skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is indeed quite worse than the parent suggested, and I agree with your numbers.

I am curious, though, to how many people die due to the normal, continued operation of coal plants (both from mining and from the plant's actual operation). Is that something we can quantify with a reasonable degree of accuracy (like to a rough order of magnitude)?

Because even if we have a Chernobyl every 25 years that kills 150k people and gives another million some sort of disability, we have to acknowledge that operating coal plants -- as a "normal" part of their operation -- kills people too. I don't know if they are better or worse than the "amortized" 6k/year killed by nuclear in our estimate here. But it's certainly not zero.

And beyond that, burning fossil fuels destroys ecosystems, causes extinction of various animal species, and, if we do not arrest the affects of climate change, will kill millions of people due to its various effects. (Arguably, this has already killed lots of people during extreme weather events linked to climate change.) Maybe 150k people dead every 25 years in a nuclear disaster is, unfortunately, a "bargain" in comparison.

If we could scale up renewables at the same rate we could scale up nuclear, then it'd be a no-brainer: choose the former. But it's not clear that we can meet our energy needs with renewables today, even if there was a giant, global push to go fully renewable on a short time scale. Maybe it's better to risk nuclear power incidents in the medium term than continue to vomit fossil fuel byproducts into the atmosphere. But of course the general public will never make this kind of decision rationally; ultimately most of these are political decisions.
What's political about it? It's a position that applies to any country in any war.
> Elections coming up as well

This is the big one. Ever since the upset in the Virginia governor's race, the Democrats have been very eager to end COVID restrictions no matter what. The Republicans have never cared about COVID so, at the moment there's a rare bipartisan unity on this issue.
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If you look around the world, many countries are lifting all measures. And they definitely are not affected by US elections. They are affected by hospitalization, ICU and death numbers that are falling as infections are rising.
I think for baby boomers, they are used to getting their news from 1-2 sources only. So they believe anything the tv station or newspaper tells them. For our generation, we are much more critical about the news we are getting and know how the internet can be manipulated. So having grown up with the internet, we tend to have more antibodies.
I had read an account of someone from a tribe conquered by Rome which outlined exactly this. He complained about how his kids were educated in the Roman way, refused to speak the old language, identified with the new place, etc.

I saw a lot of common bits to how immigrant integration as I experienced in the US (granted, immigration usually implies consent where being conquered doesn't): the cultural divide between children and parents, new national identities, etc.
A lot has changed in the last year? Loads of people have been vaccinated that weren't a year ago (even if they were eligible then).

Kids became eligible to be vaccinated only a few months ago, which even if it wasn't actually risky to them it was a major concern for many parents.

Right about that time, the omicron wave hit, and ever since late december we've known it was very likely we'd peak and then crash on cases.

So we didn't return to normal last summer because loads of people weren't vaccinated yet, and kids weren't eligible. We didn't return once kids became eligible because omicron was looming. And we didn't return during omicron peak because hospitals were overwhelmed.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. The fact that there's a real war going on right now makes this more important, not less.

It seems obvious that this project is being done out of interest and love, with no intention of forcing anything on anybody. The creator has been working on it for many years.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: your account has been posting lots of unsubstantive and flamebait comments lately. We ban accounts that do that, so if you'd please stop, we'd be grateful. Also, please don't cross into using HN primarily for political or ideological battle because we ban accounts that do that also (regardless of which views they're battling for). More explanation on that latter point here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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I was using google places API for a bit, but realized it is WAAAAYYY TOO EXPENSIVE to start with, so I looked for alternatives.

I really like TomTom's search API and docs. The results are not the most accurate, but fine for my purposes at the moment. However, I like how easy they make it to try out the API from the docs. I don't have to open up insomnia/postman and import a collection, I can just do everything from their site. I thought that was really neat.

You might need to login or register, but check out https://developer.tomtom.com/search-api/api-explorer
From 2008, or earlier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189873
Would be savvy to have an emoji set that still works on HN for sharing purposes.
I just looked up the cost of a '22 Chevy Bolt, MSRP is $33k for the cheapest model. I payed $42k for a model 3, so its not like a tesla is 2x the competition, and saying "twice or thrice" is pretty disingenuous when the real difference is closer to 30%.
From the license text:

> You must ensure that everyone who gets a copy of any part of this software from you, with or without changes, also gets the text of this license or a link to https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0.

To me this sounds like a viral public domain, so in a sense less permissive than MIT & co. If I modify the work but still have to put the text of this license when publishing it, the modified/derivative will be licensed under this license as well. Is this a fair assessment or am I missing something? I don't see how someone could take the work and use it in a proprietary software for example.
Doesn't it seem more likely this is related to changing covid conditions than war in Ukraine?
Fast followers? Or do you think the decision was synchronized at the top?
There was no new data to support a change in guidance on cloth masks. The argument made is that omicron was the factor which warranted the updated guidance on cloth masks. There is no data to support the idea that cloth masks were suddenly uniquely unsuited as countermeasures.

Edit: The CDC is so infuriating. They still link the term “masks” to this page, that shows a picture of some useless facial decorations on the same page discussing N95 respirators. If we had a sane CDC, all imagery and messaging would be around N95s. They have killed thousands of people with the implicit lie strewn across all their messaging that there some kind of meaningful equivalency to be made between all masks. The unqualified term “mask” should have been struck from the messaging two years ago. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
Please, just because something is not perfect doesn't meed you need a union. I can speak from actual experience about how shitty unions are. Can you say the same? If you want to be treated like a child and micromanaged so that the company can protect itself against the worst employees, then by all means, join a union. If you want to sacrifice your individual privileges to help prop up everyone who works less hard than you, then join a union. This lofty idea about opposing destructive forces is naive hogwash.
I really like the font, but I doubt that a claim of “wide language support” can be made when Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and other scripts are not supported.
I don’t think you understand how deep the Apple secrecy/paranoia culture rabbit hole goes.

Another example: Have you ever noticed how comparatively infrequently Apple is even mentioned in FAANG working condition threads?

Source: I am a former Apple employee.
This is rewriting history. The invasion was generally viewed as illegal [1] with the Secretary General (the head) of the UN stating literally as much at the time. And this was also before it became clear that the evidence we presented for the war was nothing but lies. The notion that 87 intelligence agencies (or whatever the number they gave at the time was) were all just filled with completely inept individuals who somehow couldn't tell the difference between mobile biological weapons labs and trucks used for filling up weather balloons defies belief.

And that takes this to a whole different level as well. The idea that the 174 intelligence agencies intentionally "believed" what they knew were lies, because those lies could be used as justification with some measure of plausible deniability, seems a far more likely explanation. But that likely brings this was from the realm of an illegal war to crimes against humanity as you're looking at the deaths of hundreds of thousands based on intentional, malicious, lies.

If another nation did anything even remotely comparable, those involved would undoubtedly find themselves at The Hague.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War

[2] - https://thehill.com/policy/international/596693-biden-weighi...
The pricing experiment that 2x'ed our SaaS's growth rate without raising prices
Actually, Aliexpress vendors are rebranding their merchandise. Adafruit publishes the board files, then someone removes their logo and sells it for $1 less on Amazon. If you have any doubt that Adafruit is doing their own designs, Lady Ada often streams herself designing new boards.

In general, they have reliable supply chains and manufacture everything in New York City. I have never heard of them selling counterfeit FTDI chips. I have two of their FT232H modules purchased directly through their store and they're legit.
Were you not able to? I clicked "Jobs" in the menu bar and was able to search without an account.
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Because blockchain and web3's only uses so far have been for grifting and scamming: creating artificial scarcity by fiat (e.g. "cryptocurrency" and web3) or beanie baby style bubbles (e.g. bitcoin), and then usually ending with a rug pull (examples too numerous to list). Coupled with the disastrous environmental impact and the constant ponzi touting, it's pretty reasonable to expect that most sensible developers would have a strong negative reaction.
> You cannot deviate from the state narrative on HN without people having the exact same "no, that cannot be" response

I see this all of the time. Do you have any examples of topics where you think that isn't happening?
these ports should be part of the motherboard
Its interesting you mention Destin from Smarter Every Day, because he always came off as a very earnest learner in his videos. Yeah, he's still putting on a show, but it does seem like he genuinely enjoys and revels in the things that he does. It seems to me like Veritasium has a more contrarian thread of: "Oh, you thought the world worked like that? Well you were wrong, and here's a 15 minute video all about how you were wrong." There's an Onion video making fun of Vox that touches on this perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkQEq75y18

I guess to summarize, with Destin it feels like you are learning with him and Veritasium feels like you are being lectured.
Great explanation indeed. There is a Q&A follow up:

"Your Questions About Pfizer Vaccine Becomes DNA in The Liver Cells Study"
https://youtu.be/g8vY0tyVmjY
> The supposed usefulness of the work sacrificed in proof-of-work is to prevent Sybil attacks

The usefulness of PoW is to reinforce a system that produces something. Presumably the higher the value of that something, the more you're willing to waste enabling it. If you're burning through an estimated 110TWh of electricity per year (as of last year, one Netherland's worth) enabling that system, you should be able to show one Netherland's worth of value being created.

> While there may be too much reward for this sacrifice currently

You probably meant it the other way around, too much sacrifice for the reward. Wouldn't the concept of creating value imply that net value was created?

> the idea is a sound one.

In theory many ideas are but the implementation matters. So in practice you'd be hard pressed to show the net value. And I'm not talking about showing me 1 BTC is worth $50.000 more than you can say a defunct company is worth billions because some was doing a pump and dump.
US, Russia Agree to Deconfliction Hotline as Putin’s Attack on Ukraine Escalates
Never. I tried for a few months sending a dozen or so emails. I tried emailing from multiple accounts (thinking maybe my personal domain was going to spam). I tried getting a response on twitter (before he 'quit') and did. But then he never followed up again after that.

I prepaid for a multi-year account with archiving and I don't get archiving at least not on 80-90% of my links. Seems that if I copy from 'popular' there is usually an archived copy, but otherwise I'm stuck.

I'm open to solid alternatives if anyone has suggestions.

Edit: Just to note I created this HN account just to make this comment. I've never felt the need to comment before, but this is SO frustrating to me.
It has been. The reason these people survive is because vaccines are required for everyone as a child (in the US). Without that they would catch mumps, measles, polio, etc.

And wearing a mask inside public spaces is not shutting down society.
I agree it's not an "infinity train" as such (especially as plenty of energy is used to haul the ore out of the ground), but it's impressive saving 82M litres of diesel a year (and amazing it wasn't done before).
And then on top of that, they disable the "resume last session" setting in your browser, so you come back to find the dozen or so tabs you were using for your current task are gone, and you need to spend time going out and finding all those pages again.
Hybrid work solutions are good only for those who _want_ to do them. For everyone else, they're a compromise, also known as "the worst of both worlds".

Telling employees that they _need_ to be in the office on days X, Y, and Z destroys most of the utility of remote working. They even chose Monday, Tuesday Thursday so people couldn't have a four day long block for working or traveling elsewhere.

If Apple cared about flexibility, they'd do this, in order of "how much do they care":

- Employees choose if they want to come into an office at all, figuring out their work dynamics on a per-team basis

- If a number of days per week in-office is required, employees gets to choose those days

- The company chooses the days the employee comes in (which is what Apple chose)
but it’s all rural Trumpist counties at this point; ostensibly, the people lying in the bed they made for themselves don’t typically work for Apple
I preferred notion initially, for many of the same reasons you outlined, but eventually I just couldn’t stand how slow notion is. Google Docs is so much faster.

I’m interested to try Google’s new tables product when I get a chance.
I think your second paragraph there is the critical point that large companies (including the one I work at) miss or purposefully ignore: let the employee control when (and how many) days they are in. Cohesive teams will self organise something suitable for their productivity, non-cohesive teams won't get any better by frustrating x % of the members. But, fundamentally, large companies simply lack trust in their employees so do not want to allow this.

Also, they have a lot of real estate costs to justify. Nothing like physical tech debt for anchoring your company in the past.
Must we then have vaccinated people join them out of some sense of solidarity?

There are people confined to wheelchairs yet we allow others to walk.
Gyms have machines, and personal trainers have basic starter programs.
Of course, I agree. But the lives of drivers on public roads also have value, do they not? Furthermore, let's remember that the felon in question died because he was an uncooperative, aggressive criminal under the influence of drugs - not, truly, for any of the reasons the rioters purported to be rioting against.

Perhaps if fewer people of all races (given that more than double the number of whites are unarmed when killed by police than blacks - about 19 vs 9) were belligerent towards police when apprehended during the commission or suspected commission of a crime, the thin blue line that separates the violent criminals of this world and law abiding citizens like you and I wouldn't be forced into such situations where one misjudgement or slight overreaction here or there could end up in a life or death situation.

Fight against brutality of all sorts, sure, but the forced "equality" angle is cringe - and incredibly transparent - and most of the country knows it.
>Basic type inference has been around for decades, Go isn’t responsible for it.

I never said it was.
nowadays its "the data guy"

which is me
There's "no COVID" in my state, so I don't feel qualified to comment on that.
Worldometers says 1,357 for the 7-day average. But regardless of differences in sources and collections, the trends are the same.
Retainer arrangements and subscriptions look similar but are not the same thing. A retainer is a bucket of hours sold gym-style, use-it-or-lose-it. Within those hours, the customer has a lot of flexibility with tasking their contractor (what the scope of work is, and what the scheduling and staffing are).

Subscriptions are distinctive because they include terms based on defined outcomes. You're getting X done every month (X may also be use-it-or-lose-it, but it isn't ever Y or Z), and the vendor (mostly) decides how best to accomplish X.

Retainer agreements tend to have bespoke terms; if 5 clients retain you, chances are you have at least 3 different sets of terms and 3 different scopes of work. Part of the definition of a subscription, again, is that it's the same work for everyone you sell it to.

Neither retainer freelancers nor subscription services should be charging hourly; hourly is a consulting anti-pattern.
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It's completely wrong.

Ukraine is an independent nation that is not going to hurt any other country but only tries to improve the lives of their citizens.

Russia, or particularly Putin, has ambitions to force Ukraine to follow their lead. This was going to end and that's why Putin decided to attack. But his mental state that sees them as potential danger is wrong. It is a reality but still wrong.
That term could fit most of the Santa Clara Valley if you’re operating on the definition provided by the person you heard that from. I won’t link their name here, since I do not believe it is worthwhile to give them attention.
I feel like your two paragraphs conflict.
You are right that the dialog was simple and the NPCs basically got mind wiped every time you left a region. However, going back at least as far as Ultima IV, for the time within a region if you stole or killed, that actually had some repercussions. AFAICT the lack of persistence was due to technical limitations rather than a design choice.
Just anecdotal but there is a popular leftist subreddit /r/wayofthebern that attracts democratic socialists, conspiracy theorists, and anti-imperialist types that has always been criticized for housing russian bots due to their very generous moderation policies and the fact that many viewpoints against the negative behavior of the west just happens to benefit Russian interests. When the sanctions began, some users noticed that all the posts on the subreddit suddenly lost the typical upvote momentum that they had typically gotten before the sanctions.
And then for doing anything useful beyond toy CLI apps, the whole POSIX and some GUI framework has to be dragged into the picture.
The footprint of low-carbon indoor farming
> School was so easy for me that I kind of slept my way through it. I didn’t interact with anybody. Looking back, had I been a little more self-aware, I would have tried to on-board other people and said, “Hey, let’s talk books.” But instead I just kind of kept to myself, and that made me a target.

That describes my childhood to a T.
According to the Mushroom Packaging FAQ, it’s home compostable
What's being burned down as of late in the last month? Nothing, but these surveillance programs persist. Everyone complains about the riots but never the systems that bring them about. And they never explain that if riots are counterproductive, how come the problem persisted when there were no riots? As a wise man once said, people always seem to be more devoted to "order" than justice and prefer a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
Tooth study prompts rethink of human evolution
Or even, use an electric blanket. Much cheaper than heating the room, much better in terms of Carbon, and sooo comfortable.
The PR Firm Impact Research sent a report to the Democrats on Feb 22, 2022 urging them to lift all restrictions & claim victory for political points. Immediately after, restrictions lifted. Do your own assessment of the facts.

Leaked memo https://punchbowl.news/impact-covid-positioning-strategy-mem...
No. Cloth masks are understudied and probably don’t do much. What does do a lot, probably, is a dynamic where millions of people wearing ineffective masks thinking they are effective, and making bad choices entirely due to that bad assumption, like not wearing an N95, closing distance with people, or going indoors when it could have been avoided.

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/mask-studies-reach-a...
Committed to, actually. He made a video about how they were going to start doing it more: https://youtu.be/fHsa9DqmId8?t=1035. Also, more recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30553292.
My nearest airport is 200miles away, 400 for the trip. I will be making that drive next week to pickup a work college.

I believe that Tesla and every other lithium-using EV only rates their cars to -30c. Below that might void a warranty, a financial risk I cannot afford. And I shudder at the concept of DRM deciding to brick my car because it is "too cold to drive". That nightmare is coming at us soon. I will then be in the market for a snow machine, which are regular on major roads in my area when the weather is really bad.
Greek is on the way (last pic on the blog post) and more to come soon: https://neil.computer/notes/berkeley-mono-february-update/

Current support:

ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 Western European
ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Central European
ISO 8859-3 Latin-3 South European
ISO 8859-4 Latin-4 North European
ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
ISO 8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic
ISO 8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim
ISO 8859-15 Latin-9 Finnish, Estonian
ISO 8859-16 Latin-10 South-Eastern European
Midterm elections coming up. The (political) science has changed.
Yep, that might be true for certain industries.

But logs don't count as the transactional data that needs to be kept for legal reasons.
Yes, your slice of the pie would improve more than the average slice, but the size of the overall pie would be much smaller.
The serious crazies won't go to housing.
Maybe in some states, but certainly not all. ACA health plans are quite easy to manage for an individual in my experience. I spent maybe an hour or two a year of paperwork on health insurance when I was consulting.

(Now that doesn't get rid of the nightmare you're likely to face if you have to _use_ the insurance for anything major... but that's just as true on an employer health plan, too.)
Doubt any prius does 500-600 range. Mine says about 450 and I drive like a grandma. Great car but I wish I'd just bought a full EV