skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some friends who've done week-long ski tours in remote parts of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Their guides all carried serious rifles or shotguns with slugs, and made sure everyone in the party knew how to shoot.

Their closest Grizzly encounter was a bear that stumbled across them, and charged at their lead skier from ~200m out. The guide shot the bear twice, but it still managed to get within 20m of the group before it dropped.

Here in the US, I know two hikers who've been attacked by Grizzlies in the Rockies, and another guy who got jumped in Alaska. All three survived, but required medical evacuation and hospitalization... The guy in Alaska nearly bled to death from a broken rib tearing into the blood vessels feeding his kidney.

So I'm not sure what the likelihood of bear attacks would be--but it does happen, and the consequences can be quite severe.
The going to a ball game is an interesting example. I think there are financial disincentives at play, most notably, the price of beer. There are likely forces at play that will maximize the dollar intake while minimizing the amount consumed. This is not popcorn (still expensive) we are talking about. If beer were 1/2 as expensive, then people would drink 2x more and spend the same amount, but the effect on society would be much worse. We would have more fights in the stands, more drunk driving, and other negative effects. So by jacking up the price of a beer, fans can enjoy one or two, then realize they don't have the budget for a 3rd or 4th and cut it off there. They cut off sales in the 7th inning to prevent most of those effects I mentioned.

But that's just a theory ... a beer theory.
Most compact cars can tow maybe 1000 pounds. Thats including the trailer weight. Any more, you risk damage to the transmission - they're largely aluminum these days, and not designed to do much more than move the car around.

You have FWD, don't even think about it.

I would be careful taking any recommendation to 'just pull a trailer'. Sure U-Haul will install the hitch. That doesn't mean anything.
> The SEC has awarded approximately $1.3 billion to 278 individuals since issuing its first award in 2012.

That's either alot of corruption that's been caught due to whistleblower rewards or an indication of the amount of corruption in the US if you are more cynical.

Whsitleblower's are eligible for 10 to 30% of the money collected from fines, so the SEC is also making alot of money from this as well.

Here's the list they maintain if you want to look:

https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/pressreleases
To be fair, I went to a Yankees game for $30 last week and had okay seats. Food and drinks are expensive Yankee Stadium, but you can bring snacks in, so it's actually pretty affordable as an occasional activity for a family.
Could be a small amount every x days?
Engineers generally have the responsibility of picking dependencies subject to legal constraints - they have zero understanding or inclination to understand licensing terms. That's generally fine at companies with established legal departments. The enforcement of legal constraints is done by the legal department, which will usually employ at least one full-time counsel who specializes in IP law, and it is generally completely outside engineers' purview. In fact, this is Standard Operating Procedure at almost every company of this size, including at Nutanix, which is a mid-size, public, enterprise hardware/software company whose shares are traded on NASDAQ.

It's really not the engineers' job to pick the dependencies per se, but to pick them subject to constraints that are laid out by management. There is certainly no ethical quandary or abdication of moral responsibilities in this setup: engineers will pick among choices that are pre-vetted by people who know the legal ramifications best and have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to make sure the company does not run afoul of applicable law.
Probably all the trucks I see driving in cities. Come out to the country and see how much trucks get used.
Ah, the type 2 - the genesis of the chicken tax:

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

Which is still screwing up the mini truck market in the US to this day :(
Russia allegedly days away from turning Nordstream 1 back on
Yet on the official Discord just as of a few days ago he was begging for sales and pitching for people start reselling the devices.

George is bright but not a stable leader. Every month it's some new scheme or feature that will "sell 10x the units!"

No, it won't, not with the lack of support and poor attitude from Comma. If George wants to sell 10x the units it must be a consumer device and treated by Comma as one.
Abandonig XML would help the climate immensly.
You need to research long covid: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/more-than-1-in-5-cov...
Microcode spills lots of the secrets of the hardware design, so you want it encrypted for as many years as possible to keep your trade secrets out of competitors’ hands.
> 1) extraordinary claim

So... The claim safeguards created after major accidents happened are necessary for safety is extraordinary?

They can probably be improved, but then, you keep comparing with Russia and China as if those two countries cared about the safety of their population.

(Anyway, there was a recent paper here on HN that looked into the issue and discovered the costs are more of a consequence of the small size of the industry than the safety constraints. That kind of problem is hard to fix, but if you want to try, it's a worthy cause.)

> completely miss the point that not developing renewable and going for 100% nuclear increase overall economics.

You seem willfully ignorant of how power generation economics work. Or are you talking about the opportunity costs of choosing the cheapest option?

>> But we know it's way longer than that

>who is we? Where is the evidence?

Hum... The first Google result I get seems to be using this data:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf

TLDR, the worst kind of panel they measured lost less than 2% of it's capacity per year, so about half of its capacity in 50 years. Some slightly more expensive ones lost less than 1% per year.

> > Storage seems to be viable even with current tech (not using batteries)

> please source

Oh, there's a comment on this thread about how hydro-storage can hold about 10 times the requirements for the world. There was one recently about how hydrogen is perfectly sufficiently, as flawed as it is. And of curse, there is always some weird design appearing once in a while, that nobody invests in, of course, because nobody has ever invested on energy storage.

> The majority should be with electric batteries AKA lithium.

What a lack of principled thinking, this equating batteries with lithium. Lithium isn't that great for stationary storage in any way other than the batteries factories already existing.

> Renewable needs pilotable energies.

Not more of them than we are using now. Anyway, no, 100% nuclear doesn't work well either, it would be incredibly expensive. None work without storage. (By the way, you seem to have an incorrect model of why renewables don't decrease their production when they overproduce. Most of them can do it perfectly well if the overproduction becomes too severe, it just brings costs.)

> regarding lithium availability

And then we go into the "what is the meaning of that "reserves" word" treadmill... You may want to look into it in detail, as both lithium and uranium have a problem with that word. None has a problem of availability.

Anyway, about sea extraction, people have done it economically for lithium, but for uranium it's many orders of magnitude harder.

Also, about this:

> reactors that reuse MOX fuel (like e.g. France does) can significantly (how much ?) reduce uranium consumption.

In theory, recycling can reduce consumption around 1000 times (varies with every detail on the lifecycle). Breeding can do much more (that's why thorium is interesting).
That's not how it works. The launching platform will never have a sufficiently precise target track to hit a carrier with an unguided weapon from any significant distance. Flight time will be at least several minutes so even a slight course deviation is enough to generate a miss. The new generation of hypersonic missiles will have some onboard sensors and ability to seek out a target, but only within narrow limits.
because when you are getting a child record through a join (in the view), the parent will never have deleted_at set.

Say I have a simple view `select * from foo join bar on foo.foo_id = bar.foo_id where foo.deleted_at is null`

I never have to worry about deleting from bar, because I should never grab a child when the parent is 'deleted'.
>"NO PILLS EXCEPT THOSE IN A PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE WITH MATCHING NAME" and about 100 other things they banned such as liquor.

As someone who's passingly familiar with a small local festival's management, I'd be willing to bet that those rules are being required by the festival's insurance company.
Of course, if they actually cracked down on the drugs/alcohol, they'd have a lot less people show up next year (and management knows it).
Nova Launcher has been acquired by analytics company Branch
I think the best approach would be a graph showing the distribution of users across different WPM differences, and if possible a second experiment with two non-BR fonts (to see how much random variation is expected). The positive results might all be noise, but I don’t think that should be the default assumption.
Are copyrights valid for generated music/images/whatever?

I remember reading a book a while back that presented the idea of computer generated patents to ensure you own every aspect of an idea.

Seems a little nuts that someone could create a program to generate nearly infinite output then claim a copyright on all of it.
I tried cxx and walked away somewhat disappointed.

One problem is that it's hard to understand the code. The whole thing is one giant proc macro, which is by itself tricky to run and debug. Also it uses techniques like implementing Deref to simulate inheritance which makes it even more confusing.

The main problem is the difficulty in extending it. Support for std::string and std::vector are "baked in" in a way that does not generalize. I tried to add support for std::wstring and it is quite non-trivial.

Because it is a proc macro it's also tricky to integrate into a build system.

To me it seems like Cxx is "purpose built" which is fine. But after working with it, I longed for a Python script that just populates a template string or something.
Agree on the public/private thing, I typed without my brain in gear.
The source data does not support his (and by proxy, your) points.

The bulk of the growth in claimant count came from Feb 17 to Mar 20 - it nearly doubled over that period, when conditionality of benefits was in full swing. It simply does not follow that conditionality reduces claimant count.

In any case, conditionality was reinstated in July 20, and unless you or Fraser can precisely define how conditionality was "not properly restored", I'm going to take the government's word on it.

Per his tweet, https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/1530206631195201536/..., we can see in his computation of those on out-of-work benefits he includes pension credit (what demographic receives this, I wonder?), and 1.7M people on INCAP - the various disability allowances, the majority of whose claimants will, due to the closure of the old schemes to new claimants, be on the modern ESA benefit where eligiblity is assessed by an independent healthcare professional. For example, as my mother withered away in her final months, bedbound with oesophogal cancer, she became eligible for ESA, and contrary to one of your other comments to another poster about the 5 million, she most assuredly was dying.

Note also that UC is in turn becoming a replacement for ESA. He did not avail himself of the facility on Stat-Xplore to breakdown those aggregated UC figures into the "out-of-work" and "no work requirement" figures - they are 2,103,346 "out of work" and 1,399,843 "no work requirement" - no work requirement being defined in https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-statistical-s... as "those who are not expected to work at present, such as those for whom Health or caring responsibility prevents claimant from working or preparing for work"

Thus, the 5 million figure is inflated by a mere 3.1 million people who are either retired or who have been assessed as having some inability to work.

I would suggest critically examining the source stats instead of uncritically accepting the interpretation of right-wing journalists with an agenda, though I fear you share said agenda...
I greatly enjoy talking with people in person (outdoors of course) these days about interesting things because it's such a rare occurrence... One of the most troubling things though is how many people get easily wound up (and aren't forgiving) about misunderstandings in conversations.

People seem to be increasingly concrete in their judgements about social, economic, and political issues that have nothing to do with them as individuals, and often it results in fighting words, and that's crazy to me. A deep polarization is coming from many fronts, and it also over-emphasizes issues, making people far more offensive and defensive than before -- possibly heightened because of pandemic-related isolation and economic stress.

I think a lot of people judge the world based on tropes... The small-minded view based only on the people they've observed, rather than being able to place themselves in the shoes of others they don't know, and it's a growing problem when narrowly focused people like this lead and make decisions for us all. I think we really need to reject the use of tropes in discussions as fact because it's toxic, but at the same time, I work hard to not be triggered by anything that's well intended. We all make mistakes, and as long as you can choose to walk away, being misunderstood is a small price to pay for regular human communication.
House transactions in Portugal raised by 20.5% in 2021
As they should.

There are several ebikes that on throttle can hit close to 50 mph, which is enough for commuting on road ways, while having a low power pedelec mode for regular bike path commuting. This is the perfect solution to public transportation, compared to any other alternative.
We are about 30, and about to move into a new 20k sq ft office with production and a datacenter on site.

Yes!: https://comma.ai/jobs

And one more: https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/1548030295340769280
I also tend to prefer functional programming to OOP in JS, but there's a massive legacy of OOP in JS. The `class` syntax really is just syntactic sugar for classic IIFE-wrapped `.prototype.` JS OOP. You can pass modern classes to ancient JS OOP libraries like for instance Dojo and there's sometimes few things quite as satisfying when upgrading legacy code as replacing the classic legacy spaghetti Dojo class definition IIFE with a much simpler `class SomeLegacyWidget extends DojoWidget {}`. Almost no one even needs to know what an IIFE even is or stands for today. It's great.

That `class` syntax works in all the modern browsers today, no Typescript transpile or Babel plugin or "polyfill" needed.

(Dojo comes to mind because of doing code on current ArcGIS-related projects that are still stuck in the mines of ancient Dojo versions, IIFE "classes", and AMD wrappers. Still great to have Typescript generate the AMD wrappers for you from modern ES2015 module syntax, but `class` and even `await/async` you can get for "free" in modern browsers and are huge clarifying changes to legacy Dojo work.)
I was a fan of the NetScape Directory Server. And the physical design language of the Sparc 5/10/20 & lunchbox IPC/IPX workstations.
Reminds me of the engineering twist on “glass half full” as “glass is twice as large as it needs to be”. Here’s hoping it wasn’t built too small though.
Can we not do this sort of thing here? Yes, I get that everyone has not heard of every single company in the world, but a quick web search for "anduril defense" or "anduril company" can solve that particular issue. There's no need to pedantically feign annoyance that someone used a term you aren't familiar with and need to do the most trivial of research.
Most runways, at least at busier airports, are already concrete.
How does this help with foreign keys? Normally you can’t have foreign keys referencing a view.

I agree that one should make use of RDBMS capabilities. A check constraint may be practical instead of (or in addition to) the foreign-key constraint.
That's less than 1% of the population. If you're not in the high risk category or living with someone at high risk, and you got vaccinated, then there isn't reason to be overly concerned. Take precautions as you feel the need, but otherwise, life goes on. This isn't the bubonic plague or smallpox.
TikTok also has Bill Burr…
I'm not gonna argue that we're not living in a dystopia, but I feel like that's a weird place to draw the line
> Furthermore, the cost of an error is potentially massive. Someone new at the company makes a revenue report based in the billed Invoices and does not realize they should query the view and not the table... Not great if 90% of all invoices belong to soft-deleted customers!

I'm not sure I buy this argument. It's certainly conceivable for that to happen, but no more so than any other case of "the engineer queried the wrong table and thus got incorrect results." There's never going to be any technical way of preventing this: if you have access to multiple sets of numbers, and you want to sum up one set of numbers but mistakenly sum up the other set of numbers, you're going to get the wrong answer!
Google, Oracle cloud servers go down in UK heatwave, take down websites
How did u go about teaching ur self electrical engineering?
Where does that "swarm“ of drones come from? Any drones cheap enough to use in a swarm have very limited endurance and weak sensors. Possibly useful in the littorals, but a total joke for blue water operations.

Satellites are limited and impossible to hide. The carrier strike force knows exactly when they are in view of an adversary's reconnaissance satellite. In any future major conflict the satellites will be the first casualties. There is a very active arms race in anti-satellite weapons.
Stanford millirobot swims in body to deliver medicine
I haven’t had any problems with this at all and I’ve been using joins in my views for years.

Are you using CTEs in your views?
>to my knowledge, there’s never been a successful media-tech firm founded by people in their sixties. The young brain is crazy, creative, and willing to work 80 hours a week, as young people think they’ll live forever. People in their sixties are not blessed/cursed with any of these things, which makes them decent leaders, great mentors, and shitty entrepreneurs.

Maybe you do not see us because we work smarter, not harder. Maybe, we no longer need to be in the limelight like a "young brain". We can just sit back, hire "young people" to be gung-ho, and enjoy providing guidance, and the fruits of our labour.

(edit: love to hear the elucidation why the down-vote.)
Hack the tabulating machines. So much easier and they are the only ones that humans actually look at.
Does a chaos titan really need a reason to do something? It could be as simple as he was on an ego trip that couldn't be sustained. It seems truly unlikely this was all a scam perpetuated for Elon to make some money.
> That's either alot of corruption that's been caught due to whistleblower rewards or an indication of the amount of corruption in the US if you are more cynical.

Given a stock market of around $100T (and the SEC covers more than stocks) it would argue for a rather small amount of corruption, were it the only signal.

In fact I believe the corruption at this level is quite small. Really, why bother when you can do it wholesale (e.g. telecoms simply capturing the regulators)?

> Whsitleblower's are eligible for 10 to 30% of the money collected from fines, so the SEC is also making alot of money from this as well.

These fines go to the treasury; it's not like they fund operations from it.

BTW civil forfeiture, if you even believe in it at all, should go to the state or federal general funds. The current system is simply legalized theft.
We use soft-deletes extensively at our startup. Here's a couple reasons:

- Feature creep. "Sometimes our users accidentally hit the delete button, or change their minds a minute later. We want to give them a way to undo the deletion." Or "I know we said last quarter that we users want to delete stuff, but they also want to see a list of everything they've deleted in the past." Soft-deletes handle feature-creep a lot better than hard-deletions

- It simplifies foreign-keys management. If you want to hard-delete something that some other entity is referencing, you'll have to hard-delete or modify that other entity first. And potentially repeat this process recursively for their own references. This is a pain. One could argue that if you really want to delete something, you should be deleting all children as well. Such arguments are highly domain specific, and very bad universal claims. We've seen some use-cases where such pedantry is not necessary

- It makes it easier to recover from mistakes and bugs. Customer deleted something accidentally and emailed you begging for help? Your code has a bug causing stuff to get deleted when it shouldn't be? You'll be thankful you did a soft-delete and not a hard-delete. Is it going to solve every single problem where the data has system-wide ripple effects in a unicorn sized organization? No. But it'll still solve a number of problems where the data impact is more localized

- It makes debugging easier. You have a clear record of everything that used to exist. You don't have to go digging through your logs to find something that used to exist but has now been deleted

- Speed. All of the above problems can be solved in other ways too. The author suggests putting all deleted data in a "deleted records table." So now you need to maintain a 2nd table for every table that you may want to delete stuff from. All schema updates will need to be mirrored on this 2nd table. And you'll need to write and maintain code to populate this deleted-records-table every time you delete stuff from the original table. All doable and straight-forward but takes time away from other things you could be doing instead

The main benefit from hard-deletions is data compliance and liability. Ie, being able to tell privacy-conscious customers that you actually deleted their data. If you're handling any sensitive data, you should definitely do hard-deletions at some point for this reason. But the other reason the author gave - "it's annoying having to check for `deleted_at` when writing SQL queries" - seems pretty minor compared to the benefits.
> when the Twitter board was discussing “poison pills” to stop his purchase of the company. Now, the same board is begging him to complete the purchase.

These are two separate incidents although commonly conflated. Poison pill is used to block a hostile takeover where the board has been taken by surprise, by diluting stake - which happened because Musk didnt disclose to SEC for long time he owned 14.4% of the Twitter.

After the things were in the light of the day, he didn't take up the position on Twitter board & instead offered to purchase controlling stake in Twitter (something which was not possible as a board member). The negotiations hence followed for purchase

Then, he has famously backed out of the Twitter deal in bad faith & disparaged it publicly. Twitter is also beholden to its investors. They have every right not to tank their market cap because a rich guy got whimsical
They aren't the only hosting company using GCP. GCP has been very aggressive targeting hosting partners.

Kinsta: https://status.kinsta.com/

SiteGround: https://twitter.com/siteground/status/1270492907078914052?la...

Both having same issue
Apple to pay $50m settlement for rotten butterfly keyboards