skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One-on-one interaction would naturally occur as the casual hanging out with shared groups of friends or parties.

Modern America, by and large, does not have the shared spaces and sense of community where these interactions could occur. As Robert Putnam said it, we're literally 'Bowling Alone'. "Dates" are a band-aid, their only positive is they avoid the alternative of universal inceldom.
South Korea has been constantly building nuclear for decades. The price has come down marginally, renewables are still far cheaper. Yes, the problem is largely political, I don't see a solution to that though.
Duh - no one wants to be out-innovated
Microsoft has indicated that a future Windows Update will completely disable Internet Explorer in client versions of Windows:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/i...
Africa is big -and not a country- (where I am from, we are actually going the modern-world ageing way, even though it's still under-developed); so an anecdote-approach is not appropriate.

The biggest country in Africa is still showing high birth rates: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/nigeria-popul... Although it's slightly declining, but still a long way from reducing population sizes.

Niger for example is population-booming: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/niger-populat...

All of Africa: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/africa-popula...
According to the google cloud calculator, before bandwidth charges, an f1-micro VPS (0.60 GB RAM) is $3.88/month and 1TB of disk for the VPS is $40/month.

I think the free tier will give you a free forever 1GB e2-micro, so you might be able to get that then only pay for the $40 GB disk and outbound bandwidth.

B2 backblaze is an S3 compatible API that will hold 1TB for $60/year before bandwidth charges.

The bandwidth charges might kill these 2 ideas for you, but cloudflare or bunnycdn might be worth looking into to hide gcloud or B2 behind.
> not viable if you include the total life cycle cost of the system (i.e. nuclear waste storage and dismantling the asset.

On the contrary! Nuclear plants pay a fraction of their revenue through their life into special decommissioning funds that have so far been more than enough to perform full greenfield decommissioning.

For waste, there's a separate fund called the Nuclear Waste Fund in the US (and other nuclear-operating countries) that has a current balance around $50B.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL33461.pdf
The iOS Safari Reader view does - most of the time- the trick for me. Disabling javascript altogether (in Safari) works like a charm, at least for NYT articles.
Alien hunters detect mystery radio signal from direction of Earthlike planet
Random thought. I wonder if there's any generalized correlation in personality traits and being single/childless at that age as a woman. For example, are there higher levels of procrastinators or are they more A-type and career oriented? Etc
Cheats graduated into "assist features" (invincibility, reduced damage, etc.), which you can toggle in game options. Some recent games, like Psychonauts 2 and Control have them and does not penalize players for using them.
> the surplus value is taken by the landlord

Hm - interesting theory. The landlord does have some expenses, though: upkeep on the property and taxes, as well as some bit of "float" for times when the property is vacant. There's a definable "margin" there, too, but I wouldn't know where to look to find out what.
Not just incapacitated, but also unable to reasonably communicate. I was suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into jail. How do you communicate all of this information to people on the outside? Especially as your communications are monitored at all times, so reading out logins over the phone can be very detrimental.

I lost all but one of the hundreds of domains I owned, 10 years of email, and of the thousands of online accounts I had when I was locked up, only about 3 were accessible after I got out due to changes in security policies or email addresses (I'm looking at you Gmail) that I could no longer log into despite having the username and password.

This problem is only going to get worse as more sites, sensibly, require MFA. As long as you are compos mentis and have physical access to your devices everything is grand, but once that breaks down, you (or your loved ones) might be screwed.
>...To recap, the SQLite model is this: a) make a great open source project, b) make a proprietary test suite for it with 100% branch coverage, c) convince the world that (b) exists, d) let them come to you for features and bug fixes, e) form a consortium to get paid through.

Where does this recap come from?

My understanding was that SQLite was initially created in a context for a client that needed assurances of correctness, thus the extensive testing suite.

As for the revenue, there's a proprietary extension to support fully encrypted db and access. This is licensed and supported.
Any details available on how to do this on a home network?
"Peasant goods" rise in price because the owners demand it after seeing an opportunity to do so. They could just keep stable.

What is happening since half a century is that wealth gets shoveled to the top, with the above mechanism plus many others, while "peasants" can't afford their own place and education for themselves and their children anymore. They get cut off from sustainable spending and get turned back into pre-war wage slaves.

What will happen is either owners getting to their senses and stop extracting so much god damn stuff for themselves for no reason, or workers rising up. Hiding behind political BS and pseudo science is a short term strategy that always ends in tears.
Ok, I'll bite. Here's what I want:

1. make phone calls with bog standard reliability with a Verizon account

2. receive and send texts

3. take pictures with the phone's camera

4. have a bog standard virtual keyboard

5. read Wikipedia

Can PostmarketOS achieve this on some piece of ubiquitous hardware? If so, which one?
Writing as an English person who'd be sorry to see the Scots go, feels like losing a sibling, but trying to be objective, I'd challenge your assertion it'd be long period of pain like Irish independence. When Ireland went independent, they didn't have the EU single market on their doorstep. There were global economic problems during those 70 yrs e:g world wars. Whereas by rejoining the EU, Scotland can improve its economy much more quickly. Ireland is nowadays a very economically successful country. why shouldn't Scotland be too? Wind powered electricity could be a big export to replace oil and gas. Also Scots tend to favour paying slightly higher taxes for public infrastructure projects, which then give economic gain. An independent Scotland could invest in railways, education , all the other things that a sensible European country does which benefit everyone and lead to economic growth, but England doesn't do properly because keeping taxes down even if the resulting lack of infrastructure and opportunity impoverishes everyone , is the English Tories policy. If I were Scottish, I'd vote for independence in a heartbeat, but the whole thing is very sad as it seems like a family breakup, also can't see how we avoid a hard(ish) border between England and Scotland
Same in Switzerland. In the UK (where I did my PhD) it was quite a bit better imho.
THis "you're approved by one of the big 5" before you get to use the web is just fucking awful. Logins (or security tokens) should be kept to a minimum for things like banks, customized web apps, etc where they have an actual -need- to know who you are and you have actively agreed to it. Forcing cloudflare to verify every web site access would be awful via tokenization. Maybe on the upside it would result in more content available via a more distributed web.
It doesn't work that way. Nominal pay increases now will be inflationary from current level of prices.

History of wage/productivity isn't relevant to current price/wage dynamics. Just forward rates.

Those past productivity gains were likely captured in lower cost of goods (in real terms), rather than wages. If margins are constant, and wages don't rise, and productivity gains, then cost of goods are lower, which also benefits society.
We have found a set of (relatively simple) rules that match (a large part of) reality so well that no matter what we do, we don't seem to be able to get any results that would indicate the rules are wrong or even slightly inaccurate. However, we are almost certain they are wrong, or at least incomplete – but given how well they model reality it would be astonishing if it turned out that we're on a totally wrong track and the actual rules are completely different.
The problem isn't the safety regulation, but the opening authorisation regulations. Because we basically forbid the opening of new reactors regardless of their safety we have said to all people with nuclear expertise "Go find another job, you industry is a dead end".

Instead of saying to welders "Learn nuclear grade welding, develop a valued expertise and you are going to have a safe, well paying job for the next 30 years". We told them "this is the last reactor we're gonna do, do the bare minimum and find something else, your job is gone anyway".

Instead of saying to your graduates "Study nuclear and you are going to work in building/managing reactors and provide carbonless energy to your country" we told them "If you study nuclear, all you are going to do is dismantle old reactors we don't want to see anymore".

And surprise: 25 years later we have a very hard time properly building and maintaining reactors. And that is the consequence of the opening authorisation regulations.
> Doing nuclear fission safely is a massively complex technological undertaking.

Finland has proven this to be false.

...and frankly, so did the US even in the 1980s. The roadblock to storage misguided activism, not science or tachnology.

Reopen the Yucca storage facility. It has the space for literally ALL the US's spent fuel storage.
Resisting web standards is alright, if people make standards compliant websites it will simply mean that Safari users will miss out some stuff.

The problem starts when you implement alternative standards and you have a market share to make people code for your standard. In this situation, your users don't suffer but everyone else suffer, that's what I call villain.

Check Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Exterminate strategy. This is the evil thing, making browser that doesn't adopt some web standards is not evil.
What life looks like in a land so wealthy it doesn't track poverty (2019)
// One last time remembering IE6

var request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
A $5k car?
Sounds like a recruiting pipeline.
About 92% other businesses.

Oil and NatGas account for about 8% of the US economy (and that's the best case figure that the American Petroleum Institute can come up with)[1]. US exports are trivial.

In contrast, Russia's exports are 68% Oil and NatGas. [2]

Of course, for now, Oil and Natgas are key strategic components to every economy. That does not mean that supply and demand mean the same thing for every economy.

[1] https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/taxes/oil-and-nat...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=17231
Solar is cheap since 2012 or so. 10 years is not enough to make a full shift. But we europeans are going there: 15 GW installed in 2019, 20 GW in 2020 and 23 GW in 2021.
I live in Japan and this is pretty accurate, a date and a goukon are def different things/concepts.
What is more surprising is that like 8% of married young men went straight from koibito to wife, without going on a single date.

As far as I know arranged marriages aren’t really a thing here.
What is the use of that, then? Also, how does that require computation?
I don't agree with you and as a developer I find way more issues with Safari than with Chrome/Firefox/Edge.

Also, what matters in a browser it's the engine. If it's always WebKit and you find a issue or something else in iOS you can switch the browser but the result will always be the same since Chrome and Firefox are forced to use WebKit.

Chrome's engine it's Chromium which is open-source and used by other browsers like Microsoft Edge for example, so I don't see as much of an issue with Google Chrome, since you're not actually forced to use it.

> Chrome does have non standard features and huge market share

Even Firefox has it's own non-standard features and I don't see people complaining about it.
No. They are offering bribes. It's anti-competitive behavior in that it withholds information consumers need to make free and informed decisions. And it's fraud. Tesla gains financially from this deception. If offering the bribe is not already illegal, it should be made illegal. If it is illegal it should be prosecuted. By all means start out with a per bribe fine at least equivalent to the profit of a single unit, or else the fine is just a cost of doing business. Otherwise, treat it as a crime.
The problem is that it is expensive but it is absent or slow.

If you've got the money to spend, carriers won't take it. Frequently the cable company will quote you something ridiculous like $50,000 to do the install, but it is really a bluff to make you go away. If you do have the money they'll make up some excuses and you'll find service is not available at any price.

Sure, the Democrats are way too comfortable with subsidizing things, but the problem is not that internet service is too expensive, it's that carriers have refused to upgrade DSL networks.
Undersea cables. There are plenty between Norway and Germany for example.
I don't dispute the economics of renewable generation on the existing grid. I'm talking about storage as replacement for baseload, which is purely hypothetical at this point. Right now we have very small scale storage as peaker capacity, but not as a baseload replacement.
So true, debugging with alert()…

There was Firebug Light, which from memory was a bookmarklet that injected a cut down firebug into the page, but even that didn’t help much.
> If cheap solar/wind was enough right now Europe wouldn't be going through an energy crisis.

It's an oil/gas crisis, not an electricity crisis - that one went away when the days started getting longer.
>This is a bullshit theory with zero evidence or science behind it.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-li...

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marita...

>And last, but not least, don’t settle!

This is horrible advice. You have minimal requirements and fill in the remainder by being human and growing together. "Don't settle" is exactly how people continue to monkey branch to new partners ever higher.
> Windows 10 China Government Edition

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/05/23/annou...:

> The Windows 10 China Government Edition is based on Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, which already includes many of the security, identity, deployment, and manageability features governments and enterprises need. The China Government Edition will use these manageability features to remove features that are not needed by Chinese government employees like OneDrive, to manage all telemetry and updates, and to enable the government to use its own encryption algorithms within its computer systems.
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Bill Gates, while wealthy and renowned for his tech contributions, has had some missteps in the climate energy space slowing down actual progress with his diversions (i.e. putting money/political will into new moon shots and saying that we don't have the technology to deal with this yet -- instead of deploying readily available technology which is ready).
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One could make that case, but 4th allows for searches with a warrant

I would say 5th because divulging the contents of ones mind is testimony which one should not be compelled to do, the 5th profits you from being a witness against yourself, reveling a password is being a witness against yourself
I won't go into details but I'm dealing with a somewhat similar situation. If you love your family and want them to make decisions for you when you're incapacitated instead of strangers who will likely be trying to take advantage of the situation, GET AN ESTATE ATTORNEY. One at a large and respected firm with a solid track record. You will be making a minuscule investment compared to the cost of things going sideways. So much trouble for you and your family will be saved during an already difficult time.
He's a hack like Jeff Rovin or Dan Brown. But as long as he keeps turning that crank, he can produce airport fiction the masses will snap up and make shittons of money. There's a reason why they call it "potboiler", and even good authors are known to produce it.
> We know what to do, every single scientist from the ASN knows what to do, every economist knows what to do.

The ones who underestimated Flamanville's cost by 80%? (and it's still not in production)

Let's maybe not trust them completely, and have our eggs in other baskets as well.
This is like saying that the solution to climate change is largely political and you don't see that changing, so you don't think you need to be part of solving that.

In fact, it's quite exactly like saying that, because nuclear is the fastest path to solving climate change.
Idiocracy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
There's quite a bit of discussion on GHG emissions of food, especially red meat. One video is here [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Hq8eVOMHs
Canada doesn't have enough MRI machines. Wait times are long and increasing.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

All healthcare systems impose some sort of rationing. Canada rations care by imposing long queues for non-emergency cases, with significant variations between provinces. Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines.

There are also major differences in MRI scanners. A 3.0T unit can produce higher resolution images than a 1.5T unit, and this makes a difference in patient care quality. Countries like Chile are more likely to have the cheaper units.

https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000801
> You're arguing semantics, sure, you cannot mechanically transform code which relies on TCO into a loop.

TCO is how you mechanically transform recursive code into a loop.

> That is not the same as the parents point that TCO functions are isomorphic to loops.

That’s the same as claiming that manually copy-pasting the contents of functions into your code is isomorphic to calling those functions.

> In a language without TCO you wouldn't ever find yourself in mess of composition of functions.

Yes, that’s the point. There’s an entire class of useful constructions that cannot be implemented without TCO.
You can now brag that the software is out of support.

Which yeah, doesn't mean absolutely anything for existing software that is still working and requires the old version to run. If by any chanche you need to support that configuration, the "official" deprecation simply means "good luck!" and a pat on the back.

Just like XP, I've seen plenty of shops with custom software that still requires XP+IE6+activex that still get active development, because a total rewrite is out of the question when changes are small (and that is totally understandable as well).

The poor folks though will need to containerize and isolate everything from any network though to keep it somewhat safer. If they do that at all.
> the economic problems with nuclear are there because of political reasons. France gets ~75% of its power from nuclear, safely and economically.

EDF, Areva have a long history of bailouts, buyouts and subsidies by the French government. You are right that it's a political decision that France has so much nuclear, but it is not an economical one.

Even though they decided to replace old reactors with new ones, they do not manage to build enough reactors fast enough and especially not economically. Flamanville has a budget overrun of around 500% and time overrun of around 300%.

Nuclear is neither fast nor economical enough to be built. Only building renewables can help push down CO2 emissions fast and cheap enough.
Interesting enough with Target at least, the website "pickup" price is often higher than the in-store on the shelf price.

But the nationally advertised things will be at the "fixed" price whatever that is, usually.

Grocery stores have been pretty good about having local flyers, we don't really have national grocery store chain ads, and I suspect we'll eventually stop having many ads that mention price directly.
You say "the more accurate multi-word construct" as if it were obvious that there is a single "accurate multi-word construct" that is already part of the English corpus that I could have employed here. If there is, I'm not aware of it, so I would have had to invent one. That would have taken considerable effort. Inventing new language constructs is not so easy, especially for subtle and emotionally fraught concepts like this.

And yes, I thought people would figure out what I meant because I provided three references, which were the actual substance of my comment. I thought people might read at least some of those and figure out what I meant.

Also, since you've decided to go all language-nazi on my ass, I looked up the dictionary definition of "anthropomorphize". There are two of them:

1. to attribute human form or personality to

2. to attribute human form or personality to things not human

So it is absolutely possible to anthropomorphize a human baby, and all the people who have criticized me for using that word can go eff themselves. Democracy and human civilization are crumbling and the best thing you can find to do with your time is criticize my choice of vocabulary, and get it wrong to boot? Bah to that. Life is too short.
On the surface this looks pretty similar to AWS Aurora Postgres Serverless. Could you expand on the differences?
There's probably a way to literally mine crypto.
In an ideal world that might be true; but we live in a world in which people are not always paid more for working harder, or are unable to attain equity shares. The truth is that there are systematic, and stubbornly persistent, differences in bargaining power between workers and employers.
Is US-style dating part of their culture? In the 80's and 90's I dated a few women from countries in Europe and they all thought the 1-on-1 date thing was weird, telling me that people usually go out in groups, and then pair off over time. I won't go into detail, but the relative intimacy of various sex acts was also out of order from what the US expects based on what they told me.

Today, I have three friends with sons in their late 20's, and NONE of the boys have ever had what my generation would call a "steady" girlfriend, e.g., >6 months. I find that bizarre, but I'm old. Culture changes.
I think this is very much a uniquely American article and comment. I believe in many other nations the situation is different on both sides. Postdocs are treated different and get more pay, junior developers get paid less.
I have a friend who works for a VA Hospital and they've switched as of yesterday. So we know the DOD/VA is at least switching off old IE8/IE10 Apps.

The funny part is the app they use still works, you're just forced to run it in compatibility mode on Edge (Holy, I forgot this existed) but their user profiles have limited access so they can't right-click, properties, unless they have admin priv.

New browser, same old 2009 problems. Obviously this is not the browsers fault, it's just insane to hear about shops like this that still hold on to legacy apps FOREVER.
I ran out of JS stack, walking the dependency graph of a big computation. Dependency graphs can be very deep relative to their overall size. It was a big pain to rewrite with an explicit stack of to-be-visited nodes.

TCO wouldn't have saved me, though. It just needs a big stack. Node defaults to just under 1 MB, which doesn't go very far.