skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because nuclear energy has risks that solar and wind don’t have.

Everything has risk. Solar panels can fall and kill you. Wind turbines kill birds.

> And nuclear does pollute a lot more.

Oh really. Tell me more.

> If we plaster the world with nuclear reactors, risk and pollution goes up.

What pollution? What about CO2?

> You dismiss these two factors as completely irrelevant.

That's because it is irrelevant.

What you were doing is applying a benefit of a technology to a situation where it's anything but impressive. In the most logically extreme circumstance, imagine if humanity achieved unlimited power; why would anyone care at that point whether their electric engine was even 200% more efficient than an internal combustion engine? Without something to make the efficiency meaningful, such as energy shortage or personal cost, it wouldn't matter. What you appear to be saying is that electric engines running on wind and solar can replace nuclear as if they can as easily scale and be as affordable, neither of which are true because they can't produce electrical energy 24/7/365 the way nuclear energy can.
Rust boosters are already actively rewriting PLT history to where `?`-notation is an innovation, not a syntax for a somewhat broken, highly limited notion of effects distinct from computation. There are effect contexts not only richer, but critically more important than `Either`, e.g. `StateT`.

If Rust had the momentum of a typical over-hyped programming language I'd be merely interested. The insane "better than a politician" marketing creates risks I can't even foresee, and the ones I can are all very, very bad.
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Using wood from an equilibrium is perfectly fine, yes. But Europe has that equilibrium, responsibly managed forests since many generations. That's why we import from the USA, where apparently strip-mining live biomass is still a thing. We already exceed live biomass capacity even while still burning through millennia of fossil biomass per year and as long as we do exceed live capacity, substituting fossil with even now live is no improvement.
Basically, heat is waste. A space heater is a resistor causing 0% efficient usage.

If 500 watts of electricity go into a heater or a computer, 500 watts of heat will come out, minus some light from leds and screen, some electricity on the ethernet cable, and other of these ignorable things.

If it does some usefull computation on the side, that's nice, but energy wise a 500 watt game computer is just as efficient as a 500 watt heater, if used for heating purposes.
how much clearer can you be than a nicely numbered list? :D
Yes, but those custom domains are not always universally replaceable with feeds.feedburner.com.
The man has just passed away and you drop a hit piece on him.

edit: my mistake
My depressing reaction to this was “wow look at all these people who actually have the option to not eat alone”

But seriously, it’s the best. No rush or delay in leaving, I can play a few chess games, and skim the occasional article or paper, and I can go for a walk in the park or drive around a bit after.

I try to get breakfast at least once a weekend, and though I sometimes invite friends I usually prefer going by myself as I find it to just be a great way to start the day. I barely even notice the strangers around me.
So these people shouldn't have a voice (be able to participate in any way in the commercial system the rest of us created), because we find their economic engagements to be "morally repugnant"? And yet the only "voice" they should have, should be permitted to have, is relegated to playing their accepted parts in the sex/vice industry their only "moral crime" is to talk about? Basically we want to mediate their economics and not allow them to speak up outside of the roles we want to put them in to. And we're going to pretend to justify we're doing that, in "their best interest", tacitly projecting the lies that: "we know what's best for them", and we get to decide their autonomy, not them.

So, on the one hand, we decry the fact that they seem to lack power and agency, while willingly with the other hand we strip them of what agency and power they do have by saying, "shut up, don't spend your money on that, this is for your own good."

Sounds fucked up and abusive to me. The people should talk if they want to. We shouldn't pretend that we know how to mediate that for them. If they want to expand the way they engage economically, and narratively, in society, then I'm not going to step in their way. I think it's good for them, if they want to do it. I think it's good to have their story told.

Maybe we're just unhappy their voices reveal our hypocrisy? Maybe should you think it through before you find a way to condemn-label something that perhaps you're just a little uncomfortable with. Examine yourself first, rather than projecting onto them, trying to further limit their access, is my unsolicited advice. Thanks
same, thanks for digging up the link. yeah, seriously, verbatim same comment
On the contrary, I find most of his videos to be deeply humanizing of their subjects, who would probably be ignored or brushed aside in a normal day-to-day interaction by the typical viewer of the channel.

Also, speaking personally as someone who has a family member who suffers from addiction, I have found it valuable to listen to people speak candidly about their struggles to someone uninvested in their lives, in a way that my family member could never speak to me.
I think there’s a cultural aspect you’re missing—presumably you aren’t American? I’ve yet to see any free speech absolutists on HN. I would assume most people are on board with criminal penalties for fire-in-a-crowded-theater speech.

I don’t know if coming from a different culture means you don’t understand how societies work—that’s a pretty general claim.
Thank you for this link. All the blogs always talk about "leadership", "design", "team management" and the like. This people do, despite saying in the last part of the article that figma's strength is a well-performing c++/rust webassembly+webgl backend.

Let's get some details on what mattered here.
It's not. Nobody in 2022 serves sentences for being black, according to the law (unless the justice system made a mistake). It was a rethorical question.
How many years did it take for that wood to grow?
Even heavy oil for boilers requires some energy to produce from raw oil. Plus there are transportation losses. They are less than transport losses for electricity but not much.
Workaround for now: Try to guess the url based on the original pattern, so this will work:
https://feeds.feedburner.com/rss/cnn_topstories
It's a common narrative and doesn't really have a counter, but those who actually bother to look know that AMD are actually really fast (just like the old days when it was Intel v AMD)
That has been my experience as well - really don't understand the love for it, I run on a very powerful machine with 1GB fiber internet, and it always, always feels like a dog to me whenever I am forced to use it.

Not sure Adobe will make it any better, but just don't see why it is so popular in the first place.
What is special about Figma? Collaboration. Community. Nothing more.

They started as an Illustrator clone, than moved to copy Sketch functionality.

Then COVID happened. Check the stats. A lot of teams before that used it because it was free.

My company workflow used a mix of Sketch and our own DS/Library management solution. Sketch literally committed a suicide by not providing collaboration functionality.

Browser hype is all good, but you have a memory limitation. And nothing beats a native app responsiveness.

I skipped Figma for another reason: It is cloud only app.
Yes you can save a file for backup, but you cannot edit or view your work.

I have witnessed the demise of my favorite tool Fireworks in the hands of Adobe.
In one point in time we used Inkscape which is working with SVG by default. I can open my designs from 2008 without any problem.

UI/UX designers are waiting for a tool like Blender to emerge and liberate them for falling again into another trap.

Let's hope that after this fiasco the solution will finally emerge.
Elden Ring delivers the sort of frustration I require to distract me from my IRL frustrations.
Thanks, appreciate the perspective
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American Company Spinning-up an office in Europe
(For American companies / founders only)

What has your company experienced in starting engineering-focused offices in Europe? In major cities such as London, Berlin, Lisbon, Prague, etc.

What unique benefits are you seeing?
How did you go about recruiting?
Would you do it again?
What unique challenges or stumbling-blocks did you face?
He could use the endorsement of someone with your gravitas saying on the record that his (controversial) default is the better default.

No one is saying that everyone will be served well by the default, but virtual memory is a great deal cheaper than physical DRAM on every conceivable platform for Jai or Rust, and him blowing it off in big chunks to avoid compiler/borrow-checker errors for the same cost in core without a bitchy compiler is a win in the leathered hacker's book.
German license plates also have one non-obvious pitfall: the space/dash between the two first letter groups is significant, which breaks various systems that normalize alphanumeric codes by removing spaces and dashes.
Is there FOSS that provides the VSCode style out of the box ? I’ve noticed this UI skeleton being increasingly common
Consider the Lobster (2020)
I haven't watch many of his videos, but I didn't get any sense of a predatory relationship. For what I saw, I was impressed with the content. He shows us a side of humanity normally left in the shadows. There is merit in that.
My usual way(s) of learning a new language is, depending on whether I like it or not, to start following related content (eg. the Rust subreddit, read articles that are too long https://fasterthanli.me/ and https://matklad.github.io/ , and watch hours of https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset etc), then eventually attempt writing something in it.

And based on all this copying a megabyte might be perfectly A-OK. Computers are fast, life is short, keep structs simple because they can get problematic (https://matklad.github.io/2020/12/28/csdi.html).
Python is easy, not because it prevent people from doing complicated things, but because with only a few simple things, you are productive.

Most python programmer use 10% of the language, the same 10% that is described in most tutorial, because that's enough, and they don't even know the rest exist.

This makes for a very smooth, but long learning curve which allow you to enjoy python in the early years, yet keep getting a kick out of it after 15 years.

I hear a lot of people raising the same kind of concern you do in comments, but in the field, I never do with people actually using the language.
CSCI1730: Introduction to Programming Languages (BrownU)
Separate how viewing the content makes you feel from understanding the subject's ability to completely understand and consent to a contractual arrangement to have their story recorded, broadcast and sold.

When an addict-relative sells all of your valuables, are they in a proper state of mind or is their addiction ruling their life? Do they fully comprehend the outcome of their actions?

Most of these people are not in any proper state of mind to be able to sign on to appear on a show like this.
I don't understand what you're talking about. I've never come across someone in the Rust community screaming their sexual preferences, unless you think the occasional person mentioning it in their Twitter profile is a big problem.
You can nowadays keep your license plate in Germany when moving.
"Help, My Team Is Stuck In The 90s - Dave Winterbottom - C++ on Sea 2022"
- https://youtu.be/M1xFJedN-6Q
I'm saying they should follow the law and refrain from doing more than that. I feel the law is currently sufficient to deal with this situation and we don't need a cancel campaign online.
> Designers are not like engineering or marketing teams that love hopping to the sexy new product

Little chuckle at this as someone working in marketing technology space

I'm surprised by the valuation myself. I wonder if a company like Microsoft or Apple was ciricling Figma for an acquisition. That sort of competition would certainly rattle imo an uninspiring Adobe.

I'm stil dissappointed by the acquistion... to the point I shed a tear. I really dislike Adobe. But, I'm positive something new will appear.

Maybe a company like Apple should acquire Sketch, pump some money into and go head to head with Figma Adobe. I didn't mind Sketch tbh
Yeah, I haven’t seen that emoticon in years.
but, drags in pandas.
It's called a stopgap.
I don’t disagree, but somehow Buffett still managed to pivot from investing in newspapers and railroads to being one of the largest investors in Apple. Although even with his excellent timing on that one Berkshire only roughly matched the S&P over the past 15-20 years.
Tokio is 1.0 since 2020 and they declared to maintain backwards compatibility for a minimum of 5 years. Tokio already made backwards compatibility guarantees and it hasn't been killed so far.
I live in Germany and the cost of storing existing nuclear waste will be over 100 billion [1]. It will be paid by me, my children and their children and God knows how many generations because the companies would've just declared bankruptcy if they had to pay for the whole thing themselves. And it doesn't even work with all of these massive explicit or implicit subsidies! More harm has been done to the environment by wasting money on this grand delusion for decades than anything other than directly emitting co2 in the atmosphere. It was figured out already in the eighties that the math doesn't work, which was the first time we saw concepts like small modular being designed on purpose [2]. But those didn't work either, so it was back to the beginning, which predictably failed like it did the first time. Now we are back at maybe small modular can help us, and any reasonable person can make a good guess if it will work. People building these things are laughing all the way to the bank.

[1] https://learngerman.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear...

[2] https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/872-873/forgot...
Good God - longer threads are dreadful to read on Twitter. This is the worst medium for longer pieces
That is actually a good point. Hadn’t thought of that.

I hate TOTP, can handle SMS 2FA (sim-swapping is super rare here) and love FIDO/U2F/Webauthn (or whatever it’s called today). I have one with NFC on my keychain, and a backup device in the drawer. No off-site backup key, but encrypted backup codes.
Ok, so "renting" is more a term for "buying the harvest, but we have to do the harvesting ourselves".

Perfectly makes sense in an environment where that's a regular occurrence, but here in isolation it sounds a bit like "I live in hotel rooms: it's not actually that expensive, if you put the furniture on eBay at the end of your stay the room almost pays for itself". Thanks for the clarification!
Of course environmentalists believe in possible dangers. Whether those dangers are acceptable or even real is a different matter. But yeah, when people dedicate their lives to something, anything really, facts and logic have a poor track record at convincing people to change their minds. If that's news to you, then I'm really not sure what else to say other than that you might benefit from learning more about human psychology.
Same situation with for me, I heat exclusively with a wood stove. Oil is ungodly expensive and so is electricity meaning neither can compete with 250CAD/cord of cut, split wood. Costs me about 1000$ to heat my house all winter long.

Sure it's a bit of effort, but I think it's worth it in my situation. I know a lot of people hate wood, and I understand it's not great for my health, but I'll continue to burn it for purely economic reasons if nothing else.

I'm skeptical of using wood for biomass energy generation, but not for heating.
It increasingly looks like that's UK government policy, not failure.
> "This person was convicted of raping someone. You feel safe interacting with them in person, but others might not."

The fact that some people may "feel safe interacting with them in person, but others might not" is exactly my point. We shouldn't be locking people out of society forever and ever based on feelings. We need to work locally to try and find optimal solutions to specific problems, and provide the tools needed for the individuals involved to make the best out of the situation (within the boundaries of the law, which includes anti-discrimination laws).

> "Don’t misrepresent what this means. Inclusion is about including people who’ve been excluded through no fault of their own."

That's your interpretation of this, but that's not the universal definition of "inclusion".

Also, do you actually know the specific people involved, and the specific details of what happened? People commit crimes due to any number of factors (experiencing abuse earlier in life, mental conditions, being a victim of a crime themselves at some point, different struggles, etc). You yourself just suggested that "it would be good to show a bit more empathy", so how about you actually follow your own advice?

> "Is your claim that a convicted rapist has done nothing to deserve to be excluded?"

No, that's not what I claimed at-all. It's always amusing to see the logical leaps a SJW will go through to try and get a point across.

First - when you say "excluded" - could you be more specific? Excluded from what exactly? From life on earth? From ever leaving home again? From ever interacting with other human beings? What exactly would be an appropriate life for a person in this position, according to you?

Second - this person, according to you, has been convicted. In a democratic, law-abiding society - this means they've been handled by the legal and correctional systems, which are the only two systems that have a monopoly on "judging" and "correcting" people. It's not up to a C++ conference to "judge" or "correct" people.

Third - this person may very well be trying their hardest to heal, move on, and start over. What are you doing to help such people come back and reintegrate into society?

Fourth - why stop at one specific class of crimes? Let's throw out everybody with a record. Tax issues? Stealing candy at a gas store when you were 12? Bad divorce?

How about speeding tickets? I don't feel safe working with people who drive recklessly. We must make sure there aren't any such people in CppCon 2022.

Got arrested by the police at a violent BLM protest? Too bad, you're locked out of society forever. Or... wait, that's not the people you're actually after here, are you?
I might have missed it, but they don’t seem to talk about the fate and transport of the sulphuric acid that forms when the sulfur dioxide oxidizes. This is important to know.
National Intelligence and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Update
I recently asked why MATLAB plots are better looking (for me) than Matplotlib or Gnuplot...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638952
"He's like a machine". "Man of steel"....

Humans have long strived to emulate their metal tools.

To do the same thing over and over forever, perfectly. To keep a perfect schedule. To suffer terrible abuse without bending or breaking. To obey orders perfectly and without hesitation.

What's not to admire?
I had no idea that was still around. Last time I used that must have been 2006. Incredible to hear about longevity in the industry like that.
Momentum for a big part, and the libraries that build on top of matplotlib - like seaborn. And the default integrations with matplotlib (pandas, xarray, and a million others)
I have same observation, and i guess many other thing likewise. But at global scale, this is a very small minority.

The very idea of reducing consumption is unacceptable to a large majority.
Hardly miserable. But we do need to address the fact that people are not starting new projects in C++. It is a fact, and that fact has a well understood reason. Solving that issue the regular way, through implementation, committee and then standardization, seems herculean. In fact, it is probably never going to happen. That contributes to negativity, but it is not hopeless.

Translating a modernized, possibly memory-safe version of C++ to standard C++ is definitely one such possibility, and it is great that someone who is as capable as Herb Sutter is working on it.
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Bill Gates and partners used clout to control global Covid response (Politico)
You claim I don't do anything to help people with addiction without evidence,
Does the dark side of the moon not exist because we can't see it?

First of all, you don't know shit.
Second of all, I don't have to do anything to justify myself to you.
Third of all, I've lost more friends to addiction and have helped more addicts recover than you have had birthdays. Shut the fuck up when grown folks is talking.
I think one of the biggest problems indie game devs have is putting a lot of focus into art and polish without actually working out whether the game is fun to play. The dev gets to make enjoyable incremental progress without having to confront the difficult questions about whether the game is actually workable. Some games can get by purely on story and art, but in the vast majority of cases I think solo devs would be best served by making an absolutely minimal gameplay prototype and making it fun before thinking at all about polish.
> So long Figma! Get Uizard Pro for free for a month with the coupon code Ligma

"You son of a bitch...I'm in."
Emulator for a Prime minicomputer system from the late 70's to early 90's:

https://github.com/prirun/p50em
"IgniteTech: We buy software companies, and light them on fire!"
You mean "No, this does not follow logically"
> Designers are not like engineering or marketing teams that love hopping to the sexy new product. Design products are complicated; it isn’t “fun” to try out a new vector graphics editor. It is weird that all designers suddenly wanted to move to Figma. It would be like half the world’s sales teams quit using Salesforce overnight.

They may not necessarily like moving to another vector graphics editor, but many can move relatively easily. The hardest part is adjusting your workflow. Salesforce-based sales teams build up and rely on a large amount of data that is hard to migrate and ever-changing. Many designers could just try Figma for their next design, without affecting other projects.
Summarized by the authors at https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/national-intelligence-real... and https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/national-iq-is-the-best... .
Why can the Haskell people, and the C++ people, and the Python people, and everyone except the Rust people say: we missed vector, we missed modern TLBs, we missed clock-rate forecasts not one but twice, like all those other people have.

Why do you people always need to be right?
Writing a TodoMVC App with Vanilla JavaScript in 2022
Bjarne Stroustrup on C++ large compilation times... "I really like Scala because makes C++ look fast" :-)) - https://youtu.be/2BuJjaGuInI?t=5070
Germany is one of the world's largest economies. Your GDP is 4.2 trillion USD. How do you picture the cost of 100 billion being a problem?
Yeah but is that truly multi tasking? Seems more like an event loop. Which is a form of multi tasking I guess.