skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree that the cases themselves aren't so bad conceptually (as you say, most of them are basically just prepositions turned into post-positions/endings); I don't think it's any worse than German or Russian. But I have to say that the mechanics of calculating consonant gradations etc. is decently painful—I think you might be overselling the lack of difficulty haha.

I enjoy studying languages and have learned enough Finnish to get midway through the Harry Potter series, and even just getting to the point where I could smoothly look up words, let alone remember them, took a fair amount of practice. (The form you see on the page often needs to be un-consonant-gradated before you can find it in the dictionary, and the rules are somewhat complicated, though very regular.)

One funny aspect of Finnish pronunciation is that the ubiquitous long sounds give it a bit of a herky-jerky rhythm. It's always sounded to me as if the speaker is trying to figure out the grammar too :)
At the other extreme, there's Yiddish, it is full of idioms and it's more fun for that!
In the same vein, I recently made a tool to use TouchID and the Secure Enclave to protect arbitrary data and env variables from the commandline: https://github.com/pathtofile/toucli
Note that Altaic itself is considered discredited among linguists, to say nothing of the Uralic-Altaic (which never found serious purchase).
> Newer reactor designs with entirely passive safety features remove the need for operators to take particular actions in the event of a problem, so "loss of brain accidents" are no longer possible.

That would be excellent — although color me doubtful; people always seem to find new and innovative ways to f[oul] up ....
Slightly off-topic.

Since my earlier days of using Windows, I have a strong impression that OS-tweaking tools are very much a double-edged sword. The advertised functions always look attractive, but maintaining a system with such tools has always been not as trivial as the authors were depicting it to be. Sometimes to the point that something would break immediately after tweaking a setting or using some sort of system 'cleaning' slash registry 'optimisation'. In my experience, the latter had always been breaking something. And the former wasn't ever a permanent solution. In other words, given the possible complications and maintenance implications, these tools felt borderline malicious.

But it's been years if not a decade since I last used something like that. How are the things with tools like the ones O&O offer these days? My impression is, 'Shutup' seems like it could very well break a thing or two. And that Buster thing seems... superfluous? I'd rather remove unwanted apps with tools at hand. And if that would involve some black magic, then maybe they shouldn't be removed at all? What's the use in fighting windmills just to remove some default media player?

Anyway, not looking to bash on the O&O software, but merely curious what experience people have with 'tweakers' these days.

PS: I was quite surprized to see a freaking CC-cleaner installed on some modern systems. What's up with that, too?
Agree, education via a game makes lots of sense. Math is one of those that is perfectly suited since repetition helps to learn it.

There have been companies that specilized in educational games in the past yet they are no more. In the late nighties there were a few that were giants. If I remember well Software Toolsworks was one of them. It got acquired but now it's gone.

I suspect the reason we don't see more of them is that education in the US is mostly free so it make's little sense for parents to spend money on something they already have. And teachers don't want to introduce something that threatens their lively hood and way of working. It's just a guess on my part.
Littlest Skyscraper
who killed nuclear energy? Nobody did. The decline in nuclear energy utilization with very few exceptions is secular and global[1]. Two very mundane reasons, the high, largely stagnant cost of generating nuclear energy combined with the rapidly falling cost of renewables.

It's amazing to me how everything in the United States can be turned into some weird culture war debate, ignoring the most material explanations, the article straight up ventures into conspiracy theory territory at the end

"The all-renewables dream was never about reducing greenhouse gasses, but about entrenching energy poverty to halt population growth, so as to spare the environment."

[1]https://www.dw.com/en/world-nuclear-industry-status-report-c...
Thank you. This is a dirt simple and obvious track that would create a wealth of jobs and potential for everyone. It's the ultimate pro-humanity solution to our concerns around energy/pollution.
I do not understand why this should be a link through Google. Maybe Google News highjacks the link credit, which would be pretty mischievous for those who aren't fans of Google's tracking in the first place.

Now that I've seen this, I'm going to have to make sure my own links don't mistakenly credit Google, since I do sometimes tweet news from my cell phone via Google News.

Here is the actual link you surely meant to post, without the Google In The Middle attack:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/passport-waits-delays-line-st...
Except it's not an absurd cost to build. In South Korea LCOE of nuclear is less than half that of solar, at approximately $0.05/kwh. In most of the world, the cost of nuclear power has remained constant or decreased adjusted for inflation since the 60s, only in the US has the cost skyrocketed. This suggests a political issue, not a technological one.
Ontario and France are not that dissimilar in surface area, though in population they are quite different.

I think the author tried to focus on the former when of course it is the latter that should have been primary.
I had not heard of Rumble but my kids like watching Lofi Girl on YouTube (they like the cartoon cat).

I noticed yesterday that one of the Lofi Girl live streams was just black. I wonder if this is related.

The Rumble Roku app seems strange. Only one Lofi Girl video shows up in search, and it's cropped front what it's supposed to be. I cannot view any channels without subscribing, and I cannot subscribe without logging in. I don't think I'll be watching much content on Rumble any time soon.
I transitioned to a domain that was outside my comfort zone. Specifically, I was just pure software dev, bored like you. Thought I’d dive into this new IaC thing my peers are working on, and down the rabbit hole I went all the way to the nitty gritty of Ops.

It was and continues to be fascinating even in my current mid-40s because there’s so much common-sense software development practices that are applicable but missing in Ops and I like the interaction between the two fields.
I'd say each language has pockets of playfulness that aren't found in others. Sometimes you find pockets that coincide to a surprising extent. It's like stacking layers of Swiss cheese.

For instance, Gad mentions in the article the expression "Got it" that doesn't have great equivalents in French. But French also has sentences that don't have great equivalents in English, or if they do have one it's not nearly as playful.

The one thing English has that most languages don't is a massive body of work and a dominant grip on international culture, and I think that's what the comics in the article are interpreting as higher overall playfulness.
I pitched such a thing to a department of education grant program and got rejected. I called it the Meta Educational Environment for Simulation and Gaming (MEESG) (long before FB thought about turning into Meta). The pitch was to create a core open source platform for which subject matter experts could create their own specialized training packages, tied in with a web interface for teachers/students to track progress, gamifying the educational process, which was the key to engaging the students (feedback on progress).

Oh well, I still like the idea though. One of the biggest benefits was that certain trainings are either very expensive just due to materials, etc, or are very dangerous (high-voltage electrician stuff for example), and doing it virtually would have a much lower risk and cost less.
I've noticed that the same sort of people who support workplace surveillance are also the ones who insist they love open offices and pair programming. I think they appreciate having another person to "fall back" on when they get stuck somewhere. If their boss is constantly monitoring them, and they're unable to solve a particular problem, the boss might wander over and say, "hey Bob, you've been on this spreadsheet for a while, let me show you this formula that might help". Or at least, that's the only explanation I can think of that makes sense.

I'm the opposite - I learn best by studying and tinkering (what with having 6 years of higher education steering me that way and all...). Nothing kills that off faster than having somebody looking over your shoulder saying, "why are you looking at the HTTP specification, somebody else already knows how that works".
RISC-V is very flexible, yes, but most 'desktop-class'/application processors are expected to implement at least RV64GC. G is short for IMAFD, so mul/div, atomics, and floating point are all in there, as well as compressed instructions (C) to reduce code size.

Other features you're likely to want are also included in the specification, so if you want to write code that uses for example the B bit manipulation extension or the V vector extension (which is scalable with vector width as well, unlike SSE/AVX) you just have to check a standardized 'CPUID' bit and can run your code, and otherwise fall back to other code.

I also believe that the spec may let operating systems hook these instructions and provide fallbacks so application developers don't have to, but I'm not too sure on the specifics of the privileged ISA of RISC-V.
> Nuclear power is cheaper when built in serial production. That's the basic conclusion of any analysis of the history of nuclear power construction. There's nuance as to why, but the basic pattern is that putting an order of 40 steam generators is cheaper than a run of just 4 of them. Similar deal with specialized pumps and other nuclear power components. Suppliers can re-use infrastructure and expertise, and get better deals on input materials by guaranteeing a stable demand.

Unintuitively though, this is incorrect - both for France[1] and the US[2]. Building subsequent versions of the same reactor design increases the cost - instead of it staying the same or going down.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118
studies show it's basically random

The "basically" is important though, because there are some nuances to it.

However, the point I've actually come here to make is that since publications are a strong factor for your career progress in academia, a corollary of the above is that making it in academia is basically random, too. Which is also true for other reasons, though: for every open professor position in a certain field, there are usually a number of candidates that are all equally highly qualified. But only one of them can get the gig. If the selection is not random, then it's typically based on other factors, such as, how well you are connected, your gender, whether some other professor at the faculty fears competition from you, etc. -- which may not be random, but is equally out of your control in all but a few cases.
Yes, I think some have missed that this is a dig against English being one of the top "World Languages". English, of course, being illogical, inconsistent and hard to learn.
> I think the creators do legitimately want to build a truly open source calculator.

Somewhat like Google legitimately wants to "do no evil"?

Sometimes it is said that deeds, not words is what matters. But in this case even the words are missing, so I don't really get what you're trying to say.
If it makes you feel any better, I grew up in the Midwest and there was no shortage of young people going into Ag.
As they say, "Six million ways to die, choose one"
Good article, though I would add / argue we are in a bubble for dev tooling startups. I've been seeing things where I can write a single Python script that has better DX, more powerful and flexible features, and does not require paying and relying on a 3rd party. Coder is a great example of this is saw today, they add complexity to the easy part and leave the hard part to you. On the filp side, there are some great ones like Tailscale and Chainguard doing some pretty incredible things that are going to make the industry much better.
These calculators are very popular in France.

I know of a lot of teachers who use them for teaching.
I make about 10k€/month (revenue) from an app that I sell. In the beginning I've probably had a few weeks where I worked more than that, but on average that's probably how much I work.

The important thing is to understand that work compounds. If you keep at it, you'll eventually get something useful, no matter how slow you are.

Also, I'm very careful of chasing new stuff. It's easy to think you have to work on feature X right now, and a few months later you realise that feature was useless. If you spend 60 hours a week working on feature X, those hours were completely wasted. Much better to wait a few months and think about the feature before working on it. If the feature is actually important in the long term, a few months later won't make a big difference.
> I suppose it's more that it's closer to €55 a trip - and the conversion rate is a small part of it, really.

If you look at it in terms of per trip, and you're only planning on traveling twice for the duration of the passport's validity, then yes. Even still, $55 is a <5% increase on the cost of a cross-Atlantic trip. Maybe I'm just jaded by a dysfunctional political system such that this seems like a relatively small inconvenience to me (as far as government dealings go). :)

> Even saying "passports are €130 but you can enter with proof of citizenship" would be better - it just seems bizarre to say "any citizen must be able to enter the US" and "but you MUST have a passport" and then "but not really, though we'll be super annoyed with you" as a policy.

This seems unrelated to my comment (I'm certainly not saying what you suggest in this quote). Did you mean to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32609309?
> But Python, yeah, definitely.

Well, it's a forked MicroPython. It doesn't actually support Python, just something similar to Python.
Did Elon Musk just upstage Tim Cook's big iPhone 14 surprise?
Very nice. I use a similar approach but at a much more basuc level, to create lab reports directly from python code using special comments, which are then parsed by a special bash script which generates an html lab report.

I've been using it exclusively for my own reports, but now that I see others think this kind of thing is useful, I might put it up on github or sth.

I loathe jupyter notebooks with a passion ... good to see people working on alternatives!
Not sure how politicians are directly responsible for a Europe wide drought making it close to impissible to get enough cooling water to nuclear plants to producr anywhere near nominal capacity.
It's hard to believe how idiotic this energy situation has become. It's hard to justify paying such high taxes anymore. Was it really hard to head to nuclear and renewables 15 years ago? Not at all.

Japan is another example. It's such a mess. Now they're finally talking about"safe nuclear" again. 10 years and this summer Tokyo had to "ration electricity". Crazy.
So, how certain are we that these neurons and no others will also activate when we see food, rather than images of food? Or when we both see and smell food?

I know it may seem like a small jump to make, but our understanding of the brain is fairly limited.
Doing a bit of research on "equitism" before commenting, leads to [1], [2] and [3], which leads me to suspect that this concept warrants a much broader conversation than can be hosted in comments threads. It may not be for everyone, but the fact seems to be that there are thoughtful people willing to explore alternatives to the status quo.

It's not at all clear to me where they are going to get the water and energy necessary to pull off their big idea, especially here in a region known for its persistent lack of rainfall; waiting for the 1000-year big event is not a solution. Answering that question alone makes it worth looking deeper at this project.

[1] https://www.atlasmovement.org/equitism?locale=en

[2] https://cityoftelosa.com/about/

[3] https://codetomove.com/manifesto.html
I believe you missed the point. They acknowledged the terrible cost of Chernobyl but the point is it can happen every year for a long time before causing the same amount of harm and suffering that fossil burning did just last year.
What styles of illustration would you say are safe?
It's a small minority of course. But you'll even get people here vehemently arguing that essentially all is fair in love and war and screw companies anyway. So you get subreddits and news stories--which probably make it perceived as a far bigger problem than it actually is--which leads at least some companies to take action. As you suggest, you have selfish pricks ruining things for everyone.

To be clear, a small moonlighting gig that's in keeping with business rules is fine. A second full-time job is almost certainly not.
Maybe you’d be surprised at how many people at Amazon work on logistics.
It's literally natural market forces that are "killing" nuclear energy. It's simply too expensive compared to modern, emission-free alternatives.
Its apparently the wrong link see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32609165

The correct one is: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/28/2022-09...
The saddest part of the TMI accident is that the entire thing could have been avoided if TMI had modified its cooling system with the lessons learned from an identical series of events that happened two years earlier at an identical Babcock&Wilcox BWR in Ohio, except Davis-Besse was operating at 9% power instead of at 100% like TMI in Pennsylvania in 1979: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1920/ML19208C067.pdf#page=4

"On September 24, 1977, Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station Unit No. 1 experienced a depressurization when a pressurizer power relief valve failed in the open position. The Reactor Coolant System (RCS) pressure was reduced from 2255 psig to 875 psig in approximately twenty-one (21) minutes. At the beginning of this event, steam was being bypassed to the condenser and the reactor thermal power was at 263 MW, or 9.5%. Electricity was not being generated. The following systems malfunctioned during the transient:

a. Steam and Feedwater Rupture Control System (SFRCS).

b. Pressurizer Pilot Actuated Relief Valve.

c. No. 2 Steam Generator Auxiliary Feed Pump Turbine Governor"

"At approximately 21 minutes into the transient, the operators discovered that the pressurizer power relief valve was stuck open. Blowdown via this valve was stopped by closing the block valve, thus terminating the reactor vessel depressurization. The RCS pressure recovered to normal and cooldown of the system followed."

"The reason for the spurious 'half-trip' of the SFRCS has not yet been determined. An extensive investigation revealed several loose connections at terminal boards, but nothing conclusive. Investigation into the failure of the pressurizer pilot actuated relief valve revealed that a 'close' relay was missing from the control circuit. This missing relay would normally provide a 'seal-in' circuit which would hold the valve open until the pressure dropped to 2205 psig. Without the relay the power relief valve cycled open and closed each time the pressure of the RCS went above or below 2255 psig. The rapid cycling of the valve caused a failure of the pilot valve stem, and this failure caused the power relief valve to remain open."
Fascinating, would be great to chat about your thoughts on the future of the space
coroutines module comes with Oberon S3 system. also Ulm's Oberon compiler has coroutines module.
There should be a meme for not very serious articles about nuclear issues.

“We need fewer, clearer, and more sensible regulations.”

And not a single example of which regulations to drop. How about redlining the appropriate docs and posting those? If they’re all so bad it should be a trivial excercise.
Yep. I've been in a serious existential crisis over this for the last few years.

It's not like disaster is inevitable. We could cut carbon emissions before they destroy technological civilization, or maybe come up with a practical way to (re-)sequester the carbon we've emitted. But right now it is not looking particularly promising to me, and time is running out fast.
> I'm not sure if this article is a joke

Of course not. There is even a book about it:

https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/master-finnish...
Software is not ready. But free software is never "ready". :)
Uhm... I don't understand what the connection to my comment is?

I did not (and did not intent to) make any reference to biomass, not indirectly either. At most, maybe cows now bs. wild bovine herds of the ancient past, which even if we only look at the number of buffalo killed in the US must have been gigantic, so no less than we have cows now, at worst only slightly less but I doubt we have reliable figures about the size of herds before humans killed many e.g. for Africa, Asia or India. As a Middle European, I know we had plenty of large bovines but killed them quickly early on, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs.

I made no comparisons human-bovine.
sometimes when I visit twitter, browser or whatever starts to think that Russian twits are actually Bulgarian, and this changes shape of some Cyrillic letters, making text looking somewhat funny to russian eye. T is one of them, IIRC.
Seems like a perfect storm of max length ETOPS flight combined with a seriously aged airframe, resulting in a vastly increased margin of safety needed to complete the flight. If you plot JFK -> ACC on Google Earth, you can see the flightpath perfectly threads the needle between Bermuda and the Azores, creating what is probably the longest overwater route with no diversions possible from the east coast.

The 767's are really only profitable on these "long fat" routes anymore, and I suspect this will probably be the start of Delta retiring them for 787s or A350s.
Related:

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26766722 - April 2021 (60 comments)
One bootcamp grad's compensation trajectory
I was really hoping the article would have explained a bit about PAM. Any high school English teacher can Google instructions for enabling sudo with Touch ID, but I’ve come to expect HN posts to have a higher pedigree.
Presumably the same registration number wouldn't be necessarily re-used for a 767, and the ban is on the 767 with that registration, not on a hypothetical 777 with the same registration.
I like the sound and the grammar of the Finnish language, if only they had an alphabet more suitable for it: päämäärä is too much for me. (Anteeksi.)
Governments blame people because those governments are usually captured by industry and the rich capital owners