skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit reductionist, as we're talking about vastly different scales of infrastructure here governed by very different institutions with very different expectations imposed upon them by the population.

From some admittedly quick research, there are apparently 600,000 road bridges in the US, and the continued maintenance of these bridges is dispersed between 50 different state governments. The US 140,000 miles of railroad track that transports 61 tons of goods per American per year. The scale of the size and use of road and rail systems in the United States are off the charts massive. This is not to excuse the issues you're referring to (they are real and they should definitely be fixed), but the context in which these issues are occurring is important when comparing to something like nuclear.

And it's not like it's all bad when it comes to massive infrastructure in the US: 1.7 million people fly in the US every day, and the last fatal crash on a commercial airlines occurred in 2009. It's actually kind of mindblowing that flying in the US right now is probably the safest mode of transport.. ever? Clearly the US is capable of regulating _some_ things well from a safety perspective.

So.. there are only 92 active nuclear reactors in the United States, all of which are regulated under a single independent agency of the US federal government (the NRC). It's a much smaller, more tractable problem than general transportation infrastructure.

The worst accident occurred in 1979 and the total amount of deaths in the US caused by the industry are vanishingly small compared to so many other industries (even if you use the worst estimates from the TMI accident). The regulations and associated costs surrounding nuclear are such that we have fewer reactors now than we had in 1990. And the designs and technology of nuclear reactors continues to be improvements upon (what happened at Chernobyl specifically is basically not possible anywhere in the world besides the Russia).

I just don't think it really makes sense to cast into doubt the entirety of the US government's ability to keep people safe at all (including from scary things like nuclear) just because we are seeing _some_ things go wrong at times (and I say this as someone who does in fact have very little faith in the efficacy for the US government generally speaking). Context and historical performance matter.
This is completely anecdotal, but I was far more overworked as an engineer at a non-engineering company than at any engineering company I've worked at. The entire reason I went back to that work environment was because I was tired of "wearing multiple hats" (e.g. doing three people's work) for 2/3 the pay of wearing one of those hats at some random adtech company.
No mention of smalltalk? Essentially Objective-C was smalltalk message passing bolted onto C. Then you had Objective-C++ which allowed a whole new language rolled in. I still find myself writing MacOS apps in Objective-C/C++ which allows me to use all the fantastic C++ libraries and frameworks that exist. No doubt Swift is a better language that gives you strong typing and functional constructs, but I’ll always have a place in my heart for Objective-C.
Also absolutely wonderful documentation directly from Nordic Semi (for the peripheries) and from ARM (for the basic core).
> * The process is self-feeding. With the internet came the development of online interaction tools, techies use them more than any other segment and this creates a large coherent mass of lemmings and network effects

I feel it's mostly this; there are a few people actually creating these 'new' (most are just the same thing without little benefit, however, some people are better talkers/pr/marketers than others and so win a lot of souls) technologies and then they get many followers with more loud voices than brain who also start to shout about how everything before this was crap. A lot of effort in software is destroyed for not much reason but resume, ego and opinions. I like software that runs without issues for 10-20 years; it keeps me sane. As with all this tech, not many companies need it but their internal 'gurus' push it along anyway, wasting money and time and speeding up the rot.
Poverty is certainly a factor but its another factor. There are kids who have the basics covered and then some but don't get the emotional support they need and that impacts them over their adult life.

every factor we mitigate helps
Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?
> If it was up to her, she would just splash around in the shallowest part by the steps without trying anything she’s afraid of, and she would never learn to swim.

It is a very fine line but this part is probably not true. She's 4 years old and doesn't need to learn to swim, unless you really want an Olympic swimmer.

If she keeps going swimming in the shallow end, do you know what will happen? She will get bored and want different things (including deeper water).

I see this kind of thing frequently, kids work at a slower rhythm than parents and parents are still human and have limited time and patience.
How far back is "used to" because both of my fathers parents worked, and he was born in 1955 lol
The goal of incarceration is punishment (which acts both as retribution and deterrent), reform is an added benefit too rarely achieved, as is the benefit of keeping dangerous people away from future victims (in most countries those dangerous people are released sooner or later). Prison isn't a hospital for crime.
Do you really mean "major religions"? What you describe sounds more like the behaviour of sects.
>It didn't even work with Firefox for months

the conclusion would be that us devoted FF users are all happy employees. Considering usage stats I'd say that tracks.
This is the stance of post-truth, exactly one aspect of post-modernism.

Even more because you won't ever be able to verify every single piece of information yourself, you don't have access to all the data possible to verify it. You don't have access to people.

Again, you not trusting anything is the result of falling for propaganda that told you that nothing is trustworthy.

Are you going to reproduce every single scientific experiment to be able to verify them? Are you going to travel to every single place that has news about to interview people yourself and get your own conclusions? Nope, you just don't believe anything, you went to the extreme cynicism side.

It's impossible to achieve what you wrote, it's a lie you tell yourself because it's uncomfortable to trust, there's no truth except your own and that is... Very, very post-modern.
Indentation sensitivity is ugly.

With a bracket, i can easily read the scopes, block of codes.
With indentation, it's harder.
Yellow was the gateway color.
>Higher intensity physical activity was associated with greater improvements in symptoms.

Haven't read the whole study, but i assume people with fewer symptoms of X are able and motivated to exercise more because they have fewer symptoms.. And the article is just inventing the most interesting causal link for a study that doesn't travel far from correlation?
iframes didn't become common across browsers much earlier than XMLHttpRequest from what I recall - maybe a year or so? But I certainly remember playing similar tricks to get smoother page updates, in some cases even using actual FRAME elements (are there any pages at all these days still using those? They appear to be deprecated anyway.)
Care to elaborate?

Objective-C's simplicity and minimalism is what makes it one of my favorites.
This is an example of the "No True Rastafarian" logical fallacy.
I see so this is a PoC hobby project and nothing to actually use. Thanks for the warning.
Indeed it is. But being simplified and separated from SGML it somehow revealed a clearer idea of what a notation is. SGML is a markup language and as far as I remember it (not too well), it never was disassociated from the text; maybe it was possible, but not widespread. XML without text content is perfectly usable and is even more convenient.
I think these types of questions would be closer to real life programming if they had to be done in an IDE and included tests to check your solution.
Most of my projects have just a single team in charge of a single code base, so there seems to be no need for microservices at all, and yet some people keep bringing up that we should really look into microservices.

My impression is that GraphQL is great if you're building an api that's going to be used by lots of different teams with different needs and the api developer doesn't know what they are. Again, with a single team doing everything, there's no need for it at all. But we're using it anyway.

Also, they keep talking about a Single SPA Application, and I can't tell if that's just a redundant way to say SPA, or if it's really something new, or if they're just messing with me.
Our reward centers evolved in an environment where nutrition was hard to come by and exercise was a daily fact of life already.

Our bodies use of exercise for healthy regulation of our mental state is probably an evolved dependency of that life as well.
Does anyone have any insight on how Second Life compares to VRChat? Seems to me that it's the modern day version of Second Life.
Because it must be a voluntary choice instead of forced. A free trade of reproductive capability in return for a reduced sentence. To avoid overly targetting certain groups, the offer could be standardised in some way.

Ultimately I believe society would benefit by breaking such toxic cycles.
XML has been around for long enough that a lot of people have developed a tacit understanding of it, it's not reasonable in all cases (I once went to war with an 8000 line build.xml file - fuck everything about that), but for simple cases it's an easy to parse hierarchical format that most people who need to can get a handle on.

But there's one vestigial artefact that irks me.

<tree>
<leaf colour="green"/>
<leaf colour="yellow"/>
</tree>

Why can't I just do this? Validation and highlighting are well past the point where it should be a viable option.

<tree>
<leaf colour="green"/>
<leaf colour="yellow"/>
</>
No, ist is your body saying "you've been doing it wrong."
I’d take as “99% of dentists agree”. Maybe she/he should have said that haha.

I see nothing wrong with this lighthearted marketing. It’s a single dev project, it’s just fun to market it this way. It’s easy to see it should be take with a small grain of salt.
As I said, this is our second MVP, our first beta. Option to write notes without login is planned :)

We also had it implemented but ran into a few bugs with idb.
Changes in gene expression != genetic changes.
Well, gladiators for sure would want to. Cushy admin job that doesn't kill you? Sure!
Oh word?
My post isn't harsh at all. There's a whole world out there that doesn't revolve around middle class nuclear families. I meant every word of what I said, and it's all correct. There are very few mothers who want to share custodial time equally with the fathers of their children because there is an economic incentive for them not to. Most breakups are not amicable and women know that they can punish their former partners in court.

That you don't like it doesn't mean that it isn't reality. In the United States, if the mother wants custody then the mother is getting custody unless there are legal / drug / behavioral issues with the mother that prevent her from doing so. You can just sit around and listen to any radio station for all of the family lawyers who specialize in advocating for men because of how biased the system is. Only 40% of states in the US even seek to grant 50% custody to fathers.
Just disable JS
Can I just say that aside from the presented facts. I really liked the reporting. It clearly explained what the study showed and what the studies didn't show.

I think science reporting should be more like that. It's ok to have an article that says well we found a link but we are not clear yet on what's the exact cause, but we know what's not the cause

Aside from the clickbait-y headline of course.
This is not the fault of SOAP/XML at all though? There'd be several ways to offer a soap service that dynamically returns the set of requested fields.
Haven't kept up with Sam Hyde after MDE got the axe. I saw a youtube vid where he answers a stream question about sleeping around. How does he communicate to his following nowadays?
Around the time Angular came out with v2 and everyone basically realized that they either had to completely rewrite their Angular apps or spend the same effort to migrate to React (which was the new hotness at the time) I really started contemplating whether it's possible to stay sane while keeping up with the pace of change in both back-end and front-end paradigms. I ended up switching from full-stack to back-end dev. I don't know if it's just me, but now it seems like things have started to calm down and we're just iterating on existing problem sets and frameworks rather than throwing everything out and starting over. Does anybody feel the same? I actually think this is the best time to dive back into full stack dev.
I disagree, Up remains probably my favourite Pixar film. It’s originality is so refreshing. Yes it’s weird, try explaining the story to someone, but the world it constructs is consistent and not weird for the sake of it (kooky). And through that the film carries some age old themes, exploration, friendship, individuality that everyone can relate to. I yearn for more such originality.
When I worked for Particle,
I acquired a lot of Xenons - a gen 3 device in their lineup, all of which are based around the nRF52, that is no longer supported. They provided a path to turn it into a nRF52 dev kit, which I started doing immediately. I’ve been fully sold on the Nordic stuff, recently having done work with their nRF9160 that has LTE-M and NB-IoT modem as well as GNSS. Like most (all?) Nordic chips, the I/O pins are all mapped based on a config (can’t recall if fuses or flash) so you can bring the I/O to the pin that makes sense. Once you add in DMA, the standard interfaces, an Arm Cortex-M33 at 64MHz, AT commands to control the modem, you have a very powerful system on a chip.

I think the greater hardware community is sleeping on Nordic right now, tbh. I know innovation does not happen super fast but when you compare this to a similarly priced STM32 that does objectively less, it’s no contest for me.
> Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.

What you described is not eugenics though.
Especially in recent years, public infrastructure investment is evaluated by ROI (though not just from an economic perspective). Therefore, if the population declines, the number of projects meeting the ROI threshold may also decline.

Also, I live in Japan and can perhaps provide an example:

In Japan:

- Public infrastructure investment reached its peak in the mid-1990s.

- The birth rate peaked in the mid-1970s.
In my, once upon a time, programming job, I think we wrote about two or three times as much test code as actual code. Coming from a math background instead of actual programming, that was my biggest surprise.
I don’t think that throwing even more complexity at not only our problems but also our solutions is the lesson from that.
I won't disagree but perspective is important:

The chances of experiencing adverse health effects from radiation are slim for both nuclear and coal-fired power plants—they're just somewhat higher for the coal ones.

"You're talking about one chance in a billion for nuclear power plants," Christensen says. "And it's one in 10 million to one in a hundred million for coal plants."

and

McBride and his co-authors estimated that individuals living near coal-fired installations are exposed to a maximum of 1.9 millirems of fly ash radiation yearly.

To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual "background radiation" from natural and man-made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.

( ^^ above quotes from above comments link [1] )

So, bugger all in both cases particularly when compared to normal background radiation exposure.

> digging up a whole lot of coal (particularly in Australia, which also has a whole lot of uranium)

Australia is kind of big (the same land area essentially as the contiguous United States of America) and I don't see the major uranium deposits in Australia being especially close to the massive coal beds.

For comparison, the USGS database on Coal quality states [2][3]

In the majority of samples, concentrations of uranium fall in the range from slightly below 1 to 4 parts per million (ppm). Similar uranium concentrations are found in a variety of common rocks and soils, as indicated in figure 2. Coals with more than 20 ppm uranium are rare in the United States. Thorium concentrations in coal fall within a similar 1–4 ppm range, compared to an average crustal abundance of approximately 10 ppm. Coals with more than 20 ppm thorium are extremely rare.

and Australia's CSIRO has it (tables 5 and 6 and end of PDF doc) [4] that Australian coals typically have 1ppm U and 3.5 ppm Th.

These figures for coal are all less than typical crustal concentrations.

The below link [5] is a throw in that doesn't address U-Th-K in Australian coal but does address the major properties of Australian thermal coals.

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

[2] https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html

[3] https://ncrdspublic.er.usgs.gov/coalqual/

[4] https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=csiro:EP11424...

[5] https://minerals.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Best-in-C...
I’m not sure, but possible legibility? Like if you have a bunch of nested nodes it’s nice to be able to see where one ends at a glance.
Is it meant for mobile?
Inter Miami's Instagram followers count surged after signing Lionel Messi
Konijntje in Dutch, if memory serves.
My direct experience with depression was that escaping it required a combination of the right events at the right time to create an upward cycle.

For me it was fixing a shower by myself that started that upward cycle.

For someone else it could be a single exercise session that leads to it.

It's always worth a try to encourage someone to take that first step.
That's the issue you'd face with today's operating systems and UI designs, yes, but I'm talking about a hypothetical new OS design.

In such an OS the APIs would allow you to atomically transfer focus as part of other operations, for example, starting a new program or opening a new window could simply transfer focus atomically to the pending new program/window such that the OS buffers keystrokes until the recipient is ready to receive them. Also, taking focus would require you to advertise what keys you're willing to receive, allowing a focus cascade such that there's never any situation in which keystrokes get delivered to a UI that isn't able to do anything with them. At the top level of the shell there'd be a kind of global command line or palette that is the default receiver of all other unhandled keystrokes. Because focus transfer is always deterministic under this scheme, people can learn where keystrokes will go without timing playing a part.
> Ideologies are something you do, which means people act in a patriarchal way, likely based on ideological reasons, often without ever consciously thinking about the underlying ideology.

I think the emotional neglect and detachment you mention (and are mentioned in the comments of this post) are a symptom of the underlying ideology of patriarchy. We don’t always recognize the hidden biases we hold men to, leaving them in a place where the feel trapped and untrue. It’s much in the same way women might have been denied their athletic ambitions because of a destiny prescribed to them. [1] Be it a cruel friend or a selfish lover, I think a lot of men in our lives have a piece of their individuality and humanity supplanted by an ideal that only works in theory.

I can’t claim knowledge of a perfect patriarchy test. That said, since making the distinction between a “good man” and a good person who happens to be a man, I see a lot of my friends feel pressure to be something they’re not. And the thing they truly are often isn’t a bad thing in the first place.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-womens-ski-jumping-was-b...
I'm not actually, but I found it very easy to learn. The documentation really is enough. Htmx is used for requests and replacing content. You just need to figure out when to replace what. Alpine is used for on-site interactions. You can hit me up on twitter if you have questions, love to help other people with that stack! https://twitter.com/andinfinity_eu
You need a killer feature to gain ground on those traditional, well-established languages in the industry. Only marginally better is not enough for people to invest so much as to introduce a new language in a serious company. This killer feature needs to provide really clear advantage so that a risk-benefit analysis can show that even introduce this new language is a significant undertaking, it is still worth it. For Rust, this killer feature is memory safety comparing to other bare metal high performance languages like C and C++. For comparison, D is a decent improvement to C++, but it is still not enough for people to switch in large scale in the industry, because it does not have that killer feature to stand out.
There were 30 deaths directly attributed to Chernobyl and ~4000 statistical deaths due to radiation exposure.

This is comparable to the North Sea flood [1] with 2,551 instant deaths.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953
I think "XML" is way too broad to meaningful discuss anything.

XML the data format is pretty great in its basic form. Not space-efficient, but unless you're dealing with bulk data, the inefficiencies don't matter unless you're googlescale or can't spare a millisecond. The format itself doesn't absolve you from the design work of your model; your ssn example is typical of the "CEO said we have to use XML now" rush-jobs at the peak of the SOA hypecycle.

XML data validation through XSD is a dream. The insistence of the JSON-people to sabotage any kind of data validation is absurd to me.

XML Webservices are easy and consuming them from a WSDL is easy.

SOA on an enterprise level was a stupid idea creating a giant expensive communication middleware with the ESB without delivering on the promises.

Every other thing in the XML space is brainfuck-level overcomplicated bullshit dreamt up by bored enterprise architects. WS-* is a cacophony of overcomplicated solutions to problems that only exist because enterprise architects dreamt of having a single data model that's inter-operable between companies.
What languages have you used?
There might be a control in the Calmira source code that would help, but it is in Pascal and not C.

http://www.calmira.net/source/index.htm
The clocks have not become a hundred-fold faster, I grant you that. But, combined with specialized instructions, the improvement of the instruction pipeline, the growing cache, the multiplication of shadow registers, the addition of hyperthreading, and the increasing number of cores, we probably do have a hundred time more computing power in a modern laptop.
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