skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear power plant construction is flat since Chernobyl and seen slight decline after Fukushima: https://dropover.cloud/ec077b#c8239728-7d32-49ab-98c7-865fb0...

Safety concerns are definitely an issue that can nudge you to prefer alternative sources but this doesn't make it single issue. It's simply one of the things you consider.

As you can see, despite NPP construction stalling in late 1980s, world energy consumption continued to increase: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

This simply means, considering the risks and cost of all energy sources, nuclear power fell unfavourably. Doesn't mean single issue.
Ah ok. Here in the U.S. such things are handled by snail mail.
You can create an account on the USCIS portal to get updates there. When there is an update, an email is sent to you stating there is an update in your case and that you will need to log into the portal to see the update.

In that portal they then state that document XYZ has been mailed to you and if you did not receive if by ABC date then request another copy be mailed to you.
You need that physical document to do anything. You cannot download it from the portal because it isn't in the portal.

I like it this way for the added security. Someone gaining access to my email can't see anything related to my immigration status.
Two factor authentication is also required for the portal login.
I'm really curious the calculation here. That's a lot of money, and I'm certainly glad they're doing it, but feels both out of character for Google, and I'm surprised they have the budget allocated to just "doing the right thing". What goodwill is this saving that they aren't burning by shutting down Stadia?
With pleasure, I thought you may find it useful!
Anyone here use Stadia? Not much of a gamer but very interested in the tech of cloud gaming.
It's worth noting that Asahi Lina and Alyssa Rosenzweig are two separate people though their work does overlap [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1533624133929553922
>global hurricane data between 1979 and 2017 was used.

Once again an example of how the use of extremely narrow data sets are used to make pronouncements about long term trends that they're not appropriate for predicting. Unlike historical temperature data, which can in some regions be inferred from ice cores, we have nearly no long term understanding of the history of tropical storm intensity. It's very unfortunate that those trying to raise awareness of climate change so often resort to using low quality data and poorly thought out conclusions that end up harming the credibility of climate change research.
What a shame. The technology was fantastic. Good news about all the refunds but still sad.
I really like Lua, but it is not so practical in my daily work. I have two strange loves from an earlier life; Lua and Prolog (actually Mercury), but not sure how to make living with either of them. I tried with Lua and made a game/app services company with it and it went well, however around that time (2011 or so), companies here started to worry about ‘the stack’ and did not want weird things they never heard of (which is very understandable). So it worked for smaller clients who wanted solutions but not for bigger who wanted solutions that were maintainable for anyone.
Heh, the comments in this thread[1] are hilarious in hindsight.

>Stadia will exist by the end of the summer. You don’t have to believe me. Like I said feel free to come back to this thread in October.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276188

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278402
More likely 0-based, given our prior (n=1) that programming languages typically use 0-based indexing.
I mean, i understand it, and i'm sure it's great for their ecosystem.
I'm sure it integrates well with UI designers, etc.

But i'm also really not that interested in using a library specific IDE at that level.

Because QT is not all i do, etc.

For folks who do, i'm sure it's great.

For C++ IDEs on linux, CLion works great. VSCode is reasonable too.
I think there would have been more interest if they didn't launch with folks having to the purchase games instead of it just being a subscription plan like most were expecting. Of course, pure subscriptions came later, but that was an odd way to roll it out.
Spiral is an interesting use case of FME for database fetching that just popped up, https://usespiral.com/

General FME computation is obviously not likely to be practical or cost effective any time soon, but there may be some specific use cases, like querying a database, where hiding the information you want to know from the server is advantageous. There are adversarial environments where knowing the information your adversary is interested in provides a competitive edge.

I'm curious to dig more into their implementation.
You know it's gonna be bad news when you see a title like that.

I've always been bearish on game streaming because it's just not practically, physically possible to solve the problem of input lag. Even an extra 10ms is going to be noticeable and unacceptable for many games.
It would have gotten rid of every single one of those if the only method for their production required a tech company to invest a 8-digit sum in R&D and said tech company was threatened with litigation.
So nuclear (zero CO2 emissions) isn’t “green” but gas (CO2 + methane emissions) is?!

This is the reality of institutional stupidity at the highest EU political levels.
Direct from the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022775
On building mobile first (for Web3)
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This is purely subjective of course, but my story: I'm danish but abroad, but I had heard so much about "the coffee collective" that I went out of my way to go there and try it. I was absolutely stunned by the experience. This was the worst disgusting sour ... "drink" I had ever had. Being of the scientific persuasion I had repeated the experience twice more before bailing.

Yeah, so I respectively disagree. The best coffee I've ever had was from Caffè Artigiano in Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck.com
6 days since it _started_.
After using plain lua on Roblox for about 5 years I used the new Luau with type hints and found it made a huge difference. Similar to the js => typescript transition.

https://luau-lang.org/typecheck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_using_Lua
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Sorry about that! Thanks for pointing it out. Viewer discretion: language.

[1]: DYSON ANIMAL BALLS | It blows! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTzNJMd19A
Well that's more than enough for anyone!
> assess your energy independence before sanctioning the country you rely on for natural gas.

Trump blurted that to the Germans around 2019. The press brushed it off as "highly misleading".

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/trump-is-exaggerating-german...
And, in particular, Lua is expressly designed to be embedded in C. By design, in order for it to be useful, you're expected to define your own functions in native code and make them accessible through Lua.

Given that, no matter what, you're going to be stuck context switching, since C is zero-based. I wish Lua had picked 0-based indexing not because it's better, but because it's consistent with the host language Lua is designed to be embedded in.
Is that "more" by mass, or energy content?
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When the second generation of EPYC came out, linus ran a "software rendered" version of crysis that did all rendering on CPU cores instead of GPU shader units. At 640x480 it ran alright.
I think it saves a ton of goodwill. Yes, you’re taking a platform from people, but it’s much better to not take their money too. Nobody is losing their livelihood, it’s a gaming service that can easily be replaced.
It was always a strange sell, especially since you had more accommodating options like nVidias GeForce Now.
Everyone based it on inaccurate predictions though, namely that it wouldn't work. It worked fantastic even for the most latency sensitive games.
My brain can't even conceive of a teraton asteroid impact. Wouldn't that be world-ending?
Not sure we're quite there yet. A real movie needs a lot of dialogue, speech, sound effects, music, etc. Even the best LLM's don't do really coherent storytelling yet and a script for a movie is just the absolute barebones.
My first intro was The Jesus And Mary Chain's Psychocandy. The mix on "Taste the Floor"[1] is so crazy—the guitar is so loud it begs you to turn up the volume to "hurt your ears" levels (phone/laptop speakers will not do this justice). I swear I've lost hearing due to my love of shoegaze…

A more recent version of this kind of noise rock is The Raveonettes [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCtPz-guwO8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa7JfWsMxgs
Did you just reply to your own submission pretending to be someone else?
I imagine plenty of companies in the rest of the world will happily make use of it.
Dialogue has several distinct advantages over reading when it comes to learning. I think we both agree that applied knowledge is best, but this can only be gained through application. Dialogue forces you synthesize ideas into new statements and respond to challenges to those statements which is intrinsically more applied than simply reading alone.

There's a good amount of research inicating that discussion and speaking lead to significantly more information retention than hearing or reading. The more individual the learning process is, the fewer opportunities there are for discussion. This is why I get into silly arguments on HN in the first place, gotta supplement that reading ;)

Reading makes knowledge acquisition easier, but it also decreases the fraction of knowledge that comes bundled with expert 1-on-1. This has both advantages and disadvantages.
Is it really the same though? A driving system which can only create a good outcome 90% of the time is not really useful as irl human safety is a factor.

However, a creative system curated by a human could end up creating useful outputs, could it not?
Demonstrating how Waymo Driver outperforms collision responses of human drivers
> You don't really need to jailbreak your LG tv to install custom apps(like adfree Youtube), you can just put it in developer mode and have a cron somewhere(I use Pipedream) that keeps activating developer mode every 24h or so(it deactivate itself every 48h)

I've been doing this as well. I love the idea of rooting but not being able to get system updates bugs me a bit.
There were a few TV models a couple of years ago that would stop working after enough time without a network connection. When they reconnect, they're clearly going to download a new cache of ads and transmit their existing tracking data.

Not quite as bad as that, but since I took my Sony TV offline it regularly reboots itself (when "off") and sometimes needs a "hard" start via the physical power button as the remote on has become unresponsive. I strongly suspect that it's just badly coded, going mad trying to connect to resources that don't exist, filling logs, etc. then failing over.

I so want tracked advertising in all of its forms to be outlawed.
The main thing that initially got me excited with Stadia were the ideas around having much bigger shared gaming worlds enabled by google-scale cloud expertise.

Too bad that all it turned out to result in was video streaming optimisation.
I'm complaining that they make it hard for people to want to try it by making it huge and unwieldy :)

(QT is more than linux-only. In fact, that's the whole point. They could simplify it greatly if it was linux-only.)
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At what point does working for Google (on anything released after 2008) go from being prestigious to embarrassing?
Yes, the Apple laptops need a whole host of proprietary blobs for bringup and firmware.
I find this hard to believe.

I believe you that you haven't see much about Clojure over past 2 years of so. But the cause might be that you simply haven't looked at Clojure in the past 2 years of so. OTOH, I've seen plenty of Clojure in the same 2 years. Perhaps most of news/fuzz is about Rust, but I haven't seen much of that, since I'm not following the news sources that talk about that.

In the end, it depends what you want to do. If you want a great programming language with vast ecosystem and decent number of job opportunities, Clojure is still the thing.
If you wish to participate in the most mainstream thing, I believe the Python/Java/Javascript is the answer. But then you're competing with 30 million of other job seekers there.

Perhaps Clojure can't rival the Cardashians or Lady Gagas of this world in the amount of news (for better or worse).
Unsurprising, as I knew it was going to shut down already as I said in 2021: [0]

>> I'm from the future. Stadia (was) a platform that tried to change gaming and replace consoles or gaming PCs by using the cloud to play games on any screen. Unfortunately, the gamers said no and ignored it. Then it shut itself down and went to the Google graveyard. [0]

This is the second time I have seen them shutdown as I already said this before: [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278255
She's using https://inochi2d.com
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I think I see what you're saying but how would that be useful still? Like is an attacker has a hash of the users password they still don't have the server secret.
I used it a bit. The performance was exceptional. I enjoyed playing Cyberpunk 2077 on my phone with a Razer Kishi controller. Although I'm not surprised Stadia struggled to find traction, I think this is mostly due to Google's ongoing struggle with entertainment branding, and despite this, I do agree with their sentiment that streaming is the inevitable future of mainstream gaming.
This is a great example of why you can never trust PR statements. They outright lie. We're not working on X. We won't shut down Y. Bald faced lies.

Edit: Missed that they're doing refunds. That part's good.

EDIT2: Why I'm calling it a lie: These decisions are not made on a whim. They're made months if not years in advance. A public company making public statements about how you're not shutting something down while you're internally mapping out the shutdown process... that's a lie.
> He does have a point about food animals though.

People can make a choice for themselves, most don't because deep down they don't give a fuck, many do though
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Google need to open source and unlock the controllers - otherwise they just created a mountain of e-waste.
I tend to think that for a "this is a useful way to use them", that pascal did it right.

Type
LatLonTemp = array[-180..180] of array[-90..90] of Real

Arrays may start and end at any value of an ordinal type.

There are other problems with arrays in pascal (hinted at the type definition), but that the first element of the array doesn't have to be 0 or 1 or even a positive number can make some code easier to work with.
Fossil fuel executives sure as hell do.
Agreed, but commenter said "Call it perfect and HN will destroy it".
> They work really hard to hide this, but they do have a LGPL license that applies to most of the framework (...)

No, LGPL also excludes projects from most commercial software.

Also, keep in mind that this is not a choice between Qt with a paid license or Qt with LGPL. It's a choice between Qt and any other framework, and licensing alone makes Qt a very poor choice.
Freewrite Alpha is a smaller, cheaper distraction-free writing tool
"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration." - Stan Kelly-Bootle
It seems like there are pathological counterexamples. If you're player three, and player one chooses 1 always, and player two chooses 2 always, then the player using this strategy can never win.

Player 2 wins with probability .45 (only wins when player 1 gets "knocked out"), and player 1 with probability 1-.45, and player 3 never wins.
Yep. Those missiles are going to perform less well than they do from the air but that's been addressed by the development of longer ranged derivatives for NASAMS the similar sea sparrow.

It's not clear that the US doctrine of air superiority is really correct or that NATO allies agree with it. For one thing, the US has spent 20 years fighting enemies that don't have an air force. If the US air force got involved in Ukraine, for instance, it would have to attack deep into Belarusian and Russian territory to destroy SAM systems which would otherwise make air operations dangerous or impossible.

Turkey made the decision to give up the F-35 to get the S-400. Russia has been selling a huge number of S-300 and S-400 systems, one reason for that is that western powers haven't taken the category seriously.

(A cynic might say, however, that the US would like to export NASAMS because it wouldn't be terribly effective against high-performance planes dropping this kind of thing from 40 miles away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-53/B_StormBreaker

... though Russians have done a lot of work at adapting anti-air weapons to shoot down precision guided munitions without a lot of success so far.)
Oh gosh, you have my respect. You've gone right in with the apex challenge there; to de-bias the sam harris readership!

It's important to note that the recommendations are an *attempt* at a bias inversion while maintaining affinity to the searched title. And gender in the literary space, is, curiously, along a spectrum. So indeed it might be the case that Oliver Sacks is less "male"-biased (as an author) than the likes of Sam Harris or that Jordan P fella (ugh). I see in the recommendation set, tho, that there are some notable female authors, so I shan't consider it an utter failure :D

Worth noting as well: the authors' genders are not noted manually. From the implementation notes:

> Over 150,000 books have been given a very approximate score based on the names of the authors (compared against 80k locale-specific names) and the frequency and density of pronouns used in descriptions and in many millions of reviews of the books. This gives a very broad picture of the gender-bias space, but obviously lacks accuracy for any specific title. Nonetheless it enables us to build a general picture because books tend to be in "affinity spaces" with similar books. You can read more about how recommendations are made in a general sense on abooklikefoo.com as this uses the same backing data and hueristics.

EDIT:

> So not fixing bias but just creating more bias

I have .. opinions on this (Miles-long screed in which I navigate the topic of how best we go about creating more equitable systems where previously systemic biases have held sway for so long. /... years later after we gather to read libraries of reflections on affirmative action and positive discriminations.../ we border on agreement that perhaps it's ok to counter a 95:5 bias with 5:95 and not be too perturbed :p)
Just because people eat meat out of a package from the super market does not mean they are okay with their bacon being raised on a farm where the pig was in a 1 square meter cage its whole life. Most people don't have the time, effort, or will to fight against large factory farming practices because they are too busy trying to survive and take care of themselves and their families. You can eat meat and still care about the welfare of the animals being raised. They're not mutually exclusive things.
Yes, definitely this. So many jobs are found through referrals and networking, especially for non-mainstream tech.

That said, I was pleasantly surprised recently by a search on LinkedIn for Clojure and found some big household names hiring (including several large banks who most people think of as being very conservative).
"Yah, hear me now and believe me later."
Ok so you explained your love affair with Russia. Thank you for that, very insightful and courageous.

But why the hate of nuclear? Was there a lot of propaganda in the media how dangerous it is? I really don’t understand it. It gives clean energy independence almost for free!
cron is a popular starting point on Airplane! We see our users creating tasks that are semi automated, but then adding manual tasks later (but then automating those tasks as well). The nice property of Airplane is that it's very composeable and extensible over time.
I tried a bit. I don't have space in my life for dedicated gaming hardware or a PC, so seemed to be a way I could play a game once in a while without commitment. Was ok. Didn't get hooked.
Also from the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656

Not saying it to argue with your point, just to highlight that we generally shouldn't put much trust into Google.
lol, props to Google for refunding the costs of the hardware, games, and DLC, though.

I might've actually bought one, except that I didn't want to be stranded with an outlay of hundreds of dollars for a bricked streaming device. If I'd known up front that they'd have refunded my costs (or even a percentage of them) if they shut down the service in some timeframe, I'd have totally bought one.
The birds (which aren’t real) are reading the books
Well, who won the pool?
Takeaway - next time you decide to buy a google product and have choice through their store or 3rd party retailer, best to go through their store!
Spoiler alert: EU can fine and (if needed) seize assets of companies based outside of the EU.
There is a daily email newsletter, 1440: https://join1440.com/

The idea is you get a daily email with a 5-minute or so digest of the news, which you can read once/day, and then get on with your life. It gives you enough of the high-level overview to be informed enough to do your good citizen duty, without having any financial incentive to become a doomscroller. So far, at least, it seems to do a good job.
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Can't speak to whether some of this is just things that've become more convenient since you used the language, but some of these aren't the case.

Ternary: you can use logical operators for it (`[condition] and [if-true] or [if false]`) in most cases.

Counting arrays: the # operator returns the size of an array. (But only a table used as an array. If it's being used as a hash then you're right and you're on your own for counting it.)
Was only announced today.
Because even if our reality came from that rock bacteria, we're on the cusp of creating simulations within and statistically beings may still expect to be in a deliberate simulation, if we think we'd eventually simulate more beings than exist.
I've been using Uffizzi for a few months now. It's helped get fast feedback by running our test automation against our code branches before merging to our trunk branch. We've found 12 bugs/issues so far that never made it to trunk :)
I've had this happen too at Armageddon Shop in Cambridge. When I showed up, the two employees told me to leave because they posted on Facebook that they were closing two hours early due to nobody showing up

I don't even use Facebook, and if I did, I wouldn't check every place I wanted to go on it before I went there
My point is not that they were not struggling. But that they were (and somewhat still are) spending elsewhere in stuff barely related to Firefox and this amplify the problem. A lot of money was spent on project not really relevant that were then shelved/dump.
The solution is not obvious, it's obvious only to zealots. It's kind of obvious that the solution is in PHV and wind energy but you can fight it to death with people who would claim that it's obvious that the solution is Nuclear energy.

This is not a good discussion, this is fanatics fighting. Anytime someone suggest simple solution to a big problem %99.9 of the time they don't actually have a simple and obvious solution.
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