skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know at the very least that he took lists of Chinese targets and when they were compromised and gave them to the SCMP, who reported in broad terms about the content of the lists. We know he gave a list of war zone and drug trafficking targets to Greenwald because he reported them. We know he gave a list of Western European political targets to Greenwald because he reported them as well. We have no idea what Russian target lists he took.
I don't know if they are. Emulating games is not really preserving them in a sense, because it can't reproduce the hardware or experience as it actually was very well. Like you can play Ridge Racer type 4 in emulation, but part of that game's history was the special controller it was bundled with, which let you twist the middle of it to enable analog steering wheel control.

Like you can't emulate Boktai without the solar sensor on it, and also you don't get the sense of how dark the game boy advance's screen is. Or another example is Trace Memory for the Nintendo DS, which made use of the fact that the DS can close like a book (to simulate stamping on an ink pad) or that the screen is reflective when closed at an angle (to cause two screens to reflect into each other to make a single word.)

It works to show a boosted version of the original game, but something like sprite flicker or having to use passwords to continue gets dropped out. Or something like the dreamcast's VMU, which displays info on it as you play or can be used for minigames to boost the character in the main game.

The games kind of get divorced from the hardware and media they were played on, which reduces them some.
> Googling, I encountered something I hadn't heard of called a message queue.

Former high frequency trader here. Messaging middleware is a god-send for distributed systems. It used to be quite commonplace in the late 1990s/early 2000s for creating trading systems.

By mid-to-late 2000s - and especially post GFC (great financial crisis), volatility lowered, technology improved and middleware systems were never again put in the critical path.

The important measure here is "tick-to-trade" - from the moment a market-data message comes off the wire to the moment you send an action to buy/sell/cancel back on the wire. A middleware system just slows this down considerably. As a result, you want "tick-to-trade" to be in the same process, preferably single-threaded and boost your thread affinity to minimize context switching.

To answer your actual question: I would say learn about the concepts that the big cloud providers are pushing. If you open the AWS app drop down - there are dozens of concepts that have been encapsulated in managed or serverless frameworks. They are all worth learning IMHO - as they define the current and next generation of computing.
Residents at Three Mile Island Exposed to Far More Radiation Than Claimed
Delivering physical goods is a surprisingly persistent problem.
Circa 2003, my thinking was that by the time amazon inevitably folds and the next generation of ecommerce takes over, commodity delivery systems will have gotten good enough to enable a drop-shipping future. The sites would be aggregators (stumbleupon, digg, etc.) with a good UI and packages would come directly from wholesalers and manufacturers.

Meanwhile, it's the 20s and delivery is still a strategic capability that the largest companies on earth compete on.
Very good point. It really makes you wonder: if Google can make a profit on such an overall-good phone at $400 (I have to assume that they aren't just taking a huge loss on every phone, though I suppose that could be a strategy to garner marketshare), and Apple has even shown that they historically can make a profit at $350 with the iPhone SE... what on earth is in the X/XS to justify the $1k price? Stainless steel? Maybe, but even the 4/4S had that. OLED? On the 3a, at a similar (though admittedly slightly lower) quality level. NVMe storage? On most phones these days. Haptic engine? A similar quality one is in the 3a.

The XS might be excused for being a luxury model. But the 3a really makes you wonder about the XR, which is smaller, made of aluminum, uses an ancient LCD screen (same quality as iphones since the 5 with incremental improvements -- that must be a bargain compared to the XS's OLED), and even has a worse camera than the 3a. In fact the 3a even has a larger, nicer screen. Where on earth are those margins going?
In my experience Level 1 and 2 courses are not a match for normal Undergrad courses, but certainly the Level 3 courses are.

At level 2 maths I covered all the core subjects (i.e. differential equations, multi-variable calculus, fourier analysis, etc.) But each of these was just a chapter in the course (approx. 2 weeks of study). Whereas in normal undergrad they would be perhaps 8-10 weeks worth of lectures each.

But level 3 were certainly really great. The Quantum Mechanics covered everything up to perturbation theory, and the Cosmology module was very comprehensive and the Pure Maths courses covered Group Theory up to Sylow Theorems and Metric Spaces.

So, certainly if someone is considering a Maths course I would recommend the OU. But the cost is way too high for what you get.
Not an expert, but [1] states that current Lion batteries are at 260 Wh/Kg, with 400 Wh/Kg chemistry approaching commercial viability.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1803/1803.04317.pdf
but again, market cap is the full value of public shares available, how can we now that only 10% of uber's shares are public and 90% privately? or how can we know how many public shares does apple offer and how many are private?
From my experience, working with real source from the repo with comments etc is very different than working with reverse engineered binaries.

That's probably what they're referring to.
Roofing is a dangerous profession, so rooftop solar is probably much more dangerous than other solar.
That's very odd, and very un-Scandinavian. Here in Norway small children take buses to school. Even on the same buses as high school students which I think would not be reckoned safe these days in my birth country (UK). Quite a few do get delivered by car though. But schools and society generally encourages children to walk or cycle to school.
Citation or proof needed for a claim like that. Since you work with the data directly it should be really easy to back up your claim.
Nothing lasts forever, but I still keep my milk in a refrigerator that might stop working rather than leaving it on the counter.
For those who believe governments only serve to stifle innovation, please take heed to this counter example(before the Silicon Valley PR machine recasts the research as a work of its own genius).
> You missed the point and chose to tell OP they seem less credible and intelligent?

Yes, it was a joke, and I think you missed the point. I was agreeing with the poster I responded to, not insulting them.
I only spent one night in Berlin (due to very limited time on that trip) and pretty much all of it was spent at Matrix. Kicked on dancing and drinking as long as I could, took a nap in the corner, then headed straight for the bus to Prague. Very fond memory. I'll visit properly one day.
TheOldReader
I saw it in a theater. It was astounding. I bought the soundtrack. I find that when explaining what it is to other people, I have to take care to emphasize it is not the normal documentary format of: historical footage with narration, interview with participant, cut to more footage, cut back to different interview. It's a unique film because they were able to make a documentary with a "normal" film narrative entirely using real footage and no narration. I also think there's not many historical events one could do this with; most events don't have so much footage that you actually can construct a coherent narrative. (Consider: they have high quality footage of the crew getting to the rocket, going from different buildings to vans to suit prep.) And the 65mm footage is some of the highest quality film we have of 1969. Even the crowd footage is fascinating for that reason. It will certainly be nominated for a documentary Oscar.
The Liquidators Who Risked It All to Cleanup Chernobyl
Is that an ethical thing to do?
You might be surprised to know that increased birth defects were never detected in the population irradiated by Chernobyl. This is surprising considering the scare-literature that has come out on it, but it turns out if you look you can find birth defects everywhere.

And also, the land is not permanently uninhabitable. You have to postulate that living things have no tolerance above background radiation to say that. But there are lots of reasons to think that's not true at all. For instance, places like Ramsar, Iran have background levels 80x normal and there's no sign of decreased lifespan or other health impacts.

Also, checkout this wildlife around Chernobyl: https://thoughtscapism.com/2019/05/08/what-about-radioactive...
> Theoretically, the compiler is free to optimize the latter - if it notices that some code can be safely optimized in a mutating way, it is free to do that, but then, someone needs to write that optimization - and the fact that this is not a priority for BEAM means that it is unlikely that someone will spend time to implement it if there are more pressing matters for them to do so.

I have no idea how they prioritize the new features to be built but IMHO safely optimizing code in mutating way is the reason why Haskell is so fast despite the heavy abstraction primitives it offers.

Also, what is the fun in writing perf code in another (native) language if host language is (or can be) capable by itself ?
The story opens with "9,000" deaths, far more than nuclear advocates admit.
I've cycled 5,000 km this year in China and what I saw is at odds with this report:

There are cleaners in all public areas. What they collect must surely go to landfills.

Although I've seen some garbage dumps on the sides of lakes and rivers, I'm sure the authorities don't condone it. I also saw many signs saying "Water Source Protection Area" and fences keeping the public away.

Plastic sheeting is used extensively in agriculture, but surely they will dispose of used sheets properly...
I agree all engineering is abstractions. Every function, data-structure, program.

>> [People] talk about a particular abstraction being "a leaky abstraction". Implying some abstractions are, some aren't.

There are degrees of leakiness though, which matter a great deal. The concept of a "file" is an abstraction, instead we could all write direct to disk sectors. But its value outweighs the leak associated with it.

Other abstractions aren't always so useful, sometimes a coworker makes a class that's riddled with exceptions and caveats.
Science does matter. The evidence is roundup doesn't cause cancer. When something is studied a lot you will find outliers that show the wrong result.

Monsanto was evil (they don't exist anymore, though bayer may well be worse) doesn't mean that they are wrong.
Why do people still buy & smoke cigarettes?
Sure... Here's one:

https://www.wired.com/story/chernobyl-liquidators-photo-gall...
Senior / lead at one company is not necessary on the same level as one at another. Rampant title inflation over the past decade has made this especially true. I think I got my first "senior" title 2 years out of school! Also, culture fit...
I agree. One idea would be to make cost the downvoter a fraction of their own karma. Perhaps 0.1 points/vote. That's how it works on Stackoverflow and the problem isn't as prevalent there.
ScrapyRT: Turn Websites into Real-Time APIs
Real World Prolog Usage
Thanks for putting that together!
The Grin logo would be more recognizable with rim, eyes, and mouth in black as in

https://github.com/mimblewimble/design/blob/master/logos/svg...

https://github.com/mimblewimble/design/blob/master/logos/png...
> I can't wait for autonomous cars.

So that the US can build more ugly boring car suburbs ? Autonomous cars have the potential to make american cities much worse transit-wise.
Feedly, it is free with small ads ( I do wish they highlight the ads in different colour though ).

I still wish there is an RSS Reader within Safari. Since all my bookmarks are synced to iCloud, there is no reason why my list of RSS feeds can't live within my iCloud as well.
Anyone can recommend JS toolset for crearting essay like this? I can see React components used, but maybe there is something less complex?
Yep, which to elaborate on your point means we could expect that number to be lower if it covered all solar.
Thanks but you've said elsewhere that you work in the nuclear industry. HN is not a place where we need to "reprimand" each other.
Build Cross-Platform Apps with React Native, Includes Tizen, macOS, KaiOS
Their rules seem a little extreme, but I do think it points to an obvious issue when teens are willing to go to such lengths to get their fix.
This guy should sue the city. I can't even imagine this happening 5 times, let alone over 80. Dallas should have to make him rich.
It is for orders above 35 dollar and only available on certain items?

How is this a shot back?

Does Amazon have a money printing side business that allows them to subsidize/ keep prices near 0?

Until then, this is the equivalent of pissing in the wind.

If I was an investor, this looks like WMT opex just increased big time.
Fair enough, 80 km is some kind of absurd extreme value, but Luxembourg city centre is about 25 km from Cattenom, so you can at least expect some real estate upheaval at the very least.
More like "up to 4000" in a population that would have had millions of cancer deaths says the UN scientist group (like IPCC but for Chernobyl) and nearly 1,000,000 says one whack-job who anti-nukes picked up and pointed at for years.
Exactly.

Regarding people, you need to spend time with them and its not true that 100% of that time is useful. While you previously did absolutely nothing, now you can do infinitely many things of various complexity and usefulness WHILE STILL BEING HALF-PRESENT. You have more choices. I am also VERY IMPATIENT, and with phone stuff that were driving me crazy are now not a problem at all.

The article is completely meaningless - the two things are not comparable.

Many people like to do mostly meaningless stuff - watch reality shows, read the newspapers, read pulp fiction, watch sport events every day with a lot of emotions. Phone is another medium, nothing else. People will find ways to do such things on any kind of medium.

One thing is more concerning - time doing nothing (boredom) is reduced a lot with a phone because its so effective in accessing stuff from everywhere. During such times human brain can practice imagination and problem solving (there is nothing detracting ATM).

Simply turning off notifications and real time sync is enough - I usually check for a mail 3 times a day manually and sync the phone even less then that (not only on phone but on Desktop too). I think that method works pretty good.
Music is not meant to be analysed. It is felt. The opera singer is the model for all music. TBH I have often felt jazz and classical music to be cold and mechanical, except for a few songs.
This won't do anything. The appeals court will reverse it because scientific evidence disagrees with the jury and the court shouldn't have allowed whatever evidence convinced the jury in the first place.

Monsanto might be evil, but don't fight them with evil. The end of those means is evil.
A poorer nation probably will misrepresent what they do with the trash.

The sellers can't in all honestly claim they didn't know this would be the result.
A dollar a minute == $60/hr

Or around 120k/yr @ 40hr/wk over 50 weeks, pre-tax.
It's on the list of "possible carcinogens" along with coffee, red meat, and 'very hot beverages'.
Or a symptom of regulatory capture.
Push vs pull, auto redelivery, scalable, distributed storage vs single DB.
Museums don’t own all of their collections though, and they too make decisions on what to display at any moment. Not all objects are worthy of display, some get rotated out back into some rich person’s attic.
Again, not really interested in differences in healthcare costs, but differences in healthcare quality.
The Oldreader.

I don't have enough feeds to need their pro tier.

I am probably going to write my own soon for practice.
WhatsApp's End-to-End Encryption Is a Gimmick
FreshRss installed as a docker container in my local little server.
Biggest thing I took from the article is NBC gets half a billion dollars a year for it's content catalog, WOW.
Could be it just came across the right pair of eyes. It's quite reminiscent of the old EvilIx problem in Haskell, where you can break memory safety without doing anything explicitly marked unsafe: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-Decembe...
AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L Receives FDA Clearance for 6-Lead ECG
Supporting testimony from the Warren Commission:

"I would say that as compared to other Marines receiving the same type of training, that Oswald was a good shot, somewhat better than or equal to--better than the average let us say. As compared to a civilian who had not received this intensive [military] training, he would be considered as a good to excellent shot."[1]

"Characterizing the four-power scope as 'a real aid, an extreme aid' in rapid fire shooting, Sergeant Zahm expressed the opinion that the shot which struck President Kennedy in the neck at 176.9 to 190.8 feet was 'very easy' and the shot which struck the President in the head at a distance of 265.3 feet was 'an easy shot.'"[1]

Note that Oswald hit 2/3 shots.

[1]https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-repo...
I researched Tesla’s “bricking” and not starting after seeing that image on reddit. Turns out it can’t happen while driving and means something failed mid upgrade while the car isn’t in use.

Maybe I’m wrong, but the Telsa forums were absolutely livid when a poster used the word brick. His car was in state where it couldn’t start or upgrade again.
I suggest changing the link to be https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PyMCM_by8IabaIrBYpj4QQnm...

The current edit link drops you into a collaborative "Suggest edits" mode which isn't very HN-friendly.
Nuclear Accident at Indian Point: Consequences and Costs [pdf]
deepl is much better than Google Translate.
Let’s not confuse the videos with the index of the videos. Videos can be stored on the slowest and cheapest medium, indexes might be kept in memory or flash. Each video takes hundreds of mb compressed, an entry in the index could be constant per video
Artificial Intelligence, in Real Life
I agree. I still have to use svn in my workplace, but I use git for my own stuff. When things go wrong, I find it easier to fix it with git than svn.
> The point being made is that a properly funtioning nuclear power plant emits very little radiation when compared to a coal-powered plant.

Nobody is denying that or excluding the possibility to add coal plants to such a map. Excuse me for not adding a complete, prioritized list of features to my question. I find it disturbing that some people start insinuating "humorously" that someone is an "anti-vaxxer" because he's considering functionality for people who - for whatever reason - don't like living near nuclear plants. It's this kind of derailing that makes discussions on the Web unbearable sometimes...
> opens a possibility to significantly increase the lithium-ion battery energy density while preserving safety due to the aqueous nature of the electrolyte.

Wouldn't that be bad for car's stability?
I love Let's Plays, I basically grew up watching them. As a kid a little interested in video games, they gave me a lot of context of how games changed overtime (how the transition to 3D affect Mario, Sonic, and Zelda), which gradually lead me into Computer Science.

I only had a few friends as interested in video games as I was, so it was huge to see these people who knew everything about their favorite games. And most importantly, Let's Plays are really casual, the people who commentate are funny, and it feels like hanging out on someone's couch. I remember when I accompanied my mom to her spin class, I was reminded a lot of Let's Plays - the instructor would give some commentary to a shared enjoyed activity.
Yeah, you're right. Many hospitals encourage bad practices like gratuitous C-sections. (But then again many home birth proponents also encourage bad practices.)

I guess I'm saying that one should be less emotional at this point and more cautious and rational.
Biggest takeaway from me in the article is NBC gets $500MM/year for its content catalog...WOW
there's a big difference between "possible" and "probable"

radio waves are classified as possible carcinogens.
It blew the fallout northwest. An aproximate 50x20 km eliptic strip was contaminated. Tokyo is too far away. Uninhabited by people, yes, mainly due to fear if radiation. For other animals and plants that aren't aware of radiation, not really.
Nuclear accidents without iodine pills do indeed increase Thyroid cancers. This is a tragedy. Fortunately, Thyroid cancer these days is almost never fatal, it's totally treatable. However, this still affects the victims lives seriously.

The number of kids who get thyroid cancer from nuclear, however, is almost insignificant compared to the number of children who currently die from air pollution, not to mention the ones who will die from CO2 emissions causing global warming. Everything has risks. The risks from nuclear are exceedingly low.
Based on the Phalcon affair I don't think Israel exports to anyone the US didn't want them to have it, the last time they tried it basically toppled an Israeli government.
There have been many attempts. I liked easygit a lot (seems to be unmaintained now: https://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/documentation/). It had really nice docu. It took me a while to memorize all the native git replacements for `eg revert`. Gitless looks like it could fit your needs (https://gitless.com/).

The problem is, in the end, you'll still need to know the original git commands with all their quirks in addition to the easier commands, because that's what you'll find on stackoverflow or when asking colleagues or inside of error messages. And those command names will either clash with the names used in plain git or are different partially-overlapping concepts (`git reset` is the worst offender here). So eventually you'll need to memorize twice as many things.
You need more solar panels to get the same amount of energy. So since all the practical risk factors in nuclear apply to solar, and solar requires more activity, we'd expect solar to have more deaths per energy unit.

That said, neither nuclear or solar really kills anyone per TWh, so solar might score better by statistical fluke since the variances are so low.

I personally suspect that we don't count sunburn -> skin cancer deaths from solar. If we did, the radiation risks would ironically be higher for it than for nuclear power. Still basically 0 though.
Git performs like what it is : a piece of code created by debugging a blank sheet of paper. I can detect almost no philosophy and no simplifying assumptions. The thought that you need 60+ commands (the current size of my git cheat sheet, including all the bizarre argument incantations which seem customized for all 100+ possible mistakes in git) to get through the day is an abomination. I prefer perforce which requires less than 20 commands. The only reason people use git is because, Linus.

Like no good program, ever, to use git you have to understand all the compromises and all the internals of its data structures. What a joke.
Besides a nicer camera and just being newer, would I benefit coming from a 2 XL?
You can search for stuff only sold by Amazon, at least in the UK. You can run a search and then filter the vendor to "Amazon.co.uk" only.
Here's how I deal with my ADHD:

1) Amphetamine
2) Minimalism
3) Start with small wins and scale up in tasks
4) Have a plan in place so you don't waste #1.