skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect. Thorium reactors work by putting Th-232 into a neutron field, where it doesn't fission, but rather it absorbs neutrons to become unstable Th-233, which beta-decays into Pa-233 with a half-life of 21 minutes. Then Pa-233 in turn beta-decays to Uranium-233 with a half-life of 26.8 days. U-233 is fissile nuclear fuel, so when a neutron hits it, it will fission and release nuclear energy. All thorium-fueled reactors use this chain of events.

But there's a problem. Pa-233 is a strong parasitic neutron absorber. So when it's sitting there for 26.8 days, if it were still in the nuclear core it would poison the chain reaction. So what people plan to do is to pull it out of the core chemically and put it into a holding cell outside the neutron flux where it can decay to U-233 in peace. Then the U-233 is added back to the core as it arrives.

The U-233 is a potent nuclear weapons material and can be extracted from the decay tank in what are called in the non-proliferation industry "Significant Quantities". Faced with this issue, the ORNL folks created the Denatured MSR project in the death throes of the MSBR program (~1960s) which had U-238 mixed in to denature the WG U-233. Of course, then they were producing plutonium...

The general claim is that U-232 is also produced in trace quantities, which has Tl-208 way down its decay chain, which emits a massive 2.6 MeV gamma ray that's hard to shield. Since it's way down the decay chain and U-232 has a 69 year half-life, every time you chemically purify your uranium you have pretty small amounts of gamma emitters. So you can purify, assemble a weapon, and drop it in a few weeks without worrying too much about Tl-208.

The thorium-cant-make-bombs thing is a total myth. All nuclear reactors need safeguards, even thorium-fueled ones. This is doable and should not prevent us from making more carbon-free energy with any kind of nuclear reactor.

More abundant: meh, not really. There's uranium dissolved in seawater in vast, practically infinite quantities.

Easier to work with: definitely not. Higher melting temperatures for ceramics make solid-fuel thorium harder to fab, and the fluid fuel stuff is int he R&D stage. It also leads to lower-density fuels, which are crappier neutronically.
Doesn’t work on iOS, and provides no useful information on the page as to what it is supposed to be doing.
There's a Linux native version, no need for Proton.
I also practice concentrative meditation and the sensations just keep on increasing as you keep walking on the path. Seems like one is just full of these sensations. As per yogic texts, we have three bodies [0] comprising of five sheeths. One of the sheaths is called pranik (energy).

I alternate between sound (mantra) and form, and sometimes formless as well [1].

Ke to do concentrative meditation can be summed up in one line (taken from [2])
“Exert when relaxed and relax when exerted.”

As one walks the path, one invariably goes through these nine states of awareness: http://omswami.com/2015/02/nine-states-awareness.html

The rewards of concentrative meditation are huge. But most of them requires intense effort eventually [3].

0: http://omswami.com/2011/10/depression-definition-cause-and-c...
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPL_eQKExN0
2. https://www.amazon.com/Million-Thoughts-Meditation-Himalayan...
3: http://omswami.com/2015/01/types-of-meditator.html
My dad and my uncle are staunch believers in a wild man sort of creature that lives out here in the remote San Juan mountains of southern Colorado. The stories they share are vague, but convincing. They grew up in these mountains, sleeping alone under the stars there throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s. Over the last couple of decades they have stories of things that they’d never experienced in their lives in the mountains. Screams. Destruction. Heart-pounding sounds and experiences. Now they quest for conclusive evidence and have yet to turn up any. It’s hard to reconcile the lack of evidence with the ascribed authority of their cumulative mountaineering experience, much like what’s described in this article.
Dementia tied to hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatment
How is this an achievement? I drove from London to Edinburgh with no stops for fuel in a diesel car. Hybrid presumably should do better.
Here's the research they're summarizing (never linked directly in the computerweekly article): https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-2...
Or use Tarsnap.com - Online backups for the truly paranoid
No, the app I wrote is an alternative to GraphQL.
I have a 4 year old and I foster rescue dogs.

I dimly remember a time in my life where what you're describing was possible, but these days I'm just happy if I can do an okay job at work and still find time to hit the machines in my house. It is definitely a difference in our attitudes towards this activity that you don't call that "free" time.
Medicine is currently conservative by design. ‘First, do no harm’.

This approach has pros and cons: too slow to adopt surgeon hand-washing, but too fast to adopt Thalidomide. A few thousand years of experience has led us to err on he side of being conservative these days.

Combine this culture with lack of spare time for young doctors, lack of immediate incentives to save patient money, and lack of exposure to IT innovations, and I can totally see them being slow to adopt new tech.
Reading HN wasn't an input box, that's my free time.
Proximate cause, but probably not the ultimate one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17895324
Taiwan cuts tariffs on sake, Japan farm and fishery products; looks to join TPP
Very worried. Good time to start reprioritizing things in my life.
UB nasal demons etc etc.

But often we encounter UB in code that's already shipped. So it's good to have an intuition about what machine code was actually emitted, for example when deciding if a crash report is due to this particular UB, or not.
It's not likely this. Microwave transport is fast. The real difference in rural sites is a combination of spectrum (ie. 5mz of 850) vs 20mhz of 1700/2100.

850 has better propagation, hence its usage in rural.

The other factor is antenna patterns and site sectors. Many rural sites have an omni antenna, and with no tilt.

In cities you may see 6+ sectors on a site with 12 degree tilts. So your site has more bandwidth(20+ mhz), and way more capacity.

Long story short.. They give you less of the interwebs in rural because it's cheaper
Thanks for the advice, trosi. What was actually stopping me from putting in more time in the gym like I did when I was young was a limp attaboy from a stranger.

I'm absolutely thrilled if I can find the time coinciding with the energy to do 30m a day at the gym. But as any parent who is not offloading all the work onto a beleaguered spouse can tell you: it's pretty rare when you have toddlers.
I was doing 2 to 3 hours each way depending on traffic. I did that for 6 or 7 years. Now I work from home. It is really nice, but I still feel like I have no time.
Agreed. With the possible exception of Psiphon which is built by and for activists.

https://www.psiphon3.com

Tor is obviously another option but I don't strictly speaking categorise that as a VPN.
Server Image Mystery in Georgia Election Case
Yeah, or "undefined behaviour".

But that reminds me of the joke: there are 10 kinds of people: those who know binary, those who don't, and those who didn't know the '10' was written in base 3.
Yes, if the people identify as Danish you can’t just change the flag and expect them to be Americans. When I went to the Falklands it was very clear that it didn’t matter how badly Argentina wanted the islands. Even if Argentina managed to conquer the islands militarily the islanders had decided they were British and that was that.
I am probably at the other extreme, in having too much free time. Not that I don't have things to do, although I'm self-employed, my income depends on a complex system I've built that needs constant refining. My todo list is long. But it can easily be pushed off.

So, that's what I'm doing at this very moment while thinking about how much free time I have.
Sure, but portable C programs are not written for systems with 16-bit machine words practically ever anymore. Nobody's expecting to run libopus 1.3.1 unmodified on an 8051 (even if it might well do, it probably uses stdint.h anyway!). Furthermore, I've used toolchains for machines with 16-bit machine words, which made int 32 bits; surely this isn't uncommon.
Sometimes you need to.. prevent your users from using your product.. for weeks in a row to .. make them use it more?
> So buy a LEAF (which looks just like a Prius)

The new one does. The old one is as different as it can be.
You kind of chose that life with complete impudence, internet stranger. No one trips while walking and finds themselves with twelve kids.

...You're not the person that decided to have so many kids because of a fear that having only a few, and then all of them dying of some sort of one in a million chance catastrophe would leave you distraught, were you?
Oh well that certainly makes a difference!
That is a different point to be made, and would apply even if the tool worked 100% of the time.
I’m sure it must have been rough for people near the epicenter and I hope everyone is okay.

Here in Los Angeles we felt it for sure but a quick survey of friends around town indicates that there wasn’t much damage.
Downgraded to a 6.9
I've injured myself multiple times on bicycles, never as a result of a car, despite traveling a tiny sliver of the distance that I have in a car.

I've, thankfully, never been injured in a car accident.

I realize this is anecdotal, but there's strong reasons to believe bicycles are dangerous all by themselves. Traveling at high velocities with little protection on only two wheels is a recipe for accidents.

I assume velomobiles or recumbent tricycles would be much safer, if one doesn't mind the looks from passerby.
Astronomy is fine and all but I think this is more important.
Use GKE, nothing else is even close if you want ease of use and production grade setups. You'd need at least one k8s expert to get close, but probably more. Plus it's free and manages ALL the nodes, unlike EKS...
Back in the early 2000s there was a credible rumor circulating about a reclusive Bigfoot Easter Egg hidden in the outskirts of (Grand Theft Auto)San Andreas. This was the only time I've ever been excited about Bigfoot and for a sizeable subset of millennials this is the only credible Bigfoot lore we'll ever be exposed to. Considering that GTA San Andreas is the bestselling PS2 game ever made, Lapham's not mentioning it at all is lame.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-hunt-for-one-of-g...
Why would they be fast? It's not their money. The incentive is not there. Meanwhile on the other side switching anything is work. Of course it doesn't get done super quick.
“Stranger Things” Leaks Suggest Netflix 4K May Have Been Breached
> It would be great for the standard to be more "reasonable" and have less undefined behavior.

GCC and Clang are mostly compatible, and as far as the low-hanging fruit is concerned. If you consider them the authority, it generally resolves most interesting questions about what ISO decline to specify. I do not think that there is any great burning need for ISO to go and define things more rigorously.
This is the origin of the concept of a skin graft, surely.
That’s sounds like a wonderful life.

Planning on having any more?
Must still be working on estimate. Back to 7.1
Do you have any good sources on that? Not that I doubt you, but would like to read more on the subject.
They also have a chicken sandwich supposedly from Canada... I'm surprised they didn't bring down the poutines or even fish and chips
Privacy: NSA already exists

Competitive practices: there are laws for that, and it's going to be competing with Elon's

Quality of service: if it stinks then people won't subscribe to it, and it's going to be competing with Elon's
This probably comes after some leak suggesting Regal is working on their own monthly movie subscription service; since the introduction of the AMC stubs A list, Regal theatres are likely the only thing keeping Moviepass a service anyone would want to subscribe to.
You left out the part about where they use zero fossil fuels for their daily commute.
Beaker browser misses some simple stuff like dark themes which makes it look weird in my dark themed desktop manager. If anyone can point me to that, I will play more with it.
Thankfully the epicenter appears to not be in a densely populated area. Hopefully those in Ridgecrest are all ok.
We were rocking pretty good in Orange County. Can't imagine being at the epicenter. It lasted long enough to where we start questioning if we needed to do anything.
Sorry you're having trouble. Are you using iOS Safari? 3rd party browsers unfortunately aren't supported on iOS.
I don't think anyone that uses OpenBSD will claim that it is fast.
Some googling tells me Florida and North Dakota are the safest states in the US.

Outside US it's Antarctica, but it sounds rather inconvenient..
Restic is a great choice also.

You can store files/backups/whatever encrypted with support for many popular endpoints (local filesystem, S3, Backblaze B2).
Adobe ColdFusion
> which makes an 81% false positive rate remarkably good.

Friendly reminder that our _entire_ legal system was arranged by the Founders so that innocent people wouldn’t be incarcerated even if that means some guilty people walk free.

Your reasoning flips the most important feature of our criminal justice system on its head.

I know most people on HN haven’t dealt with the criminal justice system but being wrongly charged and, if you’re lucky, beating the charges is an incredibly awful experience. Just being charged will follow you for the rest of your life.
Arq [1] works very well for me, it is compatible with various cloud providers as well as personal servers.

1. https://www.arqbackup.com/
And back to 6.9!
Was giving my daughter a bath when it started. At first I thought I was fainting, because it was a really slow rolling motion like I was on a boat. Then noticed the shower door moving.

My daughter kept saying she wanted to go see the earthquake. I think she thought it was outside.
Would be cool if Siri had a better answer to "what do I do during an earthquake?"
BMW: We see those Model-T panel gaps and can innovate by making ours twice as wide.
There is vastly more old C code than new, and it didn't target the x64 or ARM architectures it's running on now. Where it wasn't portable, that was a defect that had to be fixed.

My first job was a 4GL targeting customers running DOS on the 80286, complete with runtime linking. 100% of that work has been abandoned due to incompatibility. It contributed nothing to the profession beyond what I personally learned.
A startup @yourjumpstart for earthquake insurance pays out even if you have no damage, assuming you are in the epicenter of a large enough earthquake.
5 and 7? If I remember the behavior of the comma operator correctly.

Anyway, I am inclined to agree that these are misfeatures. I’d almost certainly ask for it to be changed in code review.
Interesting but wonder if this type of encryption ruins Dropbox business model since it keeps them from de-duping anything. I couldn't care less about Dropbox's business model... just curious.
Florida has hurricanes though.

Not to mention the risk of "Florida man".
Same about the fainting. I was standing in line at Target on the 4th, and I could have sworn I was gonna pass out there and then until the lady behind me asked if anyone else had felt that. Then I noticed the aisle signs swinging!
Epicenter is very far inland, approximately halfway between Bakersfield and Las Vegas. (Not Angeles) Densely populated areas are minimally affected.
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Speaking for myself (as an American), I’d find this problematic without a referendum of support from Puerto Rico.

Self-determination is important, and selling land with an entire culture and population based solely on a balance sheet seems shameful. That said, if the deal were mutually beneficial for Puerto Rico and the US (“We’ll invest heavily enough in PR to make them interested in approving the deal in a public referendum”) that would be fine.
Except from the perspective of a pragmatics linguistic analysis, "I don't know" has a social context of "There's an answer, and I don't know it."

In this case, a non-C programmer should answer "I don't know" to all of them. A person with a passing familiarity should answer similarly. A seasoned pro would be forced to answer the same. Making it a rather useless tool for distinguishing people who think they know C but are honest when faced with their limitations or those who truly know it and know the answer is undetermined, which is supposed to be the point of the exercise.
You aren't tied to JVM with Clojure, you can target JS too. Outside browsers people are using ClojureScript for mobile apps, web app backends (eg with serverless), and local scripting.

There's also the CLR version that some people are using with Unity for game dev.

But I think JVM has really good prospects, even if the trend is currently favouring JS. Straddling both JS and JVM platforms is a pretty good position for Clojure.

There are great benefits to being able to leverage the JVM and NPM libraries. A lot of it happens indirectly, many libs are available that provide integrations to JVM/JS libs under the hood but present you with a Clojurey interface.
Here are results on the web for what do I do during an earthquake.
There's a reason for all those Florida man stories! Might change your mind about them: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...
Recent LA transplant here. Fight or flight did not kick in. Instead, I was mostly confused and kinda paced about the flat while the earth shook. I always imagine myself acting quick on my feet like a movie hero. Two learnings; I know what an earthquake feels like and I need to increase my disaster preparedness.
what is its current answer?
When Intel announced they were closing the division immediately after Apple’s settlement, I just assumed the whole point of Intel being in the market was to give Apple some leverage over Qualcomm. Possibly in return for delaying the Mac switchover to ARM a few years.
I would think Arizona is safer than Florida. A lot of DR datacenters in Phoenix.
I always get the names of the different types of quakes confused, but this one was definitely a lot of long slow movement. I have felt some that were more like loud bangs and big jolts, but this one was just like being on a boat.
rajan
Yeah, I looked at them, but I would imagine that saving ~15 seconds in getting the info to people could prove really valuable at a large scale.
C compilers predate the C standard by many years, so “C is what my compiler does” is certainly a valid perspective.

Also, the vast majority of programming languages don’t have standards at all, and people still use them productively.
Cut off their hands?
Or the sunny day floods and the eventual submersion.
I wonder what the trade-offs of this technology are. Usually with nuclear power you can make it better in one area and it gets worse in another area. That is why nuclear power couldn't really keep the promisses it gave us in the 1950s.

As for me, I think nuclear power is a dying technology. This year two new reactor might go online, after construction time of over 10 years and costs around 10 billion euros each.

I wonder how much renewable energy you could set up 2 billion euros per year. And how much closer we would be in storing electricity if we had spent this money in research.

I think nuclear fission or fusion is interesting and has its applications but commercial electricity production is in my humble opinion not one of them.
Standard web results. I guess I would have preferred some kind of quick tts summary from ready.gov or something.
Pfff! The only vi command anyone ever needs to learn is :q! ;)
The email from USGS said 4.8, I was surprised it was so far off. They still have not sent a revision. Usually they are much better about this.
Nobody turns into “the worst versions of themselves” but a common attitude is: why would you do these things when there are other kinds of people who do it for you as their job? And: you must have a lot more free time than I! No insults or derision, just surprise. It’s definitely different than 20 years ago. Back then everyone I hung out with used to tinker and had a closet full of tools you could borrow. Now it seems nobody’s into it. They even have a special “makers” label for people who like to build things as a hobby.
I’ve heard getting your data recovered from a Synology nas is difficult if not impossible
> This quake was larger than the destructive 1994 Northridge quake, which measured 6.6 magnitude.

This isn't entirely accurate. While it's "score" was higher, the magnitude doesn't account for things like the type of fault, the type of movement, the depth, the soil, the duration of movement, etc.

Northridge was far more severe than this one, with an "apparent magnitude" greater than 9.

Don't get me wrong, this one sucks for all the people affected, no doubt, but as someone who lived through Northridge very close to the epicenter, it's sort of personal to me.
No, they’re not.

They’re using crowdfunding sites to generate buzz for the product they’ve already built, as a way to abuse the system for marketing purposes.
Arizona ranks very low on frequency of natural disasters, but there is a lot of temperature related aggression. Its kind of normal to be threatened with a gun.
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I am in the target market for a BMW i3.

However, I was turned off by the bizarre appearance of the car. I am pretty thick skinned, but would still be thinking that other motorists were laughing their heads off, while I was driving it.

Why do manufacturers feel obliged to make new technology cars looks like cheap and nasty toys ?
Considering the trouble that more established insurance companies have with large natural disasters, I would be a bit wary of a startup for something catatostrophic like earthquakes
There are a lot of good posts that never make the front page. Staying up with the "new" section can be time consuming, kinda depends on the day. I usually check in most days.
Any time you enter a room, look for a strong table. It'll become habit after a couple quakes. :)
That was a comment on the uselessness of Siri, except for voice recognition of a web search query I guess.
Also sinkholes and flooding caused by global warming!
Consider the following statements:

1) The standard says I must do this, so I must do it.

2) The standard doesn't say I must not do this (but does allow me to either do it or not do it), so it's totally OK if I do it.

I think you're thinking of cases covered by statement 1, and I think pretty much everyone agrees that compiler writers should behave that way for the standard to mean anything.

The issues arise in cases covered by statement 2. Just because the standard allows a behavior doesn't mean that the behavior is a good one. And yes, code relying on you not having the behavior is not following the standard, and that's something the authors of that code should consider addressing. But on the other hand, the standard may allow a lot of behaviors that only make sense in some situations but not others (totally true of the C standard, depending on the underlying hardware) and as a compiler writer you should think carefully about what behaviors you actually want to implement.

AS a concrete example, you _could_ write a C compiler targeting x86-64 which has sizeof(uint64_t) == 1, sizeof(unsigned int) == 1, sizeof(unsigned long) == 2, and sizeof(unsigned long long) == 2 (so 64-bit char, 64-bit short, 64-bit int, 128-bit long, 128-bit long long). Would this be a good idea? Probably not, unless you are trying to use it as a way to test for bugs in code that you will want to run on an architecture where those sizes would actually make sense...
Couldn't agree more. I also work on my side project in my free time.
What's the source of that information?
My i3 is the best car I ever owned.