skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If American nuclear power were exceptionally dysfunctional, like American health care, you'd expect to see other countries do a lot better. Long project timelines would be a problem only in the US (and perhaps other "over-regulated" countries).

Canada's newest operating reactor, Darlington 4, took 8 years from construction start to commercial operation. Russia's newest, Novovoronezh 2-1, took 8 years. Civaux 2, France's newest, took 11 years. Kudankulam 2, India's newest, took 15 years. (All numbers from the IAEA's Power Reactor Information System).

That's a long time for billions of dollars to be tied up in construction before producing a single watt of electricity or a single dollar of revenue. The advantages of going fast are obvious. So why has no other country developed small modular reactors that you build in 2 years, like a natural gas plant?

I think that the most parsimonious explanation is that building reactors quickly just isn't easy, even without American-style regulation. Many countries take almost-a-decade to decade-plus times to build large reactors. No other countries have yet deployed small modular reactors. Why not? India, Russia, Brazil -- none of them have the slightest obligation to imitate American-style nuclear regulations, and they are not generally known for excessive attention to environmental protection or worker safety. Why don't they have cheap, quick-build reactors?
Thank you for your work on Firefox.

> This WebExtension API is much smaller, much better documented, and does not expose internals-only stuff.

It also doesn't expose a lot of stuff that's useful and not tied to Firefox internals in any way.

The browser is one of the most heavily used programs on people's computers. Integrating it with the rest of your system and workflow can have huge payoffs in user experience and productivity. The traditional XUL-based extension system, while not always pretty, allowed for that. WebExtensions are severely lacking here and some of that seems by design.

As an example, I'm still trying to figure out a non-insane way to implement something akin to the It's All Text extension that allows editing text areas on websites using a proper text editor.
Richard Dawkins has talked about this fascinating subject several times in interviews (and in his books). It is a beautiful demonstration of how complexity and seemingly magical things can emerge from small changes over large periods of time.
e.g:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzERmg4PU3c
Which disadvantaged?

The smart person who is born poor or a minority will do just fine as their grades will carry them. Thus a bank should give them a loan - based on their high school report card.

The "stupid" person regardless of background is unlikely to do well and should not get a loan.
Huh, going through the prefs there it looks like they probably have telemetry going on in the new tab page. Where all your history goes.

I miss the Mozilla that actually acted like they cared about privacy.
The guards have a watch commander who is supposed to make the judgement call. The watch commander was given instructions on who was and wasn't supposed to be there, most likely from Salesforce's on head of security, which he relayed to the guards.

I imagine Salesforce created a standing order to have any removed that didn't have the correct badge. This was passed on to the watch commander and, unless Salesforce intervened, if asked for clarification by the guards the watch commander would re-iterate the standing order.
I searched but failed to find a substitute for that....
GraphQL Server Basics: The Schema
UEFI is more complex but also nicer for management.

Developing a runtime on UEFI is easy to setup and get going, you don't have that feature in coreboot.
They own Pocket. This is just their own content recommendation engine. No payments involved. An attempt to make the web rely less on search engines.
>To use progressive JPG, you have to pre-recode (if you don't have money to dish out for FPGA to recode on the fly) and store recoded images.

Not sure why progressive JPG isn't the default. It's not any larger.
LXML also is known to have memory leaks [0][1], so be careful using it in any kind of automated system that will be parsing lots of small documents. I personally encountered this issue, and actually caused to abandon a project until months later when I found the references I linked above. It works nice and fast for one-off tasks, though.

Also, a question: how often do you really encounter badly-formed markup in the wild? How hard is it really to get HTML right? It seems pretty simple, just close tags and don't embed too much crazy stuff in CDATA. Yet I often read about how HTML parsers must be "permissive" while XML parsers don't need to be. I've never had a problem parsing bad markup; usually my issues have to do with text encoding (either being mangled directly or being correctly-encoded vestiges of a prior mangling) and the other usual problems associated with text data.

[0]: https://benbernardblog.com/tracking-down-a-freaky-python-mem...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/5260261
Drug that doctors can track remotely approved by FDA
I thought he lived at ATO?
I think this map is relevant to the discussion.

https://www.electricitymap.org

Check it out at different time of the day and night to see the changes in energy sources.
Yep. My company paid a lot of money to sponsor a booth and make sure the majority of our interactions were with customers that we could sell to/partner with. Having a free for all would have greatly diminished the value of our time there.

I should note, I don't know which part of the show this group was trying to enter (Developer Zone, Expo Hall, Keynote Talk). As I mentioned, I enjoyed talking with a number of the STEM student groups that came through the expo hall.
It sounds like TV commentators mocking the Internet in 1994.
> Again, why would the security guards not trust the judgment of an employee of the company that hired them?

This would be a stupid thing to do, even at the office. They could listen maybe the director of physical security, etc, but not a random employee. Especially for a company of Salesforce's size.
I find it amusing and sad at the same time when I get targeted with these sorts of things. Amusing because they seem so obviously 'honey traps' of one form or another, and sad because I'm sure there are many people that fall for them (this article just confirms that suspicion).

I had hoped they would have done a bit of work to track the money flow in these scams. Clearly there is an opportunity here to disrupt that cash flow since most use electronic payment providers with at least some level of tracking. I want the electronic equivalent of 'marked bills' which have mandatory reporting requirements at all financial institutions that process them.
You don’t have to use Electron if you don’t want to, and end users don’t have to use apps if they don’t like the performance characteristics of the apps. That said, there are a lot of very well liked apps being built very quickly on the the Electron framework, and those of us who like C# can do so even more happily using Electron.NET. So to tl;dr this answer to your comment, yes, it’s 100% about introducing the desired framework dependency to make development easier.
Oh man, FateX 3.0 was my jam! Thanks for linking directly to that.
> Simply having a Salesforce employee vouching for them should have been rejected, as it was.

It could be handled better. If there's a disagreement from anyone in the company that hired you, you can always escalate inside that company. They could've checked the situation with someone who does have a final say in this case.
Ecosystem lock-in. I remember shortly after Twitter launched there were many copycat microblogging services and the community had grand ideas of an "SMTP for Microblogging" so Mentions, Retweets and the like would work in a distributed fashion between service-providers, you could even run your own fully federated microblog off a Raspberry Pi in your garage if you wanted.

Twitter kept themselves in the lead - not just by delivering a superior user-experience (Nazis and trolls notwithstanding...) but also cultivating a developer community in a way that kept people off rival platforms - before stabbing them in the back in recent years (e.g. no support for polls in third-party clients).

This announcement is a continuation of the strategy: Twitter is making more data about their platform available, other platforms aren't as open, so people will stick with Twitter because their data is available - and it also benefits them directly because these "Premium" APIs do cost money to access:

> Pricing for these elevated tiers of the Search Tweets API starts at $149/month
You have to go back to 55 to get legacy extensions to work.
Austrian Supreme Court orders ISPs to block “structurally-infringing” sites
> Guidance counselors, speech therapists, and teachers alike flocked to my suddenly choked speech, forming what

Well my childhood speech therapist was ironically located in a mental hospital. So in order to attend the session my mom had to drag me through "a hallway of horrors" where having to pass by patients there either staring catatonically into space, mumbling nonsense, or doing other weird stuff. Needless to say I didn't attend those for too long. But I do remember them trying the latest research techniques on me, which was a delayed audio feedback loop, not sure how effective it was, because we didn't come back after a while.

Another thing I noticed is that my cousin also stutters, wonder if it is genetic in any way. His stuttering was triggered by being scared by dog once. Don't remember why mine started.

> I substituted in place of “trouble words,”

Heh, you'd be surprised how many synonyms I know because of that. Some words don't have good synonyms, those words are to be feared and they cause extreme anxiety ... which causes even more stutter.

> and my classmates were quick to assure me that it sounded just as ridiculous as I thought.

Yeah on the plus side I guess I developed a pretty thick skin against being made fun of, as I've been made fun of constantly, well since as long as I remember.
That's foolish. The lead up time to become an expert at deep learning: Probably 6 years minimum.

No one hires people to do deep learning with 0 years experience.

Very few people with the skills you assume by default (basically anyone with programming skills) would be convinced to leave their cooshy jobs, but plenty of people with no skills or prospects would.
we had lot of great support from our 600+ user community
I assume all advantages of being married (being healthier, happier, even richer) depend on marrying the right person for you. I also assume that if a single founder already found the right person he/she is not single anymore. And I assume at last that finding the right person is not just a matter of wanting to do it.

All that to say that the article shouldnt have being framed as "advice for single founders", but as just a commentary of this social aspect of founders.
Another great piece by Matt Levine. I think legally the customers are only entitled to what they invested, but at the same time, Mt. Gox should not get that as it was profits from nefarious gains. So I think that money should go to the government as a penalty. Make the customers whole, zero out Mt Gox debt and obligations, and rest to the government.
This is why Facebook's new Non Consensual Image Program seems like a really bad idea.

The technical implementation is fine, seems reasonable, only concern is that a human has to screen every image.

The real problem is that internet users have learned "Anything you upload to the internet is as good as public." Facebook is trying to teach people a new precedent: "Images uploaded to facebook in the right way will REMOVE images from the public".

People are going to fail to read the fine print, and thousands will be phished for nudes through facebook with similar schemes.
Flash, Silverlight and Java Applets all provided APIs and functionality above and beyond what JavaScript or the browser DOM provides. WebAssembly is the opposite, as it is much more restricted than JavaScript. WASM is a sandbox inside a sandbox.
This works if there are assets to be seized, or if you are independently wealthy enough to sustain a suit despite a lack of assets.

Lawsuits are incredibly expensive. Figure $10k before going to trial, and $50k for a relatively simple case. Few or no lawyers will take such a case on contingency (plaintiff is not sufficiently flush).

I'm not saying don't do this, but you're going to want to think through the process very carefully, and be very much aware of what the process might, or might not, produce. There are downside costs that might emerge as well, including the prospect of paying the plaintiff's legal fees, and undergoing discovery yourself.

Talk to a lawyer, or several, if you like. Be aware that they also have their own incentives, and might be quite happy to run up billable hours, so long as you're good for them.
> Please don't do this. It's not worth disabling an entire security system if you can just spend some time to figure out a command to make the system work for you. Fedora even has gui tools that notify you when you encounter an SELinux issue. See stopdisablingselinux.com.

Uh, SELinux is next to useless on a typical desktop as all the applications which really concern you are running in the unconfined domain.
It's not a question of whether it's social but whether it's a 'social network'. Facebook straight up tries to model a social network - you tell FB about your relationship to other people. Reddit doesn't.
HPC stuff: https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/13/arm-benchmarks-show-...
> Who actually cares about browser speed?

Pretty much every end user, especially non-tech related end users.

It's kind of a huge deal FYI.
My point is that "they're not an ad agency" is not an argument that a company has some incentive to protect user privacy, and "they're an ad agency" is not an argument that a company is incentivized to sell user data.
"... is like saying I'm putting my company above my health."

From parent: "Ron Conway: Well I mean are you willing to work 24/7"

So, yes. That's exactly what they are saying.
Season passes are one thing, not buying a game to begin with is another. EA has a monopoly on the Star Wars license and the game itself is pretty good. So unless you never want to play another Star Wars game, you can't boycott. Your friends are probably playing too, so you miss out playing with them now. People complain and complain, but they still buy the games.
Vote them out in the next election?
> This gives us a lot more freedom of choice when making decisions about what and how to make money.

I'd argue the opposite. Mozilla seem too scared to try anything substantial because they're scared of losing the money they do get (because they aren't actively going after other sources and not trying to grow into new revenue sources). Think of e.g. tracking protection - Apple are the ones actually making moves there, not Mozilla. I wonder why...
I think the point was that PUBG is still in early access, and has been out for less than a year.

CounterStrike and Team Fortress have been full fledged releases for many years prior to reaching those numbers.

Its not the absolute number that is impressive, its how quickly it has reached comparable values with these longstanding behemoths.
You guys are crazy over there if you're afraid of "signals", whatever that means.
So... is there an official guide for downgrading back to an older version? For those of us who lost functionality?
How Analytics Drives the Golden State Warriors
OWL is a great example because there was a $20m buy in for I believe 8 teams. That's $160m in funding, with significant participation by organizations like the Kraft group. Whether it'll go anywhere is like asking if a specific well funded start-up will go anywhere, but its definitely being pushed hard.
Your company's Slack is probably sexist
Full 96 core baremetal ARM64 servers from $0.50 per hour:
https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-2a/
Or Low end VM's from 3€ month:
https://www.scaleway.com/armv8-cloud-servers/
If you charge a tiny tuition, and pay less than minimum wage, there's no reason for the student to work it off with the university. They're better off getting a job at Wal-mart. The reason this system is popular is that it provides a class of cheap, skilled labor in exchange for continuing education.
Important to whom?
Changing a single about:config setting is pretty harmless (you can just reverse the process if you need to), and callahad is a Mozilla employee. You can do it without worry.
I would agree, but I would say Venezuela was considered socialist because everyone I know of that I trust to know such things said it was a good example of socialism in action. Not because of seizing property, but because they said they were. Now we're getting the usual "it wasn't REAL socialism" as always. Granted, the socialism was being used to hide corruption (as happens with any system) but it was socialist none-the-less.
If Mozilla fold, you could still use chromium. Effectively no privacy difference between chromium and firefox tbh. (Unless you use tracking protection in private browsing, but extensions let you do the same in chromium.)
Similarly in Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia historically). The highest quality education on the elementary- and high-school level happened outside the school system.

So if anyone wants to reproduce this strategy, they should give up on schools completely, and create a parallel system of education. Make it fun, allow competition (with no penalties for not being good enough; you just don't get the medal), and keep it voluntary.

For the remaining 99% of population... probably something like Hejny method:
https://www.h-mat.cz/en/hejny-method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm0xsBjdMe4
Probably because they a. haven't thought of it but if they have b. because SAAS makes money from people leaving subscriptions they're not really using running.

It's a nice idea and might be clever to present to a user as an alternative during a cancel/delete flow.
That might just be the most controversial post on the internet, if indeed it exists.
Seems like you can easily correlate the 'drinking culture' of a work place/field with these accusations then, yeah?
I made a crawler https://github.com/jahaynes/crawler

It outputs to the warc file format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive), in case your workflow is to gather web pages and then process them afterwards.
Agreed. Yeah I noticed this pattern when someone else was being quiet, others including me unfortunately thought at first they are being either mean, aloof, or alternatively not interested, which later found out they were just shy and introverted. But by then the damage was already done, people form an opinion quickly based on first impressions.
Skeleton in the closet. MS Office vulnerability you didn’t know about
Quotes you should live by
The author doesnt seem to know much about startups or women. Infact my guess is that he gets everything exactly wrong. This is 'sounds good' advice which is horribly wrong.

The single biggest problem most single founders will find is actually trying to date in the first place. Most women arent keen to marry founders at all. If a single founder does in fact marry, he will have a very hard time keeping the marriage or focussing on his startup whenever he has monetary issues. Single founders putting marriage off can be a very sane decision most of the times.
Yes! There have been lots of discussions about how to fix this issue. Mobile app, but also a bluetooth earpiece and independent device in the pocket, etc. My encouragement is to focus on cost. The technology behind the SpeechEasy is 1950s tech. Surely something could be made off the shelf that works just as good, for a lot, lot less.
Isn't this what Electron is for? Why do this?
Are you familiar with Defense Distributed, DEFCAD, and the Ghost Gunner? That stuff is already here. Every time I hear someone talk about banning "high capacity magazines" I think how trivial something like that is to 3d print...
I think the author is not aware that the general trend of marriage, at least in the United States, is happening later than ever before for both young men and women.

Nobody lives in a vacuum, and there will be drastic demographic changes in the United States. If you have a culture where even looking at a woman is construed as harassment, this is the result. Let's not forget about being saddled by mountains of uncancellable college debt. I'd rate this article a solid C+; pseudointellectual tier.
What data store do you work on?
I know plenty of folks who've ridden motorcycles helmetless for years without any issue.

It's a collection of script written in a non-idempotent manner, and run in an uncontrolled, undefined environment. The benefit of binary packages is that you have a reasonable idea that the package will consistently build in a well defined environment (the base build chroot for the OS + the defined dependencies in the package). The result is a consistent reproducible binary that means when you run version x.y.z it's the same as version x.y.z that I'm running, and the same as version x.y.z that the package maintainer is running.

When software is "packaged" via install scripts that fetch and build from the internet on the fly with loosely defined versions, you stand a lot of risk of breaking your environment. If you only spend time in toy environments playing games and looking at cat pictures, that's fine.

If you rely on the tools you work with to be stable, perform in a consistent manner, and not accidentally leak information about your environment (you'd be shocked by how many test suites will post your local environment variables out to arbitrary metrics collection points), then pre-build binary packages are a safe and reliable way to operate.

You can have fun letting the wind blow through your hair; I'll keep my helmet on, thanks.
Who believes the Earth is flat? As far as I'm aware, nobody does and nobody ever did. The belief in flat earthers is ironically stronger and more like a conspiracy theory than the belief in a flat Earth.
> Does the ad network provided content change? Yes, constantly. Does the content provider even know who ultimately will be putting crap on their web page via the ads? No.

Whoa! hold on a sec.. code inside a browser != Ad network, when people insert ads into programs outside of web browsers you will have the same issue, only potentially worse because you wont know if they properly sand-boxed them.
Cloudron 1.8 released – Docker upgrade, restrict app access to users
Try forgot password?
Ah, it works for github.com but not for google. Seems like an issue with the google login page.
It's an optimisation. It can be turned off when debugging with stack traces. If you need stack traces in production code, you have too many partial functions.
I interviewed at 50 companies and got 3 offers.
Fedora has been by far the most perfect out-of-the-box experience for my thinkpad machines: t460s and e430. It is stable, lightweight and it doesn't get in the way. I mainly use for python and go development, docker and browsing.
How a Trove of Nazi Art Wound Up Under Lock and Key on an Army Base in Virginia
Just click on the gear on the "New tab" page, you can disable recommended by pocket.
That’s 4.7, not 7.
Firefox Quantum feels very fast, but addon support is disappointing :(

+ uBlock Origin
- Self-Destructing Cookies
- YesScript
- Video DownloadHelper
- Save Session
The new is that you can now get a support contract from RedHat for RHEL on ARM64. It has been possible to run it for a long time without such support.
Unless you use patched version like Ungoogled Chromium, not really.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium