skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to argue on that. I am just very confused by the sentiment of people ordering something as if it was a consumer product despite knowing the only reason they can get one is because they are using the mechanism for developers to get hardware at cost. Which means the obvious solution is stricter screening of who can get one.
Do you honestly think Delta isn't tracking its aircraft performance? Perhaps in even more detail than a factory with a big sign!

The reason the aircraft returned to base (at great expense to Delta) on multiple occasions is because they are extremely cautious.
Apples and oranges. Was commenting on what would happen if another important technology went the way of Heroku. I can think of others, but I'm not making direct comparisons of the functionality and scope of the affected technologies.
I agree. I just got hearing aids, and I've had to oil the hinges on several doors in my house.
> If living consuming less and living simply is "absolutely a bad thing" then consuming more and living more complicated lives is absolutely a good thing.

I did not say that.

I did however imply that being unable to afford heating (or even being unable to receive heating at all) during winter is absolutely a bad thing, and that's the path Europe is headed towards. Having a high GDP per capita does not mean high environmental damage at all; in fact the opposite is true. Compare how emerging countries generate electricity with how developed countries generate electricity.

http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/3.7
Just to relate back to the original point of adopting a universal language, I would guess that if any language were adopted as a world-wide language, then things like honorifics and formal-informal distinctions and gendered articles/nouns would be dropped pretty quickly.
There are some that are kinda funny when you first see them, for example:

Tree: 木

Forest: 森
Seems reasonable that they have some sort of rules engine that tracks this type of thing. A country banning a particular aircraft might be rare but differing environmental and noise laws around the world probably means there are quite a few restrictions on which aircraft can go to which destinations beyond the major reasons like runway size and gate facilities.
Ah yes, the strawman argument... possibility to kill the entire planet vs killing some birds.
This is very true unfortunately.
Underestimating the amount of knowledge required or of importance to know (yes, even when google exists) is just another form of the infamous Dunning-Kruger.
This is a very important point. The externalities of nuclear are actually containable because they are so small. Hundreds of kilos of waste product compared to billions in spent fuel products.

The heavy industry footprints of logistics to create the plant and equipment also are more efficient.

How many solar panels or wind turbines would you need to produce to generate a nuclear reactor’s worth of power? How expensive would that process be comparatively?
These factors weigh heavily in nuclear power’s favor because it is so energy dense.
Nuclear energy stays a bad fit when you factor in that it needs to combine:

- sustained political will and capital

- high morale (contractors and controllers need to not collude to hide flaws/cut corners/inflate prices)

- excelent design and on par execution

- excelent risk assesment and long term vision

- stable geopolitical situation

No country currently has a combination of all the above, all the nuclear plants we build are basically a failure waiting to happen. e.g. France has a set of plants that should have been decommissioned and replaced long ago, yet it didn’t due to the first point. Japan hit the second and fourth point. We’re seeing Ukraine hit by the last. The US could be the only country that fails at less than half the point.
KLM have fairly new aircraft, on average.
As long as we have fossil fuel power plants, adding nuclear plants makes it possible to close them.

That makes them alternatives!
> Along with things like the requirements of 1,000,000 year storage of nuclear waste.

That had jack shit to do with the failure of nuclear in the US. The back end of the fuel cycle is a trivial cost that had nothing to do with the financial failure of nuclear here. And it's the financial failure that stopped it.
At times I’ve become convinced that all of experienced reality is narrowing to a point and about to wink into nothingness, and myself along with it. It’s hard to explain, but it’s very convincing at the time. So as I experienced this sort of unraveling of the universe I have to confront the idea of my own non-being. Until I come out of it and realize it was all in my head :) Even my early, terrified experiences felt like therapy, like the pain was well spent, so to speak.
No one is saying it has absolutely no meaning. They're saying that its meaning has its basis in culture rather than in biology.

If you were to collect the DNA of every living human today and send the information to an alien species, would they say "aha, this clearly falls into five (or however many) pretty distinct categories"? Would anyone be able to tell them how to delineate those categories? Based on what I've read, I don't think so, which implies that what is meant by "race" is more cultural than biological.
I don't understand why anyone uses a proprietary password manager.
Yep, WSJ should be called out on their shit. From the title I thought he had been physically attacked or was dealing with some chronic illness. He's just struggling with recent publicity but from the excerpts he seems to be in an overall good mood.

I'm no Zuck fan but this is an obvious attempt to paint him in as negative a light as possible, very silly and petty.

Ninja edit and random shower thought: How many times would a specific website have to be caught peddling clickbait or misinfo before dang just decides to blacklist it?
Thanks for this insight and explanation.
It's somehow horrifying that the unnaturally animated corpse of something that was so cool at the time like MSN Messenger lives on in an abomination like Teams.
This specific thing is a rare occurrence, but “only certain special variant planes can land at this weird airport” (for instance, LCY requires a specific 318 variant) is more common; I’d assume their software can handle all sorts of weird rules.
I did not. That's fantastic. Thank you.
Whatevs with respect to Tribune (whom I've never heard of). You may not like their message but AMP is the messenger here and it is Minerva's kid brother that flunked school and took up delivering class A drugs on their BMX.

This article is about dumping AMP - discuss! I found the medium article extremely well written with loads of stats to back up assertions. It is also mercifully short. That is exactly what I want to see.

For me AMP is an example of "insidious" - it looks shiny ("my precious") but it will suck the life out of you eventually. AMP, fundamentally puts your content distribution in the hands of a third party (G) that can change it at will and that breaks the promise of the web and ensures that you will have your testes tickled at first and then twisted off.

AMP is not simply a CDN - it doesn't simply regurgitate your stuff faster. It changes it and does things to it and also gathers as much data as it wishes, from your customers. My Precious ...

Oh look: I've managed to conflate some fictional seriously damaged goods from Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings with what Google will do to you.

Silly me.
Good rules. I will add some of mine:

4. Use a function in each block, that is defined and the called with appropriate arguments, and return the values of the block. This prevents proliferation of global state - and the functions are really easy to move out to .py modules when things have solidified a bit.
learning php is certainly not a bad thing. you may get assigned to a legacy code at a certain company that's written in php and your php knowledge would come in handy there. php is not so bad lol. it's just that there is better options out there.

i totally get what you're saying about the uni stuff being stone age. i also was taught using php and the content of the course was too basic to be used in a real world scenario. plus in development using laravel is a savior, so don't worry about php too much.
I guess the simple way would be to cut off non-payers in smaller batches than would make problems for the grid.

But I guess there would also be industry willing to buy the excess immediately anyway.
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Your wallet is being invaded to take actions that have actually increased anger against the US.
The premise is false; cloning is all around you.

However, bacteria have other ways of exchanging genetic material with each other, and more complex clonal organisms go extinct fairly quickly in geological time frames. But more will arise.
low operating expenses over the whole lifetime of the plant including deconstruction or just the fun part?
> Most cases are simply used where English would use prepositions. In Finnish those are postfixes instead, a bunch of letters tacked onto the end of a word. It’s a case and not a word because there’s no space between the two, that’s it.

Unless linguistics has advanced since I learnt this (which is quite possible), the theory is that case (and conjugation? I can't remember) came from disambiguating particles that later fused into the base noun (/verb). And of course languages can subsequently go the other way (like English or French which have been shedding conjugation for a few hundred years and case for even longer, and gender too (French still has two but abandoned neuter a while ago).
> Don't care because doesn't exist (yet).

A nuclear powered world economy also doesn't exist yet (it couldn't use today's burner reactors unless we have massively larger uranium supplies, such as seawater uranium extraction that doesn't exist yet; it could use breeder reactors but they also don't exist yet in a form even competitive with burner reactors.)

The "it doesn't exist yet" argument condemns nuclear even more than it does renewables.
Pro-nuke here.

I'm happy with NRC. I think they are doing their job. I'd rather NRC be too conservative than have a Fukushima or Chernobyl event.

But nuclear is just technology. There is no fundamental reason for nuclear technology to not be 10 times or 100 times cheaper. In particular the naval nuclear reactors appear to be quite inexpensive. And keep in mind, they are designed to be able to work in conditions of combat (hopefully they won't need to). If someone were to just build them on land, they could be cheaper still.

I (along with almost all pro-nuke guys) am not pro-expensive-nukes. I'm pro-cheap-nukes. But refusing to even consider nukes is a perfect way to never get cheap nukes.

Oh, and by the way, I'm really happy that solar and wind are cheap and getting cheaper. Solar energy generation has increased by about 20% or more every year for the last decade (except for one year). I really think the trend will continue.

The idea that investing in nuclear technology is taking away money from renewables is just silly. In 2021 more than $100 billion were invested in renewables in the US. The investments in nuclear are simply insignificant compared to that.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Large, Bright 4K Monitor?
I have an LG 27UK850 27 inch 4K monitor. It's been serviceable, but WFH has really exposed how lacking in brightness it is against day light whereas when I was in office, the pervasive fluorescent lighting seemed to change how I was perceiving my work monitor.

Any recommendations for a large (> 27 in), possibly curved, and bright (> 400 nits) 4K+ monitor? If so let me know any cons as well that I should consider.
Türkiye you mean? Diacritics are half the fun.
I'd not necessarily call it a scam; your money is safe. It's a hassle for sure and mentally stressful - if it does not work or dies soon - you might end up pulling your hair and running for return
nix-darwin currently does not support that directly, but there is an open PR to fix that. For my dotfiles, I added the module from the PR with some slight modifications. You can find the code below.

https://github.com/shinzui/dotfiles.nix/blob/master/modules/...
Simple, because most likely your employment agreement says that you should be devoting your full time and attention to your job for 40 hours a week or whatever. If you're pulling 80 hour weeks across two companies, there's theoretically nothing wrong with that[1], and I suspect those are not the type of people the parent poster is against. The same applies to businesses. If you had a contract with a vendor promising that you'll be their sole client, and it turns out they're actually working for other companies, that would be unacceptable as well.

[1] unless your employment agreement also specifices some sort of exclusivity.
Yup. I'm thinking back many years ago, I forget just how long. Returning to the US from China, the lines got way out of balance and they redirected a bunch of us in the citizen/resident line to the non-resident line. Big difference in their attitude, the guy wasn't willing to believe we hadn't brought home any souvenirs. (Hey, you have our travel history in front of you--many flights, all to Shanghai. Is that someone playing tourist?? No, it's someone with ties to the city. You can see her name, you can see her appearance, you can certainly tell English isn't her native language. You should have already realized I married a Shanghainese and that we were visiting her family.) None of the cheap electronics?? Really now, why would I have wanted those "200gb" storage devices I was seeing all over the city?? At the time no 200gb flash devices existed, certainly not at those prices.
Not YET

Do you even know what the problems were or how the dispatch reliability of N195DN compares to Delta's other 767-300s? There are any number of non-safety-related reasons a plane might return to the gate, especially on a long haul flight e.g. problems with the toilets.

Take a deep breath. Nothing with N195DN was a close call.
Americans’ baseline for sweetness is off the charts. I remember a colleague in the US talking about trying natural peanut butter for the first time (ground peanuts, salt and nothing else, as it should be) and complaining about how bitter it was.
Those are modal auxiliaries. If English had a true future morphological tense, there would be some inflection to the word "go" itself that would mean "go-but-in-the-future"
C++ as of 1997 and C++ today are very, very different propositions.
Higher (recreational) doses of ketamine can induce extremely interesting states that I would definitely classify as "psychedelic" in effect.

It is an interesting drug.

There are also subjectively different effects between racemic ketamine and pure S-ketamine. I have never been able to try pure R-ketamine, it just doesn't seem to be available.
Games already do this all the time. Hades is essentially a fantastic retelling of many Greek mythologies.
Honestly, I find HN's obsession with "professionals" annoying. For long-tail conditions, the professionals are frequently far less informed than fellow sufferers.

During the beginning of the pandemic, people on HN were telling us that N95 masks do nothing without official fit training. Bro, official fit training is something you can easily sub with a free video from 3M's website. It's this hopeless obsession with "official" and "professional" and shit like that when any reasonably intelligent individual can work through stuff themselves.
We're thinking about review experiences! We're developers too, and we're keenly interested in how to make code more reviewable, how to help developers _make_ code more reviewable, and alternative interfaces to the notion of changesets.
Implicit in that paranoia is the assumption that environmental groups are what stopped nuclear. But that's really just a dubious right wing talking point. Nuclear appears to have shot itself in the foot all on its own.
More like attention spans for boring stuff were always short for humans. Making it more entertaining means people don’t have such a hard time remaining focused.
> Which floor is the first floor in your building?

0.5 ... yep that won't work

In some buildings build around 1900 where I live the "ground" floor is not on the ground but around 1/2 a floor above the ground floor. While the cellar is just half below the ground. Because of this the cellar has above ground level windows allowing legal cellar apartments (oversimplified in Germany apartments require windows which are above ground).

This creates a lot of confusion.

By convention this 0.5 floor still counts as ground floor with the floor number 0. But people confuse it all the time for the first floor. Especially if in some cases you do have a few utility rooms exactly at ground floor.

Now things get worse if you live in a cellar apartment in such house: By convention floor -1.

Because nearly everyone will thing you mistyped as normally you legally can't have apartments below the ground floor.

Another fun index ambiguity is for apartments build on a mountain side/cliff.

In this case depending on which side of the house you look at the ground floor might be at, above or below the ground level. Often the floor level with the main entrance counts as ground floor, but sometimes it is not the case and e.g. the lowest floor not below ground or the highest floor even with a "ground".

So yes, index/floor level ambiguity is everywhere and much worse then just is ground floor 0 or 1 ;)
Nuclear had decades to become affordable, safer and sustainable. Instead plants have remained hugely expensive and slow to commission, intrinsically safe reactors are still a pipe dream, the environmental impact of building plants and mining and refining uranium is still large when only 1% of it is used, thorium reactors are a rarity and there is only one dependable, permanent waste depot in operation.

Economics is nuclear's enemy, not environmentalists. Solving the energy storage issue is a hell of a lot easier than solving all the above. The greenies got it right, the future is in renewable sources.
I think it might be kinder to link to debian.org or similar, rather than directly linking to an ISO.
That’s pretty easy.
Only if I thought that there was something my representative could do that would solve the problem. The reason I'm in existential despair is that the distance between what I think would need to be done to solve the problem and what can plausibly be done given the realities of our world is vast. Even if we cut emissions to zero tomorrow (which is obviously not going to happen) that would not solve the current problem. I think that if you look at things realistically, we have already passed the point of no return.

So what I am doing is searching for someone who can persuade me that I'm wrong and that there is a plausible path forward that does not involve societal collapse in the near future (by which I mean the next 100 years or so). When I find that person I'm going to put a lot of effort into trying to help them succeed. But so far I have not found them.

I'm also putting some effort into building a legacy (by which I mean a societal legacy, not a personal one) that our descendants could use to rebuild civilization once the planet settles into a new equilibrium. That will probably be at least a few thousand years from now, so this too is a real challenge.
At least battery storage seems to be unrealistic solution. The needed amount of energy storage for several months is enormous and in addition to that problem, batteries tend to self-discharge.

Geothermal energy and hydro storage are not without problems either. I am not sure about ammonia storage, but it would be interesting to see some calculations about the feasibility of storing so much energy by using hydro or ammonia.

Thanks to the local green party we are behind schedule in nuclear energy. They have dragged the process by years and also in practice forced us to have a new reactor type. In reality much better solution would have been at least two smaller and more traditional reactors (which would provide also more redundancy) than more experimental reactor which is also uncomfortably large. However the older nuclear reactors we have, have worked pretty well and are still producing energy cheaply and reliably unlike renewal energy.
There's a argument to be made for this. As of about 30 years ago, I had the opportunity to observe a freight yard at which the tech was 1920s -- 1930s vintage (electromechanical relays controlling switches). I suspect there are many such instances still in operation. To an extent, what works, works, but there are also limitations and sheer maintenance.

But at a bigger-picture view, as I read what's being discussed for trucking, I keep thinking that far greater energy efficiencies are attainable by a switch to rail, though a huge problem remains in the flexibility and time elements. There have been expedited / express long-distance rail initiatives, though those have been on the range of ~14 days for coast-to-coast transit in the US.

There is a very small number of Class 1 railroads in the US: Amtrak, BNSF, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific. One of those is passenger-only, and two are Canadian-owned. That leaves five US-owned freight carriers. As with the broadband industry, these tend to operate independent territories and routes.
Takes about 10-20 minutes to create 5 images on my 16“ M1 Pro 32 GiB MacBook Pro. It takes around 1 minute on my desktop system using a 6 GiB VRAM RTX 3070 Ti.
EDI gateways and conversion. Super important to large companies and the existing companies that can convert and manage the stream of it are incompetent at best. Small companies that interface with large companies use 3rd party gateways for conversion and compliance purposes. Great MRR business if you don't mind boring and no how to build reliable systems.
As an aside, when people point out virtue signalling (I'm taking it as an analogue of status games) without adding some analysis my first assumption is that they are virtue-signalling to put others down or make others seem shallow (or themselves deep). The cornerstone of western morality is Jesus and he was quite the "virtue signaller". Point being that the observation on it's own is uninteresting without saying something about the context or consequences of a behaviour. There aren't many things that are /purely/ virtue signals (or status games) and those that are, are quite obvious.
Netflix Eyes $7-to-$9 Price for Its New Ad-Supported Plan
Kind of tangentially reminds me of "nitric acid acts on trousers", which afaict is from Ira Remsen's quote about nitric acid acting upon copper. Can't find a good link
The 747-400 was retired not long after you flew it, I think KLM was the last airline flying passenger flights on the type and they retired it in early 2020. In general if it's getting retired soon (or primarily being used on not-so-profitable routes) it's unlikely to get any interior updates. In fact United's 747s were pretty ratty by the end (not that United is known for having nice interiors).
Plant-based milks aren’t all created equal
which fields do you consider lucrative?
Lots of sibling comments have talked about games to learn logic, maths, etc.

To me, the less explored area is games (or computer assistance) that explicitly teach how to know and master your own emotions and how to get on with other people.

Edit: also games to teach basic household finance, critical thinking, and practical probability. (Academic probability teaching totally slides by unacademic people.)

Life skills, in short.
I think they must be stacked based on their description of amp as most of their traffic when it's the lowest line, but I agree the graph design is bewildering and does not read to me as stacked without thinking hard about what they are saying.