skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing intrinsically expensive about fission. It’s all regulatory, a not insignificant amount of which is driven by hypothetical rather than realized fears. And what a movement of goal posts. When people said that renewables were too expensive and we should direct research R&D dollars to nuclear, the issue was nuclear safety. Now that renewables are cheap after 2 decades of substantial R&D investment, the argument is “why invest in nuclear - renewables are cheaper”. But renewables are still only cheaper because they’re not being asked to do base load replacement. So from that perspective renewables are still more expensive because storage costs are excluded. And from that perspective it still doesn’t matter because it’ll take forever to build enough generation and storage capacity for renewables that in the same time we could be dropping a bunch of nuclear GW power plants all over the place.

Even today fission and renewables have very similar generation prices. And no, it’ll be a long time before batteries are a solution to the energy density needs for grid scale solar to truly allow replacement and shuttering of fossil fuel plants (automotive electrification is going to eat up a huge amount of battery manufacturing capacity world wide).
It's been pretty decent for Python-related tasks that I've been asking it, mostly involving TensorFlow construction, pre/post-processing tasks, and unit tests for them, though still need to question it about certain decisions it made, etc.
Why do people usually have children? Spare me the evolutionary explanations. I want to know from the perspective of individuals.

Most people I know barely see their parents. So it really can’t be about being lonely when you get old.
Does it explain why people do that? Are you suggesting we intrinsically know that singing to a baby is beneficial for learning?
It’s definitely true in spirit, and I think well acknowledged by Y Combinatorians.

When you think critically about this number, the level matters almost 0, the trend means everything. It could be 90% and I wouldn’t care as long as that was steadily going down.

So ultimately, while this could be interpreted as suspicious or fishy, it could also be interpreted as, wow, they've really built a flywheel for growth.
> The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard.

Or that none of the people sampled has any meaningful regrets.
Funfact: NACS ist just CCS with a different physical connector. You just need to read and understand the specs.
Any comparison is nevertheless flawed as we are not paying for the 100 000 years long problem that nuclear creates.

We act here in the same way we are doing with fossil energy: we live the good life now and let generations to come pay our bill.

Nuclear is the only way we can continue to sustain our growth-based society, no wonder billionaires are backing it up.

Instead we should face our responsibility and stop creating problems for our kids. Walk, don’t eat meat, be happy with what we have.
Why is it a misstep though?
>The fact you are asking should tell you something.

What should it tell me? That I want children but know I can't afford to have children? I already know that, and it's why I'm asking in the first place.

>The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard.

Two have admitted failure, which is to say they simply never found a person they wanted to have kids with. I don't consider this a decision subject to regret and neither did they.
This approach falls flat when you start doing analytical queries, and it assumes you already know the git incantations, which most people don't.
What the Hell Is The110club.reddit.com?
You can still create and use an XBOOTLDR partition.
The latest madness is that logging on to Azure Portal with Firefox requires about ten clicks on the user name.

As in: I log in, jump through the MFA hoops, and then it goes back to the list of user names to make me re-select the account I just used to log in.

Mind you, it always did this, which meant that I couldn’t just open a Portal link in a new tab — I’d have to select my account (again) for each tab.

But now I have to click at least ten times!

It’s broken.

Authentication is broken and there’s no one at the wheels.
> The typing is dynamic but strong, it will complain about unbound variables instead of silently creating them

Are you sure about that?

def example(x):
result = 123
if x == 456:
reslut = 789 # undetected typo
return result

In Perl, this throws an error at compile time:

use 5.036;
sub example ($x) {
my $result = 123;
if ($x == 456) {
$reslut = 789; # <-- Global symbol "$reslut" requires explicit package name
}
return $result;
}
Musicians and artists in general had careers before artificial scarcity (read: Copyright/IP) existed, so that's false (the usual path was via a patron of arts). Now, we can discuss whether artificial scarcity allowed them to have better careers. Or careers which could be planned better than before. And whether that upside weighs higher than the downsides of copyright.
Dump those banks for a reasonable credit union that has access to the co-op ATM and branch network. There's no reason to be with Bank of Scoundrels (Bank of America) or any of the other scummy banks when many credit unions today can't deliver all of the same features and more of a traditional bank.

Zelle, ACH, international wires, credit products like credit cards, home loans, personal loans, auto loans and such are all available through many credit unions, and they also reimburse ATM fees, often offer higher savings and checking account interest rates, and if your credit is poor or downright awful, they will often lend to you at a low interest rate when no bank or credit card provider would do so.
The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington
I would agree; it's good that I didn't call them that :-)

Given the context of the thread, I'm referring to people who remain child-free for all of their lives. And "evolutionary dead-end" isn't calling anyone names. It's just what it is.

I tend to agree with you on having children a little later.
Maybe this is a little unrelated, but why did our industry collectively pound our fists against the table and scream until XML went away? It's a little ugly and very verbose, but it's highly expressive and it has a proper schema language.

I'm too young to know what happened or why. By the time I got my first engineering job, JSON was the standard choice for "stuff you need to serialize."

I feel like YAML has also become the default choice in several areas where XML would be flat-out better.
Deja vu, or did someone submit this at least 3 times today?

One match: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498407
Not saying that it is. Only some people will regret their decision.
0% of B2B companies have sales to public entities like governments or municipalities?
It's worth noting that this is very much not true for many people, especially ones who come from cultures which don't simply abandon their elderly relatives. No one in my family has ever been simply left to their own devices to sink or swim.
Author could get the best of both worlds: enjoy the typing in third party libraries for IntelliSense, and not use typing at all in own code.

So what exactly is the complaint?
Very good points.

Though I'm pretty sure that people who refer to child-free people as "evolutionary dead ends" are lashing out because they have some sense of jealousy.
Vita3K – the world's first functional Playstation Vita emulator
If you deal with ethics so often, maybe you can illuminate us why this code is deeply unethical? I cannot decipher it from your original post.
> Even if you have kids, it’s a gamble that they will be anything more than an occasional visitor.

It’s hardly a gamble when your actions and life choices tip the scales.

People who complain about their kids not being a part of their life in their old age should spend their idle time considering how they raised said kids. If you do it right, they want to see you.

> At 70 years old, your kids will be fully formed adults with their own families and lives taking priority and they don’t have time for some senior citizen’s problems or diaper changes.

Having someone who cares about you is more than just listening to rambling stories and wiping your ass. It’s everything from a second pair of eyes watching out for your well being to a sense of connection to the future.
With a transmission like that, can you skip gears, or must you always 7->6->5->4->3 when you're slowing down?
I've personally had about half of the parents I know tell me "never have kids." Their kids have not been at any consistent age when they've told me this, so I don't think it's simply about the stress of rearing a very young child. The other half of parents haven't said whether to have kids or not.
This is unintentionally a good example of someone who's aged out of his profession because he's not curious about how things really work anymore, despite the lengthy intro claiming the exact opposite.

He was repairing a Nissan Maxima, and either got an alert about a bad coil, or one coil was just entirely dead. He then wanted to replace just that bad coil.

This is after he was told they should all be replaced, note how he never thought to even ask "why?" at that point, just assuming "what do they know? I've done this before!".

He then finds that the car's computer checks all the coils, and just proceeds to alert on the next coil shortly thereafter.

This isn't because each coil has some DRM module to make you put another dollar in, but the engine is checking the performance of the coils, presumably it's picking up on something as simple as resistance mismatch.

So he blames the car, computers, the modern economy etc, and finally ends with some conspiracy theory about how BRICS are going to replace the USD as the world's reserve currency.

There's lots of little annoyances related to the modern CAN-bus in cars, but not this sort of thing. If he'd gone with his initial plan the customer would have unknowingly ended up with a car where the performance of each cylinder differed, which can lead to subtle and more major mechanical issues down the road.

It's also perfectly fine to just replace the one coil, get check "check engine" light, and just explain that problem to the customer. If they only want to spend $100 and not $100 times the number of cylinders that's their decision.

But whatever the issue is, it's not that the computer notices that the engine's performance is abnormal, and alerts you about it.
Sure, but we’re still talking about 10% of fossil fuel needs. So we’re comparing ~60-80% fossil fuels vs 10%. That’s a major accomplishment difference. Also I hope you’d agree that the storage needed to replace 10% of fossil fuels is much less than the storage needed to replace 60-80% right?

Also, not sure if you’re aware, but most modern reactors don’t need storage. They can vary load generation dynamically and so don’t actually need storage. France’s reactors are all very old as they’ve been infected with the same disease of failing to take on large public works projects in a timely and cost efficient manner. It’s not as fuel efficient, but that matters very little for a nuclear plant in the grand scheme of things.
but as the ice sheet retreated, was that area colonized by species already adapted to temperate rainforest? or did unique speciation occur in situ?
I saw a few presentations from the 280 North guys. It was clearly impressive what these 3 guys built. Learning from Cocoa/Objective-C/Interface Builder well, they realized they needed to build 3 separate, but interconnected things, the framework (Cappuccino), the language (Objective-J), and the GUI builder (Atlas).

They sold to Motorola for $20 million in 2010, and that was the kind of the last I heard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631002
Couple items.

- input type="checkbox" - It would be nice if this wasn't so janky to have a different look / function to your checkbox. Like some secondary type you could just apply, such as: subtype="toggle" or subtype="tristate" or subtype="cycle" Its weird you have to hide all the normal elements and then intercept all their functionality.

- HTML "dialog" - I like the element, because of "dialog::backdrop", since applying effects to the background for a dialog helps with UI focus. "backdrop-filter: blur(4px)" is also pretty cool.

It would also be nice if it "actually" behaved like a div. Tried implementing it on a project [1] with UI popups, and found out it displays different for show() and showModal() [kinda weird], and also has a massive hidden margin.

Apparently "backdrop-filter" can be implemented on normal divs though, so gonna try that approach.

[1] http://forsako.rf.gd/AmericanCities/LibOfCongressGame.html
That doesn’t seem to be fission’s biggest problem.
It seems like some cases of tinnitus may be due to tight muscles, too. I don't usually suffer it, but when I do, I've noticed that sometimes massaging the back of the head or jaw can make it just go away. I doubt this works for everyone or for every cause, but it's simple enough to be worth trying to see if it does anything helpful.
The advent of generics should enable better container structures - whether they’ll hit the standard library is a different matter I suppose.

For a heap, something like this seems fine? https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/fufuok/utils/generic/heap#sect...

(Hi, Ed!)
Oh, pardon me. I didn't realise Rust had a qualified compiler already. It looks like this is what Ferrous Systems was working on with AdaCore.
Damn, I depend on this. I tried to use fido2 on my flipperzero, MS blocks that as well. Kind of a bummer when you think about it with companies picking and choosing what keys/clients to allow when it should be up to the user.
with this kind of spinning display you'd need to multiply the frame rate you want by the angular resolution you want.
So if you're happy with only 20 different angular views and only a 20fps refresh rate of the 3d display then that's 400fps required of the flat display
I've heard it's grandkids that really tip the scale.
In the late 90's my dad got dialup and a brand-new e-mail address, and someone forwarded him a GIF of Don Hertzfeldt's Ah L'Amour. So this was happening before Rejected even came out.

By the time I was in college in 2003, Don Hertzfeldt animations were all over the Internet (usually in truncated, uncredited form).

Don's new series, World of Tomorrow, is really great, btw, and a wonderful maturation and evolution of the animation style I saw in that GIF in 1998.
Admittedly, the selected sample is biased towards seemingly responsible people, and it strikes me as recklessly presumptuous to assume that otherwise responsible people tend to make such decisions with anything less then tremendous consideration. However, I have learned that HN is an extremely cynical and misanthropic forum.
It's laughably easy to grab a temporary e-mail and set up a throwaway account in just a few minutes. I did it for Twitter just a few weeks ago, even.

Surely someone on HN is capable of gritting their teeth here, and understands that Eric doesn't want to have to set-up a whole account and e-mail verification system.
I have had the (not so novel, I admit) realisation that most intelligent people I know have had zero children, whilst most dumb people I know have had (at least) one. This was funny when it was the plot of a movie, now it's starting to worry me.
Yes, I hate it. And in general, capitalized function names break mental model of inferring token kind by its name. In my world, capitalized token is always a type, lowercase is a variable (or property, function, etc).

Popular counter-argument is that it can be fixed with syntax highlighting, but for me it's a flaw in the language syntax.
Every time I'm on a laggy Zoom call I wish we could have had the circuit-switched internet instead.
There are probably no actual wheels to begin with, knowing Microsoft.
I mean on the opposite side no one would ever say they regret having children either. Only a monster would I guess. That does not mean life may be would have been better for them without kids.
The family line will go bust though.
You misunderstand. When working with dependent typed languages sometimes you have to prove things. For example, my function might receive a sorted array, but it has to be proved that the array is sorted, otherwise this is a compile time error--remember, all of this is happening at compile time. So, you write the proof using code and check it in with the rest of your code. It's not something that's going to fail randomly, it's just code.

If AI wrote the proof, this would be no different than having Copilot fill in some code, it's just code you check into the repo.

These proofs often involve writing code, any code, that will pass the type checker. If you can write code, no matter what that code is, and it passes the type checker, the assertion is proved. It's such a well structured problem, "just write code that satisfies these type constraints, any code will do, as long as it type checks", that I think AI might be able to do it quite well.

I've commented on this before and it wasn't well received then either. I think most people have never coded in dependently type language and don't appreciate how often you simply want to fill in the holes and connect the dots with any code that type checks. It's been several years since I experimented with dependent types, so I forgot a lot of the details, but I do remember often wanting to just "fill in the gaps", and indeed, there are IDE tools that can often fill in the gaps for you.

(Another thing I was surprised to realize about languages with strong type systems is how often there is literally only one possible implementation of a function.)
Filmic's entire staff laid off by parent company Bending Spoons
I think that is unlikely, as the logs only show the 301 redirect, but not the request to load the site itself. And it only ever loaded the main home page (/).
This is of course not an actual stat, but I don't think we should discount the value of being part of a network (any network) that can get you actual paying customers in the door.

I don't believe that the feedback of free users, or "friends & family" is worth even a fraction of what you get when someone's spent a four-figure sum on your software, while knowing that it's imperfect, and they need it to _really_ work.
AT&T's LTE network often flaps on and offline on many towers from what I've seen, regardless of whether you got an iPhone or Android. 1 minute you'll have bars, the next to you won't be able to call 911.

Meanwhile, Verizon has only kind of figured out VoLTE (and still has inbound call delivery issues) and is the most heavily loaded, slowest network in the US.

Most of these issues are area dependent, but there is a reason why AT&T held off for so long when offering their new internet air product for 5G home internet, and why Verizon is so hesitant to add network load with their home internet product, hence both of them being very selective of what address is qualify for this service.
Same with the section on capability security!
So kids are basically just a condensed version of:" don't expose yourself to the economic realities and dependence on societys fabric"?
Why unfortunately? It's not like having 7 kids like in the 60's would take humanity to a very good place either... the fact that a minority of people are content in not reproducing is actually a good thing overall. Even if population decreases for a very long time, we'll still probably be too many for hundreds of years (and at some point you can expect the trend to reverse again).
Maybe. Homosexuality has survived as a genetic (or epigenetic) trait of our biology despite breaking the sex-children connection.
> integration tests of any kind

No!

Microsoft famously fired their entire QA team. Also… their technical writing team. And then they outsourced both support and the bulk of their development to India.

You get what you pay for, and right now Microsoft is variously paying either zero or very little.
I can tell you that the materials of the two 3M masks are vastly different. The fit virtually is the same. In fact, the N95 has a slightly better fit as it doesn't use those faulty red rubber bands that the FFP3 does - it has a tighter pull by using a woven elastic cord instead.

There are two spots for leakage - the nose fit and the neck, but both do a great job and come with a tab for the neck so that you can adjust if it gets loose.
I solve it like this: when at work the soldering iron is in the garage. That little barrier helps a lot when temptation to tinker strikes.

One thing that I really like about this site is that the creator spends a ton of time on documenting it all. I am usually so busy with projects I don't get around to it. Another problem is that, especially for larger projects, that you need to store and maintain them. And that gets old pretty quickly when you're lugging around 200 pound windmills and such.
> I don't understand why people don't have a fundamental right to refuse ad exposure in their private life

This seems a bit of a strawman in this context. You have the right to not visit YouTube.

Likewise, you have the choice in subscribing to a magazine. If you choose to buy the magazine & bring it into your home, it seems odd to ask why you don't have the "right" to an ad free existence in your home.

And, at least, in this context, YouTube does offer an ad-free version, YouTube Premium.
I'm not sure about this specific use case, but a reason for using cgroupv2 over rlimit is that cgroup allows you to limit the resources of a _group_ of processes, which is handy if, say, your Python script uses the `subprocess` module.
Microsoft devs have a reputation of being quite sub par.
Yes, that's the point of being child free. I'm not sure I believe that at 70 your opinion suddenly changes after forty years.
Define "intelligent" and "dumb." Ensuring one's genetic line continues could be considered natural--i.e., of nature--intelligence.
That was the first thing that come to my mind. The obvious challenge in getting data like this. Of course it's not even mentioned in the article.
My example will be as anecdotal as yours: I have many friends who are parents, and many who are not. Neither group appears to be more or less happy or fortunate, on average.

I personally don't know any parents who regret having their children, but that doesn't mean they haven't known hardship or bad luck, including when it comes to their kids. However, I also have child-free friends who are deeply troubled or unhappy.

On the whole, I've concluded it isn't a big factor.

I tend to find my friends who are parents are more productive in their 30s and 40s than those who don't have kids, because it forced them to learn planning and time management, and their non-kid activities benefited as well. I think this may be compelling to many on HN.
His work is even more inspirational after reading this rant, as he describes the therapeutic aspect of his projects and his base emotions.
Still, I can't help but excuse my inferior output by admiring his incredible fine motor skills and pre-existing expertise in electronics.
I see, thank you, that's also a really good explanation of why my mind must have jumped to effective altruism, and the 238 billion lives saved 347 years if you give me $10 for lunch.

I guess with the Hippocratic oath, I'm thinking a simile would be: "well, if first do no harm takes precedence literally 100% of the time, that could lead to 0 treatment because there's always a potential for harm"
Which is just another way to say "they must all be lying, therefore the data is all false and the conclusions of the study wrong!"