skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What ways to get faster cpu remain after this? Nanoscale vacuum-channel transistors [1] seem promising as they can work at terahertz frequencies but they do not look anywhere close to production.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoscale_vacuum-channel_tra...
Nah I would say it's usually just being more used to using touch screens. Same as the explanation people used to use for blackberrys vs iphone. Yes testing one handed without looking was fine but it's just as easy when you figure out the screen no matter how unintuitive it sounds.
Microsoft Build 2019 Keynote: 5 mins read, with timestamped links to the video
Not entirely true. Spacecrafts orbiting L2 do not stay still with respect to the Earth; rather, they follow a Lissajous orbit, which is quite efficient given the gravitational properties of the L2 point. Therefore, they will observe the Sun quite often. (The apparent size of the Sun from L2 is roughly the same as Earth's, so eclipsing the Sun would be too complicated.) And this is not bad, because otherwise solar panels could never produce the power necessary for the spacecraft to work!

The real reason why L2 is so interesting is that it violates Kepler's third law: despite being farther from the Sun than Earth, the orbital period is still the same as Earth, because of the gravitational attraction of Earth itself. This allows the spacecraft to keep the same distance from Earth during the year, which eases communications with ground stations.

(Disclaimer: I have been part of the Core Team of the ESA Planck mission, which flew around L2 like JWST will do.)
Student loans would presumably not be given if the degree program isn't able to get you a "good" job after finishing it.

Nothing wrong with getting a worthless degree: if you are into art you should get an art degree. However you should first get a good job that pays your bills and pay for that degree from your own fun money. As a society I help with your basic education because the value of everybody knowing how to read and do math makes it worth it.
> it is expected

It's also expected that my train is going to be late, but we can lament this condition, instead of resigning ourselves to it.
I've often found the react-apollo docs in particular confusing. They often rely on opaque type definitions to describe argument formats. For example, it took me a long time to understand what to pass to the `refetchQueries` argument of a Mutation component. A set of examples for common scenarios would be helpful.
Why? Sadly, there's not much motivation described in the README. You state "Let's move your Medium content to your very own website" and then you push it to Github and Netlify, which are yet another silos. Good work with the export, but migrating the content to the next vendor lock-in should be optional. Not to forget that these platforms also collect data about your visitors.
Might not extradite for political crimes, but they straight up let CIA kidnap people from their soil. If Assange was returned to Sweden, he'd be let out on 'house arrest' and he'd just dissapear into the dark one night.
Do it once and it's kind of clever. Do it twice and it gets a lot less fun.
Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
Kind of ironic, when I click it I am presented with a huge oath overlay saying how much they care about my privacy without a "Reject all" button anywhere in sight.
Limiting this to written technical discussions, I don't get uptight about misspellings, typos or grammar errors, so long as I can unambiguously parse what they want to say. What bothers me is that txtspk is almost always unclear and frustrating. That tends to lead me to try to find folks who do write clearly, just for efficiency.

I will say that I do judge on written proficiency. Again, I don't care that much about form (although in more formal writing, mistakes are signals), I care about clarity of thought and ability to convey relevant information. Completely apart from interpersonal factors, programmers who can't write in a human language tend to be bad at writing in artificial ones.
Sometimes I read a comment, like this one, and I can’t help but question why that comment was written…
Why not ban browser companies, operating system companies, computer/phone companies, email providers, etc. too?
Working from home when remote seems like the most dangerous idea if your work does not require human interaction (live meetings etc)
I loathe that lack of an account on an invasive, spammy tool is regarded as a valid reason to discard my application.
Just wanna mention I would have been a miserable loner of a kid if not for the Duke TIP summer camp program. Being surrounded by other smart kids was incredibly affirming, gave me vital social skills, and made my 'normal' public school life much more bearable.
>gas isn't acceptable

Neither is waiting 15 years until a next generation of nuclear plants are built....

Natural gas is the resource that we have right now, and as it stands, in Bakken Oil Fields, natural gas is being burnt as excess waste. That gas needs to be used, there has to be a demand for it. Because otherwise companies will continue to burn it, as they dont have a place to store it

Also, I'm not advocating for long term usage of Natural gas, in due time natural gas plants need to be phased out in favor of batteries, which will work as a way to stabilize a renewable energy based grid, but we are not there yet.

If the world were perfect, then yes, I would agree to Nuclear Fission, but alas here we are, where nuclear plants construction is constantly delayed

>>Dr Portugal Pereira said: "If we want to decarbonise our energy system, nuclear may not be the best choice for a primary strategy. Nuclear power is better late than never, but to really address climate change, it would be best if they were not late at all, as technologies like wind and solar rarely are."[0]

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180529132032.h...

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/11/long-delayed-vogtle-nuc...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-oversaw-the-us-nucl...
Because intimacy for adults (as opposed to your example, which is a much simpler problem) includes conversation along with a host of other behaviors. Impersonating a human during conversation is therefore a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one.
That's bullshit, you can be good regardless of your place in life, regardless of what you do or don't have.
When you begin with z = k i - 0.75, you can obtain an arbitrarily good approximation of pi by multiplying the p for which f_p(z) = z^2 + z diverges by k. The approximation increases in precision as k tends to 0.

There's a neat video explaining it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0vY0CKYhPY
> 1. While average deaths per kWh might be relatively low (compared to other forms of power generation) the worst case scenario is much, much worse. A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for centuries.

Climate change is causing massive loss of land in the form of shifting climate and rising sea levels. And coal power's contribution to that lost land is far greater than the lost land at Chernobyl and Fukushima. Perhaps you deny climate change, but if you don't then you need to do a comparison of the portion of that climate change land loss attributable to each unit (GWh) of coal generation vs the portion of exclusion zone land lost per each unit of nuclear generation.

Then think about the fact that in the coming decades we'll apparently need about another 100GW per year in new generating capacity for the developing world. They want reliable constant power, and a large portion of that is going to be coal if they don't have other options.

> 2. Companies just can't be trusted to run nuclear power plants. This requires long-term thinking way beyond quarterly profits. Because catastrophes are so unlikely but profit hits are so short term there is inevitable pressure to cut corners.

Few problems with this thinking. First this is why nuclear power plants are regulated. Second, we've actually been running an experiment on this for the past 50+ years, the results are in, and they're described in terms of land loss and deaths, which are less than other forms.

There are also a number of walk away safe nuclear plant designs that have never been developed because we turned away from nuclear.

> 3. Governments have generally been pretty terrible at overseeing nuclear power industries...

This is just a continuation of 2.

> 4. Nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste is so damn small compared to waste from any other source. We do know how to dispose of it. Put it in a deep hole. Or burn it more in a breeder.

> (eg certain isotopes make for great dirty bombs).

Yikes. Please go visit a nuclear power plant and see if you can get your hands on it. I think if your goal is terrorism there are a few hundred easier ways to go about it. You're more likely to find materials for a dirty bomb from nuclear medicine sources.
Life with a $99 Walmart Android Tablet
Amazon buys part of ad tech company Sizmek
The debt, including accrued interest, is forgiven after 25 years.
Whether it's a technical problem or a human one, the bottom line is that "guaranteed immutable, tamper proof" is not true. It doesn't matter that Linus Torvalds is influential on the linux kernel project because the linux kernel is not claiming that it is "immutable and tamper proof".
Also people who just want to genuinely have fun in this life - they are a treasure
I also remember the "rule" that a house should cost 2 years salary. And when I graduated college in the early 80s, starting salaries were $25-$30K, and you could get a house for $60K on Long Island.
Increasing oil price beyond a certain point destroys demand [1] [2]. It would not be infeasible to buy oil fields and inject oil consuming bacteria to negate the ability to extract that oil in the future. The capital required would be substantial though. Either get a hat to go in hand with to billionaires to get support, or perhaps go to carbon tax markets to obtain funding.

In some jurisdictions, a carbon tax will never fly politically, so you'll need to make due with less efficient mechanisms.

[1] https://in.reuters.com/article/oil-prices-kemp/column-rising...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-10-30/oil-s-slide... (Warning: Video)
You have taken things out of their context. The syntax he was talking about is "when r u going to do this?", not honest typos. It has nothing to do with what you describe.
To add to your Sweden, here is government information from Germany, about radioactivity in game and mushrooms in the state of Bavaria:
http://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mushr... (latest data is from 2018)

The "BfS" is "the federal government office for radiation protection".

So even today they still have measures in place introduced after Chernobyl. Measurements have gone down of course, but it will take a long time before they can stop maintaining that webpage.
Pale Moon uses XUL, not WebExtentions, and provides (subjective) a better browser UX. Only major concern for mass adoption is that it doesn't support DRM content.
On the Dell XPS 13 you can get Ubuntu preinstalled, officially-supported drivers and everything. From what I hear it's a pretty good setup. My main hangup is that it's only on the 13, not the 15-inch.
If there is no economic sense in building nuke plants, we can just stop talking about it, right? Presumably the utilities will run their analysis, and if you're right, the plants will just never get built. Is the nuclear lobby so strong that it is able to force utilities to go against the simple economics? Even the coal lobby, which I assume (perhaps incorrectly?) is larger and more entrenched, is losing that battle...

I hope you're right, because these periodic debates (on HN and elsewhere) always have the same old arguments and no one ever seems to be convinced.
Is this the actual curriculum digitized? Or the equivalent of, sourced from around the internet?
But this is good enough in many cases. It's intended to reduce the volume of input from a form in order to prevent overloading human resources at the next level of filtering. If one or two bots per week get through, it isn't a big deal. Not only are the more sophisticated bots less common, they also tend to not send a bunch of messages.

So if you have a contact form, this simple method may reduce the spam content to a low enough level that the effort to implement some type of third-party service is not necessary. There is not enough incentive for someone to target the form directly.

In addition, the captcha service may actually deter real submissions, whereas this is completely invisible to non-bots.

If you have a form that has a greater incentive for bots to abuse, then you need something more sophisticated.
my brother is an actual genius. like Feynman level, without a doubt. he could have done something to change the world.

but he decided early on that life is short and he just wants to have fun. so he works an easy, well paid government engineering job, and plays video games all the time.
I'll take a conversational email with sms shorthand and emojis explaining a bug effectively over the business major crap emails I get 30 times a day complete with greetings, farewells, oxford commas, correctly used semi colons that don't actually tell me what the problem is or what the repro steps are.
Overcoming Gutenberg: the production of Samizdat
A fuller background: Jonathan Cook was a journalist for the Guardian newspaper.

I have read his articles for many years now. Most of them (mainly on Palestine) are interesting and (so far as I can tell) accurate. I would say that he is a respectable journalist, and probably a darn sight better than most of those in the mainstream media today. Doesn't mean I always agree with him, or his (usually rather left-wing) political views.

There was a time when journalists like Cook could make a living writing for a mainstream newspaper, but these days there is no place for his reporting on e.g. Israel in such places as the Guardian.
In this way college loans are unsecured debt, like credit cards, and should be priced accordingly.
Start with How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. Ignore the cheesy-sounding title; this book was written in the 1930s and has been in print continuously ever since, which speaks to its effectiveness. I also recommend To Sell Is Human, by Daniel Pink (and all of Daniel Pink's other books, as well).
What Apple did to/with that glass foundry that went under was straight-up gangster.
Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket
I would instead advocate open federated platforms like Plume [1] that have discoverability built into them. Medium obviously has more reach at the moment, but the only way to change that is for more people to start using open alternatives. The best part is that since ActivityPub is a standard protocol, all these platforms can talk to each other. So you don't have the fragmentation problem associated with closed solutions.

[1] https://joinplu.me/
Seriously. I graduated a top Canadian engineering school about ten years ago, and I think my debt at graduation was around $10k, and that was with per-term tuition that was around $6k, I think, so most of that debt was from the final year— prior to that I'd been covered by a mix of money earned on internships and a family RESP.
That's a false choice, as natural gas is already being wasted and burnt as a byproduct, if that natural gas were used as an energy source, then we could better control the burning process and reduce emissions. Building nuclear plants would actually just increase the amount of natural gas that ends up being burned as a byproduct all the while not helping us in the grand scheme of things
I mentioned earlier that I am fairly understanding of typos.

Typos are an honest mistake, and since I work with humans, they are going to make mistakes. Even using the wrong version of "its" or "it's" is ok, because at least that is an easy mistake to make.

However, when someone writes me an email using a lot of abbreviations and shorthand, like something a 14-year-old would write on AIM, it makes me feel like I'm being treated like a 14-year-old on AIM.

Do I mind if a friend does that in a text? Not at all, this is informal. But coworkers aren't inherently friends, they should be (at least in theory) adults that you have some respect for.
Interesting. Is the advice published externally somewhere? The Everything Store does mention the silent reading bit.
I was very careful not to take on student debt. I personally chose a low-cost college and took as many first and second year required courses at a community college. I would be very angry if I had to bail out people who lived on The Farm, or in an Animal House frathouse for 6 years.
Jacdac: A single wire protocol for the plug and play of microcontrollers
News: Leo pumping, Cryptopia tries to save data, Poloniex stops ignoring traders
> ... we call Write Transient Forwarding (WTF)...

WTF starts to be rather overloaded acronym. Reminds me for example of "Wobbly Transformation Format" [0]...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#WTF-8
Yes, the deployment looks like a lengthy and risky operation. But the risks don't end there. The Northrop Grumman cryocooler has been a major problem for JWST, requiring years of development and rework. If it fails then some of the most crucial instruments are useless.
Really we need to stop relying on third parties to use our data "correctly" no-one has the time and expertise to carfully read and understand what these third parties say they intend to do with the data and then actually verify that they did what they said.

It is much easier to just assume these third parties will do whatever they want and either not share the data or accept that it will be used in ways you can't control.
To quote from the 2018 Nature article: "During
these cruises, Rare Earth Yttrium-rich mud having a maximum of almost 8,000 ppm of total REY content (ΣREY) was confrmed."

8000 ppm would be 0.8% concentration. Most of the samples are poorer than that.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23948-5.pdf
For all practical purposes it won't make a difference. When you sign up for ISP service there will be a new small paragraph buried deep in the long 10000+ word contract text that says you consent to them selling your browsing data, which you have to sign to start the service, which nobody reads anyway.
Phoenix DC Now Deploying KVM VPS and Dedicated Servers on Asia-Optimized Network
I find it bizarre that most people don't realize writing 'correctly' is just intelligence signaling too. There's no reason for it most of the time. If I can type something faster but still just as clear by typing it less-formally, I will often do so.
In stark difference to pretty much almost everyone who replied to you, I'll say: Kudos.

It takes courage and a strong will to see through this world for what it is and go against social and biological conditioning. It is amusing to me that the peddlers of psychedelics haven't really grasped what awaits them. Maybe they haven't taken enough psychedelics themselves. It is also amusing to see people cling to Jordan Peterson and proclaim:

"Brainwash yourself into conformance! I did it! You can do it too!"
> I learned to set my own standards for achievement and be less worried about how I would be judged externally.

If you want to foster that in gifted children, they need less schooling, not more of what caused things like worrying about external judgement.
My tech-write wife says the Engineer-writer fault she most often encounters is the 'mystery story'. That's hiding the lead down at the bottom of an argument. Because Engineers like to show their work and don't want to 'give away the ending' until they've proved it right.

So put the conclusion right at the top somewhere! Sometime its as simple as putting the last sentence of every paragraph at the beginning of the paragraph.
I prefer using the built-in keyboard and trackpad even at my desk (2015 MBP). I plug in an external monitor, but I mostly use the laptop as a laptop.
It's arguably not a good thing - giving someone violent tools to be violent? And "free software" yes - but I'm not necessarily talking about free software. I was asking if someone could develop something that ties into Mastodon but only work for instances they approve - otherwise they'd have the ability to block it. I realize in hindsight the answer is fairly obvious.
What was your criteria for choosing the city you are in presently?

We lived in Tübingen (Germany) for five years. But the city was just a tad too small for my taste. There are only few stores (outside tourism-focused stores) and it there is fairly little to do in terms of concerts, etc. It is part of the Stuttgart metropolitan area, so there are a lot of work opportunities. I loved the scenery of Southern Germany, but Germany is too hierarchical, conservative, and old-fashioned for my taste (of course, there are exceptions, such as Berlin). It's really a drag that you can't do groceries on a Sunday, people expect you to pay with cash everywhere, internet connections are somewhat mediocre, etc. Oh, and there is almost no biking infrastructure in cities (outside cities it's quite ok). That said, a lot our our friends/colleagues there like Tübingen/Stuttgart area.

We moved back to Groningen, The Netherlands (where I studied + did my PhD and my wife did her PhD). It may be somewhat remote for some people. But I love it, there are multiple concert venues (including the legendary Vera), there are plenty of tech-related activities. We have fiber to home. We can shop on Sundays (handy when you work throughout the week). Bicycles are the primary form of transportation. Our 5yo daughter clearly enjoys school here more (used to be in Kindergarten in Germany). The largest downside of Groningen is that there is not a lot of challenging local work (outside the university).

If my wasn't offered a job in Groningen, we would have considered Nijmegen, perhaps Utrecht (+ nearby towns) or Leiden. I have worked several months in Amsterdam, but it is too busy for me ;).
This has no actual information. Just a marketing page with a sign-up list. Do you seriously expect people to sign up for your spam list just to get access to a bunch of links to opencourseware courses??
Estimating the health impact of the disaster is very difficult because we don't have a robust model for the damage that low radiation exposure causes.

Ultimately, it's a problem of statistical power. High doses - large effect sizes - are relatively easy to work with and we can see effects without too much issue. But small effect sizes require large samples for suitable statistical power to avoid type II error, and perhaps more importantly, observational studies become extremely prone to even small confounding factors. In the case of studying radiation, or any number of drugs, diets, or environmental risks, you can't ethically perform experiments. "Natural" experiments like Chernobyl, Hiroshima, etc. are still beset by confounding factors.

So the best we can do is take the data from higher exposures and extrapolate that data back to the origin. But then you run into the issue of whether the regression comes back to meet the origin (linear no threshold - LNT), curves and sits along the x-axis for a while (threshold effects), or even dips below (hormesis). The truth is that we don't really know what happens at lower levels of exposure. The conservative approach is to assume the worst case, and thus LNT tends to get the most play in the literature. Hormesis has also picked up an air of woo and psuedoscience over time, but the idea isn't altogether unreasonable.

Calculations of 'how bad' Chernobyl was all depend on what model you assume, so there's plenty of room for variation in that, in addition to the spotty historical evidence.
> Until you come to find out one of the college grads couldn’t get any employment and the one that did (with $100,000k+ in loans)

So they should get their college loans paid off by taxpayers that had nothing to do with their really really bad decision?