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Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
>As far as I'm aware, commercial nuclear waste in storage has never injured a single person

You'd be surprised:

By October several thousand shipments were illegally dumped at the landfill in north St. Louis County, in violation of federal standards; they contained an estimated 43,000 tons of radioactive uranium processing wastes and contaminated soil. (...) No strangers to advanced statistical tools, within two years, Wright, an accountant, and Schanzenbach, an economics professor at Northwestern University, documented 700 cases of cancers and immune system diseases within a four-square-mile area. Some of these cancers have a one-in-a-million chance of occurring. (...) Wright and Schanzenbach updated their survey and reported in August 2015 that the number of diseases, including rare cancers, had increased to 2,725 cases.

Or how about:

A few days before I visited the rather scruffy Hospital of Saint Anna and Saint Sebastian in Caserta, southern Italy, a boy aged 11 arrived complaining of headaches. Doctors feared the worst – and sure enough, he was rapidly diagnosed as another child with brain cancer. Some of these young patients arrive in agonising pain, others mystified by falling over all the time; they do not know that lethal tumours are swelling up inside their heads. Yet more turn up with cancer in their blood, their bones, their bladders. There are so many cases that not all can be treated in the hospitals of Campania, a largely rural region. (...) Tosti explained that the Mafia dumped huge quantities of contaminated industrial waste there, then obtained backdated permission for their actions. (...) A criminal investigation was launched 18 months ago, but local people do not expect convictions. This was far from an isolated incident. (...) There are thousands of similar dumps all over this once-paradisiacal slice of Italy: in canals and caves, in quarries and wells, under fields and hills, beneath roads and properties.

Or worse:

Fonti said he had been involved in sinking three vessels, and that the 'Ndrangheta made millions of pounds illegally dumping radioactive and other toxic waste from businesses in Italy and other parts of Europe. A regional prosecutor, Bruno Giordano, said that if the exploration of the wreck does produce evidence of toxic waste, authorities will start a hunt for more sunken vessels. They believe there could be up to 32 in Italian waters. The introduction of more stringent environmental legislation in the 1980s made illegal waste disposal a lucrative business for organised crime groups in Italy. "The problem of ships loaded with radioactive waste and sunk deliberately is an Italian mystery that should have been resolved years ago," said Ermete Realacci, an opposition MP.
In the meantime I can still AirPlay any of my torrented movies. So much for DRM (yes - this is because of DRM) supposedly preventing piracy...
I actually know someone who got one done in 2006. From what I remember, it was one of those don't ask don't tell deal. However it was understood that the organ came from executed prisoner. It saved her life. I don't know anything about what goes into ensuring donor's organ is a reasonable match, but I'm not too sure if the waiting period for her was that long. Anyway I do remember it became much more difficult for foreigner to get transplant shortly afterwards but this article seems to indicate the trend is reversing with institional practice.
Railroads? Nationalization of the US railroads during WWI was definitely a long-term loss for a short-term gain, although it was only ever meant to be temporary I guess.
If you want to dig even deeper into diffeq, Professor Leonard has been publishing his series[1] on the topic over the past few months. He's up to lesson #31 so far.. not sure how many total the series is supposed to be.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDesaqWTN6ESPaHy2QUKV...
This is a silly objection! The rules of cmw requires you to only make threads about things were you are open to having your view changed.

The aim is modest: just to change op’s view on a topic of their choice, not completely reverse it like the priests in age of empires do.
Unless you're suggesting he's part of a grand conspiracy to fabricate this data, I find his politics extremely irrelevant.
I'm not sure if I completely buy the premise of this. We certainly have a lot of cheap, disposable things in our lives, but we also have plenty of durable items as well.

Most of the things that I own that are more durable are low-tech, like kitchen items. Yes, you can buy cheap, semi-disposable frying pans, and budget appliances, but that's always been the case, even back in Rams's day. I've owned and used the same cast iron pans, ceramic coffee mugs, drinking glasses, silverware, etc. for in some cases decades. They work and there's no reason to upgrade them.

I've got tools that I've been using for decades. Some were inherited from my father. Some I purchased myself. Manual tools can last nearly forever. Plenty of power tools last decades (decent brand drills, circular saws, etc). This hasn't changed. You can also buy cheap, poorly-built versions of many of these things, if you either can't afford or don't need better quality. Again, this has always been the case, even 50 years ago.

There's a lot more stuff now, and a lot more cheap stuff to be sure. This creates a disposable culture, but it's not that high-quality, repairable items have disappeared completely; it's just that now people who don't need or want them have more cheap alternatives to choose from.

Electronics are an exception to this. Computers and phones in particular are semi-disposable, over a few years. This isn't because they're shoddily-built and unrepairable, it's because they become obsolete. I still have 15-year-old computers that work fine, and have some components that are 20+ years old. They're sturdy, they function just as well as when they were made, but they're obsolete. My primary gaming desktop is nearly 10 years old, though, and it's still going strong. I've upgraded the video card and storage a few times, but other than that, it's almost all original 2011 equipment, and it still plays all modern games. That's totally repairable and self-serviceable.

I've heard people bemoan modern quality and disposability before, but I really don't see it as the modern plague it's described as. Plenty of junk was manufactured 75 years ago, but the things that have survived were the items that were built well and had timeless value. I bet Rams has thrown out his old black & white TV, and that photo of him sitting on his cheap, disposable plastic patio furniture shows that he's prone to the same price-vs-quality decisions as the rest of us.
Strong public policy can save the world. Nuclear can help. But, without public policy, nothing will happen. So call it cap-and-trade, or green new deal, or cap-and-dividend, but we need it now.
Not loading for me - archive link http://web.archive.org/web/20190406160201/https://forum.dlan... but clicking anywhere on the archived page takes you to an uncrawled error.
Same. Law enforcement already has plenty of tools to implement totalitarianism, should that be the goal of the political class. If we are in the dark universe where this eventually comes to pass, a DNA database is not going to make much of a difference in one way or another. On the other hand, in the world where we have good leaders, this tool offers a material delta in the finding and convicting of dangerous criminals.
German rail has been absolutely awful since it was privatized.
On paper replacing Li-Ion is trivial: it's designed for small scale low weight applications at room temperature with limited lifetime and highish safety requirements (consumer electronics). Remove any of those requirements and some other technology is theoretically superior. In practise the amout of research poured into improving Li-Ion and the economies of scale achieved in production along the entire supply chain make it very hard to compete.
Because as a society we continually overestimate our ability to control nature. i.e. "We have multiple layers of redundancy. It's all under control."

Which is true, until it isn't.
Maybe we won't build those reactor types any more. But they are still operational, and this is what matters. There is a huge incentive in keeping them operational as the major cost of nuclear energy is building the reactor. Already built reactors don't incur that cost any more so they make loads of money for their operators, especially when they are old and "mortage free". Due to this gigantic incentive, every political support of new nuclear plants will be misdirected into prolonging the operational life of existing highly dangerous reactors.

As to your "physically near impossible": people said about the titanic that it was unsinkable. This only led to a major shortage of lifeboats once it sank because why would a unsinkable ship need so many lifeboats.
Are Historic Mosques in Xinjiang Being Destroyed?
Do we know that? That seems astounding to me. This is a difficult industry with high risk where they’re primarily just competing with their own free apps for what will probably be cannibalizing user time.
Yeah, that's what I intend to do indeed. I think those changes usually have positive impacts.
> Uranium mining is an often overlooked environmental disaster

[citation needed]. It was in the 1950s, for sure, before we knew that you should ventilate the radon. Today a lot of it is done in ways that's much cleaner than mining for resources for coal, fracking, or heavy metals for millions upon millions of battery banks, wind turbines, and solar panels.

Remember E=MC2 is the key excitement about nuclear energy. There are 2 million times more Joules in a kg of uranium than in a kg of coal/gas/diesel/lithium. Thus you don't have to mine all that much of it to power the planet.

In fact, with breeder reactors and reprocessing (super expensive, but that's another story), you could power the entire US for a few hundred years off the depleted uranium sitting in the yard of an enrichment plant in Kentucky.
The host should definitely be liable, but Airbnb too. When a burglar has an accomplice to drive him around and they get caught, the accomplice is also liable. Airbnb in this case is the accomplice that helped direct victims to the creep's place.

While there is an argument to be made that they couldn't have known, I feel like it should be their responsibility to solve this problem (or close up shop if they can't), but in this particular case they basically admitted guilt and proven their dishonesty by saying everything is OK but then suddenly banning the creep when the story has gone public.
Skilled therapy is changing though. PDPM doesn’t reimburse through the amount of therapy provided. It reimburses by the need of the patient. I believe nursing is included in that budget
Sure, here you are: https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w...

The short version is, that mushrooms accumulate cesium-137 which contaminates the soil in Bavarian forests. Equally affected are animals eating the mushrooms, mainly wild boar.
Peter Todd gets Metoo'd with a false “rape” accusation, and fights back
There is always some risk when you depend on others. Zeit's deprecation of Docker was not great, but not all PaaS are like this. Heroku, Google App Engine, and others have remained "stable" for years.
It's well established that the West has forgotten how to build nukes. But Hitachi, KEPCO, and the Russians have not forgotten, and can build them effectively today. Perhaps with some effort the West can re-learn how its done from these modern success stories.
Ask HN: How can software engineers help stop climate change?
Hi, I had to pay in advance for the space indeed. I feel myself this way as well when I pay for things. Like working out at home vs at the gym.
It could also occur in the instance that a person is of a different religion then their community, or a person who eats meat in a community of vegans, but we don’t enumerate every possible situation in which leverage over other may be obtained. Failure to enumerate every possible instance as opposed to just mentioning the most common instances isn’t intended to slander anyone.
It is difficult to wrap my mind around all of these different rotations, orbits and perspectives.
> There's a great historical article about this management failure from the 1980 in Forbes that is escaping my web searches at the moment

https://www.backissues.com/issue/Forbes-February-11-1985
Those are a weird minority of subreddits. Look at the front page for a taste of how Reddit is experienced on average.
Now you have a baseline for future comparisons, isn't that interesting?
> Beyerdynamic and Grado earphones

it makes me really sad that these companies (and sennheiser) are not more well known. I get that not everyone can be an audio enthusiast, but what kills me is that people will actually spend more money on skullcandy or beats and never know how badly they are getting shafted.
Fourier Transform, Fourier Series, and Frequency Spectrum
> a Green-led government won the elections in a historically conservative state, and Andrea Merkel changed her opinion.

Chronologically was the other way around, and her "Our party now consider nuclear harmful" stance didn't change the outcome post-Fukushima. But it's typical Merkel of the time, changing her tune to whatever's politically advantageous.
One wrong does not justify another.
>Do you really think Steven Pinker is in the nuclear lobby

No, he's just safely away from any fallout, hugely optimistic, naive about government competence and private sector morality (e.g. in cutting corners), and perfectly fine to rush technology and just wait and see the consequences and let the second order effects and externalities be suffered by others (which has nothing to do with science per se)...
I guess it would start with niche technologies where the battery is small and expensive. Like extremely miniaturized personal electronics, or drones. Given the cost advantage lithium has due to mass production, it will be more than 10 years until something else can replace them.

I find our interesting that Cobalt mines outside of the Congo aren't being funded. There's a few in Australia and a couple in Namibia in the early stages that don't look like they'll be developed.
Show HN: CoDiff, a new collaboration tool for developers
A recent HackerNews comment - “For one programmer's hourly cost, you could run 4000 CPU cores continuously. Can there really be no practical way to apply thousands of cores to boosting the programmer's productivity?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19339467
This is what we have come up with.

The current productivity tools - Slack, Asana, Trello, Facebook Workplace, etc. - are great, but lack direct access to your code.
Building a tool directly around the code makes it more powerful for software developers: CoDiff. https://codiff.com

The foundation of CoDiff is a live-view of your teammates’ local Git repositories. This brings communication benefits that other productivity tools fundamentally cannot provide. Wherever you are working, you can essentially pull up a chair next to your coworker to see and discuss what they are working on.

This live code view leads to a many other productivity benefits. Existing tools will let you know your teammates' task, but not the exact lines of code they are modifying. CoDiff on the other hand, can notify you in real-time when you conflict with one of your teammates. This greatly reduces the time spent in resolving merge conflicts, prevents duplicated work, and unobtrusively improves productivity.

In the future, CoDiff will integrate with your favorite editors and other productivity tools for even greater benefits. A few examples: get conflict notifications in your IDE, set statuses according to Trello task, and share links to live code snippets on Slack.

We currently have the first alpha build available on https://codiff.com. It’s completely free now and we would be extremely grateful for anyone to try it out. We never touch your git repository - no extra branches or commits - we are read only.

We are looking for feedback at this point to help shape the future of the product–on the idea, the app, the workflow, or new directions. Anything you can share would be extremely helpful!
There is a reason none of the big companies are on board. It takes a lot for an indy developer to break through the noise.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/25/apple-will-fund-exclusive...
Submitter's note: I found it interesting that this disaster involved a change from one 737 variant to another, and the article mentions pilots not needing to certify on the new variant.
Change my view: Verb forms of "graduate" which have a direct object should be followed by "from" unless they're referring to the act of calibration.

"Jimmy graduated from college." Not "Jimmy graduated college."

Alternately acceptable exception that proves the rule: "State College graduated 1500 students this year."
How the Army plans to use Microsoft's HoloLens goggles on the battlefield
> Old? Unlocking the energy of the nucleus is certainly our most recent energy resource, by any measure.

Old as in "outdated".

> hydro dam failures have killed 100k in one incident

Yeah flooding are surely more dramatic than a slow death through cancer, I give you that...and it's such a good selling point isn't it? You just can't see it or put a finger on it. Some numbers are far less dramatic then a flood. Too bad Netflix comes with that documentary on Chernobyl now. Need to pay for some more op-eds to cover that up.

> Do you really think Steven Pinker is in the nuclear lobby?

Do you have to be part of the lobby if you take the money? And I doubt it came from Goldstein or his publishers just to promote his book. The timing of the whole nuclear hype is just too coincidental.
For anyone who's interested in this but wants to check out various services: https://buttondown.email/ uses Markdown. I've had a great experience with it so far.
I totally agree and I got caught in such loop. And it took me too long to do something about. Had to reach a really sad local minimum until I decided to act.

I will maybe write something about this in the future. When it comes to procrastination, people are usually so concerned about not realizing their full potentials. But it can be much worse than that. I was concerned about a suboptimal improvement and I ended up in a position worse than when I started.
No, the Heroku PG is a VPS instance running a DB except that it's totally managed for you.

A serverless DB is like Firebase or Fauna, where you pay by number of queries, storage, etc, and it scales up and down automatically much like cloud functions.
GraphQL Serverless Real-Time Reference Architecture
Nuclear may well be better than coal, but coal isn't the plant of choice if you build something today. Coal is more expensive than natural gas, too expensive and slow to turn on and off (which is an increasing requirement as solar and wind become more common) and are opposed by the population for health reasons.

To be a viable alternative beating coal is irrelevant, nuclear would have to be at least better than natural gas. And with natural gas burning much cleaner than coal I'm not so sure nuclear has the advantage
Can you read it? I'm looking for quantitative data and see: "Belastung von 0,008 Millisievert zur Folge."

If this is 8 microsieverts... what's the timescale? 8 microsieverts is quite small compared to everyday things like cosmic rays [1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/radiation/
90% of our population lives within 100km of the coast between Melbourne and Cairns.

However agricultural usage extends far inland in the temperate regions and there has been a lot of opposition to mining activities in our “wheat belts”.
Nobody really believes science that goes against their deep settled beliefs.
There is an email app in the set of core apps. If it's not in the device you got, talk to the carrier/OEM who may have chosen to remove it when customizing their build.
Yeah, also storage. Check the serverless Fauna pricing as an example:

https://fauna.com/faunadb/pricing
Might've been 1999. Hard to remember the details now.
>But the country has no tradition of voluntary organ donation

So? Modern China also didn't have a tradition of for profit companies and skyscrapers, but they managed to do well in both...
When delete or update records, the database engine basically marks the space as available, then the next record will be filled in.

Because the file system only allows append or update content on a file. To release the disk space, it will need to completely rewrite the whole data file, which will cause much more things to handle and time.

So it is not a way to design a database engine
> I'm saying you're wrong. Specifically, this bit: "you're not gonna lose a dime" You will lose a dime.

You're still missing the point. The intention of that character isn't to make a factually correct statement about how the FDIC system works; his intention is to suppress vigilantism. Pointing out that the people witnessing the robbery actually are paying for it is tone deaf.
You can run a company that has to pay $1.7 billion in fines for defrauding medicare and still be governor of Florida and (as of last January) a sitting US Senator: https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2014/mar/03/fl...
GPS Time Epoch Changes on April 6
> The US needs to find a way to make building reactors affordable.

Early reactors were hailed as paragons of safety too. Fukushima, remember, had a triply-redundant (or whatever) power supply to ensure that cooling power could be provided even in the event of a simultaneous meltdown and grid failure. Oops.

I mean, look. It's... fine. Go nuclear. I agree with you, that these are probably safe designs and are probably not going to poison anyone due to misanalyzed failure modes. Nuclear is carbon free power and preferable to coal and gas for sure.

But in a world where we can build out solar and wind as cheaply as we can gas plants and handle the grid buffering with batteries, I just don't care much anymore. If we run out of ridgeline real estate and still need more power, we'll call you.

The US doesn't "need" to do anything with nuclear, at all. The nuclear industry (and its geek proponents here on HN) needs to find a way to make itself worthwhile on a balance sheet.
1) does that mean they’re entitled to them? Why can’t these needs be met by those people, their families, or simply remain unmet?

2) socialism = redistribution of wealth; govt services are redistribution of wealth

3) didn’t say everyone can take care of themselves, many people can’t take care of themselves now even WITH govt assistance, it’s completely beside the point

4) true
The "regular" WhatsApp web needs the app to run on your Android or iOS device - it merely establishes a tunnel to get everything from the phone.

The KaiOS version was built from scratch.
Bullshit.

All of that is going on just fine. Same for the phones.

Bad norms tend to sideline the overall awareness, but that does not mean it is not happening.

And the key thing here is that it is possible and legal. Not everyone will, and that is OK. It is all about the people who do these things.

Frankly, you would be amazed at what people will do when encouraged and empowered.
Why wouldn't he be "part of a grand conspiracy to fabricate this data"? It's called promoting their country's national interests, and it's part of the job description for such roles.

Conspiracy doesn't have to include loonies, aliens, and illuminati. Nation states do conspiracies perfectly well, they just call them "foreign policy", and include presenting the data as they like, painting the pictures to fit the politics of the day, having cosy relations with journalists, getting selective people on the other side (e.g. opposition leaders) to give the kind of statements they like, and so on.
Shouldn't plain vacuum be enough? The space is going to be reused for new items anyway, it won't take more of the space not already reserved by the database?

On another topic, do you require using a SQL database for your queue?