skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the real problem with Thorium is that salt eventually corrodes just about everything, which makes building a reactor that uses molten radioactive salt a bit of a sketchy long-term proposition.
Severance is extremely common outside Silicon Valley and even outside of tech. Even people in (skilled) factory jobs usually get severance when laid off. It's mainly a hedge against getting sued rather than goodness of heart, but it's still common.
Would you care to rephrase what you have written?
I just quit without another job to go to - although admittedly I have a plan :-)
"What would you do with the money if you won $25,000,000 in the lottery?"

There. Just saved you n dollars where n is the number of times you want to play that game.
Please provide actual examples.

A century ago newspapers were under incredibly tight constraints. Printing and typesetting was an expensive and non-trivial process so article length was severely constrained. And because printing took so long it required articles to be written and edited on a very demanding schedule. As to magazines and books, that's an entirely different matter.
And potential of 10 years in jail...
I just finished building a credit risk ML classifier in the company I work for. The model will be used to define if we lend or not money to people/companies.

Adding profiling features does give more accurate predictions. However, I pitched not using these features as a competitive advantage to the founders and they (luckily) agreed. We won’t be using them, and we ended up (with more work of course) getting a similar performant model without them.

We can and should try to not use those kinds of features and be as fair as possible.
Printed Solid dropping Creality printers due to GPL non-compliance
Shavian alphabet
It isn't that bad honestly.
Formal systems aren't just about mechanizing mathematical work to make it a subject of software engineering. (Though this is a useful and probably underdeveloped outcome.) They also turn mathematical work itself into mathematical objects which one can reason about, which opens the door to metamathematics, i.e. the ability to reason mathematically about aspects of mathematics itself.
This is biased because the coin being heads only made people 11% more likely to do so, so most of the factor in whether they made the leap was whether they were going to anyway. The causality may not be the change => :-), but instead change+ready+motivated => :-)

The title might be better as "If you’re pretty sure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should"
No, McCain was very much a Republican by policy positions; sure, he wasn't completely lockstep, but outside of rhetoric he'd usually fall into the standard Republican position in substance. His notable maverick positions weren't mostly in between the typical R & D positions but instead things that were controversial in both parties.

Yeah, post-Trump he may seem to have been in the wrong party, but post-Trump even much of the conservative establishment is questioning the Republican Party (George Will encouraging conservatives to vote for Democrats in the midterms, for instance.)
Counter opinion:

Hazelwood Power Station was decommissioned under the watch of a Liberal government.

The station was listed as the least carbon efficient power station in the OECD in a 2005 report by WWF Australia, making it one of the most polluting power stations in the world.[3] At 1.56 tonnes of CO2 for each megawatt hour of electricity, it was 50% more polluting than the average black coal power station in New South Wales or Queensland. Hazelwood emitted 14% of Victoria's annual greenhouse gas emissions and 3% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_Power_Station
At least with people there is someone you could possibly ask and get an answer. No such luck with a black box algorithm.
Is it a logically incorrect choice for many people thought? Say you have the establishment candidate says "tough shit" and you believe them because they are reliable. Then you have the anti establishment candidate says "im going to help you" and you value that at a 0.1% chance of happening because the candidate is incredibly unreliable.

Wouldn't you chose the anti establishment candidate at that point? Yea, he'll probably be just as shitty, but at least there's a chance? I'm against Trump but I'm not surprised at all that large swathes of America voted for him. You can't tell people to follow a system that garuntees their life will be worse in the future and be surprised when they lash out for any sort of improvement
No one is saying to quit your job right this instant with no plan.
"The Chickenshit Club" is a good book. The prosecution team head made the point that if a white-collar prosecutor isn't losing some cases, they're not going after the hard ones.
That's a scary looking URL. Not seen .as before, habd - what does that mean? And the word "dark". I'd recommend hosting something on Github for the feint at heart.
History of Lisp (1979)
I was just being a bit pessimistic about human nature saying that every "little bit helps" idea might not be a given and it could have a negative effect as well.

I hope I am wrong of course and people will be more engaged and care about the environment, but people's behavior is not intuitive and obvious sometimes.
Certainly rational people play the lottery, but I would argue that less rational people play proportionally more often and buy more tickets.
If either their employer or their SO are sleuthing their private accounts looking for dirt, that only makes it clearer that they need to leave.
Xoodoo cookbook [pdf]
Or just that quitting your job/ending a relationship can both be extremely stressful in the short term, and people fear going through that harsh period even if they hope to be better off after.
That seems a bit like the modem isolation and monitoring features of the Neo900, which isn't yet available:

https://neo900.org/
I don't know specifically about why 4.18.x hasn't entered sid (unstable) yet but generally this means that uploading to sid may break other packages in some way, or the new version has something new that is still not packaged, integrated and tested properly with the rest of unstable packages.
I liked it. It made me happy and sad.
Before getting there, you should first ensure you have a strong supply of educated and competent replacements. To maximize this, you should have free public education for all. Secondly, you’d also want to level the field wrt to visibility: money, lobbying, campaign contributions. Just ban it all.

Term limits is the last of your problems
Maybe early adopters will set up their own charging infrastructure? Seams feasible if you limit it to few routes.
The amazing thing is that the black magic gets results (for certain categories of problems).
Romney was also great at losing to Democrats.
Protactinium
Neutralinojs v1.0.4-alpha released
> People don't like paying more for the same thing.

I think this is right, and it applied to your milk. For example I would be shocked if the price of milk was doubled from AU$3 to AU$6 here, but at say 3 cartons a week the total cost of that would be about $40 a week. Whereas if I have to pay another $40 a week due to an interest rate rise I'd take it. It's a weird psychological thing (makes it hard to live in another country!)

> Does the owner want to be rich or king?

Another option is to work for a company (ideally contract work) that doesn't have a single owner or small cohort of owners. This would be a large corporation.
> I often wonder how many problems would be fixed by adding a 2 term limit to the House and Senate.

The only “problem” solved would be that of occasionally having people that are even nominally accountable to the electorate who have the experience and skills in the system and the personal powerbase to standup to the permanent class of lobbyists and other unaccountable, interested experts.
The important thing the linked article shows is that even if you're always investing right before crashes the market still trends upwards and you still come out ahead — as long as you don't panic sell.
I agree with @gurumeditations who made a comment about how much padding / fluff articles tend to have in them and that for the majority of online articles it's more of an annoyance than anything that adds to the content.

Personally, I can't skim read - I've never been able to. I've always have to read word by word which can really affect my reading speed. This I've learnt over the years has had both positive and negatives as you might imagine.

In school it was a big negative, if something didn't hold my interest - bugger it - I wasn't going to waste my time and would get in trouble, but if it was interesting to me I'd spend the time and generally understand the content very well. In later life I've found myself to rely on article summaries to decide if I need to read the full source or not.

Reading a novel takes me a lot longer (say 2-4 weeks) than say my Grandfather who in his 90s smashes out 4-5 novels a week with great ease and while still leading a busy life, however he was saying to me that whenever he skim reads he knows he doesn't taken in as much information from the text and for him it's more about enjoyment of reading 'in the moment' rather than post-reading pondering of the book which I tend to do a lot more of.

Personally I find reading books on an e-ink screen a _lot_ quicker than an LCD screen like my iPad Pro and a still a little quicker than reading a physical book probably down to page turns and object weight.
Yeah, maybe. I think it would be super corrosive to party politics. Cooperation is mandatory. It's just not possible to pass anything without reaching across the aisle.

I'd assert that things that need to change would have broad support, and that change would happen. Stuff without broad support, well, maybe that's not as important as we think it is.

i mean, sure. the American reinvestment act wouldn't have passed - and a bunch of the other stimulus packages. Of course, glass steagall wouldn't have been repealed in the first place.

I think if you want anything to be resistant to byzantine failure, it's making laws. shrug. They didn't ask me.
"Job quitting and breaking up both carry very large, positive, and statistically significant coefficients at six months. Going on a diet is positive and statistically significant at two months, but has a small and insignificant impact by six months. "

Guy breaks up with girl
Goes gym (2 months)
Guy finds girl (6 months)

I'm sure we have these chemicals which effect emotion to be overtly opportunistic about life around periods with new sexual partners to encourage reproduction. But I'm just an alien
Current UK advice is to not give your children alcohol until they're 18.

But they say this is because almost everyone who has an alcohol use disorder started drinking before they were 18.

I'm not sure they've got the causal direction correct.
Cryptographic Definitions and an Analysis of Helios, Helios-C, and JCJ
The point being that algo correctness is relevant you are writing code, and communication effectiveness is what you care about when you deal with mass communication.
> The (apparent) view that the people who spend the most time working on Elm are not people, but unfeeling robots who exist to create and distribute free software in their free time, and then to take unlimited amounts of verbal abuse on their own forum. If they respond to this verbal abuse by exercising moderator powers like banning, that makes them tyrants.

> The core team has spent countless hours discussing these topics again and again. People get exhausted explaining and re-explaining themselves until they are blue in the face. Honestly, posts like this are what makes contributors want to quit

This is a disappointing mindset for them to have. If people have questions about design decisions, and express dismay about the real-world effects those design decisions have on them as production users of the software, then it's an opportunity to convert those passionate users into engaged contributors to the core, rather than considering them as abusive adversaries. If you are explaining things until you are blue in the face, that's a bug in your documentation - and sure, bugs are frustrating, but it's the sign of an effective developer to not let them cause emotional distress. (And while the original post was direct in its depiction of the BDFL, it was far from toxic in its wording, and not meant to be an ad hominem attack.)

Instead, the thread is locked, the poster is confused, there's even a slimmer chance of the blogger reintegrating into the community to stave off these types of issues in future releases, and the language is worse off for all of that.
The point of surviving is not to last forever; it is to last longer. Feeling slightly depressed that your civilization may undergo changes during the next hundred years or that your species may not be able to last until the end of time is a privilege of living in an abundant, technologically advanced society. To paraphrase Stein's law and one of its corollaries: Something that can't go on forever, won't, but it can go on for longer than you think.

The reason why everyone points to Western Rome as an example of fleeting success (forgetting that its eastern part survived for an additional millennium), is that it was the last empire to go out with a real boom. As a counter-example, you could point to the British empire, whose heritage is still alive and well: We are discussing using its language and it is still a part of the G7. The same goes for the Roman language, which is still one of the world's most spoken, just under another name (Spanish). And you probably have dinosaur descendants living in your city, in the form of birds. Things survive, and so will we.

Worrying about imminent ecological collapse is as old as the industrial revolution. Thomas Malthus postulated that agricultural yields would not be able to keep up with population growth. But here we are, more than two hundred years later, better equipped than ever to tackle the challenges ahead of us. I am certain that we will make it out alive, as long as we keep up our good work.
This is the problem. Low quality journalism and lack of trust.

How do you know if this article is actually good and worth your time? You don't, and the last 20 articles you read are crap. In fact modern journalism is so bad, that once in a week I'll come across a real article, well-structured, providing good background, written by a knowledgeable individual that understands the subject, and oh my, the difference is incredible. I had forgotten journalism can be that good. You know, actually useful.

The way to fix is is to financially support good journalism. It's not easy (there isn't a good system built for this, how many subscriptions can you really pay for?) but it's definitely possible.
According to an older ocw version of this course [1], you need "General ease with algorithms, elementary number theory and discrete probability". You can learn these from MIT's own ocw's excellent "Mathematics for Computer Science" [2] and "Introduction to Algorithms" [3].

For a gentler intro to crypto, I am planning to do Cristof Paar's course first, given that he takes his time to carefully explain all the math; there is a youtube list with all the lectures [4] and a course webpage [5]. In case any further encouragement is needed, according to a blog posting "Matasano Crypto Challenges, Set 5" [6]: "This set was surprisingly easy, actually. The book Understanding Cryptography by Paar & Pelzl is an excellent intro to the basic maths needed for crypto — namely, the group theory and number theory necessary for RSA and Diffie-Hellman."

Now that I am at it, here are some HN links you may find helpful if planning to learn crypto, in no particular order:

Rolling Your Own Crypto (DON'T!) [7]

Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest [8]

The most dangerous code in the world [9]

BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS [10]

NaCl: DJB’s new crypto library [11]

JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful [12]

Cryptographic Right Answers [13]

Ask HN: Current Crypto Best Practices [14]

Mathematical Cryptology [15]

Ask HN: What are the best books for learning information security? [16]

Of course, there are also the courses Bohne's CS255, Rivest's 6.857 and many others, and the books Cryptography Engineering, Introduction to Modern Cryptography etc ... Harvard's [pdf] https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/cs127/fall13/conclusi... is a good guide.

Good times for learning!

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jrku-ebl3H50FiEPr4e...

[5] http://www.crypto-textbook.com/

[6] https://raywang.tech/2017/04/21/set5-writeup/

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221923

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940665

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695350

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12863699

[11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704689

[12] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7903720

[13] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748400

[14] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14041827

[15] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7795958

[16] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11710028
How big it is of a problem? Sodium alloys do the same, if not worse, but industry had metallurgy solutions to deal with it for last 50 years.
Typo in HN title: it's 'protactinium', not 'proactinium'
as I recall, normal disposal regularly involves shipping it out to landfills or other countries - essentially a large “not in my back yard” supply chain.

Once there, it worms itself back into the environment, part of which is the ocean.
Launch of IdeasPlatter. Request for feedback
During my graduate career, I got close to quitting a life of hard lonely work and moving to SV to join the grind over there. Sounds like the thing they advocate right? Well I didn't, and now I can put PhD next to my name, I make a comfortable salary, and am the happiest I've ever been.

In my early twenties, frustratingly surrounded by many hot girls, especially ones who showed interest in me, I considered breaking up with my girlfriend (whom which I was in a long distance relationship, which added pressure) at the time to experience more. I mean, I won't be 24 forever. Love is great, but experience is a part of life too, right?

Well, I stuck with her. I've traveled around the world with her and we're eventually planning for marriage once I can permanently move to be with her. I am the happiest I've ever been.

BTW, finding out that staying in both cases would end up being the right decision took a while, it's really on looking back years later that I realize which decisions were right or wrong.

One of the things I think I can actually attribute to wisdom that can come with age is this idea: you know only in the short term what you want, what you like to eat, what kind of hobbies you like, etc., but you don't really know what you fundamentally or deeply want in terms of career, lifestyle, etc. You really don't, so second guessing yourself isn't something like "falling short" because the default should be super sure of what you want. It just means you're not sure.
Employees who feel respected are more grateful for–and loyal to–their firms
CrypTool Book
I'm sorry you're about to have a big death event. I just saw an article posted on here about it. I feel bad for the fishies.
Yeah I have no idea why this is being downvoted.

Not to mention this is IF plastics make it to landfills in the first place.
How one can logically come to the conclusion that a guy making billions in highly regulated industry is actually anti-establishment.
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article." - Nathan Poe
> Kind of supports the notion that this is a private group project and others can use it, but are not welcome to participate.

Native's existence was an implementation detail. no one using it didn't know it was likely to go away if they read anything about it from core. it was undocumented, but where you could find any documentation it said very clearly not to use it. people used it anyway. I was one. but I knew going in that it would likely disappear.

> why was the version number then a minor increase (at least according to commonly accepted understanding, i.e. semver) and not a 0.20 or whatever else, especially if there are breaking API changes.

https://semver.org/#spec-item-4

you not understanding semver doesn't make elm bad
Just let the power centers decide what's ethical and what's not. If the social power brokers massively promote and subsidize X, then surely it must be ethical?

I'll take unsubsidized crowd wisdom.
Your comment lacks substance.

Care to explain why you have an issue with my analogy?
There's no "revolving door" for prosecutors. Time was that career prosecutors were in the minority (DoJ plus US Atty's offices). That is no longer the case. The result is that there's less experienced new blood and the groupthink of the inevitable bubble.
Hmm care to show high level execs of say HSBC being prosecuted for money laundering?
Those candidates were more “hip” to older demographics because those people actually lived through those wars and knew what it meant to serve in those wars.
Back in uni, a friend of mine interned at a place that was basically like yours. Just one guy running everything by himself.

Obviously it didn't turn out very well for my friend as he didn't really get do much. I suspect the owner however might have learned a thing or two about managing people.
From GNU social to Mastodon
NYT headline reminds me of the 2008 housing bubble crash. There were hundreds of other articles and blogs on how corrupt US mortgage lending, repossessions and banking was from about 2003 on, but the NYT didn't go near it until the collapse. Now we have this...'Worse than we imagined' - who's we? The NYT?
Lots of commentary on this reality already as well...
But if you're pretty sure, then...you don't need a coin to make a decision, do you? If you already know, then it doesn't really require an article does it?
> a 4400 lb car, accelerating from 64 MPH to 65 uses 7.25 KW

My Chevy Spark EV can regenerate at up to 60 KW. Forward drive tops at 100 KW. The regen limit is due to the battery charge rate, the bigger the battery, the more charge it can accept.

> It takes additional energy to add energy to a system that already has some energy. For example, recharging a partially-full battery from 70% to 90% will take more energy (or time) than charging from 5% to 25%

Why do you say "additional energy"? Do you mean "additional time", because that makes some sense as DC quick charging usually tapers off in rate as the battery becomes full. Please explain this if you actually mean additional energy as it is confusing.
Yeah, I agree. And when Rust removed poorly designed things, they were often replaced with alternatives that solved the problem better, so it was never felt like a pain.
Thorstein Veblen vs. E. B. White.
Because one side has power and the other doesn't.
I enjoy the writing in The Atlantic precisely because of the use of language there. That 'fluff' is what makes it interesting and entertaining. If I wanted to just have an idea explained I'd read Wikipedia.
Build a YouTube bookmarking site (VueJS) – part 5 (Dashboard)
That's simply because higher classes occupy more space and thus proportionately are responsible for a higher percent of emissions.

https://www.myclimate.org/fileadmin/myc/files_myc_perf/12_fl...
Oh I misread this as fission. Sorry about that.