skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately, the pronuclear antiregulatory position boils down to "why don't you just suck it up and let us subject you to more radiation, which really isn't bad?

Well, actually, yes. Coal plants cause 100 times more radiation than nuclear plants per unit of energy produced:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

And typical background radiation is 10x more than even that.

And this is for plants built in the 1970s. Tightening requirements beyond that while still allowing coal power to continue their emissions, was completely absurd.

> You do not have the contrafactual evidence of what nuclear safety would be like without that regulation.

To the contrary. Most nuclear power in existence is still produced by plants that was built BEFORE many of the excessive regulations were put into place. That's part of the reason they were so much cheaper to build. (I'm not making an argument for building Chernobyl type plants, but rather plants with safetly levels corresponding to those built in the 70s in Western countries.)

> LNT hypothesis for radiation effects

The LNT hypothesis has little to no evidence supporting it over a null hypothesis that radiation below a threshold of about 80 mSv/y. Which is based on statistics for huge groups of people. And the typical radiation received per year from living next to a nuclear plant is around 0.001 mSv/y, 80000 less than the amount where we have any data to indicate that the exposure is harmful.

If you have 1 xray taken in a hospital, that's as much radiation exposure as living next to a nuclear plant for 100 years. If you have a CT scan, that's like 1000 to 10000 years. Or, if you fly from LA to NY, you get 0.035 mSv of radiation, the same as 35 years. Do a round trip, and it corresponds to a lifetime.

Whether or not you believe in the unfalsifiable hypothesis called LNT, the risk from nuclear power is incredibly tiny compared to ANYTHING we do.

Meanwhile, the potential benefits of cheap nuclear power would be massive, both in terms of local air polution (when it becomes cheap enough to replace coal and natural gas), economical benefits or global warming mitigation.

And it has a proven track record. France was able to almost completely cut fossil fuels for their electricity production over a few years, with a moderate investment into nuclear. Meanwhile, Germany has spent 100s of billions of € on "renewable" energy, but has almost as high percentage of their electricity produced coming from fossil fuels now as when they started. (They did have some reduction in CO2 emissions due to moving from coal to natural gas, at the cost of becoming highly dependent on Russia)

> You're being so unfair! ... whining about the LNT hypothesis....

This kind of emotional response makes it seem that something else is at stake.

Of course, if we were able to provide clean air and stop global warming using nuclear energy, some people would lose their jobs, both people selling other forms of energy (fossil, wind, solar) or people working for "environmentalist" organizations or political parties.
Very dependent on which country you're from and how expensive your order is. Mine tended to be well below the local threshold which means customs can rummage around all they want, it's not gonna cost anything.
> As long as you treat other people well and with compassion

And you just choose who you consider "people" and who you consider "scum". It's like that old joke about Linux being user-friendly, it's just very picky about who it considers a user.

That position is shit, though.
Emotional empathy may be relatively prevalent in the world (though sometimes it is more in the virtue signalling domain) but true cognitive empathy is rare and very much needed in abundance if we wish to continue to thrive as a humanity.
You have zero clue of what you're talking about, don't shame yourself this bad in public.
My father worked for the SSA for most of his working life and he strongly believed in its mission. I don't think he would call it a particularly efficient way to cut checks.
I wish I could remember who said this, because it was a standup saying something ... in an interview. Not performing.

"It's a sad state of affairs when the most accurate political commentary is done by comedians, while the country is being governed by clowns." Such an apt description of the UK. And while that was said two governments (ie. less than a year) ago, it's only slightly less accurate now.
It's a really an over simplificated microbenchmark, but shows a big difference between TechEmPower benchmarks using wrk and + 16 pipelining with an lua script, and of course will not hit 1 million req/s on my machine, running tfb tools in my machine socketify.py + PyPy3 hits 770k req/s for some context.

It also show that PyPy3 will not magically boost your performance, you need to integrate in a manner that PyPy3 can optimize and delivery CPU performance, with a more complex example maybe it can help more. But why socketify is so much faster using PyPy3? The answer is CFFI, socketify did not use Cython for integration and cannot delivery the full performance on Python3, this will be solved with HPy.

Also we can see that the Cython + meinheld (that is builded with C) are WAY faster than other options of falcon, but you will not get an optimized JIT for all python code that you write in a real life project.

HTTP pipelining is buggy and not really supported by browsers, the technique was superseded by multiplexing via HTTP/2, which is supported by most modern browsers, TechEmPower don't test HTTP/2 or HTTP/3.

In HTTP/3, multiplexing is accomplished via QUIC which replaces TCP. This further reduces loading time, as there is no head-of-line blocking even if some packets are lost.

Supporting HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 is way more important than winning TechEmPower HTTP/1.1 benchmarks, this only means you need to take any benchmark with a grain of salt, and run bencharks in an more close to reality scenario by our self, Caching strategy, Bandwidth, Latency, CPU time, Memory, all are relevant and not really tested here.
I read it as "convert to SVG" rather than "reconstruct vector data"
You can live in housing, you can’t live in Crypto.
I feel bad for the people where I thought 'this one is too ugly/asymmetrical to be real', and then they turn out to be the real ones...
I would just go with Zenni, but if for some reason you can't or don't want to:

- Fielmann is likely the cheapest with in-person stores and optometrists, but of course significantly more expensive than the online options. I believe they exist in many countries, although there may be better local alternatives.

- brillen.de and brille24.de are two options that used to be decent, but may have changed in the many years since I used them (especially the former seems to have raised prices significantly). Probably only ship to Germany. One of them also used to offer local service at an optician if you needed adjustments etc.

Shipping times can be long even with "local" online stores because they have the glasses made abroad (typically on the same machines everyone else uses).
> For all you budding Elons, here's a shorthand for it. If you ask someone to move across the world and don't need them anymore, give them three months on the books to find somewhere else that don't count against their visa. It will give them a chance to get settled and go on interviews. Or don't recruit internationally.

It's amusing that even when the subject is completely unrelated to Elon Musk, people keep finding ways to drag him back into the conversation for some inexplicable reason.
Name My App
The goal of Name my app is to create a supportive community for app developers. I've always found this challenging, so I reasoned that maybe other creators might also find it useful.

Our user community will suggest names for the app when a user posts it, and users can then vote on their favorite choices. At the conclusion of the voting session, the recommendation with the most votes is declared the winner. The award for the winner will be a 20% commission of the app's listing price.

We never share your information with anyone else and use Auth0 for authentication and Stripe for payment processing.
Not immunity, but extra support perhaps, as their position is extra-vulnerable. Yes. Next question.
It's the opposite of a straw man. The previous post was a straw man, deliberately changing the analogy as well as the subject. I restored the analogy.
My journals are net yet that old, 3 to 4 years, so probably too early to say. Thus far, they look good, and with a really dark pencil, even with a bit of fading it doesn't really matter.
If you're desires are not too weird, you can certainly find a fixpoint such that what you Want-To <repeated n times> Want is the same as what you Want. I'm not seeing any paradox here.
Yeah, in my toy example here I could probably go with a non-greedy modifier like .*?, but sometimes one needs to bring out these weird tricks, heh.
Totally agree. I have no love for FAANG but it seems like there’s a huge amount of tech worker resentment on HN. Whenever layoffs are announced there’s always cheering from some vocal group who is convinced those who got cut are facing some form of cosmic retribution for the perceived wrongdoings of the larger org (eg: censorship, bad product decisions, politics, or laziness). Here’s a case where you can’t project any of those grievances onto this employee because the man literally just started it’s a classic case of a LIFO layoff but people can’t help themselves it seems.
FDIC has procedures for that type of bank run - company called WDTC has armored semis ready to go, FDIC can ring them up and they can move truckloads of literal cash to banks across the country.

Last time they were activated was in 2008 - supposedly there’s video somewhere.

https://www.wdtc.net/armored.shtml

FDIC’s main responsibility is to avoid bank runs and they have many tools beyond taking banks like WAMU into receivership.
I started reading it yesterday. It’s fantastic, and probably takes only a few hours to get through. Essential reading.
This is a message that will stay in the bottle.

50% of what you need to know about cryptocurrency is in this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...

It would be enough if the will to illusion wasn’t so strong, so most people will need to see that people have said ‘this time is different’ many many times only to be wrong.

It is ‘low information’ and won’t tell you how to time the market so you can sell to a greater fool, but it does predict reliably that it ends in tears.
I don't think so, the bank will need to collateralize these debts somehow (ie: Lenders). The yield on CC debt is high.

For medical bills, that's a false and yet correct analogy. The hospital did, in theory, create money out of thin air (at least from an accounting perspective). In this case, it is the hospital (ie: The investor) who will go under if the patient does not pay her bill.

And that's fine. Investors are in it for yield which carries risk. This is different from putting money on an exchange or a bank. You are looking here for a store, unless you willingly signed up for some yield thing.
It's not Bitcoin that is the scam, it is companies run by criminals to steal peoples money.
If the total lack of employment rights (no maternity or paternity leave, no sick leave, no holidays, no protection against being fired) was applied in any other developed country, it would be the number 1 political topic every day until they were brought back.

Ask an American active in tech-orientated social media about it, they'll invariably say "Oh, well of course that doesn't affect people like me".
Anything substantial you want to add?
Yes, Kodi and Plex have got that covered, and no risk of bricking your TV.
Its very much self fulfilling.

If your partner is not at all concerned with your pleasure/enjoyment/feelings during a sexual encounter, it's probably not going to be particularly enjoyable for you. It's not surprising people don't enjoy being treated like a Fleshlight.

I STILL hear modern day men saying (or implying) that women don't really like sex or care about it very much. It's not a cultural view, but sexually active individuals absolutely still hold that belief to an extent.
Real people have imperfections. If it looks like an airbrushed photo, it was probably generated by an AI trained on airbrushed photos.
Why even use an exchange?
Mighty and the Neobrowsers
This has nothing to do with Tether the author added it jut as a sauce, hilarious
Tether is one of them, I suppose. No one has been caught (yet).
I wish a VC's recommendation or direction was all it took to get a deal done. Getting a "lofty Enterprise license" through procurement is so much harder than you are stating. They can make an introduction, sure, but very few VCs are micromanaging to the point of determining a portfolio company's tech stack.

Source: a decade of VC funded Enterprise saas company selling experience
As if crypto wasn’t useless enough, it’s always at the center of endless scams. What’s it gonna take for people to walk away from this poison?
Larry the character maybe; not Larry the real person.
Meta is a company who's product is people sausage. Don't be surprised if they view the people who work at the sausage factory with the same regard they the people who are ground up and fed to advertisers.

Whatever they do to people who are weaker than you they'll do to you next. Or something like that.
Open-source features and API for embedded and edge systems
It does, but it can be expensive enough as to be prohibitive [0]. For example, offices tend to have fewer water hookups, fewer breakers (meaning high construction costs to repurpose) and wide floors (meaning lots of windowless units).

[0]https://cre.moodysanalytics.com/insights/cre-trends/office-t...
So unless someone uses the exact words, it's ok?

The hate is too strong in you and yours.

Hard pass. Have a nice day. And yeah, thanks for proving my point.
It's not that they are smart.

It seems more to me like governments don't want to take financial crimes (specifically fiditiary duty) seriously, as it would make precedent for bankers who do the same crimes, just less visibly (bailouts).
Kodi and Plex provide a way to play pirated content, but Netflix and their competitors still dominate.

They have an incentive to provide easy access to their media, so pirating is always going to be more complex, which will be a barrier to the majority.
If someone offered you 1BTC for $10k right now you would bite their hand off. At $14k it would be still some of the easiest money you've made in your life.

Even if you have the most cynical opinion of cryptocurrency, you must admit it's alive and well. It is as long as there are enough people who believe that it is - and your honest answer to the above would reveal that you know that to still be very true.
> The question isn't "are the funds there right now" the question is "can we trust you" and the answer is probably no.

Why is the answer probably no? Because of what happened with FTX?
This paper goes over the Cloudflare outage, and other runaway regex CVEs with MediaWiki, Stackoverflow, and the Atom editor:

https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/98593/D...
"Average federal tax rates for all households, by comprehensive household income quintile. 1979 to 2018" at https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-averag...

"Average Total Federal Tax Rate (percent)" is lower for every percentile from 1979 to 2018.

Year 1979 2018
Lowest Quintile 9.3 0.0
Second Quintile 15.0 8.1
Middle Quintile 19.1 12.8
Fourth Quintile 21.7 16.7
Highest Quintile 27.1 24.4
All Quintiles 22.4 19.3
81st - 90th Percentiles 23.6 20.0
91st - 95th Percentiles 25.2 21.9
96th - 99th Percentiles 27.1 24.2
Top 1% 35.1 30.2

So is "Average Individual Income Tax Rate (percent)"

Year 1979 2018
Lowest Quintile -0.2 -12.0
Second Quintile 4.1 -2.1
Middle Quintile 7.4 2.2
Fourth Quintile 10.1 5.9
Highest Quintile 15.9 15.4
All Quintiles 11.1 9.4
81st - 90th Percentiles 12.3 9.0
91st - 95th Percentiles 14.1 11.4
96th - 99th Percentiles 16.8 15.5
Top 1% 22.6 23.5

That makes it really hard to accept your claim that "Taxes have never been as high as now in recent history."

Now, sure, there are state taxes, and sales taxes, and payroll taxes, and all sorts of other taxes.

Still, where do you get the numbers to back your statement that after 40+ years of Reaganism and unending legislative attempts to lower taxes, that the numbers now are higher than ever before?
If you read back far enough you find that banks were issuing their own currencies - which sounds a lot like what happens here.
Why not publish the footage? Put it behind a warning or whatever but stop shying away from publishing the shyte that's going around the world. I very much doubt some words on a random website will sway anyone
I empathize with your story about being promised one thing and then not getting it..

But I think it's important to acknowledge that in most industries, you get a 2-5% raise maybe once a year, sometimes adjusted for cost of living if your employer is particularly good.

Getting an 8% raise after 6 months is actually pretty good, relative to the rest of the working world, even though it's not what you were promised (so I acknowledge that maybe you accepted a lower starting salary with the assumption it would go up quickly - and so definitely a "bum deal").

Even with all the problems we face, we (the tech industry) have it pretty good, relative to the rest of the working world.
I'm getting them all correct - just look at the hair, that's the simplest way to tell IMO. The edges are blurred and weird looking.
It may be worth looking at qmetaobject[0] which lets you use Qt/QML from Rust. Whatever you can do in QML you can do with qmetaobject, and writing new Qt stuff can be done with some annotated Rust code. I'm using it in a personal project and quite enjoying it, the lack of C++ tooling is a joy not to be understated. I believe it's from the same author as Slint.

[0]: https://crates.io/crates/qmetaobject
I don't know where you are from but from my EU country I would pay whatever the tax is and not much else. Still vastly cheaper than anything local.
In order to guard against a future of mandated experimental treatments I refused to get vaccinated. I did this out of empathy for my children.
> Perhaps someone will even split out the SerenityOS widgets as a multi-platform framework

That would look out of place on MacOS or Windows. Serenity has a Win 2000 look.
India prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous country
Getting all of them correct I got bored and stopped.
George Bernard Shaw comes to mind here: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Reality being as it is, is no argument for not trying to be better or improve a situation:

Contrary to the Shaw quote above I’d say that simply resigning oneself to reality as it is and therefore precluding better approaches is the unreasonable choice.
They should actually hope they do not ever achieve their dreams. Because they would likely find that the contentment and happiness they were hoping to get does not materialize. In fact, they end up feeling worse. Because not only will they find they do not feel more content or happier, but that they have also lost the illusion that 'if only' they had this or that that their condition would improve. They discover that what they have been experiencing is, in fact, the human condition.
Or it's a code of some kind
Was just thinking that religion was the one thing that caused me decades of unnecessary anxiety over my natural wants and interests. Would not recommend.
They forgot to mention its a Pi Pico, the microcontroller. Those are not hard to find.
You can do whatever you want, but the wanting is the hard part.

Once you realize what something truly requires, the interest usually dries up.

TFA says this is the wrong model, and tries to get closer to something else. But it's right enough that it's helped me to avoid huge amounts of wasted effort and forced me to consider what I truly want.
Tether keeps BTC above 15k IMO. They keep printing more anytime it starts to dive. Will tether survive the bank runs?
More like ineffective altruism if you can’t even cross the finish line.
Thanks for your detailed reply and sharing your story with us! I can tell you definitely have a lot of passion for this stuff and I hope you get to spend more time on it all :-) Admittedly I am a bit of a sucker for simplistic, 2D games (hence Dice Wars, Galcon.. and Sudoku ;-)) but it would be interesting to see other takes on it. It might be worth tying in with a Ludum Dare competition to get more eyes on it.

The Newgrounds version worked fine for me to get a feel for the game. Once I got playing I realized it was quite familiar and that I had played it before, just many, many years ago, so thanks for the nostalgia!
I've used Polette two times, both times have been wonderful.

Just keep in mind, most of their glasses are very wide! So check the measurements.
> Your partner also quits their good job.

So you're going "all in", hoping for a giant reward (aka to make more in a year than the average Indian makes in their lifetime). It doesn't work out. That's part of the risk of going all in.

Or you don't go all in, you don't move your family immediately, and you have a much lower risk for the cost of paying for a flat in Canada and one in India for a few months until everything has settled and you're confident enough.
What if I am also anti those countries?
A long maternity leave will do.

What if women genuinely want to have identity based on what they do? Full time employment is probably the thing which has to go in favor of reproduction, it's akin peonage in that regard.
Woodpecker CI
> the same way we can get arbitrarily close to 1 by adding more 9s to a string of 9s

Technically 0.(9) == 1
I probably don't have much to contribute, but I wanted to share some thoughts on the concept of free will Paul seems to brush against.

I found the concept of free will at odds with my opinion that the brain and physics are very deterministic. But one thing the "free will doesn't exist" people tend to forget, is that the brain rewires and changes itself.

You are destined to do what your brain is wired to do, but doing anything rewires your brain. Some say even thought is able to rewire your brain. The number of possible brain states at T+n increases exponentially. So our constant reconfiguration of the brain is our way out of determinism. That is, free will does exist in a completely deterministic universe [1]

I shared because maybe someone can suggest some reading material along these lines from someone much smarter than me. But for now, I enjoy the idea that I have complete freedom in a very ordered universe.

1: there are some interesting corollaries to this idea. One among them is that the interaction between other entities with similar free will (other people) increases the complexity even further. We are agents of chaos.
Why is PG writing these pseudo-scientific metaphysical posts? His last post on Alien Truth was a disaster. Now this?

I normally enjoy PG's writings! His writings on Lisp had good influence on me. But these recent posts are embarrassing.

How can someone who has had so much influence in tech communities bring themselves to write these pseudo-scientific posts so glibly?
https://github.com/openblocks-dev/openblocks/blob/1c5846d049...

Disappointing to see Firefox flagged as a "Not supported browser".
Oh absolutely. Had I known the absurdity of crypto would still have been going on this long, I would have set up a bunch of rug pulls and run away with the money.

Interrst rate hikes kill zombie companies. Scams put dumb people under the lash of their betters.