skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time Nuclear comes up (rational) people complain of two things:
1) cost, and;
2) safety.

I think the cost argument is really an irrelevance. The electricity grid is probably the most important engineering system ever developed. Everything really relies on the electricity grid. Without it, we'd do so much less. (Think about everything that depends on it. Is anything else so significant?) For example, the National Academy of Engineering considers the grid the greatest engineering achievement since 1900. See https://www.nae.edu/19579/19582/21020/7326/7461/GreatAchieve...

In that regard, producing a stable electricity supply should be considered nearly the most cost-effective investment we can make. Arguing that nuclear is more costly than other forms is just arguing about a few pennies in the dollar. The dollar is the benefit we get from electrification. The pennies are the 'extra' cost of nuclear. (Tbh, I don't think nuclear is more costly. I think we can just _calculate_ the cost of nuclear better than alternatives. What's the cost of fossil fuels when you add in the external climate change impact? Who knows? What's the cost of renewables when you consider they don't always produce power/might not be able to meet demand/need significant grid reconstruction to work? Who knows?)

Regarding safety. This will always be a big consideration. But how safe is the world if the climate warms? I'd say not very. From what I've seen on nuclear engineering, it seems nowadays westerners really do understand how to run the nuclear plants safely. I don't believe there has been a really bad accident in the West. (5 Mile Island came close but was controlled. Fukushima was operator error compounded by cultural issues associated with Japanese management.) There will always be some risk of an accident. But, from what I've seen, actually it's pretty safe. The accidents I've heard of, can be explained as poor operation choices.

I think what really gets people in the energy debate is they are hoping for 'perfect' solutions which have no downsides. Unfortunately, there isn't one available right now.

The other thing that gets people is they consider choosing nuclear to be more risky than not choosing nuclear because they feel they know nuclear is dangerous. Whereas, from what I can see, _not_ choosing nuclear is a lot more dangerous than choosing nuclear. If we are to believe the climate change warnings, it seems that danger is much much greater than anything nuclear poses.

TLDR nuclear is risky but that risk is a lot less than climate change or bad electricity supplies. People weight nuclear risk too heavily because we understand it more and people perceive nuclear as dangerous to their person. They fail to properly account for risks they cannot easily perceive that are associated with the alternatives.

Go France!
EfficientNet is a nice simple example of this. It's family of networks with different sizes, controlled by a single scaling parameter. That parameter controls depth, width and resolution - see here for more details, the figure is easy to understand: https://paperswithcode.com/method/efficientnet
I know what my next interview question is gonna be.
I don't know if anyone has used ripples in a liquid, but LCD's without polarizers are used in tomography to dynamically configure a diffraction or phase-shift pattern. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_light_modulator
Seems like hopefully an easy and obvious fix - no need for a fully open redirect here!
Apart from the comments talking about crises under the Fed, look at the 18th century where gold strikes (or the lack thereof) caused several more serious crises, with both inflation and deflation driving crises, due to the money supply being completely uncorrelated with economic activity.
I'm making a proof of concept UI library that runs in WebAssembly!

Pros:

- Rendering for multiple platforms

- Much efficient server side rendering with all the goodies of SPA (no need to scale nodejs servers)

Cons:
It's just a proof of concept and I don't have enough bandwidth to take it to a full blown framework
It is so tiring to continue to see this justification for something. Just because some other unnamed thing is worse, is not a reason to be only 'a little bit bad'.

Do you think that, on its own, adding cookie popups is very user friendly and very subtle? We shouldn't explain away an action because 'someone else is worse'.
Exercise May Enhance the Effects of a Covid or Flu Shot
My all-time favourite BBC Pidgin article is this one:
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41171196
Enhancing Local Delivery Using Shopify
DeliveryAssist will make you and your customers happier when it comes to setting local delivery costs. Shopify only allows you to set 5 delivery zones, which is very restrictive. If you want to charge the optimal price for each delivery, then you’ll want to ditch Shopify’s local delivery settings and use DeliveryAssist.

With DeliveryAssist, you can:

Create unlimited delivery zones
Set a base rate
Charge per kilometer/mile
Have customers at specific distances contact you for more information

Unlimited delivery zones:

With unlimited delivery zones, you never have to compromise when it comes to delivery charges. You can create ranges as big or small as you want.

Charging based on distance:

You can charge customer’s based on their exact distance from your location. This way, you can cover your cost per kilometer to deliver. You can also set a maximum distance where local delivery will be allowed. For example, $0.50 per kilometer up to a maximum of 100 kilometers.

Set a base rate:

DeliveryAssist lets you set a base rate for all deliveries, so this will be added to any other local delivery charges. This allows for any set costs on your end for delivery to always be covered, whether they are 1 kilometer or 100 kilometers away.

Have customers contact you if they are in a specific distance range:

When you are creating a delivery zone using DeliveryAssist, you can make it so that instead of being charged for delivery, they will instead have the option to contact you instead after the order has been placed. This can be useful if you want to delivery to further distances than you normally would but want to coordinate with the customer.

If you want help getting started with DeliveryAssist, you can email localdeliveryoptions@gmail.com and mention that you read about it on Hacker News. Our team will help you set it up on your store at NO EXTRA COST.
True, but I don’t see why that matters? They will still be paying higher rates, with likely lower incomes, and a principle whose real value does not diminish over time (since debts are held in nominal terms). If their debts were issued with fixed rates, then inflation would eventually reduce the Real cost of their interest as well.
It's true that statistically poor people have less access to debt, especially post-2008, but the rate isn't so low that they can be called a renter class.

The lowest income quintile in the still has a 30% homeownership rate[0]. There are a lot of places in the USA where a mortgage is a lot cheaper than renting (think rust belt), and several states have fairly strong low-income mortgage programs.

[0] https://www.zillow.com/research/homeownership-by-income-9419...
"That this subject [imaginary numbers] has hitherto been surrounded by mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question." - Gauss
A free Product Hunt + Hacker News daily newsletter digest: https://producthacker.dev
The NYT Crossword minis release at 7pm PDT so everyone gets it at the same time. This way, everyone can corroborate times, talk about the puzzle, etc. if you want.

With Wordle releasing at 12am your timezone, it gets confusing when someone could be talking about the next day's or previous day's puzzle.
just fyi firefox give a SSL error if I click the link, though oddly not if I open in a new tab.

"Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for mometic.com. The certificate is only valid for *.mometic.com."
Its not the first time Intel tried this. They did it in 2010 and 2011 with the Intel Upgrade Service except it focused on low-end consumer hardware instead of high-end server/workstation gear. I hope it fails here too.
I have to say, I wonder if this could be augmented into more general applications that need concurrency or parallelism, since this sounds like an optimal way to make realtime or semi real time systems, at least on the surface
Or rather Vivaldolf ... (just kidding, just kidding!)
I have an AirTag in my car. I can always find my parking spot. I use this more often than to find my keys.
Offline voice-controlled jukebox using RPi via Mopidy, and just pushed a branch with Mac support via iTunes/Music.app

https://github.com/lukifer/voicetunes
It depends on the area, of course, but most of the construction you're seeing is likely already purchased; developments sell well before the shovel hits the ground these days.
They added an "Export" button a while ago, so you can now download the original image.
First apple creates a cheap spying tool that makes it simple to break the law and then "condems" its illegal usage. How is this any different from groups that sell hacking tools?

If they were really concerned about privacy, they'd make set a higher bar to track things across their network - eg. Require Filing an official police complaint of the loss and submit the paperwork to get access to the tracking - win/win. You could still allow local Bluetooth tracking within range of the phone like Tile as that can conceivably be used only for personal items.

Instead, they're pushing the responsibility of safeguarding from their spying tools back to people

I'm sure they're going to be very soon be hit by a lawsuit from someone rich who doesn't really care about how much it costs to take them on. Their legal seems to have been asleep at the wheels.
Have you ever tried learning Vietnamese as a second language? Shit's hard!
I think the denialism is that open standards somehow magically win. That's only happened a few times and is the reason that the Web is one of the most important pieces of infrastructure humanity has ever created.

Yes, there are people using federated social products but the growth rate is low and so are the absolute numbers. If growth were good, we would see VC backed startups trying to profit off of it. Why do you think that is?
Thanks! Point taken re: Terraform, we'll give that some thought.
If I found that I would think "how weird, someone wrote a hex code on this," and best-case might try to translate it to ASCII or google "hex code graffito" or the like, which I doubt would bring up this site because it doesn't use the term "hex code" anywhere.
https://flat.social - a fun video conferencing app where meeting attendees can fly around and speak with others around them.

While I do care about the outcome, I work on it regardless. It's a lot of fun from a technical point of view and I keep meeting amazing people through it.
really enjoyable, clever take and I like that you have a target goal set.
That's not a minecraft mod?
I considered this, but there's nothing wrong about "just another phobia", even if it may be the meta-phobia-to-rule-them-all.

The self-circular nature of agoraphobia is fascinating to contemplate though :)
Policy Non-Fungible Tokens - politics in the blockchain.
That argument might justify lowering the minimum wage when there is deflation, but not when inflation is low.

At most it could justify lower COL adjustments
I respectfully disagree on that. It"s on the contrary a decision made a few months before the elections - so that the French energy policy won't be a matter of debate on the voting day.

French citizens have never been put in a position to vote between a pronuclear candidate and an antinuclear one.

Well, of course, there are ecologists on the first round of the vote, but on the second rounds, both candidates are always pronuclear. Of course, they all started ten years to include electoral promises to balance the energy mix with more renewables but none delivered: France has recently been recognized as being at the worst country in the European Union with only 19% of renewables in our mix - despite having signed to reach 23% this year.

The left is deeply divided on the matter ; in fact, the left is divided on all ecological issues: agriculture, industry, energy ... The right is pro-big-polluting agriculture in the name of our commercial deficit (we export a.lot), anti-regulation of industry on ecological grounds because our industry is weak (which is true but not a reason), and pronuclear in the name of sovereignty - on the energy issue but also for military reasons. The fact that the nuclear energy enables France to emit far less CO2 is just a welcome argument. But if we had petrol like Norway, it would be "drill, baby, drill !".

The nuclear energy has nothing to do historically in France with ecology and the climate issue will reinforce that totally nondemocratic decision taken by the General De Gaulle in the name of our Grandeur. A policy that our technostructure follows without any true democratic supervision. Check and balances exist only on safety matters, but absolutely none of the French energy mix.

Nowadays it has become a political subject of course. But it's really just theater and will stay so for quite a while. The public opinion had been leaning on the right more and more for the last 20 years. When elected, self-called Socialists acted clearly on a center-right: really more like Manchin than Biden (in a daring transposition of very different political landscapes).

Funny detail: the French scientists had stalled in the research of the atomic bomb. That was a problem for the US in the context of the Cold War. So the US told the British to tip us in the right direction. That direction had already been deeply worked on but dismissed by the French scientists.

That was very discrete, not even officially recognized by some secret treaty. A prominent English nuclear scientist had a good friend among the French team. He visited him for lunch a Sunday. They talked physics. The UK has already its bomb, so the French noticed when his friend wondered aloud if that path come be "another way" to reach fission. But the British moved on another subject immediately. Friends don't need many words.

To thank the US, France later helped Israel - a lot - to build their own atomic bomb faster.

Then France made a 180º turn in its foreign policy and sided with the Arab countries on the Israël/Palestine issue. When Arafat and his troops were besieged in Beyruth by Tsahal, France evacuated them to Tunisia.
Those where low wholesale prices via government subsides. Germany “subsidized” very early wind/solar adoption by forcing electricity consumers to pay through the nose for it.

That isn’t to say either model is better, just that you can’t look at wholesale prices and see the underlying economic realities. Time is running out on early German subsides where France still needs to pay for decommissioning.

France has a great track record with nuclear and I hope they can continue to leverage that excellence. Doing so cost effectively is more difficult especially when adding ever more inexpensive wind/solar generation to the EU grid.
Re "just an ORM", it seems like the word "mapper" is the hint that it isn't, since there's no "mapping" from the object-oriented view to the big-pile-of-scalars in a traditional relational db.
\q or \quit

If you get stuck, run \help for a list of commands.
Apple to address AirTag stalking problem
Full speed ahead, next stop dystopia.
I build marketing websites for B2B companies and almost always run them through Cloudflare's free plan. DNS management is fast/simple, it's good at blocking bots, and it gives us options in the future without having to jump through a million hoops to approve a new vendor.
Does that answer anything I brought up?

You know, the whole "relatively stable store of value paying for productive output rather than speculation and fraud?"

We moved off the gold standard for a reason (and it's not all geopolitics...)
Good use of the contrapositive rule. If A => B then also ¬B => A¬
If poor people hold cash why are they mad? Aren't they rich if they have all the money?

sarcasm...
Peloton, Hopin, is the entire a16z portfolio next?
That's the exact premise of Scala, by the way: more object-oriented than most object-oriented languages (including Java), and yet enabling functional programming.
I have never seen anything like that on StackOverflow. Quora is simply promoting bad content.
My vote as an amateur mathematician would be “rotational” numbers. Everything having to do with complex numbers secretly (or not so secretly) has to do with angles and rotations, and it would be easy to describe to a class of middle schoolers that if you want to do math to describe how things rotate, it makes sense that you need a 2D space.
Wait, I just played the NYT version and that word was one of my guesses, and it was accepted as a valid guess, but not the right answer. The right answer was an unrelated word with letters in common.
I would say a big contributor is also reference semantics for classes being the default behaviour in many languages. You end up sharing the state and increasing the surface area of your code which can touch the state with every pass-by-reference in the code base

I know there are mechanisms to avoid this, but many times they are opt-in rather than opt-out, and so it encourages this access-to-state propagation through the codebase where you have far reaching consequences
I’ll add to the positivity: this is the first time I’ve ever found a “we can do better than SQL” compelling. It’s easy to understand what it’s doing with a variety of known quantities. It solves a difficult problem elegantly. It has 100% overlap with the goals I want it to have. It’s designed to be usable with minimal fuss. It does really a good job of portraying itself as magic (it will be awesome to use) without portraying itself as magic (it explains itself in terms of already knowable tools and how it leverages their strength).

I do have a couple minor quibbles:

- Serializable transactions are expensive, and that deserves to be an explicit caveat. Not everyone knows this, and it’s an important thing to put up front.

- Some of the language in this post are in CAP theorem territory but neglect to directly address that. I’d like to see how client usage compares with direct Postgres usage (idiomatic for each insofar as such a beast exists) in a Call Me Maybe. I know that’s a lot to ask in a 1.0 announcement four years in the making, but I hope it’s a priority to get this in front of Aphyr.

Edit: oh and I definitely look forward to this being further distinguished from an ORM, because even though I can see the blue and black dress my mind keeps switching it back to gold and white.
The world in which we live
Reminder that the OP of this chain is explicitly coming at this question from Apple's POV.

>I continue to think Apple should have never released AirTags to the public, and should discontinue it

This discussion is specifically about what Apple should do, so I don't see how this is relevant.
I wish I could go into the site and edit the headline to read "Australian spy agency disrupts foreign interference into election" to prevent ambiguity and reduce backtracking by readers.
Alright, I can't tell if you're being difficult on purpose or by accident, so I'm going to explain my example very simply, "draw it with crayons" so to speak.

Monetary inflation is planned. there are men, in the US that would be the board of the FED, that try to decide what the inflation rate will be using interest rates to borrow from them. They target certain rates because they want certain social and economic consequences of the conditions they impose.

This is one example. Draw me a picture of how that's not systems planning our social structure.

Now, to answer your question, yes, there are people that do treat our society like a system and do systems planning to attempt to create desired social, cultural and economic outcomes. These people collectively form what is known as government. This is not a matter of contention, it is not a controversial statement, this is literally their stated goal, their mission for existing and what we pay them to do.

Now let me ask you a question: what exactly do you think a government does?
Same here, at least IT paid for a kickass studio to play around in...
The risk of getting caught has also been raised considerably, however. An anonymous GPS tracker won't easily lead back to you personally, but an AirTag used for stalking will lead police to your door.
There's a difference between conservationism and environmentalism as it relates to climate change, and this comes up every time there's a debate like this. Most environmental advocacy groups are much more concerned with conservation than climate change.
I never understood Twitter until I started using it professionally, if you could call it that, as an academic. "Science Twitter" complements traditional academic publishing models really well. When I want updates about science, I read papers that I find from searching, RSS updates, or citations. When I want updates about _how science is done_, I turn to Twitter, where many of my scientific role models are active and almost all of the interesting stuff tends to bubble to the top.

Its algorithm seems to work really well for rapid consumption of buzz within a particular network that you can tap into by following people. It is one of the few cases where I like the fact that I occasionally get out-of-network Tweets in my timeline because it usually exposes me to something really interesting posted by someone outside of my direct field. I'd never want to use Twitter for comprehensive reviews of some topic, reliable back-and-forth discussion, etc. but it's just fantastic for gossip and trends.

The tables here are even starting to turn–so many people are on Science Twitter that it feels like I find as many new and relevant papers on Twitter as I do in my tailored email notifications and RSS feeds. Twitter is also always a day or two ahead, and the papers usually come with the backstory and context in plain English. I hate to say that the Twitter thread from the paper author is often more informative (at least, per unit of time that it takes to consume) than the content of the paper itself.
That would be ironic indeed, but of course that's pure trash history: Germany has consistently been getting around 40% of it's gas imports from Russia/USSR since 1985, so about 25 years before they started turning of nuclear.

You can also look at this plot of fossil fuel as fraction of all consumption and try to point out the point there there's a jump from nuclear switching off: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuels-share-energy...
Is hedge the right term, as in hedging a bet? Or are they reinforcing their dominant position?
When you plug a Macbook in with the included two-prong power adapter, sometimes it buzzes slightly when you stroke it gently (ground loop). Im working with a factory to make a grounded duckhead adapter to fix this.

https://ibb.co/P4Bjstg
I'm not making the claim though. I want to know what the data is for your assertion that OOP "makes a huge system manageable" in a way that other approaches or language features can not.

Mind you there are countless millions of lines of COBOL, C, etc out there in production so existence alone does not provide any evidence one way or another.
Isn't this what a homotopy category is for though?
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and write(2)/WriteFile a struct
to disk.”