skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or just use reactor designs that have a negative void coefficient and won't end up in a positive feedback loop.

Positive feedback loop isn't needed for a nuclear accident to happen. Sure it's what happened in Chornobyl, but not in TMI or Fukushima. And from an engineering perspective Chornobyl isn't that interesting as an accident example because it's mostly a product of brainwashed egotic manager who had all the power over the engineers.

Also it's not always entirely straightforward to keep the void coefficient negative at every point of the operating cycle, especially if things go wrong: PWR have a negative void coefficient most of the time but not 100% of the time: when the reactor is cold you put tons of boric acid into the water to counteract the reactivity and avoid divergence, but at this particular time the void coefficient is positive because of the high level of Boron. Of course in regular events it doesn't matter because the reactor is off, but that's something that can also happen during an emergency situation where you inject a massive amount of boron in the water (there are scenarios where you do that).

But again, the reactor's power getting out of control isn't the biggest risk anyway, the biggest problem comes from the fact that residual power is still annoyingly high even when you've shut down your reactor and you need to deal with it. The fact that you can't just shut it down and everything's OK when something is wrong is the real pain of working with a nuclear reactor.

Source: I have a nuclear engineer specialized in immediate response to incidents and accidents at home.

And the high cost mostly comes out of the fact that we don't build nuclear reactors as series + the fact that we finance it at insane rates. Antinuclear activists have their responsibilities in that, but even without them I suspect most states wouldn't be doing the right thing either: nuclear isn't a good fit for neoliberal thinking anyway.
>Deployments that would now be called "traditional", so anything that does not run in a container but in a VM, will continue to exist for quite some time.

I think there is even a widening talent gap where you can't get people excited about doing something that maybe should have been done years ago (assuming VM -> containers makes sense for a thing). The salary needs to go higher for things that are less beneficial to the resume.

The industry at large asks most developers to stay up-to-date, so it starts looking suspicious when a company doesn't stay up-to-date too. For C# in particular, companies who have only recently migrated to .NET 5+ are now a red flag to me considering how long .NET Core has been out.
ah, you say that, but with wifi light switches and wifi toilets it's easy to connect those together nowadays!
Except, they don't say we are dead in 5 seconds. They say stuff like "The trends reveal new all-time climate-related records and deeply concerning patterns of climate-related disasters." The records being set is pretty objectively true. The "deeply concerning" part involves a little perspective taking, but more/stronger storms, heat waves, etc with impacts on insurance, the power grid and public health are reasonable causes for concern.

They don't say we're all gonna die. They don't say anything about such a short time period as 5 seconds. You're accusing them of being alarmist, but the way you're describing their claims is itself a false and hyperbolic caricature.
Actually, Box64 can also store operands for later computation, depending on what comes next...
You wouldn't get close enough to be torn apart. You'd fly by and thrust into the gravity well for an Oberth effect boost. I'm thinking of unmanned probes of course. We could send them on flyby missions to other star systems to do things like take pictures of possibly habitable exoplanets. It's unlikely that humans could survive the acceleration of such a maneuver without ending up like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmTZeiCmJY

There wouldn't be much radiation unless the black hole were actively "eating" something, which a PBH in far solar orbit would not. That's part of what makes it hard to find and what makes PBHs candidates for dark matter: they're dark and don't do much unless something encounters them. There would be no net emission of Hawking radiation since the BH's Hawking temperature would be colder than the cosmic microwave background.

The hypothetical PBH that could be planet 9 would be about 2-3 Earth masses and about the size of a golf ball in terms of event horizon radius. You couldn't get that close to it without being "spaghettified" and added to its mass.

Probably the most valuable thing we could do with it is study it and use it as a lab to learn about quantum gravity. We could chuck small things into it with probes nearby to precisely measure the result, etc. All black holes we know about are far too distant to reach. Having one we could study would be huge.
Yes I hope in 50 years we have freedom of gender. If not I guess I'll keep talking about it
If mailchimp et al blocked their bad senders then they wouldn't have any senders left.

Mailchimp in particular kicked out all their good senders years ago, when they made Mandrill require a Mailchimp subscription.
Lately I've been using Bun shell for writing scripts, it's a nice alternative for those who prefer JavaScript syntax over Ruby:
https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/shell
I've rarely seen people interested in protecting the climate without caring about those points. Usually disinterest in one seems correlated with disinterest in the other (especially politically). Are you referring to specific initiatives or movements?
Lots of countries, including the US had plenty of free speech. There was a kind of freedom golden age from the 70s until the late 90s, and then, 9/11, Patriot Act. It has been all downhill since then.
Unsure what you're getting at with that list. Do you mean I can move to another country?
Which is honestly a shame. It's an awful API.
They mention cancer twice in the opening.
> I know which one I'd prefer to grok at 2AM with alerts going off.

I hate meaningless statements like this. This means nothing, other maybe that you know Python. 20 years ago people might have said that about Python - I even know many people today who would say that about Python.
For those who don't want to read, they distill the cacao juice, mix it with the pureed husk, and then use that instead of sugar in the chocolate. The process is more expensive than using sugar itself, which is the cheapest part of chocolate production.

Then there's some romantic pontificating that this will somehow alleviate West Africa from modern day colonialism/child slavery or lower the price of chocolate.

So no, Swiss scientists have not made a chocolate breakthrough.

Buy your chocolate from companies that don't use child slavery, even if it's more expensive.
I see not a single issue, neither open nor closed.
In fact I don't even see any PRs either
One service that SVB provided that is uncommon for a typical bank is venture debt financing. I'm curious what percent of venture debt financing was provided by SVB, how big the market for that was before SVB collapsed, and how much venture debt financing is done now.
It seems that digging cost is pretty minor when compared to the usual cost of these projects.

As far as safety, I would expect this depth to be below and away from any groundwater, so even with a meltdown there would be no effect on water sources. Presumably if something like Chernobyl happened they would bury the hole and the fuel would just melt its way further down without ill effect. There were plenty of underground nuclear tests already so some of the effects might be understood in practice as well.
Not having 100s of dependencies to bundle from is great too. In the jQuery era, you had jQuery, a few plugins, and the main js files. Now we’ve pushed backend’s logic in the frontend without the pragmatism of the tooling.
huh?

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

https://freebsdfoundation.org/end-user-stories/

ex Junipers junOS, Sonys OS for PS3,4,5 is based on FreeBSD. Netflix and Netapp use it for their main stuff.

Lots of "under the hood" stuff is FreeBSD. Even I know this, and I'm a filthy Windows user.
People are so mean there. I've seen those who say they love Stack Overflow, but to me, it always feels like I ask a real question that has been haunting me for a long time. At times, I reach the point where I think, "to hell with it," and I ask on SO. For example, I once asked a very specific question about how to manually layout text in GTK, and people responded as if they were noob questions (which honestly they were not). They bully you for not having searched the web, even though you did search and found nothing. This bullying makes you feel dumb, and then most of the time, they just give you a look and walk away without helping you.

For me, it has always been about searching Google. If it led to SO, I would check the solutions, but most of the time, they didn't work. There would always be a blog somewhere with someone nice enough to put in the effort and explain things in detail. Once I got used to this, LLMs emerged, which are so much better. They provide solutions and combinations that make wild things easy, even those without documentation. And they do so instantly and pleasantly. No LLM bullies you for not having searched the web and then walks away.
I'm kind of glad that SO is fading; there's a lot of bullying that is running into oblivion.
As a Russian living in Germany, I perceive that many of the notions surrounding Russia were never truly embraced by the general public. A significant number of people hold preconceived negative opinions and some harbor personal grievances against Russians and Russian culture.

The soft power that Russia may have once wielded in the Western mind was fragile and easily dismantled. It became an easy target for Western propaganda. Just days before the invasion, I explained to a colleague that if it were to happen, the media would likely present a simplistic narrative of the conflict, creating a classic good-versus-bad dichotomy. This would undoubtedly lead to the resurrection of old clichés and propaganda that the British, French, Germans, and more recently, the Americans have historically crafted about Russia.
If you see micro-services as (a domain boundary + an atomic infrastructural unit), maybe the latter is debatable but the application domain do need 2800 boundaries anyway? Especially for such a large company, especially for a company operating in financial services.
Well in a way, the hype train killed SVB.
All these issues (except, perhaps, the need to switch to asynchronous way of working due to time zones) are these days solved by specialized services for a flat, and not too high, fee; honestly, if there’s a will to hire internationally, there is a way.
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding"

Just glorious.
Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity [video]
My experience as a premium course creator on Udemy and Gumroad
Lisp becomes easier to read if you have an IDE plugin that removes opacity from parentheses
That's what I've seen elsewhere, at least.
What specific link between SVB and belt tightening do you see?

SVB was pretty much a non event for the vast majority of companies and people. And 3 months after the collapse I didn't see a single story about it in the startup scene.

What link are you drawing and what data are you basing it on?
As someone who has never heard of Buttondown before this, I do wonder if this is a strong enough brand name to be worth the expensive domain.

It’s not like hey.com or something, it’s kind of a clunky name in the first place.

I would have considered renaming the company and picking up a cheaper domain in the process.
Oh yeah, re benefit. I should have put it in "quotes" or something more to indicate the sarcasm. Gee.. what a great benefit the company provides me - thank you so much(!).

> not on any fundamental voice of the market
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> And that means society will produce either too little or too much health care

Are we producing 'too little' or 'too much' in the US right now? How would one tell?

> It doesn’t make any sense for all three of those people to pay the same price,

It doesn't many ANY sense at all? I produce an item and can make ... say, a 20% profit on it by selling at a standard price with my customer base. I could possibly make more with some form of dynamic pricing, but... to say my current approach doesn't make ANY sense seems a bit much, no?
Just because we've found a lot of previously undetectable things in no way indicates that we've found "most" of it by now. All it indicates is that we've found more things than we knew before; for all we know, we may have merely gone from knowing 0.01% to 0.02%.
IMHO they made a mistake by not allowing immediate data to follow instructions. You could encode 8 bit constants within the opcode, but anything larger should be properly supported with immediate data. As for the C extension, I think that was also inferior because it was added afterward. I'd like to see a re-encoding of the entire ISA in about 10 years once things are really stable.
I wasn't familiar with the Bullet Cluster[0], but as you described it made it very interesting. I'm no astronomer, but from all of the examples of gravitational lensing[1] I'm familiar with have a very distinct look that I'm just not seeing with the Bullet Cluster. Where is the lensing effect occurring that is leading to this theory?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
> All of the Seasonic power supplies that go beyond 1kW or so will trip my shitty (i.e. probably defective) Siemens AFCI breakers. Not even the same circuit all the time.

I don’t know much about US electrical standards but aren’t your residential circuits rated for 1800w or 2400w? Here in New Zealand they are 2400w and people regularly plug in 2400w fan heaters without issue.

> The HVAC solutions in most residences were not designed for this kind of heat load. It would be like running your oven with the door hanging open all day. For those of us in places like Texas, this machine simply would not be feasible to run for half the year.

Yes it wouldn’t be pleasant running this 24/7 in summer in any living space. But you could install a heatpump with 7kw of cooling capacity which should handle it (adding to the electricity bill).
The idea that companies needing no employees and AI doing all the work is the natural state of things that we have been evolving towards is laughable.

The modern supply chain is not self-sustaining, it’s still based on human labor, just in a more specialized, scalable, and yes, sometimes dehumanizing structure.
There are multiple reasons to want this, some are dysfunction, but others are useful.

Every time you use a function from elsewhere you become coupled to that function and how it works. That means that if however maintains that function wants to make a change someone must be responsible for keeping your code working with the change. (this can be handled many ways - all too often this customers get mad because a feature doesn't work right and they can't complain to anyone). If you put control over who can use what you can prevent a lot of issues.

In a compiled system changing an interface means more code to recompile, so control over who can use what reduces build times.

If you know some function is for internal use in one place you won't spend time designing a good interface. If the function is for use by everyone you should spend more time making it a nice interface that is easy to use correctly. Every once in a while I design something for internal use like that, but someone external discovers it is useful and they are using a bad interface that meets my needs but isn't quite right for them.
> I find it extremely hard to read.

Having a bit of Lisp experience (really not a lot), I find it very easy and elegant to read.

> is it more natural read for people familiar with writing functional programs? (am I permanently "broken" due to my familiarity with imperative programing?)

No, most people who say something like this are simply unwilling to invest an evening into a language they're not already familiar with.
I think some of that pricing is off. Sendmatic at least seems to suffer from some decimal placing.

Very cool page and very cool of you to do. Good luck with the biz.
I think primordial black holes are the Occam's Razor solution too. No exotic new particles required, no modifications to gravity required, no new physics period. Observational results have ruled out certain masses of black holes but far from all.
Way off topic, but my journey to learning the New Zealand accent started when I realised that the word "bread" must be pronounced to rhyme with the word "weird".
The whole idea of (reliably) deploying and rolling back without downtime I don't think gets nearly enough meme-worthy attention on HN. It's quite complicated and depends entirely on a number of variables (specifically how you do everything). I wrote an internal paper once which was probably 30 pages just to explain why we couldn't do automatic rollbacks.

The most important parts of such a system (the ones mentioned in this post, anyway) don't get nearly enough attention:

- "centrally driven migrations": In any distributed service architecture, there are always too many interdependent pieces. You can't reliably touch thing A without also touching things B, C, D, etc. If you want any chance of automation or responding to failure without downtime, you must have a system which is aware of the changing state of everything and can change all the parts at a whim.

- "database migrations": This is again very complicated and depends on how your code and database are architected. You literally can't do migrations if your code and schema aren't set up right, and if you don't make the right kind of changes. How do you do this? Time to write a book...

- "wrap the old library": I can't remember what this is called, but it has a name. Anyway, the idea is hiding any change behind what is effectively a feature flag wrapper allows you to deploy the change without it being enabled, use the feature flag to test the change in production (on only one rest, on a percentage of requests, on one whole node/pod, etc), and then delete the old code eventually. This isn't just for features; you can replace entire interfaces, software stacks, whole systems this way, either piecemeal or entirely. Very powerful, but again, requires a specific approach not only in implementation but in use.

- "use automated rollback checks": What kind of checks? Checking what? In what way? At what time/stage? What happens when one fails? Do you do them in series or parallel? Can you do them in series or parallel? etc

- "deploy least critical services first": With enough interdependent services, you're going to hit cases where you have to upgrade parts B and C effectively simultaneously before you can upgrade A, etc. So for "no downtime", it will take a lot of coordination, and very explicit linkage and checking of specific new services, etc. There are ways to do this, but it's specific to your implementation and services, so this is another example of how you have to know exactly what's going on, and then set up the deployment to account for your specific dependency tree and how they react when they're run.

So many people I've run into don't think about any of these things. They literally say things like "automated rollbacks are easy, we did it at XYZ place", as if none of the above matter at all. They literally stick their head in the sand because they want to believe that it should be easy. But any engineer worth their salt will tell you that to do it correctly and reliably is bloody complicated.
It's possible to write some pretty unreadable code with Clojure, just like it's possible in any programming language.

I can tell you that this code is very easy to read if you are familiar with Clojure. In fact, this example is lovely! Seeing this code really makes me wanting to try this library! Clojure has this terse, yet readable aesthetic that I like a lot.

But I completely understand you because at some point Clojure code also looked alien to me. You are not broken for having familiarity with some style of code. Familiarity is something you can acquire at any time, and then this code will be easy to read.

True hard-to-read code is one that is hard to understand even if you master the language it is written in.
The point about persistence is really important. I've worked with a lot of smart people who aren't persistent and, frankly, quite often lazy and/or uninterested. They don't work through problems by themselves and are quick to seek help or quick answers at every hurdle. Needless to say they aren't going and filling in the gaps in the requisite knowledge to better themselves either.
OPEC do that to raise export prices. Quite often they have subsidized or really lightly taxed petrol for domestic use.
As someone that works in the mining industry... digging is not cheap. not cheap at all.
Key Strengths of China's Economy
My recollection is the only source for this was a questionable rant on Elon's mass misinformation website. Was this ever actually investigated by professionals?
Illegal things are going to happen mostly in physical world regardless of where they plan it. The government can catch them while they're at it or after. The governments are fear-mongering and creating a public narrative to support mass surveillance.

There are only very few illegal things that can happen within the telegram app like fraud, or minor abuse. Those must be reported by end users and individual actions can be taken against them.

What the government is asking is a massive backdoor for surveillance in the name of preventing crime, but they decide what they can monitor. It is a pandora box and if you open it there is no going back. Even if the current government is asking it with purest intentions and manage it well, the same can not be said for any next elected governments.
Just curious, what are those companies? Is fair trade a good indicator or just marketing?
> Sell copies and have players? Isn't that reasonable metric for entertainment product?

What your argument was, was unclear. Not everyone knows what is going on with every game at every time. I personally have not payed any attention to either of these games so had no idea what your point mentioning was.

Counter Point:

Boulders Gate 3.
Overwatch.
Mass Effect.
Dragon Age.
Apex Legends.
Life is strange.

The list goes on

The fact is that there are a ton of games that introduce "politics" (diversity) into their video games that do just fine and trying to choose 2 as "failing" isn't proving your point.

They could just be bad games with basically zero hype or marketing, I knew they existed but barely knew they even came out.
I don't see anyone shouting that in the article? Sounds like strawman argument to me
Wow! I didn't know Every Frame a Painting was releasing new videos. Along with Extra Credits, it must be one of the most entertaining channels on the analysis of media production.
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I built a web tool that converts regular text into various stylish Unicode formats. It's great for adding flair to social media posts, user interfaces, or any text-based content.

Key points:

- Open source project
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meh. they probably require a ai pseudo feature in the deck because investors will not touch it otherwise. just like you needed SaaS a few years ago
AI scrapped the hell out of SO, so I can get anything on it without needing to tiptoe around the obnoxious community.

Closed "duplicate", when the old answer is insanely out of date is a big one.