skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> LIC is growing fast

Don't you realize much (most?) of LIC's growth is from businesses attracted to the area by various pre-existing government incentives, such as:

Commerical Expansion Program (tax abatements),
Accelerated Sales Tax Exemption Program,
Commercial Revitalization Program (property tax abatements),
Commercial Rent Tax Special Reduction,
Energy Cost Savings Program,
Industrial & Commercial Abatement Program,
Industrial Business Zone Relocation Tax Credit,
NYCIDA Commercial Office Space Incentives,
Open Industrial Uses Sales Tax Exemption Program,
Qualified Emerging Technology Company Incentives (tax reductions),
Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (tax credits),
Sales Tax Exemption for Manufacturers

https://www.nycedc.com/service/financing-incentives

Whatever arrangements or incentives were made to build Cornell Tech, keep in mind that in addition, all donations to Cornell's $7 billion endowment are tax-deductible. I will take a wild guess that it is almost exclusively very rich people who benefit the most from this deduction.
The same went for letters too, back when those were still being written.
Umm... That's not actually what only publishing a result when the p-value is less than 0.05 accomplishes. Such a publishing policy instead guarantees (or would if there were no other problems) that __only 5% of the FALSE ideas that researchers test get published as being "confirmed"__ (i.e., when the null hypothesis is true, only 5% of the time does it get "rejected" at the 0.05 level). It guarantees nothing about what fraction of these supposedly-confirmed ideas are actually true. That fraction could vary from zero (if researchers never think of true ideas) to 100% (if researchers never think of false ideas).
We haven't figured out how clean up or salvage atmospheric CO2 either.
U.S. investigators probing years of WikiLeaks activities: Reuters
Today I searched for TPUG, which is the Toronto PET Users Group.

Google returned exactly ZERO results about TPUG. All of the results were about dogs.
Perhaps being predictable is most of it, UX wise.
I feel like this is asking past the point. Without a web of trust, how are you securely signing?

You can go with somewhat centralized trust, but that only gets you do far. Or, rather, that forces everyone to deal with that centralized source. Much like the web of trust.
> What serious evidence is there on the other side?

I suspect that the sorry state of our schools are at least partly because it is no longer possible to take a kid into the principal's office and paddle them. There's no way to discipline a kid in a way that a kid who doesn't care about school will still want to avoid.

Note well my choice of the word "suspect". I do not know of any solid evidence one way or the other.
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But we are, so it's better to go with the cleaner option.

You are basically saying: Since you can't be perfectly clean, I'd rather you be as dirty as possible.
I assume you know plenty of places that argue like you do so I will give you a couple of other places that actually discuss this with both and cons.

But keep in mind the debate isn't actually whether climate change is real. It is how accurate are the predictions and what if anything should we be worried about.

Just so we are clear on the premise here. You will find very few people who say that climate change is not real that's not the discussion and it's never really been the discussion.

So here are a couple of good debates that lay out some of the skepticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gLLxk-u78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-28qNd6ass

I would also recommend reading Alex Epstein's book The moral case for fossil fuel: he offers another way to think about this problem which is also what I am trying to get across. The climate debate we are having is mostly political and thus about priorities rather than about science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmL9hRrpIQ
Considering the failure mode of nuclear posions maybe 10 sq miles, whereas the operating mode of coal posions the entire fucking atmosphere, I'd say coal is still worse
Nuke plant siting is vastly less constrained than pumped hydro facilities.
Frequently people worrying about environmental impact aren't as concerned about financial impact. I don't care if it cost eleventy-gazillion-bitcoins to decommission a nuclear plant if the alternative is continued global warming and an inhospitable planet when the bill comes due.

>>The truth is that accidents like this can never be cleaned up or salvaged.

I mean that depends on how pedantic you want to get with a "never" and whether you think "sequestered" is good enough or only "salvaged" is acceptable.

Current nuclear isn't great and is incapable of solving climate issues by itself. It still seems like a more viable option than continued reliance on fossil fuels.
>Money and political clout might appear like non-violent means, but in reality, they breed violence, except those are the top aren't affected.

But you seem to be advocating that people not at the top engage in ritual violence, which still wouldn't affect the people at the top, and wouldn't diminish the power of money or politics. There are plenty of examples of cultures which allowed retaliatory violence, duels or ritual combat. The balance of power in those societies was not equitable as a result, the rich remained rich and exempt from harm and the poor just lived shorter, more violent lives.

I'm sorry but it seems like you just want to live in a Chuck Palahniuk novel but you've lost the plot.
Yeah, their website says nothing until you hit the docs.
But I've found the app quite useful.

Essentially: a keyserver facility where you attest to your keys in public identities (like my hn profile), plus a bunch of end-to-end encrypted stuff built atop of it.
New open-source project introduces code-free deep learning approach
Last I checked, the backup service exclusively used the Sacramento DC. Has this changed? Being in the Sacramento area myself, I'd be much more comfortable if my offsite backup was more than a couple miles away.
Exactly.

And then there's the (albeit brief) interaction. Sometimes a barista is someone you get to know, who knows exactly what your order is, and begins preparing it as they see you walking down the street toward their shop.
They are someone with whom you can have a strong acquaintance as you talk of small things. Sometimes these acquaintances become friendships...

I would never go a cafe to see a robot press a button. If I only wanted coffee I'd get a nespresso or similar (which are never as good in my experience).

Would a robot know to suggest you to occasionally try a different roast? Would a robot know to NOT suggest you try a different roast?
Just build your login form like this. https://my.spark.app/login
That's an unfortunate name. (Try Googling "yuri ai" without quotes)
> The discussion on industrial animal cruelty for cheap produce is an example of how the wants of the majority doesn't always produce the best outcome for the well-being of other people, creatures, and the environment.

The discussion would have been clearer if the unambiguous term "factory farming" was used instead. The use of these ambiguous and disingenuous tactics of argumentation is reminiscent of PETA in particular. If you don't want to be characterized as a nutjob, don't act like one. That's my point.
AI researchers scared by their own work
That probably means the actual value of those condo units is $50,000, assuming the income holds up and the population keeps increasing. The big question to me is if the properties can even be maintained.
The bad parts of nuclear power is extremely concentrated and so has great visibility. I have asthma and I used to live near a coal plant. My lifespan is shortened considerably - not to mention the huge decrease in quality of life. And I'm just one the many millions who are affected by increased pollution and particulate matter in the air. However because the effects of coal is diffused from your perspective you have no idea the damage it causes to people like us. On aggregate coal kills more people (earlier than what their lifespan would otherwise be and that has to count for something).
This is perhaps the most obvious example yet of what PG described as "taking features from Lisp and gluing them to C". That's not necessarily a bad thing -- this is a great and useful feature, and one I frequently miss when using C-family languages.

I wonder, though, at what point a programming language collapses on itself, from too much syntax. I haven't used C# since the 4.x days, and I recall back then it was already on the verge of being too complex for me to fully understand. Admittedly my personal threshold of complexity is lower than most programmers', but this is a really big language. Do they plan to keep adding syntax indefinitely?

At some point, it's going to have to get eclipsed by something else. The next generation will be as effective a tool, for the kinds of things most people want to make, and not too complex for most people to understand. Perhaps part of that would consist of just using expressions for everything from the start.
That really has nothing to do with your initial assertion and frankly is dealing with an entirely unrelated problem. I can't untangle all of the things being conflated here.
> LED lights?

you need to be addressing the larger chunks of these pie charts:

https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers
Implementing an Animated Character in Unity
Obviously not everyone can promote all the way up, and not everyone wants to. There’s nothing wrong with someone doing good competent work at the level of a postdoc for as long as they want. We have a postdoc in his 40s in the lab I used to be in and he does excellent work as part of a group. I don’t think he wants to run his own lab and why must he?
I don't know how nuclear can be considered remotely "carbon free" if you take into account the usually-externalised emissions incurred in mining, refining and processing the uranium ores into fuels.

Then, too, I've seen no figures on the carbon costs of nuclear waste-management.
Click on "Tools" on the results page, then "Verbatim". It's annoying, but it works.
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Don't forget the chemical byproducts of producing solar and storage.

All options are trade offs, and I don't understand why "perfect" keeps preventing us from just getting "better".
With many recent breakthroughs, fusion is now seen as very viable and just needs funding to finish it off. The last of the hard problems are solved and they just need to pull it all together and "adjust for rounding errors", so to speak.
Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals”
Yes. It should run perfectly, including WiFi et al.
Thanks for the reply. I hope you appreciate some critical feedback that comes from a good place. Helping early stage startups is a great thing.

But the entire point of startups being hit-based is that not even the founders themselves know how big they could get. The founders of Atlassian and GitHub could not possibly have known. Their opinion at the beginning was totally useless. They very well might've said "We'll never be as big as X" with total honesty.

So it's not a matter of "honesty" at all. Businesses and people evolve. Ambitions grow. Even Mark Zuckerberg had absolutely no idea how big Facebook would become.

This is a counter-intuitive fact of startups that seems hard to internalize, but it's the very nature of such highly scalable companies.

It doesn't require that you "forget about valuations". You can absolutely try to get returns on your average outcomes, in total they should be significant. But it just takes a single 1000x return to dwarf them all, and now your big hit is all that really mattered financially.

I think the 15% valuation sucks and the 8% valuation is high but reasonable. As a founder I would not want to give up more than 8% but I wouldn't want to come across as a hardass either, which is an awkward spot to be placed.

Good luck!
This might interest you and give you a benchmark for the lethality of approaching it: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-elephant-foot-of-the-ch...

> After just 30 seconds of exposure, dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two minutes of exposure and the body cells will soon begin to hemorrhage; four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. At 300 seconds you have two days to live.

> All of the fire fighters and people who worked in building the sarcophagus died around a year or so after the event.
Author appears to be a cell biologist, where this is not atypical. There are very few permanent jobs, there are hundreds of applicants for every one, and the hiring committees would generally rather not hire anyone than accept less than the very top applicants.

Author would surely have been well served by leaving science sooner. As another commenter noted, his output wasn't impressive, and it should have been obvious he would never be hired as an independent researcher. But that can be psychologically difficult for a 40-year-old whose project of becoming an independent scientist started when he was literally a teenager.
The Sahara-global-solar-facility scale starts bumping up a lot when you factor in realities.

PV efficiency, spacing factors, panel replacement cycles, storage requirements, the fact that we're looking at total energy use and not just electricity, first-world rather than third-world per-capita use rates (presuming we're not going to freeze the entire world at its present state of energy consumption), and projected population growth.

You can still provide most or all the hypothetical demand from the Sahara, but you're well above 1% land use. I've sketched this out elsewhere previously, don't have numbers handy.

Beware optimistic estimates.
To be fair, even though it seems low, paper output/metrics are very field dependent.
Signs of the Singularity (Vernor Vinge 2008)
Boron actually mostly acts as a neutron poison, i.e. it absorbs neutrons. That way further (stimulated) decay of other nucleii that were hit by a neutron is eliminated and the chain reaction stops, reducing the production of thermal energy.

A moderator on the other hand inelastically scatters neutrons, converting some of the kinetic energy of the neutrons to heat and leaving a slower neutron. Moderators are used in reactors to bring neutrons down from their initial velocity to velocities where they are more likely to stimulate fission in another nucleus.
I don't think they will. Unless you are a company the size of Amazon (and literally only a couple are) you are not going to have the same problems.
This is the best one lol:

https://imgur.com/a/XGcNSoQ
This is the best lol:

https://imgur.com/a/XGcNSoQ
>how am I supposed to report security issues without gpg?

I’ve never understood this obsession with using PGP to deliver security reports (even a lot of pen testing firms do it). We trust TLS to secure all sorts of remarkably sensitive data, why do we need to add an extra layer of encryption to security reports? It just seems like an unnecessary barrier to delivering the report to me, and the user experience is terrible. On top of that managing keys and ciphertexts is an unnecessary pain. Any time I see a public key that’s some org published years or even months ago, all I can think is that in the time since they generated that, they have absolutely had a number of people who had access to the private key resign.

To me, the only threat model where something like that makes sense, is if you think your critical service providers or the government is a threat actor, and in that case PGP probably isn’t going to be enough.
If you own a domain and have a webserver running ssl you can distribute your public key in a secure manner.

What situations are you encountering in 2019 where you really need a distributed web of trust?
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> the "China Syndrome" speculation is pretty much completely debunked

You would be dissapointed. Cou-cou! surprise! The ocean strikes back!.

Unexpected source of Fukushima-derived radiocesium to the coastal ocean of Japan. 2017. Sanial, Buessler, Charette, and Nagao. PNAS. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1708659114

"Sanial, Buessler, Charette and Nagao, scientists from Massachusetts and Japan found a new source of Caesium-137 to the environment after the Fukushima accident. From 2013 – 2016 they visited 8 different beaches within 100 km of the accident site, took sand and water samples and measured its radioactivity.

They found that at the bottom of their sand samples, up to 2 m deep into the beach, the 137Cs concentrations were incredibly high, up to 480,000 Bq per square meter in their deepest samples. The soil in the restricted zone of the Fukushima site, up to 100 km away, measured ~100,000 Bq per square meter.

This means even tens of kilometers away, the radiation can actually be higher than near the disaster. (Because, huh?, 137Cs sticks to the sand grains).

https://oceanbites.org/going-nuclear-radioisotopes-from-fuku...
I just want to call out Mullvad VPN (in a good way) for only having one field, a super long account number, that acts as both username and password. Extra simple and extra private!
> So does it really matter if it uses 8.8.8.8 to resolve the connection to google vs. some other DNS server?

It might since there are DNS providers (OpenDNS, AdGuard) that help create blacklists or use one out of the box (family filters, privacy oriented filters, etc).

Also, not sure if true, but Google might be required to comply with local laws and 'block' websites through NXDomains.
They shouldn't charge extra but offer discounts. It is bait and switch if they are charging arbitrary fees. Ryan air is notorious is for this practice. Advertise a low-cost flight but after you go through the sales funnel, unless you have Visa Electron. You pay an extra 5%.
Expressing the intent of the code significantly improves maintainability. I think it's important to realize that the problem of missing intent is often only noticed upon review of the code.

So in my opinion, the moral of the story isn't simply "design with intent", it's "get your code reviewed".
I stopped using Notion because of the email login thing. It got too annoying every time and slowly eroded my love of the product.
Lest anyone forget, the Centralia (coal) mine fire has been burning since at least 1962 and no one knows how to stop it. The Fukushima Daiichi incident really doesn't seem that bad to me, comparatively speaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
> if memory accesses were as cheap as 40 years ago

To clarify for readers not familiar with the motivations here:

Memory access is in fact cheaper than it used to be, as you might expect. The concern is that it did not get cheaper nearly as fast as processors got faster, meaning the relative cost of accessing memory became much higher when you could be doing more calculations in that time instead.

Specially what allows for better performance is accessing memory in a pattern that can be predicted and prefetched. Linear access is best, because looking up a single byte in memory has approximately the same overhead as looking up a contiguous chunk of bytes.

Think Wiley E. Coyote picking up train tracks from behind himself and putting them down in front. If your memory access looks like that then you are less likely to suffer from memory access bottlenecks.
Why the future of social media and specially livestreaming is not a numbers game
Nuclear kills less people than Coal mostly from asthma, but coal even causes more cancer because on a normal day it emits far more radiation in the form of small particles of radioactive dust present in coal.

The real danger of Nuclear is it can make land unusable by people for centuries (this actually appears to be good from a biodiversity and ecological heath stand point because people do more damage to that than some radiation). But by contributing to climate change coal has the potential to put far more land under water.

If we had gone for widespread adoption of nuclear power on the scale of Japan climate change would not be a problem like it is today.
Absolutely yes. The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) does reports every year or so on the status. Here's the 2017 one [1].

[1] http://www.unscear.org/docs/publications/2017/UNSCEAR_WP_201...
My approach to avoid this is always to try and find a recent and well written Masters or Ph.D thesis in the area. You can't always find them of course, but if you do they tend to have pretty good context and a more detailed bibliography than you'll find elsewhere.

That said, if you are still at the point of inventing new terms for things people have been doing for decades, you are probably being fairly superficial in the area as well.

Research areas like CNN are especially prone to this because it is so much easier to apply the techniques than to understand the problem domain, and it generates a lot of low quality research papers. See also "when all you have is a hammer".
A password can end up on the clipboard and get picked up by some utility, stored in a history, log or swap file or otherwise get misplaced - this doesn't require a compromised system full of malicious software, just bugs and/or unexpected or unintended behaviour or interactions, which are fairly common.
S3 replicates across available zones, meaning copies in multiple DCs but in the same general area.

You can setup a bucket to replicate a bucket in another region, at double the storage costs plus bandwidth charges.
No mention of an agent. One of the nice features of GPG/PGP is gpg-agent which lets me use GPG without having to type in a passphrase every time.
As it is, it won't, and it doesn't need to.

In the future, if it would need one to resolve domain names, I guess it won't get onto Internet without it, then. It was just around 30 euro anyway.
I’m amazed the article didn’t mention the political correlation between the “big metros” and everywhere else. We know that increasingly “Blue America” is exclusively these major metros and “Red America” is everywhere else. But all these better outcomes are correlated to living in Red America, which they say is mostly due to affordable housing.

I don’t really know what to make of that, but it’s interesting to me.
This is my feeling as well. I suggested that a c# lite or a rethinking of c# would be awesome. I got downvoted to oblivion though. But I do think that there's too much mental capacity used just reading c# if the code really uses all the features of it. I like go lang cause of this, but go is a bit too far on the other side of the spectrum for me.
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Ok, let's put the old school back in there.
Are there not any suits that protect against the radiation to let them go in and do some things by hand? If there are but it's still not a good idea -- why?
Of course we shouldn't be burning coal, but we are. In 2017, 17.8% of US energy production was from coal. 28.0% from petroleum, and 31.8% from gas.

Until these three numbers become 0.0, 0.0, and 0.0, building more nuclear plants to displace them is an immense progress.
Chromes built in password manager handles this fine.
Text analysis with Natural Language in iOS 12
I just added www.google.com###main to my uBlock filters, to remind me about falling down googling inspired rabbit holes :)

I either use duckduckgo or google in another browser that I don't normally use.