skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sidedstepped the problem by buying a nice TV and not caring about ads or what the thing is doing w/ my wifi. Of all the things for me to get worked up over, this isn’t one of them.
Sometimes one is tempted to think of the West as a Sinkhole for talent rather than a magnet. Alas...
Olkiluoto 3 suffered significant delays and cost overruns. My impressions, based on recollection I got reading the newspapers during these two decades, are:

1. Bad management of construction project, almost near corruption level stupidity. Many constructions tasks outsourced to contractors who outsourced them to contractors who outsourced them to contractors, making it easy to take "cost-saving" shortcuts and difficult to supervise.

2. Failure of corruption to speed things up: Finnish nuclear safety authorities are not easily bribed, so when issues with bad quality of welds, concrete, boiler valves and safety electronics were identified (all this from memory, these were separate incidents), the issues could not be smoothed over and ignored with well-placed thick envelopes. The authorities would demand the construction crew to tear stuff apart and do again, properly. And if it didn't pass, then again. And again.

Most of the issues I have read about do not sound like "nuclear technology" failures, more about failures in building a big pressurized boiler power plant. The nuclear part comes in by authorities requiring high quality. They couldn't make good enough concrete bed on a first try, that isn't some super novel space technology.

It mostly reminds me of similar kind of mismanagement that plagues many big construction projects run by big corps managed by suits. During same time frame city of Helsinki wasted amazing amount of money in a "automated metro car" subway upgrade project they bought from Siemens, which ultimately didn't work and had to be scrapped.

(edit. City of Helsinki decided to "automate" city subway metro system in 2006, contract signed with Siemens in 2008, originally planned to be completed in 2011. Project was postponed several times and effectively scrapped in 2016. Tried googling most recent news, the lower district court had given judgement in 2021, parties likely to appeal.)
6k tons of gold is held in Manhattan by the Federal Reserve: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-has-6-200-tons-of-gold-...
but is a renewable project that matches the capabilities of a nuclear project (to the same degree of reliability and availability) really the same cost?

you gotta compare like-for-like. If the solar project that takes 2 years only provide power half the time, then you need double the size to provide the same amortized level of power at night. You also need some form of storage. And that's if you don't have a spate of bad weather preventing it from working - so to amortize that problem you'd need to build yet larger...
No.

It's always better to be well rounded.

They just don't pay you or expect you to know theory (or allow you to use your knowledge as it's very unproven) in your first job.
Haha, I don't think I was that enterprising yet at that age -- but I did "forget" to return one or two I was fond of.
One solution would be to offer Putin an vote in Ukrain for people whether they want to join EU/NATO or Russia. He's so popular anyways (winning elections by 80%) he shouldn't be afraid of it /s
Yes!
“ 147.3 million ounces. About half of the Treasury’s stored gold (as well as valuables of other federal agencies) is kept at Fort Knox”

https://www.usmint.gov/about/mint-tours-facilities/fort-knox
or, y'know, just pay your taxes...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Deposito... “… currently holds roughly 147 million troy ounces (4,580 metric tons) of gold bullion, over half of the Treasury's stored gold.”
> Do we really believe that in another 100 years or so we won't have a way to safely reprocess this waste?

We've been safely reprocessing this waste since the 1960s.
Far right complains after DuckDuckGo vows to limit Russian propaganda
A carefully chosen whiteboard question can elicit a lot of information about the candidate's ability. As you note, there's a lot more to a developer job than linked list manipulations or binary tree traverses. A carefully chosen question shouldn't require a flash of physical insight, and it should entail enough programming to let the candidate talk through a design, note test cases, name variables, and suggest data structures or language constructs that might fit the problem better or worse.

leetcode or "Daily Coding Problem" problems are usually worthless, in that they either require a weird, special-purpose algorithm (make a FIFO out of 2 linked lists), don't really require writing much code, have misleading or incomplete problem statements, or are very basic.
An engineer at a major auto insurance company told me about an app they had for insurance appraisals. If a person got in an accident, they could open the app, take pictures of the damage, and see what how much they'd get back from insurance. The first version would send you back an appraisal almost immediately. He said they had to add a ~24 hour delay because a lot of people thought it was impossibly fast, and that their claim hadn't been reviewed thoroughly enough.
This passage is terrible and beautiful:

Here’s a story from my father. He was teaching a course for working professionals that had a large project component. He—being naive and idealistic—decided that as long as the students eventually finished the project, they had learned the material, so they should get full credit. Thus, his policy was that students could submit the project, get it graded, and then repeat this process as many times as they wanted. He knew this would mean extra work for him, but thought it would be worth it for the students.

The result, of course, was catastrophe.

To call the strategy many students took “abuse” gives no measure of their ingenuity. They realized that they could skip learning the material, and instead complete the project by running an evolutionary algorithm with my father’s grading as a reward function.

Edit: I will say though, I would give this grading scheme a poor grade too. The teacher recognizes it's more work for them, but doesn't seem to recognize it's also far more work for the students. Particularly those who care about their grades and are actually trying to abide by the spirit of the thing and not game the system.
>I hear this raised every now and then, but is that even feasible economically? Those embedded cell connections are a recurring cost, after all.

That's a great question. If it's not today, it likely will be soon.

I think it may be so already. These are niche cases, but the costs aren't so different than TVs:

I use a CPAP machine and the one I got six years ago had a cellular modem (as well as WiFi) without my involvement in any mobile account. Thankfully, I was able to disable that (and a big "Fuck you!" to Philips for being such rapacious scumbags).

I also got a Kindle as a gift in ~2004 or so and it had both WiFi and a cellular modem with no charges to me.

>Seems like UI nudges and dark patterns to push users into connecting their TVs to their home internet connection would be cheaper and more effective.

Cheaper? Definitely.

Effective? Most likely yes.

More effective than a cellular modem? Methinks not so much. A device connecting to a network over which you have no control would be much more effective, IMHO.

Aside from a small group of folks who will shoot, stab, defenestrate, bend, fold, spindle or mutilate such a device, most folks would likely just shrug and move on while being forced to watch ads.

And more's the pity.
Must be something common about medical devices. When not doing linear algebra and stats, I need optimizations from the wheelhouses of linear programming and numerical analysis.
The morale is such that Russia imprisons people who call this a war and any reporting other than rehashing official PR statements is banned, all independent media has been shut down. In official statements, there's only a limited "special operation" against "Neo-Nazi drug addicts" in Ukraine and it's going well, while on the ground everything's falling apart and in some sectors they've deployed rear troops that shoot their own soldiers if they attempt to retreat. Some POWs have even described how their units executed own wounded soldiers to avoid having to deal with treating them.

All in all, thousands of Russian service members have died, but Russian representatives refuse to collect bodies from Ukrainian authorities for proper burial. Relatives are kept in the dark. Many will receive a letter months from now saying that their father/husband/son died in undefined military exercise. Those relatives who speak up get a visit from security service intimidating them into shutting up.

It's a total nightmare. There'd be a violent revolution the next day if Russian TV showed truth for one evening: orthodox churches burning, entire towns razed to ground, kids getting limbs blown off from cluster munitions dropped onto residential areas, all kinds of unimaginable suffering.

The scale of this is such that there's no way to conceal truth for an extended period of time. It will lead to implosion of Russian society just like the Afghan war did in the 1980s.
I've been strongly considering it precisely because of this, just need to get around to setting it up.
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming
More like the pandemic has...
It really depends on the country. Malls are huge and packed in Japan
I would rather pay more for a TV than have it subsidized by ads. Or even better, a TV with no smart features, then I can just connect a computer for whatever smarts I want.
On one hand, I agree.

On the other hand, if induction cooking lowers the air conditioning bills in the summer, it may pay for itself, compared to gas.
Bullshit. Coal and petroleum are way deadlier than rooftop solar, even without diluting it with industrial solar installations.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...
Good question. They appear to be altered by the article for some reason. Here’s the original for comparison:

https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/mike-schultz-co...
it's not a waste if the receiver of the service is paying for the service.
Well, why would his opinion on a matter of military and international law even be relevant? More than any other person, I mean.

He's in Russia, not because he was ever particularly keen on Russian policy, but because it was a place outside of the reach of the American intelligence agencies. I expect, like a lot of Russians, he's not particularly keen on it, but the Russian system doesn't exactly put these things up for a popular vote, so neither he nor most Russians is especially well positioned to do anything about it.
Rather, videoconferencing has. If there were no Zoom we would be using its competitors.
The fact that gold reserves are still a very common feature in almost every country indicates to me that our governments aren't completely committed or secure in this grand experiment of unbacked fiat currency that's been going on for 50 years.

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gold-reserves

And since the 2008 financial crisis and recent events with Russia, it seems like that uncertainty might be justified.
That's why I'd rather see a variable sink like electrolysers producing green hydrogen for non-electricity related purposes or disconnected operations. A mix of renewable and nuclear that, instead of curtailment, uses excess renewable production for other purposes.
Did you read the article? If anything, the author is arguing in favor of libraries. I may be misinterpreting your comment, though.
this article hits so close to home with my experience teaching this semester I feel personally attacked. It makes me sad. I'm really enjoying reading the discussion others are having so I will contribute to anecdotes that I think are telling of just what the author is getting at.

1) About a year ago I was teaching a class that included working with a user group from a country in Africa. 2/3rd of the way through the semester, after submitting an extensive (and well done) research paper on the country's culture, norms, people, and public health needs a student asked me flat out "Is Chad a real country or did you invent it for this project". School is so internalized as a game that they don't even know that they are approaching school as a game.

2) I recently gave a test and received a number of regrade requests. One student had written two paragraphs to answer a question needing one sentence. His regrade request (after seeing the key) was to include the first five words of the first sentence, and ellipses, and the last four words of his last sentence and ask for credit "because the answer was in there". Another asked for a partial credit because 'I understood it even if my answer wasn't right'
It’s not just a recurring cost with 4G/5G modems, but it’s also practically infeasible in many countries where getting a cellular connection of any kind requires KYC and related formalities. There’s no way these TV manufacturing companies can buy one connection per TV (and accept the liabilities that come with such a connection) or get their customers to have one. If they do try WiFi to a known hotspot that the company has deployed almost everywhere, that will be a huge cost with very little benefit.

If they make the TV into one of those monstrous Alexa Show (?) devices where you can make calls or do other things, they may be able to persuade some customers to get a connection for the TV. Even then it’s a stretch because most TVs are in one place for years and the places they’re in would have WiFi/broadband coverage in the same or a nearby room.
> The more interesting thing however is that the US SAMs failed once again to intercept the SRBMs. If really US air defences can't intercept SRBMs reliably, the US Navy is in gigantic, perhaps even existential, trouble.

I don't know if it shows a failure. Were there even appropriate air defenses in range?

Edit for more info:

If the launch location is as mentioned in a Twitter thread [0] then there's approximately 165 miles for the missile to travel. If the nearest US air defenses are in, say, Kuwait, that's over 500 miles to travel to intercept. I don't know where the US has their air defenses currently.

[0] https://twitter.com/obretix/status/1502794434999730177
Totally missing the Etrade you must fill in this US IRS W8something form ..... finish it by uploading a copy of a recent utility bill or bank statement to verify your address ....but I live in New Zealand, we haven't had written utility bills or bank statements for years, we don't even have checks anymore, everything is paid for by bank transfer ..... but you must upload a scan of a utility bill before you can do anything .... how about a screenshot of the reminder dialog the phone company's app kicks up every month ... no it must be a scan of a paper bill .... you know our postal service stopped delivering every day because no one sends bills or checks any more right? .... paper paper paper .... so here's a vaguely doctored copy of a credit card statement I printed out so it doesn't contain anything bad ..... 10 minutes of spinning "uploading" cursor and then logged out for inactivity ... try again ... logged out again and again ... you're not really serious now are you now Etrade, you're just messing with me for the lulz ....

On to calling international to Etrade customer service, at 5am local time ..... "The call backlog is approximately 60 minutes" ..... 45 minutes in I get hung up on .... call back .... "The call backlog is approximately 90 minutes" .... 60 minutes in this time I get hung up on .....

That as my last week, how was yours?
I still don't see how international recognition impacts any of this. For example, the tax status of someone in Hawaii doesn't depend on what the UN or China says about it. It only depends the ability to enforce the taxes locally.

As I understand it, the most likely economic purpose of this island would be a tax haven.

This only depends on people using the haven willing to pay for it, and Belize agreeing that they will not try to tax it.
true, and fair point

but in the reduced context of fuel rod waste i stand by what i said previously
Perhaps your colleague sympathizes with the Russian arguments for invading Ukraine (it used to be ours, therefore it is still ours) because he believes China’s similar stance about Taiwan (it has always been a part of China, therefore we are justified in taking it by force).

Is he genuinely curious and intellectually humble, or is he unusually skeptical about western media and prone to both-sidesism (e.g. does he talk a lot about NATO feeding the fire), or is he just a troll?

The brainwash is real, but you’ll never help him by telling him he’s brainwashed. If he’s actually open to it, asking questions patiently and with empathy is the best way to show him where his blind spots are.
The only things I can think of:

- they get some data on how many (and what) LAN devices you have

- they face fewer support calls from people using DOCSIS modems with one of the buggy intel chipsets, and from people with a random router/modem combination that their support people aren't trained to debug

- they can expand their wifi hotspot network (the xfinity wifi hotspot is enabled by default, but the user can turn it off)
There really should not be a rational benefit, perhaps only a symbolic benefit (not letting an enemy alliance set up camp on your doorstep).

On the flip side, it's ridiculous that the US and NATO leaders are willing to risk nuclear war over something symbolic with miniscule strategic value. If WW3 is started over something as foolish as this when all we had to say was 'Ukraine will never join NATO'.

In a way it is hypercritical to say Russia is overreacting when the US was extremely close to escalating to all-out war over the missiles in Cuba.
they are perfectly willing to work hard...the problem is their heuristics of what it means to work hard have been poorly developed.
This is fucking cool.

FYI: I experienced a bug where I was able to unmute the sound icon twice in a row while a "..." icon was displayed, causing two tracks to play out of sync.
It really doesn't, as server name indication is sent in clear text. As encrypted SNI didnt take off, you dont actually get privacy benefits from DoH and friends, just security/mild inconvenience to censors.
Isn't a mall just a private version of a public walkable space? Like what the town square used to be, except ironically with malls in order to reach the walkable space you have to drive there.
Thanks. Is a linear algebra system complex? I’ve written some systems that compute linear algebra operations.
I think that's fair, and honestly it's how 90% of the TV consumer market feels. The vast majority of people don't really care that their TV is collecting marketing info on them. I do, but I'm not going to bend over backwards to avoid it. I just won't buy one.
Does "tightly coupled with the database" work, in practice?
She lives in Russia. But regardless, I don't think she's connected with the Russian government in any way. If Alexandra is a Putin operative, she plays a very convincing role as a genuine rebel. Either way what she says and does is 100% right, science should be open and accessible for everyone.
Except for Cuba (Cuba missile crisis) the hypocrisy

Not that 2 wrongs make a right
youre an american, right? so i get that working for foreign "regime change" is normalized to you.
The people who are the primary denizens of hole in the wall casinos are all gambling addicts. The same people who were illegal gambling in the "internet cafes".
How is that relevant to REST API’s? You don’t generally post to rest endpoints from a form anyways for a lot of good reasons.
420 isn't an insurmountably large a number - it's 8.4 per state (lets' round it up to 10 for redundency).

at an average cost of $10 billion per plant, that's 4.2 trillion dollars. I think the US has spent more than that on the iraq war and the afganistan war - 8 trillion according to https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar - which could've paid for these 420 plants twice over.
Public national crypto identity ledger. Soldiers cannot fake signatures between the ECG or a body implant and the government chain. For most of the casualties, it can provide truth more trustful than government news. How could government or soldiers lie here?
Coal and gas sure, but renewables are obviously dependent on weather. Nobody runs their solar panels less than maximally possible "because they can". When there is significant oversupply of energy from solar, it gets sold for pennies on the dollar to neighbouring regions, and when the sun doesn't shine, you're sol.
Infamous Russian Troll Farm Appears to Be Source of Anti-Ukraine Propaganda
We know Russia and Oligarch are fraud. But, don't undermine the fact that Ukraine is one of the corrupt country in Europe. So, I highly doubt if your first statement is correct. If you look on history, US has constantly meddled with anther's country affair in name of "democracy" and liberalism". However, I don't know how much US has influenced in Ukraine that makes Putin anxious.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-o...

Its a premature thinking that Ukraine citizen will start guerilla warfare? Can they live in cave like Taliban? Can they sacrifice life? There are many questions that needs to be answered.

Russia will probably install some Yes-man, who is obsequious to Putin. I don't think they intend to take whole Ukraine.
I have to agree. In this case it’s more an internal thing: I’m 32 and took a few years off software to pursue other things (where I spent most of my time writing software as fortune would have it), result being a lot of my colleagues are half a decade younger than me having settled into Staff Engineer positions.

I don’t feel that I should be anything higher than L4 but at the same time it’s hard not to feel the FOMO and insecurity that comes with being “behind” in a hot market.
This already is a core grocery competency. Did you think that the shelf placement of goods was chosen on a whim? Every shelf is a billboard where prime placement is auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Digital shelves are still stupid as all hell, but strictly from a KISS perspective, not a business one. The fact that this approach is so conceptually similar to existing SOP is probably why so many big grocers are getting swindled by this "innovation".
Do you have a source for amp standards? My limited search suggests much of EU have 10A plugs. Also here in AU our standard is also 10A along with our NZ family.
Since there are people working on sending a crewed mission to Mars as we speak, we might see a human colony there in our lifetime. So that would be one place for a start.
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I previously had some Roku devices in my house and they immediately went into a restricted VLAN not for the least of reasons that their ToS/privacy policy stated I was agreeing to give them permission to collect data about my network and send it back to them. Whatever that means.

Roku devices hardcode 8.8.8.8 DNS in their software. So a Pi-Hole would be useless in a typical config. Evident by the constant hammering of dns.google in my firewall logs (dropped).

DNS filtering can only be effective if you intercept/drop all other outbound DNS traffic at the edge of your network.
Our local mall (in SF bay area) will be shrunk down in size maybe 50% and the additional space and bulk of the parking will be converted into housing with some commercial stores in the bottom. Costco will take over a portion of the mall and some restaurant/food court area will remain. Not sure what will happen to the rest.
> refers a source that claims 8015 deaths

It says in literally the very next sentence that no evidence of that is known, and more recent studies put the number between 45 and 55.

Please have some rudimentary skepticism.
Never go all in on a time limited business. Gotta expand to stay afloat.