skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these changes would favour solar + battery to a rather ridiculous degree. Especially given recycling PV is already mandatory in civilised countries and costs very little (and will likely be revenue positive as supply chains mature). Nuclear waste management funds would also have to increase, the industry would have to pay its fair share for security and liability limits (ie. Free public insurance) would have to go away to be fair as well. The nuclear industry would also have to actually remediate the uranium mines which it has historically never done. Wind also has to pay for decomissioning in many cases, and it doesn't really alter the costs because dealing with 10kg/kW of fiberglass is insignificant and recycling the other materials is revenue positive. You'd also be double charging many renewable projects (especially offshore wind) because the frequently include the costs of transmission. And every time your nuclear plant at one end of the state went offline for two months for refuelling and maintenance you'd be paying more than the wind turbines for transmission.

If your impossible to solve for or fairly charge market came about, the net result is no-one would build anything other than parking lot and commercial rooftop solar + battery storage or at-site renewables for industrial until around 60-90% of demand was met. Then nuclear still wouldn't be remotely viable, but it would be harder to build wind and pumped hydro.

And your fantasy about 70s reactors is based on them getting free money, a workforce with free training, free design work, using completely different accounting methods and resulting in designs that were only online half the time. During entire period before TMI construction costs were rising >20% yoy.

The incoherence of the claims about APRs being cheaper than big heavy reactors, then bigger heavier reactors being cheaper, then SMRs being cheaper all for opposite reasons would be kind of amusing if public officials didn't keep falling for them.

> What prevents this seems to be regulations at every level, where nuclear is burdened with all sorts of extra costs, ranging from insane security requirements and other red tape, limits on pricing in many markets, having to pay for the extra grid capacity required by renewable sources, excessive taxes or deposits for externalities that is not required for other energy sources.

These 'ridiculous' regulations constantly prove themselves necessary for preventing multi-trillion dollar damages to the public. Barely a year goes by where there isn't an operator or builder caught doing at least one and often two of the five simultaneous colossally stupid things that have to happen simultaneously to cause a proper meltdown. The strict rules are the only reason there's yet to be an actually bad plant failure or mishandling of Pu239 or waste. Even with regulations preventing a major failure, ukraine and japan are spending enough on cleanup and economic damage to use up over half of your $20/MWh for every joule ever produced by a nuclear reactor anywhere on the planet.
You totally can. I've taken multiple right-turns over my 'career' (I'm now 51). I think it's a myth to believe that you're stuck in one path, and TBH I think most people now won't have the same job for a long period (when I was at school, I knew plenty of people who thought they'd have a job for life in a particular trade or profession).

However, I've been self-employed since 1/1/2000. There's NO WAY I would be employed by a company full time now unless they were well off the beaten track. So I don't have job security, but that has allowed me to be multiple different things over the last 20 years, and I'm enjoying the freedom and interest of what I do (and I'm better at programming (Python) and music production than I ever have been). I've bought and sold cars in the meantime, and also written a couple of books and taught guitar.

I think the main thing is to play to your strengths, not the strengths you think you should do, or that other people will want.

And there is no such thing as wasted experience. If the chaotic startup was as bad as you say, there will be plenty of stuff you'll have learned from it - even if it is "never do this, EVER!".
Sure, but as search circles the drain, they will lose eyeballs.
Is the point of those just immutability or something else too?

Wouldn't it be better to have a way to easily make any type deeply immutable?

EDIT:

I think tuples and records are also supposed to have value semantics, which is great, but why not a mechanism that turns on value semantics for arbitrary object type instead.

Also value semantics is separate concept from immutability. Maybe there should have separate ways to get expressed rather that combining them in form of just tuples and records.

To sum up, I can see why the community is hesitant.
Racial issues are part of military history:

"Secondly, racial tensions between white and black soldiers and marines increased after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
Per capita CO2 emissions of most European countries (like the UK and France) are lower than China at this point. The US might be lower than China by the end of this decade too.
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I always like the example of Ray Kroc, who founded McDonalds at the age of 64.

Well I guess technically he licenced the idea from the McDonald brothers single restaurant but he founded what we think of as McDonalds.

Whatever you think of their "food" it's still a great example of an older founder.
Well, perhaps it's more complicated than any single factor can account for. However, US steel production has dropped from 115 Mt around 1970 to 72 Mt todays, even as the US population has increase from 200M to 330M, which you'd think would mean increased domestic demand for steel.

Overall output is worth looking at. The rise of China as the single largest producer begins around 2000-2001, which coincides to the US Congress agreeing to admit China to the WTO. China today produces almost 15X as much steel as the USA, and employs 2.5 million people in the industry, relative to about 200,000 employed in foundries and mills in the USA (bls.gov stats).

Wages in the steel mills in 1970 were about $6 an hour, about equivalent to inflation-adjusted $45 an hour today. Today's USA steel mill worker averages about $30 an hour by comparison, a relative wage cut of about a third since the heyday of US steel manufacturing.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-50-years-of-glo...

Now, there are a lot more billionaires in the USA and a lot more poor people as well as a result of these general policies on all kinds of manufacturing, I think that's pretty hard to argue with. Lot more homeless people on the streets, too.
I was stuck in a dead end job in my late 20s, did the 2 years in a community college and 2 years in a "real" college thing, and began a career as a computer programmer when I was 34. It's actually easier to do in your 30s because you're more mature.

A good friend of mine left his career as an auto mechanic and became a CPA in his mid 40s. He had no trouble finding work.

You can get federal student loans as a second degree student, and some programs are exclusively offered to students with an existing degree (Accelerated Nursing for example).

You are younger than you think.
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In the past few months I've been getting much more fake order / payment spam.
Same with Kubrick and the planes in Dr. Strangelove, I understand.
Hopefully the last second save doesn't wreck people's paychecks or the stock market. They're never gonna remove the limit but I wish they'd cut congresspeople's paychecks and any access to lobbyists with perks the moment the debt ceiling is breached.
Before good treatment was widely available something like pneumonia could kill you if you had AIDS which was tearing through the gay communities in major cities at the time. These men basically built rave culture, ran most of the fashion houses, ran magazines(think GQ), and built a lot of popular culture in the 80s/90s. There was a culture of celebrating life in the face of gruesome and painful death. Magazines an zines from the community of the period often listed dead editors in memoriam while sardonically listing current editors as the future deceased.
Ouch. You describe my life ~13 years ago. And then I moved to Mozilla, which was insanely better in every possible way. Best career choice/opportunity I could hope for.
These articles are written to make people feel guilty about their lives. The ultimate goal is economic equalization.
This is definitely the case. I was just talking with a Googler after the Microsoft layoffs about how Google is (now was) one of the last big tech companies avoiding layoffs, and Pichai was fighting investors like hell to keep it that way. He supposedly literally told them "these are real people" out of frustration at some point.

It's hard to look at that incredibly generous layoff package an not see it as a "fuck you" to investors telling him to slim down, after forcing his hand.
Thanks for telling us. One thing I’d like to add is that it’s pretty much the same with relationships. If you ever feel like you aren’t really happy with your partner, but being without them sounds kinda even worse, and maybe it’s your fault and maybe they’re your only real chance… GET OUT. RUN. Don’t look back.
Yes, exactly that. It feels incomplete :S
I have no idea how much this costs but some bigger companies use Microsoft PhotoDNA [1] For text strings I think you could just write scripts to regex search your databases/text-files for that. People will evade it with UTF symbols unless you block all except specific UTF characters.

If your service is free I think your options may be very limited. To my knowledge there are no open source projects to identify what you are looking for. Some smaller sites will ban specific binary file hashes but the people that use your site will quickly figure that out and evade it by re-encoding their files.

Perhaps one risky option would be to find a cloud storage provider that does CSAM scanning and use that as block storage for your site. I say risky because in the eyes of that provider you are the one uploading the files, so you would need to have lawyers and contracts in place that specify the purpose of that integration and be ready to be accused of storing illegal content.

[1] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
I believe this is a form of astroturfing and it is hard not to see this stuff. Remember all those articles about the AI winter a few years ago? In reality, there was no winter. Lot's of smart people took advantage of the opportunity and got incredibly wealthy during that period of time and now we see some of the fruits of that labour. It's just the beginning too.

It's important, in my opinion, to always ask 'who benefits from me believing this?'
I have this same problem with Outlook. Starting probably 2-3 months ago I began receiving somewhere from 5-10 spam emails with titles like this a day directly into my inbox. Reporting them as spam helped a little and brought it down to maybe 1-5. But they’re obviously spam with subjects like Norton Confirmation, OuOrtIBGGvGIO, Life Insurance Offer, etc. with weird fonts and other stuff.

As a side note, a lot of these spam emails I get are from Gmail.
The industrial revolution moved 90% of workers out of farming, yes 90% of employment in 1870 was agricultural, literally producing calories.

We sometimes mourn for this in the form of back to the land pastoralism, but quality of life empirics suggest the industrial revolution was a benefit anyway.

Instead of luddism, we should try to find ways that the coming apocalypse of white collar knowledge work can benefit humanity as a whole, and learn from our mistakes in the rust belt.
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

If you feel it's appropriate, flag the comment.
was 343 considered that profitable? I always thought halo infinite was not panning out to be the live service they were shooting for, which to be fair, might be uncorrelated to how profitable they are.
German Linux superpower SUSE delivers a great quarter
Take this as the heresay as it is, but pretty much everybody at Tesla gets at least $20K in RSU's. If you got that pre-IPO and kept it this long it's worth more than a million. But even if it doesn't appreciate at all, over 4 years that's a similar payout to the MB payout referenced in the article.
The joke is that the only thing solved by the Touch Bar was satisfying product designer egos.
If anyone including OP is having these kinds of thoughts I would strongly encourage talking things thru with a licensed therapist.
RSS is awesome to take back control. I used RSS in facebook and youtube to get unfiltered timeline views. I used RSS with IFTTT to scrape sites to create feeds.

Works great, but the time to add each RSS was the only downside. Was easier to write a loop script to feed it a list and have it grab rss feeds for each user.

Podcasts are just rss feeds too.
I guess it's all relative. To be honest, I would be over the moon to never "work" again. Don't wanna be needed, don't wanna have to report to anyone, don't wanna be part of a pyramid scheme earning some CEO or founder 50% of company payroll.

I could very happily set and achieve little goals for the rest of my life -- in video games, education, little creative pursuits, and hobbies -- and never once look back. Really don't care for externally set goals or validation.
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Open source won. Now what?
Funny story about the resulting film: The navy so loved the book that the film was given total military support. Access to submarines, b-roll footage ... they hoped it would be TopGun for the rest of the USN. But then came Crimson Tide (1995). Mutiny on a Russian nuclear submarine? Fine. Mutiny on a US nuclear submarine? No.
This article sounds like the work of a very bitter person with no better way to spend their time than grind their axe.

Shocking that it ended up on the front page of HN
I do not have that problem. Last time it happened to me, I started learning medicine seriously, entire day on the job. Now I am pretty good, I can handle myself and my family, and I managed to fix several chronic problems of myown and several nasty things in others. Before that, when it happened again, I was developing big framework in arcane programming language. All the things I did due to the 'not having anything to do on the job' are very valuable to me now.

However, nobody was grumpy at me at any time.
Forgot who said it but 'shitty first draft' stop thinking start doing
I agree that

(1) named intermediate values are sometimes more readable ... though I have examples where it's very hard to come up with names and not sure it helped

(2) debugging is easier.

For (2) though, this IMO is a problem with the debugger. The debugger should allow stepping by statement/expression instead of only by line (or whatever it's currently doing). If the debugger stopped at each pipe and showed in values (2) would mostly be solved. I used a debugger that worked by statements instead of lines once 34 years ago. Sadly I haven't seen once since. It should be optional though as it's a tradeoff. Stepping through some code can get really tedious if there are lots of steps.
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‘Extreme suffering’ central to culture of elite kitchens
I think for me most of it is the UI upgrade, because it's really taking 20 years of UI/UX and updating/unifying it.
I've moved away from C partly because I had to fight decades-old compilers.

It's incredibly disheartening to realize I can't hope it will fix even smallest warts, because the series of multi-year lags of the standards process, implementation, LTS cycles, and laggard upgrades mean everything takes decades and C from 1999 is still "new".

Distros need to get their act together. Downloading a tarball every few months is not hard, and Rust doesn't have the whole-OS-breaking UB fragility that a change of a system's C compiler may have.
You should read the Twitter EULA. Also saying full stop will never help you in a discussion. Swearing doubly so.
memgraph.com was discussed on HN a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34342371 -- Bullshit Graph Database Performance Benchmarks
Bands of raiders were a semi-regular element of 1700 agrarian lifestyles on every continent!
Seems more like someone with right wing tendencies took a valid topic, the study and examination of military history, and conflated it with their own disdain for liberal politics. The topic is interesting but in this article it's too entangled with the author's personal political angle.
Yes, this is very true. My experience is that as you get older you make fewer new contacts. It's not illogical, at first there is school, then university, then kids. All of these are excellent at making new friends but once the kids get old enough you stop naturally meet people outside of work, at least you have to put in some work for it to happen. I realized the other week that if I would not have my wife, it would easily be weeks between having a somewhat deep discussion with anyone outside of work. It's a terrifying thought.
That seems to be missing the point of the document then. Before/after in a design doc isn't "this is a better way to do it".
I get your point: I was just making it clear that the opposite isn't true for labor-intensive industries where one has to gain the labor from a lot of people and still get to dictate how the labor is used. The obvious conclusion is that it's not about the quantity of capital/labor, but the current economic system where capital is king.
This isn't true. All settled agrarian societies need property rights, and allow for the accumulation of capital. You need to be assured the grain you grow will be yours to eat. You also need to be assured that the grain you've stockpiled for the winter will not be redistributed to people who may be staving now, otherwise you'll starve in the winter. Everything else flows from here.
I don’t understand the physics, but clicking “Calculate” produces a graph with x axis between 8 and 12 μm.

Isn’t that 8,000 to 12,000 nm and thus outside of visible range for humans (400 to 800 nm)?

Decreasing the lower limit to zero shows things drop of rapidly near the visible range for humans.

Or do I have to subscribe and interpret the text file version?
I get 10-20 a day.

Lately it's been Google classroom invitations from sex bots. Along with the random crap that doesn't make any sense, and the McAfee/Yeti Cooler junk.
I think there's a healthy middle ground between staying home and quietly reading 7 days per week and going out and getting wasted while shaking your booty 7 days per week.
I got out of the military and started my career in IT at 30. I went from fixing fighter jets to being a sys/net admin. It helps I always had a passion for networking and technology.
Stolen goods that just happened to be a diary in which the daughter of the current US president claims he took inappropriate showers with her when she was a child.
Both neoliberal and classical definitions of capital make it nearly tautologically required as an input for production. 'Wealth' and 'Capital' aren't the same thing.
Thanks for the explainer!

As always with Germans, the answer is "it's really complicated" lol
I also pushed for this in TC39 which was shut down for seemingly no reason. Since only one language with almost no user base uses |> to mean expressions, people are guaranteed to get the wrong idea about how it works. It almost seems like intentional misleading.
Yes, it's likely that I am more challenged by the grammatically incorrect pronouns than most neurotypicals in this thread, thanks for pointing that out.

A lot of people who like to cry 'transphobic!' may wish to understand that there are people who need accommodation in our society other than trans people, and that heralding chosen pronouns as truly inviolable will sometimes make other people less comfortable.

That said, I have so far managed to avoid any such accusations in this thread, thankfully.
I also was in a bad job that I stayed at for the money, and it's interesting how you can fool yourself about it. My job was incredibly stressful, perhaps literally taking years off my life, but I told myself it was "exciting" and "challenging". When circumstances finally intervened and I moved on, I was a wreck because I had forgotten what I had gone into this industry for. It took me a couple of years to rediscover that I really like tech, I like problem solving, I like programming, I just don't like no win situations and unpleasant social dynamics. I had to relearn to see my work as play, but now that I have, everything is much better (except the money).
> Can we even get a C++ compiler from the OS distribution and end up happy?

no, tying compiler versions to operating systems as most linux distros do is one of the most harmful thing to software development in these last decades I think
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Ya i think this comment nails what i consider to be a 10x programmer. They aren't people who solve things quickly. They are people that solve things quickly and also enable their team to solve things quickly. They feel a need to not only be efficient themselves but enhance the efficiency of their teammates through mentorship, teaching and team awareness/empathy.
doas has no "doasedit". It's a lot simpler than sudo, on purpose.
That’s absolutely out of touch with reality. The owner of TikTok Bytedance was massively laying off people already. It is nowhere as profitable as any of the FAANGs.

ChatGPT is nowhere a product that can pay for itself.
Your logic can rationalize any kind of unfair treatment in the world and therefore an invalid argument. After all, there alway are some people who are just so good that an unfair system cannot deny them.
Every single thing you mentioned is based on existing IP, with the youngest one, Avatar, bring already a decade old, and others multiple decades. We are running on fumes.