skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First sentence of the accompanying text:

"The efforts of thousands of workers and billions of dollars spent on decontaminating the contaminated areas are beginning to bear fruit."

This is hardly fearmongering.

Also from the article:

"That is why it’s important to document the consequences of a nuclear disaster. Many of the devastated, abandoned and contaminated buildings and interiors I have photographed no longer exist. They have been cleaned and restored or demolished. This is obviously right and necessary. My task, however, is different. I want to preserve as many testaments to the nuclear disaster and human tragedy as possible. Despite eight years having passed, there is still a huge number here, particularly in the red zones — the most radioactive ones that are still closed and where residents are not allowed to return. Although I could be wrong, there is no indication they ever will. Let them serve as a warning to future generation so they do not forget what the careless handling of nuclear energy can lead to."

This seems very right and proper. The author does not criticize nuclear energy as such. His aim was to "document the consequences", he has done so diligently and without "fearmongering". I am actually pro nuclear energy, but if you object to this - you are unreasonably complacent.
Sure, https://smart.gov/SOMAPI/sec1/ch5_recidivism.html

"Langan, Schmitt and Durose (2003), for example, found sexual recidivism rates that are four times higher for sex offenders compared to non-sex offenders"

According to this source, The recidivism rates among those who molest boys is 35% after 15 years. Rates of recidivism are based on arrests and other recorded information, so actual rates will be higher (probably considerably higher if you take into account the low rate of reporting sexual assault).

There are differential rates based on the situation of the crime - incestuous molesters are less likely to do it again, for example. But people who's motivation to offend is general attraction to children, and who's situational offence scenario is no more specific than living in a world with children, are way more dangerous.

The psychological effects of being sexually assaulted as a kid are _really_ bad (want sources for this?), so yeah, I'm not just making this up, or making snap moral judgements. I genuinely consider the risk too high.

The slippery slope is a logical fallacy by the way.
Bolts are (generally?) intended to apply force between two surfaces and not themselves act as shear resistance.

Whereas a pin is (generally?) entirely a shear-force resistance component.
This is definitely on my "list of things I've always wanted to do but I realized man is mortal and I have to prioritize". I'm a personal computing enthusiast and it doesn't get much more personal than designing and building your own architecture.
See this diagram: https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/c...

I believe the metal sleeves that the bolts go into are the pins.

Edit: I probably shouldn't have said "sleeves". That has more than one meaning in this context. I'm talking about hollow pins, secured by bolts when I say "sleeves".
Depending on your religion, they might be equally real. The threat posed by snails might be more immediate, though.
The money went to people who couldn’t afford even their own rent, you rich moron.
Nitpick: a turbine extracts power from a moving fluid. A fan (or impeller) imparts power to a fluid. A traditional jet engine contains both components, which is why they are sometimes referred to as "gas turbines". In an electric jet, there are no turbines and the proper term is "ducted fan" or "electric ducted fan (EDF)".
I see a great potential for the people suffering from Misophonia
Google developed an end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model
Donald Trump declares national emergency over cyber threats against U.S.
Fun fact: the first vegetarian restaurant in Krakow ("Przyroda" at Św. Krzyża St. 7) opened in 1912 due to the 8th World Esperanto Congress. The staff spoke Esperanto.[1]

[1] http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_6196... page 56
Their pay and RSUs are pretty good...
WhatsApp spyware company's private equity backer promises transparency
The Fortune 500 Has More Female CEOs Than Ever Before
The rule of thumb I subscribed to: have the interviewer(s) do the interview. Give the candidate 3x time to do it that the in-house people took. Or, framed in reverse, if you want the assignment to take and n minutes or hours, give yourself n/3 to complete it, and however far you get is the bar for the assignment. Interviewees are stressed, maybe outside their domain, and other things. Make something that they can show you their value. The harder and correct thing to do is to find how they can help your org. It is easy to find what they don't know or to play stump the idiot.
It’s not to the extent of the US but China did invade other countries in the past. Vietnamese people sure want to have some words with you.
Read the parent. He was comparing investing the money vs luxury buying.
Amazing, and I need one of these!

I damaged my hearing years ago (operating a stump grinder without protection. Doh!) I can hear things perfectly well in most environments, but a crowded room is terrible for me. I can be looking right at the person I'm talking to and won't be able to distinguish their voice from the background noise.

I really hope these become widely commercialized. I'd like one.
At WS-REST 2015(I think), I did talk about this with Erik Wilde (@dret), and we talked about the fact that is no good way to deprecate bookmarked url or an url stored in an uncommitted transaction. The idea was to add information so clients and user agent could keep track of resources: you can check it before their sunset date. The resource then could change the sunset date or redirect you to the new url.
Before I saw the German, I already had a feeling it was --- I'm not sure why, but I've seen Germans use that style of page a lot (another example: https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/basteln/PC/USB2LPT/ul-... ). That and the encouragement to build one yourself stood out.

This one looks very similar to a 6502, and seems to be much smaller than another semi-famous discrete homebrew computer, http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ --- that one only runs at half the clock speed, but the performance seems comparable.
Personal electric vtols

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17515820
>The infant industry argument is controversial, but assuming for a second it is correct, how is that related to the discussion about what course the US should take towards China right now? The US does not need industry protection. The US is the most advanced country on the planet.

The US "is the most advanced country on the planet" because it constantly uses "industry protection". Besides tariffs and subsidies, the whole power of the US state and military is constantly used to further US trade and resource interests, enforce favorable trade rules, ignore this or that treaty that doesn't benefit the US industry (e.g. environment or child labor laws), and so on.

>When the US administration gets into a tradewar that makes Chinese commodities more expensive and stops American farmers from selling soybeans, how exactly is this to the benefit of anyone?

For one, it's of benefit of those making (and/or) selling commodities of their own.

Heck, even American workers, who might have to pay more for Chinese-made commodities, but they also get jobs again to make similar commodities in the US. A paycheck + more expensive goods trumps being unemployed + the availability of cheapo Chinese goods.
> forced to work overtime without pay.

This frequently happens in IT as well, with this actually put inside the contract.
Not sure re-education camp is a step up from drone strike. Depends on your priorities I suppose.
> How can unconventional technologies like wind or solar thermal (the "power tower" concept)have substantial public risk? The answer is simple. The production of the metals needed in many unconventional technologies requires that coal is burned

I get the feeling that this study from the 70s doesn't have all the facts that are relevant today.
They do. Then they go shopping to make themselves feel better.
Wait... isn't that exactly what londons_explore says is wrong, and essentially the source of confusion in the first place?
To clarify slightly. Corporate 'co-funding' and cooperation is not uncommon in projects (and is in fact a requirement for funding in many cases), but the amount of actual cash this adds up to is a tiny percentage of the overall national university research budgets.
There are studies that show being wealthy somehow decreases empathy.any people just stop noticing. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...
Google’s new plan to push Pay in India: cashback incentives in Android apps
I really dislike the ongoing usage of the word "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency", i.e. "cryptographical currency". I can never tell if something's happening to ICOs or cryptography.
It doesn't make any difference for something as small as hello world (you can try it). A release build might not have debug info in the sense that -C debuginfo=0, but it still has plenty of stuff that can be stripped.

You also get the same size if you bypass the println machinery with io::stdout().write_all(b"Hello, world!").
> you are likely already so rich that the money is only going for luxury things while for someone making $7.25 it's quite literally the difference between living in a car or not

This is a great insight which unfortunately doesn't get much attention in the inequality debate. I'm now rich enough to be in the top 0.5% of the world. The marginal utility/value of money is so low for me that I've begun valuing my time and optimizing for it.

I, however, do think about it once in a while. I could give away a non-trivial amount of money without getting materially impacted. The same money though will make a massive difference to someone below or around the poverty line. E.g., sponsoring a student, helping a business loan, etc., The capital that's getting accumulated in the richest top 1% people is such a massive waste that could help a huge portion of humanity.

Purely from a utilization (of money), perspective inequality is a suboptimal state, a massive one at that.
On a first date you don't do boring everyday stuff becouse you don't want to spend time on that.

My experience is that hireing descicion is so noisy that there are no reason to invest too much since the rate of sucess is barely increased anyway.

The more picky the employer seems the less reason to apply. It might be a internal candidate allready chosen or they are just hoarding resumés to keep recruiters occipied.

The decision is allready made from the from the first minutes ... but you can ruin it of course.
For OTR use the human driver costs you tons of money because the regulations that go with the human driver force the truck to be stationary a large fraction of the time. That's the market they're (eventually) targeting, not local delivery where the driver usually also has responsibilities having to do with the cargo.

For the use case mentioned in the article the human driven option is going to be cheaper because the human driven truck goes faster. Going 10km/h results in basically the same throughput as having two trucks (yes I know there's other "per trip" overhead, that's not the point).
Some ideas for the US investor.

Invest the money with a payday lender to loan it out to your under-paid employees so you can grab even more of their paycheck!

Buy a block of housing that houses your under-paid employees and raise rents so you can get even more of their paycheck!

Invest in sub-prime auto loans so that your underpaid employees can get to work. Make money on them while the commute! Of course make sure that you diversify if you need to lay them off!

Invest is short term unsecured credit card debt of your under-paid employees. To goose the returns put them on a high deductible health plan and leverage what you lend to them with their own health account savings (free money). If you are generous give them a 401K match (which is required by law if you have the same) and leverage up using that money too!

Many of your underpaid employees will be on food stamps and located in areas without those fancy suburban grocery stores. Invest a quicky-mart and rake in the food stamp money at high margins! Don’t forget the liquor and lotto tickets as income boosters! If you underpaid employees can’t numb at least you can sell them a bit of hope!

Lastly have you thought about the medical field? A lot of your under paid employees are on Medicaid and I’m hearing good things about insulin!
It always amazes me when new languages start out and their implementations include a huge pile of crap by default.

Virgil is different, it only includes the stuff which is reachable from main(). In fact the entire compiler is organized around only compiling reachable code into the binary.

Even including the entire runtime and garbage collector, about (8KiB), there isn't much smaller you can get:

HelloWorld.v3:
def main(a: Array<string>) {

System.puts("Hello World!\n");

}

-rwxr-xr-x 1 titzer wheel 80 May 16 13:59 HelloWorld-jar

-rwxr-xr-x 1 titzer wheel 9088 May 16 13:59 HelloWorld-x86-darwin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 titzer wheel 5744 May 16 13:58 HelloWorld-x86-darwin-nogc

-rwxr-xr-x 1 titzer wheel 4132 May 16 13:58 HelloWorld-x86-darwin-nort

-rwxr-xr-x 1 titzer wheel 4692 May 16 13:59 HelloWorld-x86-linux-nogc

-rwxr-xr-x 1 titzer wheel 340 May 16 13:59 HelloWorld-x86-linux-nort

-rw-r--r-- 1 titzer wheel 6309 May 16 13:59 HelloWorld.jar

-rw-r--r-- 1 titzer wheel 63 May 16 13:57 HelloWorld.v3

-rw-r--r-- 1 titzer wheel 3486 May 16 14:04 HelloWorld.wasm

-rw-r--r-- 1 titzer wheel 256 May 16 14:46 HelloWorld-nogc.wasm

(the executable files are, well, the executables).
The Linux executable without runtime or GC is literally 340 bytes, the wasm executable without GC is 256 bytes. The x86-darwin-nort binary is large because apparently Mach-O executables don't work right unless they are at least one 4KiB page in size.
Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep
I recently published my book on "GNU grep and ripgrep" and it is free to download through this weekend [1][2]

Code snippets, example files and sample chapters are available on GitHub [3]

The book uses plenty of examples to showcase features one by one. BRE/ERE/PCRE(2)/Rust regular expressions are also covered from scratch.

Hope you find the book useful. I would be grateful for your feedback and suggestions.

[1] https://gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep

[2] https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep

[3] https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep
Ex-Googler Raised $160M After Pivoting His Business Model
Correct, and it's why I'm a fan of David Mitchell's video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI
It would be interesting to have a DSL for data munging, but I am afraid TXR is not it. My requirements would be that the language should be functional and total.

Most transformations that we do on data do not require Turing completeness or recursion. I think it would be useful to write these down in a language with semantics that is easy to analyze.
That's a lot of chiefs. What are they achiefing by having that many?
Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead
Also ICO and cryptocurrency are not the same thing.
> There's a reason it sounds crazy.

The reason is because humans don't think very well at the large scale, and tend to obsess over the small.

In this case, there are massive positives to nuclear and people focus in very hard on the literally-happened-twice-with-pre-CAD-designs accidents. These accidents are bad, but pale into insignificance compared to the good that these nuclear plants have done. And Fukushima was in the context of a disaster that was outside design spec, so it arguably does represent a significant improvement over Chernobyl. The design specs for nuclear plants have been continuously tightened, so I doubt it would have been possible with a modern design.

Everything about the Fukushima disaster suggests that the response has been a bit paranoid. Objectively speaking, the evacuation was overzealous and according to the comments here today the Japanese government decided that the standards around what was acceptable background radiation were too unreasonable so wound them back.

Compare Fukushima to global warming (which I am occasionally assured is an civilization level threat). The civilisation level threat is business as usual, the nuclear solution is a Fukushima-city level threat. Governments routinely sign up for risks that are more likely and more expensive than Fukushima; albeit more spread out in time. Given what the environmentalists are saying about Global Warming it is clearly the case that everyone who could should have switched to nuclear power back in the 90s.

Even now, when it is starting to look more obvious that solar is the path we will choose, it is still a pretty reasonable suggestion that the environmental costs of mining, producing and installing the solar panels will outweigh the damage done by a nuclear disaster, just in a less concentrated fashion. Given that the Chinese have demonstrated how quickly a new city can be built the argument in favor of solar is - ironically - mainly economic rather than environmental.
I feel like if it was a phony they'd have at least made it look more stable and less like it might flip over in a gust
> If you cannot stand from this crowd and shine by balancing the tree right

I don't think memorization of an algorithm is what should make a senior level candidate stand out. Senior people need to be able to lead, mentor, self manage (this is a huge one IMO), and understand the bigger picture. "How do we avoid having to balance this tree at all?"
Landlord Is Watching
While you are technically correct, nowadays the executable file size is minuscule compared to the available memory. Since upx uses the UCL algorithm which requires no additional memory besides the target buffer AFAIK, the memory increase can only be attributed to the original file size---I think rclone weighs about 20 MBs, so it is probably the case that rclone unusually consumes less memory! :p

The real problem with upx is the invocation latency, which is a big blocker when your program starts a lot (common for CLIs). Executable compression has been much more common in Windows because the download size matters there and programs tend to last much longer.
They wanted the sleep command...so they could wait for an XHR to complete. So in context, it was a pretty massive red flag.
Thinking about it, they need to remove eight bolts per section, then the section itself, then eight bolts for the next section, and so on. I could have expected them to save time by removing the bolts of the second top section in parallel to the supporting crane removing the top section, but removing the bolts of all sections only makes sense when the supporting crane is actually faster than the bolt-removing guy/team.

Something else might be going on -- maybe they did not want the workers who were removing the bolts to wait for the supporting crane and sent them home to save on wages or gave them other work to do.
Highly unlikely, given that people don't gratuitously wear prescription sunglasses. And speaking as a hearing aid user, the problem is exactly that of the article: making things louder only helps when you're listening to a single person in fairly good background conditions. Actually selecting and amplifying a particular voice is much harder.
Working for this Ivan guy it's entirely possible. Jokes aside though, I've worked for great companies and each had an hour interview and things were fine, people that didn't fit the culture just left and I can't imagine dedicating 4 hours to one interview because frankly speaking I have better things to do and a company that values a work life balance will respect that and keep their interviews short.
I love how in the video it shows 100+ people cheering and hugging each other in blissful victory for essentially making a drone fly.

It looks extremely unstable and dangerous.
The economics analysis of nuclear power vs renewable always depend on the assumption that it is acceptable to burn fossil fuel when renewable is unable to fill demand. It is the central problem in all such discussion.

I would like to see a complete ban of all air and water pollution that can be sourced to power and heating plants. A zero tolerance policy. If alternative sources with storage can economically beat nuclear in such world then that is great. Lets put the regulations in place today. If not then lets still put the regulations in place because the environment really need us to do so, but we need something to fill demand when renewable alternatives can't produce.
The Flix Programming Language
Please stop this. Instead of insults, why not ask a clarifying question and contribute to an intellectual conversation? Your instant conclusion is not always right.
> To make this more fair, why not let the designer work at the company's office, so the interviewer can actually see how much time it took, and the interviewee doesn't waste more time than necessary?

I had an interview once where we were on the phone, I got the task, and they told me they'd call me back 2 hours later.

Might be easier if the office is far away.
If you prefer death to a reeducation camp, that choice is likely available to you. The dead have no choice.
It's not surprising, almost anyone can publish an RFC by doing the appropriate bureaucracy so there are plenty of RFCs which no one really cares about.
Ha, next time companies should do it, then continue with those who declined
Implications of MySpace Losing Content
Ok good pount. I've been living in EU with 100% mobile coverage for so long I forgot.
Someone needs to invent sms over landline.
> First, if we as society are going to lock them up forever, why not just save ourselves the expense and execute them all.

Because locking someone up is reversible.

Your slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy in any case. Not all crimes have equal rates of damage or recidivism. There are many good reasons to differentiate between types of crimes and their motivations.

Presumably you agree that we should probably lock up serial killers, right? According to your style of slippery-slope argument you have no way of distinguishing between that and executing children that won't go to bed on time, because it's all a continuum.
Design choices shouldn't be a reason to not include the FAQ
> Raising radiation thresholds, as mentioned in the article, was particularly egregious; regardless of whether it may or may not be scientifically correct ...

I might be reading this too literally, but if it is scientifically justifiable to raise the radiation thresholds, why not do it?

"The government should make decisions based on science" is a little controversial in some less-reputable quarters, but generally speaking it is a good idea. "Optics" do not take precedence when there is a risk of people are being kicked out of their homes or suffering economic losses for unscientific reasons.
$ cargo --version && cargo init hello && cd hello && cat ./src/main.rs && cargo build --release && du -h ./target/release/hello
cargo 1.34.0 (6789d8a0a 2019-04-01)
Created binary (application) package
fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
Compiling hello v0.1.0 (/tmp/foo/hello)
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.31s
1,6M ./target/release/hello

Edit:

$ strip target/release/hello && du -h ./target/release/hello
192K ./target/release/hello
Easier to create a software company than work for one.