skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you were behind the scenes of the Fukushima crisis. You have to begin planning for the evacuation of the outskirts of Tokyo because you have been told that the situation on the plant site is uncontrolled, there have been multiple meltdowns and explosions and there's the possibility for things to get worse. At that point the game has changed around the calculation of risk. A few days later the situation is declared under control. How do you feel? I can think of no appropriate feeling aside from "lucky".

The point is that the error bars around nuclear power operation are so large that perceptions of risk are not the same as for conventional power.

Its interesting to think about the role of luck for Chernobyl. A grossly unsafe design combined with a bunch of incompetents performing live tests with multiple safety systems disabled, not much luck there. Was there luck in consequences of what followed? Possibly.
How fortunate, then, that browsers never have security bugs.
The article totally confuses the concepts of income and wealth, especially in the title. If your country of tax residence does not tax wealth, then moving wealth outside the country should have no legal or moral implications. Some countries make tax residents declare wealth, even if they don't tax it (0% bands), just so they could tax or seize it when they really need the money.

US citizens and residents face a dramatic escalation of the problem, with civil asset forfeiture and the global pretensions of the IRS. Really - why do Americans, who mythically revolted against the Brits for a small tax on tea, put up with this total abuse of power?

If Musk ever makes it to Mars, the IRS will go interplanetary.

There is no discussion of the fragility and insolvency of the western banking system, which might lead one to move wealth 'offshore', which just means 'somewhere else'. Debt is soaring in almost every sector of the western world, and at some point the defaults will crush one/many/all of those financial systems. No mention of Greece, Cyprus and bail-in laws that might make it prudent to keep some money outside the place you live.

Western 'social democracies' allow electorates to vote for welfare, bloated public sectors and tax cuts (or at least no tax rises), with the result that all their governments are completely broke. They will try to steal your wealth through ZIRP, NIRP, QE and inflation, but in the last resort they will just come after it, wherever they can find it.

Any government that is strong enough to give you anything you want,
is also strong enough to take everything you have.
It's not. Germany is having to do this right now - hitting 30-40% and it's really expensive.
>Insert remark on why we use a centralized service for a distributed source control system,

Because Linus didn't put features into Git that Github solves.

You must break apart the different features of Github:

#1) communication (issues tracking, bug reports, pull requests, README.MD landing page, etc)

#2) hosting disk storage & bandwidth

#3) distributed source code merges based on content hashes (SHA1) instead of using centralized locks/unlocks (check in / check out) model of CVS/SVN.

Git itself only takes care of #3.

Github handles #1 and #2 (and also gets #3 by being built on top of Git).

You can't go back in time and wonder if Linus should have addressed #1 and #2 because he wasn't interested in starting a hosting company. Instead, he focused on the data format (Merkle trees, BLOBs, SHA1) and a sync protocol (git pull, etc) for Git.

If people wonder why we can't just use email for #1 (communications), you have to see that Github has become a "Schelling Point"[1]. Attempting to use email groups & mailing lists will not prevent the emergence of a Schelling point. Email can be a workflow for existing contributors (e.g. contributors of the Linux kernel source) but it's not convenient for discovery of new repositories (e.g. the web's "landing page" of a repo).

As for #2 (hosting), not everybody who wants to share a repository wants to pay $9.99/month VPS or other hosting plan from a web hosting provider. It would also be inconvenient to host it from the home laptop and punch a hole through the ISP router to make it work. Github solves hosting+bandwidth for free for modest non-commercial projects.

To restate, Linus' Git is a distributed _protocol_ but Github is a _service_ acting as a platform for the distributed protocol.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
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Those are still not reasons to exclude them in a list of "safest major power sources".
> sleazy ever since the accident.

Do you mean "even"?
That's if you get used or cheap CNCs - the kind that are largely sold to Chinese factories or mom and pop shops for low value add manufacturing. A good (brand new) horizontal machining center with zero point fixtures, tooling, and training costs a minimum of 200-300k if you want to make high value add parts for aerospace/medical, not to mention the costs of metrology scanners and other quality assurance gear which easily adds another 100-200k.

At 360k, most machine shops can easily afford it if they can justify the purchase with demand. Also, almost no one buys these outright because they can easily finance it with a loan secured by the machine itself. We're talking a midlevel machinist's salary and overhead for five years. Since the majority of domestic metal manufacturing is for high margin industries with poor turn around times, these machines would pay for themselves very fast.
Unfortunately Voat got overrun with Reddit's least desirable people and content, as you've already seen.

More than that though, Voat doesn't seem to have any significant funding or even team behind it, so even if people do end up flocking to a site primarily known for its ardent bigotry, it's unlikely Voat can withstand a large spike in its traffic and scale to even a fraction of Reddit-level.
orgs running such ridiculous setups can monitor revokes coming over the wire from google and selectively apply them themselves, if they just care about their busy-work jobs sitting reading security bulletins. I don't really care about the security of their made-up non-jobs and google shouldn't either. they can do what they like.
> One thing to look at is, how much waste is actually produced?

A lot of the generated waste is not the used up fuel itself, but contaminated construction materials etc. So lower radiation, but still not something you have to bury somewhere. In the region I live in an old nuclear plant gets deconstructed for over two decades now because its tricky to seperate uncontaminated from contanimated material. The whole deconstruction costs an estimated €5 billion by the way.
But.. but I began to like Reddit. Now they want to take it away from me by destroying it.

> It’s going on a hiring spree

Ouch.

> redesigning its website

For no reason other than giving the unnecessary people from the hiring spree something to do.

> Huffman would like to end 2017 with around 300 full-time staff

The current number of 230 employees is already about ten times too many. What the hell do they need the additional staff for?

> The company is also not profitable.

Doesn't need to be because it could be run by ten people living off of donations.
I agree... I wish GitLab would do this too. No reason that everything can't be modeled as a git branch.

GitLab I know models their Wiki as a git repo. I think issues and PRs should be their own repo as well.... a branch for each issue or pr? Could tie it all up using submodules (or not, whatever)... just please someone take the jump first and do this.
> I see no basis for that assumption, especially as nuclear energy has known risks that e.g. wind power doesn't.

But why do the risks matter? One would expect that two turbines or nuclear power plants would kill twice as many people, on average…
Many people feel open salaries and professional organizations inadequately handle specializations. In University sectors there have been effects like: CS lecturers not allowed to be paid more because positions are harder to fill vs say Fine Art History lecturers. I'm not saying that's bad overall, but I can certainly see why CS lecturers might not like it.

I think it's fairly easy for these models to fail at bringing in experts because they put extreme downward pressure on the gains from expertise and aggressively enforce regression to the mean. If someone makes twice as much as someone else you have to justify it not just in terms of market demand and a personal outlook on the skillset but also in terms of the morale effects of paying someone else twice as much openly. I'm not sure that's good for many parties and I'm quite certain it's bad for at least some. I think the likely effect is fewer people in security and fewer people in AI at the companies that do these things.
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This is explained in the article.
I'd prefer it just for searchability. Good luck finding anything online called "maintainer".
It is not obvious to me that strong AI will recognize and fix all bugs in itself to become what its creators intended it to be.

Fixing bugs which harm its performance is a valid instrumental goal, sure. Fixing all other bugs is not.
"Epic win"
Well, would be sufficiently safe. Just not in Fukushima.

It was hit by an earthquake. Reactor performed SCRAM correctly. Plant was ok.

Tsunami hit. Fuel tanks were washed away. This should never have been an issue. If you are in a zone that's prone to tsunamis, you don't locate essential infrastructure where it can be hit by tsunamis.

Everything went downhill from there. Including their inability to hook up generators brought by trucks due to some electrical incompatibility.

Now, if only this nuclear scaremongers would go away, then we would be able to upgrade those shambling power plants with modern technology.
Heh, I started a bad cough last week and an xray found pulmonary nodules and my doctor ordered ct scans on Friday. Waiting on the results now. My cough seems to be getting better, but not a fun process. I don't know how it could be made better, they're getting data, what are doctors supposed to do while they're getting data? Lie to you? Hold your hand?
> ask for donations like WP does

Isn't that what reddit gold is?
We'd need long term statistics to fully develop a model of risk. I.e., (admittedly, anecdotally) within the first year or two of having his monocrystalline setup, Dave[1] suffered damage to one panel (aerial debris) requiring a service call to replace the unit. If this happens on a semi-frequent basis (i.e. one panel per ~3 years per install) the risk profile changes not insignificantly.

[1] https://player.fm/series/eevblog/eevblog-844-solar-panel-rep...
http://somafm.com has some good instrumental channels, too. I also have a playlist of things I've curated from Magnatune over the years, there are some strong instrumental artists over there.
I'm not "missing" anything. I worked at Google for 7 years much of which was spent working on, you guessed it, distributed systems infrastructure. You guard against this by carefully canarying things and putting robust testing, monitoring, and deployment procedures in place. A release might take a few days, but you can be reasonably certain your users won't be your guinea pigs, and if shit does hit the fan, rollback is easy, and you can reroute traffic elsewhere while you roll back. Most of the time no rollback is needed: you just flip a flag and do a rolling restart on the job in Borg. For some types of outages (most of which users never even see) Google has bots that calculate monetary loss. And the figures can be quite staggering and motivating, so people do postmortems and try their best to make sure the outages don't happen again.
I was using Shift for a long time, but am using a beta program right now that I can't disclose :(

Shift: https://www.shiftpayments.com/card
Yes, see UberPool and Lyft Line. Whereas before you'd only share a cab with people you knew, these new services get much more people to share rides.
The elephant in the room is that there is no mention of TokuDB here.

My personal experience is that InnoDB performance drops off a cliff as tables grow and parts of tables stop fitting in RAM. TokuDB just keeps on going.

TokuDB also compresses your data really well.

My own stats: https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/160628887798/com...
You are missing my point entirely.
There needs to be more awareness of this. If nuclear power was so amazingly safe, private insurance companies should have no problems insuring it. But they won't.
You're too technical, feels like.
Usually it's done in even simpler way - you have 3rd party provider from one of this countries (or who aggregates data from you), who does all scrapping and data cleaning for you for reasonable price.
I find this article long and if anything seems to detract credibility from a meaningful and well-considered academic topic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...).

If this article seeks to address at the academic level, I think it does not succeed.

If this article seeks to simplify the academic for the lay-person, I think it does not succeed.

Better to just the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...).
Pardon the crude analogy, but is this like using computers as dominoes to knock a door closed, or is it more like programming a computer to run a servo to close the door?

What I'm asking, because of my lack of knowledge on the subject, is this close to how RNA functions naturally or is this more of a brute-force approach?
Advertisers would still win, though. Instead of showing you ads for 10,000 subjects of which one interests you, they are now showing you ads for 2 subjects of which one interests you. Much better targeting.

And if they want to link your profiles from elsewhere, two interests of which one is fake is still pretty powerful.
However, when he first saw BuzzFeed’s recipe, published on their food site called Tasty, in May of this year, he said the ingredient list was nearly identical “with a few tweaks”. — Kenji López-Alt

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-ac...

You can't copyright a list of ingredients.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/03/24/recipes-copyright...
We've certainly come a long way from when websites with gifs were annoying in the early web days to where there's a company with a GIF raison d'etre and a $600M price tag on it.
Civilian nuclear plants where designed, built, and operated to reduce the costs of nuclear weapons. This resulted in huge subsides, but also a lot of export controls. You can't say that about the internet.

PS: A lot of past regulations seem dumb today, but power was not the primary goal which shaped a lot of policy.
Why is this (currently) being downvoted? The purpose of closed salaries is to keep wages down.
It is very different. You can't just make an atom bomb out of what's available at a nuclear plant. They're entirely different concepts requiting diffrrent materials.

Chernobyl was an outdated design known to be dangerous at the time it was made, and something like the Chernobyl incident can't happen on anything newer. A study found statistically insignificant rises in cancer rates from the 3 Mile incident.

I recommend the book Atomic Accidents, it's very informative and I believe it went over specifically why a nuclear plant can't just explode like an atom bomb or even really help you make one.
I would assume that all-DC grid would happen before that (and solve the issues with grid stability). Extrapolating from the rate at which Europe migrated from 110V AC to 230V AC you are looking at at least 50 years for that to happen.
Renewables solve a different problem though. There aren't great ways of storing energy on a large scale. So you end up needed two components to a grid - a baseline that you can scale up whenever (coal, natural gas, nuclear), and a renewable component. Saying that nuclear is the safest in regards to a baseline energy load is a valid argument to make.
The red part is what I described as "some tens of square kilometers temporarily uninhabitable." It's not the "briefly unsafe" part.

> Statistics will not change anyone's mind.

This is really what it comes down to, isn't it? And I agree, no matter what the numbers are, it doesn't convince opponents.

I get that this is the case, but I'm still baffled by it when I'm confronted by such people here. I'd hope that HN commenters, at least, would be amenable.
That's important but I think people over-estimate it. It's both. I predict that if you analyzed the github network, you'd find many hubs are based around companies that chose to move their workflows to github based on features other than network effects. Or at least, the existing network was only one of many reasons.
The article itself doesn't arrive at the correct number of 5898 moves, but some of the commenters do. At my own page http://tromp.github.io/chess/longest.html you can play through a 3-moves-shorter game.
Or look at the short term Mozilla CEO that was ousted over a public outcry regarding similar private matters.

Edit: Hrmf, never mind. Egg on my face.
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Because they apparently didn't anticipate this and now have to retrofit the equipment. If you're building out new stuff, you don't have to retrofit.
> Voting should be done on paper, using pencils, put into ballot boxes, and counted by people.

I'd go further and say that for such a manual system, the counting should be done as speedily as humanly possible, but that if it takes a few days to do it - then so be it.

I don't think this is one area that should be rushed, and I don't understand why so many people - including people who should know better - thinks it should be.
I think there was some calculation estimating reddit's hosting costs at less than $10M. so it's probably not that.
Giphy is such a useless product, I have trouble imagining them being able to monetize for more that 0.10/user/year.

Not only is it a timewaster application (why would a business pay for employees to use it), but it also does a poor job of search - its main selling point. Baffling that anyone believes it's worth $600M.
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I guess different people have different experiences. Googling "xps 9560 throttling" shows up quiet a few results which sounds very similar to what I face. For example, this is from the 4th link in my search result:

When I play a game (overwatch, fallout 4, gta v), after some time my gpu throttle and i lost between 20-30% fps. And after more time, my CPU throttle to aroung 0.80 ghz and I lost all my FPS, the game become unplayable.
When I break our GitHub webhooks, I joke it's time for people to practice our Disaster Recovery (DR) procedures. In all seriousness, this is a good opportunity to practice work without GitHub. Any service can go down; can you deploy a critical bug fix without it? If not, why not and what can you do to fix it?
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I've been involved with Bitcoin, and holding it, since mid-2011. I'm quite familiar with both sides of the boom/bust cycle. It's only been in the past couple of years where Bitcoin-backed debit cards were available.

> x10 return in a couple years is not slightly deflationary by any measure.

At no point was I holding significant value for daily transactions over a long period - I mostly use it like I would use PayPal, to take payments online and easily spend the proceeds.
AI started backing itself up on github.
The MacBook Air being ridiculously noncompetitive and the recent hike in price for the MacBook and the MacBook Pro totally changed the college laptop market.

For the last 10 years+ almost everyone in CS had a Mac from the start or bought one along the way. I'm starting to think this trend will end due to the price hike.

That means that a bunch of new students will use WSL instead of doing their Linux based homework using MacOS *NIX utilities. Adding native LaTeX support in word further makes the platform very attractive for that kind of demographic.

When looking at SV, I see most startups and devs working with Macs. This makes sense as it was probably on Macs that the earliest version of their product was developed. Often the Mac version is the first class version of the app and the windows port often an afterthought. Just look at Node.js that was originally a Mac/Linux exclusive. I think Microsoft want to change that.
You should be careful with these statistics for three reasons.

1. Their provenance is sketchy. The EU report sources data from private advocacy organizations. That data is in turn extrapolated, premised on the idea that most "honor crimes" are unreported.

2. Their definitions are sketchy. By the report's logic, the difference between an honor crime and domestic violence is cultural intent. Domestic violence is highly prevalent across Europe (and, of course, the United States, where it accounts for a plurality of all those currently incarcerated in major metro jails, despite a microscopic population of people from cultures where "honor crimes" are a thing). And, of course, almost none of these crimes are murder or attempted murder.

3. The goals are sketchy. There's an extent to which reporting on "honor crimes" can be seen as a way to take a universal phenomenon, separate out the Muslims, and pathologize their incidence of that phenomenon.

Certainly, with this report, you are nowhere close to having presented evidence for the extraordinary claim that "hardcore Islamic immigration" has created an epidemic of "honor killings". You should, again, be more careful than this.
Cash used to offer instant automatic withdrawals to your bank. Now they delay it by a couple business days (and charge for instant), but at least it's automatic. Venmo, I have to manually withdraw every time I get money.
We already see this with how airlines alter the pricing depending on when the ticket is bought and whatsnot (because if it is bought for a middle of the week trip etc, it is likely to be a business trip).
> So for every atom of U235 you get about 200 (give or take) atoms of U238

How is that even a problem? Nuclear power plants do not require much fissionable material at all. Compare that with any fossil fueled power plant.
Or, more likely you inherited someone else's problem. Sometimes you inherit a project that's 5+ years in, and the short term solution really is, buy bigger/faster hardware.

Of course some DBs are better in some use cases, and price is a factor. As is ease of replication, sharding, etc.
I'm no biologist or scientist of any sort, but it seems this is a problem with all apex predators to some degree. You get to the top of the food chain by adapting to and being highly reactive to short term and catastrophic risk. Once you get there you have to do a 180 and suddenly be highly attuned to subtle and long term issues to stay there. It's simply a different skill set and frame of mind.
> Re: item 2, you're describing lex talionis, which we as a society abandoned centuries ago. You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops.

Practically, our juries can, and do.
The whole appeal of reddit for me is the conversation - similar to HN.

I don't want a flashy link aggregator, I want bare bones design with a link/img and discussion. That's it.

Anything that tries to model its UX/design on Facebook loses my interest immediately.
Was hoping for better coverage from an employee-perspective. You can't reasonably expect to have 1 on 1 meetings each week with your coworkers, but you can be expected to have to rely on them for making new features - even when remoteness makes communication slow enough to delay your work.

OT: Holy heck, did every other sentence need some kind of emphasis? Block quote, bold text, related image, tall header spacing - is this disruption in reading, because it certainly felt like it.