skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada and the UK tend to offer variable rate mortgages, or mortgages with rates fixed for terms of 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 years, with corresponding premiums over variable based on the term risk. The US actually fixes the rate of the mortgage for the whole 25-30 year amortization period. That creates a LOT of funding risk for the lender, and generates a lot of the craziness in your mortgage market.

Maybe a better way to say it, is every mortgage in Canada is what Americans would call an ARM.
> I think the sane middleground is for them to clearly identify what's experimental, what may be discontinued/deprecated/pulled, and to communicate those expectations and timeframes, in advance.

That might not work well for Google specifically, thinking about how long GMail was branded as "beta". Also, much of their consumer-facing things need network effects (think their piles of messengers)…
But it still needs an explanation because European banks don't charge for a current account.
But its not just America. Immigrants who migrate for opportunity tend to do better regardless of where they go.

Thomas Sowell (arch-conservative) wrote about this.

Germans who immigrated to Imperial Russia, Indians in South Africa, Chinese in Malaysia, Japanese in Brazil, etc. all do much better than “natives.”

When people spy opportunity elsewhere, and have the money to move, and snatch the opportunity- it turns out well.
Super interesting how there is a big push for nuclear in the tech world right now.
To play the devils advocate, there are some pretty solid reasons why Nuclear is not ideal.The biggest one to me is the risk or nuclear material proliferation: Iran for instance is hiding their military nuclear program behind a civilian nuclear goal.

Nuclear is probably net better than coal but it's not the (only) solution to climate change.
> This is a complex topic

It really, really, isn't.

Hospitals the world over were completely and wholly overwhelmed with patients sick with COVID-19. Lockdowns reduced transmissions, hospitalisations dropped.

That's it. That's all that needs understanding.
One of my all-time favorite Mac apps is also a timer, input via mouse instead of typing:

http://maddin.io/gestimer/
After a discussion with a lawyer friend (not australia, canada, so tangentially related), the "presumption of innocence" that would not obligate this person to have or produce a key for whatever gibberish someone sends to their devices, is what's known in legal circles as a "principle of fundamental justice," and it is not a right that is either absolute or inaliable the way that american rights are set up.

One doesn't need to agree with the persons cause to recognize this is another extreme overstepping of authority on the part of that government to mandate that the people who communicate with the person subject to this order may also not protect their own commuications from interception, and that the person subject to the order must somehow produce a key for whatever data gets sent to him.

Given the cynical application of laws and their moderating charter exceptions in places like Australia and Canada over the last few years, I could forsee a new republican movement emerging in commonwealth countries, as it's pretty clear CAN/AUS/NZ have dispensed with notions of fundamental justice, and have a "so sue me," approach to legislation and governance, as this stuff is just too stupid to be reasoned with. The language means nothing, the principles mean nothing. It's no longer about tech, it's about what our options are when the state has demonstrated official contempt for the people it ostensibly serves.
Tell this to Google Reader.

Not that I'm bitter, or anything.
Internet isn't quite reliable in the US, it's good to have some cash on hand in the event things go down.

I tip in cash, so that taxes aren't taken out of an already underpaid person's "wages".
I’m curious what caused those 0.02 deaths per terawatt for solar.
Children have much to learn about how the world works. There are many practical applications (ergo, relevant math problems) which build/strengthen basic math skills while teaching what children need to know. (Some of the books in the lie-bury will probably point in the right direction.)

Ideally the chosen practice will feature subjects individual children are enthusiastic about, and are age-appropriate.
But do any of them have software support? Most of these rpi knockoffs only ever release 1 kernel version and you are stuck on it forever.
To me, it's about the shape of the logistic curve from planning, through construction to supply, and it's lifetime.

We should start nuclear construction now, but for supply in 8+ years time. And therefore we should start increasing construction of wind, solar, pumped hydro and battery now, to supply lower watts, but useful watts inside the 8 year window. As supply matches demand we can remove coal and gas, and when the nuclear comes on line, increase the pace of their removal and repurpose surplus wind and solar to hydrogen production for ammonia, and hydrogen fuel cells, and domestic gas replacement.
> The argument is well known: nuclear power causes pollution

It does? News to me.
What constitutes not asking for a location in this context? I was looking at the fullstack engineer section out of curiosity and this is the first line of Discourse's job opening:
'Salary dependent on location and experience'

This makes it seem like they still very much will ask for your location (and subsequently base your salary on it)
Ask HN: What's one of your favorite personal programs, and why?
I have a python script that uses my phone's haptic motor to produce morse code. Its not at all important, but it feels cool to be able to read a notification covertly. So what are some of your favorite programs like this?
As nuclear waste piles up, scientists seek the best long-term storage solutions
For plugs intended as load-bearing screw anchors to replace damaged wood, should they be fastened to the surrounding wood by:

1. friction: tapered snug fit, expanding with screw
2. glue: non-tapered, small cylindrical plug<->hole gap for glue/epoxy
3. both: tapered snug fit + grooves for glue/epoxy
> .sample

Yes, I carelessly copy-pasted the path.

And yes, as I said it would probably be a good idea to have a feature like that in the core. -- Ah, I see the other reply, so it's done. I generally recommend asking such questions on #git on IRC, someone will know the answer if a feature already exists.
1000/mo. for free? Could be a good conversion funnel for paid accounts. Any serious user will naturally graduate to requiring a paid plan.
When a browser talks to a server over HTTPS, it needs to have a shared secret key with the server to encrypt its streams. Diffie-Hellman is a protocol that achieves that through a back-and-forth communication with no preexisting secret, but its security relies on the complexity of solving the discrete logarithm problem, which is hard on a classical computer, and thus safe; but is much more tractable on a quantum computer, and thus unsafe. Quantum computers that are big or reliable enough don’t exist, but nefarious people can store HTTPS streams on disk until they do, and decrypt them then, which will be a tremendous loss of confidentiality worldwide.

As a result, there is some urgency in getting browsers to use a new algorithm that survives quantum computers. NIST set up a competition: PQC. Various entries adopted different mathematical approaches. One of the entries, SIKE, which is an instance of SIDH, survived cryptanalysis and was a 4th round finalist.

However, this week, a paper was published, describing an algorithm that can recover the shared key from seeing the SIKE Diffie-Hellman exchange. It is not just theoretical: it was implemented and could break keys in less than a day. It is particularly shocking because we came near a situation where it could have been standardized or even implemented in browsers with devastating consequences once the attack was found. Furthermore, it puts into question the use of the whole mathematical approach used for SIKE.
Great timing, I’m currently reading Searching for Charlie by Tom Scott. It’s about Charles Upham who was awarded the VC twice during WW2 and spent some time in Colditz.

Colditz is on my list to do more reading into. I was always under the impression that it was one of the worst camps to end up in but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

From the “Prominente” housed there to the surrender of the guards to the prisoners near the end of the war there are some fascinating stories there.
That and all the pedestrian deaths. Florida is the second most dangerous state for pedestrians. https://smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-design/#custom-t...
Roof installers (no cap).
Is it better to just drive? (Honest question.)
You tip in Sweden? Who do you tip, and why? And why them and not others such as the cashier in a supermarket or a bus driver?
We saw another downside of nuclear power in Ukraine: When Russian troops attacked towards Enerhodar and there was shelling in the area the safety of the reactor could not be guaranteed. In the end, containment can be guaranteed w.r.t to internal accidents but no facility can ever be safe from outside issues like war, natural disaster or politics.

Solar has less single points of failure and if it fails not much happens, like in the case of the stolen solar power plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokmak_Solar_Energy).
At a guess, accidents during installation or maintenance, e.g., falling off a roof or grabbing live high voltage DC.
Professors like it when you talk to them. They set up "office hours," and are usually disappointed that more students don't drop by to chat.

That's an example of something else about college: there's lots of resources available, but you're not always aware that they're there. Maybe you find them reading the student newspaper, or in a page you might overlook in the course guide. Maybe there's fliers around campus, maybe you hear about it from another student. Maybe it's on the college's Twitter feed or web site. (U.C. Davis had a really terrific blog about the town and the community, with pages on every aspect of local life.) But there's definitely a ton of resources. (A placement office with career counseling, financial aid advice and academic counseling with support resources, free mental health counseling, various fitness programs...all kinds of stuff.)

Maybe my advice is: just be aware that there's additional resources you probably aren't aware of yet, so keep your ears open, and don't be afraid to ask around or go look for them.
DeliverPoo: on-demand delivery of dog dirt by teams of gig-economy cycle couriers

Sadly getting an error every time I try and generate this much-needed DDaaS
Service Fabric needs to die. It is an abomination on software.

Why, why, *WHY* does each SF service need to have some terrible wrapper code that forces it to run in, and only in, SF? Oh ya.. vendor lock-in.

No thanks.

Yes, I'm aware that MS added support for docker containers in SF. That integration is dreadful. They did about as good a job of it as the WCF team did of shoe-horning "RESTFul Services" in.

> Windows doesn’t have “distributions”, so there’s less need for containers in that space.

I don't follow. What does distributions have to do with need for containers?
DeForest Kelly 79

Just didn’t want to leave him out.
> all this is misdirection from the real challenges of nuclear, which is finding somebody who can build it and somebody who is willing to take the financial risk of nuclear, when it looks like a terribles mis allocation of capital, if one's goal is to decarbonize energy.

I have read that there is much more nuance in nuclear pricing. Past projects were bespoke and subject to changing bureaucratic requirements. There are numerous startups working to bring down cost.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...
Theoretically yes, but they are really two different undertakings and I think it is important to advocate specifically for social housing. If you just advocate for building more, you're really just advocating for gentrification and making things harder for the poor.
A very traditionalist view. Close to the mark, but also impractical.

I manage a small but very cross-disciplinary R&D team (also hardware/electronics/software) and do not expect people to execute on all of those capabilities. It would surely be a great help if they could, but it's just unrealistic to find people who are that well rounded.

I find that engineers are often domain-specific and their thinking may be clouded by a core or familiar domain. For example in cross-domain problems you'll often see software engineers who want to solve everything with a stack they're familiar with, mechanical engineers who reach directly for industrial automation components, and electronics engineers so stuck in high-cost-of-iteration or large production mentalities they are unable to operate in high-iteration modes with alternative tradeoffs.

In general, I would say that: (1) engineering process management is a different discipline to most domains of engineering; (2) competency at generalist or cross-domain engineering is a relative rarity in those identifying as engineers; (3) R&D engineering is a different skillset (both engineering and management process wise) to production engineering (and the magnitude of these differences is often related to the fabrication/iteration processes and associated costs and timelines in the domain in question); (4) Engineers who excel at cross-disciplinary thinking and novel problems tend to be those without overly formal engineering backgrounds; (5) In some ways, all management is human process engineering, and it's simply unrealistic to expect all engineers to be effectively multi-domain.
clarion was good
Environmental remediation, habit restoration, pesticide applications, and agriculture would be a few
A quick google search shows that pvc piping has a lifespan of 100 years.[0] Please edit your post to acknowledge this.

[0] https://www.ipexna.com/media/3074/pvc-pipe-longevity-report....
That movement has been around a long time - see Code for America and its offshoots for example. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. It's easy to think that new tech will fix everything but you need to understand the bureaucracy the tech resides within.
T-Mobile Home Internet: How and Why I Switche
It wasn't always like this, in the early days you only needed GOROOT and GOPATH. Nowadays there are numerous hidden envvar toggles like GOPROXY and GOMODULES111.

Even still, this doesn't seem more difficult than installing and learning how to use ninja and / or meson build.
I'm in a 25 year old building and we had to replace all the plastic piping last year. The pipes became fragile and started randomly bursting. In about 50 apartments, we were having about 2 leaks a year, and were finding it hard to find plumbing companies to actually repair them.
I am a huge fan of PEX from a cost and longevity perspective (it can withstand some freezing of water without bursting), but copper is cool for its anti microbial and similar chemical resistance properties. If money was no object, I’d spec copper over plastics for water supply if I expected the structure to exist for 50-100 years. Disposable structures? Plastics all the way, dump the whole thing in a plasma gasifier upon retirement.
If you watch the video, they do say stop (in Italian). And the attack itself looks easy to mistake for non-fatal from afar. Here is a similar attack, with far more people around, where also nobody stops the attacker:

https://twitter.com/Unashamed366/status/1553141295509544963

But the Guardian didn't report on this one, and it's not cause for national outrage. And if we move beyond anecdote, in all their MeToo fury, they never reported that despite being only 10% of the population [1], immigrants commit 42% of all rapes in Italy [2] - you are free to find what the figures for homicide look like.

Do you really think that because (most) news don't report it, such attacks don't happen? Just how easy to manipulate can you be?

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

[2] Secondo i dati del Viminale, 42 donne su 100 sono state violentate da immigrati. - https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/napoli/sequestra-e-violenta-1...
I like how you can say this about literally any complaint or feature request. It's the perfect deflection!
Not just media and electronics; nearly all sensory input is minimized in the shower.
Wonder if they could make an electric version of the wagon? It could be great as a short-haul utility/delivery vehicle...
If the US built more clean nuclear plants that would somehow help Iran develop nuclear weapons faster? Surely the slope cannot be that slippery.
Does anyone know of a good, sober treatise on the suitability of microkernels for multitenancy and/or split priority systems?

Hypervisors just seem like particularly impoverished microkernels to me. It reminds me of social programs working hard to avoid the term Socialism because of emotional baggage. Oh this is definitely not a microkernel? Is it a full privilege program that handles a small number of system-wide concerns and delegates the maximum number of other concerns to processes running at a lower privilege level? Yes? Then can we call it a… no? Okay buddy.
This is a statistical study, what are you talking about?
Nuclear energy is safe but humans are not.
I still don't understand why they bothered writing the articles for the ones that weren't being uploaded. I'm sure there's a reason, it just wasn't obvious to me.
> Just want to make a plug for Paul Sellers

Apparently you can use a Hitachi plug cutter to do that.
> Thanks to Apple for [...] supporting this!

I'm curious; what contributions to the Asahi project did Apple make?
I really like my DF500, and I'm inclined to agree with you about it being better overall now that you can use Domino Connect pieces with it. (If you're unfamiliar with the Domino Connect stuff--it makes it way easier to make a gift or something you have to ship. DIY flatpack, but way way nicer.)
> Cars are popular because they solve a real problem for the overwhelming majority of people in the US.

To be clear: that "real problem" is a manufactured one. The overwhelming majority of people in the US live near urban centers, and could be served not just adequately but well by mass transit. That's how they were served a century ago, when we were a far less urbanized country; the numbers are even further in our favor now.

Where I live, public transit is faster than driving 90% of the time, the same speed 5% of the time, and slower the rest. Cycling is also generally faster than driving, and is perfectly comfortable with the right clothes throughout the year. And that's before we even consider the "fringe" benefits (like being able to read wherever I go, not having to find short- or long-term parking, and not polluting the neighborhood I live in).
IIUC, old cable modem networks were all one simple circuit, such that there was no unicast traffic. Much how Ethernet hubs used to work… everyone who transmits would be communicating with everyone else’s cable modems on the same node, not just the gateway. So it was trivially easy to spy on others’ traffic, and if you plugged your computer straight into the cable modem (and didn’t use a router of your own), it was pretty much as if you were on a LAN with everyone else on the same node (basically your whole neighborhood.)

In the beginning of cable modem rollout, consumer routers were not yet common either, so most people were plugging straight into their modem. Cable companies encouraged this, and would charge for additional cable modems if you wanted to use more than one computer.
unless one is in need of piping files (and streams) in a complex and prolific way, npm scripts or a makefile can supplant Gulp/Grunt with much less overhead.
I just checked that the right against self-incrimination exists in Australia, too. Isn't it a violation of this law to require someone to tell their passwords?
They quantified that though.
I dunno about your interpretation. When did jaywalking become a thing? When did people get kicked off the road so cars to use them, before or after everyone had cars?
Copilot tramples the copyright of competitors, it's no surprise it doesn't auto complete Windows source code. Until it does it's just another tool in embrace, extend, extinguish.
radioactive waste stays much longer radioactive than being dangerous

If it’s radioactive it’s dangerous. The article points out that radioactive waste doesn’t stay radioactive for very long, contrary to what is commonly believed.
Me too!

I used it to enter my school's science fair where I wrote a program that was a couple thousand lines to calculate, chart, and explore the relationship between musical notes and frequencies. I didn't have a thesis or anything, just did a bunch of programming, and the judges did not care for it haha. At the time, I didn't even realize it was "programming" a computer, it was just fun!

Once I started to learn to program for real, I thought it was weird that I had to type all the characters myself rather than selecting from a list of pre-defined functions!
It's sort of similar to the MSX2, much more than it is to the MSX1.
You have no idea what science is. Suggesting a hypothesis and then proving it via rigorous testing is what science means. It isn’t whatever the hell you want it to be nor is “science” anything but a method to disprove hypotheses.
Potentially we can't build nuclear fast enough to replace fossil fuels https://youtu.be/O0pt3ioQuNc 22:19
It redirects just fine for me (?), if this is what you'r referring to:

https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts → https://github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts
This article is a very long rant that ultimately doesn’t make any useful claims.

Of course subscription models aren’t for every business. Of course customers would prefer to not have to subscribe. What’s your point?

If you’re saying that subscription is a bad decision for the products referenced in your article, I’m afraid that you’re almost definitely wrong. These big businesses have tested their pricing models and know that subscription maximizes LTV per prospective customer, which is ultimately what matters to them.
> There is talk of electric cars with 800 volt (vs 400 volt) battery systems... The main reason to switch is to reduce the cost of copper wires and motor coils.

It's not just talk, a number of EVs run at 800V (Porsche Taycan, Audi E-Tron GT, Lucid Air, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6). And while there may be a cost benefit for the manufacturer, it also makes a more desirable car for the owner, since they can charge twice as fast. While most 400V EVs top out around 125 kW charging rates, the 800V EVs can hit mid-200s.
It does matter because assuming it as a matter-of-fact prevents discussing or even conceiving alternatives. It prevents you from asking: What should the companies fiduciary duty be? (Perhaps respecting the law and not busting unions?)
Because what happens is every single company will start doing this in practice. Not to mention that overworking people to the point that they do not believe they can even take a real rest break is a safety issue.
"do a barrel roll" still works.
You can run Windows images on Windows clients using Docker.
To me, the fact that Wikipedia influences law is surprising. I would not have expected judges or their clerks to rely on Wikipedia or a resource.
As far as I know you can't really ride your bike on the sidewalk. Either the street or specialised bike lanes. So you will never really see someone driving a bike at 25 km/h (the legal limit in many European countries) on the sidewalk.

Plus, people are much more used to dealing with bikes than scooters.
I think nuclear power plants aren't worth the risk. I often hear arguments such as that modern reactors don't have the issues old ones had etc.. As long as it can't be guaranteed to me that e.g. a terror attack doesn't cause a 1000 km2 area around the plant to be unlivable for 100 years, I most likely won't change my opinion.

I think living in the stone age is better than taking the risk.