skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the details might differ but courting ladies has been in European culture for a long time. I am not saying Europeans date exactly way Americans do. Still there are lot of similarities - like people starting dating in high school, going to clubs/bars to meet or yeah going to some common friend's house.
One of the terms I've seen in the US is "Joint Tenants With Right of Survivorship (JTWROS)" but check the details.

It's much rarer now because checks are basically gone, but you used to be able to get accounts that would require both signatures on the check, not just one.
You know your programming language very very well, AND design for failure. What I do normally is first write the API of the library I want to use. Then I might start detailing things, which becomes some early documentation/API. Finally I try to implement it in code, and if I find a truly blocking code bit I restructure my assumptions about what is possible with my API and go back to the API/docs.

For example, at some point I knew I wanted to set localStorage and cookies values just like this:

cookie.token = '1234';
local.token = '1234';

I know enough Javascript, and the language is flexible enough, that I know that I could achieve that, either with getter/setters or with the more flexible Proxy(). So I continued writing the other methods first; how would it look ideally to "read" a value? To "delete" a value? Etc:

console.log(cookie.token);
delete cookie.token;
// ...

I wrote few examples of each, put it all in some documentation, and then wrote some tests, following those documentation examples:

expect(cookie.token).toBe(null);
cookie.token = '1234';
expect(cookie.token).toBe('1234');

And finally wrote the code for it. Later I wanted to add IndexedDB, BUT! That is async! My abstraction was broken, or was it? I could just modify a single method and everything else would work as expected:

db.token = '1234';
console.log(await db.token); // <= added await here
delete db.token;
One thing I don't understand is the uninhabitable zone around Chernobyl is not that big, and the U.S. has plenty of space. And electricity can be transmitted decently far, right?

So... is it unreasonable to have lots of fairly low-regulated nuclear power plants in, say, 50 mile uninhabited areas (maybe even make it a nature preserve or something for animals)? And if one or two meltdown, oh well?
I do the same. I've yet to hear a convincing argument against this practice. Everyone seems okay with passwordless docker and you can use that to privilege escalate too.
these WebView on VB6 isn't the IE6 engine ?
Diablo 4 Official Gameplay Showcase Trailer
When you say "in other news," is there any source for this?
What really disappoints me is I'm seeing a lot of YouTubers and streamers advertise really hard challenge they do in games , and even often sometimes advertise them as 100% legit.

Those interest, as some of these challenges are extremely difficult, and I'm curious to learn what stragties they used. Then usually I get mid way through the, the explains the issues that make the challenge hard, before immediately dumping a console command to instantly bypass them.
Those union jobs are not coming back. Globalization destroyed that. The rest of the world became richer (good thing) while in large parts of the US because poverty areas
The Germans take any opportunity to "do the right thing". I won't go into my beliefs on where that comes from, other than to say it's an emotional place, and not a logical one. So they often end up doing the wrong thing.

I actually feel sorry for them.
That doesn’t sound right. It has to be at least two or three, minimum
Facial recognition IDs missing kids with 99.85% accuracy
Build first. Then write down what you should have built. Then build that thing second.

All documentation first wins you is documentation to throw away along with the first revision.
Thank you for the feedback, I learnt more from this overview than just "why the price is so high", thought it is more practical what I wrote.
> simplification of shooter mechanics (i.e. no quake)

Does it get any simpler than UT with instagib?
Who says Lithium batteries are the best technology for grid scale storage? (Besides Elon, I guess?)
Oil and gas pipelines do not normally leak. Power lines do leak. It's called "line loss" and it's a significant factor in power distribution.
> > I'm pretty sure this cost comparison comes down firmly on the side of wind/solar/storage.

> Very unlikely. Nuclear costs are sky high only because in the last decades it was suppressed rather than invested in and improved. Had it seen the same level of support the wind and solar energy have, we'd have a dirt-cheap abundance of nuclear power, with very little carbon emissions. Take away the red tape and scaremongering, and wind/solar/storage combination will be left very far behind in costs and efficiency.

And your sources are? Nuclear power has received significantly more subsidies than solar and wind combined [1] (note you can find similar numbers for Europe) . The myth that somehow solar and wind received more subsidies is just propaganda.

[1] https://cen.acs.org/articles/89/i51/Long-History-US-Energy-S...
>> He said he preferred asset classes “like a farm where they have the output or a company where they make products.”
I don't. I can't commit to constantly using it. Probably a personality flaw.
Official deprecation like this helps companies say “sorry, we don’t support IE11 anymore either, you’ll have to upgrade.” Not all companies will do this, but plenty will.
It sounds like the argument presented here is that if we actually use nuclear power, there will be more accidents, which will cost us the opportunity of actually using nuclear power.
At scale means with mining requirements as well.

With current and projected reserves we can manage intra-day requirements for the whole world. This is the we mine it all option.

But we need intra-year storage capacity.

Nuclear is clearly the easier and only option (and the most environment-friendly to me, considering the mining requirements)
Probably the issue is that access to water (for cooling) correlates highly with access to water (for human civilization).
I don't know who you are referring with "we forbid". Certainly not we Europe, because there are 3 reactors currently being built, 7 planned and 16 proposed. Again, Flamanville is delayed mainly because of safety issues, and not regardless.

Industries rise and fall. Coal is largely being phased out (in Europe), so coal miners are expected to lose their jobs and certainly their sons are not going to be miners. Of course they sang the same tune "we need guaranteed and well paid jobs for the next 30 years, and then for our youth", but sadly no industry is free from falling.

If nuclear power cannot teach their people to weld properly, they cannot exist. If their plan is to wait for the state to send them fully formed, the plan is flawed. It's like tomorrow Google or Facebook cries because MIT isn't teaching how to harvest data properly.
I started doing web development back in Netscape - adding graphics extensions. I think it was 1995.

But I really dug into SPA/AJAX web apps in 2000 - building enterprise stuff. They were all "IE6 apps". IE6 was basically my X-windows. No other browsers were supported, and there as no pushback from customers back then. Only one of those apps made the transition to IE11.

Last year I explained to my current client that our big enterprise reporting app had to move off IE11. And I was really surprised how much pushback on got on that.
In America, congregating in a public place for no outwardly visible purpose is called "loitering" and comes with a built-in assumption that you must be up to no good somehow. The signs of a thoroughly broken society.
Have to seen professional csgo matches? Players spend thousands of hours mastering smoke and flash throws and recoil patterns and bhopping, and flick shots. The skill ceiling for competitive team csgo is absolutely insane. Dota and lol and eve and farming simulator are right up there too.
In reality, there would be no such trade. You would have micro payments per visit AND advertising AND tracking AND tracking popups. Because they can and what are you going to do about it anyway?
I don't understand their spouse data being very different for males and females. Are there significantly fewer women in Japan, is there a significant difference in gay and lesbian marriage, is there polygamy?

I think people are not reflecting the same relationship as their presumed partner would.
Same here. I'm early 40s and the idea of dating in the American sense seems odd to me. I've met all my romantic partners at parties or through gatherings at friend's houses. Relationships start off as acquaintances and develop organically as we spend time together. It wouldn't occur to me to ask someone I barely know out on a date. Of course, once a mutual interest has been established, we go and do stuff together on our own, but I'd think of that as "going out for dinner with X" or "going hiking with X", but I wouldn't call it dating.
I was not sure what that would be, but it got a solid chuckle out of me, thanks for lifting my mood!
Sri Lanka on verge of 'humanitarian emergency', with hundreds going to Australia
Yeah, but in general it's not enough to impact having 2 kids. If getting pregnant for the first time at 30, you could wait the recommended 18 months between kids and still have two without it being a geriatric pregnancy. You don't need to start at 18 to have 2 kids.
You are correct to point out that games have gotten simpler in a certain sense, but I wouldn't conflate that with being less competitive.

Simple games can be very competitive because the best players can become much better at them. Chess and Go are good examples.
That's not what that is. "Edge" there doesn't mean Edge the browser, it means "latest"; it predates the Edge browser by many years. It has nothing to do with the Edge upgrade. It switches IE into the latest document mode that it supports. For IE11, it just puts it into IE11 mode.
Later follow-up: I tried to check what the value was on my very new Macbook Pro, and it was shockingly low compared to the older Intel iMac Pro etc.

Which makes me wonder if they're intentionally trying to get the Intel machines out of circulation in order to help their transition to Apple Silicon. Mind you, I got a good amount for the 1st-gen M1 laptop… I suspect it all depends, but definitely see what you're offered if you have a powerful but Intel-based Mac. It seems like that was the sweet spot for their trade-in value.
Huh I was annoyed when I went to open a ticket rexently and the original repo was locked..
Multi-Subject JSON Web Token (JWT) Draft
> I'm saying that my understanding of the world is based upon observations

> Your absence of perception does not mean the evidence is absent.

And what I'm saying is that the absence of a "thing observed" can have multiple reasons for "not being observed" - 1) it really doesn't exist or 2) you lack the ability to observe it.

If you don't have a microscope it's hard to confirm the existence of cells, and if your life has been lived in a way that you lack the "spiritual scope" and ways of thinking to perceive purpose then of course you will not observe it.
Renewables are far cheaper on the margins but not necessarily if you want them to provide all your power needs.

Nuclear cost in South Korea, Japan, and India is generally under $3000/kW, according to this peer-reviewed study. See Figure 12: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

Now let's model overall grid costs, here: https://model.energy/

Pick a country and "fetch wind and solar." By default the modeler doesn't include nuclear, so click "show advanced assumption settings." Check "dispatchable technology 2."

This defaults to a nuclear cost of $6000/kW. Leave it there or try $3000. It assumes a nuclear plant lifespan of only 25 years; the average plant age in the US is 40 years and expected lifespan for many plants is 60 years, so set it to whatever you think is more realistic. The default also sets the discount rate for nuclear to twice what it has for everything else, so fix that.

Run the model. With any reasonable assumptions, many countries end up with at least some nuclear on their grid, and some get their lowest grid cost with all nuclear. The US has some of the best wind and solar resources and relatively high nuclear costs (for now anyway), but the US situation doesn't generalize to the whole world.
> A far better plan for Europe would be to go 100% renewable asap,

How is this possible, technologically or economically? It sounds like absolute fantasy in anything less than a decade.

> plausibly due to exports of crude oil from the USA

Our refineries are at max capacity. How is hoarding crude going to help anything? Exporting crude allows foreign refineries to assist with relieving the global shortage of refined products.
You are now banned from Hacker News.
Principles of functional programs also apply when computing with objects.

"Object-Oriented Programming in languages that don’t require tail-call optimizations makes no sense."

- Matthias Felleisen

Why? See part 3 of this presentation from ECOOP 2004.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180324164849/http://www.ccs.ne...

Another quote:
> One common misunderstanding about TCO is due to the word 'optimization'. It is indeed a space optimization (don't use more space than goto, as Guy said in the 1970s) but a language should implement TCO in support of PROPER DESIGN. To wit, go through the OO design pattern books and inspect all the little patterns. Pick some -- say interpreter or composite -- and design your Java program accordingly. Then run a stress test and weep. Java blows up even if all the method calls are tail-recursive because it doesn't support TCO. Now do the same in PLT Scheme's class system and smile. It works -- for all inputs.
yup, it's pretty easy to forget that the dollar has already lost over 98% of it's value.
Got it. Looks like a metaverse building :)
The Chernobyl power plant did not have a containment building around the reactors until after the meltdown. Every Western nuclear power plant has a containment building around the reactors. That's the single biggest factor.
Let's us step back and look into the current mess of the existing IP networks with all the duct tapes involved (looking at you NAT). Any QoS that the end users probably want is only make dollar sense for the big companies that's why we have the fine print of best-effort services written in almost all the Telcos' EULA. What IPv6 based technology for example SRv6 is doing is trying to democratize QoS so that it's hopefully affordable to the average Joe. Perhaps it's still a pipe dream at the moment but given the current situations I will take SRv6 over MPLS, or any expensive TE any day. My networking utopia will be a local-first software with cloud vendors and Telcos independence that can utilize the networks based on their required and necessary QoS. I foresee that the best way of going forward is based on this new promising and more affordable technology that the incumbent technology cannot provide.
I believe parent was making a point that the nighttime vs daytime distinction is irrelevant, because the grid never goes to to sleep. Having sufficient clean energy during daytime only is not acceptable.
https://rainbow.coop/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Grocery_Cooperative

Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is a worker-owned and run food cooperative located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1975
Let's extend this a little further.

If we accept that events in life can scar or even just affect you for life (as this article claims) then why stop there? These people have children. Do you think that habits that form out of trauma, housing insecurity, food insecurity or were in fear of their lives don't subconciously impact their children?

We don't even have to imagine that. We have physical evidence that the conditions a woman faces can impact her grandchildren [1]. Remember that a cis-woman is born all the ova she'll have so pregnancy conditions can affect grandchildren.

But even if you ignore the physical, you'll find cultural and psychological effects on children from people who, say, fled a war zone or survived the Holocaust or whatever.

If you accept all that you've then accepted that generational trauma is real (which it is).

So what do you think that slavery did to people long after chattel slavery (officially) ended?

[1]: https://www.science.org/content/article/moms-environment-dur...
From https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/in-2020-top-ceos-earned-351-...

"It used to be that in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, CEOs made 3.3 times what a top 0.1% earner made. Now, it's more than six times," says Mishel. "CEOs now are making 351 times that of a typical worker, but back in 1978, it was only 31 times. In 1989, it was 61 times."

And it's not just CEOs. IMO there should be federal guidelines that total compensation in public companies should be more fairly distributed, ie, executive staff can only make X times more than average worker pay. But you know what companies would do, right? They'd fire all the employees, setup mini companies to employ the workers, and bypass the regulations.
The Dawn of Everything.

I’m reading it now. Probably not as fun as the others you mentioned. But so far it’s very enlightening.
Read the [...]. The harm is to minimal that it is a non-issue.
What IoT devices are running Ubuntu, and how is it optimized? That it has snap containers? I’m guessing by IoT here they don’t mean light switches running on an embedded processor, but industrial equipment?
https://archive.ph/F6I8a
You have the inequality backwards!
Subversion was so bad I missed CVS.
Although I am fortunate enough to be able to afford to subscribe to almost anything I might want to read, I don't like the idea of paywalls in general.

I believe they exclude the less fortunate from access to important resources, so I refuse to give my money to companies that use paywalls, because I see that as rewarding bad behaviour.

Instead, I always pay for sites I find valuable that don't have paywalls (e.g., guardian.co.uk)

I realise this isn't the same view that everyone has, which is fine. Vote with your money.
Hell I just want them to let you unlock the bootloader.
Because my mother taught me that 100% of my value as a person is being a home owner because that's the only thing that matters. Not even a condo will do.

/s but only sort of
My take is that statements like "there are no jobs available" and "employers cannot find enough workers" can be both true at the same time. My best guess right now is that employers want to hire a lot of low-skill workers in general (warehouses, retail, hospitality, etc.) but only want to hire high-skilled workers with a decade or more of experience, so workers "in the middle" (junior developers, engineers, and scientists) are left out to dry.

I see a similar dynamic for postdocs, but with a slight difference. I believe the PIs in the article when they say that they are having trouble hiring postdocs. As a former postdoc myself, it pays poorly and has no job security. You take those jobs mostly because you like the work, and right now many people have better options available. That is part of the reason I left my postdoc, but the other part is that there are just so few research jobs in my field (postdoc or otherwise) at the moment. Some fields seem to be flush with money right now and unable to hire enough people to meet demand, while others are barely hiring at all. My field appears to be barely hiring at all. And that is why I think that statements like "there are no jobs available" and "employers cannot find enough workers" can be both true at the same time, since it really depends on the field and what kind of work is being funded at the moment.
Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu is a remake of red/blue
Well that probably won't happen. The I told you so moment will be more like in 20 years when we didn't build nuclear, still don't have economically viable tech for a renewal only grid, and are still burning fossil fuels.
Try polygon maybe.
I agree it's tragic that in our fallen world, we live by other living things dying. I pray every day for God's mercy on our fallen world, and for his mercy on my weakness.

I don't think this will make sense to you, and I understand why it wouldn't, but I trust the traditions of my faith, and the teachings of the Church Fathers in my tradition, more than I trust my own judgement.

The "higher path" in Orthodoxy is the monastic life, which includes not eating meat, dairy, eggs, (and only rarely eating olive oil and wine), but I am not a monk. And the "lower path" in Orthodoxy is to live in the world and to fast from those things for more days during the year than not. I follow the liturgical calendar, and I follow the teachings of my faith because I trust the accumulated wisdom of my faith more than I trust my own judgement, because I lack discernment and spiritual maturity. May God have mercy on us all. Please forgive me for not having a clearer or more satisfying answer for you.
The site wants my personal information (and possibly my money, it isn't clear) to allow me to read beyond the first paragraph. (Though to be fair, even what little is shown is sufficient to clarify the subject matter :)
As I've gotten older I definitely gravitated towards strategy games because they are often fundamentally about "player creativity". You aren't so much churning through content all the time and instead are making lots of small decisions that affect larger outcomes.
Why would you need 100% storage supply. Also note if France would go 100% nuclear they would need either significant overprovisioning or storage as well. Nuclear is not an load following source. Even less so if you want to operate economically.
It is very minor mutilation though, it does not matter.
> the HM said that 500 people applied to the job I was interviewed at
As someone who interviewed candidates in big tech, this sounds like a lot but you have to understand most people who apply are truly not qualified in any way. About a third of people who get to the onsite fail really hard (I get people have off days).

Especially when you have a brand like Google, people apply just to apply all the time w/o considering if the big G is a good fit at all.
How can this be bad or a footgun?

If the algorithm can be PTC optimized, then it is and everything works as efficiently as possible.

If not, then it blows the stack either way.

Finally, a trampoline is objectively worse. The programmer has to have an even bigger understanding of tail calls. Trampolines involving complex patterns are MUCH more difficult to follow. The trampoline is implemented in JS rather than C++. The trampoline will require additional function overhead that cannot really be eliminated. The Trampoline isn't anywhere near as optimizable by the JIT either.

Trampolines are all downsides in comparison with proper tail calls.
Previously:

Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity using deep ocean current (thesciverse.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31622646

222 points | by jdmark | 10 days ago | 207 comments
When Ed Snowden accesses his laptop in the documentary Citizenfour, he puts a blanket over his head and himself including the laptop, then types in the password (presumably... we will never know :), and only then emerges from the blanket. I thought that was an excellent simple security measure!

Maybe a bit weird if you start doing that in trains and coffee shops though.
Even if they supply of doctors was infinite, there is still the problem of demand being basically inelastic. What would the incentive of healthcare providers to lower prices? Inelastic demand means there is no incentive to lower prices, because there is no where else for someone to go and comparison/price shop. If you are hit by a bus, there is no ability for price negotiation to get healthcare.

Also blaming "corporatism" is basically just a meme at this point, because it is just used by libertarians when someone criticizes capitalism. Its the same when communists say "true communism has never been tried".