skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what you mean by this.

Are you saying trading companies aren't profitable enough?
That was the intention! Maybe we'll meet IRL in a decade or so :)
insurance costs. Heck it's ~4k/year even if your primary employer pays the majority of the cost. And then you've got a deductible to hit...etc.
I wouldn't describe, the process of recognizing your mistakes as self hate. As a German, I know my country is not perfect, none is, and I recognize that past mistakes should not happen again. Smart people learn from mistakes and try not to repeat them.

Sure compared to the US most Germans are not patriotic or are blindly loving their country. But compared to the US what over country emotionally so invested in being number 1 that everything that was bad or does not work / could be better is ignored?

The US is like an Ostrich, as soon as it is uncomfortable they put their head in the sand and yell we are the best, we are number. It can also be compared to conservatives labeling liberals as snow flakes and ridiculing save spaces, while at the same time making the US a giant safe space and ignoring reality.
Just like software developers, politicians focus too much on the short term.
I'd rather have nuclear than hydro. Hydro requires a fairly drastic alteration of a large amount of land and probably uses about the same if not more concrete than a nuclear power plant. You can't put hydro just anywhere, it comes with risks to downstream people and infrastructure, the reserve of water is not directly controllable, they're usually quite remote which requires miles of high voltage transmission lines be built across sometimes otherwise pristine land, the dams themselves can seriously impact rivers and the wildlife that live in and around them. That's just what I could rattle off in a few minutes, I'm sure there are more reasons why they're not ideal.
Disney cancelled the old California resident program during the Covid shakeup.

The California-specific Magic Key was much more restricted than the old locals pass, clogged with blackout days.

It was $399/person. It's long been sold out and nobody knows when they'll sell more.

They now offer these tickets to California residents:

* 3-Day (Monday-Thursday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $249 ($83/Day) Not Valid for Admission on Fridays to Sundays
* 3-Day (Monday-Sunday), 1-Park Per Day Ticket – $299 ($100/Day) No Blockout Dates Apply

A standard non-california 3-day single-park ticket is $330, so you're only saving $10 a day being a local.

The whole California local thing is basically gone except for the hotel/flight advantage.
Industry and residential heat may be larger users than electricity but its still significant. In 2021 gas produced slightly more of Germany's electricity than nuclear, coal produced over twice as much as nuclear. If more nuclear went offline those numbers worse would be worse. As it is Germany is having to restart old coal and oil generators.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany
TLDR:
Air-gapped systems leak data via SATA cable WiFi antennas ...

... to a receiver that can be as far as 120 cm (on a specific DELL system, more like 30 cm for other PC's tested), after you infected[0] the system.

Trasmission can be as fast as 1 bit per second [1].

All in all I believe that people involved in keeping air-gapped computers secure will sleep well nonetheless tonight.

[0] not particualr easy for an air-gapped computer, but possible in theory

[1] possibly good enough to transmit a password, not so much for other data
Tetanus and polio do horrifying things to the body; measles and mumps are sort of mid-level, right? And something like chicken pox has a vaccine now, but is relatively harmless if you catch it as a child.
By collapsing the electric grid? Probably.

Hopefully people are stocking up on coats!

There are roughly 40 million households in Germany based on some random numbers I found googling. If every one of them had a 1500 Watt space heater (woefully undersized for some, fine for others I imagine), and used them during the expected coldest day, you’d be throwing an extra 60 billion watt hours (aka gigawatts) of extra load on the grid right when renewables are least capable (typically).

That would also almost exactly double current German peak electrical energy consumption.

The grid would collapse.
In several states, I think you just have to take a written test to get your Motorcycle license.
Apple's data in China is handled by China government affiliated entity https://technode.com/2018/01/10/apple-icloud-guizhou/ . China's typical play book in tech field is to have the original products banned and have their own copycat flourish.
The notion of a sale for software and especially the countdown timer is a deliberate trick designed to separate people from their money. Just because many businesses engage in these kinds of dishonest tactics doesn't mean that people will just accept them. People don't like being tricked - it's a very legitimate criticism.
It's definitely an aspect - travel including air travel is so cheap now that people go to the "big spots" - people likely can't even name the closer small areas.
Strategy: increase prices and restrict product to be more appealing to customers.
I can’t speak for European regulatory bodies, but in the USA the relevant authority is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which was founded in 1974 and approved zero new reactor designs between 1974 and 2020. Conservative doesn’t even begin to describe the stance of regulatory agencies, despite newer designs being much safer from decades of design improvements, nobody wants to be the person responsible for signing off and issuing a safety certification.
Thank you for the words and for sharing. The excerpts into thumbnails idea is cool I like the concept of having a library where the cover is the first sentence of the first page or something like that.
Even before 2010, directors and their cinematographers put a lot of thought into what film stock to use in order to build the aesthetic they want for their film. Grain characteristics are one of the most prominent distinctions among different stocks.
Overall, it's the most expensive way of producing energy. Long term it is on the way out.
Question- how does a company like Zuru think this is a good idea? Suing a former employee because they left a negative review doesn’t exactly give me warm fuzzies. Is this just a case of C level megalomania?
Climate considerations for youth sport during the hottest years on record
What is that weird source? All the links in there are self-referential, and a lot of the articles are choke full of straight up wrong info.

In their "About us" page they decry "consensus science" and "global warming alarmists"..

Which is a way too common issue with a lot of the online reporting on German fission; Giving straight up wrong history and info based on very questionable motives.

Case in point; The article, once again, claims it was Merkel who decided the exit, allegedly in 2011, when that's plain and simply wrong. Merkel pushed trough extremely unpopular running time extensions in 2010, then Fukushima exploded in 2011 and the running time extensions were revoked during the course of the atom-moratorium, as during safety inspections the reactors were found not to be safe enough to run that much longer [0].

That's also why some reactors never came back online from the moratorium; They were found too unsafe to be turned back on. But their remaining electricity contingency was added to the remaining ones, which is what will allow them to run for longer.

At least if the German government will pay for that extra run time, as the nuclear operators themselves are unwilling to do so [1].

There is literally decades of more history there, several big government subsidies for the nuclear industry along the lines of "Privatized profits, socialized losses" [2], while at the same time sabotaging the renewable built out [3], all under allegedly "nuclear hating" Merkel.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom-Moratorium

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/akw-betreiber-gegen-l...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-d...

[3] https://www.dw.com/en/renewable-sector-wary-of-cdu-promises/...
Well, you still need gas or coal to regulate your electricity production during surges.
Is not scalable at all. Not everyone lives in Austria or Switzerland.
That they might align at times with a better decision does not imply they made a logical decision. In many instances they were making emotional appeals, if I recall correctly.

Also, it's to hard to imagine that any of the other Democrat candidates for president could have fared worse than Biden. Bloomberg or Bernie, I think could have done a better job so far. The others were a bit green and likely unprepared for global events, but even so, could one imagine them dong any worse? There is a fair chance they could have done better.
I'm the oldest of 10 kids. My family needed a 15-passenger van to travel. Why can't the government stay out of my business?
Children 11 and under ride for free on the MBTA in Boston, and there are discounts for middle and high-school students. A round-trip ticket for an adult is $4.80 - $2.40 each way.
That's a valid reason to hold on. Thanks for indulging the discussion!
It would make it easier to remove though… which makes it even more odd that it is still there even after the three years of notice.
Not until we can figure out the storage problem, which is not batteries.

Pumping water with excess power up into a reservoir to later use for hydro power, or something along those lines, is likely the only "battery" big enough to power a country.
Why don't they just anonymise the data, so even Glassdoor doesn't know who it came from?
We the taxpayers do pay, just the money doesnt reach the researchers.
I don't know what Putin has to do with operating nuclear safely in Germany.
You decided who to vote for because of celebrity endorsements? yikes.
https://tld-list.com/
This doesn't contradict anything I said.

- Everything needs maintenance; nuclear plants are by no means unique in this regard. France may have planned badly, so that many plants are down at once, but this is not a systemic problem with nuclear power.

- Europe overall was unprepared for the heat wave, but we are not really concerned with energy demand during heat waves (which are short, and when sunshine is plentiful) but rather during the winter (which is long, and dark in EU).

So again, more nuclear capacity in Germany could offset gas-fired power plants throughout EU.
Storage heaters were somewhat common in the 60s and 70s in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater

Together with significantly reduced electricity cost at night like in the past, this is probably the way to go if we wanted to go back to nuclear power.
What's a better alternative as a freelance developer who's only interested in remote work, residing in the EU with a company registered in Germany for 18 years?
...in Denmark
My take is that the French government wants to have a nuclear industry to share the costs with the military side. Thus subsidizing nuclear submarines, carriers and nuclear weapons while keeping a skilled industry to base it on.

To allow this the population get subsidized electricity, and everyone else can read about the amazingly cheap electricity in France even though it's a pure subsidy.

In 2010, as part of the progressive liberalisation of the energy market under EU directives, France agreed the Accès régulé à l'électricité nucléaire historique (ARENH) regulations that allowed third party suppliers access up to about a quarter of France's pre-2011 nuclear generation capacity, at a fixed price of €42/MWh from 1 July 2011 until 31 December 2025.[57][58][59]

> As of 2015, France's household electricity price, excluding taxation, is the 12th cheapest amongst the 28 member European Union and the second-cheapest to industrial consumers.[60] The actual cost of generating electricity by nuclear power is not published by EDF or the French government but is estimated to be between €59/MWh and €83/MWh.[61]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
https://www.sherline.com/product/8540/
The government addressed this a few years ago by raising taxes on larger car chassis, making vehicles like the Hummer more expensive.

This led to the instantaneous rise in popularity of so-called "crossover" vehicles. Puffy vehicles that looked kinda SUV-ish and were elevated for higher road visibility but were built on a smaller (lower tax rate) car chassis.

The article of course wants to go to the next step, banning them outright which is just not going to happen. We don't live in a dictatorship and so absolutes like "never make an SUV" bans this don't really happen. Especially because... there are plenty of real-world non-edge-case scenarios in which having one vehicle for a lot of people and stuff is much more efficient than multiple sedans.

We could keep raising taxes on those SUV chassis though, I guess.
Then it starts sounding even better!
The alternative _was_ a celebrity.
The massive car sizes we see are because of government emissions regulations to begin with. That’s right, the “big truck to make up for lack of X” phenomenon was actually caused by people attempting to regulate how trucks are made without thinking through thr consequences.

People who reach for regulations tend to be bad with incentives, not always, but usually.
I'm also curious why (required) speed limit regulators aren't a thing, especially in cities. Why are cars physically allowed to go more than 25 MPH in NYC? I thought speed limit regulators are required on some kinds of scooters and electric bikes. Cars are a lot more dangerous.

It's not that I think NYC or the US is very progressive when it comes to dealing with potential car crashes (we aren't) but I'm also curious why this hasn't shown up in other countries/cities in Europe/Asia that are more safety conscious.
> But you’re really getting what the memory controller decides to give you.

Yes, here the memory is read through a debug bus.

> I could design a memory controller with landmines, as in “if you ask for 0x1234 I will go into a mode where I send back garbage for all future reads until power is cycled.”

Yes, it basically looks like a backdoor, and you can do it the other way around:
The memory read through the debug bus is exactly the content of the ROM, but the memory controller is made so that when the processor reads a specific address or data it doesn't return the value in memory but something else.

This way even a person who would use a visual or an intrusive memory extraction method would not notice the backdoor.
The only way to discover it is to do a full inspection of the logic, which probably nobody will do.

> Is this a thing?

Yes, sometimes some addresses in a memory system are effectively not readable (write only).
As for example with some memory-mapped configuration registers, a 0-value may be returned instead of the register contents.

But your question sounds to me more about mechanisms to hide a backdoor.

Regarding hardware backdoors, they are always theoretically and practically possible, and almost always undetectable.
Since nothing prevents the designer from introducing logic that has malicious behaviour and it's nearly non-observable.

This is the problem with theories about backdoors in modern processors.
Without evidence, these theories fall into the realm of conspiracy theories.
But it's almost impossible to have evidence and no-one can say that it doesn't exist.
Why can't the government put a limit on the expression of clueless technocrats?
There are already many incentives in place for smaller cars:

* Use less fuel

* Easier to park

* Cheaper to buy

There is generally not much point in having the government incentivize "good" things. Whatever makes them good is already the incentive, and if that's not enough, then there are probably other issues at play that some feel-good government initiative isn't going to overcome.
Official governance vs the effective governance is the real crux of this issue. Immediately starting from the lead developers separated by companies already puts a deep corporate interest spin on the project. Choosing to do a lot of the initial work in secret and then disclosing is also a pretty big data point.

I think this is going to be an uphill battle for them and I hope they win it but I'll be skeptical unless if I start seeing radical (for google) transparency basically immediately.

Also worth pointing out that the language is not immediately worthless even if they fail or only partially succeed in this endeavor!!
And it's not only the gravity but density advantage. delta vee = v_ex times ln (mass ratio). It's the mass ratio part.

The problem for first stages is that some high ISP propellants are very non-dense. Liquid hydrogen is 70 kg per cubic meter. Kerosene is about ten times as dense.
So the tanks need to be a lot bigger for the same payload. The same holds for pumps and turbines too. So the engines need to be bigger for the same thrust. Hydrogen is also annoying to deal with as it's much colder than liquid oxygen, the molecule is also much smaller and leaks much more easily.

Technically the fueled all-up hydrogen rocket might be lighter, so the engines should be smaller, but the density disadvantage eats back all that advantage. The dry mass, which is the actual cost driver, is about the same.

For upper stages, it makes sense because the cost driver is not the dry mass but the wet mass. Also they need less thrust so engine mass is a smaller proportion of stage mass.
Maryland\DC is great for kid-friendly activities. Annual passes to the aquarium and Baltimore zoo were reasonable 20 years ago, not sure about now. Inner harbor was great too.
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Just posting it here as well (have done so before), but beware the Oracle Cloud one. I've had tons of issues getting my account deleted, it's been more than a year and I'm still having to raise tickets and go back and forth.

The resources are nice and they can easily run a small page or be useful to try out hosting things, deploying apps and general server maintenance/deployment/etc. However, anything you will be running on them shouldn't be essential to you. For ex, the ARM VPSes will actually switch off/get disabled at the end of the first monthly trial and I believe (feel free to correct me on this) that you will need to get some support to enable any VM you setup in the trial. Although the resource is always free, the first month is treated differently for whatever reason and you end up with a disabled VM. You can create new ones within those limits again, just fyi.

The entire platform is also unnecessarily convoluted, but I'd argue that's the case with most of these cloud providers - felt the same way trying AWS for a project and I feel the same way every day using Azure. However, out of these offerings, Oracle's is the most generous free one, just keep in mind it's just that - free. So you do get what you pay for.
If you have any resources or maybe a sample on GitHub this sounds great for my next project
Do you drive it on a private road?
I prefer approaches that incentivize positive climate behavior, like taking the bus or bikes. Make it more convenient to charge electric vehicles in cities. Etc.
"BS" very clearly refers to the timer not the site. But I've removed it anyway.

INSTANTLY is appropriate emphasis. It's important to convey that when you see a 'clickfunnels' countdown timer you don't look past it.
Coincidentally I was wondering a similar thing this morning. To get as much text as possible on paper for holiday reading I managed to get the text down 30% while by stripping out any vowel but the first in a word, replacing 'the' with '#', 'and' with '&' and of' with '%'. I also used the smallest Tahoma font and multiple columns.
This increases reading complexity just as Sans Forgetica, but perhaps also increases reading speed somewhat- because words get stripped down to their 'essence' (perhaps similar to chinese or japanese script) and your eyes move less with multiple columns.
In that 'word essence'sence this technique has similarities to Bionic Reading. Combining the two would be tricky, as what letters would be bolded with the devowel method and can you get closer to a word essense?
The combination with Beeline and Bionic Reading or devoweling could have more potential. It's nice that Beeline has gray scale support.

sed 's/ and / \& /g' -e 's/ of /\ % /g' -e 's/ is / \= /g' -e 's/ th / \# /g' -e 's/\B[aeiouAEIOU]//g' -e 's/\(.\)\1/\1/g' -e "s/'//g" sacred-world.txt > sw.txt
IMO "Ok Boomer" is popular because this is too long for a tweet... The boomer cohort in the US collectively presided over the most prosperous time in human history and took full advantage gorging themselves at the trough of money and power. They've left us with an environment in systemic decay, under performing K12 schools, corrupt and ineffective government, countless trillions in debt, and a deep dependance on fossil fuels and the wars required to secure them. By any serious measure boomers failed at nearly everything besides serving themselves.
My son manufactures pattern-welded steel billets for knife makers (so-called Damascus). In his garage.
Housing is expensive because it's what people can afford. I often wonder how much damage was done by encouraging dual income families. It provided temporary relief, at the expense of raising costs and bringing everyone back to a previous single-earner lifestyle long-term.

With dual income you have to pay for daycare (2-3k/month), and that's not pre-tax. This lead to less births, requiring more immigration. The government used illegal immigration to fill the gap, which has put strain on our social services such-as schools.

I wonder if we were better off economically with the single earning household norm.
Counterpoint: “why can’t government limit what people can mandate out of cars … for very good safety reasons”?
> are supposed to handle something on the order of 50g

Minutemen did 30+ g decades ago [1].

[1] https://minutemanmissile.com/documents/ReentryVehicleDesignA...
It's not a trick. It's a sale. Have you never seen anything go on sale before?
How to Install a Solar Food Waste Digester
Good luck even spelling the exotic metals you need for a nuclear power plant.
Though note that the legal use of the term "actual malice" isn't quite what one might expect from the plain English.
or batteries / battery analogs. It is possible to solve this problem with tools we currently have. If we're thinking long term, we do not require coal or gas for power generation given sufficient hydro, wind, solar and storage. Cryogenic air, pumped hydro, and other storage designs are possible.
When it starts interfering with agriculture by killing crops, resulting in famine and food shortages.