skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nuclear is more expensive than renewables. If we spent the same money on renewables we'd get more done. It's not overly complicated."

By that logic, we could be taking money people spend on casinos and spending it on renewables - we'd get more done and that money was being wasted by definition.

Budget of a country is not like budgeting your personal expenses, and we are limited by resources other than just Money. Like production facilties, pool of talent and skilled workers, natural resources, etc. Nuclear has almost no overlap with renewables when it comes to consuming real resources - so both could be used. Meanwhile money is not real, and when the banks were in danger, trillions just magically appeared overnight.

In UK main obstacle to renewables are idiots who think they own the landscape, and that their view is more important than the future of the planet -> a local group had cash in hand to build a wind turbine, and it took them 4 years to get permission to do so!
Forth and Haskell aren't really so different, ultimately. Fans of each would never admit that.
American insurance is so freaky. In Nova Scotia, everyone has minimum $1 million liability coverage. Everyone also has uninsured driver coverage, to cover them if they're hit by an uninsured driver.
It's definitely not orthogonal to how you live your life; their very purpose is to limit how you live your life in order to prevent/reduce behaviors that spread disease. For example, they issue quarantine orders.[1]

People understand that is their mission. Some find it scary.

Everyone has a different threshold at which they start to object to the CDC overriding people's freedom in the pursuit of disease control, but everyone will object at some point. For example, would you accept a Shanghai-style lockdown?

1: https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/Public-Health-Order_Gener...
Maybe you mean monthly?
Dblp in RDF
You’re right! Thanks
> In a "morale emergency" an effective leader will lead from the front, showing the behavior that she needs her team to show.

Maintaining the paint on a destroyer is really hard to do, and the sailors I served with, well, there was no shortage of people willing to work and lead by example. That said, picture a 154 meter destroyer and compare that to a 4" paint scraper. How many effective leaders does that take?

>Moo

Agree
> Can someone name a scarrier entity that could be tracking you?

Yes? As the CDC's only enforcement mechanisms are generally small teams in tyvek suits with fertilizer sprayers with bleach. Their primary function is public advisement and their employees are civilian.

So yes, CIA, FBI, IRS, NSA, military, Homeland security (tsa and coast guard), grb; but also Facebook, apple, Google, at&t.
You could put that line in your PS1, I think?
UK mobile data is filtered by default, while fixed-line isn't. I suspect this is an artifact of "adult" premium rate phone lines - access to those numbers must be limited to those verified to be over 18, and while I've not done the research to back this up it wouldn't surprise me at all if it's the application of this rule over the years that has led to this situation.

Of course a mobile telephony provider is going to be a lot more certain which phone numbers attract the specific premium rate categories to need to be blocked than they are which random domains should be blocked :P.
"It will be made right on the spot, or just down the street. And, won't be compressed, but will be poured in and allowed to boil up to pressure."

Are the efficient machines you are talking about affordable and portable enough to be locally owned?

Also you are talking about hydrogen being poured in - so that would be cryogenic cooling, right? that incurrs an energy cost as well?
The problem with paranoia is that it's one of those things that can be self-fulfilling the more common it is, as the paranoid nutters get into power and work together disable the conspiracies they perceive at everyone's expense, thus justifying and magnifying the beliefs of the paranoid nutjobs on the other side (and so on).
I feel like that is one of the overlooked values you have in having insurance coverage. You can resolve the issue with your provider and let them go to bat downstream, claw back anything they need to, without destroying your own life.
Using the post increment operator for pointer operations ? Would have never imagined that. I've only seen it used in for loops for no reason at all, really.
I'm glad I'm not having to work in an office with this person! ;)
> These abortion providers are forgetting an important component of having an at-home abortion,

Nobody is forgetting anything. These healthcare providers are pursuing a harm minimization strategy in the face of laws they believe will deter women from engaging with healthcare professionals.

Anyhow, many other European countries have long heavily relied on at-home, pharmaceutical abortifacients precisely because (and this is probably surprising to most Americans) most European countries actually have more restrictive laws regarding abortion than those to which the majority of the U.S. population are subject--i.e. relative to laws in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, etc. So the track record on outcomes, risks, etc is quite clear from foreign experiences alone, not to mention the domestic record.
Pro tip: use the cool LaTex logo in yo ur list of technologies if you are using LaTeX to generate the resume :D
I'm a really heavy overdrive user, and I wouldn't trust the waiting time. Join multiple libraries as well - the limiting factor is if the library has bought the book not the waiting time. Their prediction algorithm seems to assume everyone keeps it for the full 14/21 and many people don't. Also most libraries have multiple copies which speeds things up a ton

Because the best secret tip is that overdrive doesn't encrypt their mp3's. They even admit it at [1]. I don't know about iOS but on android it's just stored plaintext in the android system. So you just get on hold for books and whenever they come in, download then, and don't have to worry about loans. I try to be nice about this and buy the book for author's books I've enjoyed because I want to support artists. But it's nice to not have the limitations of 21 days, especially for longer books

Overdrive is trying to go to libby where they obfuscate the mp3s but they might not push it through

Also don't discount text to speech. It's not as nice as a real narrator but I also walk 5+ hours on weekends and it's nice to be able to listen to arbitrary text. Google's TTS is pretty readable and has a generous free tier

[1] https://help.overdrive.com/en-us/0004.html
Remember HN about 5-10 years ago and everyone here was saying how they're changing the world. Corporate hired that - spoke that language - convinced that - and even echo chambered some of it.

You see someone say something racist or sexist or homophobic and it's no longer the just a small voice that would blast the racist, sexist, homophobe but now it's everyone - including corporate America (and their twitter bot voices). And in the mean time since all those companies have "fallen in line" with the culture - it's OK to Buy Nike, Buy Starbucks, Buy Apple, Buy Microsoft because they all tow the line.

I mean it's good and bad. For one, it's good because now there's justice for the repressed. It's bad for it's cancellation culture. There are a lot of "cancelled" people that have done FAR less than say Harvey W. yet with a single tweet - mostly careless words - they're done. Even when they have that 15 second scramble after someone calls them out it just blows up. Apologies are meaningless after that. Being one person you can't defend against unlimited neural activity of millions of people digging into the background and lobbing as far as Twitter will let it go.
Show HN: Decentralized P2P Pastebin
I created this just to test the "gun" library for p2p databases. Website created in React.

Pastebin source: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/gundpaste
proHealth NMN is good:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NMN/comments/rsbne9/fake_nmn_produc...
It used to be not-impossible to find public phpinfo.php pages out there put up for debugging purposes. Hopefully people have smartened up to that, but it’s an example of how the data could be exposed without remote code execution.

In any case, defense in depth seems like reason alone to do this.
"Passwords may not be duplicated across accounts"

This concerns me. How are they checking that no other account has the same password? Wouldn't that imply a strong possibility they're either hashing with the same salt across all accounts or not hashing at all?

Hopefully some of the smarter folks here can tell me why I'm way off base...
Never thought about that, where do you get this from? But it kinda rings true for me in life.
I'll add the only reason I pay for a viz subscription is because their site works with tachiyomi. Honestly most subscription services require you install their own specific shitty app that's such a downgrade it just ends up not being worth it, it's frustrating really.
Motivation can't be given. It's a unique, deep, personal thing. The best motivational speakers out there like Tony Robbins often specialize in sparking the fuel inside you.

To quote a chapter from Alter Ego, Todd Herman, there are commonly 4 sources: Trauma, Destiny, Altruism, Self-expression.

Trauma is the Batman route. Someone hurt you deeply. You want to prove an ex wrong. A teacher didn't believe in you. Part of my motivation is corruption. I have a relative who's hardcore poor. People would give donations to her, but when the religious authorities pass her the envelopes, a little would be missing. They digitised the distribution of cash and the corruption stopped. I've been digitising a lot of third world bureaucracy since.

Destiny can be if you're in the right circumstances. Both my parents went to Harvard, in a country where it's very rare for people to have a decent education. My dad was a startup guy before the word startup was even common. So I feel it's wasteful to not be doing something ambitious. Or some people feel that the responsibility just fell on their shoulders.

Altruism can be the will to see your community improve. You might be say, the eldest in a family of people who work hard labor, with a parent who worked their ass off to pay for your education. Or go deeper, maybe you had a grandparent who migrated and worked two jobs so that your father could become the doctor. Maybe you are the one who wants a better life for your grandchildren. Maybe you're a minority who wants to give inspiration to others.

And then self-expression, where you feel the urge to experiment and build. Why do people climb mountains? A lot of techies start here; many made games or something as a kid and somehow landed in an office job.

Tap into yourself to find that inner motivation. The Five Whys are a good place to start. Why do you want to work out? Why be healthy? Why live longer? Why are you where you are?

There's a well of emotion deep inside you somewhere. Striking it will bring the tears out. You have a good idea where the well is. You'll normally dig around it; it carries a lot of weight, responsibility, and it limits your options. This is probably a good time to tap into it, though.
I get where you're coming from. There are many Linux video editors already, and many of them could use slight improvements. If people contributes to those instead of going off and making their own project from scratch, it would benefit everyone. That's true.

But I think that it's impractical in reality. For various reasons, such as politics, differences in vision, BDFLs, death by committee, etc., many open-source projects find themselves reaching a plateau and stagnating. At that point, it becomes easier to just make your own competing project with the features you want, than try to fight to get your features added upstream.

I think that this, counter-intuitively, leads to the stagnant project improving, as the "competition" with new features helps un-deadlock whatever bureaucracy was preventing improvements.
Also just your local police when they're fed up with the fourth amendment.
What is the significance of AMD acquiring Xilinx?
You missed the part where they barfed in it.
> I've worked in software for > 20 years. I've been a tech lead of a few projects that shipped and YOU likely use in your daily everyday life. Outside of interviews, i've had to use a real-life whiteboard ... twice ...

That's neat! I hope you don't think your anecdotal evidence discredits my own anecdotal evidence about how useful they are. People use different tools and I'm guessing you're not intending to say folks that have been productively using whiteboards for decades are somehow wrong.
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That sounds like a plausible reason for evolution to have given us lower NAD levels when we're older.
It feels like your living in some strange alternate reality. What are you talking about? How is the CDC 'overriding freedom'?

They collect data and make recommendations.

The rest of the world is out here waiting for you, please wake up. We need everyone to make this work.
but that can change, the deciding factor is which addiction is greater; cellphone, or tracking.
> I wonder how much the data in the demo helps sell the readability and space-efficiency.

This is a very good question.. In the section of the video on automatic form layout it is strongly implied that the auto-layout is driven by semantic inference of the column names. I see this easily breaking -- anyone who's ever inherited a production database knows that column names are often cryptic or context specific.

Also makes me wonder how well that system handles databases with non-English identifiers?
Hey thanks for the shoutout and trying it out!

It is indeed early stages (I started it not yet a year ago).

I'd love to hear any feedback you've got.

In general every release gets more stable, more automated tests, better performance, etc.
It can be circular rather than nested. You may reinsure a peer company’s auto policies while they reinsure your home policies.
They get sued, sure. Anyone can sue for anything. Has a single doctor or provider been successfully sued because an FDA approved drug caused a side effect that they had disclosed to the patient?
During peak pandemic we stayed at my inlaw’s house for a couple months to be with other people and my 8yo introduced Ghibli movies to my retired father in-law and he was entranced. He wanted to watch them all and more, said he had no idea there was animation like this.
> What are you talking about?

The CDC's mission is fundamentally the same as the mission of the Chinese disease control agency. The difference is how that mission is balanced against people's freedom to live their lives.

Please don't misunderstand; that doesn't mean that I oppose everything they do. Everything they do limits freedom, but sometimes that is necessary.
Most of the charts look like snow. like this one

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q...

I don't think the author's argument is that convincing except for the rise of movie franchises, but that's not a observation. Ppl have been complaining about formulaic movies for years.
Right, and if the miscarriage was caused by drinking, drugs, falling down the stairs? Who is to blame?
> Was this an issue before COVID? I can see how this policy might help shape the workforce, but not how it would change the workforce from what it already is unless it became more diverse during COVID as a result of flexible WFH options.

> I also understand their justification for how these might limit candidates except "whiter" and "neuro-normative", which their letter didn't seem to provide direct reasoning for. I suppose "whiter" might be the result of drawing more from the local population, but again they seem to be arguing that a policy that's still more flexible than pre-COVID will make things worse, which I don't follow.

I suspect race, gender, and height biases are a big deal and substantially mitigated by various kinds of remote work, but I don't have much more to add about these things.

About "neuro-normative," I have ADHD. Open plan offices, while they are a blight upon the productivity of every worker, are substantially worse for me than for other people. Apple literally prevents teams from communicating with other teams. The combination of open plan offices, secrecy, and demands to come to the office and listen to salespeople on calls all day but not discuss your work with more than a few other people is truly mind-blowing.
I heard it from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. In addition to writing that comic he is a very interesting thinker. He is also a trained hypnotist.
> "...and used to devtools just a handful of times."

How do you debug?
You've described part of the 2008 financial crisis.
Watch out for AI models regurgitating misplaced keys that unlock crypto wallets
The LOC page explains why they recommend SQLite.

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0004...
There are definitely people who are enslaved in the UAE under the Kafala System. It’s unclear to me how widespread it is, but it does happen. When I was there, I personally met a woman on Tinder, and on our date she told me she had been forced into prostitution by the person who brought her to the UAE. She had to earn tens of thousands of dollars to get her passport back from him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system
Text is text. It's stored as bits, typically 8 bits per character. It allows arbitrary precision but is very space (and memory throughput) inefficient. Fine, compression works but there are many more bits flying around and you're spending CPU cycles on decompression.

What could you do instead? Use appropriate integers, fixed point, or floating point representations. Everybody here knows these things. Nobody is pretending anything.

To the point of portability: IEEE-754 is the same everywhere.
Based on the article they were targeting Office 365 on prem email instances for market mover events (acquisitions, new clients, etc)
I prefer music with lyrics, I don't pay attention to the lyrics (and so I'm not distracted) but it would be too boring otherwise.
Parquet is a wonderful file format and is a dream to work with compared to CSV. Parquet embeds the schema in the footer metadata, so the query engines don't need to guess what the column names / data types are.

Parquet used to be poorly supported, but now it's well supported by almost all languages. You can even view Parquet files in text editors now, but that's not something I've ever needed (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/02/25/update-on-big-dat...).

Parquet column pruning & predicate pushdown filtering allow for great query performance improvements, see this blog post I wrote for benchmarks: https://coiled.io/blog/parquet-file-column-pruning-predicate...

Delta Lake (Parquet files + a transaction log) makes it quite pleasant to manage a large lake of data stored in Parquet. There are tons of other features Delta allows for like time travel, schema enforcement, schema evolution, etc.
maybe just ignore the link
https://go.dev/ref/spec#:~:text=Declarations%20and%20scope-,...
> If you want to maximize privacy here, then let's pass laws to prevent doctors from knowing the gender, age, and weight of any of their patients.

I am fine with my doctor knowing this about me. I am not fine with any doctor who does not see me as a patient knowing anything at all about me.

> This is an excellent use of the data, a proof that it is worthwhile for the data to exist

The use of the data is fine, but as for the data existing, I also find that to be questionable (in its current form). The particular issue that I have is that the data is used without true consent, and as such is tainted.

OTOH, I suspect that "being OK with the CDC tracking your movements via GPS" would eliminate a very important cohort from the study.

Which brings me back to your original statement:

> a terrifying demonstration that we need to grow the hell up with respect to data privacy

I don't genuinely don't know that we can have both (informed consent) and (quality data).
It's common enough, like in a typical memcpy implementation:

while(size--)
*dst++ = *src++;
I recently discovered IVPN and really like it. It's my preferred VPN. Previously, I've used NordVPN and ProtonVPN.
What's the catch with them writing your resume for free? Seems like a pretty involved thing to offer for free.
Awesome tool the UI is really smart.

Shameless plug: I built a similar, web-based tool for exploring a database at www.human.software
Fun facts, there are more pyramids in Sudan than the entire of Egypt.
Thanks very much for mentioning us! We launched on HN 15 months ago and have been growing since then.

We write professional resumes for free, tips appreciated.
There are literally millions of C++ developers out there. And that number is growing. There are new C++ projects started every single day. It will take a very long time for any other language to compete with C++. I agree that most biz software that doesn’t require high performance should be written in something else. But there are many application areas where C++ still completely dominates. Look at commercial games for example, browsers, JIT compilers etc. Yes Rust might be able to do a good job in those domains but it is hard to compare with the C++ momentum.
I get that CDC is extremely interested in measuring effects of policy and PR.

What bothers me is how shady this is. Government shouldn't reach out to gray-area thugs for supply, and they should not try to keep their methods secret. Keep in mind public health authorities are absolutely dependent upon their reputation and track record. Having high trust is critical for ensuring voluntary compliance when shit hits the fan. They seem entirely unaware of this and operates more like an intelligence agency. Even if you're still trusting of CDC, can you at least see how these actions risk eroding that for others?
Anthony Fauci has been at NIH since 1968. That might be a rare example, but long careers do happen.
I already knew a few languages, but I credit quake C for teaching me to code at scale and work in large code bases, as well as tipping me towards a software/firmware career vs biochem.
Just got this email as well. They ask us to "reset" our password through a link inside the email itself which I won't do out of habit since this could be a phishing attempt for all I know. So could I just change my password on the site itself? Would that be the same thing as the "reset" that they're requesting of us or does the link inside the email set a special flag of some sort? The link is wrapped in some type of redirect so I can't really tell.
It isn't released. That said, from people I know, it seems like you can just ask nicely and show some interest and he'll let you try it out.