skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not everybody lives in the UK.

the point is not to be a system that beats a single service for sending GBP from A to B in the UK. the point is a system that has a variety of uses and applications accessible by anybody, regardless of which country the user resides in.

even in countries with good banking like UK, many e-commerce companies will still choose Stripe VISA and PayPal to reach customers outside the UK and integrate a payment processor API. an online shop could offer crypto as a payment mechanism if they wanted to avoid using these companies and if it met their needs.
EU law is always supreme. If a law in France violates EU law, then any foreign EU national in France with standing can use French courts to have the law annulled.

> The revolutionary case of NV Algemene Transport-Expedite Onderneming Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen (9), addressed this matter, but also the issue of supremacy. In regard to Article 12 EEC (now Article 30 TFEU), The ECJ held ‘the objective of the EEC treaty… implies that this treaty is more than an agreement which merely creates obligations on individuals but is also intended to confer upon them rights’ (10), giving the article direct effect. This permits the rights of individuals and organisations to be enforceable in national courts, as a way of creating uniformity amongst member states to maximise the efficiency and application of EU law, despite the fact that the treaty articles generally regulated trade between member states [0].

This is known as the Doctrine of Direct Effect. The ECJ is effectively a 'supreme court' for the EU.

[0]: https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/european-law/eu-l...
One of the fun things about my mother was that as a teenager she'd been taught to type.

She grew up in roughly the same area where we lived when I was a kid, and so she actually want to a previous iteration of a girl's school I've visited in the 1990s, but back then as well as sex segregated selective education (ie my school was specifically for boys who "tested well" at age 12, hers was for girls who likewise tested well at age 12) the assumptions about future life roles were... very static. She wasn't doing well enough to be sent to University, so the assumption was she'd get a secretarial type job, and probably marry in her 20s, get pregnant and drop out of the work force.

So, they taught her to type. This is the 1960s, so she's not learning Word, she's learning how to use a manual typewriter, because it's expected she'll be in a typing pool, maybe a clerk, or at most a PA. She actually had very different ideas of what she'd do, and after finishing her course turned down a Computer Operator job because it wouldn't lead to what she was interested in - but in the end as predicted she ended up married, pregnant (with me) and giving up work in 1975.

Anyway, fast forward twenty years, my sister and I have "flown the nest" so to speak and money is tight, my father has been made redundant and will never have another white collar job for the rest of his life - so she gets an administrative job. Understandably they want somebody who can type, and she checks the box even though she's been out of the workforce for twenty years. Hasn't much idea how to use Word or indeed Windows, but she's fairly smart and can muddle along. It's interesting how unexpectedly that skill, which she didn't really value at the time, was crucial to her again.

Eventually the IT stuff was too much for her, and she took early retirement because both the extra IT training and the constant pressure to "do more with less" (the government likes the idea of a powerful military, but doesn't like spending money on it, she was an administrator for the Ministry of Defence) made it intolerable. But if she'd never learned typing as a teenager I think she'd have really struggled to find work with a "Homemaker gap" in her CV matching the IT revolution.
No, Crypto isn't used by people who have "employees and suppliers", those people use currencies instead.

The crypto community just like to co-opt all sorts of terms from economy to give themselves a veneer of faux credibility.
> You’ve fabricated some weird scenario in your head where the data screams out “woke content sucks” but god damn the executives just won’t listen!

No, I did not. I said they have the mountains of data to predict better. I said that there must be some reason why they are ignoring that data. I said that you can figure out what the most plausible reason is for ignoring that mountain of data.

> Nobody knows “literally” what doesn’t sell when it comes to film and TV. It’s a shot in the dark each time.

It's not a binary possibility; of course they literally know what does not sell, because they just made something, and measured it, and determined that it did not sell.

You make it sound like it's all down due to chance; the reality is that while luck plays a part, Netflix has much more agency in determining whether to continue on a certain path or not.

You hysterically screaming "It's not Wokism. It CAN'T* be Wokism because it hurts my feels and damages my worldview"*[1] doesn't make the data go away.

[1] I don't normally point out how absurd people are in this manner, but I feel you had it coming with you attempting to cast my post as some sort of conspiracy theorist. I point out that they have data, and you respond with false accusations of Illuinati and Marx.
Renewables rose by far more than gas did. The overall market also grew. If you take coal and gas together and look at overall fossil based generation, it declined and continues to decline. The unspoken implication of nuclear proponents is that Germany started putting out more CO2 because they shut down nuclear. The reality is that there was a continuous decline in fossil fuel related emissions related to electricity production. So, who is being "dishonest" here?

Gas "sharply" rose to much less than the coal and nuclear reductions combined. Renewables are on track to grow to about an order of magnitude more than the nuclear capacity Germany ever had. New gas plants might still happen as that is part of their plan to decommission coal. Or at least it was until a few months ago. But it will probably never grow to close to the level of coal production Germany had 12 years ago when it started shutting down nuclear plants.

The decision to get rid of coal by 2030 is fairly recent. There are no international deadlines other than what was agreed at Cop 26, which thanks to China and India avoids any big explicit commitments. However, there is a lot of peer pressure especially in Europe to clean up the energy sector. Germany actually resisted that peer pressure quite long. E.g. the reason brown coal is still a thing in Germany is because until a few years ago, the CDU essentially blocked all attempts to kill that massively polluting industry to protect jobs. I think at the time of the Paris agreements they were thinking/hoping a 2050-2060 time frame. Germany even opened new coal plants as recent as two years ago. The ambition levels have of course increased dramatically in the last few years; mainly due to the success of renewables. Mostly this is driven by simple economics. People like cheap wind and solar energy. Nuclear they don't like for lots of reasons; including the bad economics.
> The big question is how big is the fraction of people who are below average intelligence.

George Carlin figured this one out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rh6qqsmxNs
Aren't batteries at something like >90% efficiency?
Were does the 2-3x energy come from?
Its an unregulated market.

People are convinced that since its cryto, it won't be vulnerable to the same old issues that every other traded instrument has had since the south sea bubble/tulip mania.

the 2008 market crash was similar as you pointed out, in that it involved wholesale fraud (using a subset of good mortgages to market worthless ones) that were "validated" by ratings agencies.

Here, there were no real third parties to provide ratings. Just people saying "Look its crypto, you can loose because its backed by real something or other"
Fair warning: trunk automatically downloads additional tools at runtime. It doesn't even prefer already installed local versions, and doesn't provide a way to disable downloading. It will even download older tool versions than the currently installed one, because the exact version is pinned code.

This was enough for me to not use it.
Wind works just fine at night.
One of the things to appreciate with Pharo Smalltalk is a code snippet isn't a code snippet.

Pharo is not a filesystem/.txt coding environment.

It's a VM runtime with every single element is indexed by the class/traits hierarchy. And then the same code draws the GUI.

OP didn't just write a code snippet.

They wrote a method, tested it in an already launched dynamic runtime.

And deployed it into a desktop app in front of you.

Forget Jenkins, Docker-Compose or Make, their deploy tool was copy/paste.

It's truly a pity that desktop based applications are not popular in the current age, and phones are locked down.

Smalltalk remains truly unparalleled at producing local apps. 30 years after its heyday, SwiftUI is still a shadow of what Smalltalk can do.
Germany: less and less coal https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-coal?tab=chart...

"Share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption": 13.7% in 2013 then many nuclear reactors shut down, and 19.3% in 2019
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ind_ured/...
Direct from the article:

> But Tesla’s shares have declined more than 40 percent since April 4 — a much steeper fall than the broad market, vaporizing more than $400 billion in stock market value.
This seems like a mirror to the other classic apocryphal story where the IBM ask a new Japanese manufacturer to only have a 3/1000 defect rate and the Japanese seem alarmed by this request.

When the product arrives there's a seperate little box with the defective items that have been manufactured seperately to meet the spec.

(There's also the "half of my advertising is effective, I don't know which half" line)
They just reviewed the ugreen nexode , a 200w six port USB C charger. What you can't find in this review is a comparison to the two other six port solutions at a similar wattage, that being the SlimQ F240 + their tiny DC extender and the EGO Exinno 240W. (Not to mention the famous ;) chx-hack of using the Lenovo tip version of the AS-240 GaN+SiC charger, the Lenovo 4X90U90620 slim tip splitter and two SlimQ DC extenders :P although I use only one, I use the 170W leg of the splitter to feed my beastly X1E4.) They clearly are not well versed in this.
Also 50 years ago if you were building new housing, if your work was sub-standard you did not get paid. There would be a clerk of works checking it was up to scratch. Now it is a race to the bottom
Details:

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
The EU has now mandated fast transfers between banks in the EU.

So, for EU (23 countries) it's not a problem either.

Sending money between banks is both a technical and a regulatory issue (and crypto is discovering why regulations exist at great cost to crypto users). However, "instant money transfer between banks" is not an unsolved issue.
It doesn't necessarily invalidate your point, but I would say astrophysics is a hard science, and yet a ton of it is based on observation and modeling of events we can't control or reproduce.
If you want to have a more scientific approach to the security question, I strongly advise reading this book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20579068-atomic-accident...

It's the history and detailed analysis of every nuclear accident, from the discovery of the radium to current days. You'll learn in passing that people used to drink radioactive cola to "improve" their health...

My main take away is that if you don't know exactly what you're doing, nuclear will kill you very very quickly. It's been quite reassuring about the security of existing plants
> Then to the extent that “code smell” has become heard as “code stink” it is not useful as a descriptor.

It's a very appropriate descriptor. Think about it for a second. A smell all by itself is not a sign of a problem.

> Then again, I suppose “maybe be careful with that pattern” isn’t quite the click-inducing thought leadership demanded in our present day.

Your personal assertion does not make any sense. "Code smell" is a widely-established, age-old concept. The concept of a "code smell" even precedes the concept of a "click".
Which is just another derailment phrase and completely useless for the discussion of nuclear waste.

Yes it is very radioactive but that doesn't mean that the rest can be stored on a landfill. It is still so radioactive that we don't have a proper solution for it's storage. Only because the fuel is SO MUCH MORE radioactive, doesn't make the rest disappear or the football field argument valid in any way.
Nuclear isn't better on this account: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-us-utiliti...

This is even true for France, as most of its uranium comes from Kazakhstan.
The more you know about nukes, the less you like nukes.
A potential SMR power plant from NuScale contains 5 SMR that each can be individually replaced. You forgot to qualify your "each". Each power plant can do 400MW but each individual SMR only does 77MW.

Compare that to conventional nuclear reactors where a single reactor does 400MW and the entire plant does 1.6 GW
I think this is too dismissive of the post.

The post wasn't about "which is better, SPAs or MPAs". It was specifically "what has changed in the last few years that now make MPAs able to handle things that they couldn't before". I for one learned from this post since I don't keep up with the current state of browser implementations of various features, nor with the consequences of these features.
Russia is not "opposing" it is expanding and starting major wars. It is actively working to destroy other countries.

Russia is not opposing America as much as they are opposing right to existence as democracies to countries around them. It is way more countries around Russia calling for help to Ukraine then anyone else.

And yes, being at risk of being invaded by someone makes people hate that one. It makes them think again about what that country done to them before.
Speculation, tax avoidance and money laundering, mainly.
And they have a massive problem with their old plants because many are about to be decommissioned.
They need to build many new ones while the state run nuclear operator is basically bankrupt.

https://theecologist.org/2017/mar/16/edf-facing-bankruptcy-d...
Do you have an example of an academic field of study that is less of an art and more structured than Mathematics?
First time I saw the find by example feature I thought "maybe it tries all applicable methods" but then immediately dismissed the idea because it could execute methods with side-effects. Does Pharo somehow knows about safe/unsafe methods ?
The reason it’s wrong is the post is written as if slavery and all it’s sins fall on America, that America wouldn’t exist today without this ideal and that a great correction is due. All of the ‘developed’ world at the time were slave owners. Also slavery was not new it’s as old as time and every civilization had it’s own version of it. It wasn’t white supremacy as in we are doing this because we are better its class warfare asserting power over one group, the conquerors and the conquered. Was that group dehumanized? Yes but many of the founders wrote and stood against it and didn’t view them as subhuman. Pretty sure one of them freed and married a slave. The 3/5ths compromise at the time was a compromise to have slaves considered as people with rights to vote while other states didn’t like that because it meant they were people. But it was a great compromise just like the civil war, if the idea of slavery and white supremacy ie man is not created equal was so rooted then why was there decades of conflict over it…
I've asked for sources on OPs conspiracy. Not for even more conspiracies.
There are lawyers that speciallize in sending fined cease and desist letters, and German courts are very quick in giving court orders to ISPs to force them to give such lawyers the name and address of the offending IP address.

If you torrent in Germany without a VPN or a Seedbox, so from a residential IP, there is an extremely high chance (if you torrent the latest blockbuster from Pirate Bay it will approximate 100%) that you will get a so called "Abmahnung" and have to pay either a few hundred / thousand euros or fight it in an actual court.

PeerGuardian could help, but it's risky and both VPN and Seedboxes are pretty cheap, so I would use one of the latter. :D
Depending on the type of attack, this defence is either part of the protocol, or can be coordinated by users in the network. Further reading here:

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
On the contrary, with surveillance these days, games of poker are turning into games of chess. There is no private information these days. Every character I type can be seen as I type this, with "flight time" meaning time between keypresses, and press time I forget the term for that, there's a term.

The only thing surveillance can't do, is see what I'll think in the following time period. A second in the future. Can't predict that, no amount of cams and AI models can see into the future that far. Actually can't, meaning that they cannot, predict the future. Can't do it. Apart from that, buy this data point for 6¢, sell this data point for 3¢, nag the user over every channel for a conversion.

But it's the only form of arbitrage left. The only barrier that is still a real barrier between anything. All the other barriers, geographic or legal, have collapsed. You just have time. That's it.

Can you see the future? You get a quadrillion dollars! No joke. Quadrillion dollar problem, like a billion Millennium Prizes.

Just say what will happen tomorrow, today.
Creating many boolean states leads to an explosion of complexity and states. You can use a finite state machine to replace these states as I wrote here: https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/modelling-workflows...
No western country will be touching Russian nuclear power plants anytime soon. Maybe they could go for a Korean plant though. And yes, SMRs likely have an even bigger economics problem than regular sized plants but at least the upfront capital costs are lower and that makes (private and state) investors happy.
The difference is switching services is easy. Month over month billing means I simply watch what I want on one, unsubscribe, and then go to the next one.

The real trick here is Amazon right now because the Prime subscription has other benefits - in my house we've kept that active because it makes ordering baby stuff much cheaper.
Appletv+ is available on android, web, and quite a few smart tvs so you can subscribe without having any other connection with their ecosystem.

It’s more likely they pirate because apple’s library is pretty small, compared to others, so it’s easier to just torrent than pay for the couple of programmes they want to watch.

It’s also more difficult to share logins with appletv (no profiles etc), so you’ll get less of the account sharing that Netflix is now trying to crack down on.
> if it was profitable to charge more and pay workers more, why doesn't anyone just start a company that does that and outcompete the others?

They do (sans outcompeting). We just call them luxury goods. It's a different market.
Russian bribes to corrupt European governments?
Because it's popular? Do you think you've made a point now?
Holy crap, someone knows about DJ Sharpnel—who are of course in fact a duo and are producers, not DJs. The music is truly a ‘cure for ADHD’, though (in the spirit of https://youtu.be/DDFNgs7gp8M). Plus they have a whole label of friendly producers with similar taste and were around actively for more than a decade, so there's plenty of goodness.
> Meanwhile, back in the real world not only are power grids distributed at a continental level but there also multiple sources of power feeding into that grid, including imported energy generated from renewable sources.

There is nothing close to the grid capacity to make this statement true.

Germany lacks base load capacity and imports energy from coal and natural gas burning neighbors when their renewables go offline. To offset this, Germany is building more base load capacity in the form of gas driven plants. This isn't a secret, it's not disingenuous to point it out.

The better option, from the point of view of carbon neutrality, is to make up that availability gap with nuclear. The Germans are unwilling to do this, and likely they hope that eventually they can import energy from neighbors that are willing to make up this gap with nuclear plants the Germans themselves were unwilling to build.
And if you bury it a kilometer or two down, then if a meteor strike is big enough to dislodge it, the nuclear waste is the least of your problems.
You keep repeating this, but you know it is not true.
I have a wallet and bought crypto once. Am I a user? By your statistics, yes. Do I even matter? No.

The only thing I used this crypto for is to sell it later (and gain something like 15 euro profit). Am I a user? By your statistics, still yes. Do I even matter? Still no.

Additionally this use case (trade crypto hoping for gains in actual fiat money) is the absolute vast majority of what crypto is used for. Is this replacing traditional finance? Ahahahaha, no. AliPay has a bigger impact on "traditional finance" than all of crypto now or ever.
Source (Conan The Barbarian: What is best in life...?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XUu3_pLPUE
There are multiple types of happiness, eg present short term mood vs overall life satisfaction.

In your study parentd give a lower 1-10 ranking when asked how they feel in a particular moment, on random timers.

When cleaning up shit of someone you love, sure it sucks at that particular moment but your life's full of meaning.
Do you have some magic uranium ball which tells you the future or where do you get those useless claims?
> there's efficiency to be had and red tape to cut

Depends. In the USA, yes, your banking system is utterly shite, despite the supposedly numerous volume of different banks who are supposedly able to innovate and compete.

But.

that red tape is there to prevent a bank from collapsing. Its been imposed as a reaction to numerous financial crises.

There loads of rules that govern how much money a bank can loan, and how much they have to have on hand and in what classes they need to store deposits in.

A bank can be wildly profitable if it doesn't care too much who it lends to. Riskier debts yield much greater interest. The problem is, as soon as confidence takes a knock, the entire bank collapses because the value they claim they have is not backed by any kind of liquid asset.

This is the same with crypto. A stable coin is wildly profitable when people are pouring cash into it. but all it takes is a small wobble, people rushing to convert the "coin" into another asset class, and the whole thing crashes. This might be because they really don't have enough reserves to cover the withdrawl, or it was fraud. They aren't regulated, so we'll probably not know.
It doesn't mean you are holding. If you want to transfer money using crypto (which is it's original purpose) and you don't want to be affected by crypto volatility, then stable coins are perfect.

Perfect for P2P on and off ramps too.

Also some countries such as Argentina have literally stolen the money of their citizens bank accounts in the past. So stable coins are more trustworthy than the banking system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corral%C3%B3n
Welsh rabbit: not from Wales, not a rabbit
Attacking a nuclear power plant is quite effective in terms of ammunition vs burned soil.

If somebody attacks my region I would rather not like to worry about nuclear to be honest.