skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience the ThunderBolt 3 cables are the ones you want to plug into your laptop and route nicely behind it so you can tuck your dock somewhere aesthetically pleasing... but they have a 10cm bend-radius and are only 40cm long.

They're also usually marked with a little ThunderBolt and also perplexingly a little "3" presumably in case there's a ThunderBolt 4 sometime in the future that's mad enough not to release with its own connector specification.
Well Spain did invent the word Manana[1], it's just tardy from the British though.

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ma%C3%B1ana
tldr: pseudo-intellectual handwringing angst about climate change, though beautifully wrapped and decorated with literary references. An extra dose of exaggeration and hyperbole included, no extra charge.

>>I was trying to look up—at the sky, where paradisiacal clouds still for now remained—instead of down. After months of my mind figuring against the firelight of hellish horrors, something strange had happened: I began wanting again to learn about goodness and hope. I looked around my life to the people I love, and to the people I know who love other people the way I try to love people—that is, all we human beings struggling to be present for one another, who seek strength when finding ourselves too frail to act.

That's the most positive paragraph I could find, yet it still reeks of passivity and defeat.

We live in an age of luxury, splendor and wealth unimaginable just a few hundred years ago. I hope the author is able to follow his own advice and find that "goodness and hope" rather than focusing myopically on the negatives. Life is too short to spend your precious time on earth in a hell of self-induced punishment.
Dang, I bought AppleCare just for this issue.

But then again, the peace of mind I get for the next few years is probably worth it.
How does DoH make any of this worse than straight UDP/53 DNS?

You seem to be manufacturing a hypothetical threat that isn't actually impacted by DoH, to no clear end.

Malware already exploits specific IP spaces (DUL, datacentres, AWS), and ports (20, 22, 25, 53, 80, 443, ...), as well as vectors such as adtech networks, IFRAME, and XHR. Those are blocked as best as possible, leveraging numerous signature, to varying degrees of effectiveness.

Methods are not perfect. But if they on net reduce or manage risks more effectively, they're a net win.

Again, DoH, either in the browser or at the LAN level, addresses a specific set of known risks. And I'm not seeing the caveats you're suggesting as either more severe or non-mitigable.
Volkswagen, Ford reach outline agreement to share electric, autonomous tech
The Durian King
Their laptop service has always been top notch. Years ago I took in a White iBook for a case change (free because it was a known defect) and the guy told me that the HD that came with the laptop (Seagate) had a high failure rate and they would swap it for free but he noticed I already upgraded my HD. "Do you want the HD anyway and you can place it on a external case?". Hell yes!
>and to test with at least a few cables

I'm sure they did, but I can easily see beta testers missing this. I have a rat's nest of no-name USB cables, and if I pulled out one that didn't power a known working device from a known working adapter, I'd probably just chuck it in the bin.

Someone trustworthy should enumerate and tag all the possible USB-C cable configurations and sell them as a bundle for testing purposes.
Every time I relocated, I ran into countless issues with my Paypal account being tied irreversibly to the country where it was first opened.

So I end up opening a new Paypal account -- which must use a new email address, and can't have my old credit cards added to it.

Now I'm stuck in a situation where my newest account doesn't accept the credit card from my local bank because

This card is linked to another PayPal account.
Please remove the card from the other account
or try a different payment method.

But I checked my other accounts, and I'm sure it isn't there.
You think so? I remember back in university, Apple would overnight ship my laptop to fix it. The last time I went to Apple, they wouldn’t even replace my faulty charger without me complaining to the manager.
If there is once choice, doctors prescribe it. If there are two or more very similar choices, doctors prescribe one or the other. Adding competition decreases price, sometimes there may slight differences in side effects. May not be worth of the research itself, but getting into market justifies it.

Example:

Great discovery: PDE5 inhibitor helps with erectile dysfunction. Product: sildenafil (Viagra). After the mechanism was invented, tadalafil (Cialis), and vardenafil (Levitra) were pushed into market and FDA approved. There are roughly different 10 PDE5 inhibitors and the market is saturated.
The "doesn't make bombs" story of the molten salt reactor program's cancellation is largely a myth, albeit one that's extremely common on the internet [1].

Fluid fueled reactors, mostly in the form of Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), of which the LFTR is one brand name of, do have lots of potentially huge benefits in terms of simplicity, online refueling, and straightforward reactivity effects. We do only have about 5 reactor-years of experience with them, and so we don't fully understand the costs of building, operating, and maintaining such systems in today's regulator regimes.

There is some reason to be concerned. When the fuel is dissolved in fluid, the radioactive fission products are dispersed everywhere. Literally half the periodic table of the elements is in there, and lots of it is volatile and mobile. It gets on your pumps, your valves, your heat exchangers, etc. Doing routine maintenance becomes very challenging and will need to be done remotely.

A line I heard recently regarding MSR maintenance is: "You'll need robots to do the maintenance of your maintenance robots." Another memorable gem is "If you can make robots that can do that, you should just sell the robots"

We should absolutely work on progressing this technology, but in the face of a climate disaster, we should just build more of what we know is already safer than almost every kind of energy system we can deploy, which is regular Gen III LWRs. We need to solve problems on the construction yard so we can build them much more cheaply.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html#myth1
I'm slightly skeptical of accident tolerant fuels (ATF).

In terms of deaths per kWh generated, nuclear is already the safest form of energy generation we have.

Where nuclear fails, and where improvement is desperately needed, is ability to deliver on budget and within schedule.

What is NOT needed is minor incremental safety improvements at significant cost (e.g. ATF's that the article discusses).

Now, more substantial improvements, e.g. non-LWR designs, passive walk-away safety, modular design, etc., I'm all for those.
Because John Mayer. :)

I do intend to learn synths but not now since I don't want to spread myself too thin (the trap I usually fall into).
Who is going to pay for all this?

And wouldn't it be more efficient to spend the money on energy technology that has none of the problems and is carbon-neutral?

The potential for renewables in the US is fantastic.
For solar alone a recent report states:

The total estimated annual technical potential in the United States for urban utility-scale PV is 2,232 terawatt-hours (TWh).

Full report at
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51946.pdf
so true. the fact that browsers have dns resolvers is weird.

to me only the kernel could do it, and it would limit outgoing port 53 by default to every other process.

if I want to set configuration on my hosts file I damn sure want everything to follow it, not have to worry about thousands of applications that might or might not use it.
You fail to take in to account the Eternal September effect.[1] Some people are aware, but others are not because they're new (or for various other reasons, such as just beginning to get interested, etc), and new people will always be coming along.

Also, some people might know but might have forgotten or had their attention shifted to something else. It's good to periodically bring it back.

There will always, always be a need to inform people. Providing information and good/better arguments for one's position will always be a valid and valuable service.

Acting constructively on that information is also needed, of course, but they're not mutually exclusive.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september
Like this?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/inventor-of-the-web-says-the...
Try taking a pencil eraser (preferably the white high polymer type) and cleaning off the contacts on the back of your iPad. Worked wonders for mine.
Apple followed the specification, the Pi 4 does not. How is this Apple's fault?
Is there a name for that phenomenon? I recall the early days of eBay and how cool it was and then everyone jumped in and ruined it. Same with Craigslist, Reddit, well, everything. What is the term for how this happens? Internet "stuff" works when the communities are relatively small and then something happens when they hit a certain critical mass and they just turn to shit.
Like Conservapedia?
https://www.conservapedia.com/
100%. There are many biological processes that create bonding through physical proximity and touch. You may make great friends online but the physical component can't be ignored.
I don't think there's any shame in R effectively being a good, productive DSL for a lot of stats and viz work, built around fast stuff written in C++. I also think this is largely true of a lot of Python as well, tbh. In the future my hope is that projects like Arrow end up with even more of the workload being taken off R's shoulders.
DoH -> DNS over HTTP.
how much weight is it? with cheaper launch costs could we get it out of Earth orbit fo less?
He said: "Serious people my age are dead" Loved that quote
Why Your Business Needs More Weird Ideas
What about generics?
only supports static content, so personally I would not count that as “running my own website”.

Curious: why not? Before WordPress and MoveableType websites were largely static HTML, where do you personally draw the distinction?
The Chinese are doing something vaguely similar, the DHR-400, which is a low-pressure pool-type reactor for district heating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Nuclear_Corpora...
At least in my case, although I do like some of the tidyverse (ggplot is tidyverse after all, and probably my favorite plotting system in any language), I find the "tibble" data structure and its disdain for row names really annoying. Many, many, packages which I use expect a data frame with row names and likewise output such. So I am constantly converting back and forth between tibbles and data frames.
As much as I love IRC, and as much truth as there is here. I can’t help but feel it’s quite elitist to put it this way.
At least own your domain name and be able to easily move your website content to whereever you want. I think for most people it's cheaper and more convenient to use a hosting service, and that's fine... as long as you can change hosting services.

I've had my personal site ( https://dwheeler.com ) since 1999. As noted in https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html my site has been hosted on 4 different systems, and I'm sure that I will move again at some point. Users won't notice - or care - because I can easily move to some other service.
Most guitar players are shit. That doesn’t mean that concerts are a scam. As I wrote it depends on the talent. And advertisement through established influencers with a real following is cheaper than going through magazines was back in the day.
Totally fair point. It is a hassle and a regrettable that the keyboards have this problem. It's a design flaw.

But at least they are doing the right thing. Hopefully the new keyboard design fixes the flaws.
This one is a double whammy not only because there's not only data on those companies, but it can be extrapolated that many of those companies are relatively new to the cloud (and possibly which cloud service is available as well), making them also ripe for targeting.

One of Attunity's bigger sales deals is making their data migration tools free for a long period to help organizations migrate to cloud. This is essentially a list of "Hey, these other orgs might also be open to hacking as they haven't learned yet."
Case-in-point:

Perdue Pharma, Oxycontin
Yes! I got into tech to liberate humanity. That's an excellent idealistic explanation for why. And I'm extremely annoyed and pissed off about how things have turned out lately.

The "true potential" you mention must be to enable global tyranny by the looks of it. We aren't removing any barriers! Look at what Google and others are doing to try and bow to the worst humanity has to offer in China. They're enabling not just totalitarianism, they're like IBM helping the Nazis figure out who to send to the gas chambers. How quickly we forget.

The Internet has become a means of spewing propaganda and using mass deception to distract and generally dis-empower citizens of every nation. This is not what it was supposed to do.
What you quoted simplifies and thus obsfucates the situation in the UK.

Child pornogrpahy is obviously illegal, but nearly all of it is actively filtered via the IWF lists.

Legal forcing comes from court orders, of which there have been many of in regard to piracy and many other issues. Don't need court orders to regularly bring down child porn because there are already plenty of active attempts and stuff in place from IWF, ISPs, Police forces etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_K...
I pretty sure everyone has a real life filter bubble around them, that is they disproportionately interact with certain people in real life (think rich people socialize with rich people, academics with academics and so on). Part of what makes mass social media unpleasant (in the same way that tabloids are unpleasant) is that you are reminded of how the average person thinks, which is very different from how a people in your social circle might think. The social networks are maybe too effective in creating echo chambers on the other hand (the distribution of people you interact with is far more peaked than in real life)
Sure, I'm familiar with it. It's nothing compared to what Dhall can do.

... unless of course it's grown to a similar point. As of about a year ago, for some complex transformations I had to stitch together multiple invocations of jq using pipes, etc. etc. That may have been my inexperience with using it, though.

Regardless, the point about typing stands. Dhall uses structural typing/subtyping which turns out to be hugely useful for config transformation.
I would be so happy if there were some sort of color coding to just be rid of the hassle of switching twice ("I'm sure it's this one, nopes, it's the other one").
Hello everyone,
A customer sent us this link,
I see a lot of questions and sometimes misunderstanding too :)

Have a look on our faceBook page instagram, you will see more things

To quickly summarize our young company:

MPM Motors is a young French car manufacturer founded in 2015 in the 78.
The goal is simple, to offer vehicles with a sporty look for a reasonable budget, to a public who often remains dreamy in front of cars inaccessible to the common people.

The PS160 and its evolution ERELIS are the first models of a range of vehicles developed by MPM MOTORS.
We manually assemble our vehicles in our factory in Saint Quentin en Yvelines (near Paris).
Thus creating a hundred jobs in the region since 2016.

The combination of space frame and composite body, inspired by motorsport, allows us a unique design for a production car, providing exceptional handling and sports sensations for a limited cost.

= To dispel all misunderstandings, NO, it is not a sports and obviously not a super car (130hp 1.2Turbo for 16 490 € ... obviously not :)
- The goal of this car is to have a relatively inexpensive leisure vehicle with a "sporty" design (that we like or not) and feelings of "fun" driving (due in particular to the standard bucket seats, in the center low gravity, tubular black currant fairly rigid, the sound of the engine well present in the cabin, the weight / power ratio that remains correct for a car of 4.68m (1240kg) and the side "gross" and "without filter" which will delight some and will scare others.
- So NO, it's not a sports, we do not even communicate on the 0/100 so it's the opposite of what we wanted to do.
- Yes the road behavior is excellent (proportionately kept and useless comparison with sports).
- The car on loan for this test was just coming out of the assembly line (we are in constant flow) and we asked the testers not to force too hard on the engine.
- Yes it is about finishes constantly being improved and no it is not a luxury car, far from it (it's a car made by hand in the 78, the only robot there is at home is the coffee machine).
- We are an SME with all that implies and compare us to major manufacturers, their unlimited means, their finish, their equipment, would not necessarily be wise. (same for comparisons with cars of big brands in occasion)
- We remain at your disposal to answer all your questions without language as usual.

(sorry for my aproximative english :))

Guillaume de Berry
MPM Motors France
https://informedcitizen.me/

Automatically analyze online content for credibility.

Barebones alpha launch last night, 4 July 2019 :)

Improve credibility in social networks. Long term plan is to detect when social shares are trending upwards, analyze the shared articles' contents, and submit an automated reports into threads.

Currently the heavy lifting of the system is done via fakebox, supported by a small suite of services you can see in the docker compose configurations. https://github.com/dino-dna/informed-citizen

I'd love for others to get involved and help out!
Blocking child porn is not optional in the UK.

There is a mandatory block list which all ISPs are required to use, maintained by a private organization - the Orwellian named "Internet Watch Foundation", which is kept secret and is not disclosed for the stated reason that giving details would tell paedophiles where to look. They were responsible for the classification of the German band Scorpions album cover on Wikipedia being classed as child porn and resulting in blocking the Wikipedia page in the UK until that was sorted out. (Dec 7 2008)
I think the bottleneck depends on the size of your table and the size of your keys. A large table with small keys will bottleneck on memory IO, but a small table with large keys will bottleneck on hashing the keys. But I definitely haven't benchmarked any of this.
I think the issue with safe reactor designs is economic and regulatory / political, instead of intentional.

Nuclear power was invented. A few nuclear accidents happen. The solution was to put more regulation in place. Regulation increases costs and limits reactor designs (large plants, conservative / pre-existing design).

End result? It's impossible to build "safer" reactors, because they're economically uncompetitive under the regulatory burden designed for older reactors. And the regulations never change because no one builds anything but old-style reactors.

I understand the DoE and other similar organizations have prototype programs, but from results evaluation they seem to have gaps in the path to production.

Essentially, we're letting 1960s nuclear fear of 1960s reactor designs write our regulations instead of science.
Reactors can be small and (relatively) cheap, but those aren't cost effective for power production. Producing power for sale on the grid requires huge economies of scale to compete with other sources.

Tiny, safe, low-cost reactors are a better fit for off-grid power and heat in remote areas.
Alright, I wasn't talking about you specifically, sorry if you took it that way.

On HN curation: while I certainly look up to this community when it comes to coding, technology and latest new software tools in general, I'm sorry to say the standards are not even remotely up to par when it comes to genomics. I assume it's because neither the mod team nor the majority of the community has a relevant background, and it's perfectly understandable. It does mean however that I, more often than not, encounter some pretty egregious stuff on here, especially when some dreaded words like "evolution" or "heritability" get mentioned. I sometimes try to chime in (and keep in mind I'm no authority beyond being a rando who happens to work in the field and knows plenty of people more qualified than me) but sometimes the disconnect between HN discussions and actual scientific community discussions is unreal.

On the paper itself: I didn't only mention its IF and voiced other concerns further in the thread. Ultimately there's a limited amount of time one may allocate to reading papers when there are literally millions of the damn things.
Sacred is a tool to help you configure, organize, log and reproduce experiments
Unless you live far from any Apple Stores, shouldn’t this warranty program mean that you can upgrade without worry? These laptops effectively require “regular maintenance” (sort of like replacing balding tires on a car); but by buying one of the affected notebooks, you’re getting a free subscription to that maintenance. It’s like using a rental car long-term—whenever the tires wear out, you bring it back to the rental agency and they replace them (or give you a different car.)
Cesium-137 for example has a 30-year half-life. So after e.g. 60 years you still have 1/4 of the radioactive cesium-137 remaining. For context, that's less than the length of time since the Three Mile Island accident.

Edit: according to Wikipedia, cesium-137 decays to barium-137m, which decays to barium-137 by gamma ray emission (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137). So even though cesium-137 decays through beta radiation it needs shielding against gamma radiation.
Now that you have pointed where it is, it really looks easy to understand how it works. Thank you!
WOW. You have no idea how much it makes he happy and encouraged to see that NFS is still making it. They were my first webhost, for price alone, and then overtime became my default because of the support.

Eventually moved on when my needs evolved and sort of...forgot about them until this comment.
"Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way" this kind of headline pops up every few years. Too bad it takes a decade to build these things, they cost billions, they produce harmful waste that persists for thousands of years, and in failure cases produce exclusion zones for thousands of years. Effort and investment would be better spent on solar and wind power projects.
That sounds incredible to me as using pandas without falling into the traps of chained indexing seems so much harder than 90% of Python.
Why is it useful to have a deep learning library implemented in NumPy?
Ask HN: Is everyone on the internet particularly pissed off this week?
I have had some really negative comments on reddit and stack overflow where normally they are quite positive.

On another forum was I accused of fraud and generally people seem pissed off.

Is it just me? Ha ha
Note, on Firefox if you enable the DoH and the esni mechanisms in about:config. Then that information is encrypted to cloudflare hosted sites.
At that point, they can't even use deep packet inspection to identify which sites were visited.
thanks! turns out it wasn't working for https, should be fixed now.
DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
> Manufacturers are also experimenting with “fourth generation” models that use liquid sodium or molten salt instead of water to transfer heat from fission, removing the possibility of dangerous hydrogen production.