skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nuclear plant dumps a lot more than 30 MW of waste heat into its adjacent body of water. Is that a problem?

Power grids can be upgraded, and a grid-connected battery that can send 300 MW in the other direction during occasional supply shortages is actually really good for grid stability. In that case the ship sells some power at lucrative rates (maybe $1k/mWh?), then recharges later at night after the demand peak.

Bunkering (the process of loading fuel) already takes hours and often requires a rendezvous with a tanker ship at sea, so it's not like ships aren't already inconvenienced by their need to acquire energy.
> ...two recent meta-analyses question this picture. The first meta-analysis used data that were submitted to FDA for the approval of 12 antidepressant drugs. While only half of these trials had formally significant effectiveness, published reports almost ubiquitously claimed significant results. "Negative" trials were either left unpublished or were distorted to present "positive" results. The average benefit of these drugs based on the FDA data was of small magnitude, while the published literature suggested larger benefits.

> ...A second meta-analysis using also FDA-submitted data examined the relationship between treatment effect and baseline severity of depression. Drug-placebo differences increased with increasing baseline severity and the difference became large enough to be clinically important only in the very small minority of patient populations with severe major depression. In severe major depression, antidepressants did not become more effective, simply placebo lost effectiveness.

> These data suggest that antidepressants may be less effective than their wide marketing suggests. Short-term benefits are small and long-term balance of benefits and harms is understudied.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2412901/
There are probably a million different causes for depression and im convinced for all but the most extreme cases that usage of anti depressants is a mistake.

I think viewing depression as a disease instead of a symptom is a mistake. So many people eat food completely devoid of nutrition, stay indoors all day, have erratic sleep schedules, drink absurd amounts of alcohol and smoke weed all day. Why are we giving these people antidepressants when what they need is to go outside and walk and to take a multivitamin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtzsYiCTDI

I don't know how accurately he's reflecting his own position, but here's Rep. Jim Jordan saying that he feels this is the Democrats attempting to "delegitimize and attempt to intimidate the United States Supreme Court," and that the bill is "unnecessary"
Off topic, but I never heard of nebula (don't watch much videos). It's amazing how slow that site loads for me. Their /videos takes around 10s to load. I need to wait almost 3 seconds for _something_ to show up on the page.

https://cloud.typography.com/6361472/632446/css/fonts.css takes ~700ms

https://standard-fonts.s3.amazonaws.com/789323/56D15C61E7EF4... takes 2.1 seconds.

Even once cached, the entire site (e.g. search), is slow enough to be noticeable.

About 9 years ago I worked for a fairly large (20+ million users) video platform. These numbers on catalog pages would have been barely accepted for an entire page load, let alone a couple CSS file.
So is ice cream... And ice cream doesn't get me fired from my job... When I retire I'm goin full Snoop Dogg tho.
a lot of times its a abusive mindstate.... a lot of really really down bad people have went on to do great things. its all about your perspective
One of the most interesting things I heard recently that really hit me like a bolt of lightning…

Depression is a disease of despair, and all these treatments are really just treating the symptoms.

In other words, people experience despair because of some underlying situation - examples: death of child, lonely, broken home. “Normal” things, and we try to treat it with pharmaceuticals. It would be like treating depression with cocaine or marijuana (they actually did and still do this btw) - might make you feel good temporarily; but it’ll never stop the despair.

The question is really how to address the despair. People often visit a therapist; I can see that helping some. But to many, they can’t seem to find the cause.

It reminds me of the post the other day about how people live over 100 [1]. It’s all about community:

> Belong. All but 5 of the 263 centenarians interviewed belonged to some faith-based community. Denomination does not seem to matter. Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy.

> Loved ones first. Successful centenarians in the Blue Zones put their families first. This means keeping aging parents and grandparents nearby or in the home (it lowers disease and mortality rates of children in the home too.). They commit to a life partner (which can add up to 3 years of life expectancy) and invest in their children with time and love. (They’ll be more likely to care for aging parents when the time comes.)

> Right tribe. The world’s longest lived people chose—or were born into—social circles that supported healthy behaviors, Okinawans created moais—groups of 5 friends that committed to each other for life. Research from the Framingham Studies shows that smoking, obesity, happiness, and even loneliness are contagious. So the social networks of long-lived people have favorably shaped their health behaviors.

Yes some people have real hormone or other biological issues. But 99% of people likely need to address the root cause. I’d put money depression is on the rise as our communities are collapsing due to the industrial / technological nature of our world.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125071/
If the financing pulls out, the acquisition is canceled and there's a $1 billion termination fee.

As described above, if the conditions to Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to complete the Merger are satisfied and Parent fails to consummate the Merger as required pursuant to the Merger Agreement, including because the equity, debt and/or margin loan financing is not funded, Parent will be required to pay Twitter a termination fee of $1.0 billion.
Exactly this. That's why the industrialists have been building solar, not nuclear.
My dad owned several way back when.

He did a lot of converting them around. One from right hand drive to left, one to propane fuel, and one from an automatic to manual transmission!

They're really simple, crude vehicles. They have terrible handling and ride like a tractor.

But... they look super cool and give off rug and vibes...
Someone noticed similar on /r/dalle2 the other day:

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/w25vr0
Vendr seems to be on the right track.

https://www.vendr.com/
Whoever wrote the headline for this piece deserves a raise.
When you need them, you need them, but apart from __init__ (and __str__ if you're doing Django) you mostly won't need to touch them. After working with the language a while, I honestly don't see them as ugly anymore.
It's often joked that the US government considers their jurisdiction world-wide. If the company does business in the US, there's a good chance the these programs might apply.
I'm puzzled by those who disagree with this statement. How is it surprising that depressing circumstances would lead to depression?
I thought we lived in a democracy, aren't rulers also subjects???
I think we’re in the process of figuring that out
Fran covers that in the video.
> Once, my manager asked me to reconsider the vacation I had been planning because my team needed me. “If you go, who will cover your work?” I looked around at my colleagues who were also regularly working 15-hour days and decided to stay put. I’m proud of that choice.

Nope.
It still might be worth doing, for a 2% reduction in fuel costs.
Box has a well defined schedule for the various stages of trashing. some of them are user configurable. i would call this workflow expected behavior of the application. this sort of soft delete is something you design in intentionally knowing it’s a customer use case. there’s many other objects in Box that do not need this workflow. i think soft deletes don’t need to be available for all tables but some it’s immensely helpful
> he worked so hard that his marriage became strained and his hair turned white from the stress

yeah, so maybe don’t follow the Einstein principle?

The real issue is this obsession with abstract progress. Einstein was successful because he found something that he believed was important and meaningful. Prior to devoting yourself to some crazy project, I think it’s important to take time to reflect about whether or not the project is actually meaningful to you or if it’s just filler.

This is sort of what this article goes on to recommend, but I’d rather do it talking about meaning and significance in life than organizing everything around “productivity”.

The real issue is this line:

> It’s too risky. If you invest fully in one thing, and then it fails, you’re left empty.

If failure means your project and experience will be entirely sapped of meaning, it’s a good sign it’s not the right project for you. You’re not passionate about the work, you’re passionate about outcomes. Be passionate about the work and the outcomes will fall out naturally, and better yet, if you enjoy your work in itself, you won’t care too much about outcomes.
I know plenty of depressed rich people. I understand your theory but spend a week in the Hampton’s and you’ll see some real sad souls.
Not every delete is a GDPR delete. You could have a hard-delete GDPR flow, obviously.
It definitely feels faster to read bionic and almost, dare I say it, pleasurable
I think Daniel day Lewis said it best. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hFTR6qyEo
100%

There were a lot of “buts” in there to weaken the whole point. You can ignore everything before that word.
Political representation of different view/value systems is much better in the USA than in China.

> (Though viewing China as a full autocracy with absolute power of a single individual is extremely simplistic)

It's overly simplistic, but less "overly" than it was 10 years ago.
Xplain[1]?

[1]: https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/
Round 21 – TechEmpower Framework Benchmark
If you find a lawyers firm that want to help start that, it will be a really successful one. I know dozens of people that have been impacted (and just these together is likely close to a million revenue)
When I interviewed at Stripe last year, some people made weird, obliquely braggy comments about how compulsively they worked. Other folks were great, though.

Overall, it felt like a once-decent culture rapidly turning rancid.

> nobody wanted to be the first person to leave the office, even on Friday.

This is just a terrible workplace smell. Especially at a company that lacks a compelling mission, that is just another payment processor trying to get their 2-3% cut from as much of the market as possible.

People, please don't expect to find your life's meaning working at Stripe. For fuck's sake.
Is it really that hard to find a lawyer willing to write couple of letters for 50% of ~$50K windfall?
We have it way better than almost any period in history and are profoundly unhappy.

Also, we always like to think we will be happy “once I have…X” and then we get X and say well actually what I need is Y.

Most unhappiness is driven by vanity and desire (a bargain you make with yourself where you chose to be unhappy until you get something) to be better than our peers.

Until you can be content with nothing you wont be content even with everything.

If people can be happy in concentration camps we can be happy in dead end office jobs. They cant stop us from being happy.
> Even martingale can be pretty sustainable in the right real world conditions. Your chances of going bankrupt are like 1 in a million of you content playing penny games with a 10K bankroll.

But it fails for any bet where you'd care about the money, unlike this strategy.

> for example, the blogs claim that proportional betting can do just that, turn neutral EV coinflip profitable. It only holds up with a number of bogus and unstated conditions.

There's different kinds of expectation. The EV for a single iteration is positive, but the EV for leaving money invested indefinitely is neutral.

This makes the title somewhat misleading, but it's still an interesting question. How can you make money in a compounding way when basic reinvestment cuts your returns to zero?

There are no unstated conditions that I can see. The model is trivial.
AOC faking the handcuffs is peak internet politics.
Not the JSON schema of one object, but the "data schema" of the whole project.

E.g. use nested document instead of FK to store 1 to 1 relationship. So you can take advantages of single document atomicity. Use array to store 1 to many relationship instead of an additional mapping table.
I haven’t heard of this, can you post it here so I can cite the bill to my local (Democratic) house representative?
Major depressive disorder isn't the same thing as feeling sad about your job.
I would recommend reading some history books before saying these are depressing circumstances.
Hence the first S and the I in SSRI. A filter in certain areas increases other areas. Doesn't change overall values.
There are many people who are anti-psychiatry who would probably still benefit immensely from treatment. My worry is that such people will look at this and say: "see look, the psychiatrists got it wrong. I was right to question treatment all along; Anti-depressants don't work." But the message here isn't that SSRIs don't work for depression. It's that depression is a complex illness and can't be reduced to a single chemical deficiency.

Anti-depressants mechanism of action is more complex than 'corrects a chemical deficiency.' I hope such people considering treatment know that while theories may change as we learn more: medications still have to be evaluated against real-world results. So the effectiveness of a drug remains the same.
It might be worth your while to have JLCPCB (or another PCB fab) do all the surface mount assembly. They can even do USB C connectors these days, so you just place an order for the boards, receive them in the mail, take them out of the box, and plug them in.

This would of course require laying out a circuit for the bare RP2040 chip instead of using an RP2040 stamp, but it's not a complicated design, and you'll save a lot of time and money if you're planning on producing a decent sized batch of these.
Bolts of lightning can be factually wrong, it sounds.
Cars getting larger as the world is getting warmer — that explains more than I need to know :((
It's weird to me how companies use a form or forms of code counting to measure performance.

For example, if you measure my performance on the number of PRs, I'd attempt to create as many PRs as possible even at the detriment of productivity for the team.

If you measure me on the number of lines of code I write, I will deliberately write code that maximizes the number of lines even if the quality of my code goes down. And I will sign up for tasks that I think will allow me to easily write a large number of lines of code even if it isn't the most important tasks for the company.

Can we really measure developer performance using discrete code numbers?

I've always found that it's better to measure performance through the following means:

1. Are you making improvements to the code?

2. Are you completing projects on agreed time? If not, are you giving valid reasons for why they're delayed?

3. Are you giving accurate and sensible estimates for projects?

4. Are you helping the team?

To that, I believe you can make some OKRs:

* Research and implement x ways to speed up the web app

* Complete x number of medium sized projects

* Complete x number of large sized projects

* Review x% of PRs within x amount of time
Don't you just deny it, and it is up to them to actually file a full DMCA complaint?
> I suspect that the proportion of the population who are predisposed to be "computer nerds" as we were often known in the 80s/90s, is pretty much the same.

Possibly. But the fact that owning a PC essentially forced the exposure to happen undoubtedly caused more seeds to grow. It’s far too easy these days to never encounter that friction, and therefore people with latent skills simply go into something else (or worse, never find another passion).
Completely agree with you, although I think that "going outside and taking a multivitamin" is an inadequate substitute for "live inside a prosperous, functional human-shaped society".
An idea would be to load a fully-charged container battery onto the ship when it’s otherwise loading up. You’d probably want it on a (top) corner for cooling and security anyway, but that could cause centre of gravity problems…

Ports are usually well connected to infrastructure rights-of-way, so running a double or triple digit kV line to it isn’t out of line.
Mandatory 2 years (counted as work experience) if you don't go to college/trade school. This will help the young'ins be more fit and capable. Many other successful nations do this. It will especially help people who grow up in single parent homes. Overall, less people will land in jail or become single parents themselves.
Or maybe you have no idea what you are talking about and are spreading misinformation?
>Where is your engineering, inventor spirit? This seems snowflakish to me. You want everything handed to you on a silver platter. But the reality is there’s lots of data out there that has no schema and never will. And if you don’t have proper tooling, you’d quit? Why not MAKE your own tooling?

Oh I meant to say I feel the same the way as the OP ('similar sentiments'), but I wouldn't literally quit my job. You're right, there's always going to be data out there with no schema; CSVs are one example. But if in your day to day work you're constantly encountering data with no schema or the structure/format/schema is constantly changing, then chances are you're dealing with a crappy system or working in a crappy job.

And making your own tooling is fun and all for the first time, but there comes a point when after you accrue enough programming experience, you realise how redundant it is, especially if the data is in a format as old as XML for example. There's a massive amount of tooling around XML, from XSLT, XQuery, XPath and all of them have facilities for dealing with schema-less XML data, but if you were to use a schema (or the vendor/3rd party provides one), then 90% of issues (and sometimes even code) dealing with schema-less XML go away. And the same is true for JSON as well.

I find it incredibly funny that people heap scorn onto XML as being some horrible legacy thing to work with, but then will go on happily working with JSON/YAML/or whatever and then have to deal with ALL THE EXACT SAME ISSUES, all the while not realising XML-related tooling has already solved them.
The inverse response is rather toxic too...

Many times people will be put on mute or ostracized even without their knowing...

Many people still follow others just waiting for their downfall because of one thing they've said. The offender rarely gets a chance to know why, or that they're even being muted.

Modern social media controls often translate into and facilitate toxic habits in people... (e.g. Unfollow but still stay friends).

Perhaps we should possibly get rid of following altogether based on how social media now (Like TikTok) shares content to people outside of follower bases, and how Twitter does not show content to all followers.
An EverDrive 64 sells for $100-200 and is often marked up to $300+ territory. The idea of a $10 EverDrive is really exciting.
thank you @10u152
Same and also the state sponsored centrifuge destroying 0 day that was written up a while ago, super mind bending read
Just wait for the Pinkertons to make a comeback out of the shadow of themselves and back into the local protectors.
There are many IP's with exposed credentials, many of which are of either Oauth or RESTfull API. A regular check-up with developers need to be conducted. One little mistake such as set up errors can lead to credential leakage, causing catastrophic security damage to both individuals and businesses. However it's kind a serious problem that even Secret Access Key can be seen in the banner of Open Source Scanning tools.There are API Keys with "change" permission, so just one API Key leak can lead to credential leakge or manipulation. A regular check-up with developers need to be conducted to see whether they are caught up with the most recent cyber security tech.
isn't the issue that there is let’s say 40,000 units of water rights for 20,000 units of actual water, so there is no possible way for everyone to get their “water rights” and all the water in the river and ground will be used to the detriment of the environment and ability for the aquifers to supply it. Works for a while and then now all the waters gone, ooops.
Oil is a terrible fuel, but an awesome battery. You need a factory to turn it into something useful unlike say coal which you can just shovel directly into a furnace.

However, try to design an aircraft using natural gas, batteries, coal, hydrogen, etc and you run into huge issues.
Too tired to type a cogent paragraph. Just that I have seen lives ruined by SSRIs.
For some meanings of centrism, sure.
This reminds me of the <meta> tag page transitions in Internet Explorer 20 year ago!
http://www.simplehtmlguide.com/pagetransitions.php
> more-intense pranksters

Never heard weev described that way before...
I’m really curious about the history of the concept of burnout (does it emerge only in the 21st. century? can we trace its origins back to other notions?) and the geographical distribution of the concept (is it only something that happens to Americans?)

To me, it feels like another classic American response to what is ultimately a systems problem: you’re experiencing burnout? that’s too bad! don’t change the system, it’s your problem after all. Just fix your own burnout.

The same move was pulled re: climate change, where several parties tried to put the onus on individual consumers rather than the massive systems that were actually the root cause of the persistent problems.

So yes, if the system doesn’t change and we continue to be ok with exploitative capitalism and the “always on nature” of networked existence, burnout will forever be with us.
IOW: Are you ready for me to diagnose your totally normal reaction to our shitty society as mental illness so I can get you addicted to mind altering drugs for the rest of your life? https://imgur.com/Jb1mJyx

Or as the Unabomber said, "Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable."

I think you're right. The problem is, this is the only life most of us have lived, and so we cannot imagine it otherwise, like a fish who cannot conceive of a world above water, or even that water is the medium surrounding it. If our entire society is causing this, then what can we do? Wage slavery, oligarchy, attention theft by tech companies, disintegration of community from various causes. Life for so many people is crawling through glass Monday through Friday, then getting shitfaced on the weekend. Is that happiness? How do we escape?
And your reply doesn't take into account the cost saving from not buying fuel and not emitting pollution.

Figure 3 from the article specifically looks at the relationship between battery cost and density vs voyage length on the cost effectiveness of switching.

The article is analyzing balancing lifetime costs of the batteries and their recharging vs. the lifetime costs of fuel for an ICE powered ship.