skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and aren't like have the plants currently not working, either because it's to hot or they're in maintenance or it's too expensive to repair them? And EDF, the biggest company behind nuclear power generation has huge amounts of debt and needs (is?) to be nationalized?

From what I can gather, nuclear power was never cheap. It seems no country calculates the real cost - everything's subsidized to be even competitive. In Germany, after the power companies reaped the profits, they said they need to be subsidized to dismantle them, as the costs were to high.

The waste disposal seems to be also subsidized (be it that the state searches for locations and builds them?) or

Building those new and plants seems to be a gigantic money pit - look at the UK. Didn't they surpass the 30 billion mark and no end in sight? And that they can't be built fast?

And who talkes about the real environmental (even CO2) cost to even produce a fuel rod?

Everybody points to France as the poster boy for nuclear power. But it seems that it is a total disaster.

Unfortunatley in German, but can maybe translated:

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-08/deutschland-fran...
> The following culinary items were all prepared in the microwave [...] indistinguishable from food prepared in a conventional oven.

Right off the bat, I can tell that isn't true. In all the photos you posted, there is zero browning on the exterior of those cuts. Some of the sauce/cure has indeed heated up enough to caramelize and brown on the outside, but the actual meat itself looks like a low-quality sous vide cooked it. For a $240 cooking utensil, these results are not very attractive.

You're welcome to cook however you like, but these photos don't necessarily have me rushing to throw away my cast-iron skillet any time soon.
There's a difference in increasing your lifetime risk of cancer 0.5% by eating too much cheese compared to atmospheric levels of PFAS. I can choose to not eat too much cheese, and in fact I don't, for that same reason. I can't choose to stop breathing in or drinking PFAS in the environment.

I don't know about you but 0.5% increase in lifetime risk of cancer is not something I'm comfortable taking on, and it's not fair that I don't have any say in the matter.

Cancer sucks.
Public campaigning and awareness. We need to know what consumer products contain PFAs and the likes. It's perverse this exists so close to our food chain.

These companies have our govnement officials in their pockets but they live on the same planet. They have no conscious even for themselves or their children.
PFAS is almost like optimizing for paperclips scenario. Except we did ourselves( for a little convenience). Micro plastics too. Both permeate every human in existence and now I guess is in rain water. I'm rural and get water from a well, pretty sure That's not even safe.

I drink mostly bottled tea or soda but that's usually in plastic which has bpa... There's really no getting away from this shit unless you literally carbonate or maybe your own organic teas using highly filtered water and maybe live in a bubble that catches and filters unhealthy particles.

I have two toddlers and I'm saddened they have to face this world. I honestly feel the last decent decade to be a kid was the 90s. I grew up in the 80s graduated in 98, and maybe it's just nostalgia but it just feels like the world is much darker and less safe.

I mean we could run all over town when I was 7, no worries.

We'd be dropped off at the swimming pool, or video arcade, etc... Or just ride our bikes exploring.

Now that's child abuse. I'm glad my kids are safe in their child harness but I'm also glad I only had to worry about seat belts as a kid, after 3 or so. Now it's like 8 or older...

And don't get me started on how weak Halloween is compared to the glorious 80s. Beggars night was an entire community affair, now there is no community anywhere that really gives af.

I'm reminded of the Queen song "is this the world we created" or when the children cry by white lion... Two excellent songs that sum up the world we're leaving our kids... It's beyond sad.
Yes. Something I read once stuck with me:

Simple minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds, in the commonplace.
I'd recommend taking Yamanote-sen and Chuo/Sobu-sen and walking the interior.

It saves a lot of money with a JR Rail pass not taking the subway, if you have the time and the weather is nice.
Nabta Playa: The first astronomical site is older than Stonehenge
Both Siemens Solid Edge and Dassault Solidworks are available in "community editions", which are fully-featured and may be used for non-commercial purposes.

https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/solutions/users/hobbyists-a...

https://www.solidworks.com/support/community-download
The former parameter (how long the patents last) is dramatically easier to define in law than the scope.
"Group meetings for up to 45 minutes"
I set one up and Xfinity Comcast started disabling my cable. Suddenly no dns, I'd log into my cable modem and the signal strength would be zero.

At first it was a for a few minutes at a time, then a few hours at a time, then overnight.

I quit trying to use it and the problems went away.
Ask HN: How to price a service that saves hundreds of engineering hours?
I've built a Cypress test runner that completes all tests (no matter how many you've got) in less than a minute. In contrast, based on my experience, a medium-size Cypress test suite takes about 15 minutes to complete.

The only catch is that individual tests have to be under 30 seconds.

The idea came out of frustration running Cypress in my previous company, where it was taking 10 minutes+ to run all Cypress tests while parallelizing across 30 VMs and costing us in excess of USD 2k/month.

In order to achieve this, I have effectively built a new Cypress test runner from the ground up. It understands Cypress syntax, but otherwise have nothing in common with how Cypress works. The way it achieves this performance is by splitting each spec into individual tests and starting all of the tests at once, i.e. if you have 10 specs with 5 tests each, this program will start 50 VMs to run your tests.

I have two companies trialing this at the moment and the feedback has been incredibly positive, saying that it is saving _hundreds_ of engineering hours.
I am trying to establish how to price this. The challenge is that this model is profitable at scale, but losing money if there is not high density of clients. This is because it costs me USD ~0.15 to run a VM for 1 hour and I need to spin up enough VMs to complete all tests, and I am charged in increments of an hour.

My thinking is to charge 2 cents per a test-minute, i.e. Using previous example of 10 specs with 5 tests each, it would cost USD 1 to run all tests once. If you run integration tests 100 times per day, that's USD 100/day.

This may sound much. However, if prior to using this you were waiting 15 minutes to run all tests, that is 14 minutes saved. If avg. engineer in your company is earning USD 60/hour, you are saving USD 14 by having engineers get immediate results rather than waiting for them. If positioned that way, it doesn't sound expensive.

I am currently targeting companies with 30-50 engineers (existing customers are series A and series B companies). At this size, they don't have crazy amount of tests, so I can deliver on the 1 minute promise, and they care a lot about moving fast.

What sounds reasonable?
> Compared with VS, VSCode is a toy

Is it still true today? I don't really do C++ so I have no use for VS, but I have a hard time imagining not having access to everything to do C++ dev with VSCode
Sounds like they’re behind. Or are you implying building enough homes is a bad strategy?
> That would be true if rent was a percentage on top of cost. But it is not, it is whatever maximum renters are willing to pay.

Not exactly, rent price is either the max renters are willing to pay, or, a small percentage on top of ownership costs, whichever is higher.

In the case of the latter, if nobody shows up willing to pay the higher price then the rental unit is removed from the market. It won't make the price go down because the owner won't rent it out at a loss.
I argued that but it kept running in to some contractual problem that was several miles above my paygrade (I think the short version was it had to meet their definition of COTS which precludes any kind of custom build).
Society is composed of individuals. There is no such thing as societal help sans individual help.

You also forget, that society has rarely been consistent in who deserves help and on what terms.
> but nothing like enrichment etc

Sure about that?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urananreicherungsanlage_Gronau
Exactly. Why did holes into the earth to store toxic waste when you have literally infinite energy right above your head (sun and wind)?
Possibly worth disclosing your own stake in this issue...

FWIW, Corellium was garbage. Can't speak for its current state, but not spending money on the tech - or the people - was the right call at the time.
Regulators were forcing its use and regulation was one of the main drivers of the PFAS industry. California forced furniture makers to spray new furniture with PFAS based flame retardants for years. As of just this year, 2022, in California, even though they are no longer required, PFAS are still allowed in furniture until 2024.
Size and rights are definitely an aspect, but so is context. If we were to upload this to YouTube for example we imagine that the film would be interrupted by commercial breaks every now and then. Plus there is the 12 hour length limit.

We did livestream it on Youtube back when you could opt out of commercials. And in a way a livestream is our preferred way of showing the work but doing so from home forces us to make sure the stream is running 24/7 for 37 days...
The nuclear, chain reaction explained
Common NIMBY falsehood.
> we can conclude that Russia is different in some core way of thinking. Not too different though, looking at how the Baltic states have developed when given the choice and chance.

Please do clarify. I am intimately familiar with one of those Baltic states, but fail to see what you mean.
Microsoft did the same, but they totally stopped caring about the product since Windows 8. When the M1 Macbook Pro came out, I bought it instantly, and I couldn't go back to Windows' inconsistency, even though I miss the consistency of Windows keybindings from older Windows versions a lot.
Came here to say this.

The internet as a mass phenomenon didn't happen until around 1994. (They'd send you floppy disks in the mail with software to get you on a consumer-friendly "online service" like AOL or CompuServe, and this suddenly brought waves of people outside the original techie/academic sphere.) And then web browsers became popular...

Internet commerce didn't really start happening until later in the 1990s -- so prior to that, it would've been really hard for scammers to actually draw a line all the way into somebody's bank account.
> Well more of Europe's Uranium comes from Russia than Germanys gas.

That's not comparable because the energy density of Uraniam is much higher, sufficient Uraniam can be imported from anywhere with any kind of transportation, so wherever the Uraniam comes from now, it can easily be imported from many other countries and doesn't make us dependent on anyone.
Probably unpopular to say on HN but ultimately VC benefits from having a visual representation. Have you looked at something like GitKraken?

https://www.gitkraken.com/

Everything you have to imagine / visualize is reflected via a UI.
I wouldn't call people who got scammed and who've lost all their money because they've been a bit naïve 'sore losers', but you do you.
I am aware. However, it's not a big deal for me because I use different wallets and sell to individuals locally, in cash.

Sad that Bitcoin didn't start with the Monero obfuscation/fungibility technologies.
I remember when I was younger, that in many suburban neighborhoods it was common (i.e. expected) that everyone would walk around the block after dinner. You'd see all these couples walking slowing, chatting with neighbors, and basically showing their face.

That probably died in the 90s.
I, Pencil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
Really? Because self denial and lack of self discipline is how western society got to a point where the majority of its raw material supply chain and processing capability for green energy hardware (like solar panels) is dependent on an autocratic and genocidal communist country.
Out of curiosity, do you have any tools/processes to avoid a situation like putting real secrets in new docs? Such as this popular story from 2017 [0]. And is there a way to automate publishing a test secret(s) to a doc and also send it to the blacklist?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/a...
The extent to which this is true is often exaggerated. Violent criminals are the largest share of the state prison population [0], followed by serious property crimes, such as theft and burglary. The modal state prisoner is a violent repeat offender who is overwhelming likely to re-offend upon release. Even once you get down to the "drugs" and "public order" categories, quite a large share of these guys have plead down from more serious charges of which they're almost certainly guilty, and those who really are in for "drugs" are not guilty of mere possession (they're dealers, distributors, etc).

Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html

[0] Local jails are full mostly of people awaiting trial. That's a whole separate conversation. Federal prisons, too, are best thought of as a different topic, since the federal authorities are in pursuit of a particular set of criminals and the population skews heavily toward offenders who aren't representative of the broader prison population.
I agree. Likewise, some alarmists being wrong in the past does not invalidate all future “alarmists”.
Cooling towers require a coolant, which is normally water...
If her extroversion isn't strictly social, maybe you kind find activities that allow you both to recharge.

A camping trip for example could allow you an opportunity to read, and enjoy nature, and give her the opportunity to explore (hike, kayak, forage, etc.)

If that doesn't work you may also just consider doing different things on most weekends, and making explicit time for each other for a nice dinner, a movie, or something more traditionally 'dating'.
You are definitely right about this (many of my green-card friends have multiple weapons), and of course you're right about state law.

I think what parent post was saying is that in Czech Republic (national not state level), foreigners can not only obtain firearms, but also carry (presumably concealed), which as I'm guessing you also know varies widely from state to state, and here in California from county to county.

Of course I'm mind-reading here, I could be totally wrong.

When my brother-in-law and his son come visit from Switzerland they love to go shooting. In fact they get bored with my stuff and rent things with more punch (e.g. .338 Lapua). We visited a friend of mine in TX, and the things you can rent there (e.g. .50 BMG), we've only heard myths of those in CA, no one's actually ever seen one.
I am certainly qualified to understand it.
> Might look into carbon steel, but I'm a bit wary of how it's going to be to clean.

If you have experience maintaining cast iron, the process is the same for carbon steel, both when it comes to cleaning and seasoning. They're very similar. I basically just treat carbon steel as a thinner and lighter version of cast iron (and the thinness changes certain attributes such as heat retention)
In Europe, France is the country, which put most of their eggs in the nuclear basket. They have a massive problem with that setup these days, 28 of 56 of the plants are down. Many of the remaining have serious cooling problems because huge rivers like the Loire, have almost dried out. Despite plans to fill all gas storage for next winter, German gas plants still run on full throttle to support France with their current nuclear problems.

https://www.google.com/search?q=loire+drought&tbm=isch

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/plusminus/teurer-strom-wie...
Fatigue is not only a mental thing as many assume. What really happens is our cells are gradually accumulating Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) while we are awake, and when a certain threshold of ROS is reached, we feel tiredness.

This is a defensive mechanism of a living organism to keep ROS levels at bay. But what happens if one ignores the fatigue? ROS cellular levels will continue to climb up to the point of a pathological cell destruction. The thing is ROS are chemically active and when there are too much of them, you are asking for problems. Such as: broken enzymes in mitochondria, overoxidized lipids, damages of DNA and mtDNA - it all starts to accumulate. This is when a fatigue may gradually transform into one of the physical diseases. Cardio-vascular problems, T2DM, cognitive impairment, ME/CFS. The list go on and on [1].

So, if you often feel tired then you should be very aware of the underlying biochemical processes. It's all mental until it's physical and hardly reversible.

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

[2] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/sleep-death-gut
Generative and AI Authored Artworks and Copyright Law
> bullshit socializing

damn, I can only feel bad for people who use that term :( it seems like simple human interaction are being optimized out.
What if your dominant personality ate all it's siblings and that's why you only hear one voice?

Anyway, there are multiple centers in your brain that process different sensations and conditions - you perceive hunger, thirst, anger, temperature etc.

Think about a "computer" like a desktop or laptop. How many computers are in the computer? There are many chips that run programs, but are not considered "the CPU".

What if your hunger perceiver was conscious, but your .... main consciousness didn't let it talk.

It could be an interesting science fiction story at least.
Exactly, what I am suggesting is current flippers will guarantee a sale price to the seller, renovate and how much of the profit above the sale price they take is a matter of market/negotiation. They still take on the risk and work on multiple houses they just now have a seller pestering them to sell soon instead of hoard houses until price is high enough.
Modest success using African drumming patterns on the thrusters. Always knew that class would be useful one day.
I live in an authoritarian thirld world country and I can say it's a godsend.
But yes, it's only a temporary workaround and I'm seeing the trainwreck in slow motion.
Yes, but some municipalities figured that out and banned anything that appears to be an RV or trailer parked for longer than a certain period of time.

Zoning laws for land often also include clauses such as, if you purchase land X in zone Y, you must construct a home of N,000 sq ft by time T or you are fined.
> What is not true? I stated an opinion. It is IMHO not the job of the OS to keep data indefinately in RAM just because there might be a chance the storage comes back at some undetermined point in the future. We can fail the write and the application/user can try again from scratch if storage comes back.

Maybe not indefinitely, but USB and some other busses often experience transient resets, but once settled, the devices reappear. An OS that wants to be useful in the face of flakey busses should be able to handle that by not going to failure right away when a device disappears, because it may reappear shortly. Otoh, it's hard to set the appropriate time to wait, which is how nfs mounts to retired servers hang forever.
> Even former critics must admit that adding e-fuels through PtX makes 100% RE possible at costs similar to fossil fuels

E-fuels and "ptx" are ambiguous terms for energy storage. That plan is making the same allusions to storage systems that do not yet exist. What is "X"? Can it actually be built as cheaply as people promise? Until that's answered, this is just wishful thinking.
Also great: The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare (The New York Times). And the movie, “Dark Waters”.
Well in the case of git they use github and azure devops to "extend" the workflow of software development to where developers depend upon the non-opensource features added to the workflow where things like issues, wiki's, git specific pull request workflows etc etc etc

This makes it hard to move out of the non-open ecosystem

For Linux 90% of their commits is about locking people into Azure

In both cases they are building a separate community around their flavors of the projects not the projects themselves. You use "Github" not git, you use "AzureLinux" not linux, etc etc etc

I know young devs that have no idea that GitHub and Git are different things
This is a false dichotomy.

> You act as if calling for an end to half the humans on this planet is a horror.

> Reducing the human population isn't a horror, it's a mercy, and not just for us.

This is a horror on par with Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, or Maoist China — and why I called it a “death cult”.

> We are talking about potentially giving every new child an eventual death sentence with inevitable liver cancer here

…so your solution is to definitely abuse humans so badly they don’t breed?

That doesn’t make sense: why is potential cancer worse than definitely ruining the reproductive health of the population?

Your cure sounds worse than the disease.

> It buys us time to try and resolve the dysfunction of our species.

The only dysfunction I see is people like yourself trying to repeat the worst horrors of human history because this time fanatic authoritarianism won’t end in tragedy.
Ask HN: Anyone successfully scraping data from TikTok?
I'm trying many scrapers out there but all broken or outdated. Any help or link is appreciated
the modern ones work well in toronto mixed with the other transportation modes which is probably a better point of reference for american cities than the various EU/Asian examples people bring up
I once read that soda is one the worst thing you can do for your teeth, hope I'm not helping propagate a falsehood
The Wage Gap Between College and High School Grads Just Hit a Record High
I wonder how Robin Dunbar [1] would weigh in on this question. He originally wrote that the largest stable social network was around 150 people - laying waste to people on MySpace claiming 1000+ friends. More recently, he co-authored a paper which says it' closer to half dozen. If you have a large group, you break it up into smaller "committees" - in World of Warcraft, guilds have role players. The WorldCafe [2] argues for 5.

In a recent "agile" project we formed a group of 5 people, 3 of which took on the software dev task and the result was fantastic.

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

[2] http://theworldcafe.com/
Both are very unlikely. It has been widely acknowledged that the energy dependency from Russia was a big mistake. And of course, Germany should be on the trajectory to get rid of all fossil fuel usage. So unless the war ends tomorrow (which unfortuantely it won't), there is really no way back.

We will also have to see whether this war ends in another nuclear disaster, I have serious concerns it could considering the Russian military actions around the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. This would of course kill nuclear entirely. The region in Bavaria, where I live, is still quite contaminated from Chernobyl, we really don't need more of that stuff.
That would be GYP, which has been mostly ditched by its big adopters.
None of that matters. The problem is the "without warning" part.
Also this one by JeffHK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ
which keys would feel more natural for you?
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