skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) "the whole point of DU is that it's significantly less radioactive than naturally occurring Uranium"

The D in Depleted (U-238) has nothing to do with it's radioactivity but that it's not fissile. Fissile U-235 is not too badly radioactive either (4 billion vs. 0.7 million year half life i.e. 77% more radioactive 0.5^(0.7/4) / 0.5).

We don't make depleted uranium to have less radioactive uranium (naturally occurring uranium is < 1% U-235). We have DU because we made nuclear bombs.

Interestingly the Ruskies have made DU arms far more expensive now with their breeder reactor (U-238 is fertile).

2) DU is an alpha emitter. I would bath in a bathtub made of alpha-emitters and sleep in a bed of alpha-emitters.

However, Uranium shatters making dust. I would not want to breath, eat, drink an alpha-emitter. It's a heavy hitting He ion that will knock the socks off anything in it's short path.

Not to mention U-238 becomes Th-234 with a half life of 24 days (very radioactive) with beta emission (ouchy!). There'll never be a lot of Th-234 (U-238's low radioactivity) but it'll all decay into you (Th-234 small nuclear half-life and large biological one).

So U-238 effectively decays in your body as a an alpha and beta!

What happens when you blow up DU? Gets scattered throughout the local environment.

3) ...Low biological half life

That's only relevant for disaster tourists. For people whose environment has been seeded with the stuff, the biological half life is completely irrelevant as it is replenished as you eat, breath and drink. An equilibrium concentration is therefore established.

Therefore, environmental half-life is far more important than a biological one.
There are 17-qbits quantum computers out there right now. So, I guess you might be wrong.
Very important observation: this article links to a M.2 2242 SSD with 64-512GB capacity and there seems to be ample stock on Amazon.com. This is important because the second SSD on the ThinkPad T470 and consequently the ThinkPad Anniversary 25 can only be a 2242 one and they are a major PITA to find. While some 2242 drives were broken for a few months it has been fixed a week ago https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/... on the T470 so I fully expect the TA25 to come with the fix. Because what is missing from the Lenovo forum thread is that Transcend 512GB is the only one actually available at such a capacity and physical size.

And, I am guessing, everyone will be getting the only laptop with modern specs and a usable keyboard, right :) ?
The baby boomers are the ones who were born after WW2. "Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times" is something I recently heard in regard to the ww2 and boomer generations, the implication being the boomers were the "weak men."
Qualcomm's already mass producing 10nm CPUs.
This is how we do wheelchair ramps in ex-USSR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUfeLWyv1I

PS: every time I visit Europe I often wonder that there are so many wheelchairs. In Eastern Europe you may go around capital city center for weeks without seeing one. It is that bad, even in 2017.
Speaking as someone who has seen the ebb and flow of frameworks galore on the front-end and back-end, I've found many devs swing back and forth between love and loathing. It's just a natural evolution of how we use tools, and quite often the over/under application of those for the problems we're trying to solve with them.

We've never had more options available to all of us to build complex systems, applications and services using highly-targeted tools. The new-framework-a-day pace at which these become available to us is fine, but honestly doesn't move the needle for most of us.

A former leader of mine once said: you build things with tools, not popularity contests. I've found keeping such a perspective makes my stress level manageable.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to think that. I wonder what a good way to measure that signal to noise ratio is?

This feels like an application of the 80/20 rule. I might not always find what I need in just that offline index, but the times I do would seriously disrupt google.
Except it is to many people. The "gender is a social construct" crowd is very prominent, if not the current consensus in academia.

I have a boy and its obvious gender differences are innate, not learned. It was somewhat eye-opening as I was raised with the "gender is a construct" theory even though I was fairly skeptical of it. Other parents I've spoken to have noticed the same thing.

I think we're going to look back to this period and think "wait, did people really think gender was 100% social" the same way we think back to things like, say, phrenology or classifying homosexuality as a mental illness.
> "When is the right time to ship a product? In particular, a hardware product? The answer, sometimes, is not when it’s done, but rather when it’s useful."

Or rather when it's able to steal the last remaining privacy mankind holds. I'm sorry, but for me the cellar capability is the final straw and I will never buy one. I truly feel sorry for our newer generations who will suffer the consequences of us letting these organizations take that privacy so freely without even a fight.
But why would you, when you can just do subprocess.popen on the command and then slice and dice the result in a language that can do regexes, splitting, format strings, and so forth? I mean, if you're going to be using Python anyways, you might as well just use the standard library and skip the extra bash step entirely. The code might be a bit longer, but infinitely safer and more maintainable.
This gets linked every time, and every time it's still not the Vivaldi source code. This is their patched version of Chromium and is not sufficient for building the actual Vivaldi browser with.
This is something that ticks many of the boxes of my interests but I really feel like the price has got to come down significantly before they're going to see any market success.
CCTV cameras enslaved to infiltrate air-gap networks
I feel like one of the appeals to using DuckDuckGo is that it simply isn't Google and, therefore, doesn't come along with all the ethical baggage. That's true now, but who's to say that will continue to be true in the future? At the end of the day, the same forces still drive large businesses to cut corners, costs, and creeds if they want to compete effectively with one another.
Funny thing is that in the suburban town adjacent to my city, the GOP platform for town supervisor (like a mayor) includes “fighting back” against mandatory sidewalks.
"transgender" is an adjective, friend <3
It's turtles all the way down though. If police need to carry malpractice insurance then the cost will have to be built into salary which is paid by the taxpayers. It might be cheaper to just have the state pay out then pay for a bunch of individual insurance policies.
>Tungsten will strip out any barrel

I'd guess this can be prevented by using a tungsten core surrounded by a copper jacket, or an exposed tip as in m855a1

Strange that the article didn't mention who was first to field tungsten AP ammunition - it was the Luftwaffe

Edit: I didn't mean to imply m855a1 contains tungsten, rather that a similar design could prevent excessive barrel wear
As usual, Wikipedia collects everything:

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

Looks like the state of the art is 17-qbits, what leads us to numbers slightly larger than 100000.
Tim Cook says DACA is the ‘biggest issue of our time’
Safety regulations make NASCAR drivers more reckless / Peltzman effect (2007) [pdf]
> The only reason I ever take my phone is so that I can take pictures or that I can reach someone else if I have an emergency

That doesn't sound like you really want to be "out of touch" at all. When I go for a run, I want to become fitter, healthier, and a better runner. Apple isn't suggesting that the purpose of the device is to let you surf Facebook while you run; it's to do exactly what you said - have access if you need it.
Arguably, Toy R Us... it looks like Bain and its partners put down about 20% of their own money towards the purchase. However, there has been no IPO since that purchase, and they will likely lose most if not all of that investment, so I don't think even that fits the pattern.
Well, they're not wholly invisible, but close enough to it that they can typically share clothes as a practical matter. You can expect in about 99.5% of cases that your child will identify with the gender corresponding to their sex, so people dress their kids up in miniaturized adult clothing matching their likely gender, in anticipation of adulthood. This seems to have started with the rich, and as societies get more generally rich, more people typically start wanting the same things.

The sexes are quite visible before puberty in terms of behaviour, just not so much in external development.

I'm not much against gender roles, I don't see the problem with them. From a practical perspective, it seems like people will do better if they are familiarized, from an early age, with the role they'll almost inevitably seek to fill to at least some extent. Worst case you find out you've been somewhat wrong at around puberty, and you adjust from there.
What should students look for in a coding bootcamp curriculum?
I understand this is trivial, but I have a serious bias against that company just because the name really bothered me.

It sounds too much like a crappy Iced Tea.
Software emulation is fine (otherwise QEMU would be pretty dead), it's just hardware accelerated emulation and actual HW implementations of the ISA that Intel does not like.
actually you’re right, your stocks are worth $0, until you sell them. If the company went bankrupt tomorrow what would happen to the value of those stocks?
If there are 100 shares available and someone is willing to pay $500 for a share, but nobody else is willing to pay more than $5, is the company really worth $500*100?
Same idea goes for bitcoin cash. Just because there are a few people willing to pay $X00 doesn’t mean every single bitcoin is worth that much.
It already happened then. https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/25/deepmind-create-ai-imagi...

AI makes predictions and acts on them.
All fair :)
Sometimes smaller schools offer a better learning environment for CS. They have smaller class sizes, which means better relationships with professors. They sometimes will be more hands on and up to date, as they are not bogged down by professors entrenched in academia for decades. These at least were my experiences having gone to a small school, teaching at a medium school, and comparing to experiences of friends at large schools.

Edit: I should mention all were 4 year degrees in my experience. Although, comparing my local community college's course curriculum to the large state schools, it seems more focused on web development and has less computer science fluff. So it may be better career/experience wise but lacking in more theoretical topics.
Hard forks to overcome
limitations need not be contentious and need not result in two surviving currencies. There’s a decent chance the Segwit 1x fork dies due to lack of miner support and everyone except Core continues on their merry way with Segwit 2x.
> you could use their code within the copyright license but then be sued for using it without the applicable patent license... Making it open source but far from free

This has been the gist of the complaint against software patents for the last decade+. It's why all the latest revisions of Apache, GPL, and MPL include explicit patent grants and termination criteria in their texts. It's why Microsoft included a separate patent promise when they placed .NET Core under MIT. And it's why Facebook themselves has released most of their projects with the now-infamous PATENTS additional grant.

> As I understand it, this is bad because

Not really. This is bad because GraphQL is a spec. If Facebook released some GraphQL-related software under any modern FOSS license, you'd be able to use it, regardless of any patents covering it. (See above.) The problem with GraphQL being a spec is that if you use some GraphQL-related software that doesn't originate from Facebook, then the licenses on any Facebook software (and thus the patent grants in that license) are irrelevant and you have no patent protection. And now you might begin to see why everyone in OSS who's acting in good faith would be better off with their own Facebook-style PATENTS grant.
> But we're talking about realism indistinguishable from a camcorder, which is simply impossible given our current technology. (After all, we haven't figured out any techniques to do it.)

Every single comment moves the goal posts. It's not clear what your standard is. Would you mind specifying your entire criteria for realistic graphics in one place?

Why is it impossible? Not having an example doesn't mean it's impossible, it just means it hasn't been done yet. Can you back your claim that it's impossible with a proof? Why do you think zero techniques we have now will apply or be involved once a video that satisfies you is produced? Considering that can rendering realistic looking still photos, and realistic video in constrained situations, I find it puzzling to assume that none of it will carry forward.
Stolen CC numbers sound like hard things to get in the first place, but they're available online. Fullz (identity-stealing kits w/ SSN and driver license info) and bank drops are similarly available, for a higher fee, as well as aged accounts for many sites.
Yes the current prices are thanks to mass production in china, but he is saying that germany started to invest into the solar boom when prices where still high and without the boom might not have happened (that fast). E.g. in 2009 germany had 10GW [0] installed versus chinas 300MW [1]. But new solar installs peaked in germany at about 7.5GW over the next 3 years, among other reasons because germany does get significantly less sunlight.

[0] https://energy-charts.de/power_inst.htm?year=all&period=annu...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:China_Photovoltaics_Insta...
On the positive side, this laxative effect is a perfect way to titrate the dosage: Keep increasing it until your colon starts screaming.
A Pi Fractal [Futility Closet]
Frameworks don't rust, but skillsets do.
Apparently most males with this condition are sterile http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/rare-medical-condi...
How does paying ensure the data is your own?
Is there any practical decentralized alternative search engine? YaCy seems dead.
I cannot agree with this more. I'm an able-bodied man who exercises at least five days a week. I definitely don't need any of this stuff, right? I have no problems stepping up curbs, taking even many flights of stairs, etc.

Until I broke my ankle in a bicycle accident last year. Then I became acutely aware of how poor some of the infrastructure is around me. The closest subway station to me doesn't have an elevator, for example, and the one nearest work only has a single elevator at one end of the platform that is often out of service. I supported accessibility standards in theory before this, but now that I've seen how they play out in practice, I strongly and emphatically support them. Empathy is hugely important.

I am also so goddamn thankful that there is the requirement to have sturdy handrails alongside all flights of stairs, and that this requirement is strictly enforced (thank the ADA or building codes or whatever is responsible). With these handrails, an otherwise able-bodied person on crutches can handle staircases relatively easily. Without them, stairs are death traps, especially going down. I would have been mostly confined to my apartment without the existence of these handrails. Fortunately, they exist everywhere, so I was able to tackle the stairs at my apartment, at the subway station, at work, and in the entrances to buses.
Working every minute right now on my second online course for learning ReactJs. Hopefully I can release it next week without any quirks :)

- https://roadtoreact.com/
There is a company which sells alternative color accents for the digital crown and button. http://watchdots.com

They are just stickers, but apparently they last well.
Magnesium solved two problems for me: stiff muscles and insomnia.

Scientific information about how magnesium works is hard to come by. Here's what I have been able to gather from various sources: The cells in your body need calcium to go into "on state". To go into "off state" magnesium has to go in and displace calcium.

When your body is low on magnesium your muscles can't go into "off state" and your muscles become stiff. To relax you need an Epsom salt bath (it contains magnesium) or just take magnesium supplements.

When your brain cells can't go to "off state" you can't sleep. You need magnesium to help your brain cells go into off state. However there is this thing called "blood brain barrier" (look it up) that prevents magnesium from easily entering the brain. However magnesium l-threonate (that's a compound of magnesium, not a brand name) can pass through the barrier and help you sleep.

I have had sleep issues for many years. I saw many doctors including sleep specialists but all they wanted to do is put me on prescription meds. But these meds are addictive and you have to take it for the rest of your life. I didn't want that. These are "quick fixes". As a software developer I was interested in finding the underlying problem and fix that, as opposed to the quick fixes that the medical community was offering me.

A breakthrough came when I saw a naturopathic doctor for my stiff muscles and she advised me to take Epsom salt baths. That seemed to help. I investigated more and found out that the ingredient in Epsom salt that helped me is magnesium. Then I found out that you can actually get magnesium pills and tried that. That worked remarkably well. But the big surprise was that I slept better the night I tried the magnesium pill. Since then I have been researching how it is that magnesium helped me sleep.

Stress depletes magnesium in your body. If you are a software developer you are stressing your brain all day when you do your job and you are depleting magnesium. Low magnesium levels causes muscle issues as well as sleep issues. Magnesium supplements solve the problem.

It is very unfortunate that medical doctors don't seem to be very knowledgeable about this topic. When I see doctors I mention that I am taking magnesium for muscle and sleep issues and they seem surprised, but no doctor has yet told me that I am wrong.

Note that magnesium is a natural mineral, not a drug, essential for your body, and found in many foods. Excess amounts of magnesium can cause a laxative effect, but this is very temporary. Take magnesium before you go to bed, and the worst thing that can happen is you go easily the next morning.
Same problem here! For development searches Google typically blows ddg out of the water but I still love ddg for general search. I didnt know about the !g :D
XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Thank you for the warning. I think in rational discussion, such things ought not even to be considered TMI, which is a squeamish, system 1 - type emotional reaction to information.
So many bangs for you duck!
Really Tim? Really? Trump just threatened to completely destroy North Korea. I'd think that's a slightly bigger issue.
[video] Tech TopX: Increasing CVM Memory in AOS 5.1
What's so wonderful about being a boy? As someone who is somewhat introverted and nerdy, for lack of a better term, all the boy stuff seemed insufferable to me, even as a child. Wrestling, fighting, being aggressive, being tough, being overly competitive, etc is not something I wanted or related to and that attitude most likely kept me from forming the typical male bonding boys and teens develop. I fell deeper into books, computers, games, etc while they were out doing 'boy' stuff. I remember envying girls because they weren't pressured to constantly play sports and being bookish and a voracious reader was perfectly acceptable for them but 'weird' for a boy.

As a parent I see my son's female peers and very few of them are remotely interested in boy stuff, even when offered. Even in toddler stages there's a marked difference in personalities with girls being calmer and more passive and boys wanting to do rough and tumble theatrics. Its obviously innate, at least to me.

>but girls were discouraged and put in dresses, etc.

Well, in the article that's exactly what happened but the males mistaken for girls complained. There's no evidence all girls complained.
Can you give us a breakdown of percentages of queries answered by each backend / source?

Do you have specific contracts that allows you to use their indexes anonymously or are you at their mercy?
My couple years old Pixel runs the Play Store, and most apps are compatible. You run into some apps that don't support every tablets and larger devices, but the big players know what they're doing.

Honestly though, once I bought the thing and tried out Google Docs, I haven't bothered to see if Office works on it. It reads and saves to .docx, and it's nice not having to send or store documents, I just share them.
Are you really bothered about corporations not being able to use your code? Corporations generally make money from code without paying for it, which ranks them very low on my list of people to cater to with my licenses.

I want my licenses to cater to hobbyists/hackers/tinkerers and maybe small businesses first, if corporations don't like it they can pay me to relicense things for them.
I think the answer (if there is one) will come from AI

We might have to wait until brain simulation becomes a reality, which I expect to happen eventually (assuming we don't manage to pull the plug on civilization).
For those that aren't with Bank of America, https://getfinal.com/ offers a similar service for all. (no affiliation)
Conflating these seems a bit disingenuous. It seems plausible that you can innately know your sex, and that this comes with some behaviour. It's not the same as saying that girls being associated with the colour pink isn't a social construct.
What a dick way to respond to that.
Got linky? I can google, but you may have the best link. ALso, anyone know of any good but inexpensive purchasable supplements that target magnesium / related compound mixes to reasonable research results like this? (or just to buy them separately)
Epsom salt baths and a dropper full of CBD oil under the tongue completely eliminated my insomnia. And as a bonus, eases my DOMS.
Agreed. In fact Nexus, which includes Global Entry and PreCheck costs less than PreCheck alone ($50/5 years versus $85/5 years).
I remember when Google looked that way too. The lack of other links, gif animations and backgrounds, the prototype-style primary colors . . .
Of course not, licenses are for granting rights to use copyrighted works, not for transfering copyright.

I also don't see why open source contributors should give away the copyright to their work. All it accomplishes, is that the "original author" (= the copyright holder, usually a company) can re-license the work without agreement from all contributors. It strips contributors from parts of their rights.
Coffee Lake (14nm++) is launching in Q4 2017, https://www.anandtech.com/show/11843/prices-of-intels-coffee...

Can a Coffee Lake CPU work on a Kaby Lake / Skylake motherboard?
I don't understand this comment. What are you trying to say?

And what do you mean by "sexual purposes"?

Also this article doesn't describe a simple culture construct. It's about a real biological change that causes apparent girls to develop into boys through puberty.
Do you know about the `units` command?

$ units
Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2017-08-24
2980 units, 109 prefixes, 96 nonlinear units

You have: 5 lbs
You want: kg
* 2.2679619
/ 0.44092452
You have: 100 furlongs
You want: meters
* 20116.8
/ 4.9709695e-05
You have: 100 miles/hour
You want: meters/second
* 44.704
/ 0.022369363
You have: 2 kiloisraelnewshekels
You want: picodollars
* 5.5271109e+14
/ 1.8092635e-15