skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The risks also have Engineering and Process controls that //modern// designs use. The non-energy products from nuclear reactors are also extremely useful in medicine and other science fields.

Additionally a lot of the current "waste" from older reactors is exactly that, wasted energy that different designs can do a better job of using up and converting to more precisely filtered waste streams (separating out the stuff not useful from reactors, but still quite hot, from the stuff that'll decay so slowly it can be handled differently).

Though I do agree that the cost of cleanup (and also insurance against disasters / errors-omissions) should be assumed to be something paid for and collected as taxes.
Does David Patterson know that Cython already exists?
A thought exercise:

Let’s say a popular HN user with a large following (let’s call them “Dex”) starts a campaign on HN to harass you. They start posting lies all over the site, claiming you hit puppies, spit in the coffee of blond people, and talk at the theatre. Dex has rabid fans that take his word over their own research, and those users start to hate you. You start getting hate messages, and they eventually dox you.

> The only people being bothered are the people that want to be bothered.

You don’t want to be bothered by Dex’s actions. You may not even have a clue who he is. Yet you are being bothered by his actions and those of his fans.

> You can 1. Block people you don't want to see

You can’t block people in real life, when they start sending packages of excrement to your house or start swatting you.

> 2. Ignore it.

Pretty hard to ignore AFK harassment that is targeting you and your family in your own home.

> Twitter is not forcing you to view pages you don't like.

By now it should be clear it’s not about being offended by words you don’t want to see.

> Why do people like Wil blame Twitter for Alex Jones & Donald Trump?

In our parallel, let’s say you and a large portion of HN know Dex’s actions are spiteful and based on lies with the sole objective of harming you, and you can prove it. Yet HN does nothing. Instead, it keeps making excuses as to why they won’t silence Dex, thus allowing the attacks on your person to continue.

Do you see the problem?
that number is disproportionately low as most of the cost of enforcing areas that the EU now controls is attributed to national budgets: this makes the EU look a lot more efficient that it is in reality

e.g. the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is essentially an arm of the EU, but its costs are entirely borne by the UK government's budget

once you realise that 6% is only mostly the very top level of administration in Brussels, and little of the costs to implement policies at the national level: it starts to look a lot more expensive
The Problem with All Those Liberal Professors
That was my suspicion as well, but just on the basis that for certain features such as the keychain they do explicitly talk about how the encryption works and having no access at Apple, so maybe the exception proves the rule. However, I've also read in several places that Apple has been at least considering reworking iCloud so that it really does have no access, as a means of countering government prying eyes. It would be nice to get the current facts, whatever they are.
School began at 7:50 am for us. So that time worked well for parents and 9-5 sort of times. It gave enough room for 8-4 or 8-5 parents and long commute parents. Or parents who want to drop off and come back home first. If you make the school start time 9 am as well, if a parent helps their kid get ready and/or has to be around until the kid leaves for the bus and/or has to drop them off, they wouldn’t be able to unless their commute is short.

I don’t think school times can be pushed much. Maybe 30 min max without seriously disrupting parent’s schedules if that’s a concern.
Why don't we build more heavy forges? Seems like there's plenty of demand and limited competition.
Hurray! I'm going to have a Daylight Saming Time party on that day, and there will be no excuse for arriving an hour late or early.
Exactly. Changing an entire culture is hard, so you just change the clock. People naturally wake up at some delta from sunrise, so it's inconvenient that we have set times to do things that aren't set based on time since sunrise. Of course the sun rises at different times everywhere, so it wouldn't be very convenient to say that we were going to have a conference call at sunrise+3 hours, when that's not a consistent time for both of us.

Instead we just approximate the correction with a one hour step function every year, and everyone is coordinated on it automatically. If a few programmers have to use more complicated date/time functions, it's a small price to pay for everyone to be able to keep their bodies on a more natural schedule.
> If an instance owner doesn't like what you say for any reason they boot you off.

Social media has to have some form of moderation/curation, otherwise it would just be full of spam.

> but then what's the point of federation?

Censorship is a fraught issue: Some people think lots of things should be blocked; other people think only things against the law should be; and yet others think not even that. There's no way of pleasing everyone. So having a federation of different instances allows each to have whatever moderation policies that suit them, instead of one size fits all.
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niftich, chubot: Thanks for the pointers to Sequoia and citations thereof. It looks very interesting. That is the sort of thing I had in mind when I asked my question. There are a lot of citations to follow up on.

the8472, RcouF1uZ4gsC, stochastic_monk: Thanks for highlighting the language-level alignment support in Rust and newer revisions of C and C++.

glangdale, regarding "I have a project half on the boil that's aiming to produce a language aimed at these kind of usages. I'm figuring that the supposed insult hurled at C ("structured assembly") isn't really an insult at all but that someone should actually do that." -- That's great! I would like to see that language.
Not sure why you thought that was news to markbnj, or relevant to the point made.
> simply do not want to talk about this topic

I wonder if there are many respectable companies that don't allow you to post benchmarks. It's almost as if they don't have any confidence in their product that they have to resort to such extraordinary measures.
8-5 or 9-6 now!
Perhaps you have a Samsung? Some of the changes that vendors make are aggressively stupid, in the name of being different.
>OP seemed to be suggesting a gradual shifting of clocks each day

It's hard for me to see how it can be interpreted that way.

>These are the type of threads that tend to spawn from OP's style of comment,

Please don't blame OP for what you wrote, which is - to quote - "It’s called an approximation", and what you wrote now doesn't explain what you meant by that.
> Waymo, widely seen as leading the self-driving vanguard, says it has made progress teaching its software to better filter out “noise” from precipitation.

The last Waymo leak claims that it is more than just 'progress', but that 'rain is solved', incidentally: https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2018/09/14/waymo-plan...
As a 59 yo who transitioned from development to tech support 20 years ago, I saw the writing on the wall years ago that IT development/engineering is a young man's game and if you don't want to transition into management, ala Bill Lumbergh and TPS reports, which I didn't, you end up fading away. I didn't have mad skills so I took the most hated job in IT, tech support at a college.

I can't say it's been a bed of roses, but I don't need a 6 figure salary and I get to interact with a diverse user base. I also get to do practically nothing when I feel like it and also walk around campus ogling 19yo coeds on a sunny day as long as I do my job. Management in the public sector is notoriously weak. I want to believe that the author of "The Peter Principle" worked in academia or the public sector.

Anyway, regarding IBM, I've been reading about them culling the herd of the elderly since the early '90's causing many suicides, heart attacks, and substance abuse among their formally well paid and important (in their own minds) denizens. I tried imparting this wisdom upon my favorite nephew to become a doctor (back when it didn't cost an arm or a leg or a military commission to become one, but he chose engineering. Didn't invent anything and now is an over worked mid level manager with a large mortgage and 2 children 5 and 7 years from college subject to lay offs at upper management's whim - he's been through two of them already and is only 42. Oh well.
Others have addressed the federal government's legal right to set standards of weights and measures, but I just want to add that there's a legitimate interstate commerce argument as well. Prior to the application of time zones, train schedules were nearly impossible to keep consistent as every town had it's own 'time zone' being aligned to their solar noon.

Time is already crazy for programmers and logistics, but imagine it being essentially a continuously changing band with longitude with slight local variations. The modern economy relies on a sane, more or less consistent view of time.
Did she answer in the game?
Isn’t it confusing either way? Pushing school forward sounds right to you, but to me that sounds like making the school times earlier. It’s a bit uncomfortable for me to imagine it meaning the opposite. Obviously I’m saying that light heartedly but pushing back is what sounds natural to me. Like “push back a meeting”.
ARKit 2 is out in the wild today. So I am going to say the Unreal demo from Wingnut. Or Microsoft's HoloLens Minecraft demo. More polished than young startups. But I think that magic "a-ha" audience moment is the ultimate.

On a related note, trailer for Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Tetris Effect is pure joy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr8fVT_Ds4Q
I believe most don't actually use film anymore, they use some other capture device that operates electronically.
How Apple Keeps Expanding Its Empire
> What's so important about the number on the clock?

Because jobs, business hours, travel schedules?
> We may continue to find tricks such as quantum computing

Quantum computing does not magically speed up general purpose computing tasks. We only know a handful of algorithms where quantum computers provide algorithmic complexity reductions and even that that does not mean they necessarily calculate fast in terms of IPC, they just calculate previously intractable problems in reasonable timescales.

TL;DR: you won't pop quantum GPUs/CPUs into your computer and suddenly get 50 times the framerates in DOOM.
You know, I have a better idea then! Let's have DST year round! It both saves the hassle of moving the clock, and gives you the extra hour of sunlight in the winter months as well as summer months!
Why not have a branch of the military / DoE run plants for power production? Or at least provide security at the plants and clearances for working at them?
The self-driving car hype has failed to recognize that humans are, in fact, exceptionally good at driving cars. There are many car accidents, and many fatalies from car accidents, but a relatively small number considering the number of cars, the number of drivers, and the amount of miles driven, every single day across widely varying conditions worldwide. A large percentage of humans drive every single day, as routinely as getting up from bed, and for most of them, this does not have a bad result.

The idea that we can quantify all of the subtle little ways the human brain instinctively has gotten so good at driving cars is supreme arrogance.
I don’t think they are qualitatively “better drivers”. But they are more experienced at certain things. When I lived in Minnesota, I got lots of practice driving in snow and ice and rain. Now in NorCal, not so much :)

Its a skill. You get better with practice. The person going slow probably just hasn’t had enough practice yet with the conditions. Going slow is probably a good choice for them. Am I a better driver overall for knowing how to handle ice? Probably not, but I might be the best person to do the driving under those conditions if everyone else in the car is from warmer climes.

I remember standing in line at Minneapolis rental car counter one night when it was snowing an inch an hour with 4 inches on the ground already. Agent to the guys in front of me: “There are chains in the trunk if you need them.” Customer with heavy southern accent: “Chains? What the heck are chains?” I wonder to this day if those guys made it to their hotel.
Allow yourself to be wrong, make mistakes occasionally, and change your position on anything. Being wrong and making mistakes is an inevitable fact of life, and should not be treated as a personal or character flaw. Permission to make mistakes and amend for them ties our identity to our actions in the future, giving us the freedom to grow and focus on the person that we want to be. Undue attention to the things we once did ties our identity to the past, preventing the person we are now from escaping the person we once were.
If there was a competitor to Connect, I would use it. Fees end up being around 3.4%. That’s pretty hard to sell customers on.
> Many people intentionally don't want solar noon to match clock noon (permanent DST)

Solar noon matching clock noon would require daily clock shifts as well as differing clocks at each slight difference of longitude. Almost no one wants that, and the various differences people want from that are all about (different ideas of) social convenience.

> They want their clocks to be permanently shifted one hour, instead of shifting their schedule one hour.

No, they want society’s clocks shifted an hour, because that is something practical for government to do, whereas shifting society’s schedules by an hour is not.
> living in Scotland, she recalled that it was basically dark until 10am, and resulted in a bunch of upheaval as children were no longer able to travel safely to school by themselves

Meanwhile, in Scandinavia, this is the reality of November, December and January for everyone. Entire countries manage to go to school and work when it's dark outside...
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Dutch resistance fighter who killed Nazis through seduction, dies at 92
Show HN: JPL Space Calendar iCalendar Support
“Experience” is a value producing parameter. Around here (Boston) people just starting out seem to make near what people with many more years experience. If you are somewhere that isn’t paying you, shop around and leave for a company that will pay/appreciate you like you deserve.

I never made decent money programming until I became an independent contractor. (For reference, I probably have been a developer longer than you’ve been alive.)
Get to work on the Holmes here with pliers and a blowtorch.
There’s already been an abundance of studies concluding that American school begins too early and kids aren’t sleeping enough.

https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start-times/index.html
I am confident it is both. As someone who races rallycross for fun, I am sure I am an exeption, but I am oft amazed by ordinary drivers every day when skiing.

One cannot discont the psychological factor of feeling 'in control' when the control decides if you or others might die.
The trolley problem is a tough one.
Your average pizza shop isn’t going to build a POS.
I’ve taken downvotes from HN optimists for years about self driving cars. The slightest bit of criticism would have comments calling me an idiot 20 different ways.

Then a single dead pedestrian changes all the news articles and the opinions change.

We are a very, very long way away from self driving taxi cabs. What a total PR scam that was - but it did help valuations.
My thoughts exactly! Thank you for your interest!
Where on earth (in tech) are young people discriminated against? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. Taken advantage of? Oh yes. Discriminated against??
> Start with one of these:

You are probably joking.

> hushmail.com

"Hushmail supplied cleartext copies of private email messages associated with several addresses at the request of law enforcement agencies under a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States.; e.g. in the case of U.S. v. Tyler Stumbo. In addition, the contents of emails between Hushmail addresses were analyzed, and 12 CDs were supplied to U.S. authorities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_...

> lavabit.com

"The court records show that the FBI sought Lavabit's Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) private key. Levison objected, saying that the key would allow the government to access communications by all 400,000 customers of Lavabit. He also offered to add code to his servers that would provide the information required just for the target of the order. The court rejected this offer because it would require the government to trust Levison and stated that just because the government could access all customers' communication did not mean they would be legally permitted to do so. Lavabit was ordered to provide the SSL key in machine readable format."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...

> protonmail.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18010648
An article on the life cycle of a product release (from dev to public release)
As a Canadian, it's the snow that's made me skeptical of self-driving cars. Seeing how much they depend on road markings to navigate in traffic properly is completely impossible in winter. Until that's solved, there's a lot of places that just can't use them for a lot of the year.
I have a theory that Japanese sense of humor is actually a lot more sophisticated than that of the west. In particular, I think movies like Zatoichi satirize westerners. It's a movie where the main character, who is a blind samurai, is shown to constantly know what people are doing and talk about it. It is supposed to show him as being ultra-perceptive to westerners, but in reality I think it was just a farce. Westerners always have to have things said explicitly, because we lack the ability to understand ishin-denshin.
I think auto racing has priven there are most certainly qualitively 'better drivers' adjusted for training and experince.
Those are my initials and my last name, which coincidentally resembles the author's name. My first name is the name of one of his protagonists, which adds to the mystery ;)

My college classmates would often ask if I was related, especially since he was a visiting lecturer back in the day.
How do you you propose blacklisting spammers or dealing with material that is illegal in the server's country?
Sounds like empirical verification of his thesis.
To make it even worse, these "awake zones" will start spanning multiple weekdays. So, when is Sunday, again? Is that the period of daylight that starts at 21:00 on Saturday and lasts until 09:00 Sunday? Or is it the period that starts at 21:00 on Sunday and lasts until 09:00 Monday? When's your business open, again?

Timezones are extremely useful.
Are you suggesting a language where you could hypothetically look at your IDE and it'll tell you via static analysis, "this code block takes x cpu units. On a Y core this is 0.95ns".

Never thought about that. That would be so cool.
It's also local, not just general snow/ice/rain. I can figure out where ice will probably be here. If I go north into the interior where it's colder, not quite so humid, and snow collects over longer periods? Not a chance - I don't know the local weather, what patterns there are, what the road maintenance is like, etc.

Same deal for where the rain will be bad, where I might need to worry about hydroplaning, etc.
> For the individual being affected, whether it’s “right” or “wrong” is an academic argument.

Perhaps, but from a policy perspective that is far from the case. Wrongs needs to be addressed even if the victims recover.

> I’m in my mid 40s and I’m a developer/consultant/architect

Congratulations. I'm in my 50s and still going strong. But neither your age nor mine really has any bearing on this.
Aaah wait... I might have misread/misunderstood. So all countries will be in either summer or winter time? Then that makes sense. My bad. I thought each one can individually choose which seemed like a bad choice.
"I think it will eventually come after some form of catastrophic leak"

... you mean like a credit reporting agency leaking out ssn and other very important data information of millions.
To be fair, as a dedicated apple hater, all these events, plus google's more recent lack of morality decision making, has made me rethink which computer, phone, maps, and search engine I will be using moving forward.
Now it's time for display technology to catch up. Once things like light fields roll around those 4k will seem laughable.

> I'm just not sure end users are clamoring for more photo-realism.

People are definitely making fun of characters looking waxy, fire effects looking cheap, shadows being pixelated etc.

Plus this is just the first generation of realtime raytracing. It's not like the entire scenes will be raytraced, just some parts will be raytracing-assisted, e.g. lighting. The next generations will most likely enable a higher percentage of the scenes being based on tracing.
A mirror of the article's PDF: https://docdro.id/2T39U2W
Some googling seems to indicate that they cancelled a fireworks display: https://nypost.com/2016/11/07/clinton-calls-off-election-nig...
Is there any particular reason why you want to wait until this bug is fixed? It seems unlikely you would ever run into it in real life outside of the demo.
You mean ApplePay with FaceID?
Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
Author here. This was a fun little side project. It's a ruby Sinatra app that parses events from the unstructured JPL Space Calendar page and publishes the calendar in JSON and iCalendar formats.

https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/

https://jpl.mcginnis.io/space_calendar.json

https://jpl.mcginnis.io/space_calendar.ics

This was my first time using Digital Ocean to host a little dockerized side-project. So far, my experience has been great.
I'm still curious about street signs.

Can any self driving car read parking signs because it's not like there is some API for when/where you can park or drop passengers off.
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The discussions here reminded me of https://www.theonion.com/apple-announces-new-trade-in-offer-...
Sounds like a way to increase labor demand.
In the quote, "few hundred qubits", qubits are logical qubits. Google's 72-qubits are physical qubits. You implement error correction on the physical qubits, after which you are left with a lot fewer logical qubits, to do your actual computation with.

> Does the power of a quantum computer scale linearly with number of qubits?

It scales linearly with the number of logical qubits, in the same sense the power of a turing machine scales linearly with the size of the tape. Also, for a realistic system of hundreds of qubits, you will need tens of thousands of physical qubits.

> Does the difficulty in manufacturing scale linearly with number of qubits?

If you want the ability to do entangling operations on any two qubits, however far apart they are physically, the manufacturing difficulty scales quadratically with the number of qubits at least. However, you can choose to only have the ability to do entangling operations on near by qubits, and use swap operations to move the state of the qubits around. This will reduce manufacturing difficulty scaling, but will increase the time of any computation you perform.