skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fusion reactors turn themselves into radioactive waste. Neutron radiation is inherent to nuclear fusion and when previously stable non-radioactive substances are subjected to neutron radiation, they may absorb some of those neutrons and become radioactive. (This is called neutron activation.) Some materials are less prone to this than others and that would be considered during the construction of a production fusion reactor, but even so components of the reactor would likely become so radioactive that the only way to perform maintenance on the reactor would be robotics. And when the reactor eventually needs to be decommissioned, it needs to be treated accordingly.
oh really one thread per core is the optimum for EPYC server? I don't know why AMD care about hyper threading then.
Why didn't your school bus have a stop sign deployed? Those are for exactly this risk. Running a school bus stop sign I believe is a more significant violation than running post-stop signs.
>that somebody would have to buy the shares from him //

He could decide $N Billion was enough and give the shares away to all employees tomorrow. Or, we could go mediaeval and have a revolution and violently rest control of that wealth from him, and others.

I guess the trick with oligarchy is to keep things just the right side of violent revolt, just enough sharing of benefit to give hope to the great unwashed [amongst whom I count myself, in case you think I'm being pejorative].
Uber Credit Card from Barclays is relaunching with updated rewards
When people say that advertising doesn't work on them they are generally only focused on being immediately motivated to action by the ad. However advertising serves a wide range of functions beyond that. No one sees one Mercedes ad and goes out to purchase a $75k car. That doesn't mean that Mercedes is stupid for still buying TV ads. The ad is instead meant to do things like keep consumers updated on the latest product line, establish the brand of the company, and to keep that brand in the back of consumer's mind when an eventual buy decision does come up potentially years down the road.
How much extra effort would you personally put in if I guaranteed that you got your “fair share” which just happened to be 4/350,000,000 assuming you had a family of four?

If you worked really hard to create an extra $1,000,000 in value, where shall we send your family literally the additional penny?
I suspect overly aggressive association of unknown objects would have it's own set of side effects.
another entry on the list of why it's surprisingly bad to live in the US.
This is obviously wrong. You can have uniformly poor country (theoretically) that has very good GINI.

Look at the table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

You have Ukraine which has fantastic GINI of 25%, much better than 41% of US.

Other countries that have GINI in neighborhood of US? Senegal, Madagascar, Angola?

What kind of measure is that?
I think most people promoting redistribution would agree on the benefits of equality of opportunity over outcome (obviously not all). They would simply argue that equality of opportunity is not there yet and the Gini coefficient can perhaps be used to measure that. For example if the Nordic countries operate well and have better equality of opportunity in the 30s as opposed to the US's 40s and we have seen in the past that the 30s worked well for the US then perhaps it's the 30s we should be shooting for with our efforts.
A Crypto Social-Robot to Spend $95M Daily on Urgent, Neglected Worldneeds
My experience as both a swe and a pe at Facebook was that all the overtime I put in was caused by my peers, not by management. I even had up the ladder managers helping me during their holidays.
DNA fingerprinting does not utilize SNPs; it uses RFLPs.
No one liked EDLIN.

I assumed the poster meant EDIT.COM and QBASIC. I'd also argue that Notepad has about as much editing capability as EDIT.COM, even if nostalgia does seem to want to color EDIT.COM as a more capable IDE than it really was simply because I too spent a lot of time building dumb apps in QBASIC.
Warren's tax plan starts at the $50 million threshold. Not sure why you are counting only billionaires, or only the top 400.

Her math adds up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/05/warrens-p...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/opinion/did-warren-pass-t...
> I don't know anyone who has intentionally clicked on them.

Hi there! Glad to meet you. My name is Jeremy!

I click on ads when I see something that makes me want to click on it. Could be a retargeting pixel picked me up after I left some random ecomm site after not buying (but still intending to), or more likely a new direct-to-consumer brand that looks appealing (allbirds, freshly, barkbox, etc).

I don't hate ads. I don't like ads. Ads are ads. If I didn't get ads, I would really have no way of knowing that something out there exists that I had no idea I might want.
I fully agree. I was hoping the increasing popularity of nicotine vaporizers would show people just how much money taxes are siphoning off of their alcohol and tobacco purchases. It looks like it is working, especially with marijuana, as people are still incentivized to buy black or grey market goods due to high taxes.

Most of these taxes are called sin taxes, and are higher because of a value judgement the government is making... and should not be making.
Human Interest (YC S15) Is Hiring a Business-Minded Senior Growth Engineer
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I work about 5 hours a day and love it. I've left work multiple days at 2-3pm and that's okay because on those days I'm usually in the office at 7-8. Scrum allows my teammates to know what I'm up to and as long as work isn't being pushed and communication is robust everything is fine. To be honest I couldn't really program for more than 6 hours a day anyway. It's mentally draining and I can't sit that long.
This is true for newspapers, pro YouTube channels, etc. But even today, the majority of internet content is created by people for free - this includes comments on HN, Reddit discussion, original Facebook posts, amateur YouTube content, and much more.
Ask HN: Time to Learn New Domain?
I am new at my job. It's my first real job since I graduated. However after 4-8 weeks, I feel as if the threshold of feeling that you will be self reliant and be able to contribute may take a long time, it's just that the business logic is quite complex.

How long time should you give a job to be able to adapt to the new domain?
It's also one texbox and button.
>Do you loose a lot of sleep over the fact that the government is doing this today with, for example, alcohol?

Not OP, but yes.
68000 and 68010 had no icache or dcache.

68010 had a 1 instruction loop cache, which accelerated tight loops considerably, as it wouldn't need to fetch the instruction.

Think e.g. a move with a builtin decrement then a branch if not zero.
I did that, and then afterwords it told me that the article was being gifted to me buy a paying member. After that I just closed the tab. It is kind of a stroke of genius, encouraging me to sign up by showing me that I'm enjoying the largesse of a paying customer. On the other hand, if letting me read the article is such a huge imposition, I guess I don't want it.
> The kind of person who clicks on ads also buys stuff.

Everybody who has money buys stuff. People that click on ads are probably more easily persuaded into buying shit they don't need. I don't have any data on this, but it's highly questionable whether an ad-clicker buys more stuff in general.
The only ads I ever click are from sales flyers that I have signed up for that show up in my email inbox. Those are genuinely useful.

Display ads? Meh. I find that they generate more distaste for the advertised service in me than anything else.
Headline: Earth just experienced its hottest-ever October

Report:

>0.69°C warmer than the average October from 1981-2010, making it by a narrow margin the warmest October in this data record;

>an insignificant 0.01°C warmer than October 2015, the second warmest October;

>0.09°C warmer than October 2017, the third warmest October.

I don't want to be a "climate change denier" or whatever, but what if 1980 was hotter? It sound like things are largely in line with the last 5 years. The report is (probably) good data collection, but this kind of reporting by CBS doesn't seem useful -- other than to mislead.
I had an idea kind of similar to that. Call it Herb Grind(e)r. I don't use weed myself, and I'm married, so I don't know how much need there is.

I actually think something more like Meetup for weed users would be kind of cool, though. Find fun activities to do with herb friendly people.(Disc golf, anyone?)
Maybe I'm misreading this comment or the context (because I think the biggest single piece we're currently lacking in platform moderation is maximal transparency into what/who gets moderated and how)...

but how would this "solve" spam in any case where the ratio of spam-to-signal crosses whatever threshold it takes to start breaking a platform's network effects, reducing engagement, driving out existing users, warding off new ones, shifting how the community views what the platform is for, etc.?
10G stuff still carries a substantial price premium, unfortunately. And if you've got existing Cat 5/5e cable (esp. in the wall), now you've got to replace the cable, even for short runs. I don't find 1Gbps hugely limiting myself at this time, or at least, not enough to push me to the extra spend on 2.5-5 or 10Gbit hardware. (Also, we've got 5e in the walls, no conduit, and that stuff is never getting replaced.)
I'm guessing those numbers are cumulative across all the databases scanned, not within one.
Really useful examples; especially the data in rows versus columns example :)
Anthropic Hitler Theory:

Our current world existing is sensitively dependent on Hitler not being assassinated. Universes where Hitler is killed early result in nuclear annihilation for some reason, and the only Everett branches that have humans in them have an improbable history of a single man dodging dozens of assassination attempts
It can get even better than that. HOAs have been known to put homes on the market to resolve a debt.

And even better, they may decide to sell the home for substantially under market price.

Even better, it won't go on the public market, because ever-so-conveniently, one of the HOA board members who voted to accept the under market lowball offers is... the board member who _made_ the lowball offer, to add to his property portfolio.
There's an implicit "if" there, but perhaps I could have made that clearer.
> no one would produce the content without the plan to make their money back via ads.

What is your plan? You just produced content, on a site with no ads, and no links to other ways to capitalize off it. I'd argue most content is created by people who just want to share something they are passionate about. Maybe a lot of it is low quality, and "you get what you [or someone else] pay for" can apply, but a world without ad-supported distribution models would not be without content.

> Radio stations were built by advertisers for the purpose of advertising

Radio stations and other traditional mass media also require substantial investment and resources; putting a web page on the internet does not (unless we make it, by putting all our "pages" on a couple giant sites, who then need revenue to provide those services, hence serve ads).
I don't have any of these concerns. I just don't answer emails or Slack messages right way.

Nobody has fired me for it yet because I am there when it matters, I consistently provide value, and I show up to all meetings scheduled in advance.

Just get a big ball o' FU money and let the good times roll. You're the one who decides if you need to be "always on," and guess what, you don't. The world can learn learn to wait like 30 minutes or a few hours if you're really far away from tech.

I routinely leave my place in the middle of the day to ride my bike, climb, or whatever and I have suffered minimal repercussions.

It's all in your mind
Never pay for ransomware - increasingly ransomware is being released that doesn't actually save the encryption key, and so the extortionist just says whatever they think will get you to pay the most money.
That's a great point, @tikkabhuna!

It seems like fixing that problem you describe could be a good way to improve the discoverability of the mentioned Badges area.

I've taken the liberty of documenting this in an issue [1] and putting forward a proposal. Would something like what I wrote there solve this problem for you?

If you have any more feedback to add, feel free to drop a comment.

I work as a Frontend Engineering Manager at GitLab and will raise the visibility of this issue to the right folks to get this on their radar.

Thanks for mentioning this.

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[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/35771
If you're doing a SPA, you can paper over the cold starts a bit, since the app itself will render, and it'll be background requests to load data that are impacted.

That still sucks, so then you can (hopefully) cache some things so that _some_ data begins to stream in. Or you can make it so your very high priority stuff has minimal dependencies - you can get a Lambda cold start in < 1s if your app only uses the standard library.

But still, in my experience, cold starts are a thing. If you have a high-traffic app or use Lambda warming, you decrease the # of people who experience a cold start, but at the end of the day, your p99 is going to be worse than a vanilla VM solution, because _some_ people will get cold starts. For some apps, that's OK - think line of business app where the first few pages can be served from static materials or cached materials, and you trigger the requests in the background.
I see similar things, and suggest another quite bad externality: when people realize the law doesn't make sense or look out for their bests interests they quickly come to view it with contempt.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191106191434/https://thecorres...
A.I. and the Future of Cheating
OK, good news. Krispy Kreme came around and worked out a deal with the kid after all.

https://www.wfsb.com/krispy-kreme-strikes-deal-with-college-...
One single database. Yes, quite unusual case of multi-tenant database. We needed to use checkup there a while ago so made some optimizations.

I agree with you, the statement is not 100% clear. We will double-check it (and maybe will simulate the case in CI), and will improve the statement. Thank you.
Maybe overstated, but if "all" the article shows is that Google search ads don't work, that's a big deal.
I'm hoping for your support especially critic to test & validate, nurture the above idea.
I don't see any point in engaging with someone working so hard to turn everything I say into something as absurd as possible. If you can't understand the basics of something like "scale matters" without immediately twisting it into "but why are you ignoring scale so hard?", there's no meeting of the minds to be had here.

Though for the benefits of others, I'd point out that a careful reading of my post reveals that I did write something that implied strongly that small forums have more freedom in their spam blocking than large ones do. The idea that I'm obligating websites to never filter anything is some bizarre idea klyrs has gotten a hold of and apparently doesn't plan on letting go of.
Employers and managers seem incapable of understanding the cost these conditions impart. I understand it: morale is hard to put a dollar amount next to.

But most tech companies don't need everyone 24/7. They just don't. They should condition employees to value their free time, it will pay off in a lot of ways.

Unless it's an absolute emergency I don't send emails past five. People are conditioned to respond to them. Same with slack messages. There's this belief that being available 24/7 is a positive attribute in employees and we really need to squash that. It's unhealthy for everyone.
Maybe the goal is to make complying with the regulation so cumbersome (but ultimately ineffective) that competitors, who aren't already large and profitable, have no way of entering the social media market? They can have their cake and eat it too... oh we'd so love to prevent "horrible thing" from happening again, but you know the government won't let us ;^)
Airbnb will verify listings, 11 years after launch
FWIW, Paris is a transportation hub in the middle of the county, San Francisco is surrounded by water or three sides.
I'd love to hear who you use for your mail processor.
I have tried a couple of them over the years, but haven't always had the best results.
> Just get a big ball o' FU money and let the good times roll.

I wish someone had told me it was that easy sooner!
Thanks for asking- KnowYourself only lets you query your own content, and authing with Twitter ensures that.

The app only requests read permissions, and the only non-public data it asks for is your email address.
No, but her plan isn't the only one out there. Bernie's plan was estimated I believe at 23 billion over 10 years, which a right wing think tank actually (accidently) proved would cost less than we're paying now.

But in 25 years how much does the system improve, what if it's like 50T over the 1st 10 years, then 30T the 2nd because of gains in efficiency? There's a lot of 'in the air' variables as well, where it could end up being 30 or 40T over 10 years if the efficiencies are higher than expected or if we can better negotiate terms w/ drug companies.

If we legalize weed and shrooms and tax them at the national level, that itself would also be a great way to gain money for healthcare. We also can easily halve our military spending and still have a strong national defense. Also adding a VAT may be a good idea, we could even give discounts to citizens so immigrants and visitors travelling in America also help offset our healthcare costs. For instance say vat is 4%, and we charge 12% for non-citizens it would A. discourage illegal immigration, and B. it would stop people worrying about immigrants because they'd have to pay higher VAT than everyone else, so they'd be tax payers and not just 'using the system'...
This premise doesn't jibe with products that are "always on". Support 5hrs/day? I hope "great support" isn't part of your value prop. Devs can't even be reached because they log out of slack, etc at 1pm and over the weekend? I hope "uptime" (riiight) isn't part of your value prop. As a consultant we do lots of new product development for clients where uptime and support are a big deal, especially during rollouts/launches where we're encountering a flood of new issues (UX and technical), going totally dark after 1pm weekdays isn't a remote possibility.

Having said that, we very rarely actually work more than 35hr/week or on weekends. But we do put my personal phone number in our SOW for CRITICAL issues (haven't been called yet). So yeah maintaining a sane work culture is critical but telling everyone to completely unplug at 1pm is nuts IMO.

This article isn't outlining every details obviously and maybe the example company really doesn't care about uptime or quick support (desktop app for enterprise??). And maybe they are glossing over the fact that every week there actually is someone on call but most people unplug at 1pm. If so, that sounds pretty reasonable!
They did charge interest and didn't confiscate it immediately. The thing is, the tax liability was actually about $500, it was owed in 2011, and it was still owed in 2012, at some point the owner entered a payment plan for a few years, and still owed money on the same bill after the plan. Regardless of the amount, at some point enough is enough and the state should act.

The process where the department is obligated to return the positive delta to the previous owner after an auction is a self-bankrupting process. It starves the department of funds and leads to higher taxes to fund it while people are willing. It's classic libertarian starve-the-beast mentality to destroying public isntitutions. The department would have no incentive to sell for above market+interest prices and would burn through its budget on those properties not mentioned by Reason that are sold at a loss.
Hacker News is not mass media. Plus don't forget Y Combinator funded many ad-based platforms. HN isn't free either.
What about the opposite effect : College may loose some good candidates who auto-censure themself because of the admission rate is low?
Show HN: Fashion rental app Wardrobe launches in NYC,backed by founder of Airbnb
P2P is for decentralization. Why would a centralized entity want to implement a decentralized service when they can create a centralized version of that same service faster, easier, and cheaper?

P2P is _hard_ with a capital H.
This doesn't change the point you're making, but thankfully it was only 9/134 people according to the article's tagline. The mix of the word "nine" and the number "134" makes it hard to spot

Yeah I'm familiar with the accident in question in passing so I just skimmed the article itself (whoops). RA failure on the 737 isn't unheard of:

https://avherald.com/h?article=4924e9ea (2015)

https://avherald.com/h?article=48c031e2 (2015)

https://avherald.com/h?article=4bc252c2 (2018)

https://avherald.com/h?article=417e726c (2009)

https://avherald.com/h?article=41e84cb5 (2009)

The in-flight thrust reverser deployment killed everyone on the plane, thankfully Niki Lauda took Boeing to task.
>Why bother with tracking users so extensively

Because there is a good chance governments will pay for that data in the future.
It would be interesting to document where equality is easy, where it is hard, and where it is impossible. Let's try first to achieve equality where it is easy. I doubt very much we've handled easy yet.
People grumble that luck has a lot to do with success. And that might seem unfair, but there's no removing it. Good luck trying to get people to avoid arranging themselves into a bell curve.

Combined with what you'd outlined, differences in individuals / differences in efforts / and luck seem impossible to ever fully equalize.

How can anyone hope to normalize these differences?
Yeah, this vector was avoidable by individuals who had good operational security, but the operation still got addresses for 10K+ individuals: they recorded around 27K transactions, so that means over a third of users relied on the built-in PGP tool!
You could hire another shift of support engineers for those times...
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What will stop people from working two jobs? I feel like this is the 'uberization' of work, salary will go down and people will have to work 2-3 jobs on multiple days. For example 3 days doing one job, another 3 days another job and 1 day weekend or mornings at one job and afternoons at another totaling 10 hours per day worked.

This has to be tightly regulated if not it will regress and only profit making will be optimized.
Not that many people click banner ads. Banner ad click-through rate in North America is about 0.14% https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/290285/north-... 60% of those clicks are mistakes https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/268266/60-of-... 1/3 of clicks are by bots. https://adage.com/article/digital/ad-fraud-eating-digital-ad... 8% of users account for 85% of all banner ad clicks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101163