skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of industrial capacity is almost purely due to regulatory cost disease.

When you look at industries allowed to be profitable, they go and build things like the Bakkan oil fields.

It's perverse that we regulate nuclear out of existence and build sprawling fracking infrastructure instead, and allow a dysfunctional political process to kill rail in California. But it's 100% about regulation.

US nuclear engineers are old? Great, Chinese ones aren't and we can pay them more. We hire them, problem solved.
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Unlike trademarks, you can selectively enforce patents without risking them.

And in a way, the patent system is exactly about "opening up" technology. After all the idea of a patent is "you tell everyone how to build it, in return nobody is allowed to use that knowledge commercially for X years unless you allow it. This aligns great with "give us the tools to modify the software of hardware you find commercially unattractive".
I'm the opposite. I actually wrote a small browser extension to make HN links open in a new tab because it annoys me so much.

I can't disagree with what others have said about making it user-choice though. Maybe some kind of toggle switch that lets users set the behavior one way or the other would work?
I'd go even further and replace the database with a folder full of JSON files. (Or other similar structured text files.)

Why? Then I could store my WordPress folder in git and realistically merge changes between copies of my website.
There comes a point where all those safety features increase the cost of the vehicle, putting them further out of reach for those poorest Americans. Technology does not solve ALL problems. Safety improvements must come from more driver responsibility just as much as technical improvements.
Price-based rationing is as unequal as the sum of income inequality plus wealth inequality.
This stylesheet has been invaluable for moving fast on my side project: https://extensionpay.com/

One pro-tip though — I found that using unpkg slowed down the page a ton sometimes. I serve the file myself and it's been much faster. YMMV but thought y'all should know just in case.
Thank you. The nonsense dance Mozilla requires for this is one of the many reasons they've lost all of my sympathy.
They may be against it. They also have a very minor representation in the uk gov, so not that relevant. Storage is practically non-issue. We can dump the waste underground for thousands of years with almost no planning. (still a more healthy solution than what we do with other fuel now) The volume required is basically not worth talking about.
Yeah, Hydro is terrible for river ecosystems and one of the reasons they started removing them in the Pacific NW (USA) - trout migration.
This story mostly regurgitates this Politico story:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/02/amazons-ftc-problem...

The key paragraph:

"Among the concerns the FTC is investigating is whether the data generated about a consumer’s home by iRobot’s Roomba vacuum will give it an unfair advantage over a wide variety of other retailers. That concern was voiced by multiple critics of the deal when it was first announced early this month. For example, Amazon could have an advantage with a consumer looking to buy a couch, by using detailed home maps generated by iRobot to suggested particular items."

How detailed are the maps? I'm assuming they're using SLAM. [1] If so, the maps aren't that detailed, and I struggle to see how the maps will give them an unfair _retail_ advantage.

I do get the need for the review, it's just this point that doesn't make sense to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
It depends on the codebase I think, some codebases are spaghetti mess that really benefit from being well integration tested. Other codebases are really well organized, atomic and have really clearly separated concerns. I think you can afford to run smaller less integrated unit tests. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer, just a balance of the two depending on your project.
A war against human extinction.

We can only win it by not destroying the planet.
Which city?

Rare in places like Dallas/Houston/Phoenix, but most people don't commute by car in NYC/Chicago/DC/Philly/Boston/SF/Seattle, and most people I know in those places without kids love not having to drive everywhere

Experiencing decent transit fuels that culture imo

Outdated numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_high_...
I don't really understand your comment. The whole point of a patent is that the description of the invention is made public. If you don't even want your competitors to know how you do it, then you keep the IP as a trade secret, but then you can't enforce a non-existent patent.
Do Ukraine and the West have a course of action in case of a total energy blackout in Ukraine right before the winter [1]? It seems to me that the local success in Kharkiv is not possible to expand onto other regions without significant army loss, because the adversary is energy-independent and is able to continue indefinitely as long as they don't lose their military or as long as their losses are xN fewer than Ukraine's. How much military did Ukraine lose to achieve success in Kharkiv region?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/11/russian-strike...
...and that also has certain consequences for Fossil's design and workflow; namely, an aversion to the "rebase"-style development [1]. A project with a handful of known contributors could reasonably use Fossil; for a project with dozens of contributors, which also wanted to be able to accept "drive-by" contributions, Fossil would be unworkable.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md
Too bad it's this year instead of any other year.

Twenty years ago, if planners weren't accounting for geopolitical stability as a risk to petrochemical flows, they had holes in their heads.
I certainly hope they do not add an ORM into WordPress.
It would add a big layer of complexity and break nearly
all plugins that interact with the database.

This can be mitigated by maintaining and updating both
the database access as it is today as well as the ORM
layer.

Which would probably mean some plug-ins using one and some
the other. Perhaps over a long enough time scale converging
for the ORM.

Right now debugging problems with the interaction between
database and application are blessed by it being fairly transparent

Adding a messy layer in between adds complexity not worth it
unless it is required to add support for many other databases
and I dont see any reason why it would be beneficial for enough
users for that to be worth it.

Introducing just SQlite will expose a lot of problematic edge cases.
since MySql provides a lot of feature that Sqlite does not.
(which in most cases is a very good thing)
This article is misleading. It’s the only source I can find claiming that there is an FTC investigation. This sounds like part of the FTC’s antitrust review for the acquisition, which is standard procedure.

The iRobot’s stock price also has not tanked, suggesting that this is indeed just a standard review rather than an investigation.
> But there should be 100 others under construction right now under a wartime like economy.

Average time to build a NPP is 5 to 7 years[0]. This also assumes that anyone can build and run an NPP, it's like saying that everyone should stop doing whatever they are doing and start building Fabs during the chip crisis.

"Designing a car? Building a pharmaceuticals factory? Coding JavaScript? Stop that, we have more important things to do. Just drop whatever you do and start making 5nm Fabs and Nuclear Power plants"

Also, what do you do with the NIMBYs?

[0] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/park-k2/
> No linters. Code is auto-formatted.

Naming: linters deal with much more than formatting, and users tend to create linters even for languages which enforce canonical formatting.

Linters check for the patterns which are allowed by the compiler, but disallowed by a particular project/team/org. Example: disallow functions longer than four statements, disallow repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant, etc.
They care because your content gets scrubbed without warning by the algorithm, and there is no way to appeal.

The problem is particularly acute on YouTube.
> which is ultimately done with the inertia of huge rotating chunks of iron.

Not "ultimately", "incidentally". How do you think microgrids work without giant spinning masses? There's no technical reason wind or PV can't provide inertia, just need to program the inverters to help maintain frequency rather than just follow it.
> Having to prove yourself innocent of criminal accusation after killing someone else seems like a pretty reasonable system.

I think you have it backward. You are being asked to prove yourself innocent after being accused of being the guilty party in an incident in which somebody died.

> The idea that killing other human beings using a car is "expected" and "the norm" seems to me like the bad system.

I don't know where you got that idea from. Seems pretty deluded.
Apparently it does support squashing.

> Fossil does not support rebase. Here's an article from the author titled, Rebase Considered Harmful. While Fossil has the ability to squash merges, the primary workflow supported is merging.
No idea where your Mwh price come from.
On wikipedia the LCOE for just OL3 is estimated to be at 42e/MWh.
What? Many notebooks have page numbers and a blank index for the owner to fill out as they go.
Those plugins that don't work with SQLite will be replaced with plugins that do.
The SQLite people not using git or hg is like the Bell Labs people and three-button-mouse heavy sam/acme: when you’re right about everything 99/100 times, that 100th time you’re really going to double down on some dumb-ass thing.

In what possible world is telling the most successful set of design decisions about document management in the history of documents or management to get fucked not just “I’ve got goodwill to burn, let’s ride.”? SQLite is indeed badass, but cool it djb, I’m already stressing about the zero bugs ever thing.
My wife works for the state. Her team’s productivity soared during the 8 months they spent working from home.

Once they were forced back to the office, 6 of her peers quickly left.

She and one other person are the only ones who remain. Productivity fell greatly even before her peers left.

She only continues to work because she needs ~18 more months to be fully vested in their retirement system. Then she is leaving as well and she will probably just remain at home until she finds something she enjoys.

Her managers know that they are capable of being far more productive while at home, but they don’t seem to care.

Part of me believes it’s “cruelty is the point” but I’m also aware that the director of her state agency is a conservative who has been trying to “starve the beast” once he took over. He has found the most effective way to starve it as all of the young people are leaving to go to the private sector.

Once my wife leaves, the entire state will have exactly one employee to handle her workload.

Edit: The worst part is the fact that the other side of her hallway is nothing but empty offices because those people are allowed to work from home. However, she works under a different director and he refuses to allow it. So it’s quite literally one man ruining it for the rest of them.
Not really, you'd just encourage people to convert to a secondary chat channel (whatsapp, snapchat, text, whatever is popular locally) and then drop their match on the app.
Not quite. Simplex is an algorithm to solve linear programming problems. Linear programming is (weakly) polynomial. The simplex algorithm itself has exponential worst case [0]. Whether there exist a polynomial-time variant of the simplex algorithm is an open problem.

Constraint programming is very broad — it encompasses many types of problems. Some of them are in P, some (most?) are in NP. In principle you can use the simplex algorithm for solving certain constraint programming problems, but mostly when people talk about constraint programming they refer to different techniques.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klee%E2%80%93Minty_cube
This is Amazon, the company which still offers to sell me more vacuum cleaners after I buy one.

The company which will completely ignore keywords like "6A" in a desperate attempt to show you anything but what you're looking for.

I'm not so worried!

Added: this is also the company which sells a popular line of home-security cameras, some of which are meant to be installed indoors. Worrying about your vacuum snitching on you makes good sci-fi but maybe this product isn't where regulators should be focusing.
The article somehow doesn't mention ROTC, which is a much bigger commitment but can pay for all 4 years of school. Feels like a missed opportunity at the very least.

My main gripe with student loan forgiveness is that it addresses the symptom rather than the issue itself of college being too damn expensive. National military service at least helps pay for college, though doesn't leave many options for those who are unable or unwilling to join the armed forces.

The article only briefly mentions it but I've always thought the idea of non-military national service was interesting. Not necessarily a good idea depending on implementation details, but an interesting one nonetheless.
Here in Texas both language arts and math offer a "3 years in 2" program starting in 6th grade for advanced students.

Also just fuel their interests outside of school, tons of free and low cost programs to learn coding, robotics, math, engineering, theater, music, dance, meteorology ...
SELECT
sale_person_id,
max(no_products_sold) as max_sold,
link(sale_person_name, max_sold),
FROM sales_department_details

I'm not sure what `link` is supposed to be, but wouldn't the dream syntax modification to SQL simply be

SELECT
sale_person_id,
no_products_sold as max_sold,
sale_person_name, commission_percentage, sales_department,
FROM sales_department_details
GROUP BY sale_person_id
WHERE no_products_sold = max(no_products_sold)
Exactly. The Tcl Core Team (TCT) uses Fossil.
So support it with weapons and whatever you want. But don't commit economic suicide in the meantime. Then you won't be able to support ukraine over the long run anyway.

Support and sanctions are two seperate things.
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A foolish article. The military has a lot of programs to try and snag bright and ambitious young people using free tuition as a lure.

Question. If you’re a young bright person, are you going to sign up to spend 4 years on a nuclear submarine for free tuition, or will you go to college, take the loans, and search for a high paying career knowing that if it doesn’t pan out you can just fall back on the military to pay off the loans?
Definitely, but how do you feel about locking that in for the next 35 years? Given that the wholesale price usually hovers around €30-50/MWh depending on energy mix.
I have no proof, but I have a strong feeling that the Chinese nuclear safety authority isn't nowhere near as picky as the Finnish counterpart. Lots of the delays were caused by orders to rebuild after failed quality checks from the authorities.
Just leave the maze in a humid, warm environment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWbY7kWesI
This is so bad it makes me think the writer knew exactly what they were writing and they made nonsensical dialogue on purpose.
> Also Europe doesnt need Russian gas.

Jesus christ. What have you been reading.
You keep repeating this statement everywhere. Where do you think Russia is going to sell this gas? To other nations, using non-existing pipelines? Right now Russia is burning off gas because they can't find a way to sell it.

And nobody in Europe is under the illusion that gas will start flowing through the pipeline just because we decided to "open it". It will have a faulty turbine or develop a leak or whatever is the next thing they decide to cook up as a reason.
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Your info is out of date:

Inverters are solving grid issues at fraction of cost of spinning machines

https://reneweconomy.com.au/inverters-are-solving-grid-issue...

> Ian Christmas, head of engineering at Edify Enegy, told a Clean Energy Council large scale solar forum last week that the inverter tuning at four key solar farms – Whitsunday, Daydream, Hayman, and Hamilton – would address recently declared system strength issues in that part of the grid at one twenty-fifth of the cost of installing a synchronous condenser.

> He also said it could be done in a fraction of the time – around four months compared to fourteen months or longer for the alternative. “It’s significant enough (in terms of price and time) that it is a no brainer,” Christmas said.

Also note, synchronous condensers which you seem to believe are vaporware are a fine solution, just not as cheap.
Yeah, I do think it's worth getting right. For the most part even those that know better but there is significant meaning there. I suspect it mostly wasn't a problem for our AZ person because the company essentially operated out of Chicago time, so in his case it was the difference between discussed times being 1 or 2 hours off.

I was just being pedantic about it being pedantic .
They are pretty major producers of methane

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/06...
Plastic might be making us obese
NATO intervention would not trigger WW3. Nobody is interested in invading Ukraine, besides Russia.

Also, Russia is capable to start a thermonuclear global holocaust at any point. They could literally say tomorrow - either you give us Warsaw Pact / Russian Empire territories or we start a thermonuclear global holocaust. What then?

But Ukrainians are not asking for military intervention. They are asking for stuff like ATACMS.
I like the "wartime like economy" analogy.

It took 6 years to defeat the bad guys during the second world war.

Most of the guys that defeated them had little to no military training at the onset of the conflict.

The NIMBYs in that scenario were marketed to with either assured oppression, or war with a "better" future. Same can be done today.