skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using most applications not in full screen mode, and don't have a lot of issues with that on windows. I think the only thing I commonly run in full screen is IDEs.
> One, the time horizon over which we observe and discount the levelised cost of energy (unsubsidised) relative to the plant’s lifetime. Nukes’ long lives mean their tremendous capital costs’ amortisation matters. In this, the anti-nuke tends to fudge its numbers.

What long economic payback time means is that the risks are huge. A 15 year construction and 40 year payback time and we are in the 1960s. A 60 year payback time and it's 1940s and the second world war is raging. How reasonable is it for Churchill, FDR and Stalin to predict energy investments that they only expect to get returns on in the 2020s?

All while competing solutions are already eating nuclear energy's lunch.

Trying to use long amortization is simply a crutch by people who do not understand basic economics. You can extend the amortization for renewables power plants with similar effects.

The chosen 20 years are simply because it is more economically efficient to replace them early, because what we expect to have available in 20 years are so much better that the economic efficiency gains are worth it.

Engineering a renewable plant for 40 or 60 years is trivial, it simply is not worth it.

A read for you is: "Understanding the Time Value of Money"

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/082703.asp
It’s deceptive in the tactics they use to hide the fact it’s dubbed until you actually start watching it. (See sibling comment further down)
> Thomas Mundy, chief commercial officer for NuScale Power, said his company’s product could be built and put into use in about three years, a fraction of the time it takes to build larger reactor units.

Funny somebody dug this out from 2022 when the news are so disastrous:

> Investors Sue NuScale (SMR) for Concealing True Cost of Flagship Nuclear Reactor Project-Hagens Berman

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/06/279194...

> Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and NuScale Power Agree to Terminate the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP)

https://www.nuscalepower.com/en/news/press-releases/2023/uam...

Maybe greenwashing isn't enough to cover up the fact that nuclear is not a good way to go about energy in the future.
I find most streaming shows subpar, I don’t even bother any more and just watch old series I’ve never seen like Mad Men or Beeaking bad or cheers.

We multicam sitcom is kind of awful in this regard, but at least usually it’s funny.

I think for many Netflix streaming shows it’s something with the cinematography, framing, and use of extras. I know in older movies you would get a variety of shots (through a window outside, or across a crowded room as character approaches, swooping in from above, etc) I think a lot of Netflix shows become framing shot, then “headshot to headshot” without much diversity of perspective. The also use less extra I think. I’m not sure but I think that is a factor.
...and Netflix couldn't grow as a tech company paying the ever increasing content costs (and wasn't happy with a utility company valuation) so has spent enormous sums on just terrible shows.

If you're an executive at any of these companies: VERTICAL INTEGRATION

If you're an outsider looking in: GREED
My assumption would be visa-holders will be able to open a bank account. Otherwise it doesn't really make sense.
Or China, which built an AP1000 in nine years [1], about as long as it takes us to NEPA a transmission line [2]. Given about half of that was waiting for a reactor-coolant pump, it can likely be done in 5.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-double-first-in-china-for-advanc...

[2] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/transmission-clean-energy-s...
A better question is which projects are actually paying all or most of their major contributors industry rates based on donations? It seems like the word "important" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your statement. I bet even for the projects you have in mind that most contributors never receive a cent, and the major contributors have only received compensation for a fraction of their work if calculated at industry rates. A quick look at open collective should show you how little money there is to be made in open-sourcing code in of itself.
I always have to add the "and off-by-one" at the end.

Nothing like reading memory you don't own!
I don't use Gentoo, but isn't the whole point that you compile everything? Could anyone explain some pros/cons of Gentoo other than squeezing out performance for your specific machine?
How is the cable wire “deteriorating”? As long as the physical wire is in good shape, the technology to provide a connection is just fine (especially compared to what you have now).

Sure, the cable companies are a pain to deal with, but the only real choice is to suck it up like everyone else. You’ll at least have alleviated your current issues for a few years until other options might become available.
I took his course as well. It is indeed advanced. I certainly learned a fair amount from it. (coding for 15 years)
In a well designed database system (hardware!) you aren't going to use the same CPU, disk or controller to write the log and the data structure. So the performance penalty if any is going to be low.
This isn't a book or blog, but I recommend two different communities:

CTOlunches.com, which is an in-person group that meets for lunches around the world. It also has an active mailing list, with hundreds of engineering leaders there.

The rands leadership slack (Google for it) is an invite only slack with thousands of engineering leaders across the world. Great for asynchronous conversations across a wide variety of topics; they even have an anonymous q and a channel.
> A close family friend was only able to marry an American on condition of them not having kids.

Koreans aren't having kids to begin with, maybe they don't want to break the trend.
Here are some comments in no specific order:

* A sample of 9 developers, especially all working for the same company (in similar conditions) isn't much... but this seems to be a sore spot for most research on software development: very small, bordering on unrepresentative samples. Very hard to control for bias. Very hard to establish whether experiment subjects even have the relevant knowledge.

* I would very much prefer if code quality wasn't about people's feelings. There's nothing wrong with people's feelings... except I want a metric. It seems like the authors either don't believe it's possible to capture code quality "impartially" or that we are long way away from being able to do so.

* In the end of the day, the research behind the article doesn't have "action items". Suppose the reader didn't know about the complexities of measuring quality -- then they would've learned how hard it is. But the article doesn't as much as suggest what needs to be done to measure the quality (better). It's hard to fault the authors for not suggesting anything in this regard, and by their own admission, the metrics that they've found so far are kind of a snake oil... But, I really want a metric. That's why others keep pumping that snake oil.

Anyways, I still find the article useful in case anyone needs a brief explanation of the difficulties of assessing software quality.
I'm not sure I understand the motivation. Is this a case of "if the only tool you have is lambda calculus, everything looks like a program"? Or am I missing something?

As far as functional document formatting languages, it looks like Lout is still actively developed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
Hulu is the touchstone service — it’s the more edgy and diverse content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_Pictures?wprov=sfti...
the article keeps randomly going between 787 and 737.

787 is the dreamliner. 737 Max is the plane that was grounded for a while because it kept killing people.

787 max is not a thing as far as I know.

I don't know if the writer has been replaced by ChatGPT or if they should be.
The invention of incubators and the idea to supply premature babies' underdeveloped lungs with oxygen is hard to underestimate.

Unfortunately for a short time after invention some doctors thought that more helps more and exposed the babies to very high oxygen concentrations without knowing that this hinders the development of the retina and leads to blindness. Probably the most well-known victim of this unfortunate phase is Steveland Morris aka Stevie Wonder.
This has been the behavior for many years now.
Does anyone know of an actual case of a person who was impacted by this? The OP does not describe such a one. Is the only impact on people suspected of using prescription drugs to kill, rape or otherwise harm? I am having trouble imagining other kinds of impacts.
except in this case, the attackers figured it out ages ago and everyone else was left in the dark.

The issue with obscurity is that attackers inherintly have a far higher incentive to try and understand obfuscated, undocumented messes than security researchers.
Incredible that countries still haven't learned that American-salary digital nomads are only harmful to local people. Airbnb all the apartments so locals can't afford in cities anymore.

While I do enjoy my EU salary nomading within EU, those with >5x local salaries have pretty much ruined Lisbon and Porto.
Haha, for sure. I wrote about that contrast here a few years ago: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2555
They are in the process of selling it to Disney (following a 2019 deal giving them the option).

https://deadline.com/2023/12/comcast-disney-hulu-mike-cavana...

To some extent, Disney are using it as their adult oriented streaming service in the US.
Exactly this. When I'm interacting with a cop, I have two goals: to avoid "poking the bear", and to end the encounter as quickly as possible. This means being scrupulously polite and responsive while avoiding saying one word more than is required.
One difference is that Google is a for-profit, publicly-traded company. Mozilla is a sort of hybrid in the sense that the Corporation is wholly owned by a non-profit Foundation. Most people don't go into the non-profit sector to get rich. Their utility comes from something else (e.g., goodwill or a sense of noblesse oblige).
> The Upwork job posting asks the applicant to "fix bugs and resopnsiveness [sic] on website" and claims to pay between $15 and $20 hourly for a task expected to take under a month.

A take-home for a web3 dev-job that pays less than California's minimum wage (as of April 2024) is a story in itself.
The un-disableable auto-preview, however, is so annoying I never want to open Netflix.

What's really great is MAX.
If you've already seen an episode (rewatch or whatever) you probably didn't watch to the complete end (ie skipped the credits), especially if auto play is on. You go to watch that episode again and it drops you at the last 5-10s of the episode and you need to quickly scramble to pause-rewind back before it jumps to the next episode.
Finally, an Emacs guide for people like me.
Netflix - The Studio is extremely sub-par, even by today's lacklustre standards. Sure, they have the occasional success; you throw enough garbage against the wall and something will stick.
There are some open-source games and fan movies, but they come nowhere near the quality and quantity of the commercial titles. For every tux raacer, there are 5 Mario karts
Nuh, most designers create that nonsense out of boredom. In reality you rarely see that in the wild.
Emergency apps on your phone that could save your life
> > Running older versions of macOS in a VM enables users to run Intel-only apps long after Rosetta 2 support is dropped from the current macOS

> Now if they'd offer that for x86 Windows guests...

Hmm the way i read it they're running older ARM versions of Mac OS in the VMs. Not x86 versions. The virtualization infrastructure doesn't do architecture translation, that is done in software by the OS running inside the VM.

As for x86 games... they run pretty well with x86 crossover emulating x86 windows that is then translated by rosetta 2 to arm... is your head spinning yet?
Gentoo was great fun, when I was young and had a lot of time. It worked surprisingly well. But I often skipped installing security updates, because it could take days to finish on a slow system.

Maybe some day I will get nostalgic and try it out again, but I really don't miss it yet. It's also quite a waste of CPU power and energy to compile everything from scratch without a real need.
Money is no substitute for talent.
HIPAA was a stupid mistake by the Clinton administration. I really don’t care who has my medical history and the field of medical study would be infinitely better off if it was public.
What about microbial enzyme based cheeses? For example I’ve seen havarti labeled with microbial rennet.
And then eventually switch over those gas plants to burn hydrogen. If they are nearly-always-idle, the amount of hydrogen needed isn't much.
We used to use this as a cautionary tale in the CS department security course at the Technion. First, to highlight trust relationships in the "supply chain" (as the notion is now known in contemporary usage). Second, to pose the question of whether open source is inherently more trustworthy.
But it's quite high for the rest of the world
Actually most modern sewing machines use the same amount of thread from the bobbin and from the spool on top. The reason the bobbin is usually so small is that the thread from the top makes a loop and passes it around the bobbin, which must be small enough to fit through the loop.
> China has built four, one in just four years, in two roughly-parallel series. So the anti-nukes’ too-slow argument is bunk. But the pro-nuke team needs a learning curve barely demonstrated in another country to continue.

We have much more evidence of contruction being too slow (if that's what you mean); why is one example from the other side more convincing? Also, China is not directly comparable, being able to undemocratically externalize the welfare of residents, construction workers, and operators.

Also, the last sentence seems to agree that the evidence is weak ?

> the anti-nukes ... the pro-nuke

Maybe there are also people who just care about getting the best outcome, aren't on a team that has drawn a predetermined conclusion, and are working with the data.
H&M, Shein, etc are not IP-based organizations - their value comes from their massive and highly efficient production, supplychain, and distribution networks. They steal or dupe many of their designs, usually from smaller creators, designers, and boutiques. A no copyright environment would benefit businesses like this.
Cybertruck Crash
There are so many great books on specific domains but it depends on what you want to learn and you can then search for that. "Programming" is obviously too broad a category for experienced people.
Locales are often compromises that don't reflect user preferences particularly well. People speak multiple languages, and they may have different preferences for content / UI languages, date/time formats etc. And the preferences may be situational, such as native X > native English > English translation/localization > X translation/localization.

Just tag the content with the relevant languages and let the user create filters based on them. And assume that the user understands that languages don't form disjoint categories, because the content itself could be multilingual.

Besides, original audio with subtitles is usually superior to dubbed audio.
> It makes you wonder what is on these guy's iPhones that's considered so valuable. Presumably, they were after emails describing more zero days in other programs.

My theory is that defensive cyber security is so hard that it's literally easier to hack the entire world(with a focus on security people) to see if anyone has breached your systems.
I never understood the "salt scarcity in antiquity" idea. As in they could just use a splash brine water from the sea if you physiologically need salt. And transport sea water inland as needed.
If the police have a reasonable suspicion then they should have no problem getting a warrant. If they cant clear that bar then maybe they shouldn’t get that information.

Rules aren’t just for people you like or approve of.
If you're going to loop back around to contention, then pick a side or explain why Europe is wrong. Simply saying that something is controversial is not an argument. Europe's ruling is not a double-standard, it specifically targets Apple-scale businesses while leaving other platforms like game consoles untouched. If you feel like that's contentious, it's your job to prove that other manufacturers are abusing monopoly power in the same way Apple does.
The "extreme storage" hand-wringing comes from the implicit assumption that batteries are used to cover the Dunkelflauten. This is bad engineering.
hum, can you explain what 'ruined' means to you?
4K at 150" would look like crap.
Do any streaming services support 8K? That is a lot of bandwidth and decode overhead.
> The inconvenient truth is that the business exists not to provide engineers with work they’re happy with or proud of but to make investors money.

First that’s not always technically true because not all businesses have investors.

But assuming that the primary purpose is to make money, even that’s not precise since there’s a massive difference on optimizing for ROI tomorrow vs next quarter vs when you retire and hand your business over to others. Or different metrics altogether like market share or “engagement”. Those are all conflicting goals and have changed a lot just in a decade.

But even if you decide precisely which metric to aim for, there’s still a giant difference between primary purpose and only purpose. Simple things like a circuit breaker or a nail might be single purpose. But as soon as you step up almost everything is multi-purpose. A car, a house, even a hat have many degrees of freedom. A business has many unquantifiable components.

Anyway, the point is that giving carte blanche to decisions labeled with “business reasons” is at best lazy, and at worst legitimizes a sort of pseudo religious cargo cult worship of the “business truths” of the current year.

The truth is that nobody sits on magical predictive abilities, neither the 10x engineers nor the MBA grand poobahs. But it’s also clear that the companies with technical leadership and/or a high degree of engineering agency have been so successful in the last two decades, to the point of redefining the nature of business itself.
I use two displays with the same specs as yours, but have them both vertical. Code goes on one, browser/documentation on the other, and I don't have to turn my head too much to go between them.

But then I _really_ like a vertical display for coding.
Wait was the guy you know the hacker or someone who discovered the hack by accident? If the latter, how do you know anything about the hacker's identity or motive?
Copyright is a common law perspective. In France for example, and I guess most of the Civil law area, authors do have morale rights, which are explicitly named thus, which are imprescriptible and inalienable. But that is in extra to patrimonial rights which cover most of what you get from a common law copyright.
In my experience, many mothers are not getting any prenatal care. Many are pregnant before they know it and do not discontinue activities which will harm their child.
What vegans foods are they widely available? And at what price levels?
Because them making encryption the default rather than obscuring encryption options with dark patterns strongly signals they aren't trying to trick you into handing over private data for their profit.
> Not exactly like in the US obviously but it's a real phenomenon that people tend to dismiss.

Dude, black people are are not treated better in Asia than the US, get real.
You can build real useful systems on them. For example, Gmail used to be implemented on top of GFS as two append-only files per user: the zlog and the index. The zlog held (zlib-compressed) operations such as "add this message" and "delete this message". The index was an append-only btree as described here. It was a true index in that it didn't include the actual message contents. Those were simply pointers into the log. Thus, it was much smaller than the zlog and its efficiency was less of a concern. Also, periodically both files were "compacted" by writing a fresh log (that built the current state in the most efficient way) and matching index. This was primarily for privacy (otherwise your deleted messages would never actually go away) but also improved efficiency.

Gmail's now built on top of Spanner so uses a log-structured merge tree. Still append-only files but a bit different. Files aren't per user but per some arbitrary key range boundary; no more btree; multiple layers with the top ones getting compacted more frequently; etc.
Andor is phenomenal at least.
Time:

Nuclear power plants take an average of 7.5 years to build. Consistently for the last 40-50 years.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-constructi...

France nuclearized its entire grid in 20 years, from the early 70s to the early 90s. They've been producing largely CO2 free, cheap electricity ever since.

Germany has been trying to achieve low carbon electricity for 20 years so far while at the same tine getting out of nuclear (yes, it doesn't make sense). We're supposedly half way done, have the 2nd most expensive electricity in the EU and also the 2nd dirtiest electricity in the EU. The government went to such extremes to hide the costs of the energy crisis on off-budget vehicles that the constitutional court had to step in.

Cost:

"LCOE of less than $30/MWhre for 40-60 years" even for the "expensive" US Westinghouse AP1000

https://web.mit.edu/kshirvan/www/research/ANP193%20TR%20CANE...

Sailed:

22 countries just pledged to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 (yes, that's quite a ways away), including the US, Japan, Ukraine, France, Canada, Poland, South Korea etc. India, China and Russia did not sign, but are also expanding.

Apart from representing 5 of the G7, the vast majority of world GDP and also the majority of the population, the list importantly also includes a number of countries that until as recently as two years ago were getting out of nuclear, either significantly or entirely. Poland currently has no nuclear plants and has just ordered 24 small reactors to be installed at 6 sites.

etc.
Can you please share the tool in question? I have been desperately looking for something like this for my sandbox project.
So the PHP implementation was built into the opcache extension which already gives a massive speed up over purely interpreted PHP.

If you benchmark JIT PHP vs PHP with no opcache you will see 500% speed up or more depending on the workload.

Of course most PHP web servers tend to be pretty IO bound. The project I work on sees ~a 20% in best case response time which is quite nice.
Yikes just get to the fucking point, article. They tricked him into running a reverse shell, then probably found his keys somewhere locally on his computer.

The writing here, and the subject of the writing, has me convinced that people in "web 3" have no clue what they are doing.

The victim here seems to be _very_ confused about how this could have happened until others clarify it for them. Like, you downloaded and ran someone else's code - of course it has a reverse shell in it. Why aren't you capable of reading JS well enough to see that? Surely it wasn't that well obfuscated? And even if it was, why is it so confusing?
Cable was a much better setup. The gems, and what I liked and watched, was always spread among different channels. But it was all on one bill, one programming guide, etc. And now that it's all DVR based, no ad is unskippable. Imagine Amazon or Google releasing a device that's so customer friendly that you can fully control the video stream.