skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's a wildlife haven because we decided to let animals instead of humans enjoy the tumors (see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994720/). And it turns out that humans are even worse than nuclear fallout for wildlife. I'm not sure if that means that nuclear fallout is good. It most likely means simply that humans are bad.
There is at least one source claiming that the UK potentially has the worst track record in the world for installing cost-effective nuclear plants [0].

I'm not sure what they are doing wrong, but it probably isn't inherent to nuclear power.

[0] http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/sectors/report-claim...
It’s pretty much arbitrary what we as an industry have decided “text” means (and this has changed over the years), and what features it ought to support. It’s largely “what our technology easily supports today”.

For example, most people expect antialiasing (i.e., subsampling across space) but we seem to have written off the idea of motion blur (i.e., subsampling across time), except in some games.

It’s be technically more accurate to draw a quickly-dragged mouse cursor with a (correctly computed) blur, but that’s not generally easy to render today. And motion blur of moving subpixel antialiased text sounds like a nightmare right now, but with the right abstractions it might not be.
Bicycling and transit doesn't have to be feasible for everyone, it just has to be made an option for trips where it makes sense, which is most trips. Nearly half of trips in the US were under 3 miles, 72% of those where done in a car. 60% of trips under a mile were made in a car or truck (!). Accommodating all those trips requires a ton of pavement, parking, gas stations to be built.

https://www.bikeleague.org/content/national-household-travel...

The vast majority of people making those trips are able-bodied people in urbanized areas (80% of the US lived in an urbanized area as of 2010).

https://www.icip.iastate.edu/tables/population/urban-pct-sta...

So if you can get bike infrastructure to where people are living, you've attacked a big chunk of the auto problem.

Per your second point, yes, it can be feasible. The modern rural US is very sprawling in terms of the built environment but it wasn't always that way. Rural areas in the US used to revolve around small villages and points of density that service a wide area, complete with transit connections. Many German rural villages are extremely bikeable and have regular transit through their regions and to larger cities.

You still can accommodate people who need vehicles, just the demand on infrastructure (parking, number of lane miles, subsidies and costs) would be greatly reduced. As it is now, the children, the disabled, and frequently the poor can't drive themselves and rely on other people driving them. Cycling can be done by almost anyone, is much cheaper and therefore much more accessible than driving.
I still don't really have much pity for the reporter. Live by the sword, die by the sword
The early communications satellites were launched with Thor-Delta and Delta rockets. In general, communications satellites reached low earth orbit before manned spacecraft, and satellites where put into geosynchronous orbit before manned spacecraft passed that altitude on the way to the moon. Manned spacecraft have never operated in geosynchronous orbit, since it is beyond the Van Allen belts and exposed to cosmic radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_(rocket_family)

I fully support the continued development and operation of all kinds of satellites for communications, earth monitoring, astronomy, etc., as well as the development and operation of spacecraft for lunar and planetary exploration. However, people are not suited for space travel since they are fragile and weigh too much, especially when all the life support overhead is factored in.
Just curious- Would you hire someone with only an online certification in programming to an engineering job at udacity? (As a junior/intern)
I used to joke about being uncomfortable with people visiting my apartment carrying smartphones, now I'm actually becoming uncomfortable with people visiting my apartment carrying smartphones. All of my technology is dumb as shit/rooted. I've physically taken the webcam out of my new laptops for years before the first power up, which is with a Debian DVD.

And I honestly think that I'm taking the lazy approach because I'm not overly concerned about being targeted, just caught in dragnets. Anybody practiced and willing to put in a few hours of work could own me. I could own me, so I know it's true. People who aren't technical with software, hardware, and web architecture just have no chance.
That's a fun idea, but extraordinary theories require extraordinary (even if circumstantial) evidence.
Yeah, but they have to be cloned separately. And not all projects have them.

A doc directory gets you the same thing, easier.
That is a very regional example.

Getting access to a Windows box was never a problem in countries with more flexibility towards piracy.

80 and 90's Portuguese students could get whatever they wanted from shaddy shops that used to copy books and software.

Booklets with 200+ items on them.
I don't understand those single header libraries. Anyone writing code in c or c++ knows how to link a library.
It's really annoying when writing code for a platform with limited ram.
Boeing omitted safeguards on 737 MAX that were used on military jet
"One of the really interesting interesting things to contemplate is the total mass to orbit capability of a large reusable system where you have a significant fleet in operation. If you've got something like Starship where you've got maybe 150 tons capable to orbit and the ship can fly, is capable of say theoretically flying four times a day but you know they call it like 75 percent uptime so theoretical three times a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year. So that's like about a thousand flights a year for the ship. The booster can do a lot more than that. This is obviously max theoretical. You've got, you know, 150 tons that service, 150,000 tons to orbit per year per ship. If you've got say ten ships you'd have [...] one and a half million tons to orbit per year. Twenty ships you've got three million tons to orbit per year. I think the total rest of world capacity, if you take all rockets on earth including Falcon, the total capacity to orbit I think is around two to three hundred tons currently. Total Earth capacity to orbit is about two to three hundred tons if all rockets launched at max rate. So we're talking about something that is with a fleet of starships a thousand times more than all earth capacity combined. All other rockets combined would be 0.1% including ours."

How is this not massively disruptive to the entire space launch industry?
And if the pharma companies didn’t have to abide by ethical guidelines for clinical trials they could collect more data. There are good reasons to forbid that.
Literally exponentially.

But keep in mind that QC does not mean you can solve _any_ problem exponentially faster than a binary computer. If something is NP-Complete (or any of the less familiar “hard problem” classes) then it’s still gonna be hard for the quantum computer.

So you’ll get an exponential speed up for some specific problems like quantum circuit sampling, but it can’t help you solve the Traveling Salesman Problem any faster unless we find a new algorithm—and even then that would imply P=NP.

There’s still lots that QC could bring to the table even if it only works for some problems, but it’s not expected to completely replace classical computers—more like augment them with some new super powers.
The UN thinks 68% of the global population will live in urban areas by 2050 so it makes sense to focus on urban areas - rural areas could probably be the exception to the rule and still use cars, etc?

https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-...
The Fall of Niels Birbaumer
Or include cstdint and use the fast or least types as needed.
I don't mean to be rude, but aren't you being a little short sighted here? You can talk about how pleasant these choices are to have, but unless we look really hard at what's critical and preserve that immediately, there's not going to be a functional society and industrial framework in which these guarantees can be delivered.

We should strongly consider things like redefining energy security rather rather than wallowing in our base loss aversion. We'll need to develop alternative ways to deliver all of these improvements that don't assign an unpayable environmental debt to our future generations.
Sure I was!!

But we always have some "activists" that take some "edge" case and try to stretch it to all cases.

We have to focus on the real victims not on people that ganged and killed someone cold blood.
> Fission isn't far out. Fission has been a readily available solution for decades

the UK is building new fission plants. It costs more than renewables, and won't be ready for a decade.
The documentation and API quirks of z3 also led me down some performance sinks before I was able to tackle the larger models. Not a Z3/SMT expert, but what worked for me was to model every time tick as the sum of all tasks that could be performed at that instant. Set a constraint on each tick that sets the sum of these tasks to be <= P. Add the book-keeping on the task-job relationships and that was it.

Using the Python bindings, the biggest performance impact I discovered was ensuring that my jobs and tasks were represented as z3.Bool and not z3.Int (requiring a roundabout way to do a summation on z3.Bools). Something like:

tasks_this_tick = [(z3.Bool(task_id), 1) for task_id in current_tasks]
model.add(z3.PbLe(tasks_this_tick, max_tasks_per_tick + 1)
Doctors know generics are cheaper (or at least they used to be) but that's about it for their price awareness. This is not their fault. Doctors are inundated by drug salespeople "educating" them to prescribe the most expensive drugs. And drug salespeople never--ever--push aspirin.
>high taxes, housing bubble, stagnant salaries

Salary ranges are still the same since a decade ago even though cost of living has gone up.

My first job as a full-time dev was $65k rent was $1500 or thereabouts, I'm sure there are first-time devs making $65k now. Even though rent is now $2000 at least for the same place I was living at.

After tax income is $49,190 (https://simpletax.ca/calculator) and rent went from $18,000 to $24,000. As a percentage of after-tax income that's going from 36.6% to 48.8%. The rent would have made me poorer if I hadn't changed jobs!
What do you want to use instead?

If you like you can increase the Chernobyl number by 1,000x. The point still stands; nuclear is measurably, unambiguously and has proven to be safer than coal in every way that effects humans. Except evacuation risk. Which is still tiny vs any reasonable standard.

Plus the modern designs are different from the Soviet designs. They have improved. We have Computer-aided design now.
Both agriculture and consumer transportation are non-trivial contributions.

We should go after military and cooperate polluters first because of their larger impact, but that’s easier to do when you gain moral high ground.
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.
> goes against our hardwiring

It doesn't ; if anything our hardwiring is always for efficiency and less effort. It's just that there is no easy and low-effort way to avoid those things.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190929151534/https://avdi.code...
We're a small business of <50 employees that does 60+ trade shows per year. I feel the pain and am happy to see that you're tackling this.

We currently use Trello for task assignment, GCal for scheduling, Certify for T&E and Salesforce for lead tracking -- without a great way to measure ROI. I'd pay $100/mo for your enterprise plan if it integrated existing CRM and T&E systems.
You can't have it both ways though, is my point.

Either the taxes are passed through to the renter, or the price of rent is determined by a renter's ability to pay.

These are conflicting statements that both can't be true.

If renters are already paying the most that they can, and increases in wages only causes rents to go up, then it is not possible for them to pay that extra tax.
There are all kinds of pressurized gas devices to use:

https://www.amazon.com/SodaStream-Sparkling-Water-Starter-Si...
What is the future of dev shops/outsourcing?
As compared to 15 years ago the number of dev shops out there is just huge. How do you see a 10-15 member dev shop standing out in the market?
You would add commands for ExtendBooking and CancelBooking and ChangeRoomType, I think?
This is changing. I work with Canadian colleagues at a remote-friendly company, and they make the same salary as the folks in NYC and SV, taking conversion into account (most make >200k CD). I also know that Shopify pays very well. Canadian tech is catching up in compensation terms, and the dominoes are going to start following as demand picks up.
A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
Another article spewing the same garbage. "You can't learn theory without a college degree." What? Do textbooks teaching theory not exist outside of college? Are there no blog posts teaching theory on the internet?

My self education took about as long as a college degree anyways, but I was able to work the whole time which I think gave me a bit of an edge over most college graduates. Self education can feature as much or as little theory as you decide you want to learn
The dashcam footage released by Uber was misleading; their cameras and sensors were far from as good as the human eye. The Tempe police concluded 85% of humans could have stopped the car in time: [0]

> In simulating conditions of the crash and consulting their textbooks, detectives found that Herzberg could have been seen 143 feet down the road by 85 percent of motorists.

[0] https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/self-driving-uber-crash...
While I agree that in many cases JSON parsing is not the largest consumer of resources, it really sucks when it is.

At some point it seems like a general mindset shifted from making things efficient at every level to assuming things don’t matter if you’re probably doing something worse anyway.
"carriers refuse to negotiate or offer rates greater than 125% of Medicare" ... "This is not the intent of the law and fundamentally is acting as a wage-cap."
Having lived in both Canada and the USA, I think this is great. The doctors in the USA are vastly overpaid (that is why it is/was so hard to find a primary care doctor in Vancouver, they all moved south for the money), and the healthcare, both statistically and in my personal experience, is not better for it.
There's no keybase information in your profile either.
How replicable is this thing? Looking from a monetary perspective, is it worth getting a Ph.D. in AI? Assuming you like both academic research and working in the industry, if you were to make a choice whether to do a Ph.D. or not, how would you make it?
> It's relatively easy to parse (while not as easy as a sane well-specified version of CSV would be).

Wrong. CSV is horrible to parse with its string quoting rules.
JSON accepts only utf8 and is not misleaded by \, nor ",".
Done both, JSON is much simpler and can represent nested structures, arrays or maps. CSV importers are mostly broken, and should be left to Excel folks only.

> It's that application logic shouldn't be operating on transport data formats

Nobody is talking about application logic here but you. JSON is one of the best transport data formats, and this library makes it much easier to encode/decode from/to JSON and C++.

We are not talking about javascript's hack to prefer JSON over full objects.
Of course is an internal representation always better than an external, esp. such a simplified one. But for transports simple ones are preferred over complicated serialized ones, because then you can easily do MITM stack-overflows or abusing side effects on creating arbitrary objects.
Have you tried `defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO`? (also needs a reboot)
In that case we are perfectly fine. We can distribute symmetric keys in a different way. Just run a hash 10,000,000 times and your public key will be the last result, while the private key will be the first input. Only you can reconstruct the other layers going backwards, as you “peel the onion” and you can use those numbers any way you want. My favorite application is to generate random numbers among untrusting participants by everyone revealing the next number and then using functions of that as seeds to an RNG. It can be used for tons of byzantine fault tolerant applications.

The only problem is that it seems to also have forward secrecy built in because once you’ve revealed the next onion layer, anyone could have constructed the transcript up to that point. So you can only be sure that the author signed something if you are sure they didn’t reveal the next private key to anyone else (to verify it).
The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley
Maybe because TEPCO lies? And the history of other nuclear companies or agencies supposed to have fidelity to the public and not betray their trust is also poor?
Probably yes for single adults in their 20s and 30s without any small kids or elderly parents to take care of who live in a small (possibly European) city with low enough population density that it allows bicycles on public transport. Doesn't describe most of the world unfortunately.
Iota Releases Fast Probabilistic Consensus Simulator
How to learn all programming languages
In my admittedly limited experience working sales, a personal relationship is incredibly important for customer retention. I guess the same goes for employees.
So, I’ve been reading articles on this and I think I have a fuzzy idea of some of these solutions would entail. But what I’m hung up on is this: if Deep learning is about coming up with solutions to problems that are too hard for humans, how do we hope to understand the rationale behind whatever solutions the machine comes up with?
You want to send something sensitive, mail a letter. In the US, the protections on ease dropping on physical mail is quite good. Requires an actual warrant in an actual court, unlike most electronic communications.

Otherwise, assume your communications are being collected and perused.
I think "death machines" is a bit hyperbolic, the speed is capped at 5mph, and I imagine that Tesla is better at avoiding hitting humans in parking lots than a normal driver since it has sensors all around it. Avoiding hitting people isn't the hard part, navigating in a predictable way and following the unwritten expectations of driving in a parking lot is, and that is something Tesla doesn't seem to do a great job of yet.
https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/the-roofshot-manifesto/
ISA = Instruction Set Architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture
I once found out mining deaths plausibly caused by health impact of uranium mining in one region I could find data for (the Grants Mining District), and just this figure, after translating the total uranium mined into energy equivalent in contemporary reactors, was appreciably higher that what you're citing, even without counting any other mining accidents, or accidents in the rest of the nuclear industry after mining. So I remain a bit skeptical about that. (But nevertheless it was still low enough to be worth it, especially of course compared to anything coal-based.)
I'm using Overgrive, but I can't say that I recommend it. Some files cause it to freeze and crash and you have little control over source and destination folders. I've also experienced a situation where it deleted a folder somehow. I lost data in that episode :(.

Sometimes, I have to wait for a linux port, but the games usually are on sale by then anyway ;).
Marketable skills are easy to learn, it's the thinking behind the learning that is tough to get. HOW to think is much more important. And I'm not at all sure that that can be taught.

'Common sense ain't so common' is a trite aphorism, but very true.
You can store year 1850-2050 in a byte.
>And when you start contracting as an independent , you will make a whole lot more.

This is true and more true if you're freelancing for US dollars. That sweet sweet conversion rate from USD to CAD works very well. But again this is why Europe is a better choice, Euros to USD or Euros to CAD whenever you want to travel is also a nice conversion rate.
12 years is optimistic for a green card in the US as an Indian. The current expectation is closer to 60 years.
It’s a bit naive to believe, that public pension system will bring you far. My friend earned a lot back then, now she gets 1700€ plus owns her flat. Now it’s almost impossible to buy a flat even in Berlin if you don’t have rich parents, that can help with €100k.

As you write “basic healthcare” is included. For advanced stuff you pay by yourself.

€30k is Aldi cashier’s salary in Southern Germany. But Blue Card has also very low limit, €42€: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/buergerservice-f...
This is quite likely.
I can just imagine it: "But you see, I'm only using medium.com because it's convenient. Other people shouldn't, but I'm just using it for now and will switch to something better, someday. I just don't have time at the moment."

I don't think there's anything wrong with using Medium, but this is always where decentralization/security/open-protocols utopia seems to die: convenience and the UX. Where everyone seems to be trying to convince you that something like IRC is the best while using Discord because it's better.
Have you tried JetBrains Rider?

I've been using Visual Studio for many years, but it still needs the ReSharper plugin to be truely great. As much as I love VS, I've always found it to be a little buggy, and I grew tired of listening to my laptop fans whining constantly.

I switched to Rider, and I love it! It took a while to find a theme that worked for me, but I have it setup perfectly now. There is honestly very little it can't do that VS can, but that goes vice-versa too. I don't recall it crashing even once in all the time I've used it, and it uses far less CPU than VS.
Well, in the context of privacy decentralization doesn't have a lot of meanings. Just a couple, like leaking as little information as possible to a single party and giving as little control as possible to a single party, because if you can't trust a single party having to trust many independent parties with much less information and control is much better for privacy (theoretically not a single party should be able to decode a single bit of useful information about others, even a resoursful malicious party doing sybil attacks, etc.).
Ask HN: Background Check APIs
I'm looking for a low cost high speed state, county and federal background check API. Is this a thing?
> but I don't think it's even possible to merge your iCloud account (Apple ID) with your Mac user account. Aren't these always separate identities

And enforced as such - just like you cannot have your macOS password be the same as your Apple ID password.
Perhaps, although the automobile has always had a clear explicit purpose: convert potential energy into rotational energy in a controlled manner. It’s hard to identify such a singular purpose for AGI.
I strongly disagree with this idea.

While not having to park, consuming electricity, and more efficient road usage will make cars much much better, this future car will still be significantly less efficient than modern trains in several key metrics. Examples include efficient land usage, efficient energy usage, maintenance requirements, raw resource requirements, max speed.

As the process of urbanization continues trains are the most logical next step in transportation for our cities. While side driving cars will play a role in less traveled routes, we’ll see heavy investment in trains as cities try to find ways to allow more and more people access to their most busy business districts.