skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is:

a) A lot of kind people are skilled people. There are so few roles where the pool of skilled people is so small you just have to settle for someone abrasive, yet there are so many people using the excuse of "I'm old so I get to be abrasive", or "they're old so they get to be abrasive".

b) Abrasive people take away from everyone else. More time will be spent building up "thick skin" against each other than needed and at the end of the day it's easy to drain any additional benefit of this "10x guru who doesn't know how to interact with people"

So much of value generation at a workplace is in "meatspace". Having the most technically brilliant product ever isn't enough to make it work. If the "genius" behind all of it is so abrasive your ability to react to needs is being cut down, you don't necessarily have a stronger product just because you have a domain expert and stronger tech.

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> People with dark histories of abusing their coworkers get hired into positions of power because they deliver results. It should be no surprise that someone who is abrasive will always be able to find work if they are a domain expert.

I have optimism that this is changing. More and more companies are putting a stronger emphasis on their core values and actually defending them. And I'm not naive enough to think it's just out of the goodness of their hearts or a suddenly growing of a conscious.

It's because more and more companies are figuring out these people are not generating as much value as they appear to be. Spiking turnover, being difficult to integrate into teams, giving workplaces a bad name, even the compensation they receive combined with these other factors, the numbers just don't add up. They make very impressive and flashy output, but then take away from the ability of the company to turn that output into a strong product.

The realization being made is a team that meshes well can execute better than a "cult of domain knowledge", even if the team that meshes well is not as technically strong. The same way the realization is coming about CEOs who work based on a "cult of personality".

Similarly between CEOs and engineers, some of the most well known players end up being those that lead a cult of personality, so outsiders start to assume that's what works, even though it only works when the stars align and is a serious detriment when it doesn't...
I don't think you're giving enough credit to the real cause behind nuclear power's unpopularity. It's too expensive. Even France who went all in with nuclear power is moving away from it due to expense. Look at how many people protested the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how little difference it made to the companies building it. Investors don't care about hippies keeping nuclear power plants away, and if they saw enough profit in nuclear power they would find a way to get it done. Even with the subsidies and grants offered by the Obama administration, there wasn't much commercial interest in nuclear power. If nuclear power is really the solution to climate change, then it needs to be even more subsidized if not nationalized in government run facilities by people who are motivated by something other than investor profit margins.
This may be cynical, but I suspect this issue will be drawn out way longer, because Airbus (including maybe the nascent Chinese airline industry) will ... logically ... take any and all advantage of this self-inflicted flesh wound to keep Boeing on the ropes by at least shining the brightest of bright lights on any and all flaws they can find.

This will, as the article implies, come in combination with the justified and rightful concern that Boeing is and will continue and increasingly get more desperate and frantic to "fix" things (literally and, likely increasingly figuratively), as far greater testing and auditing requirements are placed on recertification.

I don't know about everyone else here, but I sure as heck am going to be quite careful not to fly on any MAX for quite some time if they are even ever re-certified again. The replacement for the 737, which the MAX was supposed to delay, was not scheduled to reach market until the 2030 timeframe (which could mean 2030 or 2039). I think it is anyone's guess whether Boeing has the resources to drastically accelerate that timeframe or the MAX village fire is draining all resources and it may delay that 2030 timeframe.

Please convince me otherwise, but I could see this MAX issue essentially crushing Boeing as it eats away at many different aspects of the enterprise over time. How long can you keep the concerns at bay and run on inertia? I think there may be hell to pay next year if this isn't really an "easy" issue that just takes some time and Boeing can scathe by. Maybe someone with deeper insight into Boeing's operations can substantiate why I am totally off base or … hopefully not … validate that my concerns are not unfounded.
Java Jackson is bad too.
Remember that the most financially cost-effective solution to homelessness is death, and the next most cost-effective solution is exile.

Economics (and math) is only useful to life insofar as its axioms model reality well.

If you put a value on human life and model flux across borders, the metrics look different than purely $ spent for # of homeless present.
Zinc/manganese has been around for decades; in fact, it's the standard issue disposable battery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_battery

"An alkaline battery (IEC code: L) is a type of primary battery which derives its energy from the reaction between zinc metal and manganese dioxide."

The new permutation which allegedly ups the energy density and allows it to be safely recharged supposedly uses a different electrolyte with more manganese ions. The research has been funded in the West for decades, with some interesting new results in 2017. Of course, this is one of those "submarine" "news" articles which originated in someone's marketing department, so it's not entirely clear it's going to be a useful result or yet another pile of woo hoping to hit "human informational centipede" the way a lot of recent woo has.
Your upstream tooling is going to have to compile something into that data structure you propose, and then you're going to want to do ad hoc queries easily as a human, and end up inventing something worse.

Side note with postgres you can "prepare" a statement, compile it once, give it a name, and then execute that query without passing the full query every time.
> It is very hard to measure the reduced life expectancy due to radiation

There's virtually no radiation, but assuming there was some amount of dangerous radiation, we should also account for death caused by coal or oil pollution as well.

> Nuclear accidents is like a terrorist attack. They cause massive panics and scare

While oil spills cause death and destruction for hundreds of thousands, while also destroying the environment, but who cares?

> Chernobyl involved hundreds of thousands of people doing cleanup.

Hundreds of thousands sounds like a made up number.

But if we wanna talk about costs, the real costs are

The direct costs of the Fukushima disaster will be about $15 billion in clean-up over the next 20 years and over $60 billion in refugee compensation. Replacing Japan’s 300 billion kWhs from nuclear each year with fossil fuels has cost Japan over $200 billion

And we are talking about Japanese people, the 1991 Gulf War Oil Spill involved mainly Iraqi people, relocation costs weren't so high, after all we were bombing them already...

The cleanup costed "only" 540 million dollars, but

If you take into account all of the burning oil wells, it is likely that hundreds of millions of barrels soaked into the earth from January to November of 1991 (about the amount of motor gasoline burned in California in 1989

How much did it cost? How much damage did it produce for the environment?

some of the oil spilled deep into the sea, burrowing up to 40 cm in the sand and mudflats. It remains there to this day. This disaster does not just highlight the responsibilities humans have in managing oil wells, rigs, pipelines, and tankers, it demonstrates how carelessness with a non-renewable energy source and pollutant, purposeful or not, can have devastating long-term environmental impacts that cannot be undone.
There are two common environmentalist arguments:

1. Climate change is an existential threat to humanity, and we must make radical changes to our lifestyles and economies immediately.

2. Wind and solar are now so cheap that there's no need for nuclear.

How can both of those be true? If wind and solar are really that cheap, great! Build enough of them to replace all existing fossil fuels and nuclear plants, and we're done. The fact that this has not happened even in enlightened countries makes me question that claim.
So what can be done about landfills? Burying stuff seems expensive/energy intensive.
If you're representing tree data structure in a natural way, you can easily run into this limitation on a real world data.
General limits for what? If you can segfault a program with 28kb of JSON, that's far below the maximum many APIs will return, so you'd need to do some sort of pre-parsing of the JSON to determine the nesting level before parsing it...
EFF threw grugq and every exploit developer under the bus way back in 2011 or 2012 when they literally made up a quote attributed to grugq where they claimed he said "the only reason I don't sell exploits to the Middle East is that they don't pay enough".

He had to clarify his position stating which governments he sold exploits to and why (basically only Five Eyes).

TBH, the infosec industry is full of (vipers) people posturing, trying to protect their secret knowledge and exert control over who has what capabilities (just like traditional government spies do). The author's mistake was open sourcing his RAT and putting it on GitHub.
The article seems to talk about the same concept as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegram .

I like write-once optical storage media because it protects me from accidentally modifying or deleting files. Also I don't have to worry about HDD reliability issues like head crashes, circuit board failures, etc., and it's easier to keep optical discs in cold storage with zero maintenance effort.

While hard drives have been getting bigger and cheaper every year, is anyone else disappointed that write-once media technology has stagnated?

A rough timeline of when writable optical discs became popular and affordable: CD-R 700MiB (~2000); DVD+/-R (+DL) 4.7GB/8.5GB (~2005); BD-R 25GB (~2010); BD-R XL 100GB (~2015). Various holographic discs have been proposed but are vaporware. The problem today is that all these disc formats are tiny compared to the 10TB HDDs you can pick up easily.
Who despises xkcd?
XHTML with CSS, actually.
There aren’t that many legit (non Voip) numbers. They don’t come cheap en mass. I don’t think a thriving cheap market for them is possible.
14.8M Accounts Compromised in 500px Breach
topup payments (in the absence of rent control) don't work because they are just past-throuhgs to landlords.
Candice Ciresi (aforementioned director) commented:
"As I believe GitLab is engaging in discriminatory and retaliatory behavior, I have tendered my resignation."

E-mail notification (her resignation): https://i.imgur.com/AE8UtvD.png

First time it was edited: https://i.imgur.com/7N7mTC2.png

Current version: https://i.imgur.com/YjWmpGk.png
Bjarne invented C++, I don't think parroting Bjarne contributes anything to the discussion.
On the topic of malicious input, the serde_json example seems to be deliberately limiting recursion depth in order to head off DoS attacks:

"serde_json has a recursion limit to protect from malicious clients sending a deeply recursive structure and DOS-ing a server. However, it does have an optional feature unbounded_depth that disables this protection. It still uses the stack though, so it will still eventually blow the stack instead of using all available memory"

https://github.com/lovasoa/bad_json_parsers/issues/7

This begins to suggest that it may be downright desirable for servers to toss out deeply-nested JSON, regardless of the JSON specification.
Most startups are quite transparent until they hit a big backlash "inflection point" and realize they outgrew that culture. Even GitHub used to be that way.

Radical transparency works for small startups with heavy us-against-them cultures, a mutual agreement on who the enemy is, but when it starts facing tough challenges from the inside is when that starts to disappear.
For example Java won't segfault. It'll throw stackoverflow exception which will be caught and served with some standard error like HTTP 500. It shouldn't affect other queries.
They mapped a pretty large area of the ocean floor looking for that wreckage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190380
This is true. The saddest part about this is a lot of new construction are luxury apartment buildings with 10/20 year property tax abatements. These apartments sell for millions. That's an insane tax revenue loss that literally goes to people who will probably be fine without that abatement.
> We have the capability, collectively, to choose whether or not to pursue something.

This is the coordination problem to end all coordination problems.

Is there an example in history of civilization turning its collective back on some scientific pursuit in fear of its potentially negative consequences? It seems close to impossible. There are too many different value structures out there, and there’s too much money on offer to anyone who can give any government or large corporation an advantage over its competitors.

You may be able to convince a few researchers today, but as soon as China has the slightest breakthrough towards X or Y technology, most of those who signed the pledge will be tripping over themselves to get cracking on the problem.
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Manure is pretty manageable, transportable, etc., are they can they use this to produce energy rather than just let it dissipate into the atmos?
Put a compost pile inside your greenhouse and you get warmth and CO2 for your plants: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-gree...
The author's job is the President of the Canadian Nuclear Association.

https://cna.ca/team/john-gorman/

This is probably helpful to evaluating his arguments.

(My view, if it matters: we can put inexpensive solar and wind in the field today, the best nuclear plant comes on line in ten years, and we need action today, so: forget nuclear, it's too slow. But no, don't decommission nuclear plants as long as there are fossil fuel plants to decommission.)
IT Giant Cognizant to Hire 23k Students in 2020
> Whereupon the cleanup is huge, requires state intervention, and possibly decades.

On today's news

> Brazilian authorities said on Monday that they have no way of knowing how much more oil will wash ashore the country’s northeastern coast, despite President Jair Bolsonaro’s ominous warning during a Sunday night TV interview that “the worst is yet to come.”

https://apnews.com/e757699344844f389d49048b15e9e0ae
The fourth option, and the one that seems most promising to me, is to laterally shift social programs. Change the way they work in ways that aren't about the amount of money they can spend.
To me this seems like a huge self-inflicted mess by GitLab. Normal companies don’t make touchy personnel issues public. Things like “we need to stop hiring Russian employees onto the support team because clients disapprove”. It’s cool to be so open in an abstract sense, but watching this play out in public really just makes me want to not air this sort of issue out in public when it comes to my own workplace.
272,000 sites surveyed. 0.2% of the sites account for 46% of emissions. 272,000 sites * 0.002 = 544 sites.

544 sites account for 46% of the state's emissions.

Yet the article states, "A handful of operations are responsible for the vast majority of methane emissions."
Anecdotally, it's not some. They are switching in droves to Mastodon. My local timeline on Mastodon for the past couple days has quite literally only been new users from India.
I think this is a reference to RemObjects Elements
Things that you have watched, things you want to watch. Movie ratings (although these seem to be going away more and more). Lots of data.
Why is that a major issue? The regular Census can capture information like "did you provide transient housing in the past year" , and "if you hae had a transient resident living with you, please contact XXXXX so we can directly include that person in the Census"
The JSON spec [1] clearly states, in section 9:

An implementation may set limits on the maximum depth of
nesting.

So, this is kind of a pointless exercise. The author would do well to inform themselves better before slinging epithets such as "bad" for a library.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159
>Huh. I’d call TLJ the first interesting SW film since Empire.

I agree, and I think time will eventually come to agree as well. TFA was visually interesting as all of the modern Star Wars films were, but plot-wise it was such an obvious fanservice-laden rehash of ANH that it left me unsatisfied. Yes, seeing Han Solo again engaging in space pirate shenanigans was fun, but another Death Star, just bigger this time, really?

TLJ actually tried to say something new and push the lore forward (in a direction a lot of fans didn't like, but still, no longer circling the drain of decades-year-old nostalgia.) I liked what it had to say about the nature of the Force and how the Jedi and Sith were both wrong, I like that Luke turned out to be a flawed character cynical about his mythical status as a hero, and that there is more than just the binary morality of "Jedi good, Sith bad, let's fight now" at play.

My biggest criticism of TLJ would be that, while I enjoyed it as a movie, I think it failed at its role as the second part of a trilogy, spending too much time undermining the previous movie. Although, as far as I know, that's because there never was an "arc" planned for this trilogy, so I don't even know how much blame TLJ can get for deviating from a plan which never existed.

I get a bad feeling that Rise of Skywalker is going to wind up being nothing but a fix-fic for the last two parts, though.
> All they have to do is send the code licensed under GPLv2 and it will be updated and maintained.

That seems like a dubious assertion. I've heard several cases of driver regressions in new kernel versions, and because of the model that means you can't just use the older one.
What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless?
> You shouldn't have to deal with drunk drivers, so you shouldn't wear your seatbelt?

No, but you're suggesting that we should all armor our cars. I'm suggesting that we should work to change the system so that instances drunk driving are dramatically decreased.
Their data might be small steps in the right direction though. My field is not neuroscience but from the outside, it seems that neuroimaging techniques are considered the best way to noninvasively understand more about functioning.
Primarily because so little is understood about thought mechanisms these kinds of studies are definitely first steps. May be there will always be great empiricism
and subjectivity involved in this complex question, like
many sociological questions, but it seems like a worthy goal to understand how and why gender influences a person's choice of field. While trying to make progress on this question -- the societal conditioning/sociological factors that influence behaviors play a huge role which may not be quantifiable -- understanding the contribution of neurochemistry seems pertinent.

To understand differences in another field, such as athletics,
the answers seem to be far more attainable (e.g. research on hormonal activity and its effect on strength is also making progress) today than in a field like math where its reliance on abstract thinking necessitates better understanding of neural mechanisms -- a hard problem.
There's certainly irony, or at least contradiction, here; but there's also a huge difference. In North America, companies regularly try to censor their employees; in China, the government regularly tries to censor its citizens. In both cases though, the government is the only one with the authority to enact violence on its citizens. So while the most Gitlab can do is fire Candice, or censor communications she makes on their platform; in China, such dissension could get you locked up, exiled, or disappeared.

Note: I have no love for the sort of thing Gitlab is doing here. It's petty.
Depends on the location and company. In a smaller city working for a smaller company an entry level data scientist might be happy to pull in 60k. In a major city working for a large company you can at the very least double that number.
Yes I agree absolutely, but its undeniable that they accelerated current efforts both soviet and us.
> * Nuclear energy has received [a massive amount of subsidy]

> * Nuclear reactors are competitive in many countries, and in fact they are too in the US.

Illinois has one of the largest nuclear deployments in the US. Our latest climate legislation was drafted by Exelon, and provides massive subsidy in the form of carbon credits to the nuclear industry. And yet even with this, they have no plans to replace their 50-year old reactor fleet and no projected path forward for them except seeking another taxpayer bailout in a couple decades to again extend the life of these obsolete reactors. Nuclear is not competitive, period, unless you choose not to look at the full life-cycle.

Here's what the collective of nuclear advocates at MIT concluded[1], but I'm sure that's just "propaganda and misinformation spread by self righteous willfully ignorant individuals", too.

For a large expansion of nuclear power to suc-ceed, four critical problems must be overcome:

* Cost. In deregulated markets, nuclear power is not now cost competitive with coal and natural gas. However, plausible reductions by industry in capital cost, operation and maintenance costs, and construction time could reduce the gap. Carbon emission credits, if enacted by government, can give nuclear power a cost advantage.

* Safety. Modern reactor designs can achieve a very low risk of serious accidents, but “best practices” in construction and operation are essential. We know little about the safety of the overall fuel cycle, beyond reactor operation.

* Waste. Geological disposal is technically feasible but execution is yet to be demonstrated or certain. A convincing case has not been made that the long-term waste management benefits of advanced, closed fuel cycles involving reprocessing of spent fuel are out-weighed by the short-term risks and costs. Improvement in the open, once through fuelcycle may offer waste management benefits as large as those claimed for the more expensive closed fuel cycles.

* Proliferation. The current international safe-guards regime is inadequate to meet the security challenges of the expanded nuclear deployment contemplated in the global growth scenario. The reprocessing system now used in Europe, Japan, and Russia that involves separation and recycling of plutonium presents unwarranted proliferation risks.

1. http://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2003/07/MITEI-The-F...
Even in a distributed organization, you have to deal with taxes separately per-country, so each country has to be approved by HR, in a sense. And you can’t have employees living in places like Iran.
I am confused by your comparison of M-Disk Blu Rays (estimated 1000 years, but actually only 100 years) with the glass (rest of your life+).

Are you anticipating living a lot longer than 100 more years?

And even then, isn't the M-Disk a better tech by your math?
Why not implement parsing without recursion? It doesn't look like a particularly hard task for me. Why restrict users with artificial limitations?
Not only that, but the abatement being attached to that property inflates its selling price.
It is extremely easy to make a one line code change in Bitbucket and submit a pull request from my phone a thousand miles from the office.