skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nuclear canceled by the Green Party

.. after Fukushima. Trading one tail risk for another.

(Germany has oddly lagged in deploying renewables, though. Possibly due to lack of offshore sites, meaning that wind farms have to be deployed against the efforts of NIMBYs)
The Unstoppable Appeal of Highway Expansion
I hate when that happens.
Govs get to determine propaganda/narratives within their borders via legal instruments. TikTok follows domestic laws to continue operation. As it should be versus Twitter/FB caving to US foreign policy pressures / propaganda world wide.
I mean to try it but some of these version managers work on Windows too, I believe Nix is specific to Linux. Lorri sounds amazing though! It's the kind of thing that made me fall in love with solutions such as virtualenv (which handles the "this directory needs these specific packages" installed locally, not globally problem that Debian gives you).
1 Scandinavian mile = 10 kilometers. Only used in Sweden and Norway by the way.
> Germany is now in the "early warning phase" of its energy emergency plan,

I’m not sure what the levels are, seems like they’d be at a higher level since the flows could stop at literally any time since they refused Putin’s decree to pay in rubles.
Let your mind wander – and how to set it free
I am so tired of these comments about Netflix:

“I am going to cancel if Netflix splits disc from streaming.”

“I am going to cancel if Netflix raises prices.”

“I am going to cancel if Netflix makes it difficult to share passwords.”

“I am going to cancel if Netflix cancels my shows.”

“I am going to cancel if Netflix introduces ads.”

Netflix did more to free the market from the stranglehold the networks had for decades. If you want to go back to paying $150 per months for cable, be my guest. People seriously have issues with Netflix raising prices 25-30% in the past DECADE while their catalog has increased significantly?
Well thats what you get with a glorified 'recommendation' algorithm and now it can be used by governments and other unpleasant people in power to hide and control what is seen and unseen from its users. Hardly surprising there and expected.

> But I think it is a bit surprising that TikTok hasn't met more criticism and resistance on this

If the users are liking their new digital crack / cocaine on the platform and as long as the algorithm is happily manipulating them, then they will never criticise or complain about it, nor will they be able to distinguish between fact or fiction.

Hence, I think many jealous governments, three-letter agencies and even ancient wizards want their reality distortion spells back from social networks like TikTok.
>Eventually the quality will deteriorate

What quality? Even in Austria, at some really busy McD's I've been to like the train station or airport, their finished burgers looked nothing like the ones in the menu.

Often they had components like the cheese, lettuce and sauces missing and I got just a dry paddy between two barren pieces of bread as a burger lol. It was uneatable so I had to throw it away and buy a sandwich from the SPAR next door which has much better quality.

The McD's I've had in NY weren't much better either.

OTOH, McCafe's in Europe (the separate establishment, not to be confused with the coffee you can get from McD's) are amazing, coffee is always great, on par with even fancy hipster cafes and their pastry and cakes aren't bad either.
This isn't how scaling works though. Across all applications the hot data growth outpaces the cold.

So if you're designing capacity for exponential growth, the future point at which you stop experiencing exponential growth and only have to worry about roughly linear growth is a much easier problem to solve.
Grimace.
A small number of people are born without the ability to hear... That doesn't mean we should erase the ability to hear out of human biology books.
It depends on the heating need and size of the tank.

In the US, there is nothing unusual about a 1,000 gallon tank that you might fill twice a year.
I haven't used TV for any kind of broadcast, or literally anything that would in any way contain ads for past cca 15 years. TV I have has no wifi connection, never had one, never will have.

I've become physically allergic to ads, anywhere. The way they are done reminds me of those drawings showing some nasty fugly stuff being squished into consumer's brain.

This causes minor issues sometimes when we visit some friends and they have a TV blasting all the time, with their kids being fairly addicted to general media consumption. Anytime this happens and I see how they are glued to phones or consoles is a stark warning about choosing different path for my small kiddoz. Such a path you can lead them on by example.

The amount of time we have thanx to this to spend on more important matters in life is non-trivial.
> It suggests morning people are usually better at analytical tasks in the morning and creative tasks at night.

This describes me, exactly.

I enjoyed his A Whole New Mind book.
The problem is you can't deal with the number of entities factorio regularly does on a stock engine. They just aren't made to deal with hundreds of millions of stateful and non-trivially interacting entities. That's not what game engines are built optimized for.
Eww no. So that they can end up a cess pool like Facebook, google, twitter, etc?

What would be super refreshing would be a tech company that stays private and focuses on a useful product instead of growth hacking.
Very nice! Any documentation On how to add our own games?
I've had no experience with chromebooks but this sounds VERY much like Autopilot on windows/intune or Knox MDM enrollment on samsung android devices.

Ring the school again and talk to their IT, prompt their memories with the words MDM enrollment.

I bet one of them will have "AHA!" moment.
This depends on how much has been sourced locally before and how much has been sourced from the US.

Like buns and meat and so could be sourced locally. But spice (mixtures) may have been imported and the mixture recipe is locally unknown.
>certainly can't claim they are financially responsible.

My man, with 180k you can comfortably afford a house by the time you're 30, have a quick million aside _and_ do lines a cocaine off a hooker's ass every week. 180k is a salary way past the bar of "fiscal responsibility".
How to organize yourself as a solo founder
I couldn't disagree more about the tone of this article. Is it possible you are projecting your past experience of that snobbish attitude onto this article? To me it seems to be an article about a real, practical attempt to bridge the gap between autodidacts and academics, and is written with empathy and honesty.
When Foxtel or Optus (cant remember probably both) entered Australian cable TV market they promised no adds, and there were zero adds, a few years later they introduced adds and increased the price in the same letter to subscriber. most people kept it.
Testing CRDTs in Rust, Theory to Practice (stateful property based testing)
Not your parent poster, but the tanks are commonly installed above-ground in the rural USA. It is propane (C3H8), which is liquid under pressure. Tanks are refilled as needed depending on usage via a tanker truck. I assume this is monthly but I don't personally have one.

In the US, natural gas normally refers to methane (CH4) heating, attached to a city methane heating grid. I pay a monthly bill per cubic foot of methane burned. Currently my water heater and furnace are methane. I live near Kansas City.
> a lot of Americans are disconnected from members of the military, especially in the upper classes where people do not need to serve

Why do Americans need to be connected with the military though? What do you think the benefits of being more connected would be?

Many of us are disconnected from members of the constabulary, from members of the ambulance services, from members of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada.

It's just how disparate careers go.
"Indeed, the US should oppose those things inside their own boundaries where they have the right to."

So the US has a right to sell weapons to anyone abroad, but when it comes to the humanitarian consequences suddenly borders matter? If you want to be isolationist then be consistent. Having the benefits of international trade requires equivalent moral responsibility.

"There is no reason to assume the US is virtuous and right on any given moral issue."

There are lots of reasons pointing to the opposite, but that doesn't mean it can't be either. You could just as easily define 'right' as everyone intervening anywhere, regardless of borders, to prevent mass civilian casualties. One obvious case comes to mind.
It sounds reasonable and that is why it's dangerous to censor and everyone should fight against any censorship. If the guy working next to you is the type to send you slurs via messenger on company time wouldn't you want to know that so you could take the messages to management and have them removed? Or you would you want him to have a new imagined grievance on top of his already hateful viewpoint?
I believe Nix works on top of WSL. And IIRC, it can even handle building Windows GUI exe's, though that may be mistaken.
> so this whole post is about solutions that don't involve ceding an entire device to spyware distributors

I wonder if the school already provided a device.

My son’s school does.
No, Putin backed down on that one. It's not over yet but Russia doesn't want to turn the taps off by itself. It needs the money too badly (what do you think is propping up the Ruble) and also they need some deniability, some excuse, because if they turn it off unilaterally, it's hard to see it coming back on, at least not under the same circumstances
censorship ≠ incarceration
Because it’s a publicly traded company and investors demand growth. I really wish companies would stop listing after IPO and just stay private.
What software / platform are you using to serve that kind of content? Very well done
The problem really comes down to this: is Nazism something which we are all capable of quickly becoming, i.e. inherent to human nature, or do we only become this horrible when small groups of intelligent elites cynically exploit our psychology and concretely plan for us to become brainwashed slaves (the opposite of banality)? Perhaps a bit of both, but at some point someone definitely isn't a banal and clueless bureaucrat.

You can probably see how option A is a propaganda win for Nazism (and fascism in general). 'See, you're not so different to us!'. Was it the German people who became Nazis overnight, or did the Nazi elites (such as Eichmann) instigate what amounted to major social engineering campaigns?
To expand on this: much of the distribution infrastructure within Germany is owned by Gazprom. For example, there's a very large natural gas storage capacity within Germany, but a significant portion of that is owned by, you guessed it, Gazprom. There's broad consensus that, if all of the storage infrastructure were topped up, Germany would be able to make it through _next_ winter reasonably well, even if Russia stopped delivering gas. However, currently the storage capacity is at around 30%, which is insufficient. This move would imply that the German government is taking action to force the distribution infrastructure to be more resilient against the contingency that Russia (through one means or another) stops delivering gas.

It's also worth pointing out that there's been some evidence suggesting that, in the weeks and months leading up to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the "fill level" of the Russian-owned storage infrastructure within Germany was decreased, which would both be a way for Russia to attempt to leverage gas delivery against sanctions (in other words, blackmail), as well as yet another strong indication that the invasion was a deliberate Russian aggression planned well in advance.

If you're interested in more and understand German, I'd recommend the most recent episode of Lage der Nation, which talks about this at much more length: https://lagedernation.org/podcast/ldn284-ukraine-krieg-6-woc...
Pipelines (which I would not underestimate) and storage?
There is nothing wrong with the "prejudice plus power" definition. It is the best definition of racism as a systemic effect that exists.

As the US shifts towards being a majority-minority system, any power element of perceived racism against whites will no doubt have to be examined. I'm yet to be convinced (from transatlantic distance) that it exists.

What I do think is economically disadvantaged white people ought to educate themselves about how their situation is some ways interlocked with the racist treatment of economically disadvantaged minorities in the same area; the systems that established racism now disadvantage them too.

(This is also true in the UK; if white people in poverty understood what they had in common with black and asian people in poverty, Britain First and the EDL would not exist, and Brexit might not have happened; as always, their fears are exploited by populists when they share the same circumstances as those they are asked to fear.)

But racism isn't simply the same as racial prejudice; it's prejudice in action, and that is what the definition is about.
Yes, I did. Because keeping it there for toxic ass's just wasn't worth the trouble.

Why would I leave bait for people who I don't respect when it is clearly baiting them and I don't like them?
It's completely in the same category as battery technology - interesting advancement, probably not going to actually get to production, even if it does it'll take years.

That said, it is still an interesting advancement of interest to the sort of people on HN. You could argue that this is one of the better forums for this sort of news because we mostly know what sort of pinch of salt to take with the promises.
I realize this will get you along but if everyone does this, nothing changes.

Also the cost of these lies are immense for companies, managers, employees and customers. Assigning employee A for one task and B for the other although it should be reverse. IMHO that's also the reason why companies ship products that are profoundly bad for their customers and only "realize" this after many years.

I know of a few people for who that is the reason why they prefer working in startups.
There are some projects which try to make the audio sound pleasant, like birdsong or water. And there are fountain codes which continually stream data and you can start picking up the transmission at any point and as long as you get enough of it you can recreate the message. And of course compared to wifi you don't need to 'join' a network or broadcast anything to listen.

I'm imagining something like this at a train station or airport, continually broadcasting schedule and delay information which you could pick up with an app and a microphone and no internet access. Like a drinking fountain for information something you go to, or maybe pervasive background noise.
The highest classed drugs (as in class A) have the biggest negative impact on society, and I don't thin that anyone sensible would try to argue that heroin, cocaine or crystal meth are harmless; or beneficial in any way? I can be argued that people should the personal right to take anything they want; and while I agreed with that in principle, people and society have to pick up the pieces. If drugs were available in a regulated way could solve many problems, but it would have to be done in such a way to it doesn't create a industry which profits from peoples addition.
Old people vote more. Old hippies vote harder. Hippies are impressionable and watched a lot of Hollywood movies like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome

And more recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

Jane Fonda is a sexy grandma who still got it, she stopped the war in Vietnam and got us in shape. With our powers combined, we are Captain Planet? We were elected to lead not to read!

Here is an additional thought: if you dedicate an entire party completely and totally to solving one problem, what happens to them if the problem actually gets solved?

Seems like a single issue politician is exclusively incentivized to shift blame in order to get re-elected rather than, you know, do anything constructive.

France is something like 70%+ nuclear powered, they got it all sorted for the rest of the century. Not much for the greenie weenies to do.
It's only a requirement for content served inside the UK though; international content (such as BBC.com) is allowed to (and sometimes does) show ads because it's technically not covered by the licensing agreement for the UK.
Boston Dynamics’ “Stretch” robot hits production, and it’s already sold out
'Money made from the sale will be reinvested in a "creative dividend" to be shared among the TV industry, with some of it earmarked for independent production companies.'

Funds from the sale of a publicly owned asset should not just be handed to other commercial organisations. Unless of course, your mates own those organisations, amiright?
The lack of both LNG terminals and adequate connections to ones in other countries is a big part of what people mean when they say Germany went all in on Russian gas. They physically cannot import enough gas from other sources, as I understand it, and this was an intentional and knowing decision despite warnings from other counties.
The man who predicted the Great Resignation has more big news
IIRC, some viruses use inaudible frequencies to transfer data when data transport over a a classical network is unavailable.
>Having to refund people in cases where Google’s AI fails would create an incentive for them to improve the AI and set higher thresholds for content to get flagged.

Here's how it would actually go:

* AI flags your video

* You pay 5 dollars to have it reviewed by a human

* Either immediately as it's conceived, or a few months down later the line when some manager figured out they could lower costs this way, an AI reviews your video again, and never finds Google at fault.

Never underestimate Google's absolute disdain for its users.
I build something similar with a basic classifier in Tensorflow:
https://github.com/Savjee/yt-spam-classifier

Here's the training dataset that I've been using. It includes all comments from my channel from last year until now. And I've manually tagged about 3000 of them as spam.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QEQrLne1SDxwQVl5qpGQ...
But in Switzerland the population voted against nuclear energy, and with that we "the people" are as stupid as the green party, right?
The dream of the internet as some sort of great democratizing force is already dead and buried, but for any who still believes, this must surely be the final nail in that coffin. Controlling the narrative is only a problem for existing democracies with press freedom. All bets are off once the threat model includes control of the media.

So cherish your freedom of speech, and exercise and defend it. I don’t know what to do concretely, maybe donate to the EFF or something.
So is asdf good then? I have been using SDKMAN! to install JDKs, but i noticed that Gradle will automatically detect JDKs installed using SDKMAN!, asdf, and Jabba [1], which signals to me that the other two are worth a look. Although now i dig into it, asdf does not have a first-party Java plugin, so the support is through a third-party plugin maintained by three people and a robot [2].

[1] https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/toolchains.html#se...

[2] https://github.com/halcyon/asdf-java/graphs/contributors
> The lame social media posts from fellow tech workers about how things "should" be regulated gets tiresome. The real solution is to simply not work for them.

If you’re calling something a “real solution” it should have at least some chance of actually happening and solving the problem. Strong regulation from the government against union busting is both possible and effective (look at what FDR did if you want an example). Wishing individuals would live up to your standards of ethical behavior when they have no reason to (and may have personal/family reasons that make them feel they need the paycheck) will not ever change anything.
This is not a “natural phenomenon”. It’s a phenomena that is a result of being a publicly traded company since investors demand growth. Stay private and you can set your own goals. Growth has to end at some point other wise public companies are really just little “Clippies” optimizing for growth and destroying everything in its path.
After Fukushima, nuclear was canceled by the conservatives (the Merkel II government), when the Green Party was not part of the government. The Green Party did cancel nuclear, but in the year 2000. Their timeline called for the shutdown of the last nuclear power plants in the 2020s, which would have been ample time to build up enough replacement capacity from renewables. But that plan was neutered by the Merkel governments crippling the buildup of renewables for 16 years.

Which is not to say there's not also NIMBYism. There is in fact a ton of opposition to buildup of renewables from both conservative-leaning citizens and left/green-leaning advocacy groups.
No and please don’t normalize this. This isn’t a tipping service/industry let us not turn it in to one.
>Do NOT migrate to new tools

Completely agree here. For better or worse (well, definitely worse), I've noticed that some part of my brain that loves list-making and re-organizing. This leads me to an impulse to be in a never-ending process of migrating from one tool to another, wind at my back with a new motivated epiphany about how to re-organize everything.

Of course, when I say it out loud, it's nonsense, but moment to moment it doesn't feel like that's what I'm doing.

I really love the wiki-style organization but I don't want to depend on a tool with features stuck to that tool. I want something universal, like text.

Right now I'm using Simplenote and its killer linked notes feature, but I fear perhaps I've got a bit of lock-in there too. I at least believe in the ability to easily backup and migrate out of Simplenote, I think it's kinda portable.

But I really think simple principles, like search don't sort, may cut through the unnecessary complexity that my brain loves to produce and administer.
>.. after Fukushima. Trading one tail risk for another.

The statistical risks from nuclear actually causing a disaster are absolutely tiny in comparison, especially considering the upsides, but the Germans and Austrians want to be EU's nuclear doomers for shits and giggles just because Chernobyl and Fukushima happened, even though so many nuclear plants worldwide have run for decades without issue.

But sucking on the sweeet teat of Putin's gas for decades and burning it was the "greener" alternative for them instead.