skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good in that it gives you a very hard neutron spectrum (good for efficient breeding) without being chemically reactive. It still has potentially unsolved problems in corrosion, required pumping power (i.e. power density limits) and erosion. There's been some recent work on oxygen control that really helps with the corrosion issue.
This sounds great for N >> 1 ISPs. But most of us have N > 1 (and N <= 2) from which to choose.
A more interesting question is, when will we see operating systems using LLVM IR (or similar; some future version of WebAssembly, perhaps?) for binaries on disk, dynamically compiling them and caching the result for the current platform as needed.
You can have some Mail apps highlight (in red) email recipients with "outside" domains.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19137?locale=en_US

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1299903 (Outlook macro)
SpaceX launch livestream: EchoStar 23
These webcasts will go live around 20 minutes before the launch; the countdown that you see prior to the webcast appearing is the launch time, not the start of the webcast.

Hosted webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZmqbL-hz7U (lots of talk)

Technical webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8mi7laQGk (minimal talk)

Static test fire from 4 days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaucbI3rvQA

This is a launch of a relatively heavy communications satellite to GTO. As a result there will be no attempt to recover the booster stage. Perhaps the last intentionally expendable SpaceX launch?
I don't think genetic changes alone will allow us to survive earth becoming a wasteland, but it may allow us to better survive travel through deep space in ships and become space faring.

When I visited hawaii, I noticed that there were large trees all growing on one of the oldest islands. Due to erosion, the island will eventually submerge back into the sea, and all those tress will be dead. Those trees don't know it, but their time will be up soon.

I don't know what the future holds, but shying away from technological development means that we as a species are like the trees. At least venturing to other planets would be like if the trees could send seeds across the ocean.

As far as escaping the heat death of the universe, who knows.
"resetting your career" isn't any kind of threat when the reset would start higher than their current situation.
More likely, there's no way out except resetting your life outside of that town in Wisconsin. And there really aren't that many good software jobs out there for the skill levels that accept jobs at Meditech/EPIC
Normally, in a parliamentary system, when the government loses a vote of confidence in parliament, the government resigns and a new election is held.

This referendum was more or less a confidence vote on the government. If British democracy were functioning properly, the government would have resigned, and the people would have had a chance to elect pro-brexit representatives.

But Britain adopted fixed election dates, copying the American electoral system. And referendums, for that matter, aren't very parliamentary.
Right... "they're already melted!" as the adage goes. They do exhibit passive decay heat removal, which is a major safety advantage allowing for walk-away safety. The thing that has not been demonstrated at commercial scale yet though is whether or not the already-melted fuel can be contained properly without plating out all over the heat exchangers, etc. I'm sure it can be done. Just will take some patience.
this. The author sounds like a your usual snarky old burnt out IT dinosaur.

"Ughhhh, something changed again! Why does tech always do this?!"
Behind every great fortune there is crime; https://qz.com/889524
I believe that was a (not so nice) way of saying that Snowden had intentionally exaggerated his history in order to establish himself as more of an authority on these matters regarding things he did not actually have access to.

Personally, even if I disagree with most of what he did, I think that specifically was an understandable move as he seemed to be genuine about his beliefs and desire to spread his message.
My best friend in high school step father got a great job in San Francisco. He was working in management, and it wasen't stressful. He had a nice apartment in the Marina. It seemed like he had everything.

I knew he was slightly unhappy, but I thought it would pass.

His newly married wife wouldn't leave Brooklyn, NY. His stepson, whom was my best friend, and living with him, kept telling him she will eventually come to San Francisco.

One night he came clean. 'He told us it's not your mother not comming here--don't get me wrong--I am dissapointed with her; it's I miss driving a cab! 'I sit in these fancy restaurants overlooking the Bay Area, with guys I can't relate to, and just wish I was home driving my cab. I wish I never took this job.' Two years went by, and he was still talking about that cab. The company in San Francisco was constantly throwing more money at him, but he was never happy. I lost touch with him after high school.

To this day, I'm still shocked. This was in the ninties when driving a cab was more dangerious than it is today, and paid horribly.

(Over the years, I learned that I'm miserable in some jobs people think are great, and visa versa. One man's fantasy is another man's hell? And that goes for relationships too.)
Guys, you became so annoying on HN.
I went through the same path. I started with some personal projects. I used them to get part-time programming jobs in a university hospital. I used that to get a job at a desperate startup. I used that to get a job at a larger company. And so on. It is easier to move up gradually than in big leaps.
I think the problem with asking for anecdotes is that people don't necessarily separate their decision-making-due-to-CS knowledge from decisions they make due to experience. But if you don't have CS knowledge there are many types of projects you'll probably never be assigned or might not even try for, so you won't have the chance to use-or-not-use it.
I'm struggling to read the small print, fam. Can you help me out? http://i.imgur.com/6aU3sH6.png
A lot of private companies stand to profit for things which were done by the government. In the US for instance we pay Intuit for tax prep software, private prisons to run detention centers, and insurance companies for healthcare.
It's clearly and explicitly mandatory, "MUST" means something quite specific.

Now, perhaps one can argue that there is a good reason to behave this way anyway, but it's clearly violating the spec.
Up to 60 / month but needs to integrate with Exchange calendar, not only Google calendar.
I'll grab software jobs; You should do menial jobs; This type of uncivilized Caste system will not work in USA https://qz.com/919782
Call me when google provide a service similar to AWS Certificate Manager.
What's funny is that the core of your offering is copied/inspired from AWS.
One solution that I feel hasn't been explored enough is a commercial reuse license: https://kartick-log.blogspot.in/2016/11/a-commercial-reuse-l...

Like open-source, this helps people reuse your effort to build something else, without having to reinvent the wheel.

Like closed-source, it's easy to charge users for the software, and not have somone undercut you by offering the same thing free.
I do plenty of side projects. They mostly seem to make people think I'm a dilettante. I kind of agree with them, although I'm plenty useful at work.
Negative temperature coefficients of reactivity matter to keep an operating reactor stable and prevent rapid overpower accidents a'la Chernobyl. All modern reactors exhibit this characteristic. However, the vast majority of risk in reactors today is that the fission energy doesn't all come out at the moment of fission. Some of it (roughly 7%) comes out after shutdown as exponentially-decaying radiation of the fission products. This decay heat (as it's called) is the primary safety hazard of today's reactors because there's enough of it to breach the reactor vessel if something goes wrong (a'la Fukushima). The Fukushima chain reaction shut down perfectly after the earthquake. The decay heat removal systems failed after the tsunami came along. The decay heat melted the fuel and cladding without cooling.

MSRs and other advanced reactors have passive decay heat removal by making use of different coolants (molten salt, liquid metal, etc.) and natural circulation air heat exchangers.
Yes a lot of times the issue is that libraries only support certain version of React Native, so for certain sets of libraries there are no versions of React Native compatible with all of them.

Expo has audio (https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/audio.html), file system (https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/asset.html), and other APIs built in (https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/index.html). We don't have sqlite right now but are actively working on it!

The idea is that we provide a lot of nice things out of the box and then if you still need to write native code you can detach (https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/guides/exponentkit.html) and only write the native code you need while keeping all our other APIs. You can still use `react-native link` after detaching if you want.
>> OP's Dad certainly knows he is displaying a remarkable lack of initiative when it comes to learning new languages and it sounds like he's manufactured some excuses to satisfy the family

No, OP's dad is sick and tired of working for an industry that drowns him with its stress, misery, and corporate bullshit. The reason for finding an excuse to give your family is that they are expecting you provide them with a/an (upper?) middle class lifestyle. Screw your happiness and reduced levels of stress; what matters most to them is your paycheque and what it can offer them. For some people, $20+ more per hour is not worth rotting away in a cubicle, while being treated like a replaceable nobody, always being belittled like a child at every review for "not meeting company goals", all the while being part of the very reason the company is making millions of dollars a year. All for what? A white picket fence that ultimately adds no meaning whatsoever to life?

I'm single and turning 32 this year. I'm beyond sick and tired of this industry. I'm constantly put down like a piece of disposable garbage; and yet every time I leave a company, management is freaking out and begging me not to leave because of the success I've brought them. I can't imagine being a dad, with the burden of responsibility that adds. I'd be having my first heart attack before age 40.
Got it years ago and loved it. Have to give it another read some day.
Research: Higher U.S. Physician Spending Doesn’t Lead to Better Patient Outcomes
But what is california's trade balance with other states? I suspect it "exports" more than it imports. So paying more in tax (by some measure) is the price of remaining in the federation. US states are so integrated that generalizing them into givers and takers isnt very honest imho. It makes for gòod headlines and fans state pride, but always omits important detail. As example: How much of california's wealth comes from intelectual property laws, laws created and managed by the fed?
Molten Salt Reactor claims "It was I who allowed the alliance to know the location of the shield generator."
As they say, if you owe the bank $100 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100 million the bank has a problem.
Yablo paradox is so cool.

Imagine an infinite sequence of sentences S1, S2, S3, ...,
(S1) for all k >1, Sk is untrue
(S2) for all k >2, Sk is untrue
(S3) for all k >3, Sk is untrue
...

Perhaps another argument in favor of regarding infinites as a logical fallacy. Assuming our universe is finite, all objects in the universe are finite, including sets. Yablo's set chain ends at some N, possibly very very very large. Sentence N is true [there are no further sequences], all other sentences are untrue, as there exists a true sentence with k > i: the Nth sentence.
Thanks, I was wondering the issues around corrosion and servicing were being addressed. It always seemed like the best hope for a balance between a good breeder reactor, and non-proliferation concerns to me.
Pretty UIs existed in the 80s and 90s. TCP worked twenty years ago. OSs could schedule processes twenty years ago. Platforms had pretty decent standard libraries of common algorithms and datastructures ten or twenty years ago.

If they don't work, we're hosed - but they do work. They have worked for decades. So what are you saying all these people are doing presently?

Without the mountain of abstractions they sit upon nothing works.

Because Linux Audio sure is better with a mountain of abstractions, so is Wayland, so are the several unstable competing high level filesystems, and cramming applications in the browser is such a delightful experience to develop and use compared to fast, local, platform-integrated, more simple native applications. Because pulling down 30 dependencies like 'pad string' from github to get a HTTP listener running for a Ruby based IRC chatbot is such an improvement. Because everyone needs Bash on Ubuntu running on translated syscalls on the NT kernel and Microsoft SQL Server running on an OS abstraction layer so SQL Server Operating System provides 'robust memory management, thread scheduling, and IO services' on Linux because what - Linux can't do that already? And Docker definitely isn't just 'installing your application and all dependencies in a folder where the libraries never get patched' and a security nightmare in progress. These things are important, necessary, and without them sending text and taking digital pictures wouldn't be possible.

And hundreds of thousands of password hashes were just leaked because MongoDB installs insecurely by default, and hundreds of thousands of web pages through Cloudflare had memory leak data in them because a compiler layer had a bounds checking error. Problems that were solved ages ago by compiler writers and type system theorists and still haven't made it everywhere in production because $reasons.

Is that what they're doing? Writing scheduling engines on scheduling engines, writing GCs for more and more niche languages? Half-finishing more and more filesystems that can't deliver? Writing more and more enterprise broken-XML parsers? If I had to, that lot can shove off. Leave the rudimentary UI and the CLI and the text based protocols (and TLS).
I don't remember mentioning that the account you are pointing to was mine.

You clearly didn't. I happened to recall your comment about "we" from the thread where that account was banned, and thus knew where to look. I thought at the time about commenting to agree with you, but decided I was too late to the party for anyone to notice.

this kind of exposing does not sit well with me at all

I think there's a difference between "doxing" and a link showing that a warning was given to the other account, but I don't know where the line should be. I'll ask to have the link removed.

I still have no idea who 'dang' is, there is no name or personal address on his profile

I'm not sure why he's chosen the ultra-low-profile approach, but at this point it's clearly something that he's consciously chosen. Here's the official post introducing him several years ago: https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac....

Second, it is a bit of a stretch to call Dan's ... comment a warning.

Arguably, but I was only aiming for the lower bar of showing why Dan might have considered himself to have given you a warning, and thus might more charitably be considered to be mistaken rather than "lying". And while he didn't use the words "this is a warning", I do think most people would have correctly taken his admonition as a warning.

Calling opinion you consider bullshit is worth banning?

No, disagreement is fine, even if it involves telling someone that something they said is completely wrong. The moderators are (properly I think) very sensitive to the difference between saying that a particular idea is stupid and foolish, and claiming that person who said it is a stupid fool.

It's possible this distinction is considered more essential in North America than elsewhere. Personally, I'd suggest writing to 'hn@ycombinator.com' and asking if they would unban your previous account. If nothing else, you'll probably get a better explanation of where the line is between acceptable and bannable.

More so because you can find plenty of stronger expression here which are posted without repercussions—likely because mods agree with them?

I'm sure there is occasional bias in this direction, but I'm also sure that there is a conscious attempt of the moderators to compensate for this by being more forgiving to those whom they personally disagree with. I don't know what the end effect is, but I'd guess that (by design) the two effects mostly cancel out in the long run.

I am still not sure if shaping this place into a Stepford where everyone is all fake smiles and nods in agreement is a best way, but it is not up to me to decide.

While there are probably companies and even governments that have fallen prey to this problem, I'm doubtful that excessive civility has ever resulted in the downfall of an online community. It's fun to envision the endgame, though, with the "moderators" desperately trying to goad people into being more assertive and combative, and being met with unflappable peace and harmony.
True, but then, most people won't be buying a Nest Cam.
If all of this is true, the logical end to me, not suggested by the author, is that Google buys Uber. For less money than anyone could. Travis is out.

Makes industrial sense for Google to be in that business too.
You can get a nice, large used family car or minivan for much less than $30K. More like $10-15K. You can find good examples for less if you are patient.
Right. Doesn't that make him British? Asking honestly... How could he have been American if the USA didn't exist yet. Obviously he was North American, but his citizenship at birth would have been British, no?
There have only been two molten-salt fueled reactors in operation, the Aircraft Reactor Experiment and then the MSRE you linked to. Neither was hooked to the grid.

You may be thinking about the Shippingport reactor which used solid Thorium fuel for a while. [1]

As for corrosion, molten salt reactor chemistry is complicated but we think we understand most of the key issues, at least with flibe salts. When an atom fissions, it becomes one of hundreds of different fission products, and that's why the chemistry gets tough. Only a few are really bad actors though, from a chemical standpoint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippingport_Atomic_Power_Stat...
That sounds like open source software...
Seconding.

Widom's Database course is extremely well done, and very amenable to picking and choosing a relevant subset for your needs.

Working through K&R C or something similar should be a prerequisite for the OS course and Skiena's lectures.
TED: Don't fear superintelligent AI [video]
"The problem is, it was enterprise-targeted, and none of us actually knew how to sell to (or even talk to) enterprise customers. It turns out this is a skill that is not easy to learn. We really should have hired for it, rather than trying to figure it out from first principles."

That's how I predicted it would fail, too. You were at least able to figure out the problem. Many people will blame everything or everyone else. Enterprise sales is it's own beast that's much different from how things operate in the Valley or smaller shops. That's only half the problem. The other half is you usually have to integrate with systems designed not to integrate with 3rd parties easily. Lock-in loving systems. The healthcare startups are particularly being hit hard by this.

I keep thinking there's potential to get a business going that specializes in the sales and/or enterprise features at reasonable price. A public benefit or nonprofit company that forces the charges to be limited to something reasonable. They can help all these new companies bootstrap the enterprise-specific aspects of their goods for a price. What you think?
A legal system based on a flawed understanding of statistics.
They thought they had a breeder reactor I guess. Typical reactors burn mostly U235 and a bit of bred-up Pu239 for an average burnup of the mined uranium of roughly 10 MWd/kg. Breeder reactors, on the other hand (both Thorium thermal MSR breeders and Uranium-Plutonium fast breeders) can get up very near the theoretical maximum of ~930 MWd/kg. The latter figure really demonstrates the sheer magnitude of the nuclear force in atoms. What a wonder to behold!
There's definitely a wholesale and a retail "book" for used vehicles. The dealer will buy cars at auction at wholesale (or take them in trade, proabably for less than wholesale) and try to sell them at retail.
> George Washington, perhaps our greatest president, was obviously an immigrant of sorts.

No, he wasn't an immigrant of any sort. He was a native born citizen of one of the states that formed the United States, and one of the leaders of the movement by which they became the United States.
Upvoted because I was totally wrong. I had conflated pharma advertising restrictions with physician guidelines.
Are you going to integrate any of the LANGSEC principles or stuff like formally-verified parsers at INRIA into Cap n Proto? Or have you already? I've been especially curious to see what a combination of your excellent scheme with verified parsing/protocol tech would be like.
Serious question: Isn't React Native just a short-term fix while we wait for WASM?
Son, on the Internet you need to close your <sarcasm> tag.
The implication of CIA having high confidence and NSA having moderate confidence was that the intelligence came more from humans sources rather than signals intelligence.

This makes it more difficult to show proof. What kind of proof would be sufficient enough to be convincing, without burning the source? I cannot think of a good answer to that question, although I truly wish they did figure out a way to declassify some of the evidence used to create their judgements.

> not the typical product of intelligence analysis under any circumstances.

This statement is untrue. That release is absolutely what an Intelligence Community Assessment looks like. Other declassified ICAs are public, so you do not even need to take my word for it.
Just the way companies incur technical debt, there is also ethical debt. It is accumulated by taking ethical shortcuts and avoiding painful decisions (a case I have seen several times is letting star devs/sales misbehave).

Eventually the payment on the ethical debt comes due. In Uber's case, they have been building it up for a long time without any down payment. A hard cleaning is needed from top to bottom.
I've been doing a lot of research on this recently including contacting Chinese wholesellers to see what individual parts would cost.

Essentially all I'm after is a Linux (not android) based 7-12" eink tablet with touch screen, a decent resolution / PPI for the size and at least say 2-4GB of ram at a minimum although if it was cheap enough I'd drop as far as 1GB if I really had to.

I have a Dasung E-Ink monitor and it's dreadful, lots of ghosting, very slow refresh, have to have some 'interesting' software running to make it work, hard to work with multi-desktops etc.... and very, VERY expensive: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e... otherwise I'd attach that to a Pi or Cubox and live without the touch screen.
I wonder what would have happened if they stayed in their own countries? Would they have built billion dollar or even million dollar businesses there as well? Would that have been of more benefit to said countries than allowing one of their best and brightest to "jump ship"?
I am from MIT. I don't think it's worthless. I don't read it often, but I've liked some of the articles I have read. I found A Tale of Two Drugs (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/520441/a-tale-of-two-drug...) to be unusually evenhanded, for example.