skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On cost, the simple answer is that if fossil and biofuel had to pay for the air pollution health effects they cause (4.2 M deaths/year [1]) and the climate change damage they cause, then every utility would switch to nuclear for baseload immediately. The markets are incorrect in not capturing these costs. Nuclear is dramatically cheaper than fossil and biofuel on this basis alone in a real market.

And of course the advantage of nuclear over wind and solar is that nuclear has a 92% capacity factor with fairly regular well-planned outages.

The wind and solar costs you've seen, while stellar, do not include the costs of the backup generators and batteries, additional transmission to remote site, overcapacity required to charge the batteries at scale, etc etc. Nuclear is certainly on par with them in a fully decarbonized system. In any case, building nuclear alongside wind and solar makes the whole system cheaper [2].

Regarding 100 year no-go zones, the hottest areas I see around Fukushima today measure about 30 mSv/yr, which is about 2x higher than Denver's natural radiation. Japan is lifting even more evacuation orders as we speak [3]. If they gave people the proper information about the health risks (e.g. that you need more than 100 mSv in a year before the smallest measurable cancer increase can be seen) then people would have all moved back 10 years ago.

[1] https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006

[3] https://sp.m.jiji.com/english/show/19741
> Normally, in advanced economies, we try to use regulation to prevent or limit these events. But crypto explicitly avoids regulation, so of course it's going to pop up there. It's got nothing to do with not cleaning up after 2008.

The point I wanted to make is when you regulate too much you may encourage the growth of things that are unregulatable. Gambling and alcohol come to mind. I don't know that that's what happened, hence the question. Phrasing it another way, are we post-WW I (over regulated) or post-WW II (got it right, but you'll never be perfect)?
The URL you submitted isn't to your blog post, but rather to Google's login flow. So even if the post is now globally visible, your link is still forcing login.
>Why would they get a pass?

Because it seems the US isn't doing much on this front IMHO, despite being the richest country in the world, therefore having enough capital to improve and set examples. Especially with Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement. Granted, Biden rolled that back, but still, the deed was done and it sent a bad message to the rest of the world on how the US feels about the environment on the world stage.

>the US is worse than most but I don't see that as an argument for others to not give a fuck

Because, usually rich countries should set an example first before talking down to poorer countries about saving the environment. Otherwise, how can we expect poor countries to want improve their environmental impact if even the rich countries who can afford the expenses that come with being environmentally friendly, don't actually give a fuck about the environment?

This is the same inequality as fat-cats telling the working class they need to tighten their belts and suffer austerity to save the economy while they get more tax breaks, bonus payments and government handouts.
Is this satire? In today’s internet, it’s sometimes impossible to tell, at least for me.
Laravel Livewire!!!
Ask HN: Favorite React Quantity Selector?
I'm looking for a quantity selector to use with React. Something a bit more fancy than just a textfield/numpad/ thoughts?
You can't.

The best you can do is to build a market thesis that represents your views, try to find reasons that you are wrong to help harden / shape your views, and only then try to find others that believe the same way your thesis does to try to see how they predict.

Everyone has their own crystal ball, and everyone believes theirs is the right one. If you look at fintwit, you will see "the world is ending", "the worlds ended, we going up", and "lets wait and see". At least a few of them will get it right, to some extent or another. I dont think you can figure out at this time which is the right one.

So, best you can do is form your own thesis I think. I've formed mine. It helps me not panic when things are temporarily against me.
Without trying to gas you up or make you feel one way or another about it via the associations of these words/ definitions/ lables, this sounds like a textbook example of a parasocial relationship, or a microcosm of what celebrities must experience.
>> In the end, painting is 99% a practiced skill, and 1% original human thought

True, but the line between art and great art is 99% thought and 1% skill.
Java is catching up, and what appears easy at the language level, gets extra knobs at the runtime and lower APIs.
Why? I don’t understand why it even matters. The colors are different and someone’s pimples are hidden? The filters on Instagram aren’t worth worrying about.

Everything presented to you is at the very least cherry picked and not “reality”. That’s why it’s presented in the first place. That’s what is worth worrying about, abuse of context.
Good point, I'm guessing there will be successors to Dall-E that will address this and implement support for human feedback.
A few other things that weren't mentioned in the article:

As others in the comments have noted, there's no barrier to relatively unskilled people calling themselves 'carpenters', which drives down wages. This is much less of a factor with plumbing, electrical, HVAC etc.

Like all tradespeople, you ultimately need to own 5 figures worth of specialized tools, which makes the low wages even more pernicious

The construction industry is famously boom & bust/based on economic cycles, which obviously doesn't help anyone's job security

'Carpentry' is a very broad category (to my understanding on the West Coast they have a firmer delineation between frame & finish carpenters), but if you include framing and roofing, it's much more physical than plumbing or electrical work. Ultimately this is much tougher on your body over the decades
Tech stocks are mired in their longest weekly losing streak since dot-com bust
Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online
"apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes"

I'm not into this, but I am into making money. Any numbers on what the earning distribution might look like?
NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space
I don't think they expect you create an exhaustive list of things the API doesn't do. I think instead that if there's missing functionality from what you could call a 'complete' API, it's useful to call that out. E.g this API is for processing images, but we don't support PNG
relevant article: https://dutchreview.com/culture/cycling/5-reasons-why-the-du...
Distributors for the big food companies (Coca-Cola, Pepsi/Frito-Lay, etc) essentially rent and maintain a section of shelving and then keep it full and decide themselves on the distribution of products that appear. Smaller manufacturers sell their product wholesale to the stores who then stock them in the normal fashion.

The end caps of isles are sold to the highest bidder, typically by the week; if that bidder is coca-cola they manage that display as well, subject to the constraints of the store.

One of the innovations of Frys Electronics was to try to run their shops that way, as they started by selling serial cables and other computer supplies in their family's grocery chain. It only partially worked as the vendors weren't really equipped to do this, the way the food companies are.
GitHub Actions can now run in a Node.js 16 runtime
> What's the argument that active managers aren't just rent seeking parasites lying about their roles?

"That might be true of other active managers - not me though, this fund I manage has outperformed the market over the past 10 years."
Wasn't able to edit my original comment - wanted to clarify their revenue increased year over year, but missed expectation.
The name-calling ("anti-capitalists," "intellectual elites") seems like an attempt to discredit the healthy practice of investigating or criticizing potentially corrupt practices within our institutions.

Anyone who dares question the status-quo is an "anti-capitalist," a snobby "intellectual elite," or is a very stupid member of a dangerous mob, "hur dur.”

An institution being a net-positive and the institution needing reform and oversight are not mutually exclusive concepts.

I most certainly read the article, and I still don't understand why anyone's allowed to own exclusive rights to profit off of someone who has been dead as long as Albert Einstein. I can’t think of anyone who would benefit from that system besides the rights-holders.

I'll see you over at https://einstein.biz, maybe I'll buy you a t-shirt or a mug.
Perhaps the video is, but your questions are answered in the text above the video.
That would be awesome. If you do this please get ahold of me. One user told me:

> Public Library downtown in the Loyd Sandgren photo collection. I have seen photos of the "floating" plant under construction. Tough finding it though the librarians may be helpful.

And another said:

> Go to the special collections of the downtown library ask for Blount island nuclear development files.
I was more thinking of carts strewn throughout the city.

But, I guess, American supermarkets are not anywhere near the cities.
actually, that stat is completely and totally wrong. If you take the most similar parts of human and chimp DNA- just the well-aligned proteins- then yes, we differ by 1%. But that's not a metric that means much, if at all, since many aspects of phenotypes are not controlled by the difference in our protein coding regions.
SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next?
Well if you consider coding to be art then this statement would be false
And that's because they are extremely German.
I know it's a cliche but having a child has made a lot of activities very enjoyable - having him help clean, teaching him how things work, and answering questions "Daddy what the biggest number there is?"

But those cliches aside I enjoy digging up food I've grown, and eating it. I enjoy baking bread - sometimes it looks awesome, sometimes it looks terrible, but it almost always tastes good enough to make the effort worthwhile.

And alongside those activities drinking a cold beer inside a hot sauna, with a naked body or two for company is something that is hard to beat.
This is correct. In many areas, alcohol is also stocked by distributors. But the rest of the grocery store is stocked by store employees.
> I've seen incredibly long prompts to DALL-E to get a precise and incredible result, much better than anything I could come up with

Have you tried having DALL-E draw a blue cube, red cube, and yellow sphere in the same image?

https://twitter.com/david_madras/status/1512573390896480267
Maybe not if a car hits you head on, but if a car cuts you off or clips one of your wheels a helmet will be useful.
Precisely.

Checking more recent comments, it looks like a Holy War has broken out over whether there should be Holy Wars. Priceless!
The National Interest's publisher (Dimitri Simes) regularly appears on Russian TV:

>Simes resides in Washington, DC, but remotely serves as a moderator of the Moscow-based political program Большая игра ("Big Game") on Channel One Russia, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Simes
It will be bad for mental health as now people will filter photos or videos externally and won’t have a disclaimer that they’ve been filtered, giving a mentally weak user the impression that these are real images guaranteed.
But the underlying thought pattern isn't a mistake or flaw. It's a perfectly reasonable baseline assumption that's hardwired into our brains for good reason. When you travel to the Sahara and you assume that it's not going to rain, you will sometimes be mistaken. But that doesn't mean the assumption is a mistake.
Almost all projects are using those frameworks.

Asp.net MVC 4.5/webapi and before did not have IoC build-in.
They are very interesting. I looked at these a long time ago when starting a business. OTOH, they are pretty expensive for 100 oblique cards. :)
I always forget how old they are.

https://www.enoshop.co.uk/product/oblique-strategies.html
This would be brilliant!

One (lengthy) nitpick based on a word you used:

> estimation

From that, my guess is that you're implying that because of the spaghetti-pile of bundled JavaScript, CSS and HTML that we have nowadays that it's not possible to use predictable, well-defined standards to make this information available to users.

And you're probably right, it's a mess!

But I would suggest that we try hard to figure out better ways to make the technology simple again, and move towards those, rather than building a complex guess-the-technologies layer on top.

Ideas towards that:

- Move (standardized) package metadata into JavaScript modules themselves so that the data can be inspected and surfaced at runtime (status: I'm not aware of this being standardized, but it may be)

- Improve the ability and mechanisms available to import JavaScript modules (status: this is happening gradually)

- Remove the requirement for applications to perform any bundling at all (status: there's recognized frustration and maintenance burden regarding bundling, but I haven't yet seen no-bundling solutions arising)

- Reduce the need for minimization of content served over-the-wire on the web (status: debatable -- it's probably still required for now, because particularly JavaScript, even after compression, can be fairly large and may still be served in low-bandwidth environments)

A key benefit of this "re-simplify the web" approach would be that as well as enabling the explorative, hands-on approach you suggest, it should also make the learning curve easier for the resulting newcomers.
What do you mean, in comparative terms, with your assertion?
Right now, as a side project, 99% chance of vaporware on my part, I'm interested in writing a game with first release as an HTML5+canvas or WASM game. I'm not interested in writing it in C or Rust because of free time constraints, but I'm also not going to use anything JVM and I'm not going to use anything slow, heavy, and sloppy like python. Stretch goals include a multiplayer game server, then android and iOS apps.

Nim is my leading choice for prototyping this ATM. I can at least write the game logic core once, unified server and web client, and figure out secondary target platforms later.

Love2D is also a thing of interest, but I find the concept of actually using Lua to be cruel. Javascript is cruel too, but I at least have muscle memory and Stockholm syndrome from my day job, and Nim can target JS directly in a suitable enough way for using canvas.

Lobster, at a glance, looked like it could compete with or compliment Nim on my specific project idea.
Visual studio code has a diffing view for notebooks that looks very promising. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb...
Well, that depends on location, I guess.

Where are you talking about?

I used the technique I described in eg London, Sydney and parts of Germany. Most of the time, temperatures had dropped quite a bit by 22:00. (But not always.)
They combine one strength of sovereign currencies (stable unit of account and store of value) with some strengths of cryptocurrencies, chiefly self-custody.

If someone is invested in e.g. Bitcoin and thinks they can sell the peak, turning it into $stablecoin is the easiest way, and the only compelling reason to then move that value into sovereign currencies is: you want to spend it, or there's reason to hedge on the stability of the peg. If you're planning to re-enter the market later, (actually stable) stablecoins are just as good, and are what a lot of these traders will have when they sell, so why do two additional transactions, even if they don't trigger taxable events, which they would.

I don't own stablecoins.
You swerve to miss a car, dog, obstacle, person and take a spill…

You T-bone a car.

It helps.
If I'm understanding you correctly, then this combination of two tools from the same author will get you that:

https://github.com/cortesi/modd

https://github.com/cortesi/devd
Depends on your use case really. Quantity of what? What's the most common quantity to be selected here? How many values to display, and so on.

There is not one widget that fits all use cases. If you want to select the quantity of wheels that needs changing on a car for example, then you only need 0<>4, as just one example.

Otherwise, I also default to <input type=number /> and build on that if it's needed, as it's both more accessible and is often enough with very minor edits on top of it.
The Opcache Optimizer
cool opinion bro, you should rate hollywood bullshit with 0-4 stars for a living
And how exactly shopping cart force you to buy more stuff? Do US shopping carts have some built in device giving electroshocks unless they are filled to certain capacity?

I decide whether I take cart or basket depending on my shopping list, obviously if I am going to buy heavy things I am not going to carry it around shop in basket or if it's one of those shops with very small area behind checkout it's better to put stuff back to cart.

Best compromise is bigger basket on wheels (which can be pulled) for medium purchases, no need to bother with coin, no need to carry heavier stuff in hand and no need to return it back to inconvenient location plus in theory it gives you time to organize your grocery later after checkout.

Btw I don't have car, so I carry everything in backpack, either big (50-60L) or medium one (~30L) and eventually lighter things (bread/cakes/chips etc) in big plastic bag, cart vs basket have again nothing to do with this.

By your logic you should take with you only limited amount of cash, if you have such bad self control that you need to limit yourself with basket size and honestly I think you should seek some psychological help if your self control is that bad.
Interesting read, I never understood why Haiti has had so many financial issues over the years.
I think France and the US should pay off all its debts as restitution to what was done over the years.
Emerging Data Monetization Models Disrupting Businesses
Data monetization is disrupting the economic landscape for businesses. In this article, we explore the challenges associated with collecting, buying, and selling personal information for profit, and the strategies organizations are using to overcome these hurdles.
Some places pay for plasma donation.

Day labor.

Sell your stuff.

Hustle people at something you're good at.

Not making money, but if you need money then a loan or charity.

Otherwise it's mostly illicit stuff for fast cash.
Netflix viewers used to be really good at rating movies and then getting recommendations based on those ratings. The Netflix ratings actually meant something once upon a time.

And then, one day, Netflix just got rid of this.

I’m still awestruck by the fact that they had this incredible and free source of data and they just relieved themselves of it.
They are aiming for profitable results.
When developing a negative you choose how to process the film, which developer, dilution, agitation and time. When you print you choose contrast filter, dodge and burn. All photographs, analog or digital, are processed to some degree
404: https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/plasmo
Vivaldi on Debian Linux.
How are you guys getting access to DALLE-2? Is it still that you have to know somebody who knows somebody?
I want to be the emporer's tailor.
I agree. But that still isn't an argument to not do what we can.

And there are other rich countries than the US that do better. ... no it isn't enough but we are gaining momentum. And that is about the only positive thing I can say at the moment.
You can’t. It’s snake oil.
If accessing an AS/400 then likely it would be a 5250 emulator rather than a 3270.
We already know how to create consciousness, it’s called "make babies" ;)
With the CDK and solutions constructs, AWS is much simpler if not outright easy. Apparently this was profitable for them. It was also sufficiently easier that its being used extensively inside Amazon itself for development. (Yes, most folks dislike CloudFormation.)

For what it's worth, I cannot fathom how competitors like Azure or Google Cloud could be seen as simpler for non-trivial stacks. DigitalOcean and its ilk aren't even competitors; they are made for simplifying what AWS used to be 10 years ago. (That's not a bad thing, just recognize it for what it is.)

For a lot of folks (myself included), the hardest part was mapping the concept to the product name in my head, eg. DNS is Route53, file storage is S3, relational database is RDS, auth is Cognito, queues are SQS, Redis/Memcached are ElastiCache, etc. There's very little in AWS that doesn't map directly to a well-known concept in software architecture.

If your context for an app is some autoscaling VMs (or dedicated server) serving a REST API with a relational database backing it, you're probably not the target audience.

That said, if you have a small site with meager database query requirements, DynamoDB (less that 20GB) + Lambda + API Gateway are basically free for less that a million requests per month. Hell, RDS is free for the first year. A statically generated site on S3 might be an even better option.

If you want/need queues, push notifiers, advanced DNS management with certs, flexibility with serverless constructs, machine learning engines, relational databases with automatically rotating creds instead of fixed passwords, analytics engines, an essentially infinitely scalable key-value store, flexible secrets management, stack change auditing, content delivery network, integrated CI/CD infrastructure, comprehensive authz at the app, dev, and ops levels, etc., you've graduated well last what a few VMs and a Postgres instance can do.

That's what AWS is for and what it currently does way better than anyone else. If that's not what you need right now, that's fine. But unless you're at Facebook or Google scale where provisioning, tooling, and staffing this yourself is doable, AWS (and to a lesser extent Azure and GCloud) are where you want to be.

(Shout out to Google Cloud for their Spanner database. Simply amazing. I just wish the rest of their cloud tools were similarly amazing.)

AWS is where folks go when the solution to their problems isn't a clear cookie cutter but in that vast expanse where "it depends" rules.
This feels like a terminal based 3d application, and I love it!

I tried out "plasticity" (trying to get off of FreeCad) but prefer this as it's very simple to use.
* shovels records of 9 other defunct funds under the rug, to hide any evidence of survivorship bias *
It was a direct reply to an article about eating less grain-fed meat and redirecting that crop production to humans, implying we'd need ruminant stomachs to do so.

I'm not sure why some HN discussions turn into a lesson on object permanence.
> In this case the damage will be limited to a bunch crypto companies. The issue before was it hit companies we relied on for things like mortgages and current accounts. Crypto companies can just be allowed to fail and no one except their users will be effected.

I don't buy the argument that crypto lives in a vacuum. People valuing that asset are part of the global economy.

The question is, is crypto really as valuable as the crypto exchange markets claim, and do companies assign face value to these assets, or do they account for the amount of risk they deserve?
Go live in a vehicle or small space.
Most Mega corps like Microsoft google Facebook etc have been doing this for years