skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if starting at 30, that doesn't explain it being < 2. There are medical interventions on both sides of the equation (birth controls and fertility treatments). Preferences are the main drivers in my opinion.
Well in fairness, the French government currently in power have an economic incentive to kick the can down the road to subsequent governments. Reduce reserve requirements now, next generation of taxpayers foot the bill later.

Does the EU have an incentive to inflate the reserve requirement?
Key word: ESTATE attorney. Preferably belonging to a large and well respected firm. Don't get just any attorney willing to do it, they won't be equipped for it and shit will go wrong, and things going wrong in the legal world is potentially catastrophic. For you, your family and anyone within a 1000 feet of you.
I'm usually hate to talk about "narratives" and so forth, but I'm going to make an exception.

I do wonder whether layoffs and the threat of layoffs are being over-reported deliberately to create a sense of fear in order to quell resignations, requests for pay raises and unionization. A quick look at data [1] doesn't seen to show resignations (as of Apr data).

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSLDL
Just a reflection of how desperate people are to get a shot at the final prize: tenured professor. You see this type of competition and desperation in a lot of fields with highly prized superstar occupations (successful musician, pro athlete, etc)
Whether Sanders would make a better president than Biden is a matter I'm not sure on, I'm reasonably convinced that he would not have made a better candidate. A more polarizing candidate, yes, and more inspiring to the left wing, but not a better candidate overall. Some of his keystone positions like Medicare for All don't turn out to be very popular even among democrats.

Say what you want about the process, but he did lose the nomination. If you think that's just because the establishment was being unfair, think of how unfair the opposition would have been in the general election.
There isn't enough solar/wind or nuclear to power Europe right now. The question is which power mix will be best in a decade's time.
If you grew up somewhere cheap, you probably encountered the attitude that people moving to big cities and expensive states were insane because of the housing prices (and/or taxes and general living expenses). Actual concern over the wellbeing of friends and relatives who did so. For a large segment of people living cheap places, moving to California (as in, the whole state) New York (ditto, except maybe the extremely rural and also not-popular-for-vacations bits), several entire New England states, most big cities unless you're actually living way outside them, et c., was seen as simply impossible. Not in the cards. Cannot be done without ruining your finances. You don't buy somewhere expensive until you retire, and then it's probably in Florida or the Carolinas. On a local lake if you're not rich enough for those.

From that perspective, nothing's changed except that some people living in those expensive places are starting to realize the same thing, and the people experiencing that are a bit higher up the economic ladder than before. Welcome to the lower classes, folks. Don't worry, you've got plenty of company.
Neon discussed 19d ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31536827 (667 points, 330 commemts)
That is a perverse misreading of the original comment.

Calling a livable wage and fair working conditions a Lamborghini is not applicable.
I trust 2,000 years of accumulated wisdom in my spiritual tradition more than I trust my own judgement. I don't completely disregard my own judgement, but I also recognize that I am easily deceived, I lack discernment, and that I cannot always trust my own motives, nor am I always aware of the consequences of my actions. That's why I have a priest, and why I rely on the traditions of my faith.
Consider that it's more expensive to have children have children as well. It's not so much too little material wealth as it is too little wealth to sustain the "normal" childhood. Not so long ago, kids existed as cheap labor and a retirement account. One didn't need to treat them like human beings much less provide literacy or schooling to them. Whatever functional uses they had before have been replaced by machines and and markets. Today, unless one is passing down the family company, having a kid serves no functional purpose except as a "fun" activity or cultural performance. Anyone who is having children today is choosing to invest in/burden themselves with a more expensive responsibility than previous generations had.
> A far better plan for Europe would be to go 100% renewable asap,

Something I've been thinking about for a while: the best course of action to secure a nation is to build out renewables until the need for external fossil fuels is zero. Even if that means using renewables to make fossil fuels via a process like Fischer–Tropsch as a stop gap.

I also think it would be advantageous to start thinking about how to drive the cost of generation and distribution down until electricity is free or nearly free. This might sound utopian but imagine how secure and prosperous a society could be if energy was super cheap or free? We are moving towards an electrified future and at some point we will have to heat homes and charge cars with electric that will place significant demand on an ageing grid.
> There are many such interesting compositions that cannot be “unrolled”.

You're arguing semantics, sure, you cannot mechanically transform code which relies on TCO into a loop. That is not the same as the parents point that TCO functions are isomorphic to loops. In a language without TCO you wouldn't ever find yourself in mess of composition of functions.
Even though there are political reasons, the biggest reason is... we had enough reactors for our own usage.

We built them so fast, that even if we had cross-partisan will to keep forever using nuclear, we'd still have 30-40 years of gap without making any new reactor. And after a generation of engineers, we need to make reactors again and we're basically doing it from scratch again.

There are other reasons: people's fear of nuclear became quite real (either because of greenpeace, or local green political parties). There's also a bit of hubris I think, rather than making some "easy" "usual" reactor model, we decided to do our brand new own, which has its own cost: If Flamanville's EPR had succeeded, we would likely have made more reactors and we would already be producing >100% of nuclear power
This is afaik true about nuclear power plants in general. They are one of the least cost-efficient energy generation sources out there because of their insane construction and running costs. In some countries they never make their money back, even if run by private companies, and only exist because of subsidies when they were built.

However, they are by far the most practical and safe way to generate ludicrous amounts of environmentally friendly energy out of all technologies that we have available. Even solar can't match up. If you factor in the really long term cost on every country on this planet due to climate change for example, this footed bill is chump change.
There's an awful lot of very old IPv4 equipment still hanging around, but most of the IPv6 stuff is newer - so if IPv6 is working it's probably a more recent piece of hardware.
It's not the yachts that hurts. It's the vast amounts of political power that their wealth gives them and that they invariably use to further enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Please explain said "basic physics". I'll wait.

California is building battery storage at a rate of ~2500MW/year. There are ZERO physics problems standing in the way of this. And there is considerable innovation in fixed batteries like iron-air flow batteries, ones that exist and aren't just VC scams like most of the nuclear stuff.

https://www.energy-storage.news/california-utility-pge-propo...
The obvious solution is to have fewer graduate students. Why should one professor train N replacements, if the field isn't expanding?
> Your hair doesn’t suddenly get thicker. The pounds don’t suddenly become easier to keep off. Your skin doesn’t tighten. Your complexion doesn’t smoothen out.

If the only change that occurs to a person until the more advanced age, is only physical decline, then they're certainly "less valuable" than their younger counterpart.

However, there are people (I hope most) that actually do have many other (inner) qualities that grow with them, and compensante and exceed the physical decline, thus, their "value" is higher than their younger counterpart.
what if i told you a lot of fossil fuels go into producing electric cars, which then drives up the price of them making them out of reach for the avg person
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 of $55B.
I'm not sure if you read the article, but my take on it was that the spammer hid a scam message in a embedded PNG file that may get decoded on older style email clients, but gmail did not render the data-uri for some reason. It might have been part of gmails spam recognition to not render the image in this instance. The message itself got through the spam filters, but it rendered empty because the embedded image did not get displayed.
> at the expense of the minority, of course

That minority is slowly becoming a majority. Home ownership in NZ is the lowest ever. It’s down to like 60-65%. The market is becoming completely unaffordable.

Raising prices is good for high income earners and people who have homes to leverage from.

> Additionally, the more a house is "worth" on paper, the more people are willing to invest in it (renovations, keep-up), which is usually a good thing for the economy.

People who can barely afford a house cannot renovated it. When a mortgage payment is 2-3 times the cost of renting you don’t have disposable income to renovate.

> House prices going down is a good thing for the unhoused population, and it's a bad thing for the homeowners.

The ONLY time prices falling is bad for a home owner is when the value of the house is less than what they paid.
Your final comparison there is an excellent example of hand-waving away the problem of intermittency. This is something that advocates of renewables regularly want to dismiss because the discussion is a difficult one.

Wind and solar are cheap now because their fuel cost is zero and the cost of grid reliability is borne by us - consumers. In a better world, the cost of balancing the grid at night should be borne by a solar PV generator because it caused the problem.

Even if you match the energy output of a solar and nuclear plant, the component of time is ignored. On a grid powered by solar, where will energy come from at night? How many batteries will you construct? The scale of these batteries is again something that’s dismissed by claims of continental-scale grids but has that been achieved anywhere? All the batteries in the world combined can power à giga watt scale grid for hours. That’s right, hours.

Nuclear is a solution in the here and now. It buys us time to sort through these problems while we work towards a better future.
Great, now they definitely will never be able to go on dates.
You're not necessarily wrong. At the end of the day we lost all nuclear expertise when the public turned against it 40 years ago.

Per kwh fossil fuel disasters have killed more people and have caused more damage to the environment. Compare the public reactions to the Three Mile Island Accident vs the BP oil spill.
There's a similar thing being done by the folks at Moddable. I tried it a few years ago and it was decent. Knowing that microcontrollers have gotten beefier, I think it might be quite better now.

Another approach to this is Toit - some guys from the V8 engine team at Google started this company IIRC. They've written a new language inspired by JS but for microcontrollers.

- https://www.moddable.com/

- https://toitlang.org/
Shorts are an answer to a problem YouTube created. The average video used to be around 3 minutes, but then someone at good realized views weren't the important metric, it was watch time. They changed their systems to incentivize creators to make longer videos. Now it seems the average is up around 10+ minutes. Not everyone wants to sit around for 10-60 minutes to watch a video that should be 45 seconds or 2 minutes.

They introduced Shorts (to compete with TikTok) and act like it's some new thing. They could have just fixed their policies for normal videos so there aren't 2 separate worlds inside of YouTube and people can just make a video the proper length to cover the content they need to cover instead of making the video artificially long or short to fit into some model that YouTube spent too much time designing.

Ok, I think I'm done with my rant.
I see different prices on Walmart and Target’s websites based on location.

The universal pricing might have been more pervasive when land and labor prices were not as different across the country, but there is only so much of a hit sellers can take from higher cost of goods sold.
Direct link: https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article26229939...
Parts of it are `@nogc`, not all of it. You'd have to check the documentation for each function you want to use (or write `@nogc` code that uses the std and see if the compiler complains I guess).
Apparently there are different models. Baikal-T1 is MIPS, -S and -M are ARM.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal-M
In Chrome those mouse actions work as well, or right-clicking a tab and selecting "Duplicate." I'm not sure if there's a keyboard command for it.
If you can't insure something reasonably it's not economical. The risk is just externalized.
IPv6 adoption isn't a matter of preference or price, it's an inevitability. We can do tricks like NAT all we want, fact of the matter is: Every day, more and more devices that require a public address, connect to The Internet.

Once the address space is exhausted, the only choices are: IPv6 or no new devices. Since the latter isn't an option, IPv6 is inevitable.
By the number of downvotes, I'm going to take away the idea that, no, the environmentalist lobby does not approve of the increases in mining required to support going 100% renewable ASAP.
Whether equity or paid out monthly, it's variable income that most people can't count on. When you're in a big enough company that you individually can't feel yourself moving the needle, the end result is that it's not much of an incentive. This is especially true once the company gets over a few hundred employees.

Source: Have worked for profit sharing companies before.
Similar. It is very common to hear the right side of US politics claim poor minority women have multiple children just to get "free stuff" from the government, yet the same folks also want to make abortion illegal. Some people even claim the government will pay for your child if you are completely poor. The lies are astonishing, but the racism is necessary for their populist political message to work.
Only a third of France's primary power consumption comes from nuclear. That's a long way to go to carbon neutrality.
Submitted this as it is a great example of the power of microcontrollers these days. The two core Rp2040 microcontroller has one core dedicated to drive the VGA output and the other core for the emulation.

This is used to replicate (and enhance) the retro Jupiter Ace computer which instead of basic like everything else of the time (80's computer era), had forth as its inbuilt language of choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
I'm starting to think the cloud providers are hoarding IPv4 addresses and see them as an asset, and don't want to "rock the boat".
This is actually how you feed your confirmation bias, please be careful as a lot of the language you are using makes me worry about you.

There are many explanations for the phenomenon of dating, but your comment reads like a textbook example of someone looking to confirm beliefs.

Why couldn’t attractiveness simply be a cross product of money and physical activity level? In that case, hot people end up together due to economics and interests.
Laying off workers is often the right thing to do for the health of the business. Companies are not make-work schemes, designed to employ as many people as possible, and shouldn't be. They're there to provide value for customers, as defined by customers demonstrating that they value the thing the company provides more than the money they give up to get that thing, and constrained by the fact that the business itself has to be profitable to be sustainable and keep providing that value. That sustainability includes the capital needed from investors to keep the business producing and innovating. There's competition for that capital (and there should be!), so if returns are higher elsewhere, that broadly means the alternate use of capital is providing value to customers more efficiently.

If someone at the company identifies a set of inefficiencies in producing value for customers, and remedying that involves laying off a bunch of people, but ends in providing that value more successfully, that person has been responsible for a lot of value creation.
I only highlighted what was quoted in the article. Here is the link from the USA FTC website https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-th...
How does one transmit electricity across an ocean?
> You're welcome to try and claim that, but the sheer success of Signal and Moxie's approach is proof you're arguing in bad faith.

This makes no sense. If you wanted to prove that you would need to have a signal equivalent that does not use phone numbers. Where is that?
China mostly:

2021 figures:

> China was the biggest contributor, adding 121 GW to the continent’s new capacity. Europe and North America—led by the USA—took second and third places respectively, with the former adding 39 GW, and the latter 38 GW.

81% of new electricity generaton build globally was renewables last year.
Kind of. Except with SVG data viz you likely don’t need a layout engine. It doesn’t need to be “responsive” and render differently on different devices.
Think about this differently: as you have more relationships you learn what you can tolerate and what you can't. The less experienced you are, often the more patient you are with red flags. I'm sorry if not owning all of a person's firsts makes you feel inferior, but that has to do with your self esteem, which is probably what undermines you and makes you insecure. She can love you more than she's loved anyone ever, even if she's loved someone before.
Porn is nothing like actual sex. Even fetish stuff depicted in porn is usually nothing like actual fetish stuff in actual sex (among people into that). I do worry about easy access to porn and young people growing up thinking it even slightly represents reality.
When China mandates shutting off IPv4 internally is when we'll see a flurry of activity, but that's probably still years away.
Eurodance
I don't think that is accurate.

Most post-doc are funded through soft money (i.e., grant money or other non-earmarked department money) to a principal investigator. The PI wrote the grant and budgeted for post docs. Meaning that they set the salary for the postdoc in advance at the time that they wrote the grant (most grant applications I was part of required approval from the University's finance office before submission). They can increase the postdoc salary if they want.

The problem is that if they pay more for a postdoc, that money will need to come out from something else and usually that's from other personnel expenses (as most funding agencies have set amounts that they will allocate to spending categories, so you cannot propose a grant with only personnel expenses for example). That means that increasing the postdoc pay will either (1) reduce the number of postdoc that can be hired on any specific grant or (2) reduce the amount of compensation that a PI will get from the grant. You can see how both of those option are a non-starter as (1) will reduce the manpower on the grant, leading to less productivity, and a reduction in likelihood of future funding and (2) is just a non-starter as most PIs feel like they should get something out from getting a grant (i.e., they don't do research just because is fun).

Plus, there is a close to infinite supply of recent PhDs in pretty much any field that cannot get a faculty position and that will apply for postdocs, so there is really no market incentive to increase base postdoc pay.

Note, I have only applied to NSF grants so other funding agencies (i.e., NIH) might have different budgetary requirements. Private foundations are the Wild West of funding and each one has its own requirements.
French electrical power is 70% nuclear and has an installed capacity of 135 GW of power today. That comes out to 94.5 GW of nuclear power in France alone. Is there any country in the world that can supply hundreds of gigawatts to the grid from batteries today? If not, then the problem of grid power storage is unsolved at scale compared to nuclear.
Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire
The question I have is why are "they" continuing build power plants in northwest china which already is generating more energy than is used locally…

Well at least with CSP, there is at least the potential to transport molten salt to turbines elsewhere (which I have no idea if they are going to do that, but i've been saying this is what needs to be done in general with CSP build out globally, but there are alot of competing interests and hidden motives at work).
According to perceptions and advertising about nuclear we should have unlimited power and everything from our cars to our stoves would be running of nuclear. All this should have been possible with just a containers worth of nuclear waste (experts in the 50s,60s seriously said operating a whole country of nuclear would result in maybe a ton of nuclear waste).

Nuclear completely undelivered on this promise. Tschernobyl was just the nail in the coffin.

On top of that has the nuclear industry been one of the strongest lobbying groups against wind and solar, mainly to protect their investments. I would argue on the whole we would have been much further in terms of renewable energy if it wasn't for the nuclear industry.
> a "scum of the earth" post doc for 1/5th the salary and double the hours required as a junior python developer role

Where do you get these numbers from? This is not at all like that in Europe. A postdoc gets (say, in France) 30k per year, doing a calm, interesting job and paid travel to a couple of conferences per year, with almost total freedom to choose their daily schedule. This is not a high salary, but it is certainly livable and quite above the median of the country. A 150k salary is nearly out of reach for even quite senior developers, and nonsensical for "junior python developer roles".
You're arguing against something that hasn't been said. Nothing in that statement says that aesthetic progressivism is a bad thing just that privileging it over design progressivism is. In particular you should look at the authors game Cantata because it's ludicrously obvious that they care about aesthetics.
> in any measurable reduction
It's not though; that's one of the reasons all of the grids aren't interconnected yet.

"Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes" also applies here. The amount of energy you can deliver by transporting fuel rods by truck/train/ship is immense.