skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately Thorium reactors were/would be full on nuclear reactors with the usual problems that come with those regardless of what you call them. Although the one that was built only operated from 1965-1969, "Sampling in 1994 revealed concentrations of uranium that created a potential for a nuclear criticality accident" and they had to spend many millions sorting that out.
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Usually European taxes are complicated. I make 44k a year but I get about 33k on my bank account each year. This is because even though we have a 33% and 40% rate there are also numerous tax-cuts in place.

Ie: in NL you can deduct your entire mortgage rate interest from your gross income. This basically means you get a 40% discount on your mortgage. And there are numerous more.
Those exist
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Do you consider gold and silver to be similarly perverse?
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Thank you for that timely link ForRealsies. Scott Adams has brilliantly put into words what has been floating disconnected around my brain since the realities of Brexit and the inauguration of the current POTUS.

I visited the UK for a conference at a university just before the Brexit vote. Practically every "ordinary" person I talked to told me they were going to vote leave. On campus it was a totally different story, like night and day. Now, where the polarisation stems from is a different matter – same as in the States – not being able to see it ahead of time is one thing, but thinking your ideological opposite is stupid/racist/crazy/… after the fact is something else entirely.

For a perfect demonstration of this head over to YouTube. Choose two media outlets that differ in their attitude towards the current POTUS. (There are no shortages on both sides.) Watch the coverage of the Veterans' Bill speech, read the comments. On the pro-side there's "Seems reasonable to me." On the anti-side there's nasty vitriol, ad hominem, and vilification. For the record I am indifferent.

Same applies to UK media outlets and articles about Brexit.

I'm aware my comment hasn't addressed the original article which offers very good advice. I once spent an hour pointlessly debating a Scotsman who turned out to be a Truther (I'd never met one). After reading this article my tactics will definitely change.
Was joke.
I could be completely wrong (I don't fully immerse myself in cryptocurrency) but isn't mining coins way more heavily intensive on a CPU and overall power consumption than simply passively storing a lot of personal data?

I remember a couple of friends wanting to buy some powerful machines to mine bitcoins a few years ago, and they had to actually calculate their electricity bill to make sure they weren't losing money.
That's quite a ways from storing Instagram pics.
Wow that's pretty handy. Any idea why GitHub hasn't already built that into their site?
rich parents will buy them as high-school graduation presents. It's a very, very tiny market.
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Unless you have free/ very cheap power, is likely not worth your time.
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Great idea! Always thought that the WP theme directory could use some improvements.

You have about 150 more themes listed in your website than WP theme directory. How is that so?

Also, you could reference Premium GPL themes from this library: https://gpldl.com
It's the near misses that matter because eventually you can figure out why those ones missed.
My friends and I settle up our beer tabs or things like that with Aeon, a Monero like currency popular in my age bracket.
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There are a few of those. I think the first and most established is Ripple.
To me it just has to be better than human drivers, who are actually pretty awful. I think it's unfortunate that we all seem focused on having self-driving cars be basically perfect. If they were only twice as good as human drivers we should jump at the chance to reduce fatalities.
Most modern altcoins are designed to not be able to be mined with ASIC miners, so GPUs are the only efficient way of mining them. ETH is an example of one.
Most firms are unwilling to invest any sort of money into security for their customers (this includes preventing breaches and having a sufficiently enticing bug bounty program). Third-party private firms are an arbiter that puts pressure on those same companies to invest more into their security or face the risk of serious PR problems.

>Say a company buys and sells insider trading information... Would it be legal? So why is buying/selling 0 days OK?

Insider trading is a Victorian-esque and arbitrary law. The same way sports ban PEDs under the guise of "fairness" (when in reality everyone uses steroids and PEDs, and most everyone does insider trading) so too do these outdated laws do nothing but put the SEC on a moral high-ground and bolster the tax bucket.

>Both are selling information that will be used wrongly in the wrong hands, the kind of information you don't want a "broker" to know about, the kind of information you don't want a broker to find clients for.

May be used wrongly. Zerodium is a grey hat distributor. They can sell to the companies themselves, domestic and foreign governments, or terrorists. The first three can be used for good (and it could be argued so could the terrorists if their idealogies converge with some oppressed opinions among a populace). It's not 100% and it's likely, but "good" comes out of it.

>And if there's only one potential buyer (the target), they're basically black mailing 0 days targets: "become a client or... who knows what will happen... maybe the NSA or hackers will buy it?"

In a perfect world, you shouldn't have to have a coal tax and companies would care about the environment, but we don't live in this world. We live in a world where the only that matters is asset value, and good security is rarely seen as increasing asset value (only stopping asset decreation from scandals).
The difference between the Siri voices from iOS 9-11 is startling. I can still here some issues especially at the ends of phrases, but it's extremely good.
It's important to note though that he wasn't only talking about TV and mass media, as people frequently attempted to interpret hials book.
I can honestly say that there isn't one popular conspiracy theory out there that I believe in. BUT... being a programmer we are taught to look at all the angles. All possibilities. Debugging is a series of discounting any and all theories as to the cause of the bug - starting from the most obvious, of course.

So why are believers of conspiracies not allowed the same leeway? Haven't quite a few conspiracies ended up being true? Bilderberg, MK Ultra etc.

Take the infamous "car allergic to ice cream" story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13347852 It sounds preposterous in a somewhat tin-foil hat kind of way. But if the engineer hadn't followed up on it with an open mind, it the problem wouldn't have gotten solved so quickly.
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Thumbs up for your conspiracy canary idea.

Maybe "virus of the mind" or "parasite of the mind" works better though. The big C is a bit morbid :)

What you point out is a very interesting aspect of conspiracy theories. The – but loads of people would have to be in on it and not a single one has blabbed – part. Mental.
Can you describe what problems these Thorium-burning MSRs have that plague current commercial reactors?
That is what terrifies me--people who are ostensibly conservative but then are all pro-military and pro-big-government and you find out all they want is some tax break or other stupid consideration that benefits them personally. Democrats are not immune to this behavior, either--I have met few who disfavor big government and think they can somehow control the beast. They can't.

I guess those conservatives who have military backgrounds felt that Snowden betrayed them and put them in greater jeopardy. The problem with that is, it's hard to prove the value of what Snowden did. Harm may well have been done in the small, but at the same time there was great justice in the large. Being a whistleblower was the ethical choice; if you look the other way, you're no better than the prison guards at the concentration camps who weren't full-on members of the Nazi Party.
A research paper published by Apple? About Siri?! Unheard of! Last time I was at an NLP conference wth Apple employees they wouldn't say anything about how Siri speech worked, despite being very inquisitive about everyone else's publications. Good to see some change.
That is perfectly possible with ECS, so I don't know what OP was referring to. The thing I remember though is that you have to jump through a lot of hoops like making 4 APIs calls (or worse with pagination) for what should have been a single call to make such a system work on ECS.
There were no current decisions - such contracts are relatively new, and few laws were passed explicitly for or against them - mostly against, but were struck down by the Supreme Court.

And it does not follow that a decision made by an entity inside the society, was made by the society as a whole, or that it has any sort of majority support, even if it is law. By that logic, you could argue that we, as a society, decided that one-click shopping is worthy of patent protection, and that it should be illegal do unlock your own phone.
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I don't have any. These are speculations.
Why do you need change their minds?
And how many that didn't?
I never thought there would be so many irrational, dissenting opinions for a newer sector of tech. Some of the guffaws in this thread are astonishing; this is the most uninformed I have ever seen HN.
Full disclosure: I DON'T work with Google, I DON'T sell their services/products. I run a startup myself, with an Saas on top of AppEngine. This is just my documented (positive) experience with the stack above. I get paid nothing by Google, nothing in $ nor credits this is just my own personal documented experience.

Being a long time HN member, I would responsibly disclose if I were somehow affiliated with Google (trust me, I wish I was).
Which is just another example of how government expands its scope and rarely ever contracts.
If you ignore low speed, low visibility parking lot stuff many people will go their whole lives without being in an accident that they are at least partially responsible for.
Gotta say, I love the name
I like to follow a rule of thumb I learned at a SciPy Conference a few years ago: whenever possible pull out functionality into separate modules. I think the GNU program mantra of do one thing and do it well applies. From a philosophical standpoint, I like the simplicity of the standalone left-pad library.

It is not always possible though, like in the case of Django: part of the appeal is the single batteries included framework for getting something up and the subsequent relative standardization of code bases that implement it. However, I tend to use 'flask' for its flexibility/modularity and simplicity especially in the context of simple data oriented services.

Scipy itself is a good example of a monolithic library that I think makes sense as a single module, since people using some of the functionality are much more likely to need other bits of scipy in the same code, and there are a lot (or at least some) of inter-dependencies within the scipy routines that make it largely more efficient for developers to keep it all together.

In the case of matplotlib, which lacks a native Geographic projection functionality. Multiple plugin modules have been developed to support that functionality, both with different approaches and features. If this had been an included feature to begin with, we wouldn't have the innovation and choice in different solutions that exists now.
I think the distinction has merit. There are low-quality shops, which basically rent warm bodies, and then there are consultancies that actively shape future, with the client.

ThoughtWorks qualifies for the latter.
People that get convicted of DUIs and want to keep their license. We already have modifications to cars that require people to blow into to start their car, this seems like the logical next step in that.
> So your argument is because it's not the "top of globally wasted resources", we should ignore the waste?

Sometimes this argumentation is totally valid. For example, it's utterly
stupid reasoning when one uses less water at home "to save fresh water and
environment", because households use half of the fresh water used by industry,
and agriculture uses twice as much as the two combined. Whatever inconvenience
the person trying to save the environment this way puts themselves into, the
effect is capped at about 10% of total fresh water consumption. It's an effort
applied in the wrong place.
It was actually astonishing for me how old a lot of the machine learning methods and algorithms are - quite often stuff I worked with on university almost 20 years ago.
The main difference being that you have more computation power and memory by orders of magnitude. You can throw datasets at the NN that would have been prohibitive in size back then. Stuff I had to reserve time for on the uni "super-"computer probably runs on your phone nowadays.

Oh my god, I sound like my father.
In a country with an electricity grid and 60% coal-based electricity generation.
Yes it's a form of marketing called inbound marketing. Create content that attracts people (blog posts) and then turn them into leads by getting them to put their email in for more info, etc.
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Virtually contentless.
You are confusing two things. Buying/selling "insider info" (i.e. material non public info) is not illegal. Acting on such info CAN be illegal under certain circumstances, but even that is super difficult to prove. Why would buying/selling 0days be any different? It's the usage that determines legality. Why should buying an exploit to permit jailbreaking be illegal? Or to permit unlocking a device (presuming local laws allow).
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Conspiracy theories are fundamentally a religious idea and the result of revulsion at the possibility that things might not happen for a reason.

It used to be that when an unexpected tragedy happened, people would look to supernatural forces as the cause, and some flavors of conspiracy theory still do this. You'll often find Satan used interchangeably with the illuminati or masons or Jews, etc, among conspiracy theorists of a fundamentalist mindset.

But if you don't believe in supernatural forces, then you have to reach for dark and shadowy organizations, like CIA mind control experiments and Russian spies, or crisis actors or George Soros.

Anything so you don't have to face the possibility that terrible things happened for no reason, or that worse, terrible things happened and your own country or politicians might even bear some responsibility for it.

Fundamentally, people believe in conspiracy theories because they don't want to really understand reality and be forced to act on that understanding.

The nature of the conspiracy theory itself is secondary to that, and arguing against the particulars of one will, at best, push them into the arms of another.

If you want people to turn away from conspiracy, you need to provide a way of understanding and coming to terms with reality.

I don't think there's one right way to do that-- after all we've been trying to figure it out for thousands of years.
For anyone who's searching for more quantitative data, there's always the 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey [1] which seems to reflect that js (& node) are still growing.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017
I have been wondering recently if we could be in an "advertising bubble"
"Innovation in a specific area slows or stops all the time"
Yes, but the general pace of innovation in the entire economy including areas that are slowing down or starting up is pretty consistent. One thing I'd like to make clear is I'm not just talking about 1950-2010 growth rate, I'm talking Industrial Revolution (around 1800 depending on where you are) to now. Ever since society realized we could build machines fueled by energy to increase productivity we've been growing at roughly a 2% pace. Even if it isn't immediately clear where the new productivity gains will come from (although I'd argue there are plenty of promising areas) I think it's more likely than not going to continue.

some possible areas - AI, 3d printing, falling renewable energy prices, continued marginal gains from computers, quantum network communication, longer term - quantum computers, expansion of VR, driverless cars, etc. Point being there are a lot of promising areas on the horizon.
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The "car allergic to ice cream" is a little bit different than a conspiracy theory though, since the flavour of ice-cream wasn't the real cause.

The conspiracy theory version of that would be more like the man denying that the cause was vapour lock, and continuing to insist that the problem was the flavour. A conspiracy theorist dismisses the alternative, correct explanation for the crazy one.
My bad, I've added the disclosure.
I think we've all made gambles despite the odds. That's a bit of an unescapable human element.
The issue with PR addressed
Ask HN: What happened with the P!=NP solution from last week?
Any news?
Those who would trade small increases in speed for the destruction of the WWW are making a huge mistake.
Automatic medical school admission? Can you tell me what this institution is or where I could find a list of universities with similar programs?
"The energy density of oil, gas and coal" is far exceeded by the energy density of any form of nuclear.

A 1GW coal plant burns a 100-car trainload of coal every three days. A conventional 1GW nuclear plant uses an 18-wheeler truck full of fuel rods every eighteen months.

More advanced nuclear is even better. A 1GW fast reactor or thorium reactor would use one ton of fuel, about the size of a beachball, every year. Your lifetime personal energy needs, including transportation, would come from a piece of fuel smaller than a golfball.

With fusion, the small amount of deuterium in your morning shower could provide for all of your energy needs for a year.
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You're right - they should be working on new ways to show ads and steal personal data - that's REAL value for society!

Glass houses, stones and all that...
"Clean food" generally means minimally processed--you are eating food that is as close to its natural form as possible, such this[0]. So, meat created in a laboratory is about as far aware from this sort of "clean eating" as possible.

[0] https://the30clean.com/what-is-30-clean/
i appreciate your help thank you, I will change it.
> and most everyone does insider trading

I know this is a popular belief, and there are certainly some outright violations in the industry, and then a whole host of activities that carefully toe this line, by and large it's just not true. Most hedge funds and active managers underperform their benchmarks. I've spent my whole career in hedge funds and seen far more clueless money losing portfolio managers than mischievous insider traders...
It's at the expense of the publishers and the future of the open WWW though.
There's kind of a list here https://whatisnuclear.com/reactors/msr.html
The more time goes by the more I feel crazy for missing whatever would motivate people to use js for anything more than is strictly necessary. Single threaded server??? I mean come on man, I understand you don't need parallelism for a lot of use cases but even if that fits your situation why javascript? It can't be that hard using a different language. I refuse to believe that.
I like to treat design like writing. Pour all thoughts onto a page > organize thoughts > write the piece > edit > edit > edit. Every edit phase usually centers on condensing and removing fluff. In my experience, it's the same with design... likely because I'm an amateur. I have to overdesign something before I can start stripping away the unnecessary stuff. If I try to design something 'minimalist' from the start, I'm stifled.

To paraphrase the author, you don't add white space as much as you throw stuff out.

Aside: If I experienced any of the last five branding examples in the wild, I doubt I'd remember them. In these cases, minimalism = milquetoast design.
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Bitcoin can never and will never be a fraction of the efficiency of the modern world banking system, and it can never and will never be able to handle the number of transactions. While you could argue that updates and changes over the years might be able to mould Bitcoin into an efficient transaction network, at that point it would not be Bitcoin anymore.

VISA is capable of handling 56,000 transactions per second [1] while Bitcoin is capable of handing a measly 2.5 [2]. Bitcoin would need to scale by 224,000% to match VISA, and VISA is one of my different global networks. I don't know how much energy VISA uses but as of today, the bitcoin network is estimated to be using 16TWh [3], that's the same as all of Jordan or Lebanon or 5.2% of the energy consumption of the United Kingdom [4].

Assuming no energy consumption improvements, to scale to VISA levels Bitcoin would need to consume 224,000% more energy. That's 35,840TWh, which is nearly twice as much energy as the entire planet uses (21,776TWh)!!!

So, if Bitcoin is able to become 90% more efficient, it would only require as much energy as nearly two European Unions. If Bitcoin is able to become 99% more efficient, it would only require as much energy more energy than the entire United Kingdom. If Bitcoin is able to become 99.9% more efficient, it would only require as much energy as Qatar. I can keep going but I won't. I might have made a mistake and been a factor out, but even then it doesn't even matter, that's how ridiculous the numbers are.

I don't know about you but I find it rather unlikely that Bitcoin will every be a viable replacement for the world banking system. Maybe in a universe where Nuclear fusion is easy and ASICs never wear out, and the cost of cooling them is free but unfortunately for Bitcoin we don't live in that universe.

Bitcoin and crypocurrancys are horrible inventions if you care about the planet, if you think a massive decentralised network where value is created from ever increasing difficulty proof of work could be more efficient than VISA you are frankly deluded. Granted, this is someone who does not own any Bitcoins, so maybe I just haven't drunk the kool aid.

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1. https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visa-...

2. https://blockchain.info/charts/transactions-per-second

3. https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
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Slight tangent, but my wife and I hated the weather in the Bay Area. The lack of seasons was disturbing on a subconscious level for someone who grew up with them. OTOH, if you like constant 70-80's with sunshine, you'll probably be fine.
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