skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making things small is actually not that big a challenge in nuclear. The challenge are safety, cost, and proliferation. There are a lot of reasons this shouldn't be produced at scale.

- at 10 kW, it produces power for about 5 American homes. You'd need 60 M of these for the US.

- Proliferation. Kilopower uses high enriched fuel (92%). This is bomb material from the get go. They could probably build a lower enrichment core. But they haven't. shame. In any case, if there were lots of these cores around, it would lower the barrier to access and process spent nuclear fuel.

- This is for space and NASA. Not the right type of innovation for terrestrial and mass produced. They went small, high performance. We need safe and low cost.

- It's a heat pipe cooled reactor and heat pipes have the worst heat transfer characteristics (compared to water, gas, molten salts) and will have a new set of accident scenarios like what happens if a heat pipe bursts and you get a sodium fire.

- You don't really want nuclear systems to be too small or mobile mobile devices or to travel much. You want to build em and know they're not going to move. You don't want to give the reactor more kinetic energy that it can use to break itself apart and release fission products. During a launch to space, this isn't so big a problem because the reactor has not yet been turned on and contains no fission products, so failed launch is not so bad.
Is it safe though? Like possible skin issues that can easily be transferred?
The EL Paso shooting wasn't terrorism – it was tradition
Someone gets nefariously MITM'd and instead of giving the user an informative message, they're presented with something which means nothing to the lay-person.
Other way around, the typo was in the name of the variable being set, so it defined a new one instead of modifying the existing one.
For anyone that's interested in actually doing this, Chicago95 is the best way to make XFCE look and feel like Windows 95: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials
I just saw an ad on google promoting a conspiracy theory about Epstein. From epoch times
QUIET YOU.

Hiking is the last bastion. However I'm fairly confident that really won't ever change, at least once you get past the 2 mile marker. Tourists fade away beyond that.
Count me as third.

I dislike how this stuff "infect" all your code calls:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

And the problem is rust is that we already have other stuff that infest everything: Borrows, mutability, ownership...
I think I approximately understand monads, but I find the "wrap the entire external universe" type of explanation to confuse me a bit. It's just the result of one IO computation + a way of handling / unwrapping it!

When trying to map (or bind :) a monad to OOP/imperative programming, it strikes me as more straightforward to think that, e.g., the IO monad is an object that encapsulates the result of a network operation, together with some utility functions for dealing with the result and not having to deal with the unwrapping of the result. Kind of like Futures or Promises.

(Now, here the real FPers will say that the comparison is flawed because of certain FP desiderata like referential transparency, but that's beyond the extent to which I've internalized monads.)
This is great! I applaud this effort. Let everyone back their beliefs and principles with their own money.
The public disclosure part is really important as it's basically the main stick forcing companies to actually fix things in a timely manner in any case where there's not a direct threat of financial loss to the company.
I don't know. I'm just happy to have stumbled upon an effortless workflow (for my applications) and thought I would share the nugget of knowledge.

Perhaps "as intended" is not a correct assumption on my part.
I believe they must mean Keras
I just saw an ad on youtube promoting a conspiracy theory about Epstein. From epoch times
Listener in the middle is most accurate and Politically Correct.
Even simpler: there are an infinite number of real numbers in the interval between 0 and 1. Indeed, between any two real numbers. If spacetime itself isn't quantized then you get an infinite number of possible events, even within a finite hypervolume of spacetime.
You’re getting downvoted but you’re right!
Taking a picture, of you, or just an `identical` is not why people travel. It's just the most easy way of documenting your visit and a way to have something from that place without actually taking something from that place. Literally the best way to leave no footprint of your visit and be satisfied, but for some reason gatekeepers hate it.

Some people travel to meet locals, some people travel to watch sports, some people travel to just lay at the beach and feel the breathe, some people travel to try the food, some people travel to jump around museums and sights.

Nothing wrong with any type of travel, unless you're trying to brake local laws or disturb locals (those who try to meet locals no matter what could do that and not even see what they're doing).

For some reason westerners are not able to take easy loitering. Maybe because it's illegal in some states or countries, but in most places around the world it's perfectly legal. If you want to just walk around San Marco square, there's no one stopping you, even if you live in Slovakia or Mexico, or Canada. And there should not be anyone stopping you. It's a public place, it's there for everyone to enjoy. If local authorities think they're unable to maintain infrastructure, they still will be fine after implementing a city tax for visitors. But the nature of public spaces should and will be untouched.
Yeah and what's your point? That's a huge fucking problem.
Asynchronous Task Execution in Python
Bitcoin: The Key Hedge in the Impending Currency Crisis and Monetary Carnage?
This x 100.
We get used clothing from friends and goodwill all the time. They blow through clothing so fast it's not worth buying new.

If you buy a used crib just make sure it's in good shape and hasn't been recalled.

More practical advice:
Costco brand diapers and formula are the cheapest we found, but still good quality. Well worth the membership. There are also ways around going to Costco without paying for a membership. You can just google it.

Walmart brand wipes were the cheapest (and not useless) ones we found. We buy them in lots of 1200 at a time for about $20.
Thanks! That is helpful.
From Stem Cell to Brain Organoid (Paola Arlotta) [video]
Maybe they could write unit tests to make sure what's being passed is lists and strings. But that's probably crazy.
I think its more the fact that if it wasn't third worldish it wouldn't be tourist only.
Coke pretty much costs nothing compared to the rest of the operating costs. This is why many McDs have the price of all the fountain drink sizes the same. I'm guessing only a minority of people would come in for the free drink and leave without eating something. It's the same as the monopoly game pieces they give out. Many just have things like a free hashbrown, or fries, or a drink, small things. People aren't going to both waiting in line just for something small like that so either McDs doesn't lose anything when those people don't come back or they make a real sale when they come back and buy a burger with their free fries.
It's not functional for library dependencies, where you still need to manage the setup.py instead. Only useful for end-user application dependencies.
I think you think you said something smart, while actually you said something very dumb.
> Show me a tourist-only country that is not "third world" level

Iceland (3 tourists per resident - 70,056.87 USD GDP per capita)
You can easily cut that by a factor of 100 simply by serving only multiples of 10pixels for sizes over 300px.

And cut by another factor of 10 for jpg compression
Most lightweight X DEs or window managers like awesome in Linux don’t make any attempt to implement vsync, it’s up to you to use another standalone compositor to enable it, usually compton. If it’s not working even then it’s probably a problem with the graphics driver not the DE, and a heavyweight DE likely wouldn’t fare any better. Personally I have never been able to make nVidia cards vsync reliably and my Intel laptop is also never quite right. Only AMD with their newer driver has been perfect for me.
Don't see much mention of it in other comments so for what it's worth.. don't underestimate the importance of being involved in a community. While I would personally suggest a church community, it could be anything as long as you're open to receiving help and giving it to others when you can. Nobody wants to feel like a charity case but anyone who has had kids understands how hard it is and people are often willing to give you a hand with babysitting occasionally or with food/supplies. Good luck and congratulations!
Take the tourist's dollars (yuan / whatever) - build schools, hospitals, infrastructure and plan to treble your tourism in 20 years - but to overwhelm that with non-tourism industries like solar cell production or battery factories. Build sewage treatment plants, build roads for electric public transport buses. Build 5 G cell towers.

This is not a disaster - this is bootstrapping.
No worries, sorry if I came across as overly critical. Thanks for the work, the content is awesome.
Yes that’s true. And of course the banks have seen the ESG market as an opportunity to make a quick buck, and continue to generate report upon report. Also, many data vendors out there inventing all sorts of ESG metrics, many of which are of dubious significance. It’s a net positive though.
Cruise missiles are generally short range. The main advantage of a nuclear cruise missile is its added long range and maintained ability to stay mostly undetectable and unstoppable to missile defense since they can travel at low altitude.

The other advantage is political. These missiles take a long a time to reach destination, and the time can be extended by a prolonged voyage (circle the globe a few times). The only people who can disarm the warhead are the enemies. You're not going to blow up your enemies while the missile is in the air. It's a great apolitical tool. Launch a missile and everyone starts talking and giving in to your demands.

Better article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-nuclear-agency-confirms...
Thanks for asking this. I had a related question - have you found any other textbooks/courses which take a chronological view on the subject of neural networks, sort of a tour-de-force of their history?

A lot of MOOCs and open courses do a very good job at teaching the deep learning toolset for specific domains - vision, text, and so on. I was looking to find a curated source on how neural network architectures and algorithms gradually evolved over time as people realized they could solve a wider variety of problems.

This probably sounds like a `seminar` course with extensive readings? A good analogy for instance would be the MAA book on the history of integration [0], which describes how the notion of integration was formalized over time. Thank you for your help!

[0] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/a-radical-approach-to-...
I just don't think Winer should be used as an authority for anything like this. What he pioneered was "just make it work for the user" solutions from a usability perspective, and not from an engineering perspective.

Winer part in the XML-RPC and SOAP outcomes was a source of misery for developers in the early part of this century. MORE was neat because it had a place on the Macintosh System 6 platform, when there was literally nothing else of its kind. What did MORE evolve into later? Nothing.

Winer has long been an advocate of "the semantic Web", which is a user-focused idea of what's essentially an engineering problem. The semantic Web was/is a dead-end and in its time it led to a great many stupid uses of HTTP.

Winer can be celebrated as an advocate for users but not as a great engineer.
I once tried to pitch a one "mobile ecommerce website as a service" company in Vancouver to go for GPU based image rescaler at around 2011.

A very dumb proposal: no caching, resize on the fly, the gpu has many gigabits of resizing performance for as long as JPEG is involved. One GPU works in decoding with VDPAU, one in encoding with CUDA.

That knocked down any google app engine based "elastic" service on economic basis, but the catch is that you have to send that GPU resizer to every colo. That did not work out as with google app engine you were getting access for google's POP network for almost free, and they were already paying for gigantic amount of CDN traffic.

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When I worked as sub-subcontractor for the Alibaba's RDMA wired DC project, there was one demo by another team where they got DSP devs involved and they got a 10GB/s JPEG transcoders for under 100W. I think, most of power budget was going to the FPGA that was linking it all with the NIC :/

An expensive toy, but it again demonstrated to me just how powerful is the "lockdown" power of all those "cloud" companies. You can not buy anything like this on the open market.

Imagine what it could've been if they offered something more cash worthy over the RDMA there.

I said long ago that the killed product during the Bitcoin boom was not the mining itself, but leasing and renting the rigs. Your capital costs get covered near instantly, and you can cash out the next week. I believe that all that "cloud" thing will eventually follow this path.
The MIT professor is a lot more productive though - per unit of production he pollutes a fraction of what a poor farmer does.
Easier to just increase the cost of power more than 2x.
Isn't this the true goal of globalism, each microcosm has to hyperfocus its resources and how they can be sold in the best way.
Designer Behind Instagram Logo Made an Exact Working Replica of Apollo 11 Camera
This is what I use in production right now. It works well once you figure it out, but backwards compatibility with the previous Thumbor based version isn't as good (or at least correctly documented) as they say. And the previous Thumbor based processor just stopped working one day. It's not as robust as a system as I expected.
How Netflix Is Using Its Muscle to Push Filmmaking Technology Boundaries
Maybe I'm really dense, but what on earth does loop unrolling have to do with concurrency or asynchronous code?
I wonder how many of those were caused by animals though, shorting out wires or creating nests in areas that then catch fire.
On the other hand, it's getting more and more expensive. The amount of cheap oil still on the ground isn't nearly as large as the amount of oil.

Anyway, the main concern for climate change is coal. Not only it pollutes more, but there is much more of it on the ground than oil and gas. Luckily, solar is successfully competing with it.
StockX Data Breach
> Two-factor authentication for bank and credit card accounts would be a start. Banks should probably make it harder to get a new credit card than to log in to Gmail. Creating a web of multi­channel identity verification using devices we carry around all day already—conveniently equipped with fingerprint scanners—would likely make some types of fraud more difficult.

Would it, though?

To protect against the type of problem in the article, the second factor would need to come from some sort of official government database. Otherwise, I could just walk into any bank where my victim didn't already have an account and say "Hi, I'm so and so, and I'd like to open an account and sign up for a credit card."

Also, it's not as though iPhones actually send a copy of your fingerprint to the bank. Actually doing so—and relying on it—would introduce a host of other problems.
Ubuntu has stopped including the sponsored OS nonsense as of at least Ubuntu 18.04 and maybe much sooner. Now its just Gnome desktop with some tweaks. I prefer Ubuntu Budgie the most currently.
> How do you educate people if they’re only visiting for three days out of their entire life?

Make them site through a brief permit course before they are allowed to hike. The Georgia state parks system requires this before one can hike certain trails, Tallulah Gorge[0] for instance.

[0] - https://gastateparks.org/TallulahGorge
Give it 1 cycle through the wash and it'll be fine.
Yes, exactly my point: then you have to potentially deal with conflicting dependencies between pip and conda packages. This happens and it's a pain to deal with.
Lots of people will question this stuff, but they definitely won't bring up their objections. People are incentivized to collect their paychecks and do what they're told, not to point out the absurd thinking of the managers and executives above them. Nobody is thinking they'll save their company those millions and get an recognition/reward for it. Even the professional risk assessors got ignored.
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Cost estimate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701774
On a non-monetary note, here's some advice I gave my brother recently. (My daughter is now 15 months old, and I was thinking about what advice I wish I'd been given before she was born):

1) Remember at all times that no matter how tired you are, your partner is almost certainly much more tired. Basically, give her a free pass for the first few months, if not longer. (The hormonal changes a few days in are no fun either)

2) There is no point comforting a crying baby - they just don't understand what you're trying to do. Distract the fuck out of them instead. (This from a baby psychologist on a BBC documentary.)

3) Babies are their own tutorial. They start off really simple, with about three things to remember, and then once you've got the hang of those things they start adding new ones on. But you don't need to panic about whether you can do it, it's not complicated, just full on.

4) Bonding - do not panic if it takes you six months (or longer) to fall in love with your child. I certainly felt incredibly protective of Sophia from the moment she was born, but I didn't feel fully connected to her until she was able to smile at me, and we could have some kind of interaction. It's really easy to feel awful because all the TV and movies says it happens instantly, but it can take a fair while, so don't worry about it.

5) Ignore any advice you don't like.

https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/3746257.html
It's fine, we just wash it on high.

Ask your OB about it though if you want a more professional opinion.
I have used balsamiq and invisionapp. I found both quick and easy to use.

https://balsamiq.com/
https://www.invisionapp.com
Agreed. I've used it from time to time for writing simple scripts and it does make things much easier. You don't really have to worry about a CLI script blocking.
If we were a bit more forward thinking as a species, we should probably implement a progressive carbon tax and use the tax revenue to transition to less carbon intensive replacement, and not wait for a global crisis.

Not sure we are good enough for that though.
Online, probably. That is already where the only real discussions about sex and other politically unacceptable discussions take place.
> a lot of GPLv2 code

"A lot" is quite the exaggeration for "at most 5".

GPLv2 licenced software:

• cvs

• texinfo (for software lacking proper mdoc(7) manuals)

• mkhybrid

• readline

• gcc/gdb/bintuils, supporting libraries libstdc++/libiberty*

The amount of GPL licensed software the resides in OpenBSD base is trivial compared to the entirety of software comprising a complete Unix operating system. Including its own implementation of a wide variety of network protocols, and being the home of OpenSSH, and tmux and many more.

https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

* On architectures that have transitioned to a LLVM toolchain, we already have a reference platform (arm64) which doesn't build or install gcc/binutils or supporting libraries, this will happen on other platforms as well, where they're currently installed alongside clang. OpenBSD has already transitioned to clang, lld, libc++/libc++abi on i386/amd64/armv7/octeon.
Kotlin has an interesting midpoint between async/await and built-in lightweight threads. With async/await calls are async by default and if you await them they become synchronous. In Kotlin and with built-in lightweight threads this is reversed, but in Kotlin the callee still has a different function signature depending on whether it uses async internally or not.
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The HSIC Bottleneck: Deep Learning Without Back-Propagation
Tourism is a scam. Travel is a scam unless you’re doing actual business or have someone to visit. I sit at home and drink coffee and read the newspaper.
States give access to their driver's license databases to federal authorities. Any safety you perceive due to the lack of a national ID system is an illusion.
Is there a direct link to patches anywhere? Canon's press-release and the Canon USA website don't appear to have direct links.
Those who over-apply historical lessons in an incorrect context may serve as a future historical lesson in mistakes made, though.
That's unfortunate, I've only just begun rolling into a new project, so I can't comment on how it used to be.
I think most of the universities in California have been switching to Canvas. I also use Moodle, which is also FLOSS; personally I strongly prefer the UX to Canvas, but it may be less enterprise-y.
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