skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I want to make it clear that my claims are about relative subsidy, rather than absolute subsidy.

Second, the nuclear insurance subsidy is not really a subsidy, since the taxpayer is only on the hook in the case of an accident, which is not only extraordinarily unlikely, but also mitigated many times over. The calculation of the implicit subsidy to nuclear power comes from highly motivated speculative accounting by CATO, whom you should generally think of as playing the role of a law firm working for oil and gas and against alternative forms of energy production. There are a range of values which could be assigned to the "implicit subsidy of nuclear insurance", and the opposition lawyer has obviously chosen the absolute highest end of that range.

It is difficult enough to calculate the probability of a nuclear reactor meltdown, but we have observational evidence that it is at least many dozens of times less likely than say, a hurricane, and each of those is generally more costly than even the worst nuclear disaster in history. The damage wrought by the tsunami at fukushima, for instance, was many times greater than the damage wrought by the meltdown at fukushima.

There is a private component to nuclear insurance, as well, paid by the operators, which totals, across all nuclear plants, approximately 10 times the total damages incurred by the three mile island incident every year. It is extremely unlikely that a nuclear accident will ever exceed these damages.

This is in stark contrast to other historical insurance requirements. As a case study, I recommend learning about the early history of oil spills starting with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Torrey_Canyon and the subsequent founding of TOVALOP in 1968. Up until that point, oil transport insurance was implicitly subsidized by the nature of a limited liability corporation. Note that this was not an artefact of the times, since insurance requirements for the nuclear industry were implemented by congress a decade earlier, in 1957.

On the other hand, we subsidize coal and natural gas implicitly by not charging them for the use of their exhaust channels and also not structurally supporting torts for worse health outcomes with no easily identified proximate cause. For a concrete example, I think we have a pretty good idea of the number of additional hurricanes per year we can expect as a result of carbon dioxide emissions, but we do not require oil and gas to pay for marginal additional hurricane insurance, despite that doing demonstrably more damage than even very bad nuclear meltdowns. The unsuitability of tort as an avenue of collecting externalities is an enormous implicit subsidy for the fossil fuel industry.
AFAIK this is not how you actually sell tech products. You have to learn about what a customer does and what problems they're having. You cater your pitch to what you learn about their needs.

If you just launch into a scripted speech rattling off features, I don't think you'll have much success. Are they having problems with GPL-licensed code? Why not FreeBSD, then? Maybe they have special security or compliance needs. Does OpenBSD solve those needs in a way that nothing else does?
Almost all numbers inside computers are base 2 (for floats, the exponent and fraction are one such number each).

Base 10 is something that is primarily used for presentation to humans.

We all know this, this is HN....
Yep and in those cases, a qualifier is added, such as blueberry wine.
If someone refers to something simply as "wine", I think most of us will expect grape.
Sure, you can't attribute a recession or a boom to a president. But the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is pretty much squarely on the shoulders of the Commander in Chief.
Manufacturing left in the 70s, 80's

Some has come back but it's robots and automation. No one is getting jobs back.

Employment is a dying legacy.
Point is that it is hard and anyway probably unwise to divert renewable power to hydrogen synthesis from things that are using the electricity without conversion losses. It is just about as good or bad to burn NG making hydrogen as to burn NG to make electricity.

But once we have got renewable overbuilt, all the math changes. Until then, unquestionably the right place to spend capital is building out renewables. Building up hydrogen infrastructure, in the meantime, and even fueling it with gray hydrogen, is OK provided it doesn't cost money that could have gone to renewable generating capacity instead.

Often capital has strings attached, and can't go for renewables. Then, spending on readiness to use the coming, cheap hydrogen or ammonia (and burning gray fuel for now), or generally on energy storage, is better than most choices.

Thing is, money is fungible. Each dollar goes to one place and therefore not another. Energy is too, albeit with conversion losses. So, green hydrogen and NG electric is no better or worse than gray NG hydrogen and renewables. Anywhere we can displace NG entirely is good. Moving use of it around, much less so.
The MNT Reform – an open hardware DIY laptop
Optimizely, vwo, abtasty type of tools were built to allow self serve experimentation to marketers, and don’t provide the depth and quality of analysis that most product experiments need. They create separate data planes that usually limit the type of metrics you can use, leading to most tech firms just rolling their own analysis.

Eppo is built for product experiments and data teams, with an emphasis on trustworthy, deep analysis. The initial data/metrics plane is sourced from data warehouses via SQL, and the workflow and stats engine is built so that engineers, PMs, designers can self serve experiments while making statistically sound, scientifically valid decisions.

Let me know if that makes sense, happy to elaborate
We have proof (e.g. Big Bang) that the universe did not exist forever.

Secondly, asking "who created God" is similar to seeing a piece of bread, asking who baked it, then asking "who baked the baker"? It's a logical inconsistency and absurdity.
America’s favorite pastime is fetishizing European countries as if they are heaven on earth
Nothing. But you did a strawman there by changing the subject about what you care or don't care about. If you don't care about relgion then why are you commenting? If you do enough to criticize and take time to comment then don't strawman and address what i said not what you implied.

We are talking truth and belief not impact on ones life.
A big inverter would be the first thing you need.
They could have on-site generators for the gas pumps for such an emergency.

It's not like they don't have a tank of gas nearby .....
My company basically uses slack as an improved email. We don't expect immediate responses unless we specifically tag someone and say ASAP or whatnot. Works out well.
But, sadly, we live on earth and have to make to with the very finite resources we have here.
> While not always the case, it is often the case that a good GC will beat all of those. A generational copying GC with parallel collection will treat most allocations as pointer bumps. Giving them the speed of a bump allocator with periodic fragmentation fixes when collection happens. It will beat both slab and arena allocators.

Unfortunately Go's allocator is none of those. It has slow allocation performance because they don't do generational GC.
quick question. Does this do user (de)provisioning like Jumpcloud? I.e. if the target machine doesn't have a /home/someuser but someuser is in my tailnet ACL, will it create the account?
My earlier comment is not contradictory to this statement. Indeed, you need to be on social media sites to reach a broader audience, but you can post links to your content that is external to those sites rather than giving it up wholesale within the network.
Needing a job isn't a "cultural issue"; people need money to live. Very few people can work for free to get started.
Did you notice it totally dropped off the front page?

There's a reason for that
>I'd say that if you find this distasteful, I think you're better served arguing against patents and trademarks in general since this seems to my very biased eyes to be reasonable based on the current system we have.

What better way to argue against the absurdity of many patents and trademarks, in general, than to argue against some entity being able to trademark the most common word in the English language!

It's a perfect example of how broken the entire space is.
Yes, exactly. Also, this is comparing oil/gas revenue to war expenditure. While Russia is certainly making a huge profit on oil and gas, it is not all profit. Equally, there are many unrealized costs of their war, many of which cannot be fix by any amount of currency (e.g. accelerating demographic decline).
Right. It’s an old sneaky marketing practice of HDD manufacturers to trick consumers, which is still a sneaky marketing trick, just not a new one.
> improve their existing service

> I don't understand the rationale behind cutting me off while I'm scrolling through Twitter simply because I'm not logged in

i mean, this really isn't a bug. this is working as intended, and i don't foresee them wanting to "fix" this anytime soon.
No, you specifically don't want state government control because they will tend to favor regional interests over national ones. California happens to be the ones who organized this particular ISO (which was a valuable service) but once it leaves the borders of California someone else needs to be in the driver's seat.
This is common in Philadelphia. There's a roughly square grid of streets, but then some parts of the grid are subdivided with north-south streets and some are subdivided with east-west streets, and which ones are which seems to be random. Streets that are in the same position in the street grid will have the same name, even if not contiguous. Various segments of Camac Street (which runs between 12th and 13th, roughly where "12+1/3 street" would be) are a good example: https://goo.gl/maps/eKGrA1ByHAbmWSx16
Should be fine if the vehicle is kept charged. Ford F-150s can power most homes for a few days on a single charge [0]

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/40695/the-electric-ford-f-150-...
Government, universities, hobbyists.

That's how we did it the first time.
Note that all of these percentages are a little misleading. It's the percentage of developers who responded to the question, not the percentage of developers who participated in the survey.

For the slack question, it's 72% of 34,440 responses (24,635 love vs 9,805 dread), or about 36% of the 70,000 participants (with ~50% of participants giving no response and I'm assuming therefore being neutral or having no experience.)
That's true; however I can confirm the positives solene@ enumerated are all accurate.

I was using OpenBSD as a daily driver on my thinkpad for a year and a half. The motivations driving me to switch back to Linux were:

* slow -- can't use hyperthreading because of developers' security concerns with that technology.

* no Bluetooth support

* can't use Discord's electron app, meaning no screen share

* NTFS write support needs FUSE which is extremely slow. I worked around it by using exFAT which is fast
Germany has 60GW of solar generation capacity (with plans to expand that to 200GW by 2030) at its relatively high latitude. When it’s hot, the sun is shining. When the sun is shining, you use it for cooling. You even can use it for heating in the winters with heat pumps.
The cheap way to do this (and imo better because much better definition of the breaking strain) is a shear pin.
I just read it as "lib-reoffice" cause it's impossible not to if you've done manual package management in the past :-D
OP asked for video call and photo id "To establish trust I asked them to Facetime and share IDs mutuall"
No point dropping such a useless comment without elaborating. This is effectively gatekeeping and I wouldn't be surprised if it's against HN guidelines
>its still targeted advertising, but abstracted one layer away from the actual user so that the targeted ads don't have to be as fucking creepy with all the data they're gathering on people.

How is it less creepy if the advertisers still end up with all the same data? Whether they snoop on my browsing history or snoop on my search rankings doesn't make any material difference to me. The problem is building a profile on me through snooping.
Depends on which religion. Islam does:

* https://quran.com/51/56

* https://quran.com/67/2

And more.
DARPA Finds Vulnerabilities in Blockchain Tech, Non-Secure Crypto Transactions
Thank you for posting this! I imagine some people reading it may have not considered it before.

Does this idea also extend to ethnicity? This is far from the original topic, but if I emigrate to my wife's home country, I don't think I can ever say I am ethnically "Danish", (or can I?) but she has been "ethnically" American since the day they gave her an ID. Or perhaps there is no "American" ethnicity? I would love someone to educate me on this topic. Perhaps "American" ethnicity is represented in those who move here to be a participate in 'American values'?
Right, I guess my question is if anything that needs to be done to the grid itself (outside of individual homes). You're going to have a big inverter anyway to power just your house from your solar panels, batteries, whatever.
>I'm thinking of the equivalent of github's co-pilot spitting out comments alongside the code

yes exactly. I am having trouble articulating my underlying point but this is along the lines of it.

A facial recognition algorithm is ultimately saying "you look similar to this specific set of people". If the training set was 1 person, for example, then the algorithm would pretty much just be saying "you look like this photo of this 1 person". Scaling that up does not improve privacy - it only blends you into a population. Additionally, it is distilling out the things about you that separate you from that population (things that make you, you) since those distinguishing features are exactly what the model needs to use as the line to draw on whether or not new data points are similar to the population set or not.
> ‘Bubble gum flavour’ is just a less common variant of mint.

"Bubble gum" flavor is a combination of fruity flavors. No mint.

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/what-is-bubblegum-flavo...

> People think it’s a made-up flavour but it isn’t.

It is a made-up flavor, originally created by Thomas Adams.
I literally said "X is not really a concern" and you come back with "Who cares about X?" and something about drinking the blood out of skulls? Whoa. Slow down a sec.

I don't see anyone rooting for AOO to die. The only reason I see here for people to care about keeping up with LibreOffice see that AOO got a much better known brand and clearly haven't done as much with it, causing people to try out an open-source office suite and have a subpar experience with FOSS.
They will accept apps if it does something lame like implement login natively and have a bottom menu bar launcher.

I hate to say it, but I’d probably pay apple a cut if they’d let me distribute PWAs through their App Store without going through the trouble of building a lame native wrapper.
>And its still the most private consumer grade browser out there

>All other browsers require tweaks and changes, while with brave from your first click you are more private, I can give it to my grandma and she would be more private by just using it.

100% false. Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf have zero telemetry. Brave has telemetry built in. Librewolf also comes with adblock built in, no tweaks required at all. Why should I use Brave over Ungoogled Chromium or Librewolf? Why are you defending a browser that is _not private by default_ when community-driven, conflict of interest free browsers exist?
Quantum keys are set for a real-world test in Chicago
The web overdepends on email addresses as identity.

If you have your own domain, it's wise to use that for email (since you can switch providers). Apple has support for custom domains in iCloud email now, I get that iCloud email isn't the coolest or best or anything, but they offer native push support so you get email notifications as fast as the gmail app, but you don't need the third party app. Plus Apple has physical stores with genius bars who _might_ be able to get your account unlocked, if you don't have a TOS violation?

Beyond that, Proton and Fastmail are alternatives. There's not really any such thing as "secure email" (Proton can easily just keep the unencrypted copies of emails sent to your address) but they are both decent non-FAANG options
Seeing the Whole from Some of the Parts
I love ghost but it's always been pretty expensive for just a blog.

It seems like they've maybe shifted prices down a bit, it used to be more than $10/mo, and measured based on page views. Now they're really pushing their content creator angle.
Is this still the realm of "mistakes can happen sometimes" or is it neglience? Where is the limit?
Perhaps: "These plots of this dataset don't show extreme effect either way"
Go Blue.
It's hard to say, but the changeover was noticeable:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/08/climate/light...

When you have a technology in very nearly every home in the country and used daily that you can replace with something a whopping 85% more efficient it adds up.
Ask HN: Group Mailing List for HOA?
Our homeowners association is looking for a simple group email solution. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Need to have: one email address that broadcasts to everyone signed up for the list. Basically an outlook d-list not tied to one email provider.

Nice to have: Some permissions management: Board members should be able to send emails without impedance from the system. Other members should be able to send group messages with approval from a board member.

We have some older folks in the community, so this has to be drop dead simple and reliable. I’m hesitant to suggest something like Discourse because of the unfamiliar UX. Same thing for FB Groups. Email is ubiquitous, so that’s where we have to start.
this is the one that got me started in low latency java a decade ago - http://blog.vanillajava.blog/ - I've spoken with Peter a couple of times, he's a phenomenal technologist
TBH it's only easy if you're ignorant. It's quite obvious to anyone who's informed or educated at all that using Rust would address major security issues. It sucks that people require so much convincing.
We use vastly less power at night especially when you remove people specifically using power at night do to lower costs. So for now that’s a non issue.
Courier (YC S19) lands $35M to build a service for app notifications
The closest at this time would be PayPal freezing/seizing accounts that are "in violation of the terms and conditions" - there are various stories around it.

A government is more than just the entity that can fine/imprison you.
Pedagogy of Moodle
The industry developed during sanctions is a lot like those created during times of highly protectionist policies though.
Once those walls come down, they have to compete with the rest of the world that has been innovating a lot faster. They’ll need a lot of supplemental income or all these bubble-spawned companies will die off. I think it’d be smarter to NOT try to develop everything in-house if you’re a smaller country with many imports.
D is pretty safe choice in that regard. It has been around 20 years already and still marches on. Also it has many companies using it that depend on it. So while there is no guarantee it will ever be among top-10 languages, it's unlikely to die off anytime soon either.
I've just tested this by clicking on one of the notes in the Twitter app: it opens up an ugly webview which I'm not logged into... and it's suggesting to download and use the app for a better experience (I was already on the app!).
There have discussions of requiring staking BAT for advertising on Brave search. Probably won't happen because BAT is meant to be a utility token and this could piss off the regulators.

> I think the general idea of earning tokens for searching and browsing is neat, but the way they're trying to use it directly as a microtransaction currency isn't super innovative.

Micropayments have never worked before. There's hope in the future if the network effect is strong we'll be able to pay a little bit of BAT for one NY Times article, etc.
Small friendly correction: ¿En cuáles países está la mayor parte de sus trabajadores?

"Ser" vs "estar" is one of those hair-pulling verbs with one "simple" rule and a hundred exceptions.
Let’s revisit 1984’s Dune–the greatest movie ever made (2021)
And who is ascendant? China, who, oops, was overcounting their population by 100 million and now realize they have reached/passed the peak working population? Europe, who is completely dependant on the USA to maintain a unipolar world that they then take advantage of? Are you an 80s kid like me, and Japan and Russia are going to eat our lunch any day now? Maybe Dubai with their wanna be Vegas financial center in the desert is where you think is safe in a 'the world is falling apart, let's move to a self sustaining country' scenario? Is the whole world falling apart, in which case it's probably best to be in a country that is energy independent (USA), able to be food independant (USA), has the manufacturing base that if needed can onshore/bootstrap manufacturing (USA) and able to retool to be technologically independent (USA).
Well said. Growing up in the US, this is something I completely took for granted. Living in a couple other countries made me realize how special and unique it is.
For sure. Most of those are pretty young and experimental, so I'm glad D is adding something solid!
Afghanistan was arguably a war of retribution, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia was closer to the guilty parties.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 if that's what you're trying to say.
Background on the “THE”: https://library.osu.edu/archives/faq#1
The rise and fall of the Playstation supercomputers
>You'd also be surprised to know how smoking actually curbs incidents of rage, violence, suicide, and anger in people too...

A lot of the claims you're making in these posts are going to need citations. This specific sentence (with the obvious exception of suicide) sounds as though you're describing a "nic fit", otherwise known as nicotine withdrawal. So of course getting more nicotine in your system is going to fix that.

Without cited sources, your claim is suspect because I can't confirm whether or not nicotine withdrawals were taken into account.
Would you spell it out for us? What exactly happens when the grid fails at your site? Overnight, obviously you have no power. Then "the sun rises" but surely if there's any load, it must get above a certain point in the sky before it can run your house and charge your EVs, especially in the winter. And same thing in the afternoon, there must be a point where the sun is shining but too low in the sky and the load cannot be sustained- what exactly happens then?

(also, no clouds where you are?)
It's not the same thing. You can have one without the other.
Yeah, but if your extra load is coming from climate change that makes the planet more windy and is at its worst when the sun is out then it matches up nicely with the extra demand.
Strange, but I am still not sold on the idea that Apple® owns Apple so as far as I am concerned the word THE is available for any use.
I believe a citation is needed for the claim that the 2014 Ukraine revolution was a "military coup".

Anyway, it's not like the US demanded that Latvia, Poland, etc. join NATO. They are sovereign nations who hated Soviet occupation, and when they got a chance, they joined a mutual defense organization to keep Russia from re-invading them. If Russia didn't want NATO to expand, it shouldn't have been so aggressive towards its neighbors.
I mean if we can have a trademark on The Apple I don't see why A Ohio State University can't get one on A.