skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Current-day Ford Motor having to go begging to China - for a major, iron-based component needed to produce more cars - that is laughable, and beyond pathetic. In a dark, miserable sort of way, if you care about America or its future.

Sounds similar to Boeing where accounting for personal gain (promotions / raises) of upper managers and executives took effect over the long term advantage of the company.
Western Europe: they would take responsibility.

US: they would take responsibility after the media outrage.

Japan: they would take responsibility, and the president of the federation would resign immediately.
I usually start with an exploratory prototype and go back and forth between coding and sketching things out in my notebook.

After it's clearer what the new feature is, I go back to the existing project's repo an start building it. I raid whatever code is useful from the prototype as I do so.

In the case of a completely new project, I still start with a prototype and frequently discard and rewrite it after getting more clarity.

I don't write any tests during the sketching/prototyping phase.
Did he also fart out the merger contract and the signature he put on it?

A tweet isn't a binding offer last I checked.
I assume this is where the programming language got its name from?
Is there any progress in design of nuclear fission power plants regarding safety?

Fukushima was build in the 70s, so it might have been a bit outdated (as a layman I have no idea). Was there any significant progress in design of nuclear power plants since then? Can they be shut down more quickly and reliably?

Given enough R&D, could safety of nuclear fission power plants be improved further or is that very unlikely?
This looks super promising. LaTeX is an ancient technology with arcane error messages and syntax, and subpar processing speed. For example, groff can process documents much quicker as was features yesterday on HN (https://jstutter.netlify.app/), so I wouldn't be surprised if Typst can also outperform LaTeX. Also, collaborative document editing with WebAssembly looks promising.
> I have heard Muslims believe that Allah will not inflict suffering on someone beyond what they can handle.

I find this a particularly inhumane way of thinking. Try saying that to someone suffering "oh, you can handle it", it's beyond cruel, yikes. Makes it sound like it's some type of blessing, like the little 3-yr old is meant to die of bone cancer because of some greater God's plan. I don't know, it's just sounds so wrong to me to think like that. Even life on earth is some sort of school for the afterlife, I don't think there is a lesson to be learned by dying of cancer as a young child.

> God, if they exists, could have created world we everyone were in a state of continually bliss, but what would be a point of that?

Yes please, isn't that what heaven is supposed to be?
France has had nothing to do with Haiti for over 200 years. Of course the same cannot be said of the USA...

In any case, it's simplistic to always blame external forces. Haiti's situation today is on Haitian people first and foremost.
Exactly. People here on HN unsurprisingly approach nuclear with this naive enthusiasm that's operating under the assumption of a spherical cow in vacuum.

In reality the nuclear lobby heavily got politics to relax safety requirements, operators are corrupt and cut costs at every corner, inspections are not performed at all or not thoroughly, and when important decisions are being made, like where to store the waste, it's where politicians in charge find it convenient, and not where scientists and engineers actually recommend. Then you end up with metal containers in a salt mine, rusting away because thirty years ago who could have known the connection between salt and oxidation.
> So for both renewables and nuclear you need some sort of storage or peakers.

One thing I don't understand here is the problem with overproduction. If we actually have excess electricity (as in not needed as electricity later) can't we dynamically use that for active carbon capturing? The efficiency of that process isn't even that important then as the main goal is to remove carbon from the atmosphere with carbon free energy.

Having carbon free overproduction sounds like a good thing to me. It's the occasional underproduction that's hard to handle.
You do realise Gitlab Enterprise is closed source which is what Gitlab.com is hosted on?
We are targeting PDF and raster graphic output at the moment. Typst is designed to allow HTML export and we do have our eyes on it. At the moment, however, we want to focus on getting PDF export right, including options for standards like PDF/A (archival) and PDF/X (professional print).

ePub is a subset of HTML so the latter would come first.

We will maintain a version history and offer the typical change tracking features, but this will likely be a paid feature for users who join after the beta.
From the article: “Haiti paid millions of dollars every year to France until the debt was finally paid off in 1947.”
As a dog owner I agree with you, with the very big caveat that it helps if you live in an area where people don’t leave poisonous stuff on the ground, some of it left there to actually kill dogs (yes, some people are evil).

About a year ago our dog started throwing blood out of its mouth, with no prior symptoms whatsoever. We got to the vet in a matter of minutes, and, thankfully, he’s fine now, but it could have been much, much worse. Me and my SO concluded (with the help of the vet) that most probably it had all been caused by rat poison left around the park grounds, which poison only has an effect after five or so days. The dog doesn’t even have to ingest it, sniffing it will do.

Since then we’ve been a little paranoid when it comes to whatever gets close to our dog’s mouth and nose.
A very similar previous article:
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/haiti-vs-the-dominican-rep...

Discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916733
You can repeat this forever, but you will be wrong forever.

The people you credit with nixing nukes do not have that much influence. What did in nukes was nukes themselves. They cost too much, always have, and the constant drumbeat of violated regulations, slipshod construction, and lax operation all together make everyone eager for alternatives.

And here come renewables, totally safe, work at any scale, cheap and getting cheaper. No one will miss nukes, their always-dodgy cost accounting, their burden on public funding, or their promoters' constant dishonesty.
Why do you think fission can't help with heating? Heat is one of the by-products of running a reactor.

E.g.:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-power-could-heat-your-h...

https://www.powermag.com/district-heating-supply-from-nuclea...
What made the dominican republic immune to imperialism and colonialism?
I'm genuinely curious, because I don't see it. What's the property that makes these robots "inherently unsafe" while driverless cars aren't?
BBC Buried Treasure – The Peat Bog Murder Mystery: Tollund Man's Porridge (1954)
> collaboratively edited website

Yes, but there are parts of it in terminology awareness gone slightly messy:

in 'wikipedia', the educational part is in '-poedia' ("children", hence "learners"); 'wiki-' reflects the concept that the operation on the content must be apt to be quick - which is exactly the direct interpretation that appears in your parent post («a contact form just to edit an article doesn't really live up to the “wiki” part»).

"Quick" there is not just "free of red tape": I understand the first idea of Cunningham was about distributed access to a relational database for collaborative editing, in the simplest and directmost possible way.

So, 'wiki-' in the current common use could be more like the truncation of 'wikiweb' (already containing interesting convergences of meaning in "web" as "collaboration", not just "network of frontends"). "Wiki-" per se would indicate more the "hassle free" side of the technology.
Oxygen Not Included is a good game, but it probably doesn't have a single mechanic that makes physical sense. For example, it allows you to destroy carbon dioxide (preservation of mass?) by turning water into polluted water. And polluted water emits oxygen.

Back on earth, thermal radiation is sending massive amounts of heat into space. Additional heat we put into the atmosphere will not stay for long enough to matter, compared to certain gases that block thermal radiation.
Money is in ending human (and much other) life on earth with rapid resource depletion. Should we... go take it!?

I think the ultimate sign a person is no smarter than a dog is their inability extend reason beyond their personal circumstances.

Singularity theory was probably wrong about a convergence of technology and information to form a super-intelligence. We're just converging on a super-efficient stupidity. Collectively we're like a flame that will burn out.
Is this why African countries were so prosperous before the scramble for Africa kicked off in the 1870s? And why today, the countries in Africa least touched by colonialism are the most well off?

Or are they, actually. The human development index [HDI,1] can serve as a proxy for "prosperity", but I'm having a hard time finding the "degree of colonization" each country suffered, to see if the two are anti-correlated. The closest I could find was that Ethiopia and Liberia are considered to never have been colonized [2], but both are near the bottom of the HDI list. Maybe duration or how recently colonization ended could be used instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_H...

[2] https://www.thoughtco.com/countries-in-africa-considered-nev... (I found it amusing how the article says Turkey was never colonized by the West. Yes. In fact, a large chunk of Europe was under Turkish colonial control [3]. One could argue a large chunk, Byzantium, still is, but is no longer considered Europe due to being conquered.)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_O...
The UK government system is more nuanced than that. The operator bids for a strike price and communicate something with the bid they offer. That price is then locked in. We will never pay less than that, but we will never pay more either. In successive rounds the strike price is lower. They are setting the price up front to give stability. And that makes sense when most of the cost is upfront. Otherwise renewable prices would just track oil prices.
I totally agree with this. I am in a situation right now where the skip level manager is asking to schedule meetings every other day to talk on a problem that requires research. They want to talk about a solution and not letting us find one. Another one is defining aggressive timelines when I don't even know what to solve. Obviously the timelines were shot to hell in the worst way possible.
Yeah but you can manage the fuel within your cash flow. Difficult to get credit and manage the purchase of a large expensive car. And having two cars is too expensive as well.
People making choices on power are not, in fact, children.

Fission costs too much. Fusion would cost way more. Promoters of both have lied to the public continuously from day one. We have heard enough.
I once had a guy scold me for having an umbrella in my hand while walking on the street in front of his business (a garage, really) because his German shepherd will attack me and it will be on me.

Incidentally, his appearance was in total sync with his character. This was about a decade ago here in Bulgaria. We have plenty of troglodytes like that around here
My guess, It won’t be for long. These adtech psychos always come up with crap like this, say it legal & get regulated. Eventually.

Also. I don’t blame gpdr for shitty popups. I blame adtech. You can easily do websites without popups, they just don’t because they don’t respect their users.
> Perhaps if you create entities with free will they will unavoidably though ignorance or malice do some evil to a lesser to greater extent and therefore cause misery.

Well, to be sure, you have to nudge a bit and create such circumstances to make sure there will be misery and wars. For starters start several opposing religious factions, all willing to do god's bidding and do horrible things in his name. Don't discourage it, leave your words in ancient manuscripts open to interpretation.
3x smaller major radius. 42x smaller plasma volume.
At the distribution point, usually. Some gas networks intended for industrial use don't contain the chemical that makes gas smell as that gas is an input in a chemical process, not burnt for heat.
Seemed to be right after that Haiti began to rapidly fall behind the Dominican Republic in GDP per capita. Also from the article "But the debt payments were a fraction of customs revenues, which were themselves a small fraction of the Haitian economy. Furthermore, the most significant divergence came long after the debt was paid off."
Sounds like he watched the latest James Bond film and thought it was a documentary.
> I care what the company is earning from my labor and getting my fair share.

If you think that your work has more value than you are being paid, why don't you just stop working for those companies and start working for yourself?
coup is there, imperialism is mentioned few times too but without that explicit word... care to actually read the article commenting on?
Wait, you just made me understand what this video was actually about after all this time. I felt a weird dreadful nostalgia just hearing it again

https://youtu.be/nfdEdE96En0
macron removed investment and focus on nuclear in his last mandate before realising that being woke made france broke (luckily not like germany broke - you know like in a way that when there is no sun or wind they need to call Putin to send some energy) now he reverted his thinking because money and energy is more important than beliefs when you needs them. just like usa or germany reactivated coal and biden is selling fracked gas to europe at gold price.
Specifically about managers that don’t have technical abilities - installing “agile coaches” as the scrum master and other Big Agile TM nonsense. Maximum micromanagement and a team getting ever more exhausted and demoralised.
Yes, but some people present themselves as being credible. Authors, bloggers, etc. make it their professional interest to give such advice.

The guy saying 'sell your home to buy BTC' is one such person.

We need credible groups and institutions.
I suggest you the book "Order of time" by Carlo Rovelli. One think I learned by the book is the locality of time. For example imagine one day people living on mars and you wonder what that people doing in this moment. Well is a wrong question. There is no such thing "this moment" in two far placeces
That will indeed be interesting.

The industry is very cliquey.

I talked to two people from the industry and showed them what the software can already do. They agreed that it is as good as what humans do. But both also said they would not become customers. Because they like to mingle with people and support them. One of them said that is also the reason they don't try to outsource the work to lower wage countries.

But I only need 0.01% of the industry as customers to have a great lifestyle business. So I will plow ahead and see what happens.

Plus, with a 10x decrease in costs, the industry might actually grow. There might be new customers coming in that previously were not interested due to price.

Think robotaxis: Not only would a robotaxi service get existing customers of old school taxis and Uber. They could offer a lower price and have people take a robotaxi who would otherwise have walked or stayed at home.
Yeah, this is the great part about working with search, you really do get to sort of go to the gym when it comes to software engineering breadth. From hardware, to algorithms, to networking, to architecture, to UX, there is really an interesting problem everywhere you turn to look. Even just writing a file to disk is a challenge when the file is several dozen gigabytes and needs to be written byte-by-byte in a largely random order.

This does go some way toward explaining why Google interviews looked the way they've looked. It's just a shame everywhere else has copied their homework, without actually needing the same skills.
"China sucks but what about the USA? I feel like it sucks too." - loose translation of the original comment.
Which has nothing to do with anything (payments were very small amounts for a country as mentioned in the article), especially the way Haiti has been run by its government, and taking into account that we are now in 2022.

France is used as a convenient scapegoat for Haiti's problems partly because of the nasty way independence occurred and partly because it's sometimes easier to blame others than to take responsibility.
That articles says DR was used mostly for cattle-raising pasture because Spain was busy in South America.
Thorium costs more.

There are nice vids on YouTube that explain how thorium is no fix for what ails nukes.

Ultimately, nukes just cost too much to build and operate. They are uncompetitive. Now that we have radically cheaper alternatives, we have no desire to engage with the deceitful, slipshod, heavily subsidized builders and operators of nukes, anymore. Never again.
Just curious - do you have a script that finds related posts for each submission or do you rely on your memory, Dang?
I visited Expo 2005 in Nagoya, and can thoroughly recommend attending if you can, it was a rather surreal but fascinating experience.

Amidst a lot of glitzy building-size displays by various Japanese household names and wealthy countries, there was a rather modest Asian & African pavilion for all the countries too poor to afford their own. Inside was Laos's little booth, which could have been straight out of a high school science fair, with a couple of posters and some wooden baskets. Nevertheless, they were doing a roaring trade by selling little flasks of lao lao, the local rice "whisky", for around 300 yen. Three cheers to alcohol, the universal language!
The problem is that capitalism optimizes for profit, not progress.
"It is interesting "

What exactly is interesting? Hate speech is bad, unless it is directed at Russians and then it is not hate speech but 'accurate representation'?

'In Russia, "hate speech" would be something that the government does not approve of'

Not really. 'The motive of political hatred' can be added to the case as an aggravating circumstance, but the charge itself is 'discreditation of Russian army' or 'spreading misinformation'. Not that it makes much difference, since the war began life's got scary in Russia in this respect.

'even saying that patriotism is not kissing the ass of the President'
'a person got arrested for that'

Is this what you call 'propagating the truth'?

Yuriy Shevchuk said a lot of things during his concert but he was never arrested and the court dismissed charges of administrative misconduct for the lack of substance. The prosecutor is going to try again though, but I hope for a good ending -- Shevchuk has a lot of respect in Russian society.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.318 has tried to analyze this for the EU. I'm not convinced that daily data provides the necessary granularity though, but more detailed data for the mentioned time span probably doesn't exist. I would try to find some more articles and check if there is a consensus.
Ah, that's a pity. Thanks for explaining it to me!
Can you not provide your service directly to the consumer?
We don't actually need or want extra neutrons. We have all the neutrons we will ever want, right where they already are.

Protons will become increasingly valuable, after being separated from oxygen.
Let's not generalize about specific countries at all?
Why people keep asking the same questions? felixmeziere wrote it very clearly in the parent post.

The evidence clearly shows that humanity is not acting rationally and we are letting consumerism run unchecked.

A good example is plastic: we are aware of the health impact of particulate and yet we can't even have a conversation around stopping using plastic worldwide. Rather than a choice it looks like an addiction.

felixmeziere wrote about cultural change.

Additionally, it's very likely that fusion will be viable primarily in developed countries, further increasing energy inequality.
What makes you believe that Amazon is a below average employer?
I read the article. I just wanted to point out that statement was entirely incorrect.

As for the top comment the point they are making is that you can’t have a conversation about Haiti without including all the details. All history is complicated and leaving out or downplaying major pieces of the story is a bad idea. There is no one simple explanation that answers the article’s question.
That sounds like a strong take - to you have examples?

Compiling with -Wall -Werror is pretty much standard those days.
Is storage really transportable ? Like how much energy in any form could you realistically transport for any meaningful distance without using too much of the energy that you are transporting ? Since you made the claim I'd like you to paint any kind of realistic scenario.
Have you been to a consultation event for a wind farm? It can get pretty aggressive.
There's nothing wrong with energy. It's just that certain ways of producing energy are destroying our planet. Now that we have better and cleaner ways of generating energy, we can resume coming up with creative ways to convert energy into useful things like food, transport, computing power, clean water, etc. There is no shortage of ideas on that front. But we've kind of been sitting on our hands here because energy is an expensive bottleneck.

Transitioning all of that to sustainable processes, is the game changing transition that is defining this century. It's happening very rapidly now. And yes, I do believe we are going to see an unprecedented economic boom as well. Last century was nice. This one is going to be better.
Review of Shopify Marketplace
You should have written that opinion then instead of the simply incorrect assertion I responded to.
Ye. Amazon really need to be prosecuted for all the frauds they commit. I can't even bring fake brand jeans over the border but they can do what ever.
> This requires large investments and having high enough fares helps offset those investments.

Does not follow!

I have a beautiful bridge ten minutes bike ride from my house. This was a significant investment by the municipality. It would not be improved by being a toll route.

Right now the city is digging up the street in front of my apartment in order to completely redo electricity, plumbing, sewers and telecom. This task would not be improved by our block having to pay for it.

Public goods are not an "investment" because they bring in revenue.

If you're a hard-core capitalist, you believe that they are an investment because they dramatically facilitate profitable businesses with very low friction. Other people believe that public goods like bridges, roads, transportation, schools and parks are an intrinsic good in and of themselves because they make everyone's lives better.

The only economic case for user fees is to deliberately throttle a scarce resource. But given the climate emergency, all our societies should be building public transportation as quickly as humanly possible.

The reason to expect money to change hands is not economic - it's purely the moral idea that everything has to involve money.
> Is this why African countries were so prosperous before the scramble for Africa kicked off in the 1870s?

African countries were prosperous. In sub-Saharan Africa, hunter-gatherer bands often worked less than 40 hours a week (as observed by anthropologists even after the Scramble for Africa). This prosperity exceeded that of many programmers working in the San Francisco Bay area today.