skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that nuclear in France is not profitable and so is subsidized (potentially, don't want to argue that here). To back this you use the fact France agreed to a mechanism (ARENH) to sell its electricity BELOW market rates (this is true).

The logical connection makes no sense. If you want to keep something alive and need subsidies for it, why would you on top of that decide to make even more losses on it? Now, we could agree that maybe France did not have the choice to agree. But don't use ARENH as a proof that nuclear is subsidized
Yes, backend engineers do get paid more in general. I was just wondering why this runs contrary to OP's explanation that "closeness" to user triumphs job difficulty (when it comes to leverage/salaries).
Growing up in a very country part of Texas, the road in front of my house changed over the years as the county would upgrade it. One upgrade in the 80s was a tar base with gravel rocks. During the summer when it would get 100+, the tar would melt and get stuck to everything. It is the primary reason I quit running around barefoot as a kid. I ran along the road with the melted tar, and learned a life lesson. Not only was the hot tar painful, it was extremely unpleasant to remove.

Maybe in the 40 years since, people have figured things out like don't pour gravel covered tar roads in the heat?
Oil and gas lobbyists insisted on using coal, instead of oil and gas? Was it the same lobbyists who convinced China to use coal?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-starts-bui...

Maybe coal is just a convenient energy source.
I was referring to the innovations in browser capabilities. Process sandboxing massively improved both the robustness of the browser experience and the boldness with which features could be used (because a crashing site wouldn't take the whole browser with it). It paved the way for the actual "browser is the OS for the web" experience we have today, unlike IE's attempt to wed a crash-prone application to its core OS functionality. As a result, the browser capability specs themselves exploded, which eventually rendered Flash, Silverlight, and ActiveX plugins mostly redundant and allowed browser vendors to make their way towards stripping them out in favor of web-engine-only solutions.
Why this startup is on a mission to design the perfect sneaker
I don't necessarily agree with all their design goals, but it is unfortunately true that getting a large coherent change through the C++ committe is an herculean task. The language ends up doing a random walk via small steps through the design space without a coherent long term vision, because nothing else is feasible.

Implementing a coherent vision might lead to a better language even if most stakeholders might disagree with every single change.
"the American southwest"

Here in Denver, at least, our runways are all made of cement instead of tarmac. I knew one of the civil engineers who worked on the special blend of cement the used, and from what I remember of what he told me, it is much thicker than I expected, and has other stuff in it compared even to highway-grade cement to make it more durable. The freeze-thaw cycle is still rough on the cement, in 2007 $11 million of cement slabs had to be replaced due to that. The airport as a whole has 15,000 20-square-foot slabs across its multiple runways.

Of course, one could still have buckling with cement if the expansion joints are too close together for the expansion of adjoining slabs over a certain temperature. Perhaps this is what actually happened here?
Maybe they could just deliver the guns by helicopter.
Agreed.
Jane Fonda was a useful idiot.
And to add, the `name: Type` syntax is not just a modern fad, don't forget the OG language that did this: Pascal! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language))
We haven’t killed 90% of all plankton
If gasoline cost $10/gal like it ought to, then we'd have smaller cars.
I don't know that I'd consider Glassdoor "an appropriate authority" to be reporting corrupt or illegal conduct to.
Growing up, my parents were very anti Disney[land|world]. We always knew it would never be something we were going to. They were offended by the cost and the crowds.

Now having a family of my own, we keep the tradition alive. Our kids know Disney(place) as a thing that is overpriced and overcrowded.

But, It’s all in what kind of recreation you seek. I’m sure there plenty of people who would be put off by all the camping and canoeing trips we do.
This is good news on the nuclear front: https://earth.org/gas-and-nuclear-turn-green-eu-taxonomy/
This reminds me of the folks who walk up and down the New Jersey transit trains with little hand clickers measuring the number of passengers per transit leg.

With electronic ticketing apps you probably need this less but if you really want to get the accurate number of folks on the train, hand counting is still the best bet.
Greenest doesn't make it green.
not with that attitude

that said I've seen signal recovery from LVDS
There is median 29 hours of sun during December in Poland. The daily amplitude means nothing here.

Yet we build 10GW of capacity, that mostly does not contribute towards lower coal usage.

And, wind capacity factor is usually very low.
Melted presumably doesn't mean "liquified," it means "the heat was sufficient to push the integrity of the runway beyond its safe operating parameters."

And it probably wasn't just 40C; it was probably much hotter, since it's black tarmac.
For many people (esp. kids and "Disney adults"), Disney{land,world} isn't a type of theme park, it's its own experience that could never be substituted with Six Flags or Universal Studios, and Disney clearly has a "monopoly" on Disney-branded parks. I believe that was OP's point. Another commenter has already explained how Major League Baseball is literally a federally granted monopoly.
A beach parking pass for a popular beach near Boston is now $45 for a weekend day.
Nobody is claiming they were banned because guns are absolutely, intrinsically bad. It's just that the safety tradeoff didn't seem good enough.

From TFA:

"Of course, plans were to use it only in special circumstances on return to Earth. But in space, on occasion, well-laid plans have a way of turning out very differently. In my publicity campaign, I suggested the presence of the gun, especially in light of recent space team psychological problems, might be an invitation to a future disaster.

Fiendishly, I proposed that to guarantee the gun only be usable in an off-course landing (its official purpose), it be stashed in compartment accessible only from outside the Soyuz, after landing. There never was any response to my helpful suggestions."
Brings new context to the Stalin quote(maybe apocryphal): "How many divisions does the Pope have?"
I don't see how you can say it isn't a hypermedia client: it is a client that interprets hypermedia, just like the canonical hypermedia client, a web browser.

It's not an internet hypermedia client like a browser, with general access to a broad network of different sites/applications, but the core mechanic satisfies REST and the format being transferred is a hypermedia.
Credit card usage tied to a non-cell phone user. There are layers of patterns to watch and the best invisibility you can have is to blend in, which is scary, worrying, and terrifying because the powers that be would prefer to have a citizenry of crabs in a bucket rather than half a billion free-roaming cats to corral.

It makes their job a little bit easier and that's all that matters to them.
That’s fair enough, I seem to have misread your original comment as “bans on things individuals like == dictatorship”, which is a common enough sentiment, unfortunately, that the connection is all to easy to make.
I used to think that - despite his overreaching when it comes to politics and culture - he was probably a decent enough psychology researcher and self-help author.

However, having been through a fairly significant psychological journey myself and then reading the 12 Rules for Life, I'm quite worried that his rules have the potential to prolong or exacerbate psychological insecurities. Some of them, e.g. "Pursue what is meaningful" and "Make friends with people who want the best for you." are absolutely fine. But there is nothing there I can see about self-compassion or self-acceptance. If anything there's a general trend in the opposite direction of encouraging self-criticism. This probably works in the short-medium term for people who experience pleasure from validating their own self-critical thoughts, but I fear in the longer term that it will postpone or diminish their potential to love themselves.

Admittedly I have only read the rules themselves and not the whole book; in fact I'm reluctant to read the rest if that is the best he can do.
I don't think you understand just how alienated and dangerous it is to be queer in America.

There's a crisis in LGBTQ+ housing.

Putting queer folks in with cishet folks puts the burden of educating those cishet folks on the shoulders of someone who is already struggling to find housing.

Someone experiencing housing struggles because they are queer doesn't need the added burden of being someone's teacher. Those people who need to learn the lesson that humanity is what's important? They need to learn that without relying on minorities to teach them.
To counterbalance the inevitable jokey comments, Daikatana was 22 years ago and the stink around it was overblown; plenty of other famed studios and creators have released equally overhyped flops since.

The man is genuinely talented and, whatever it is he's making, I hope he succeeds in creating something interesting and fun.
My history with Oracle tells me that whatever you're getting from them can't be worth it.
Indeed, from Python to Rust and newer C++ codebases you usually see CamelCaseClasses (or structs) and then snake_case for functions methods etc, which improves readability.

CamelCaseForEverything is such a waste, maybe they use it for implicit public/private as in Go? And maybe to please existing Go or Java users?
Maybe because Three Mile is actually American? Perhaps Windscale garnered less coverage because it happened in Britain.
"... just collectively calming the hell down for a few hours when it's cloudy" sounds like it is quite different than existing demand response. To me it sounds like residential users included should curtail energy using activities in response to cloudy or non-windy times, which will be extremely unpopular.

Incidentally, I am signed up for a demand response program with my utility. During summer they pay me for the ability to curtail my AC during times of grid stress.
My wife would use our passes to take our two kids plus a neighbor with kids on weekdays while I was at work.
This is comical. There are a 1000 of other ways to make things go wrong in space.
I'm really sick of this argument "companies don't want to follow the same rule in China". No they are not the same rules and it's not "don't want" but "can't". Take Yahoo for example, the formal CEO Jerry Yang lost his job as Yahoo China followed these "rules" back then to give email information of some dissent to Chinese government.

In China, when the government asks a company to do something, the company has no choice. When was the last time you heard US companies follow arbitrary ask of US government?
But the airport can have temperatures. With some additional punctuation, has could be read more clearly.
Looks like there's no train travel because British train infrastructure was designed with these kinds of temps in mind:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62219556

> "Where those tracks are 40C in the air, on the ground that could be 50, 60, 70 and more, so you get a severe danger of tracks buckling. What we can't have is trains running over those and a terrible derailing. We've got to be very cautious and conscious of that, which is why there's reduced speeds on large parts of the network."

It turns out you can build railways designed to handle greater temperature variations, and these are used in other countries, but when the UK system was designed future warming wasn't taken into consideration.

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/why-rails-buckle-in-br...

Given that warming is now past the tipping point and we'll be in a steadily warming state for the next 100 years (with some control over the rate, i.e. phasing out fossil fuels over the next 30 years vs. business-as-usual for the next 30 years will have large effects on temps 60 years from now, for example), major infrastructure reconstruction is a real necessity.
It’s quite believable that the tarmac wouldn’t have been specced for 40C in England. Especially when the airport opened in 1938.
Yes, exactly. And once it's in compression even at higher temperatures it will often be fine if left alone. This is why railway companies impose speed restrictions when it gets hot - they don't want the dynamic load of a passing train to exceed the ability of the track bed to resist buckling. Running at low speeds helps in this respect.
For sure. It's not even focused on APIs. REST is an architectural style. I don't think I've ever heard the term RESTful architecture in design meetings or online discourse. That should say that something is off.
What about the GPU portion?
I haven't really had this problem (I'm a developer) because I used to try to do some form of UX design way back in the day. And the more I did it, the more I realized I suck at it. So I can empathize with their needs and truly appreciate someone who can do it well.

My recommendation would be to have those with a problem do the other person's job for a week and "sorta" hold them accountable for the outcomes. Give them the mere threat of some minor wrist-slap should they fail to meet a seemingly reasonable objective that the other could do in a week, and then after the exercise explain that you never had any intention of actually delivering on that - in this case - just to make them have some skin in the game so they didn't dismiss the exercise.

After about a week of the shoe being on the other foot, I think the appreciation for the other discipline will become genuine, and then you can start working on having the right conversations about tooling, concerns, workflow, language, and so on. But developers have got to understand that UX design is so, so much more than "pretty pictures" and UX folks have gotta get it through their heads that engineering is FUCKING HARD, and we're way more than mere "code monkeys" over here.

Until that mutual respect and appreciation is established, none of the other stuff matters.
> is objectively superior

Those objective criteria of superiority being?..
"Tarmac", the stuff we coat roads on here gets very soft in the summer.

When I was a child (90s), my dad lost a finger when we were replacing the alloys on his VW Corrado and the jack sank into the tarmac and collapsed dropping the car, he pulled his arm out just quick enough to _only_ lose a finger.

I'll never forget how dismissive my mum was when I said "mum, come quick, dad's cut his finger off, it's on the floor".

Fun story aside, the tarmac / road covering we use here do "melt" at relatively low temperatures.
No good on wolves.
You let the oil industry off the hook pretty easily.
Renewables research have been hobbled for ages because of powerful lobby. It's only in the last decade that it was pushed to the front stage.
Nuclear power is not some magic safe thing. It can and will cause horrible disaster and consequences if run the same way we run our energy economy for most of the last 100 years, by pure greed.

But yeah, blame Jane Fonda....
>The problem should be that the data is collected and provided to the government whenever they want - not that it's not the Chinese government.

I disagree, because this is a "both things can be true" situation. It's true that data collection is a problem inherently and it's true that China's unprecedented scale of use and abuse of data escalates the urgency of Tiktok's case in particular.

I also think as a practical matter, "we should apply this to all apps" has the functional effect of being a poison pill ensuring nothing gets done. I think we should accept imperfect forward iterations to improve security over poison pills.
Oh, never thought of doing it like that. I'll give it a go, thanks!
Please let them make a proper interpreter for dev efficiency!
(Speaking only for myself, I just watch from the sidelines and have no involvement)

This seems like Google’s response to

1. Rust not being sufficiently “Go-like” (in the sense of the “The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers” quote) where C++ lets a bunch of people who are not really experts in the language write footguns that Google has to deal with when they cause problems at scale. They want a dumbed-down language (some would use words like approachable/safer/whatever here) for them so nobody will send in CLs with ”clever” code that causes headaches later. I guess they’ll need to have generics but I’m guessing that choices will be made to avoid introducing advanced type theory, functional programming, etc into the language.

2. Google uses C++ differently than everyone else who uses C++. In particular, they have a lot of statically linked code from a monorepo that gets recompiled all the time. This has caused them to put up proposals to “fix” the language that nobody else will support and don’t get adopted, because they break the ABI or backwards compatibility in ways that are unacceptable to the others who participate. It seems like this language is the result of that frustration and subsequent soft-withdrawal from the C++ WG.

I haven’t looked at the design much yet beyond just the simple examples and I think it mostly looks reasonable, but I feel like Google designed this to solve their problems with C++ and is just throwing it out there if people are willing to adopt it because it’s there and Google says it’s good, just like how Go gained traction. Sometimes Google does make good things :) Some Go developers would say that about Go, I’m sure. But if you’re using this, it seems pretty clear that the needs of this will be driven by Google, and the above two points are probably things you should keep in mind as you watch it evolve.
Yes, at least one of the tables explicitly mentions that the statistics they use cover pedestrian deaths and the whole page is built using that single data set.
The area between graphs and matrices is a productive one for mining ideas out of, because they are closely related but our mental models of them are pretty different. That group thinks there are enough good ideas in the space that it is time to work on a nice, solid building-block library. They've got some pretty well known researchers on board so I bet they are right.

My suggestion was just a joke, though, I don't think the inverse of the matrix that comes from a binary tree has any particular meaning.
If Rusty syntax is objectively superior to almost everything else we've come up with, that almost should make us think before blindly copying it.

So, for those thinking “Rusty syntax is objectively superior to almost everything else we've come up with” (I don’t, if only because I don’t believe the syntax of programming languages can be compared on quality without considering the audience), what syntax do you believe it not objectively superior to?
I've got this theory. If an animated GIF is available on Slack, it isn't worth using.
> Why can't the government stay out of my business?

As I see it, the moment you leave your private property you are interacting with society and it's not your business anymore. Of course you need the option for a bigger van, but that doesn't mean that nothing can be done about the SUVs. You can't just drive around on public(!) roads and think you're not bound to the rules of society. Also, it's a private citizen proposing this and not "the government". Environmental legislation is a product of changing attitudes in society and not some deep-state, technocratic action.
A look at DALL·E 2 industrial design – toasters in the style of sci-fi films
After starring in The China Syndrome she became a huge anti-nuclear zealot and would hold protests and drew lots of attention and bent many ears her way with her stardom and her Hollywood “expertise.”
Of course. This is common human knowledge going back millenium haha. The siesta for when it's too hot outside to work. Or just when you get overheated with mental work. 20 mins does the trick.
Exadata at least used to use Infiniband hardware inherited from Sun and not on anyone else's shelf.
Parent's referencing this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moons-haunted
Why would concrete melt, ever? Someone used the wrong words, or didn't understand what they were told.

[Edit] Ok, so they made poor choices in runway materials. O'Hare and other airports near me are all steel reinforced concrete.
It's for air temperature. Warm air is considerably less dense, which raises the takeoff and landing speed of planes (for a given weight), up to unsafe levels, in addition to requiring a longer runway.
So tell me more about the deadly gas fumes.

Which one is it?

Carbon dioxide or water vapor?

BTW your argument is based on the same perfect world where things like Fukushima don't happen.
Germany already has a problem with it's existing nuclear waste and is far from solving it.
It's one of the 6 options for content sourcing, which seems like a massive over-representation if you are only going to have 6.
Love it! Gay might not be the most inclusive label if you are aiming for LGBT folks (I'm queer but not gay), but hey, better to have this than not have this by a long ways!
It is good for people to have experiences outside of their comfort zone, and to interact with others with different beliefs than their own. It is also important for people to have places and social support structures where they feel safe. A person's home should really be part of their safe space, not the stretching space.
I just think it's weird. If part of my coworkers' job was involved landing in the Siberian wilderness and they carried a gun to protect themselves, I wouldn't go out of my way to disarm them and then congratulate myself for it. Not even if it was David.
OBDII is only required for engine diagnostics, no? I've heard that Tesla cars don't have them, for example.
Brazilian Electronic Voting Machines use Intel Atom CPUs.
Any backdoor found in microcode for these is going to be a big event.
Well, allies can ask friendly governments for information on their own citizens without violating and of their own privacy laws. So it can be useful as a circumvention tool for them.
People don't seem to understand that median is not a measure that is much better than mean, especially in the case of high inequality. For example, if I take all the money from the 40% poorer population and distribute it to the 40% richer population, the median is still the same. If you don't believe, just compute the mean and median of these two sequences:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

[0,0,0,0,5,6,11,11,11,11]

Another example that I know fully well is Brazil: the mean is 8,560 BRL and the median is 8,220 BRL for monthly salaries, that is, very close. But these monthly salaries are known to vary widely from 2,170 BRL (USD 417) to 38,200 BRL (USD 7349), so hardly anyone is really making 8220 or close to that.
as a dev, i hate working with obsessive ux or ui designers.

they don't seem to care that i have more pressing concerns than whether something they've been staring at for 6 hours is 1 pixel off.
I Made a Minimal RSS Feed Reader for Chrome
It's worded that way for shock value:

1) 40C is the air temperature, the surface temperature of something exposed to the sun is much higher

2) It's not like it's a big hilarious, swirling sea of tarmac. Part of the runway will be a bit softer than they deem safe.

The UK heatwave is still extraordinary, but you need to take tabloid headlines with a generous pinch of salt.