skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why in the name of all that's holy must every single thing be dumped inside Developer Facebook^H^HGithub?
Definitely not all. Minnesota's at least is paid. As a non-driver, I decided to skip renewing mine recently and get a passport card instead.
Radioactive materials are dangerous because their subatomic makeup is unstable, meaning they emit dangerous particles as the atom degrades from the inside. So it would seem that, in order to fix that, you'd have to re-populate the innards of the atom with enough protons to make it stable again.

It's worth noting that transmutation is definitely possible. The alchemists of old would be thrilled to know that we can, in fact, make gold from base metals (in a nuclear reactor). The problem with that is that the cost of doing so is worth more than the gold could be sold for.
> Not just food and supply aid...

The whole army and the workers of the most crucial factories had ate almost exclusively a lend-lease food from USA, also after food stock depletion in 1943 Soviet Union increased the demand of food over weaponry to ¼ of supplies' tonnage (that's how my grandmother had a first taste of chocolate at the age of 9). So don't talk like it was "just food", some (due to widely censored documents and history classes) of us still know how crucial this support was, along with trucks, air fuel and others.
Protect solar system from mining 'gold rush', say scientists
Has to be hundreds of companies in gross violation... wonder how far over the line these guys were to get sued.
"Mr. Urschel is a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics and former professional football player".

That is, in essence, the only line you should read. I also have many opinions about how others should do their work. They are doing it all wrong.
Some of the World’s Most Polluted Cities Are in India. New Delhi Is One of Them
Got a source? I'd read the EROI of nuclear is quite high.
Since it's their own custom renderer, they just need to write a back-end for the web (which is what they are doing)
I came here to say the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omT0PaXYpIE
I've been using Openpilot in my 2018 Corolla for the past few months. Some takeaways:

It's mind-blowingly good. Easily on par with Autopilot (That is, Autopilot's ACTUAL capabilities, not what they show in marketing promos). For long highway trips, it's easy to go hours without a disengagement.

The full setup costs about $800, is completely plug-and-play, and you can order everything you need on the site (EON/Panda/Giraffe). See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfF9l2-orTk

There's a huge active community working on adding support for more cars and even custom forks with more advanced features like dynamic follow. Someone even recently got a VW bus working with it. https://discordapp.com/invite/avCJxEX

Also it's just really freaking cool to have a self driving Corolla. Can't stress how much this thing has changed the way I view driving and going places. It's no longer a pain, but a joy to sit in stop and go traffic. It's not perfect, but it's pushing the border of level 3 autonomy and far better than anything that any manufacturer besides Tesla is shipping.
This is very true. A lot of the materiel support for the USSR was to stay on good terms while the USSR continued to throw soldiers into the meat grinder of the Eastern Front.

For the UK and US, it was much cheaper sending tanks and jeeps and letting the USSR sacrifice the lives.
We teach kids they can be whoever they want to be, then stick them with a massive bill and say 'ha ha only kidding you miserable debt slave.'
Huge crowds watched people kill each other in Colloseums.
Huge crowds cheered as people were executed, as a matter of course. It was entertainment.

So, were all those societies of the past being harmed and corrupted by their entertainment in a broad-sce way? In a way we can see in retrospect, that caused them to become worse than they already were?
At least in the us seats belts are mandated by law, as is insurance.
It is about Risk analysis. The odds your plane crashes is close to zero. The odds you are in a car wreck is greater than zero.
A lot of people get the analysis wrong, and out too much effort into something that probably won't happen.
That being said, carrying an SSD drive while traveling isn't a bad idea. But not because the plane might crash
It's because violence is much easier to explain then sex.

In western civilisation most people can get through life and never even come close to having to make decisions about directly committing violence.

The answer of: just don't is in fact entirely adequate - not necessarily complete but almost always the right answer.

Whereas almost everyone "does" sex at some point. But in depicting it the exact same act takes on a huge number of implications depending on context - including violence.

Ergo it's not actually so surprising it's rated the way it is - conversely I still agree the blanket R or whatever is not really helping overall.
Many prominent mathematicians throughout history fit this pattern, but largely because they lived in different times. Mathematics builds on itself: 200-300 years ago, there was less mathematics to build on, so you could get to the frontiers a lot faster. Also, academic fields were less delineated--not only was Newton both a mathematician and a physicist at a time when the two weren't distinct fields and physics barely existed, but he also lived in a world where wasting the entire rest of his life studying Bible codes and nurturing personal feuds seemed like a reasonable idea.

There are also confirmation and sample biases involved. Everyone hears about Terence Tao because Terence Tao's story is remarkable. All the 38-year-old mathematicians who are making those research contributions are normal, and hence their stories aren't interesting.
I think there is honestly very little difference between a bedroll and a bed. As soon as you have any kind of separation between you and the floor you’re pretty much good.
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, because it was my introduction to the Culture Novels as a whole. I have yet to find another world with such personality and richness, a close second would be Surface Detail of the same series, mainly because it hosts one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. Not everyone likes Banks' writing style, I personally love it, and his humor too, which is why I also purchased his collection of poems published with Ken McLeod's.
This is not new. Clowns are genuinely terrifying, even before they made novels and movies like "it"
> I especially remember that historians peak in their 60s!

I bet when you're old enough that you can see firsthand how perceptions of the same events change over time, you get a hell of a lot better at recognizing that in history.
Which, ironically, works in your favor in Virginia (USA). In Virginia if you get your associates through a community college then public institutions, like Virginia Tech or University of Virginia, cannot deny you entry if you want to get your undergrad degree. And there's no resume requirement to list where you got your Associates later on.
Yeah but there’s nothing physiological or neurological there, which is what the critical period hypothesis is predicting. It’s just the reality of childhood in an immersion environment.
>Just what is Thomas?

This reminds me of one of my favourite Cyanide & Happiness comics:

A Gingerbread man lives in a Gingerbread house.
Is the house made of him? Or is he made of house?
He screams, for he does not know.
Why are you assuming this is a class issue? Are you implying that the lower classes are not as intelligent/not as capable?

I just saw it as a people issue.
That’s how I read it. He had a stroke, fell, broke his nose, and then died of the stroke.

The nose just sucks, but if you’re already having a stroke...
Considering that many people have literally died as the result of this, what are the chances they’ll get any more than a slap on the wrist?
The simplest source is the closure of many existing nuclear plants and the cancellation of all but one which we're planned for the US.

It's not well known that the industry requires billions in government subsidies to even exist today. If taxpayers are footing the bill, that tells you that selling electricity isn't paying its own way.

Fewer people still know that nuclear plants are uninsurable, for somewhat obvious reasons. Government insurance for nuclear accidents is another huge subsidy that shows the industry isn't viable on its own.

For more info, see Helen Caldicott's excellent book, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.
I disagree with your dismissal as some form of 'free society' bs. Free society is all well and good but we have reasonable laws for a reason. There are some people who find torture amusing and end up serial killers....no offence but their opinion is not equal to every one else's and should be removed from society imo. Just because someone is entertained doesn't not make it acceptable. That's a farce
To be fair, asking for the "source" for "Gnupolitik" (GNU/Politik?) is a great reply, even if you didn't get the joke.
This is true not of nuclear energy in general but -- if what you're saying is true -- of the Uranium cycle commonly in use today. To my knowledge, it was originally selected because it can support production of weapons-grade Plutonium. I'd wager, at the time, the power generation (and economics) was more of a side-effect.

I'm personally more interested in seeing Thorium reactors re-visited, as Thorium is much more prevalent in the earth, can't be used to produce weapons-grade Plutonium, is much safer, more stable, yields fissile products with much shorter half-lives, and so on. That's not to say there aren't challenges but I think this would be something worth investing in. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
And let's not forget that Thomas the Train appeared in a marvel movie (Ant Man): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cq8EXbY3xXk

There's something to be said for the juxtapositioning of Thomas' face in darker settings.
Well, Facebook is going all in. Its said that offensive is the best defense. But I doubt this will instill any more confidence, rather the opposite - how any other companies are there that Facebook gave access to data via apps?
It's as likely they were cancelled due to negative public sentiment towards nuclear energy. We're going to need some sources.
I believe the NES classic and Switch use open source emulators?
You're explaining my own reasoning and then telling me how I'm wrong.

Talking about countries is just another way of saying that the plane was flying in many places all over the world and the risk of accident, despite these horrible accidents, was never very high. As you say, would never happen.
Being able to learn these things on your own is exactly what a CS degree is supposed to teach.

In my career, I've taught myself how to make complex CLIs. Then CGI-based web apps. Then Java desktop apps. Then MVC frameworks. Then JS frameworks. Etc. Ditto for changes in development and deployment processes. Ditto for changes in DB technology. etc.

My employer rightfully expected that, for a six figure salary, I should be a professional who is able to keep up with best practices. That's why they pay me well. They let me attend conferences and I negotiate for some "experimentation" time whenever there's a big shift in the tech landscape, but it's not like I'm disappearing for months at a time every 5 years. That'd be insane.

I'm not very old.

Hell, I don't even work in web development.

It's just one of those skills I need to keep fresh because it comes in handy every once in a while.

The changes in my actual domain of expertise have been even larger and much more difficult to keep up with.

Coding bootcamps are expensive -- they often cost on the order of a single year of college. If you're going to need to go through a few of them in your career just to keep up with a single skill set -- building UIs -- that's more of a baseline competence than a real specialty, why not front-load and just get a good-quality degree that prepares you to teach yourself the easy stuff? Double major while you're at it.
Since there is no working thorium reactor at scale, it would be more accurate to say that it is true today and some people hope that we could escape the uranium cycle with thorium. So far, no one has.
People are doing this because they are excited beyond themselves about the next re-skin of Call of Duty 19 or whatever. It's like a virtual graffiti made by bored hackers.
How I Run a Company with ADHD
Elders' need for care may have burdened the success of their living descendants. In this sense we may have evolved to die.

A counterargument is that past generations lived too rarely to the point of natural death ("Intrinsic senescence") to experience selective pressure. I feel the burden of proof is in showing this.

An interesting discussion is whether or how an encoded trait that's negatively selected for is different than one that was never factored into the equation.
I'm not trying to be snarky (I swear every second sentence I say starts that way these days, sad spirit of the times), but to me, that sounds like sales...
That's true, maybe a range input would work though (slider control) it would be nice from a usability point of view.

If people can quickly go through the steps and see a preview, I don't think they'll be Ashamed of the default sizes, but I'm not the target audience I guess...
>, and you were teaching 16 year olds, it would be not hard to cover the up-to-3rd-grade curriculum

In this conversation of hypotheticals, I don't see why we have to dumb down the goal from 7-year olds learning advanced math like calculus to the easier goal of 16-year olds learning 3rd-grade arithmetic.

Let's recap the discussion up to this point:

- You contend that some people don't improve at math 10x than others. (The 10x can be explained away by mostly fear, grades anxiety, culture, teaching, 1-on-1 teaching, fostering curiosity, etc)

- I mention 2 examples of different math ability: (1) lower math ability (maybe ~0.1x math progress) and (2) high math ability like Terence Tao (maybe 10x math progress)

Based on your comments [0], I think you believe my examples of varying math learning speed is invalid and that TT is an "average math brain" that benefited from great teaching. Ok, if that is true, why can't we make breakthrough math course that can teach 7-year olds to master calculus? Not just simple 3rd-grade arithmetic but advanced calculus.

If a math teacher believes strongly in the thesis that people like TT just have an average math learning speed (which means the general population is equal to TT in math learning ability), he could make a "Calculus for 7-year olds" course that could make more money than the "Baby Einstein" DVDs. Instead of graduates with math degrees accepting low-paying adjunct professor contracts for $30k/year, they can charge $50k to tutor/mentor the children of millionaires/billionaires and guarantee they can get a SAT MATH 760 score like 9-year old Terrence Tao.

Those breakthrough teaching courses haven't happened which means we still have a misunderstanding/overestimation about math pedagogy that doesn't explain TT's advanced math skills at his young age.

Also as a side note about fear and anxiety in math teaching... there are lots of horror stories from China, Japan, S Korea of kids getting physically punished (both by teachers and parents) for getting wrong math answers and yet they still become very good at math.

[0] >I also dispute that with all else held equal, certain people are inherently “10 times faster” at “improving” at mathematics.
Google is your friend! Only one nuke plant in the US was shut down over protests (San Onofre) and that took 20 years.

The press releases from plant owners who closed or cancelled their plans all cite negative economics as the reason.
Yeah, it's an overload as others have replied. The difference between C and C++ here, is that you should get a linker error if you try and invoke the undefined overload in C++ (C doesn't allow overloading, nor does it require a forward declaration).

This is how we "deleted" functions, especially otherwise auto generated ones such as a default or copy constructor and assignment operator pre C++11.
Okay, so s/global/whatever you want me to say, for what you definitely know that I mean.
Perhaps today's Senators have learned not to completely wing it - we're a long way from the "series of tubes" era.
Honking from the (closer!) freeway barely registers. Horn blasts from the level crossing resonate in my chest. When a train zooms by it’s at least over quickly. When it lumbers out of the station and the whole sequence is delivered directly to my window, I just have to pause my conversation/TV show for a minute or two.

It was worth the substantial rent discount at the time I lived there, but pretty extreme as noise goes.
I don't think there is any confusion on definitions of insolvency, there just seems to be disagreement on whether there is any risk iFinex can get their frozen/missing funds back at all, not how long it will take to collect them.
Don’t get why everyone’s been so precious about spoilers for the latest crop of superhero films.

As they’re built on such well-established tropes and character beats, it’s probably possible to guess 90% of the story up front. Also these films are so huge that the actual plot isn’t really that important compared to everything else.
I'm saying that "nuclear power" != "uranium cycle power" and that if we continue to couple the two, nobody ever will. It's on us, if we think there is opportunity, to advocate for better technology options where possible. Casually linking the two is part of why we don't have use at scale.
High-Dimensional Computing as a Nanoscalable Paradigm (2017) [pdf]
It's all about scalability. With serverless, you can have your functions running on machines all over the world, at the network edge closest to your end user. You can scale from minimal to maximal without any intervention whatsoever, and only for the hot parts of your code. Deployment is even more refined than with containers.

I sincerely hope to get to work with this stuff soon; no use case for me at present.
Ask HN: Have You Tried Wake Therapy?
This comes up on HN with relative frequency in comments. There's more on it recently and I've personally found it to be potentially helpful as an anti-depressant and potentially nootropic treatment, but with also obviously significant side effects.
So are you suggesting laws that censor violent content?
People are reasonably worried about the difficulty of changing schools mid-stream and whether they'll be able to pick up smoothly at the more prestigious school or be at an academic or social disadvantage relative to those who did their whole degree there. Also, these choices are faced primarily by young people who have no college experience and often little life experience in things like fiscal management. Meanwhile students are bombarded endorsements for the idea of being accepted to a prestigious university, whereas announcing that 'you're going to start community college!' is equivalent to signaling that you will be spending two years on an uncompetitive track.

I think it's disingenuous to ignore these differences, or to assume that employers will necessarily take the broader view. I am not asserting that the approach you describe cannot work out very well for some individuals.
I still don't understand the difference between serverless vs just a Docker container. You still have to define your dependencies and entrypoints. Most serverless stuff runs in some type of abstraction behind the scenes (a container or some other chroot/namespace).

It just feels like silly buzzword garbage that locks you in further to AWS.
> Built on top of NetBSD

Interesting. Why this vs Arch or Debian-based?
Building Brick Walls (Old School Vrs. New School)
because Netflix has no time constraints.
Generally on HN, unlike other comment zones on the Internet, it's on people making claims to back them up with sources. Ideally if you have something controversial or interesting you provide links and resources, so we can all learn, instead of farming out the work of backing up your opinion to each reader.
I was coming to ask the same thing? I wish someone just had a site showing a big list of neat projects. It looks like this is pretty sparse too.
Came here to say something that I suspect operator overloadíng. I read your comment, pressed refresh, and it was already fixed.
You can see my first comment in this thread, which you took exception to. This is a very important topic, and I'm not debating recreationally. There is a long and ongoing history of security advocates overstating security, to people who really need it, and that's the sort of thing that can get people killed, positive movements ended, etc. Anyone advocating right now should be aware of that, and not keep making the same mistakes.
> leaving each function or module you touch a little bit better than you found it.

This is some of the best advice you can give a developer I think it's known as; The Boy Scouts rule: “Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it”.

Some people I've worked with seem to miss the importance of this...
Are there any video chat platforms that just assume a good network quality (or have an option for such) so in the happy case there's less latency?
If they had received a CS education they would be in a different class.
I imagine you're joking? More likely Perl, it was a big web language back in the day. Smaller chance that it was Pascal.
That is interesting and I was too engrossed in the talk to even pick up on that the first time through.

According to :

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/ex...

He's using the American pronunciation, and yours is likely the UK version. I've always used the UK pronunciation myself and didn't know there was an alternate way to say it until today.
Best example I know of is PocketNES, but that was used by Jaleco in a GBA port:

https://waxy.org/2004/07/jaleco_borrows/

Nintendo has written or contracted a lot of emulators themselves. The grandparent may be thinking of the pervasive use of the iNES header format, which originated with an unofficial (though not open source) emulator:

https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES
I downvoted this because it is wrong.

> By that time in the war, Germany had already been defeated, the Imperial Japanese Armed forces were already signalling a willingness to end the war, with the one condition that the Japanese emperor (who most Japanese view as divine) would not be harmed."

Assuming that "by that time in the war" means prior to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is false. Even after the bombing of Nagasaki 3 of the 4 military members of the Supreme War Council wanted additional terms that would never have been acceptable to the Allied Powers (among them, no occupation of the home islands). It took the intervention of the Emperor himself to break the deadlock.

The idea that the armed forces were amenable to a surrender with the sole condition that the emperor remain in power before Hiroshima is simply not true.
Fast neutron reactors can. Most thorium MSRs are slow neutron reactors and struggle to transmute significant used nuclear fuel.
Media conglomerates still indeed have some sway.

CNN et al which all have questionable at best propaganda/war drum records are still pointed to with appeals to authority.l, etc.
Matrix is a protocol, not a "service". Chose a server you trust, or selfhost (and use E2EE).
I have actually run across code in the wild along the lines of:

int foo()
int x;
int y;
{ return x + y; }

Perfectly legal C, if not an old archaic and seldom used syntax. I saw it in some proprietary code, so, no, I cannot provide a link. It was odd, but worked for what it was trying to do.

It pays to know the language you work in, not to write things like this, but to understand on the off chance you encounter it in the wild.

Edit, I may be wrong on the syntax, it might be:

int foo(x, y)
int x;
int y;
{ return x + y; }

I dont have the ISO spec in front of me, but one of these should work.