skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think by the time you get to Lenin and (shudder) Stalin, you have reached something qualitatively different from what HN posters today think of as "activists". The Bolsheviks were not "intellectual activists gone wild." Rather they were the opportunists who took over in the place of activists only after a traditionalist regime had killed or imprisoned the less-effective intellectual activists, many of whom were analogous to the sort you see online today. And although the rhetoric of a Stalinist regime appears left wing, its actions follow pretty much the same playbook as every modern authoritarian regime: persecuting ethnic and religious minorities, policing democratic dissent, railing about external threats as a means to suppress internal political opposition, etc.
It will only bring your application to a grinding halt if it's on the critical path. Most data in most programs can be protected with a plain old mutex and everyone is happy with the performance. Even on the hot path you may get trivial scaling to 2 or 4 threads with a global mutex protecting critical data, as we see with memcached. Sharing doesn't start to offend Amdahl until you have many threads and the critical section is relatively costly compared to the rest of the program.
Ethereum is mentioned, because it has Dapps (iirc). But I don’t think you necessarily need the monetary part in order to use the blockchain to store stuff and execute procedures as a reaction to certain values. That’s what I think “smart contracts” are. I remember that IOTA has a similar function and you can send zero value entries, specifically to communicate between low power iot devices. If you really need a blockchain for most applications is a different topic though.
While this might seem silly to a lot of folks, as someone who struggles severely with Executive Function due to ADHD, this is incredibly helpful. Often, the hardest part for me is identifying the ~why~ of how I'm feeling, preventing me from taking the necessary steps. Once I get past that, it's a lot easier to take action and get to a better place mentally.
Worth noting there is, as implied in the post, a part two among other things available from here: https://medium.com/@kolluru.nathan
Glide slope on a ship will be complicated by the constant pitching on the waves, so the system will need to gimbal somehow. Might as well have an active system that tracks the plane directly.

Perhaps laser is also good to reduce the visible signature of the ship, the fewer lights the better. Or maybe it's just brighter for the pilots.
Agreed.

Also, the US was one of a handful of countries not bombed during WWII and had to be very profitable from 1945 to 1960s. We were shipping cars and factory parts everywhere. By the 1970s, that advantage was disappearing.
If you change programming languages based on random comments from loonies on the internet, I don't think you're ever going to stick with a language long enough to implement hello world...
> Zig (the language) is famous for not being yet stable, did you really expect Uber to use it in production?

Yes, easily. If Uber has a reputation for valuing stability over new shiny tech, I've never head it.
>fukushima

What about it?
What drives whoever's the second person to implement such a flag to make it different? An explicit desire to inconvenience other "tribes" of computer users and use the flag as a symbol of an in-group?
Autoplay videos have no place on any website.

If my blog needs a video or dynamic content, it's not up to you to decide ;).
> nobody in Western Europe or the US seems to know how to build in a cost competitive way anymore

Given the huge subsidies for nuclear reactors, did they ever know? Regardless of the environmental merits, it’s not a cheap technology, and due to the limited number of reactors built it’s not exactly a competitive market either. At least at this point in time, building new reactors is necessarily slow and expensive.
you can just use the API?

https://ghost.org/docs/admin-api/#members
Funding for the source is interesting:

> "The Alliance for Science is a global communications initiative based at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an independent nonprofit research institute affiliated with Cornell University. Our primary source of support is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."

The article does gloss over where Finland would source its uranium from. A GW-scale nuclear power plant burns through ~200 tons of fuel rods per year, and Finland's supplier seems to have been the Russian state-owned uranium outfit Rosatom:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/rosatoms-unit-seeks-...

Finland does have plans to start mining and refining uranium ore, but it looks like they'll produce only enough for one reactor:

> "Last year, 35% of Finnish electricity production came from the country’s four nuclear reactors, whose owners Fortum and TVO buy their nuclear fuel from other countries including Russia, France and Canada."

Anyone holding ownership in Canada's high-grade uranium ores is likely going to do well by this move. About that...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/25/bill-gates-nuclear-power-wil...

Regardless, countries like Finland which are solar-limited for much of the year are the obvious place for nuclear. Whether they can make their domestic uranium mining operations 'clean and fossil-fuel free', and secure reasonably priced contracts for importing the rest of their required reactor fuel, remains to be seen.
There would be huge capacity problems associated with combining entire years of students. Many teachers, classrooms, and entire schools are already on the edge of overcapacity.
>Reduce my spending (unsubscribe, stop consuming feeds)?

I used to be a heavy consumer
of digital content. I was subscribed to hundreds of sources and RSS feeds first through Thunderbird, then through google reader. All of them were "learning" material (I.e. not gossip) , and it included some podcasts. I thought I was being productive with my time, and it mattered to me .

But then my mind changed, I thought about all the stuff i read about that didn't matter or that I didn't use. I changed my approach and now I try to produce more than I consume. The little stuff I read about, I try to apply it somewhere.

Also, I've started doing more things offline: I'm doing way more exercise, playing a musical instrument and even playing SNES games.

The online world started to feel too much in a hurry and "extremist" for me.
if you have to resort to telling someone to check their privilege you've already run out of arguments.
It's not a matter of bad faith or bad manners.

There are numerous ways to solve the problems you are interested in that don't involve wasting so much energy or enriching rent-seeking grifters.
It's not that simple.

People quote low prices for renewables today that we might be scoffing at in 50 years just like we scoff at the early claim that "nuclear power is too cheap to meter"

Specifically, you can't compare a nuclear reactor that delivers predictable power to solar and wind systems that deliver power when they want to deliver power. Germany has already had episodes where the spot price for electricity went under zero -- yet to make the electric grid work they have to burn natural gas when renewables aren't available.

The story for storage looks better than it ever has but it is still orders of magnitude more expensive more expensive than it needs to be to be practical.

People fantasize about feeding excess renewable energy into systems that run intermittently that capture carbon directly from air, synthesize hydrogen and e-fuels, etc. Trouble is that most of the systems have a high capital cost: e-fuel production has a crazy high capital cost as it is, if the factory is running only 20% of the time then bam... capital costs are 5x greater per unit.

The LWR struggles to compete with other energy sources for several reasons, not least of which is the high capital cost of the steam turbine and associated heat exchangers. There is hope:

https://www.moltexenergy.com/
There's also coal electricity from Poland and France seems to be nuking up to serve as Europe's reserve battery for when greens aren't producing or a large exporter misbehaves in politics next time.
I think your viewpoint is perfectly rational and healthy. Be very skeptical but willing to let others do their thing and possibly build something that can prove their worth to you over time, or not.

The outright hatred, attempting to ban, and not even being open to potential use cases (especially if it's not directly useful to them, then it therefore must be useless to all people) that's present in so many people's comments on here gets very tiring.

I expect the hatred from other sites, but here is supposed to be about showing off or discussing the potential for new and weird and possibly not yet proven tech, or at least it seemed that way for just about everything other than crypto on here.

The number of software projects I've been hired to work on in the corporate and startup world that ended up getting completely scrapped before release or failed to get traction once released and then quietly died within six months -- resulting in me feeling like my company wasted a lot of time and other people's money -- is probably more of my professional career than not at this point. But if the crypto world has any of that, it's therefore useless and evil and must be eliminated.
Tether withdrawals top $10B as regulators raise alarm about stablecoins
So like 1/20th of a cubic fathom?
Well they apparently sell nearly 2 billion bottles a day.
"between 0.6 and 1.3 million tons of sugar" doesn't sound like a lot? Humankind is adding 35 BILLION tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
I find "smile to pay" very dystopian. It's been shown that the physical act of smiling can improve mood, so I don't think it's much of a stretch that someone at MasterCard said "hey what if we condition people to enjoy using their credit/debit card?"
Web3 is currently bullshit, but decentralization is important. I don't fault the excitement around it, but it's hopium for the most part. This is not practical currently, there are some very important missing pieces.
If you want to write the input file at the beginning and write the command later, then you may use:

</dev/sda pv >/dev/sdb
I didn't say I never read any other news source. I just try to avoid them on a daily basis because they're almost never actionable, and just make me depressed and unable to function. If there's something that's immediately actionable, then I find it will generally bubble up somewhere like Hacker News.
The GP asked for reasons why nuclear power might be less popular in recent history, and the parent posited Fukushima as one possibility.
It isn't idiotic. While it is partially ideological reasoning behind their rejection, nuclear power is overall a bad deal with current technologies. France might have problems operating theirs because they have a drought and rivers aren't able to cool the plants. Uranium is only available in limited supply additionally to the high costs of nuclear energy this will become a problem in the long term. We only recently have opened the first permanent storage for nuclear waste (would need to look up if it really opened).

Part of the problems are regulation, taxes and missing expertise. I guess Finland wants nuclear energy because prices skyrocketed as Russia capped the lines. But nuclear energy could never be a solution to solve that deficit.
Open All of the Satellite Imagery Archives
It's difficult to have a rational discussion about nuclear power with all the pro-nuclear shilling and the anti-nuclear FUD. However the following concerns are standing:

- Nuclear is becoming more expensive while solar and wind are becoming much cheaper. Nuclear and renewables compete for investments so people disagree on what to invest to.

- Nuclear proliferation is an unsolved problem and the risk is growing due to increasing tension.

- Centralized power production is more vulnerable to war, social unrest and floods compared to distributed power production. Risks of social unrest and climate change is increasing.

- Unlike solar, nuclear technology is difficult to deploy safely in developing countries, increasing inequality in energy access.

- Centralized [power] production is intrinsically less democratic than distributed.

- Safe very-long-term storage of nuclear waste is still being debated. Affordable solutions to reprocess and destroy existing waste have not been adopted yet.

- Deployment of new nuclear power takes decades and might be too slow do address climate change.

- Many argue that society should address overproduction and overconsumption of goods, and therefore energy, rather than increasing energy production.
It can be both, but you can have php-level caching (opcache or similar, mainly for making the actual php code faster), wordpress cache plugins (not that great at speed but they can invalidate their cache on changes), reverse-proxy level cache (varnish/nginx or similar, fast but usually requires some work to do invalidation) and perhaps a CDN cache (usually with the cache time set by wordpress via a cache-control header).

For cases like this at least having a nginx/varnish cache with a use use-stale-on-error policy would have been helpful. Even a very short cache-time like 1 second would probably have given a decent hitrate.
this is not the point of the article, but you may want to specify blocksize in those commands? ymmv tho
Oh look the humor police are here
Hey, small world! Current grad student at PSU Harrisburg (under Dr. Lee for MSIS). I'm hoping to adjunct after graduation. Did you just apply to an open posting? What was the process like?
It's infuriating when I search in Ukrainian on YouTube and all the top results are Russian. Using words dissimilar with Russian helps, but that's not always an option. More and more today, I'm fighting with services that want to show me engaging, trending content. It's as if they're holding the real gems hostage, only giving them up grudgingly when I fail to succumb to cat videos or [insert trending content].
Deploying solar or wind is nice and stuff, but it doesn’t remove fossil plants, because when there is no sun / wind (which happens a lot in Europe), you need to burn fossil fuels. Storage is not viable today, both because it emits a lot of co2/kWh (especially if you wanted to eliminate fossil plants, you’d need to overprovision) and because of supply constraints.

Hydro and nuclear is the only low-carbon future.
Can you tell I'm still learning how asynchronous JS works :)

You're completely right – the only thing changed is what `all` vs `allSettled` returns. Thanks for the check!
>> With the invention of modern navigational tools, the lighthouse has become largely obsolete for maritime safety. But the lens invented for it lives on in side mirrors used on trucks, solar panels, and photographic lighting equipment

No. Just no. GPS has serious limitations. Lights of various sizes, lighthouses being the biggest, are still essential. A light not only provides a bearing to a known/fixed point but also gives you weather and visibility information. And since they do not rely on any on-ship equipment, they keep working during onboard power failures. Go tell a pilot that runway lights are irrelevant now that they can follow GPS down to a runway at night.
100% of profit is reinvested each year and carried forward toward future investments in the product and the team
"Is a screwdriver + a hammer useful over just a screwdriver?" it really depends what you're doing. Use the right tool for the right job. Writing some low level embedded system? Use Rust. Writing a distributed cluster of services? Use elixir. Need to do something with both, use both.

You can do basically anything in either of them, but they're both completely different systems with different strengths.

A tool is just a tool, don't get hung up on "which one is better".
Interesting.

https://www.fellponymuseum.org.uk/fells/rom_dark/size.htm suggests that horses really WERE shorter. But so were people. And even so, riders were drawn a lot bigger relative to their horses than they are today. Which bones back up.

It is not clear to me how the two trade off back in the days of chariots.
The contract details are outlined in the blog post. Depending on the number of hours worked to fix some issues, it is likely fair.

> Contract terms were roughly as follows:
> * Uber reports issues to github.com/ziglang/zig and pings Loris.
> * Loris assigns it to someone in ZSF.
> * Hack hack hack hack hack.
> * When done, Loris enters the number of hours worked on the issue.
>
> Uber has a right to ZSF members’ time. We have no decision or voting power whatsoever with regards to Zig. We have right to offer suggestions, but they have been and will be treated just like from any other third-party bystander. We did not ask for special rights, it’s explicit in the contract, and we don’t want that.
So postdoc salary in Switzerland is still less than teaching adjunct in Berkeley, so to me Berkeley still pays very high.
Grice's maxim of relation: Be relevant.

https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Gricean_maxims#Maxim_of_R...
Yeah, let's pretend thousands of people dying prematurely because of pollution isn't happening as well. Perfect is the enemy of good and looking for a "perfect" solution (zero carbon, zero risk) is just causing suffering and driving us to early extinction.
So... fiduciary responsibility trumps human rights? I guess I'm not super surprised to hear that coming from Apple.
>You are case in point to HN losing quality.

I've done my homework on crypto, why are you insinuating otherwise/go ad hominem?

>Crypto allows for decentralized money that one can self-custody and send/receive [...]

I'm very aware of that. Apparently, that's a problem we do not have, or people would actually use crypto as money. Ten years later, that's not happening, or show me the supermarket where I can pay for stuff in btc, or where I'd want to do so given gas fees. Money that can't actually replace "fiat" isn't money, it's an abstract investment.

Look, I'm not playing crypto-expert here, but I definitely know enough about the field to be allowed to answer to your comment, and I find your attitude to be way out of line.
which is itself a reference to Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother.
That’s another mostly great article you linked to. Still though it doesn’t mention the dramatic cost increase of natural gas plants when used as a peaker instead of always-on, and it assumes we can produce as many batteries as we want. It also assumes we can continue producing massive amounts of natural gas in the US and export huge amounts to the rest of the world.

The author's article on renewables and batteries states "The cost of these batteries is plummeting. Material constraints are not an issue because storage batteries do not require top-tier energy density" [1]. This was reasonable to think just two years ago but now is obviously wrong- and this assumption underpins most of the author's writings on energy.

Energy policy is very unforgiving- missing one important fact or one wrong assumption can dramatically alter the outcome.

[1] https://austinvernon.site/blog/renewablevariation.html
Don't Traefik and Caddy already do exactly that with their official containers ? What makes NGINX Proxy Manager special in that instance ?
Searching for Nothing, Finding a Surprise
Couldn't get past the furry art. Maybe separate interests.
so it's a movie about johnny going stephen paddock?
Mel Gibson as anne frank?
jesus man what the hell are you on about
i'm not gonna lie i kinda wanna see where this is going
I'm sorry but you do not get to arbitrate what engineers enjoy and choose to work on, whether that is web3 or something completely different.

This authoritarian approach justified "for the good of humanity" is dangerous. It actually makes me sad this comment is on "Hacker News". We should value tinkering and hacking on what we enjoy.
Cool! But let’s give the rampant environmental destruction a break and leave the ocean sugar right where it belongs in its natural ecosystem.
> Do you only experience things once they have been thoroughly peer reviewed?

What a naive and leading question.

I judge strong assertions on the evidence provided. This is what taking "Caveat emptor" to heart looks like.

> Why not quickly try it out for yourself and decide.

I did. It doesn't make any difference for me.

That's the same argument that I've heard from religious members of my family. "Just read this book and apply what it says, your life will definitely improve."

Sure.
Correct, it's not possible in default PDF view in Chrome -- contentscript is not injected. However as long as you have full access to pages, you could intercept a PDF link, render it with, say, PdfJS, and start from there. Maybe!
I don't know why this would even be paid from company money. If I Epsteined my flight-attendant-cum-masseuse, my company would not pay for that. I don't think I would want my company to pay for it, given the privacy/leaking implications. This seems deeply odd to me, even as someone already vaguely sceptical - from what I've read - of Musk's financial situation.
Show HN: VoterScore – a new way to follow politics
Hello!

I am no political person but lately I've wanted a way to better see what changes are being made and who is voting for them. I decided to create and app and then make it into a nonprofit to ensure we are not leaning towards any political party.

My nonprofit project is called VoterScore and with it, I hope to reshape some of the political conversations by allowing anyone to voice their opinion on bills with a simple vote. By allowing users to cast their own votes on bills in their state and now nationwide we can provide new metrics in the political space. We can show users who on the ballot best align to their viewpoints. We can show how many voters in a state want a bill to pass or fail. We can show which legislators push bills that the general public disagrees with.

Would love to hear some feedback on how to make this better fro everyone! Also if anyone is interested in helping out with the project that would be wonderful too!

Take a look! https://voterscore.org/admin/home
Sorry, I'm kind of hijacking this comment. Honest question, would Australia actually need nuclear? The whole continent looks like it could become a renewable powerhouse for wind/solar/hydro, there's also quite a lot of lithium there from what I understand.
Verevolf – Behind the curtains of 90s web design
Come on, Charlie! Let's go to Seagrass Meadows!
> The article showed standardized test performance went down, which is what it means by behind.

The schedule of standardized tests is not written in stone for eternity. If the academic schedule is messed up, then give the tests later.

Let's say you take a year off between high school and college. Are you "behind"? In one sense, yes. But that doesn't mean your overall college experience will be any worse than someone who started college immediately after high school. Why is the standard schedule so important?

Arguably everyone should take some time off between high school and college to get all the drinking/drugs/partying out of your system before you get serious. I certainly squandered my first couple years. ;-) But then I worked like crazy and "made it up" as a junior and senior.
My experience is quite different. When I'm in the US for conferences I'm always amazed that when going out for dinner lots of places make you wait (sometimes up to 30min) even though the restaurant is half empty. It has happened to me especially when out relatively early. Mind you this is for dinner, lunch is somewhat different usually.
> Catalan elites had simply never foreseen a scenario in which the loyalty of the security forces, corporate sector, and state administration could be crucial for achieving their goals.

> Instead, both the government and the independence movement viewed these hard dimensions of power as obsolete.

It’s as if Catalonia as an entity subscribes to Sovereign Citizen ideology.