jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regarding uranium extraction in Czechoslovakia, the Soviets later mined uranium in other sites by pumping sulfuric acid into the ground. This has caused a lasting ecological damage which has to be managed to this day.

The acid was meant to dissolve the ore and was then sucked back out. The only issue was that they ended up pumping a more sulfuric acid into the ground than sucking out. This created an underground lake of sulfuric acid in an with other underground water "lakes". This sulfuric lake is threatening to spill into these water sources.

I heard about this from my teachers at the university who were involved in the modelling of the underground spill. Using a limited number of wells, they were supposed to predict how the spill is spreading and what actions to take to stop it.

I found some pictures from the site here:
https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/pitna-voda-tezba-uranu-kys...
Last posted 3 days ago but with no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26703223
Why stop here? Let's legally forbid makeup. Think about tone-evening creams, for example, what they do to truth!
I subscribed to Ardour for a while so that I could get the macOS version and the amount I paid towards Ardour I could have bought Logic Pro X that does about 500% more, including functioning MIDI, sorry to say. At the time Ardour did not have this, nor half of the other features I needed just for basic mixing and editing.

Ardour development obviously has a very small team so they are constrained, but I am not sure going to Ardour simply because it is free software is a good reason if you actually want to get stuff done.

Perhaps it has come on a lot since I used it. It relied on Jack under macOS when I used it, I think, which seemed odd to me instead of native audio bindings.
freedom of reach is a reference to the platform that the speech is being disseminated on.
> Ridiculous password requirements are a subset of a larger problem: computers make it possible to enforce ridiculous rules, and so those ridiculous rules made. If you I to wait in line at the post office to see a clerk who would register me, how would they possibly enforce this?

Why are there words missing in a way that's not typical of the usual non-native speaker drop-outs? I'm finding this article very difficult to read.
Even if they claim sending info to cloud storage outside of china, do you believe Xiaomi will not give ur info to Chinese gov?

Don't be "Too simple, too naive" :-)
You're assuming that the web sites use bcrypt. From the perspective of a web user, public/private keys allow me to not trust the web sites.
Yeah, here in Saskatchewan, or in most parts of Canada, if you're stuck in the snow, people will jump to help. We all know how crappy it is to be stuck when it's really cold out. Not everyone shovels each other's sidewalks though. Depends on the neighbourhood for that.
I made an attempt to implement bCrypt on the last web app I built. The problem I found with it is that there was no robust implemention of the algorithm for the tech stack I was using (J2EE) - I'm not sure whether that is the case outside of Java.
jbCrypt was the only thing I could find, and if you look at the source, it really is a poor implementation.
I could have gone ahead and rolled my own implementation, however I'm no security expert, and much prefer to rely on something more robustt then my own implementation which in all likelihood would have bugs in it.
They might well regard rebellion terrorism, the world their subjects.
Easy answer: no.

Brazil has a lot of positive things going for it, but when you have a cultural background that's as rotten as Brazil's one is, you can count on everything to fail stupendously.
It's perfectly OK with me if you can only arrest people once they've done something wrong.
There's another JS port of dosbox (via Java and GWT) - jsdosbox here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsdosbox/

with a playable demo of doom here:
https://jsdosbox.appspot.com/
Sorry that has been the acronym for Microsoft for a good 20 years, especially in Linux/Open Source circles. Sorry I was not trying be clever. I certainly never invented it's use.

M$ = Microsoft isn't seen as the best. Here is conversation on Stack Overflow.
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6185/is-m-for-micros...
Guess the days of referring a negative point of view towards Microsoft or a Microsoft IT Department isn't accepted anymore by using communicating this by M$.

I blame the stupid text message - script kiddie leet speech that came afterwards destroying this practice.
Can I also adjust my network profile on my computer, so long as I don't endanger you on the internet?
Is there a tool that one can use to bend the leads in perfect straight line and circles?
$350K ????

Not a bad way to go public. Cheap too.

Listing via IPO will cost you a lot more: lawyers, filing, lockups, paper work, brokers skimming.

Better the company get full value for their shares.

No need to cut some big guys in on the deal. It's just not a requirement.

More companies should use this strategy and avoid the Wall Street tax.
> Every 802.11 standard seems to have hopped on the "multiple bandwidth by 2x" bandwagon, [...] anything other than dividing the number of usable channels with every update.

It might use 2x the bandwidth, but it will use it for half the time for the same amount of data, so it all evens out (almost; there's an unused "border" between channels, so 2x the bandwidth is a bit more than 2x faster, and it will use a bit less than half the time).

And the 802.11ac standard has a way to better share the wide channels and the narrow channels; see the "Dynamic Bandwidth Operation" chapter of the "802.11ac: A Survival Guide" book at http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001739/ch03.htm...
We will build very smart machines before we build machines that think. Those very smart machines will probably change the world the way the internet did. Imagine having smart machines than can farm, build houses, clean up pollution, etc. Thinking machines are too far off to know what to expect. We need to first consider what an increasingly automated world would mean. In particular, what will it mean for employment and average income?
> I'd love to see [git-for-computer-scientists], but for every DB technology.

this is a fantastic idea. if someone gets this going I'll enthusiastically contribute.
I'm not married, but I doubt that I would tell her everything. That's not what I have an issue with. My issue is with the idea that society is some brittle construct that's reliant on honesty, and especially the idea that you would be angry at the person who leaked a secret rather than the person holding the secret.
I thought the idea was to make ethanol from the cellulose, not from the oil? (In corn, it's the sugar you use.) Plants have a lot more cellulose than sugar, so if you can utilize it for making ethanol, you tap a much larger potential source.
According to my father, who watches this sort of thing, they've been working on it since the '70s.

In theory it's very promising, but what I gather is that no one has been able to grow algae economically at scale (once you've done that the rest is trivial). Understanding that problem is not too difficult, compare it to, say, corn for ethanol, where some fraction of the plants will be successfully attacked by insects or disease (viri, bacteria, fungi, Wikipedia has a huge list of all four: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maize_diseases), where you can hope that the damage will be limited to surrounding plants, a portion of your field, etc. and you have a chance of observing the damage and attempting remediation. Plus humans have been playing this game for thousands of years.

With a tank full of algae it's obviously all too easy for that sort of problem to quickly propagate to every desired organism in it or to merely stress them into doing something unfavorable for what you desire (converting food + sunlight into a lot of oil, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide for an extreme example). Plus there's the issue of making sure you're growing the organism(s) you desire, contamination of starter cultures of microscopic organisms is all too easy (says I, who had a neat piece of research ruined by this).

I'm pretty sure this approach, unlike say, exploitation of oil shale or synthesizing liquid fuels out of coal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process) is not yet one where the sustained real price of oil price is a major factor.
I've only been on the other side of this, but I feel like there are times I've hurt myself as a candidate with the work/life question. Some employers are looking for (and paying for) people who will put the job above everything else. With them, "work/life balance" might be a dirty word. In hindsight, I would phrase the question more like, "what kind of schedule would a successful [person in this job] at your company keep?"

On the other hand, unless you really don't care about having a life outside of work, it's probably better to get rejected by the kind of companies who will reject you for asking the question.
I deleted it :)
iPhone passed Nokia in terms of smartphone sales in dollar terms. Apple does not ship more units than Nokia.

It's quite amazing really, that Apple comes in as a late entrant and shaves all the massive profits off the top, leaving the rest of the market to fight over less profitable items.
Unfortunately won't be able to make it, I'm at JSDay in Italy at that time. I hope there will be another chance.
> I don't think in 1889 they used masks, social distancing and quatantines but also travel was much less back then.

They did. I can't quite find something about masks, but social distancing and quarantining: certainly.

> One major way of controlling Russian flu’s spread was self-quarantine. As with today, nineteenth-century doctors asked flu patients to keep themselves from society. “Every patient who is attacked by influenza ought certainly to keep within doors,” asserted one English physician.

And:

> Quarantine can be just as frightening as the disease itself, making it a target for humorous relief. One such cartoon from Funny Folks occurred early in the epidemic. The illustration depicts an aristocratic lady with influenza soliciting a dance from one of two healthy gentlemen standing in front of her. The lady continually sneezes as she tries to explain how she had not “probised Captaid Bodtgobery” the next “dadse,” and so she was free to “dadse” with someone else. This lady evokes the distress of British socialites as they tried to traverse society during Russian flu. The scene’s backdrop adds to this distress. Everyone stands around the ballroom with red noses, and many hold handkerchiefs near their faces in anticipation of the next sneeze, showing how these socialites chose class duties over convalescence and containment.

Even though "social distancing" wasn't used as a clear phrase. In 1889, the prevailing theories about the spread of disease revolved around "miasma's" in the air. The 1880's is the same timeframe in which a handful pioneers first discovered viruses as a distinct organism. It would take a few more decades before classic theories would be replaced by modern virology and bacteriology. The 1850-1880's was also the same time when people like Joseph Lister, Florence Nightingale and Franz Semelweiss would make the first strides towards introducing hygiene in hospitals which curbed mortality (even though this was often met with fierce opposition by the incumbent medical establishment at the time).

The entire article is a must-read really:

https://nursingclio.org/2020/03/24/joking-in-the-time-of-pan...
The currently recommended protocol is oxygenation, not ventilation (i.e. forcing air down the pipe), which seems to be harmful for acute Covid cases.
I bet a delay of ten years of fully using the 6GHz band would be considered a big win for the 5G advocates. They will have crippled Wifi's performance for 10 years, giving them more breathing space to show that 5G is the future.
Probably worth mentioning for those interested in Datalog that there's actually a growing selection of databases for Clojure that use Datalog as their query language. These Clojure variants of Datalog (they model triples as Clojure data structures) are basically becoming as ubiquitous in Clojure as SQL is elsewhere.

I have documented them here: https://github.com/simongray/clojure-graph-resources#datalog
I'm cautiously optimistic after reading a bit about nano, but have a few questions and concerns after browsing the page for a bit. If anyone can give some answers to my questions I'll be very grateful

- My understanding is, that the initial distribution of Nano was the only time new coins will be generated. Is that correct?

- I can't find any information on protection mechanisms against voting monopolies. If a few representatives accumulate enough Nano, they could simply start voting against transactions that removes money from their voters. It makes me concerned that the "freedom" will only exist as long as the wealth equality is high. Have I missed something here?
Agreed, I have seen Great Value things in food isle popping up after few months of something else; my personal observation was Uncle Rice ready made rice.
and users. GH, GL, BB are kind of dev social netwoks. Project assets can be archivised/mirrored easily with tools or API scripts, but there is no way to link them back to live users. Community needs to be rebuild at new place and thay is lot of effort.
This spreading of cost amongst the whole of society should really be the norm rather than the exception, particuarly for all the other essentials of human existence and dignity.

For example, here in the UK we have a growing network of food banks who have stepped in to fill the needs of the many people who are in dire financial straits (and not just because of the pandemic - their use has been rising rapidly for the past ten years, due to right-wing austerity policies that have decimated the welfare state).

These are almost all run by the third sector (charities, etc.) and they do excellent work in the circumstances. But coverage is patchy and uneven, and many families still suffer from food poverty.

How much better it would be for us to have a National Food Service, with country-wide service guarantees such that everyone's nutritional needs can be met.

No more wondering where your next meal is coming from, or starving yourself to feed your kids, or eating unhealthily because it's the cheapest option with the resources available. It's just provided as needed and the cost is shared. Indeed you may even have paid for it already with your taxes, or will do in the future.

And a similar sort of thing should be done for housing, water, etc.
Maybe we should just rename America to Amazon Inc.?

It’s a joke that at this point Bezos and co. (including all the ‘Amazon-friendly‘ legislators in congress) are taking over and monopolizing all these verticals. It’s never been so apparent that bourgeois democracy is a complete joke. Today there is no democracy in the workplace, and the working class, in the form of temp/gig workers, are literally getting murdered by being forced to work during Covid [1].

Bezos grew his net worth by $70 billion, while hundreds of thousands of Americans died.

[1] ‘Amazon says 19,816 workers have contracted COVID-19’
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/1/21497941/amazon-disclose-...
A lot needs to be fixed. Most of our problems boil down to lack of competition and regulatory capture.

As a regular citizen, I would do the following.

See if your state has certificate of need laws and ask your state representatives to repeal them. If your state has these laws you are likely paying 5% more for medical services with no difference in quality of care.

Look into direct primary care clinics. Oftentimes you can get wholesale prices for labs, procedures, and imaging as a membership benefit of their practice. You can find a lot of clinics that run in the $80-100 range per month per person. (usually cheaper if you have multiple family members) You get more time with your doctor, and the incentive structures in this type of practice are much better aligned than in traditional fee for service clinics.

I would look into reforming the Hatch Waxman Act. Specifically I would require drug manufacturers to give samples of their drugs to the FDA which in turn would give them to generic drug manufacturers who want to enter the market. I would also end the (many) shenanigans that occur when drug patents expire.

Let nurses and doctors easily transfer credentials across state lines. This is often unbelievably burdensome.

Most prices aren't "real" when you get your medical bill. Most of the markups are insane and thus you can negotiate with billing offices to get a more reasonable rate. My general rule of thumb is to start at 10% of the bill and negotiate from there.
More important question is what time do you finish then?
All of this doesn't address the concept of naked short selling in the post's title.

Naked short selling happens when Bob sells short 100 shares without having borrowed them from anyone beforehand, effectively conjuring new shares out of thin air. Certain market participants are allowed to do this for "liquidity purposes"
This is really neat.

FYI to run Chrome in remote debugging mode on a Mac

> /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222
True. And in my opinion username is useless and should be abandoned. A good password is all you need - say 128-bit high-entropy. Its not going to be duplicated; its enough to identify you. What's the username hanging around for?
Learning French while being fluent in Spanish, not very impressive.
Although I have no doubt it could work, I guess they didn't try the copy? Couldn't find the video of the conference. He probably demo'ed using a copy of his own fingerprint from a photo?

It's great work, I hope the fact that you can make a copy from a simple HD photo will bury people's ideas about fingerprints security for good.
Dumb question.

The right question is:
Why people still want to get out of the planet?
Because they are people.
And because of other people.
My biology professor told me this at like 13/14, AKA a decade ago.

He said something along the lines of; "When we enter puberty the connections in our prefrontal cortex grow exponentially before seemingly randomly it collapses, but it takes into our thirties before our brain reaches an equilibrium and nowhere is really growing or diminishing... until you hit my age [late 50's] and then everything is going down hill."
> First, nobody is told they're not allowed to attend church. In fact, people who are excommunicated from the Mormon church are in fact _encouraged_ to keep attending so that they can come back into what's called "full fellowship" of the church by changing their lives to meet the standards of the church.

You're probably right here. I've heard contrary, but I haven't done my research on that, and I know there's a tonne of misinformation on both sides.

> Secondly, there is a distinction between being gay and having sex. Mormons, gay or straight, can't have sex outside of marriage. If a gay person has outside of marriage they are subject to the same discipline that a straight person who has sex outside of marriage would have. Some of my gay, believing Mormon friends are simply chaste. Some of my gay, believing Mormon friends are in heterosexual marriages. They do this with the full knowledge of their spouses, and with no hope of becoming straight, just because they feel like it's the right thing for them.

By "just because they feel like it's the right thing for them", I'm assuming what you mean here is "because they have no other option". I can't imagine an openly gay person choosing to be in a heterosexual marriage because it "feels right". What you just said might sound perfectly natural in Salt Lake City, but it would be an utterly ridiculous, and possibly offensive idea in, say, Toronto.

> Nobody is telling anybody they can't go to heaven or be a real Mormon unless they stop being gay. They're saying, "be chaste." I know that's a distinction that will probably be lost, but it's a real distinction, and a real requirement that all Mormons try to live up to when they're not married.

But if you say "you can't get married to someone who's the opposite sex" and "you can't have sex unless you're married", what you're really saying is that gay people are never allowed to have sex with the gender they were born attracted to. I consider that cruel and inhumane. And I'm not buying the "gay people can go to heaven thing". The church's stated policy is that "Homosexual behaviour violates the commandments of God". That's a pretty clear indictment.

> All that notwithstanding, I assure you I'm not lying about my gay Mormon friends, if you're ever in the Salt Lake area look me up, I'm sure they'd love to meet you :) One of them is always looking for good hackers for various projects.

If I'm ever in SLS, I might, I really do want to understand the thought processes here, but I can't say that it's at the top of my list of travel destinations, with all due respect :).
I assure you that if you had used both quattro pro and lotus 1-2-3 you wouldn't be thinking that we're discussing the "murky and collaborative nature of creative work" - we're talking about imitation. Interface cloning and heavy borrowing of element layouts has a long and storied history in software design - look at any modern GUI and they all look much more similar than dissimilar. Is that the murky and collaborative nature of creative work? Hell no, it's people copying off of each other. And it's a good thing, unless you think it'd be a great idea to have to retrain everyone every time IT wanted to switch application providers (that used to be common).

Assuming you still disagree, I'd be curious about your opinion of non design issues. Do you think samba is bullshit for having reverse engineered the CIFS interface allowing non windows computers to share on corporate lans? How about various office applications that reverse engineered the file formats of various closed competitors to allow them to save and load the formats? Surely a lot of hard work went into designing CIFS or .xls, should that be off limits as well? If not, why is the location of buttons on a screen a bigger deal than the locations of bytes in a filehandle?
"scenario where it takes 2x as long to write a line in language X, and that line does twice as much, it is probably at least twice as complex as the 'more verbose' language... "

I think this is debatable. After all - a function call compresses multiple lines into one as well.. And you want programmers to factor the repeated code into function calls.

The "dynamic redefinition of the language" is the same thing except at a different level.
The problem is not with the lines of code per se - it is whether the semantic compression is worth the learning curve, and the "surprise" factor.

Think C++ templates, for example, with a "+" operator that would do something "non-intuitive". The "non-intuitiveness" may vary - and it is a fine art to not cross the line.

FWIW, I've done the exercice in Lua, ~ 1 hour and 107 lines (and for some reason a different order of outputs, which I did not want to debug since I went for a nice dinner with a couple of beers earlier today) - https://gist.github.com/752460
Then again, does anybody really have any privacy these days, compared with 50 years ago?

All it takes is one person who knows what they're doing to find out a -LOT- about you.