skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think that "nuclear can... be profitable" if the operators have to pay insurance premiums against the possibility of catastrophic failure?

What about paying to store the (albeit small amount of) long lived waste? What is the cost of permanently, and safely, storing a tonne of very poisonous material for hundreds of thousands of years? And do not say " deep-geologic placement" as there is no geological structure that we know of that is stable and seperated from the biosphere for those periods.

Nuclear power is socialising extraordinary risk and making future generations pay for today's energy.

Yes it can be profitable. But never moral
Do you have a source on that? (I’m just curious to learn about it, I’m not denying that it’s not a terrible development. )
To be fair, HN isn’t strictly related to current events.
Maybe they did, and the correct conclusion is that (excessively) high pay for management is entirely unjustified?
About an hour ago I received a refund receipt from AWS for the extra charge. So it seems like they are addressing the issue.
I don’t think regular people can appreciate that level of increase though. It’s better to focus on exceptional examples that drive the harm home. If we want action on the issue that is.
Next step is to realize that there's no single monolithic "you".

It also saves a lot of embarrassment and internal struggle.
The ballot measure led to the lowest arrest rate in state history in 2015 as experts said police frequently ignored crimes that brought minimal punishment.

IOW, the police aren't doing their jobs. That's not the fault of Prop 47.
So you crash immediately if someone tries to use it or a library gets added that does?

Never experienced the malloc() thing but do throw exceptions and fail fast under conditions like these so they're caught in testing.
What are the thoughts you have when you think of taking the plunge? I did one recently and I’d love to help people to try it.
When you give a bunch of boys a $1T use-it-or-lose-it budget to run around playing with guns and buy shiny toys (no offence), with no war to fight and no metrics for success, well, you're not going to end up with a real efficient operation staffed with smart go-getters firmly based in reality. :)
Unions are monopolies on labor. Any competition could help to damp their excesses.
WordPress Privilege Escalation from an Editor to Administrator
2008 and the ensuing recession happened because of an actual event (Lehman) and a credit crisis. I'd say those are 1 in your model. We haven't had anything of that magnitude yet, so I disagree that in today's economy condition 1 is satisfied.

That said, panic is a real component of crises and Trump's ability to shift focus could actually be a real asset, though it will be many years before historians and economists recognize it.
We have enough context for the numbers.

Taken in context, the numbers paint a very expensive picture economically (trillions and trillions of dollars), as well as a grave tale of unnecessary suffering for many tens of millions of people, if not more.
>That's what always freaks me out about astronomy. We don't know what Sagittarius A is up to at the moment. We will know in 26400 years.

Doesn't it make more sense to freak out because we won't know in 26400 years? Or, for that matter, not even get to know what will happen in 100 years?
You make all good points and seem to have way more knowledge than I do on these points.

I'm a complex systems person though, and it's the interactions between all these things which has spoiled my appetite.

I'm not saying I'm right or that anyone should follow my lead, simply pointing out that these things, taken as a whole, makes the future seem very uncertain and leads me to side with the more cautious camp.
That would indeed be an interesting research area.
I'm sorry, it is difficult to express my thought, although it is a simple thought that may be trivial to you.

I mean that ceteris paribus the layering (separation of materials) causes a decrease in entropy. However, the system still does this, because it gains more entropy through a different "channel".

If we could destroy the layering, thereby evenly mixing things up, but not changing anything else that affects entropy, we could increase the entropy. So it show that the layered version is lower entropy as long as all else is the same. The catch is, this would require adding extra energy into the system, because the mixed version has more potential energy. We could also imagine a mixed up configuration that has the same total energy, but then the temperature would be lower since more of the energy would be used up as potential energy, leaving less for heat. In that case the entropy would be lower.

Main point: the layering, just the fact that it is layered, this property, if we know nothing else, is still something that is a low entropy thing. So our intuition is not broken that order corresponds to low entropy.
I admit that the correlations appear pretty vague:

https://asset.barrons.com/public/resources/images/ON-BS188_C...
I remember reading a series of articles in the Seattle Times about a Boeing plane that was nearing completion. I'm not sure it was the 777, but the timeline fits, as I'm sure I was reading these articles around 1992 or 1993. What follows is from my memory of those articles--the details may be wrong, but the high level is right.

Anyway, the plane had a very different control architecture from previous Boeing planes, including more reliance on software. The FAA was concerned about the software, and the possibility of a software failure taking out all three instances of some of the redundant systems. The FAA normally required a lot more testing of such software than would fit with the schedule Boeing wanted. Boeing and the FAA agreed that in these systems, the three instances would run separate implementations of the software, writing by separate development teams working from a common spec, but not sharing anything else. The FAA would then allow the software to be deployed on the accelerated schedule Boeing wanted.

This turned out to take longer than Boeing expected, and started threatening to delay the schedule, and hurt Boeing's chances against the newest Airbus plane that was aiming for a similar market. Politicians got word of this, and the FAA was successfully pressured into relaxing the redundancy requirements, letting Boeing go ahead with running the same brand new software on all instances of the redundant systems.

The software turned out fine, so this worked out, but it still was a dangerous shortcut that the FAA allowed (or was forced to allow) that put competing with Airbus over safety. So I'm not sure things were actually all that different in the '90s. They just were luckier.
> A lot of game engines use a mark-and-release per-frame allocation buffer.

I've heard of this concept but a search for "mark-and-release per-frame allocation buffer" returned this thread. Is there something else I could search?
"This browser doesn't support the API's required to use the firebase SDK. (messaging/unsupported-browser)."

:(

Firefox, macOS
It serves the huge purpose of doing 100% of the tracking work. Whats easier? Manually tracking all of your allocations and frees as well as worrying about double frees and pointer ownership or calling GC.Collect() during a load screen?
Thank you - this comment was helpful.
Also, if we guarantee that every Set is accepted, it goes against the idea that the Estimate of the incoming key must be higher than the Estimate of the key getting evicted.

Of course, one way to ensure every key goes in is to have a cache of infinite MaxCost. But, that’s an orthogonal idea, I guess.
OT: is the thin white text difficult to read on the blue background for anyone else?
Netflix's Meeting with Blockbuster
> I don’t know whether the meditators used in this study were training under Buddhist methods or something else

"Methods"
Nuclear is about the safest power source mankind has. Most research looks like this https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

And more modern designs than most countries use are much safer than the ones in the link.
I meant more as a visual way to demonstrate, once the page is open, what you will get out of it

(better interface. but then again, it might make too many people use it)
can you import google bookmarks?
You mean the same banks who were underwriting NINA mortgages as fast as they could print them out back in 05-07? (That's "No Income, No Asset", for those of you who do not recall.)
Interesting solution, I would have assumed most people would choose the ~/.ssh/config + proxyjump feature to solve this vs adding a new tool into the mix. Is the benefit mostly in centralization of the config/routes or am I missing the target usecase?
What is a "contracting right"? A quick search doesn't bring it up as legal terminology, so I'm thinking it's somewhere between generic libertarian and freeman-of-the-land level nonsense, but I welcome a less ridiculous explanation.

If you aren't far libertarian, the government exists specifically to limit what people can contract to do. Unless you consider a government to be nothing more than a contract-enforcement entity (and even then, it is in some sense implied by there being contracts that the government would refuse to enforce).

Further, describing a constitutional law as a violation of rights is in a sense a reverse tautology. It is by definition not a violation of anyone's rights, unless you believe that the US legal system is in some sense unjust, in which case I'm very, very curious to know in what way US law is unfair to employers.
That is the issue. You are making assumptions about what you think Gates is like. Gates is nice. He is like me. That isn't how it should work (because most impressions about people are wrong, and heavily influenced by things like Netflix documentaries).

And the point is: all the other bodies you mention have controls over how they spend. There is direct oversight of their spending, and yes some money goes missing...but if that is the best case then what happens when there is no oversight. Just blind trust that someone is probably okay (or just not like X group that you dislike).

To help other people effectively, you need process. It isn't about Gates, or talking about how wonderful and generous he is. It is about helping people.

Also, I didn't mention corruption. You can assume that no corruption occurs - virtually impossible in the places Gates is operating - and what Gates is doing is still very troubling. I actually mentioned an example where someone actively avoided becoming involved with a corrupt politician...and it still went horribly wrong. You are proving the point: there is a political context, no-one acknowledges it (and most people who work with Gates are actively disinterested in this too), and it will eventually go wrong.

The solution is for people who give overseas to work far more closely with policymakers (who have reams of information that Gates does not have, and is likely not aware of).
Wow! Great work!

The next thing that would be useful is an AR integration. I’d prefer that over google street view.
Who the hell is signing 10 year leases? 5 is standard. And why don't you have a good relationship with the landlord? I've always been able to upgrade to a larger space without needing to hold onto the previous lease long-term (just until another tenant is found).

Granted, if you need truly flexible amount of space on a sub-yearly basis (both up and down), WeWork or other co-los are a better model despite the huge price premium, but I genuinely don't understand the demonization of the traditional office leasing market that WeWork supporters bandy about.
Awful idea. Having the government giving you a rating, even just for loans is way too far. Politics shouldn't impact my ability to pay but it certainly will. Look at the games Republicans play to suppress minority voters. You want to give those same people power over your credit scores?

This is just trying to solve a symptom with a deeper problem. The real problem is that our judicial system is absolutely cowardly towards corporation prosecution. If you actually just sent the responsible people to jail or actually bankrupted the worst actors, the situation would improve. This impacts everything from the financial industry to oil & gas to credit to privacy rights on the internet.

All of these companies get away with anything they want because we don't send the execs to jail and we rarely fine them more than the profits they made from doing the bad thing.
Yes, such a feature is a must-have for me as well
+1 for this book as a starting point for removing yourself from the tyranny of your emotions.
AWS usage reporting is utter crap. The only usable data for me has been the actual billing table. But that is only monthly.
I'm not sure this is a meaningful question to most anti-capitalists who want to move beyond capitalism to a non-exploitative economic system rather than return to some real or imagined historic system.
It's a sad sign of the loss of community control, when they can't even find out who owns the towers being built.
> Let’s say your boss gives you a 3% cut instead of a raise

That basically doesn't happen. If 3% of the payroll needs to be cut, ~3% of people are usually laid off, instead. Resistance to lowered numeric wages is why moderate amount of inflation are typically considered a good thing: workers will more often accept less or no increase than they will an actual drop.
Would petroleum be profitable if the drillers and refiners had to pay insurance premiums against global warming / climate change?
> doesn't show this and it's not actually true.

Please. Some action is being taken against it in recent years, but in tertiary education it's considered socially acceptable to cheat and plagiarise.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3012741/how-...

https://uschinatoday.org/features/2011/03/28/unraveling-plag...

https://www.aliesq.com/articles/2018/11/6/academic-plagiaris...

How do you reconcile your viewpoint with all the evidence even in the comments here of Chinese students blatantly copying entire published works, after they sign disclaimers saying they understand the penalties for doing that?
pg 2: "legacy preferences will tend to benefit white applicants relative to other racial groups.

pg 34: "Each of the ALDC preferences primarily benefit white students."
Foxconn? /s
Thanks, but I'd rather the government not collect all this sensitive, personal information. In fact, I'd rather nobody collect it. It's kind of shocking in the first place that our banks and lenders are allowed to release such personal information to a credit bureau without our opt-in. I'd rather Sanders focus on legislating a right to privacy, rather than for the government to take over a role that shouldn't exist.
I take it that scarcely anyone here has written software for video switchers, routers, DVEs, linear editors, audio mixers, glue products, master control systems, character generators, etc. etc. Missing a RT schedule rarely results in death, but you'd think so given the attitude from the customer. That's a silly definition for it.

There's a whole world out there of hard real time, the world is not simply made up of streaming video and cell phones.

The cool thing on HN is you can get down voted for simply making that observation. It's a sign of the times I'm afraid.
There were only forty something controls and forty something meditators, and if you look at the variance within each group it is way more than the "increase" of the average due to meditation AND some of the brain regions are thicker on average in the non-meditators group. I haven't taken bio since highschool, but it seems like you can't draw a conclusion from this. Am I missing something here?

Also, this is something I've always wondered, and I guess the only way to get a real answer would be to try meditating. But as a distance runner, I have always wondered if that is a form of meditation. It seems like I have all of the effects described by meditators, and in this study, they described a form of meditation which was movement and paying attention to the physical sensations - which is basically most sports. Any endurance athlete meditators out there who can explain the difference?
Purportedly per-agricultural hunter-gathering, depending on your goals.
It's safe in terms of deaths, but most power sources' failure modes don't include "render a large area uninhabitable for a century".
This is awesome. The quality of work behind it it's incredible.

I think there might be something interesting for this strategy also in the WebAssembly space :)
This is not accurate. US methane emissions have fallen, even as natural gas production has increased. From 1990 to 2017, total emissions of methane decreased by 15.8 percent. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents... See page 2-2.
I'm sure recruited athletes have an advantage, but saying it's "especially large" because a pool of applicants hand picked by coaches have a high admit rate doesn't make any sense.

They are doing more analysis than you suggest. They are looking at Athlete admits, and comparing their scores in other categories like academics, and noting they are much lower than other admits. I.e., the paper is not just looking at admit rate.

Recruited athlete admits are universally weaker than non-ALDC admits on these ratings.
This is not surprising, given that we know athletes are stronger on the athletic rating. But
for some race and rating combinations, the differences are striking. At most, 28% of white
athlete admits receive a 2 or higher on the academic rating. In contrast, 89% of white
non-ALDC admits receive a 2 or higher on the academic rating. 78% of Asian American
non-ALDC admits receive a 2 or higher on the extracurricular rating, while at most 12% of
admitted Asian American athletes receive a similarly high extracurricular rating.
That Unity was using that ancient collector was the main complaint. Switching to an incremental GC is long overdue.

As for pooling objects, you'd go to those "extreme measures" as a matter of course in any other language as well. You wouldn't want to alloc and free every frame no matter the language.
Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit
Chinese nuclear engineering sounds like foreshadowing to the next Chernobyl.
In Buddhist teachings, both samadhi and panna (related to vipassana) are forms of meditation.

Samadhi is concentration meditation, to get single-pointed focus on the meditation-object. (often the breath)

Panna/Vipassana is insight meditation. You focus on all of the different sensations coming in rapid-fire, like noting 'thought, breath, sound, sound, thought, sound, pressure' as they arise -- like frames of a movie or video game.

The Buddha and teachers today often recommend concentration meditation, in order to reach a state of focus, followed by insight meditation, as the natural progression towards stream entry / nirvana.
Convention wound lean towards calling it RPython
> bogus nonsensical ones that say you need to light candles and get into some funky position and whatnot.

It usually helps when investigating something you're a novice in to at least attempt to clear your mind of preconceptions. Do you know posture makes no difference? Where did you get that information from if you're a complete novice? Do you know setting (candles, incense) makes no difference? Where did you get that information from? Untrained intuition?

It's notable that 'spiritual'* traditions from many different places and times emphasise posture & setting. It wouldn't do any harm to at least consider whether there may be more to this than you're assuming.

* see (amongst many possible sources) John Vervaeke's fascinating 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis' lecture series for why this doesn't necessarily connote other-worldly metaphysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY
> I mean that ceteris paribus the layering (separation of materials) causes a decrease in entropy.

But it doesn’t, which is the reason why it happens. Because that intuition of “oh, there are two phases, this means order and entropy is disorder so the entropy is lower” doesn’t correspond to the reality of the physical concept of entropy (the thing that is maximized for a thermodynamic system In equilibrium). That’s the point of the article.

Note that the discussion about potential energy is a red herring, phase separation does also happen in absence of gravity (you get droplets which don’t coalesce as easily, but it happens nevertheless).
But the point is that if you do that within the U.S. that occurs within a stable policy context.

I accept the idea that this spending feels uncontrolled. Education policy is one area where you see this kind of activity because power is often local and fragmented which makes it easier to control. But there is still a relatively stable context with good oversight.

Imagine that occurring but there is no oversight: no teacher unions, no state govts, no opposition govt, no media, no oversight or reporting of meetings with NGOs, no reporting of donations, and (potentially) some level of govt that is captive.

And it doesn't need to be about Gates aiming to influence public policy directly. But actions that seem neutral, building a school or providing vaccinations, often occur in a political context (Mugabe was notorious for controlling the provision of aid around elections).
Please do show your evidence. From what I have read, it’s the opposite.

white-collar workers have seen their wages grow by nearly 7.5% https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/14/blue-colla....

Workers at the lower end of the pay scale finally are getting the most benefit from rising wages https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/13/workers-at-lower-end-of-pay-...
Cause sheeple gonna sheep.
Yep I agree, and just to be thorough, it's also possible that unions are good for management and bad for employees (let's say the mgt and the union bosses collude to split the difference and shaft the workers), or good for both management and employees (for example better health plan, lower turnover, lower absenteeism, better morale & customer/client service and ultimately greater market success & higher profits).

There's no particular reason to assume out-of-hand without further information that the interests of employees and management are intertwined (basically my earlier point), nor that they're separate & opposed (basically your point). But management by opposing the union so strongly is implicitly asserting that at a minimum they believe it'll be bad for management. They can also be wrong vs. right in that prediction. They may also explicitly assert it'll be bad for workers, and be wrong or right in that. Seems like there's a lot of game theory happening here and I bet there's some concise notation for all this. (Not my strong suit.)
Credit reporting agencies don’t give a “rating”. They keep a record of whether or not you pay debts in a timely manner or not.
How long until they also replace background check agencies with a public social credit registry :-)
The depletion if the ozone layer was a real threat in my lifetime. It’s only through concerted global action that we were able to not only stop but reverse the depletion.

AGW is different in that even though the science agreed we still have politicians who are convinced it’s not a big deal.
As I understand it, it's diminishing returns for a while past 40. Putting in more than 40 hours does get more done, just not as much per hour as the earlier hours.
Yep, exactly double.
The system firs lubricate money. Otherwise things would be like medical records where you have ask for a transfer, but it’d be worse. Unless you didn’t need credit (loans of any type).
You know this is about Google right?