skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet, in practice, the two are the same. It's like Uber saying "Never mind, we're not profitable. We'll make flying taxis!"

The reasons that thorium reactors don't work aren't because people don't like nuclear. They don't work for technical reasons.

Besides, this story is about uranium power and that's where all our problems lie today. Even if we had thorium reactors tomorrow, we still have over 100 nuke plants in the US that would need to be de-commissioned along with all the waste they've already created -- and that's billions more in subsidies.
I am interested and capable and have been planning on making a google free android build when i have the time. If this works out i could instead use that time to write or work on my other projects instead.
You're describing an unfortunate situation, but it feels like you may have mis-identified the issue.

> I am currently working for a big corporate in the UK, who have been showing off their "pioneering" and "visionary" strategy to focus recruitment from code boot-camps.

Your employer is trying out a new HR strategy to cut costs and boost productivity. Is that strategy working for them? It doesn't sound like it's working for them if they're hiring bad coders and driving away experienced staff. Do they think it's working? Is your management aware of your concerns?

Because honestly, this sounds a lot like "my management team is doing something dumb, and it's all the fault of the new junior devs we hired". That sounds unlikely.

Also:

> I didn't study and spend my student loan on my passion just so I can train up a bunch of people

Mentoring is a key part of the job. If your HR department is hiring poor candidates for that, that's an issue, but if you don't want to mentor people at all, is this really your passion?
Family? Friends?
If I had to guess, you're a skeptic of the existence of IQ, or at least you're expressing a viewpoint in line with that. I don't know how to break it to you, but the mountain of evidence is not on your side.

Set aside Terence Tao and consider another mathematician, John Von Neumann. He had mastered differential and integral calculus, could converse in ancient Greek (among several other languages), and read through the entire 46-volume Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen (essentially the history of the world, according to Wilhelm Oncken) at the age of 8, all without ever setting foot in a classroom. You can't seriously suggest that he benefitted from better teaching when he was entirely self-taught.

Contrast this with students who get all the way through high school and still cannot read or write above an elementary school level, who cannot perform basic arithmetic without a calculator, all of this despite thousands of hours of effort.
I have some luck with a question that needs you to use a standard “interview” data structure in a slightly nonstandard way. People who can bring up the data structure and tell me all about it, but not see how to actually solve the problem with it, are easy to reject. People who can derive it on the spot, or at least figure out how to use it after I give it to them, tend to be impressive hires.
The article touches on why:

"Part of it, perhaps, is that Thomas and his world are innately horrendous, and there’s something horrendous about taking all that off the rails and into a digital space. The original books, penned in the 1940s by the Anglican reverend Wilbert Awdry, now read like an enthusiastic allegory for bigotry and exploitation. The New Yorker, among other publications, has a ghoulish piece of essayistic fiction on the drizzly dystopia that is Thomas’s Island of Sodor, where cheerful anthropomorphic machines are torn apart, worked to death or bricked up in tunnels at the whim of a well-heeled Fat Controller. For all its dark corners and clutching cadavers, Resident Evil 2’s setting can seem almost benign by comparison."

Cracked also articulated it well:

https://www.cracked.com/article_19673_6-insane-but-convincin...

(Another show with cheery, brightly colored human-machine hybrids existing in a highly regulated totalitarian structure is Teletubbies, although it's more of a Brave New World to Thomas's 1984. You do see creepy Teletubby "cursed images" from time to time...)
In my recollection, most US plants are closing or have closed due to end of lifetime. Plants are reaching end of 50-60 year planned lifetimes. New plants are hard to build due to burdensome regulations, mostly nonsensical negative public sentiment and enormous capital requirements. I remember hearing that you have to upfront the cost of waste disposal in a trust. I don't have any citations handy, but you're looking at something like 10 billion upfront to build a new fission plant in the US. They also take a long time to build and start up, so you're lucky to see any revenue for at least 5 years on a multibillion investment. Not a very attractive investment, is it?

That said, I'm a fan of nuclear fission for power baseline. It has its warts, but it's better for us long term than coal or gas.
This really assumes the only point of cooking is sustenance. I think reality is much more complicated. I'd argue that the tradition, culture and craft of cooking is equally important. Having people prepare food on your behalf isn't exactly a new concept.
This seems intentionally misleading. RICE is acute care immediately following an injury, to prevent further damage and relieve pain. MOVE (a terribly strained acronym) is for rehab/physical therapy. What is newsworthy here?
I can’t vouch for other programs, but I co-founded Dev Bootcamp (the first programming bootcamp) and the sequence you outlined is almost verbatim how we brought students into Rails.

We’d explain it the way you described. We’d have them start with Sinatra apps after 3 weeks of modeling problems in CLI apps.

After their 10th hand-written form with error handling, they’d see the value of Rails form helpers immediately once they hit the last few weeks.

Similarly, they’d write lots of SQL queries by hand in their CLI apps. We’d push them to separate it behind method boundaries then class boundaries then build a mini-ORM.

When ActiveRecord came along it was no problem because they had a model of the problems it was invented to solve.

A bit of the flavor: http://bit.ly/dbc_activerecord

It’s always sad to hear that the bootcamps that followed us didn’t try to give students the right mental models, but I believe you!
Like shouting and motivational.

Coach: you will put in 110%

Student: 100% is the max

Coach: you are cut off the team. Who else thinks 100% is the maximum?
GHCJS is mature enough to write production frontend apps in Haskell. JavaScript is not required.

Try: https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk

Example app: https://github.com/srid/Taut
A bit upsetting that the Catholic Charities never got that money. Surely, they could have done better with it than "a Cadillac and three or four motorcycles."
Show HN: AI Generated House Music
I also wonder about that. If it transmutes into the natural decay products, energy must come out, and, depending on the size of that laser/proton gun, we could (although I think that’s highly unlikely) even be talking about a way to make small nuclear bombs.

Also, will the end result still be energy positive? Even if the transmutation doesn’t add energy to the nucleus, that can be problematic, as that laser will need to be powered.

And of course, there’s the question of ‘aim’: can we really target individual atoms well enough to ‘hit’ them exactly once? (this might be fairly easy if the process requires specific energies that the radioactive atoms, once ‘hit’ no longer are sensitive to)
Thorium Reactor Advocates Have a “Cargo Cult” Mentality
The recurring theme of politicians advocating restrictions of voting to land owners (even to this day) says a lot about what some people think democracy means. It's depressing even before you get to the idea of buying the votes of the people who can still vote, or using gerrymandering to make their votes not count
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#samsung

I don't think there is a technical reason. It just depends on what devices are had by people who did the work.

(My comment is an example of one of the difficulties of these types of projects. I simply presumed they're piggybacking off of LineageOS work, as it's so popular. That will be a point of comparison to anybody that can appreciate this project, just like buying a used S7/S9 off eBay and DIY is also. The value proposition ends up caught between a rock and a hard place)
I think there's something more to it than that. I would think that knowing he had assets in excess of $1MM that he could rationalize that a mattress was affordable to him. Old habits die hard though.
Not to mention the editing cut footage mid-sentence. I can't watch something like that.
Thanks, that's exactly the difference. While I'm an American, I'd only previously used and heard the UK version..(not that it's a common word).
UK still pays devs way more than EU though.
Completely agree. As an EMT I've seen some grisly stuff IRL. In the moment it doesn't bother me -- probably because I'm there to try to fix the problem rather than to inflict it. But I have absolutely no interest in violent video games and cannot fathom why they're popular.
Terry Tao was passionately interested in mathematics starting from an early age, had extreme amounts of support from experts, and spent incredible amounts of time and focused effort on it.

There are vanishingly few people in the world who spent as much time or had as much guidance at a similar age. It’s basically impossible to find a reasonable comparison vs. Tao of someone who had similar amounts of support and spent a similar amount of time and yet was never able to learn anything.

Humans (including young kids) are incredibly capable if they consistently practice something every day over the course of years, with useful feedback along the way.

Take for example the Polgar sisters, who became 3 of the strongest female chess players of all time because their family made chess success a long-term full-time family project. There is no particular reason to believe that any average baby adopted into the same family at birth would not also have become a skilled chess player.
My earlier comment met with some resistance, so let me try to get some more downvotes by stating my objections once again and more comprehensively.

I should say I have nothing against the premise of the business - if it provides livelihood to traditional craftspeople (or just talented artists of any kind) more power to you.

However, you are not making it easy for me to believe that you have the artist's best interests in mind. Let me count the reasons why:

1. Not a single individual artist or craftsperson is mentioned anywhere on the site. I don't know about you, but when I hear the term "artist," I think of an individual with a specific way of looking at the world. Absolutely every Indian artist and craftsperson I know has a desire to see their individuality recognized. You claim to be sourcing artists but you don't recognize their personhood anywhere. That's rather strange don't you think? It's possible that during the portraiture itself a bond is established between the representer and the representee but that's not the case on your site. It's an easily added feature if you're serious.

[EDIT] - as another commenter pointed out, there's a byline for each artist so what I said above is flawed. I still think you would be better off highlighting the artist's vision in more detail. For example, did artist X make the portrait in style Y - Suprio for Ballpoint Magic for example? If so, why aren't the portraits signed? Why choose to anonymize them at every stage? Otherwise it looks as if you are choosing to stroke the vanity of a western/affluent Indian audience.

2. Every Indian state and linguistic community has artistic traditions. Madhubani is different from Company painting is different from Mughal paintings. None of these traditions are even mentioned. In fact, there's no evidence that any Indian aesthetic tradition matters at all. Instead, what you have are generic categories - "the vision lure" - without connection to artistic traditions of any culture.

3. Then there's the origin story - "the idea was hatched when so and so were sipping coffee and discussing the works of Raja Ravi Verma in the historical city of Udaipur." At the very least that suggests an intimate connection between Raja Ravi Varma and Udaipur, especially if you aren't Indian. Except that RRV lived out his life in Kerala, far away from Udaipur and from a very different artistic and cultural milieu. If you had started the story with Tantric paintings [1] that are still produced anonymously in Rajasthan (just like your artists) I would have taken notice.

Suppose I went to a cafe in Stockholm, discussed the "da Vinci code" with a friend and decided to start a business in Italian greeting cards made for cut rates by unknown artists in Neapolitan neighborhoods (in between assignments for the 'ndrangheta, if you want to add some mystery to the whole process)- in what way would that be beneficial to European art?

[1] http://sigliopress.com/book/tantra-song/
Nice article, and good data find. I think a point missed at the end about how we can potentially avoid "healthiness" as a premium/luxury option is by setting a base-line, with canteen style food. Here is an HN discussion about "canteen-style dining": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19792674. India also instituted a similar program at their Aganwadis: https://www.akshayapatra.org/anganwadi-feeding. In addition, there was no coverage about the environmental impact of "Cooking-as-a-Service". It could be worse because of having to transport the goods (and keep them warm or cold), including the packaging that may be disposed, or it could be better if the packaging was re-usable (sent back somehow? everyone uses identical swappable packaging?) or it turns out that scheduled deliveries is more optimizable than N houses all driving to the same restaurant.
Someone I know IRL told me a similar anecdote about a guy sleeping in the bushes in front of a building. People periodically called the cops on him but to no avail because he owned the building.
Nuclear plants in the USA are closing early specifically because electricity revenue dropped below what was expected (and needed) to pay for operation and maintenance costs. Revenue dropped specifically because fracked natural gas became very cheap and undercut the price in deregulated markets.

The idea that nuclear plants are net energy negative is very inaccurate. A 1 GWe plant runs for 60 years releases roughly 2000 PetaJoules of energy from atomic nuclei. Vastly less energy goes into building and operating the plant. They're massive, massive carbon-free energy sources.

But operation cost is high. There are lots of highly trained operators working 4 shifts. There are complex regulations, and safety upgrades after 9/11 and Fukushima.

As for insurance, if fossil plants had to pay insurance for the global warming they're causing, they'd be far far more uninsurable. Right now, fossil makes 85% of the world's energy. Would it be viable if it was liable for climate change? Not a chance. Also, nuclear energy kills fewer people per Watt*hour generated than almost all other energy sources. So why wouldn't it be insurable compared to the others? [3].

Nuclear subsidies in the USA are 1% of the total energy subsidies [1].

Helen Caldicott is not an authority on nuclear energy. She is the number 1 anti-nuclear activist in the world and has said countlessly many things that are wholly unsupported by even minor scrutiny [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2016_Energy-Related_Tax_P...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/05/anti-n...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Sort of. If you'd read my links you'd see that Uranium cycle was originally developed and popularized because the US army wanted Plutonium for nuclear weapons. That has nothing to do with Thorium's intrinsic quality as a power source. [1]

The lack of investment into Thorium (and into nuclear power in general) had a lot to do with Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and of course much more recently Fukushima. [2] On my chart, that would be the giant slump in 1986 and 2012 (what could that have been?). It became far harder to secure funding for any kind of nuclear research because people lost their taste for it, and frankly, the remaining funding came from governments so they could have a steady supply of fissile material for weapons. This kind of research requires huge capital outlay. [5]

Thorium is far more efficient per unit weight (1T is equal to 200T of uranium and 3.5MT of coal), a lot more abundant, safer (from a stability perspective, and also from a non-proliferation perspective) and requires some of the waste products (such as Plutonium) from traditional reactors because it's fertile, not fissile. [4] As such, nuclear waste can be utilized by thorium reactors.

This is all very well documented ([1,2,4,5]).

Uber doesn't work because of its unit economics, but that's a totally unrelated conversation we can leave up to the judgement of the public markets to resolve. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

[2] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-a...

[3] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...

[4] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/02/16/the-thi...
What infuriates me is the sleeze ball firms like Brandenburger & Davis who aren't even satisified with extorting 30% of an estate from relatives, but then also resort to illegal collusion.

Yah, let's keep reducing regulations so that these kind of scum bags can keep doing their thing.
The assessing is done by the school as they are a trusted third party. And then the school inflates prices to bring in more money for the endowment and administration. The selling line is something like: "Don't want to have a shit life and no options? We didn't think so, so sign this paper and go cram for tests and don't worry about the bill. People with a degree earn more than those without." And then the jobs are shit or gigs or just not existent. Unless you have a good network to use.
Why not everyone who participates in the exchange? Or perhaps only the words they contribute?
There is no timeframe, but Bitcoin is 10 years old and, trust me, there were enough claims within this time period to come to such a conclusion. Say geologists predict that an earthquake should happen within a year, but then it actually happens in 10 years. Were they right or wrong? In my opinion, wrong. Now what if it happened in year and a half. Were they right in this case? I say yes, they were. Same with Bitcoin. Here is an example (the CEO of JPMorgan Chase):

https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/10/31/Photos/MG/M...
I think you have to try to seperate skill and background. If somebody has sufficient skill, you can decide based on their background. And then you should make a systemic decision: a new person affects the whole team, and how people distribute functions within the group. Bringing in the right person with a different background on the right spot can do wonders.

And by background I surely mean gender, but also things like educational background, nationality, personality etc.

Nobody should brute force for gender diversity just for the symbolic victory. Diversity done right has its benefits, but like all paradigms you have to use your brains when implementing it. Refusing to do so and then after a half assed attempt declaring it doesn’t work, is what you sadly witness quite often.

I know multiple women in tech and every single one of them had their gender used against them many times during their careers. Hiring men and women like in regular fields won’t hurt tech at all. I don’t really get why it has to be a big thing at all.
I use a Xiaomi Redmi S2 purchased in China. Simplest way to run G-free and its damn fine equipment. #justsaying
Coding tests are often meant as a fizzbuzz type filter - if it is meant only for a very basic level of competence.
This is by the ‘Play to Win’ guy!
We want everyone who can, rich or poor, to be able to go to college. So everyone gets a loan no questions asked.

No private bank would do this so it has to be government. But we want this to cost the government nothing, so the loan is uniquely inescapable.

And we want Universities to charge essentially whatever they want, so the loan required is close to unlimited.

We'd need to change one of those to fix the problem. Forcing private banks to issue unlimited loosing loans, telling universities what they can do or, only alowing the rich into uinversitys are all unacceptable. Which leave one option, the one other developed continues use. Which is hammered with words like "socialist" or the like.
Ever uses photo memories app for facial recognition
This. When I started my career all I had to learn to make enterprise grade apps was Visual Basic. True story, there were even big ERP companies built entirely on VB. Today? Modern HTML, CSS, and JS apps with backends in <pick your language and data store> is more off putting than Win32 or GTK+ was.

Yes I’m aware of the differences in capability and no I’m not complaining. I’m just saying it was easier back then.
The Skyrim one is amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaTZV8qS1I
> I think there is no pool more shallow than the one of C programmers that can work on embedded in my area.

Maybe if Embedded gigs wouldn't be paid a fraction of what a web dev kiddie would make, the pool would be larger.
On the flip side a refurbished item was inspected by a human and deemed to be functional. A new item was probably last touched by a robot.
Why Vine Died
Show HN: A set of Python decorators for debugging
So other people can contribute via pull requests, or if the person who put it up doesn't maintain it, someone else can fork it and full dead projects?

Also, if there is a problem with rhe inclusion of something on the list (severe vulnerability that isn't patched, etc) people can have a conversation about it in the issues section.

IMHO, this is a better option than random blog posts or single-page-domain-spam for the above reasons. I dont know if a new "awesome X" repo is appropriate for HN but they are certainly useful for plenty of people given their popularity, and I have seen all of the above happen in other instances, so they seem better to me than a run-of-the-mill blog post or single page domain.
Why? It works for high school, I don't see how college is any different.
I can't help but feel like you don't understand a work flow that utilizes rebase in a responsible way. In particular you seem to think that the rebase is going to affect the history of a released version of your software (When did the bug happen?).

Nobody is suggesting that rebase be used to change the history of a released or published branch (master, develop etc.). If that is your concern and the reason for you not trusting a "rebaser" then you are simply mistaken, you are arguing against an imaginary workflow for which no one is advocating.

Rebase should be used only to curate the commits on a feature branch and to keep the feature branch synchronized with the upstream branch.