skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever they are, they suck. Actually what sucks is not them specifically, but the reason because they exist.

Ferro makes the whole process more natural, at least.
It’s a completely testable and falsifiable hypothesis. The original commenter seemed to be dismissing the hypothesis based on an anecdote that he thought falsified the hypothesis and I was pointing out that it does not. Of course any hypothesis that cannot be falsified is not worth entertaining.
The quantity of nuclear waste is rather small: on the order of an ounce per person per year.

FUD is the bigger problem.

> I'd prefer solving that problem first, before creating incentives to produce ever more nuclear waste.

I think that makes about as much sense as insisting on a better storage solution before we waste any more time looking at these solar or wind things.
Liability was a lot clearer there - it was a Russian government satellite, launched by the Russians.

Here we've got a satellite owned by an American company launched by an Indian rocket. The US is likely to say "the Indians shouldn't have launched it!" India's likely to say "it's an American satellite!"
Eh, even the official rules for people AFACT[0] only require that the colors be distinct; special exceptions are also afforded for people with visual disabilities.

[0] https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#article-3-...
Who makes the distinction of how much achievement is too much?

For some strange reason The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather pops into my head as a counterpoint to TFA.
He has a hypothesis based on his limited observations. He's just doing the scientific method
Interesting, what does the node express app do?
The generators are connected to the grid, both for buying & selling but it is absolutely not true they don’t manage the ebbs & flows. Quit the opposite it’s a major part of their business
Not really. Arch has a strict upstream rule, they avoid patching or maintiain dead shit. So when the hellish time when KDE4.0 came out, they released it immediately. Anyone upgrading on a 3.5 system was severely disadvantages
> Palantir's job is to take massive amounts of data and make it intelligible using visualization and search tools.

You just described Google and many other tech companies. There's nothing illegal about that.
Is gravity, fundamentally quantum? I thought the jury was still out
Zoos and Science Museums Are Giving Species 'Amazon Reviews' on Twitter
The Unruh Effect
I've had doctors prescribe 10k IU vitamin D. Mine was really low and i have auto-immune thyroiditis. Vitamin D works really well for auto-immune disease for me. It has gone.
We noticed that all of the fast Rubik's Cube solvers were using stepper motors and thought that we could do better if we used better motors

It looks like they're using brushed DC motors, which reminds me of what happened with inkjet printers --- they originally used stepper motors for both axes, but then switched to a DC motor + encoder because it was both cheaper and faster while being just as accurate.
If they had pointed that out, it would have been included, and thereby pointed out.

My point is that it was omitted.

And that it seems dishonest to omit it when making a comparison with renewable against reactor designs yet to be tested while battery prices fall through the floor.
I think this is the correct way to do this in a Python codebase where procedural programming is the dominant paradigm, but that's not really what my previous post is about.

EDIT: Also c'mon man. This is not a problem that you need to Google. :P
Everyone suggesting to use a bigger and/or more random string are missing the point that your average user won't do that. As a sort of computer nerd, my master password is 46 characters from the full set of letters, numbers, symbols and in both cases. It took me a week to memorise it flawlessly. Do we really think a regular user will take this effort? Instead they will continue using their simple, short passwords (if they set a MP at all. Most won't), which is why the article is right that a resistant hashing algo like argon2 can only improve security. The issue is not protecting users whose systems have malware. That's obviously a battle lost before its even begun. The issue is someone gaining access to your password DB and then being able to brute-force within reasonable time, which the current key derivation allows and a stronger algorithm can plug that weakness. Presumably the changes are not complicated or labour intensive, so the fact it is an open bug since almost a decade is unfortunate.
AFAIK the first view of the center core splashdown at 1:13 - https://youtu.be/A0FZIwabctw?t=1m10s
Wonderfully said. Though, I think Facebook's efforts this quarter are worthwhile. They have billions of users and a near unfathomable fraction of the world's people logged in. When they turn back the dials, are they really more likely to lose than to make a difference in the world?
It's the --depth option for git clone/fetch: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#git-clone---depthltde...
One take on working in some of the major tech companies
The current administration will be gone in a few years, and will be a lame-duck administration by November, so it's they're not really going to have a long-term impact on it.

America needs to replace all it's coal and gas plants immediately with non-carbon energy, as well as replacing all gasoline/diesel vehicles with electric ones. This should happen sooner rather than later. Electric car tech is completely ready to go, and all cars can be electric by the next model cycle, which normally takes about 6-8 years of development time.

And then we have to be able to remove the released carbon from the atmosphere once we convert to non-carbon energy, which is another project...
Nuclear produces far less waste, so I think your analogy is backwards.

That waste is nasty, but the quantity is really small.
France had been recycling waste for decades.

The US is building the Yucca facility, but politics have held it up. Generally, the nuclear waste problem is political not technical.

And once nuclear waste becomes more than an academic question, the solution will magically appear.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...
Something similar happened with a drug: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir#Polymorphism_and_t...
Got it - thanks, that's interesting. I'll probably check out how that worked.
Timely; we just started Blue Apron about a month ago. I'm concerned about the waste; particularly the freezer packs.. It would be good if they kept you topped up on bulk items like you mentioned: Vinegar, Soy, rice, noodles(noodles and rice last forever!). Just let them know what you are low on and they top you up.

I'm going to have to look into Walmart kits. I can swing buy for a weeks worth of meals and not need to have all those freezer packs to deal with...
Visual Studio Code with the LaTeX Workshop addon is definitely my favorite LaTeX editor. The integration with the Chktex linter, latexmk, git, and all that jazz just makes it so much easier to focus on writing.

For research management I had been using Mendeley for a while and got a bit frustrated with the way it handled bibtex. Like it got really annoying when I had papers which fell into multiple categories and/or were used in multiple papers. My new setup is to use JabRef to manage individual bibtex files for specific projects and to use Mendeley just for document management and notes.

Oh also PyCharm is extremely good.
For people wondering, it's "What We Believe".
Just a dumb layman question: can gravitons (assuming they exist) escape a black hole?
Can't you knock a person by walking? Or by shouting and spooking them? Or by making a funny face?

Are children allowed to ride bikes on sidewalks in your country/state/city? If so, can't they murder someone with that bike?
BreadBot is an insanely over-engineered gadget just for baking loaves of bread
Meh. Debian user of at least 15 years here. I found Arch quite refreshing, in that the setup felt like a modern Slackware (eg Wicd back when NetworkMangler was super-opaque). But the updates still made me queasy.
Unfortunately, without a legitimate method of disposing of nuclear waste today (despite France reprocessing some nuclear waste, they still bury large amounts underground) at the scale we've generated it, I'll continue to oppose nuclear power and advocate for renewables and battery storage.

Nuclear advocates hand wave away the waste concerns as "solvable", yet they're never solved. You can't craft policy in such a way, as it's just yet another example of kicking the can to future generations. If you can prove that recycling facilities are in place and ready to accept waste on day 1 of a new facility coming online, that would be cause to advocate for nuclear.
From what I understand of the article, it is still totally undecided, and that is what this experiment aims to address, although it still won't provide any insight as to the exact quantum nature of gravity. It will merely decide if it is indeed quantised. And even there, Freeman Dyson appears to disagree (according to the article)...
Someone in Sydney posted fake notice boards saying after date X, all joggers should start wearing helmets by law.

I somehow find this thread highly related to it.
It's not FUD when nuclear waste is already leaking in some places. Other stuff is stored in unsafe caves and the like, if not right in the open. You may call it a "small quantity per person", but it is already more than can be stored safely at present. And don't forget about the "little" problem of containing the Tschernobyl reactor. Or the difficulties in even accessing the fuel rods of Fukushima.

The disposal of waste associated with renewable energy is a lot easier. It doesn't irradiate anything, it doesn't kill people, even when disposed of improperly. The comparison is just ridiculous.
What did he end up doing for a job?
For someone without disk encryption (many people, maybe most?), the encrypted database can be acquired if the machine is stolen while off. I would very much expect setting a master password to protect against that (at least unless other unencrypted personal information is used to take over accounts). With remote compromise of the system it is presumably possible to access the key if the browser is running via debuggers, it is at least a bit more work.
You haven't heard of sociobology? It's the study of social interaction patterns among oboe players.
Top Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics (2016)
It's kind of entertaining that you mostly said the same thing as the person you replied to, but apparently don't realize it.
I initially like Mendeley but ran into problems over time. I've tried half a dozen options out there and found www.paperpile.com to be my favorite.
When to Talk Features vs. When to Talk Benefits – ART and Marketing
It sounds like it should mean something but it doesn't.
Energy losses from this scenario are high enough that there are probably other usage scenarios that would beat it. It's certainly the case that there are already many peak-storage solutions deployed and none of them involve hydrogen.
Distributed battery storage is getting cheaper than upgrading the interconnects right now though. Never mind the generation, it is getting cheaper than the wire.
It's not economically effective to run a supercomputer only during peak times.
> The whole contraption is a black box.

That’s not true: there are massive amounts we can glean. Perhaps not as easy as reading the disassembly, but not black box.

That link is far outdated/superseded by modern research:

https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/
Frequently Asked Things (/r/whatisthisthing)
It's a simplified explanation.

http://visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=6507_Decode_ROM

> Note that the lower two bits are always XX - the decode ROM doesn't actually check these, but check a cooked version of these bits instead.
New traces of Hacking Team in the wild
Technically correct, if the ball of money is large enough.
I've found a lot of these explanations to be a lot harder to understand with words, and painfully obvious explained visually.

This diagram makes it a lot simpler:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sverker_Sikstroem/publi...
Why don't you stop opening so many tabs. People complain about memory usage by chrome and other browsers but at the same time they are the ones that are using tabs as bookmarks instead of actually using bookmarks. 100tabs open out which 50 they will probably never go back to.
Note that he's not using a carbon price. It's definitely the case that using waste heat from a thermal plant is a big plus. But using natural gas in Japan, which imports all of its natural gas under high-priced long-term contracts, is not cheap.
git, gitgutter, and sendcode should be on the list. git allows you to add, branch, commit, push/pull, etc. in subilme. gitcutter shows lines modified, added, and removed. Sendcode allows you to send a selected line to the terminal.
I don't think so. Douglas Hofstadter in GEB, also makes a similar claim. I tried listening to Bach many times and found it laborious. Same would be true for a western listener to suddenly tune to MS Subbulakshmi singing 'Nagumomomu' or Kunnakudi teeing off 'Pranamamyaham' with Valayapatti.

I may have started with the wrong tracks or may be not, but the bottom line is that I didn't find much common to relate to. At the very minimum, the tracks sounded structured and mathematical which is why I was surprised by the description of them being emotional. Until now I was under the impression that at least emotional appeal crosses cultural barriers.

Appreciating pinnacles of music in any tradition requires cultural attunement, exposure to prior works of art, familiarity with the idioms of expression etc., OTOH music that have pan-cultural appeal are often primal and simplistic. I am not entirely sure whether one is better than the other.
When I ran an Ubuntu desktop, I ran Chrome in a container in order to limit its memory use.

(I now run Chrome in a Ubuntu VM under bhyve on FreeBSD, which has the same memory limiting effect, plus giving me U2F support when I pass a USB controller through to the VM)
Uthash: a hash table for C structures
API versioning and evolution with proxies
I think it depends on the type of autoimmune disease. Some are fairly obvious, such as alopecia areata.
I like it a lot better than Eclipse, so yes, I think you should try it.
Good catch. First time I see it as well.
Tesla is abandoning that model. And note that the overwhelming majority of their grid battery business is selling to power companies, not consumers.
>The US has a great many resources; natural, produced and human capital. There are absolutely organised groups (some are nation states, some less powerful) that would come over and take those resources away if there was an opportunity.

Like the US did rape and pillage all over the world? Toppling regimes, bribing politicians, committing massacres, for the sake of the rich and powerful in the US?
The parent comment didn't say that, so who knows what they meant.
Ah yes, the freedom army, "liberating" peoples from their oil.
Solar power underproduces at night and makes more in the day.
One-off PSA screening for prostate cancer does not save lives
Why would anyone want to work for someone where the applicant's name is relevant? Think of it as a filter to get rid of shitty employers.

As someone who hates pictures, I never smile for them either. I find the grammatical errors mentioned elsewhere much more important.
I think the attorney might well have been trying to bluff the judge, too.
It's not often that you specifically state "I will now proceed to give you these monies so that I may receive the following services from you in return". You "donate" to campaigns, you go to fundraisers, with the understanding that once they are elected you will come knocking to ask for a "small favour" in return...
I agree on that first point. The goal is not to attract the maximum number of job seekers. Driving away people who would be unhappy is good.

I suspect that "always bringing politics into the job" and "bringing non work related stuff into the job" are not the real cause of your dislike. Can you confirm that you would reject both Google and Facebook due to being excessively political? We're far less political at work than they are. We didn't fire our Bernie supporter.

There are no red flags. We exclusively fly the American flag.

I keep seeing that people suspect a lack of a salary range indicates nefarious intent, but it's not like that. User rb808 had it right in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555622 when he commented that "if you put a typical range you wont get the best people. If you put a high number out you get every nutter in town applying."

I did drop a few hints which you ignored, but the salary range spans more than 6 dB. Everybody seems to underestimate us, and glassdoor's obsolete data doesn't help, but that isn't totally a bad thing. I have no interest in wasting time on people who just spam all the job ads that offer large salaries. I get enough spammy stuff as it is... no, web development experience isn't going to cut it.

The value that you provide to one company is not the same as the value that you provide to another company. Consider two companies and two developers. One developer does C++11 and one company wants that. One developer does C# and one company wants that. Applying to the matching companies, perhaps both people are offered $200,000. Applying to the non-matching companies, perhaps both people are offered $100,000. There is no reason to be offended or assume nefarious intent when you get a low offer during a career change. Heart surgeons and stock traders may both get paid well, but a heart surgeon who switches his career to stock trading should not expect prior experience and pay to be at all related to value in the new career.
Well, from his homepage/portfolio on JCU he doesn't seem a "casual passer by" or an "armchair critic":

https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/peter.ridd/

The article (co-authored with Piers Larcombe) that backs the statement in the interview that seemingly started it all is linked to among the other papers related to the litigation:

https://platogbr.wordpress.com/serious misconduct /

it is this one (pdf):

https://platogbr.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/larcombe-and-ri...

It doesn't seem to me at first sight particularly "aggressive" or "anticollegial", right or wrong I have seen several similar arguments about the "bad quality" and the "non-reproducibility" of studies:

ABSTRACT
Research science used to inform public policy decisions, herein deﬁned as “Policy-Science”, is rarely subjected to
rigorous checking, testing and replication. Studies of biomedical and other sciences indicate that a considerable
fraction of published peer-reviewed scientiﬁc literature, perhaps half, has signiﬁcant ﬂaws. To demonstrate the
potential failings of the present approaches to scientiﬁc Quality Control (QC), we describe examples of science
associated with perceived threats to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia. There appears a serious risk of
efforts to improve the health of the GBR being directed inefficiently and/or away from the more serious threats.
We suggest the need for a new organisation to undertake quality reviews and audits of important scientiﬁc
results that underpin government spending decisions on the environment. Logically, such a body could also
examine policy science in other key areas where governments rely heavily upon scientiﬁc results, such as
education, health and criminology.
Specially, any ball larger than 0.05 solar mass will start a self sustaining fusion reaction.
> 62 miles (100 km) altitude is where the border lies.

This is incorrect on several levels (which, of course, did not prevent you from downvoting my post):

* The Outer Space Treaty does not have a definition of the boundary. Here it is, go ahead, look it up: http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/oute.... It's hardly a "law" (technically, a treaty is not a law either), more of a set of guidelines and some more concrete restrictions to solve some Cold War issues.

* You are referring to the Kármán line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line) which is commonly referred to as a boundary between the atmosphere and the outer space.

* On the other hand, the United States considers an "astronaut" anyone who has flown over 50 miles (80 km) above the surface.

You already see the discrepancy, don't you?

Most importantly though, both "boundaries" are merely working benchmarks, without any legal authority.

The actual boundaries are determined by national laws. I have no doubt that many, if not most national laws have no such boundaries defined at all. (Heck, if the US doesn't have a solid definition, then who does?)

Finally:

> It's still a categorical "not" as far as international law goes

What is that "international law"? Not the Outer Space Treaty, I presume? If you seriously believe that China openly violated a specific law, I'd be curious to know what law it was.

Generally speaking, "law" is an enforceable set of rules. The "international law" is, sans special cases like war crimes, a misnomer.

Even if we look at something more mundane and reachable like maritime borders, which are more or less firmly defined, they've been disputed a bajillion times (for example, Spratly Islands) or simply ignored or "freely interpreted" (Russia's Arctic exploration).

I maintain, we have a gray zone here.
So, what happens when you have lots of well funded Hari Seldons, each with a completely different idea of what the foundation should be?
Answering questions one doesn't like is better than voting them down.
> He repeatedly refers to pieces that the author he's commenting on didn't write, simply because they appeared in the same magazine.

The author you mention is the editor in chief of said magazine, not simply someone whose writings share a platform. Taken in context, I think that's relevant to Alexander's point; even if we disagree on that, I still think it's misleading for you not to mention it.

> At the end of it, I'm no closer to knowing what it is Alexander actually thinks about racism.

This is a rebuttal to a rebuttal to what Alexander actually thinks about racism, not the post where Alexander writes what he actually thinks about racism.

Finally,

> "not necessarily a white supremacist blog, but surely a favorite among educated white supremacists"

That's a non sequitur and ad hominem. If educated white supremacists enjoy the New York Times — because lots of people enjoy the NYT — would you use that to snark at the NYT? If not, then be more precise about what you mean regarding this blog having any link to white supremacists. (edit: As written, it's a motte and bailey. You get to have the dig at SSC — "linked to white supremacy!" — but if anyone calls you on it you get to retreat to "but it's literally true!")
Naturally. Do you know where it exists though?

Because the Kármán line is not the border.
I expected that Firefox uses KDF with big iteration count. Unfortunately it isn't true: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524403