skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curiously one can thus be grateful for, e.g., Sci-Hub (defiance of the western copyright regime), and the wellbeing of Snowden.

I’m kidding?

I guess you might say that Russians are kind of collective anarchists. Principled— I mean fairly not based on ethnohistorical pride like say the occasional defiance of the Chinese.

Life is not cheap, only too willing to pay the price. Vodka loosens up the psychic joints..

Here, to the defiance of the soi disant curious of the orange site )
This is very normal under dictatorships.

In Nicaragua (Central America), protesters use the National flag (as in, the country flag) to protest the dictator.

As a result, civilians can't display the national flag without justification lest they may be mistaken as protesters and punished.
Anyone recognised as a saint by the Russian Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has to be doing something right.
13 years? Korea has built plenty of reactors in 5 years
You can still buy induction stoves without touch surfaces and ceramic stoves with touch surfaces.
It’s not Azov that’s purposefully murdering civilians - it’s Russians.
Reminds me of when gas stations play adds on a screen to me while I fill up my tank. Talk about a captive audience!
In 7.5 years (mean time for construction of a nuclear power plant), there will still be oil, gas, and even coal plants in operation in many countries. Nuclear capacity is clearly not useless.
Just a quick note, this was written by NASA's Chief Scientist (now retired) Dr James Green. And it's meant to be the summation of 50 years of NASA's work on the topic, tracking the evolution of our dyadic system and figuring out what it looked like during the early days.
Where was all of this cancellation when it could have done some good - like before Putin invaded?

This is at best virtue signalling, by companies that kowtow to the communist government of China that is conducting ethnic cleansing in Tibet and East Turkistan.
The term "reality distortion field" was invented just for him.
Vietnam probably was pointless because they couldn't bomb where all the weapons were coming from. Bombing Germany in WWII was less pointless because bombs could have an effect on German war material production - and Germany had to defend it like it did. At the end of the day North Vietnam was getting the means to fight it's war from abroad and bombing it back to the proverbial stone age wouldn't stop those weapons from coming in country.
Yes. one of those other chemicals is arsenic which has a tendency to end up in peoples drinking water.

There is a place in the US that has a rather peculiar name of Cancer Alley. It is not a nuclear testing area, nuclear waste deposit area or area for nuclear plants. It is an area know for its petrochemical plants. It illustrate quite well the difference of nuclear waste that people are scared of, and fossil fuel waste that people accept as just normal part of life.
> One more wouldn't make a difference.

Characterizing Ukraine as "practically Estonia" does not reflect any understanding of geopolitics. I don't even know where to begin in addressing that knowledge gap.
Another fine example of "Our systems are the scar tissue of past mistakes."
If it's being burned at the energy plant, electric is worse.
I have induction with the control nobs to the front in the oven. That does exist, I guess you have to buy it together with the oven.

Induction is greatly superior to electric heating plates, ceramic or even metal, as it is much faster and more energy efficient. Whenever you use it you never want to go back.
The Walgreens by my office, in the city, got these. The motion detection seems to work fine. But it’s pretty jarring look at the beautiful, fully-stocked image on the screen but then open the door to find a picked-over, mostly-empty mess.
Taking a dump is also experience, should we want advertisers to optimize that as well?

I don't think the optimization is the issue, it's who's doing the optimization and why/what purpose
If someone leaves a pile of private records on a park bench, and I poke around with access I know I shouldn't have, that's not a felony, is it?

When the access is freely given out without any subterfuge, it's not my job to self-enforce my best guess at what my access level should have been.
Right. But remember, not all forms of green energy generation are equal. Wind and solar need some dispatchable source as a backup. Hydro works, if you have it. But it's geographically limited. Gas is the typical backup source, but that emits carbon.

Nuclear, as it stands, is the only solution to decarbonizing the energy grid for much of the world. Until some breakthrough in energy storage transpires, or fusion becomes feasible, fission plants remain necessary for decarbonization.
Well to be fair, the author says the user specifically identified the speed of submission as suspect. If that’s true (and I have no reason to doubt it, there is a long running UX trope about adding artificial delays because users find fast results untrustworthy or unsettling in some way), it’s possible they didn’t fully understand their own psychological reaction: it was fast and it provided feedback in an unusual way.

If my comments (posted to the site before coming back to see the HN discussion) are reviewed and pass muster to be posted, they’ll reflect these thoughts as well.
> It's tightly constrained by the miner reward

reward in a currency for which you buy the energy. This takes into account the current btc/eur price in finland, if that's where you buy the energy, and that's not guaranteed to halve either.
You are trolling, I get that now.
That and eye tracking to data mine shoppers' gazes for the benefit of marketing departments (and Cooler Screens) to optimize displays. Truly an "exciting" customer experience.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/walgr...
It would have taken you as much effort to read the "shader" wiki entry [1] as it did to pendantically put down a foss library website for privacy issues. You would also have learned a fundamental concept I 3d graphics.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
Well on our way to the dystopian hellscape that is the Bladerunner universe.

The first time I see these screens is the last time I shop at that store.
One interesting thing I’ve noticed about these at my local WGs, they display their product cost next to the retail price when it’s showing the product, so I get a reminder that I’m paying 99 cents for a Arizona tea that cost them 4.
Wind turbines work on average at 18-30% efficiency in Finland. The nadir efficiency is roughly at 6%. You'd need to build 1300+ 3MW wind turbines to match the average production of Olkiluoto 3, or 7000+ turbines to guarantee the same level of constant output that this plant puts out reliably.

We had this "too slow to build" -argument 15 years ago, but no other renewables have delivered. We built 67 new windmills in 2020. That number would have to be double for your argument to start being plausible in our environment.

France has 56 nuclear plants that provide roughly 73% of the energy needs of the country. ~73% of this capacity was finished between 1980 and 1990.

Modern regulation and the scarcity of new builds has made building slower, but it should be expected that Areva, the builder of Olkiluoto 3, should be able to pump out new facilities and significantly faster rate compared to the last decade.
I'm not sure about this specific case of Rust vs .NET, but the theoretical benefits of JITs never really seem to play out in practice, except for dynamic languages that can get really big improvements by using types speculatively.

I think that one of the things that JIT proponents seem to miss is that JIT compilers have practical limits to the scope of analyses and optimizations that can be done...quick, single pass analyses, basic inclining, etc.

An AOT isn't relying on competing with runtime resources to analyze and optimize code, and it can take a lot of time to do whatever it needs to. I've found that AOT with PGO is the performance holy grail for just about any use case.
Cannot imagine why op wrote “flat bottomed wok” instead of “A pan similar in shape to a wok, but with a flat bottom, so that it can be used on induction cooktops but still allows for the tossing motion that cooks use to mix ingredients in a wok”
Nuclear has very high capital costs but fuel and operating costs (sans financing and insurance) are relatively cheap. Nuclear energy isn’t expensive if the plant is already built, so if you had to choose and the costs were already sunk, it wouldn’t matter. I guess your point is whether to build the plants in the first place rather than going with other renewables. Since hydro is pretty much tapped out, I guess that would be wind or biofuels?
can you flesh this out, why exactly does a larger population mean more efficient construction projects? i don't follow

seems to me other factors like economics and government structure are more important, don't think a 4x larger US would be building faster and more cheaply
Even if I agreed with your analysis (which I don't, and 'corporate leeches' and 'greedy bastards' is unnecessarily aggressive & uncharitable)- I don't think that littering every website on planet Earth with forced consent boxes is the right solution. They could've passed all of the other elements of GPDR and excluded the mandatory nag screens, they contribute nothing and make the world just a little bit of a worse place
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I'd say the primary factor is that C# has a garbage collector while Rust does not. C# and Rust are not really in the same league in my opinion. C# is more of a Java and Go competitor while Rust competes with C for the most part.
How can Finland not have more hydro resources, not enough elevation difference?

In 2009 hydro power was 15% of their electricity. An old number, but it's not too bad, it's something.
Can software really predict the outcome of an armed conflict? (2005)
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Working on a project and wondering what you guys think. Feel free to leave your opinion below.
The improvements were already mainstream before Chernobyl was built. It's all about making reactors tolerant to operator error, and if something does go wrong, make sure it goes wrong slowly, so operators have lots of time to react.

The RBMK reactor is quite an elegant design. Simple plug-and-play architecture for adding and removing fuel and other assemblies while the reactor was running, perfect for things like doping silicon for semiconductors and producing plutonium for weapons. But to get this capability you have to either give up affordability or safety, and they chose to give up safety.
I want experience, I don't want "experience" (usually)
> “ How someone so unable to speak plainly could forge a career as a professional journalist I have no idea....”

Most journalists are in the ad business - imo this is why they hate Facebook so much, they’re competitors and ad supported news orgs mostly ship a crappier product.
Russians are more concerned with buckwheat price now rather than VPN.
Is it because older people are generally more financially secure and hence are more likely to found startups, successful or not?
we already had “do not track”. if they enforced it, the dialogs would not have been necessary . dialogs we’re kept to draw attention to the law . billions of hours a day wasted
This is why I mostly shop at Aldi.

The store is small enough that even if you don't know the layout it doesn't take long to find something. There are only a few choices (if that many) for any given item so you generally don't even think about price-comparing on a per-ounce basis or anything like that. The cashiers are blazing fast. You are in, out, and get on with your day. No they don't stock everything but they have all the staple products you need from day-to-day.
I stopped trying to convince others, once they saw the productivity and solid apps we were shipping they cloned our repos and are now .net devs.

Push they’re buttons all the time calling them Microsoft fanboys… that will get them going. Secretly they like it.
What should the Canadian government have done differently?
The CCP-as-omni-scient/-potent has the same feel as 90s American conspiracies about their government.

It takes Olympic level mental gymnastics to get to "all-seeing and all-powerful secret government" from "my local DMV can barely fill out a form correctly."

I'm sure all world governments would function much better if there were in fact a limitless supply of extraordinarily capable employees willing to work for government salaries.
Having solid networks to draw on and direct experience in problem spaces also helps.
I have never had any luck broiling anything inside an electric oven. The heating elements just don't cut it.

As to the non-universality of induction. Many cooking techniques require you to be pretty active with your pan. Perhaps to toss the contents to stir, perhaps to collect hot oil that you are spooning over your fish to brown the top. Many techniques depend on the pan having different temperature at different spots. In particular they require you to use a pan whose geometry is fundamentally incompatible with your induction surface. Induction cooktops do some things better than gas ranges, no question, but they do not do everything better, and there are some things that they don't do at all.

Burning things is not always bad. Smoke is basically always bad, aerosolized oils are usually bad, but the product of combusting natural gas is almost entirely carbon dioxide and water vapor. Vent hoods are for oil particulate, and oil particulate contains all sorts of nasty shit for your lungs.
Take the exact design and duplicate it 5 more times in the country, and then build the same in Sweden, Norway 5x each. Thanks.

Be Carbon Free in 10 years and sell excess energy to neighbours.

Do it now.

Putin has taught us that politicians can actually do stuff when they are forced into an existential crisis, maybe they should do something here as well.

I don't claim to have the answers but I suggest there are many opportunities that are worth pursuing.
You think Trudeau commands the judicial system?
It’s a case of the right idea at the wrong time.
Not sure about you, but I prefer environments that can be navigated without IDEs so that when I add IDEs and tools I become an overpowered developer; instead of having to add the best tools available just to become an average developer.
why him though? consent dialogs are more relevant
>> I got into the fifth batch (s07) and remember my other startup friends staging an intervention to dissuade me from accepting because "the valuation is really bad."

> Your success and the success of YC doesn't make your friends wrong

His friends weren't telling him to leave the startup world. His friends were in the startup world themselves, and felt that there were better options out there compared to YC. In this context, his friends were absolutely wrong
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> Even supporting the Ukrainian side, it’s clear that they’re taking heavy losses and doubly so on the civilian side.

While that is truly horrible, it does not affect victory. Insurgencies fighting for their homes can absorb enormous losses, invaders cannot. (Anyone fighting or their homes can - look at the damage taken by Japan, Russia, Germany, etc. in WWII - Japan suffered two nuclear bombs and still didn't surrender until they thought Russia might invade.) Look at US wars against insurgencies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq: The attrition was enormously one-sided, and it didn't make a difference. You can't win a war of attrition against an insurgency, afaik, unless you essentially kill everyone (and even Putin won't do that).

It was expected that Ukraine would be reduced to an insurgency within a few days. The fact that they are still fighting military-to-military and with significant success is an enormous bonus. In the end, they may have to fight as an insurgency but the cost to Russia is expected to be much too high.
They are pulling out because Russian economy is going to crash and people will no longer be able to buy the products from these companies anyway. It is just not profitable for them anymore and if you can get some points for showing how socially responsible you are, is just extra.
Or a straight-up lightsaber. The number of iron daggers on the planet 4000 years ago probably numbered less than 100
Nobel output is just the symbol from the article for consequential science output. I'm using it in the same way.

If I run a track program and take the 0.1 percentile people by speed at age eighteen, and then give them average training for four years, and you run a track program taking the top fifty percentile by speed and give them the best instruction, my team is going to win.

Because elite institutions are selective the are pupiled by high capability students. High capability students who get to network with other high capability students and who get elite signaling go on to do consequential things. Students who do consequential things enhance the reputations of the school they matriculated from. The cycle repeats.

Professors and the quality of instruction isn't much different between good and great universities. The difference comes from the selection and if you take that away you'll take away the difference.
锅 does not mean wok (it’s pronounced guo).

鑊 (pronounced wok in Cantonese) or 炒锅 or 炒勺 means wok.
JavaScript is productive once you stop listening to all the high level abstracts and complications. Vanilla JavaScript is beautiful and highly productive. Right up there with c# for server side ops.
Browsers won't enforce the types (which seems to be a non-goal) but build systems and package managers could. Debuggers could warn about type errors when you're using them, maybe?

The types aren't for end users.
I maintain a thingy written in C# that does cool things with keyboard backlights on System76 machines in Linux. Like make the left-third respond to CPU usage, right third blink when you have unread notifications, etc. The biggest one was turning off the keyboard when the screen blanked[1]. Almost all of the fun stuff requires native interop.

1: https://withinboredom.info/blog/2019/11/26/detecting-if-a-sc...
It sounds like you're talking about outdated experiences (on topic with the article). Install/Restore now are the same operation, and all nuget ops are part of the main dotnet CLI which is used by the IDEs and other tooling. No plugins needed because everything is consolidated to the same process.

As far as the supply chain, .NET assemblies are IL (intermediate language) and can be inspected and signed to ensure integrity. There are trade-offs but I find it much better than the source-first mess of NPM. Go is interesting but only recently got official module approach and still relies on convoluted path-based references.

I don't see how you'd lose knowledge though, you're still building your own source. You can always copy the raw code from an (open-source/decompiled) package into your project and build that way if you really want to.
Yeah, because Ukraine defending itself, and Russia invading are morally equivalent actions, right?

I don't see hospitals getting bombed in Russia right now.

The chicoms are just showing their true colors here by supporting the actions of Putin.
Nuclear waste takes almost no space at all. meltdowns are extremely rare.
From that Wikipedia link, "for scale":

> In nature, the snails use the secretion as part of their predatory behavior in order to sedate prey and as an antimicrobial lining on egg masses.[14][b] The snail also secretes this substance when it is attacked by predators, or physically antagonized by humans (e.g., poked). Therefore, the dye can be collected either by "milking" the snails, which is more labor-intensive but is a renewable resource, or by collecting and destructively crushing the snails.

> David Jacoby remarks that "twelve thousand snails of Murex brandaris yield no more than 1.4 g of pure dye, enough to colour only the trim of a single garment."
It depends what your trying to do and anything worth using has some learning curve. Hardly something I would say is a downside of .net
That's very dependant on the program being worked on.

Garbage collection can make certain programs harder but I promise you can write absolutely awful memory allocators in any language.
Feels like you are missing the point a bit. The author's point could be about libraries, National Parks, infrastructure like bridges, etc. Many things seem locked in place because of only short term thinking and an unwillingness for short term pain to accomplish long term greater good.

Also Carnegie built the libraries under the provision that local governments would sponsor them going forward. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library Furthermore today libraries have started to adapt by loaning digitally.

I was going to argue street cars were victims of GM but apparently you are mostly right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_con... and https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/c87l40/i_hav...
You can replace "teacher" with "engineering manager" and it continues to be spot on. None of this changes after engineers graduate, and even after they have years of experience.
Has there been any political movement in Germany to stop and reverse the decommissioning of their nuclear power plants?
The problem appears to be that a $5, 5 mile, 45 minute ride does not break up even for the driver.

Gaming the system, cancellations, poor distribution of drivers, etc seem like attempts to resolve the impacts of the problem, not the problem itself.
Indeed, the correct solution is not littering every website on planet Earth with tracking/unnecessary cookies.
I'm pretty certain that isn't close to true. Do you have any numbers? Look at the state of Afghan and Iraqi cities - do they look like Dresden?
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yes a chinese company (Lanbridge) got a 99 year lease on the port. I guess they are military-connected in so far as being state-owned.

my perspective is that it is a great indignity to host foreign war bases during peace time. But if they are here, even to visit, then I want better protections against the reality of crimes committed by visiting service personnel; and I want to close the loopholes allowing the USA to bring illegal weapons.
> I don't think that littering every website on planet Earth with forced consent boxes is the right solution.

The absolute vast majority of those boxes are illegal under GDPR. However you've been brainwashed into thinking it's the GDPRs fault.

> They could've passed all of the other elements of GPDR and excluded the mandatory nag screens

Those screens are not mandatory. It's literally:

- you don't need to ask consent for data that is strictly necessary for the operation of your website

- for any additional data you need to ask for consent with the default and clearly labeled option being "I do not consent"

That is it. There's nothing mandatory about presenting you with "accept all 270 ad/analytics/data harvesting companies".
Or you could cite some reproducible statistics indicating that this actually happens in real life, in quantities that affect human health and development rather than mass-spectrometry plots.

Fact is, there was never any actual science behind the RoHS prohibition of lead solder. Not while lead-acid battery production was still permitted, certainly. The same people who thought it was a good idea to do this also thought it was a good idea to shut down all the nuclear plants in Germany because of something that happened at an unrelated facility in Japan. We're not allowed to argue with them because reasons.
No one thing will solve it, it will take a constellation of lots of things. If you do nothing while you wait for the one single solution, it won't get solved at all.