction which feature well-written Evil Geniuses. Or some "I was a CIA agent..." biographies.)
I've had several frustrating experiences recently with search engines, Google included. The most notable: I have tried to find a video clip of Merkel joking about the German city of Bielefeld not existing. There are plenty of articles, but the clip, which I know exists, doesn't come up. Not on YT, not on Google, not on Bing. Maybe I've lost my Google-fu somewhere along the way, I don't know anymore.
> by lying

And well... By giving far right proxy forces in the Ukraine arms and training, so the proxy forces can then be used for clandestine operations and hopefully (so nato/us/UK think) instigate a Russian military response to which they can scream casius Beli and create more unrest in the entire area
I applaud you. This is the standard I try to live up to and want my teammates to aspire to.
Just use separate emails? I really don't get all the ink spent on complaining about email spam and privacy of them taking emails and all that. I just use a different inbox for buying stuff.
“It’ll be better soon! Just as soon as <x> gets implemented! Just you wait and see!”

We’ve been hearing this for basically as long as cryptocurrencies have been around.

I suspect we will see a currency that can do decent throughput, but I think it will require advances in the underlying theory for that to happen and that’s a few years away.
> In this respect the ‘US government informational position’ appears to be substantially correct

Perhaps. The conventional wisdom and majority opinion of the US public in 1968 would have had the same opinion of the Vietnam war. If something happens that shows vaccines to have some as yet unknown long term side effect, in 20 years Rogan could be seen as right for his skepticism. We have already seen some recent pushback on masks and lockdown policies…even from folks on the left. Things can change…and fast.

Honestly I don’t think Spotify is going to do anything to piss off Rogan. His demographic is right in their sweet spot and he can’t go away without a huge cost to them. They are better to just ride it out. They bought him because his listeners are loyal, he goes away and lands on Rumble, so does his listeners.
Door dash would be nice if they didn't have the system where you have to blind bid in a "tip" auction to be able to actually get food.
(MySQL, notoriously, uses double quotes for strings.)

However, does not Python and standard SQL using different quote characters make it easier? I.e.

query = "SELECT column_a FROM a_table WHERE column_b = 'foo';"

compared to this, if single quotes were enforced:

query = 'SELECT column_a FROM a_table WHERE column_b = \'foo\';'
I strongly disagree.

I find people’s ability to converse / comprehension very poor. I worked a pizza job answering the phone in a busy shop and getting verbal instructions while some people change their mind is terrible.

A good app / website takes me under a minute to order a pizza, and it is consistently reliable.

Logging in gives me my order history, address, and preferences. Usually I have to login maybe every couple months. If that.
Quite a few trucks on scene... And many out in the area, under what I am told are rather cold conditions...