skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The waste needs to be stable over the span of ~10,000 years. This is very short in terms of geological time frames. Yucca mountain isn't going to be pulled apart by continental drift any time in the next several million years.
Can you apply SOLID principles to your React applications?
We already discriminate as of today based on gender statistics in areas such as car insurance, where men pay more on average, because they're statistically more likely to cause accidents and drive recklessly. Why can't statistics be extended to other areas?
What does the pi-like symbol on the left mean?
I use the same strategy on the multi-user shell machine I operate.

The few trusted admins are in the wheel group, there's no root logins over ssh, and there's no sudo. The regular users don't get to switch users and definitely don't get access to root even if they know the root password since they're not members of wheel.

Sudo has never seemed like a good idea to me, but I've never had the inclination to let some users do just some things as root. Most programs have ways to escape and get to a shell somehow, so relying on sudo to restrict access to specific programs is often fundamentally flawed because those programs themselves are more often than not incapable of restricting the user from escaping them with the elevated privs.
From my friends who’ve started B2B SaaS, most startups leverage connections and introductions from their investors.
Congress Looking into Anticompetitive Behavior in the Digital Library Market
Spy Photos from Communist Czechoslovakia
Product. Cf the capital sigma Σ used for summation.
Well over 100,000 utility patents get granted every year in the US alone [1]. Care to show me all the secrets we would been unable to reverse engineer or independently invent without the patent system?

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.ht...
It’s a capital pi, used to denote a product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(mathematics)#Product_...
I would say every business and the vast majority of individual people occasionally act as fluffers (as I believe I am to interpret that term) so sure.

My point is not to reveal a gotcha that McKinsey is not the word of God. You will find nobody at the firm thinks this way.

Many people have strongly negative perceptions of consulting firms, and I’m sure some people have strong anecdotes to justify their beliefs. Yet I’m brought in to address certain problems and it’s very clear that help is needed. Sometimes the solution is something that could have come from someone inside, or is perhaps something that someone on the inside is already saying beforehand, but the consultant gets communicated better to leadership because they have more political capital and credibility on the issue. If this happens, then you’re already experiencing some of the problems highlighted in this article. Political and organizational friction is real. If that is the “only” thing preventing an organization from solving a problem, then they are still incapable of solving the problem on their own. I think a lot of people would benefit from seeing how things are from the consultants point of view.
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Altavista was, surprisingly enough, just a non-monetized demo for their hardware.

It wasn't a full search-engine, although it looked like it.

It was more like a very popular demo.
Being Model-Driven: Metrics and Monitoring
For it's day it really was the most "native feeling" or at least "least janky" cross platform framework.
I think patents should be abolished. They can either publish it, or keep it secret and eventually someone else will figure out and publish it.
I especially enjoy how the first comment is relating this story to a quote from Charles Dickens.
I didn't realize there was an NG alternative for the home. Thx for the info.
This is exactly the viewpoint I have as well. I have missed some very important emails before, such as instructions for an interview, acceptance emails, etc... They don't even show up in Gmail's search system, because it doesn't search through spam. This has forced me to look through all of the spam I get daily, examining each one to make sure I'm not missing something important. Gmail may as well not filter spam at this point.
Ask HN: Tools and resources for making a calm company or calm workplace?
Hi!

I've been a workaholic these past few years and struggled with health and mental issues because of it. I used to work long hours and sometimes even work for 80+ hours a week. I sometimes even experience guilt when I'm out doing other things when I could have used the time to work instead.

Since last year, I've been slowly fixing my work habit (being a workaholic) and now try to only work less than or equal to 40 hours per week.

Books like "Rework" and "It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work" and following Jason Fried and DHH on Twitter really helped changed my perspective about work.

I'm planning to curate a list of tools and resources for making a calm company or a calm workplace. So my question is, what are the tools and resources that you know that would help in making a calm company or a calm workplace?

Currently, this is what's on my list:

- "Rework" book: https://basecamp.com/books/rework

- "It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work" book:
https://basecamp.com/books/calm

- "Remote" book: https://basecamp.com/books/remote

- "Getting Real" book: https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real

- Work Can Wait feature of Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/features/work-can-wait

- Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
I couldn’t quite understand the part about Edison printing newspapers on the train. Was he copying newspapers to sell them cheap?
Craigslist Mirrors
Tequila is not whisk(e)y. It’s fine, but it’s not the same thing.
CMake today is autotools yesterday: too buggy, too unreliable, fragile, slow. Bazel is properly made build system.

Basically, CM does not guarantee correct incremental builds, Bazel does (I had to kill CM cache thousands of times to make sure everything is rebuilt correctly after changes in CMake definitions). CMake is incompatible with effective distributed building (you have to use cpp and distcc), Bazel is designed with distributed in mind. CMake is incompatible with effective caching (you have to use suboptimal ccache), Bazel has proper caching based on input checksums. CMake macros are pain, Bazel macros and custom rules are nice. And so on.
One of the premises of the tor onion routing is traffic is routed thru intermediates.
I suppose this question is about validating if being part of the onion router is controllable and secondary (an assumption) being part of the tor mesh means you are carrying traffic that is illegal or morally questionable
Mea culpa, I’m on the road and apparently I didn’t refresh and took awhile to post. That said, any story on nuclear waste topics has those comments.

I spent time in a place devastated economically by (non-nuclear) pollution from a supposedly contained industrial waste product, and I worry about proliferation. So the casual advocacy of nuclear energy may provoke a stronger reaction from me than may be warranted.
I feel you're throwing some shade my way (which is fine), but I just want to re-iterate that cursive is indeed objectively more difficult to read. This has been quantified since (at least) 1929[1]. But there are more recent sources[2] as well.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220671.1929.10...

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/31/why-cursive-har...
I watched a documentary on scotch, I believe they said two of the distilleries in Scotland are owned by Japanese investors. Including one that went under and was reopened.
Spelling things correctly and trying not to look ignorant isn’t silliness.
I don't think my Macbook Pro has gone from cool to hot so quickly. Nice graphics, though!
Is that figure correct, 22,000 m3?

That's just a cube 28m on a side, maybe the same size as a small apartment block.

Just dump it into a subduction zone
Although I see this as a strength Canada could bring in for them.
> entirely natural consequence of government taking over an industry, and then eventually fails to provide the level of service the market demands.

This is wrong. The wealthy will always be willing to pay for services that the poor cannot afford. The government is meant to provide consistent service to all regardless of wealth, for services we as a society deem essential to a functional collective.

When the rich and powerful lobby for a reduction in services to others, in order to benefit themselves financially, while then purchasing supplementary insurance for said thing undermines the collective good. This is the opposite of what should happen in society, especially after those same people gained the benefit of these things to gain their wealth.

> the private firefighters are reducing the workload of the public firefighters. It should be seen as a win-win.

This is also wrong. Instead of a force to care for all, this results in a reduced public force and an increased private force, where Rich Bob gets saved and Poor Bob has his house burned down. This is fundamentally at odds with the promise of a basic set of services that are equal across a society. Those with means pay a small bit more to help the collective of their countrymen all live more equitably.
Duck Duck Go seems to handle that much better, although the first result is still about cooling. I assume it's synonym replacement
I’d say it is Apple’s fault, not Google’s: Bazel correctly does not include absolute paths into binaries (Bazel focuses on build reproducibility which is very good for caching and debugging of builds), and Apple toolchain does not provide convenient way to work with such binaries.
These guys don't disappear - they have been around forever with their Skylon plane.

Just a heads up, it's a long way from testing one component of an engine on the ground to getting a full engine demo going to then testing it in the air to then build the plane then integrating engine - then getting orbital trips working with reentry!

I am curious how much private capital they have been able to attract (outside of govt contract players). Obviously if this is really revolutionary then they will but this always felt like a long term / govt kinda of cool - tech forward but pork barrel project for the UK.

More of their background from a somewhat more balanced source - at least the headline put revolutionary in quotes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36773074

They do claim to have the "best engineers" in the industry - so beating out big players like rolls royce, PW, CFM, spacex, blue origin, ariane aerospace - so that is a positive they have.
100% this - seeing it first hand. It's truly like magic or some kind of cheat code.
Don’t think of sales as a “funnel” process. Think of it as a process of education and patience. Your job in sales is to get to know the right people at all the customers you want to sell to and to then nurture them patiently until they are ready to buy from you.

Big companies can be sold to by tiny startups. Finding the right person is a grind - no easy way about it. Once you’ve found them, it is truly about building the relationship and then letting them guide you through their purchasing process.
> you might as well not bother getting out of bed in the morning.

Sometimes I feel that way.

But I get up, take my meds, and press on.
> Bazel, like most Google open source projects, has a strong focus on Google's internal needs

This is only partially true: internally they have Blaze, which is a different version of Bazel. I think Bazel is just not yet mature enough, and they released version 1.0 too early.
Also, men dominate the trucking and construction industry. Why are we not pushing for gender equality there?

Hint: the answer is money.
What are you doing to the Ikea Billy that is making it break and need replacing every 3-4 years? I've had mine for 20 years.
> Obviously certain capabilities, such as nuclear weapons, would be entirely excluded.

Why is that obvious? Nuclear weapons are state assets like anything else, and if you're going to follow your logic that a seceding state gets its part of the greater federal it should get some proportion of the nuclear weapons stockpile too.

The US is allied with at least three nuclear weapon states whose population is on the order of the population of Texas.

Besides, if you're going to setup a system where states can secede and seceding states have to hand over all their nukes you've created an absurd system where the last state to secede gets all the nukes.
Oh I had no idea this existed . Thanks
Function sine(x As Double, Optional term, Optional p = 1#) As Double
If IsMissing(term) Then
term = x
End If

If term <> 0 Then
sine = term + sine(x, -term * x / (p + 1) * x / (p + 2), p + 2)
End If
End Function

Edit:
This is my interpretation of the Taylor series approximation, but it's probably a bad idea to use this for anything that matters. One reason is that it doesn't reduce large angles, and another is that people who know what they're doing prefer to use some other formula, from a cursory Googling...though I'm not sure why.
Exxon misled Americans on climate change for decades. Here’s how to fight back
We see all these pie in the sky solutions all the time but please don't start counting on them becoming reality. It's great to dream and work towards the dream but don't count on it as a solution.

For now, the solution is to use nuclear fuel in the most efficient manner so as to minimize waste.
This is how it works for standard-essential patents. Google FRAND licensing to read more.
I've tried it for a year ( gave decent pay), but it did not succeed.

Developers from the Ukraine are better, from experience.
I totally agree. Let me say this. Europe has had at least three chances for a united language. 1) Latin when Caesar conquered europe. Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, adopted that language but later diverged, 2) frensh when Napoleon conquered europe and 3) german when Hitler conquered europe. I hope the EU will implement english a an official language even if the only english country (UK) will leave.
> it reliably detects the minimal amount of things to rebuild

So they managed to implement graph traversal which is a basic interview question everywhere? Every dummy build system do it, but for Microsoft that’s achievement!
I’m pretty sure only administrators can Run as Administrator?
No doubt. That’s my point — if you have a process that’s easy to effectively game with coaching, what’s the point?

A company could probably save lots of time and money by cutting some of the fluff in the process. From the pov of a candidate with a good job already testing the waters, these companies come off as trying to hard to add objectivity in situations where it doesn’t exist.
The weren't created by capitalism, these things we have were often created by workers--who are often exploited under capitalism, because like the review states, because capitalism is value the wrong things like profits and abundance over societal well-being. Profits are just easier to measure even if they're not a useful measure of good.
I thought that locality had had to be abandoned long ago, at least for entangled particles.

Of all the oddities pressed on us by alternative interpretations, non-locality between particles that have once interacted seems least troubling. Or is that not enough?
It is the primary path for most people to get a work visa. No, there isn't some other work visa that is available and viable that people are likely to obtain. Only people in very specific and special situations get something else.

That's the point of my post. Just about EVERYONE has to get a H-1B visa.
Chromium browser has a master bug to track this:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=314403

https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/isolated-testing...
What’s the alternative? Hopefully not black text on white slides. That’s terrible for me and others.
It's hard to argue you don't develop social skills in football, and it'd be really hard to put in 3 hours a day for 4 months (8 hours a day for the month of August) and not make friends. The teamwork aspect of any sport is difficult to teach in a school setting.

After football season I got out of school at 3.
Excelleo: $2 cloud apps for desktop, tablet and mobile
Looks cool! The cursive "r" could use some tweaking -- I find the "urn" in the "return"s in the examples hard to read. Other than that, I like it.
Less clickbait title: The Struggle Engineers at Ratios Unobserved in Engineering Graduate Rates
AWS-Rails-Provisioner: Deploy Rails on AWS Fargate, Aurora, VPC, Codepipeline
It seems unlikely to me that this could be an efficient way to burn radioactive waste. However, there is another approach that combines a linear electron accelerator with infrared laser pulses to generate absurdly high power (compared to traditional accelerator sources) gamma rays: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110426160211.h...

The tunability of this gamma rays source makes it possible to target and induce nuclear reactions in unstable atoms.

If I remember correctly, when I saw the seminar talk by the originator of the concept, a few years ago, he said that an existing super-conductor-based linear accelerator in Japan could feasibily by modified to generate enough gamma rays to burn thousands of tons of radioactive waste per year. (Don't quote me on the exact amounts, though, it's been a while).
Ask HN: With paywalls everywhere now where do you get your news?
I'm finally over the paywalls dancing and want to subscribe to a good source of news. I want it to have both international and local news if possible, be as neutral as possible and have long opinion or analysis sections as well. I'm so far trending towards New York times, but as I don't want to sign up to multiple sources I find it hard to find the right one. Maybe this is something I'll experience in the future with video streaming proliferation. But what is the "Netflix of news" today?
Thanks for the references.

However, the context may be different. I.e. it is different to talk about reading a whole paragraph in cursive and to have a single word in cursive (here it adds, well, emphasis).

Compare: I bet that reading an intensely colored paragraph harder (personally, I hate reading long blocks of texts in color). At the same time, many people (myself included) use code highlighting.
I'm surprised the author didn't show examples of what would be preferred for comparison.
This describes my own personal experience with dark themes, difficult to read.
The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry
I have a couple of website I monetize through Adsense. It all started in 2009 (10 years ago) when my PhD candidate salary was not enough to make a living. I started earning around 300€ after six months. I was extremely happy with that as it gave me a breath of fresh air.
I managed to make around 1500€ after a year and a half. I quit my job once it reached 2000€ and reached 3000€ after a year. All traffic was coming from google search and was organic. I was focusing on ideas requiring very little update to the websites content.

That said, it is very difficult to run a one-person business working from home. You don't have colleagues, people to discucss with, people to ask when you have questions, or to learn from.

I was living in France by then and I decided to go back to my home country as I would live much better there with that income. I started working as an assistant professor (30% of my time) and hired 2 developers to grow the business. That didn't scale well as the success came from my ability of being fast developer, good in SEO while always trying new website ideas.

I ended up again with a one-person business. But revenues are dropping and I find it harder and harder to be motivated to continue working on my websites. So now I work nearly 0 hour a week on my website and I am fully dedicated to a corporate job (not in academia anymore) even though I make equal money from both jobs.

If I can have an advice : try not to quit your day job. Work is not only about money. It is also about having social life, a career and a common goal to achieve with you co-workers. Working in a good company keeps you up with new technologies and trends.
Running a one-person online business can be psychologically challenging. And once you earn enough money, the work to do can be become boring as no new challenges are there.
Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust
Pragmata is nice. For those looking for a very similar free font, check out Iosevka (https://typeof.net/Iosevka/)
Thanks, I didn't know it was that bad.
Doesn’t DSTL already do DARPA-like funding to some extent?
In the EU exactly that kind of gender discrimination is illegal. Insurers are not allowed to charge men more than women, just for being men.

The question is, do you want to live in a society where prices are set based on one's genes. I sure don't.
(the UK gov:) Hey you, academics... you look so nice tonight! And it so happens we're feeling an election in the air. Support us in whatever crazy shit we're going to do with Brexit, because there is money for you on the other side! (subtext:) Fear not, we don't fully understand this good idea that some of you had, but we're going to promise it to you, and if we stay in power we're going to make sure that what gets implemented subverts most of the good thinking behind it!
Banksy's Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law
I haven't seen a spinbotter for ~4 years, I have 500+ hours on CSGO, average 2 games a week. I think VAC is catching them. But it's also possible people don't rage-hack anymore, and prefer the self delusion of stealthy hacks.
Google could improve.
Reader mode worked for me (FF/iOS)
It is not possible to avoid racial bias. If you make a model predict equally for two classes, you’ve likely only made your predictions worse for both.

Prediction outputs come with a degree of confidence. It is much better to change how you evaluate your predicted probabilities for each protected class than to try and force the probabilities themselves to come out even.

The algorithm is rarely going to be the problem. It is the input data that is allowed into the model. If you have a problem with how healthy whites are getting recommended for treatment more than sick blacks, you need to remove the inputs that otherwise differentiate them.
All these things are public information already

No kidding. You don't even have to buy a voting machine to get that information.
Kids need a more sleep than adults, sometimes a lot more sleep. I don't think adults realize this sometimes, and kids can silently suffer as a result (and not even really understand they are suffering).

It absolutely amazes me when I see young children out and about late at night because I had a very strict early bedtime as a child - 8pm early in life, 9pm starting my tween years. It was very much to my disdain at the time, but now I strongly believe being well rested served me well in all aspects of my life.
Can someone on HN recommend a patent attorney that works with early stage startups? I'm self-funded and want to protect the novel work I've done in the signal processing domain from being copied by a big player with deeper pockets. If I don't protect myself a team of domain expert engineers could duplicate my work.