skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes these factors of safety are matters of convention (like the discretion of a company of certifying engineer) and sometimes they are grounded in some safety standard.

For example, if you're testing the integrity of a pressure vessel, the standard is to test it to 110% the rated maximum allowable working pressure if the medium is a compressible fluid (like air) or 150% if it's a 'non-compressible' fluid (like water, although everything is compressible to a certain extent). This is because the compression of a fluid stores a lot more internal energy if suddenly released. (Don't quote me exactly on these numbers because it's been a looooong time since I've had my nose in ASME standards)
I'm sure there's some way we can tie this to the golden ratio...
Your history involves a lot of Odoo posts. If you're involved with that project, you should disclose that.
Before I got into robotics, I was working on neuroscience and engineering. I visited a very famous animal lab as I was visiting to become a graduate student, and I was just so profoundly depressed I realized I could never do it. Sorta fell into robotics after that, and while there are ethical complications in any field there is nothing remotely on the level of animal testing.
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But they are. Like, my manager and I have a good relationship that is usually highly collaborative, but at the end of the day, I'm judged based on doing the things he wants me to do. Why shouldn't we recognize the power differential? It clearly exists.
Climate change is not going to lead to our extinction.
In what way is it irrelevant?

If more than 6% of current GDP is from farming, which it is, then everything else adds up to less than 20x the value farming provides. That’s just simple math.

So, we can just compare agricultural production and absolutely ignore everything else because it’s already included in the above calculation.

PS: Now you can argue that you care more about the internet or healthcare than a meal. But, I guarantee you would quickly change your mind if you had not eaten in several months. Food is an absolutely required and unlike air and water not naturally available for free in vast quantities.
Bullshit Jobs in Statistics
"it's not coming to a power grid near you any time soon"

"soon" is relative. The older I get, the more something a century or even two away doesn't seem that far off, and something that could arrive in 20 years seems positively near.

The Long Now project strives to get people to think more long-term, and I've heard that in some parts of Asia governments and organizations plan on far longer time horizons than is common in the West.

The world would be far better off if more of us adopted such a perspective, rather than focusing on only on what can be done now or in the next few years.
I'm Data Science/ML/AI consultant (trained as a statistician) and have found that most of my job to be completely pointless. This article beautifully captures my frustrations and has helped me sharpen my view on what I really want from my job/career.
It's been over a year but I seem to recall potential exposure to radiation, infectious disease, and chemicals being on the list. It was quite long. I'm guessing the legal department added it for all positions in the hospital.
> The refugee policy is just too extreme at that time.

Eh? What, precisely, about the E.U. refugee policy is just “too extreme”? Which aspect of it?

By the way, outside the hard right there’s little evidence that it was a big deal for Brexit voters, who tended to be more concerned with inter-EU migration and/or tabloid fluff (ie the EU’s sinister plot to ban kettles and jam).
H-Bombs are not star scale. Seems uncontrolled to me...
> predictably fails

The issue is that, if you've not taken the time to consider the possibility of the error occurring, the failure is by definition unpredictable. It's predictable only if the caller 1) knows it can happen, which is often not the case in exception-using code, and 2) specifies the expected behavior, which is by design rarely the case in exception-using code.
Very interesting, could you open an issue on rustc?
I would say "none" but just containment failing is not equivalent of meltdown. If left to own devices, fusion would stop. You can get some kind of explosion/fire, since you know, high energies are involved, but it would be simple thermal explosion.

There are still issues, like most fusion reactions produce neutrons, which are not great by themselves, and basically most dangerous type of radiation. They can make regular matter radioactive. But we are far from that stage when this is a problem.
amazing how investigative reporting is so rare that they felt comfortable dedicating the whole article to heralding that they even did actual research to begin with

they went to places where the records were supposed to be instead of merely googling and being content with the poor information? Two pages to describe that experience coming right up
Can you clarify how Heroku fits with Cloudflare? If I have a domain registered via Namecheap or Google Domains, then point the appropriate record at my Heroku subdomain, it works easily. Heroku also includes easy SSL support.

I hear about using Cloudflare often for DNS usage, I just have limited experience with the network side of things, so Ive never been clear why it's something that you need a standalone service for at the MVP stage?
I'm not sure that many people draw the distinction you're trying to make. Kennedy's opinion itself describes the outcome of Citizens United in terms of campaign finance reform:

"A campaign finance system that pairs corporate independent expenditures with effective disclosure has not existed before today." https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/558/310/#tab-opi...

Virtually every bit of media coverage describes it in similar terms too. Still, it was a 5-4 case that produced five opinions, so if that's the hair you want to split, so be it. I think my original comment stands just as well if it's amended to "Aren't we trying that already? Citizens United already dramatically relaxed ELECTION SPENDING rules."
Biggest political and governance breakthrough that will happen in my lifetime most likely is the boomers dying off. There will be no continuity of their policies which the rest of us have come of age with and generally abhor. 15 years to go, and the decline is already happening.
This is a whole new layer of compute and storage between the cloud and the endpoint devices. It's still a client/server model, but it provides more control over the data closer to the source. This has a number of benefits. One is that you can control who sees that data. Second, response time is faster. And third, you can get rid of more useless data much more quickly and cheaply closer to the source of that data than if you have to send it.
I can no longer keep track of what you're trying to argue. The chain-extensions debacle is less than a year old. It was motivated by the same concerns as the AGL article. Since you acknowledged upthread not being aware of chain-extensions in the first place, despite it being a big-ticket issue for DANE deployment (enough for Geoff Huston to write a whole article bemoaning its failure as a standard) I'm not sure from where you're drawing the certitude that these issues aren't real.
> My parents didn’t spend time in the 70s looking for people to sue - they were looking for doctors, therapists, etc.

For some people (at least in the US), the suing was presumably to be able to afford the doctors and therapists.
The UK population is ~87% white. The US is at 77%.

As to relative degrees of integration, I don't know how you'd measure it, but the UK has its own serious struggles on that front.
To make fusion reaction those bombs use small nuclear explosions. It's not self-sustaining reaction.
I’m thinking the conservative approach in this context is a shortcut to solving all of the problems. For example, hitting the brakes at any unrecognized object keeps the passengers safe, and is a shortcut in that the recognition models for that particular object don’t have to be ironed out. Or, selecting a test city like Chandler, approx 60 years old, having the signal pole and crosswalks positioned at the same offset from every intersection is in itself a shortcut. That tech will never work in The Hollywood Hills, for example.
You’re right, it was with App Services.
Well you asked and I answered. In the case of Three Mile Island it was enough to pay.

"Of course, it is which is why there are two tiers. The other one paid by the whole industry.

But it's an absurd objection to begin with. All sources of energy have financial consequences if they go wrong, we use them anyway because the value they provide to society vastly outperform occasional disasters. And when it comes to human life, nuclear is far the safest, far safer than wind and solar. "

It's still not an argument against the safest and cleanest form of energy we have.
I'm not a FP expert, but I do try to use FP as much as possible and yes, I agree that there is some serious dorkiness possible with certain PLs.

Anecdote, not data, but I've found that Rust, Erlang, and F# (if MS stack) tend to be in the sweet spot of expressive enough without drowning in symbols, without being as mushy as, say, Python/Ruby/pick something.
The old hardware lacks the required video encoders.

My guess is that iPads only have the hardware decoders for format X so that’s what you have to produce, then if the host machine lacks hardware encoders you break the “second monitor” feature - eg bad performance: lagging/dropped frames would break video, etc
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The number of comments gonna increase with thumbs up and hearth emojis :).
I didn't say that.

I said that nuclear power is safer than wind and solar and any other form of energy EVEN including Chernobyl and Fukushima.
I'm not sure I follow. Sure, we shouldn't just have threads blindly working from the same memory, but it seems perfectly reasonable to use tools like Go channels or MPSC queues to write sane code.
My mistake, it looks like I linked to the About page and not the story page: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/californias-criminal-...
You can make secure dashcams that add some hashsum/crypto signatures based on all GPS signals received at moment.

That's quite general problem around deepfakes - how to generate video that's guaranteed real. Some form of DRM or blackchain is probably needed, not to anyones liking.
Tell HN: Alexa is confused about leap years
Me: Alexa, what's the last day of February 2020?

Alexa: The 28th of February is the last day of February, and it falls on a Friday in 2020.

Me: Alexa, is 2020 a leap year?

Alexa: Yes, 2020 is a leap year.

Me: Alexa, what is the last day of February in a leap year?

Alexa: The 28th of February is the last day of February, and it falls on a Friday in 2020.

Me: Alexa, what is a leap year?

Alexa: A leap year is a year that contains an extra day, the 29th of February...

Me: Alexa, what day is the 29th of February 2020?

Alexa: I couldn't find any matches.
Throwaway; Response posted in case someone Google this and find this thread (Happy to see this is off the front page as this type of content doesn't belong on HN).

What's interesting with this story is to see the different media coverage it received in French and English media. The French ones gave a little more context into why her application was initially denied. Basically she didn't fill the application properly.

I've known multiple people who used the exact same program as her to immigrate. There is no language requirement for courses or thesis. However, having followed all courses in French and written a full thesis in French removes the requirement to pass a standardized French test (think TOEFL). According to the CBC article in French[1] she was warned when she started writing it that unless she translated the chapters written in English she would potentially have to pass the Standardized French test as it wouldn't be adequate to waive the requirement for a test. She ignored this warning and decided to submit her application anyways.

Later, as warned by the university officials, she received a request for evidence. She either had to pass a Standardized test OR demonstrate three years of high school level education in French (from the folks that I know who went through this, a simple copy of a French high school transcript is good enough).

She had two months to give a response but apparently waited 4 months (it's not completely obvious from the article and completely omitted from the English CBC news one [2]) to respond.

The ultimate reason why she was denied is never explicitly stated. It seems that she switched jobs while her application was pending and became a freelance illustrator. The immigration program she applied for specifically prohibits self-employment. Either that or she sent the required evidence too late and they closed her file.

tl;dr : Her paperwork was incomplete. She was warned several times and ignored a request for evidence for several months & switched to a job specifically not covered by the immigration program she was applying to.

Case closed.
[1] https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1378665/immigration-que...
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/french-thesis-immigr...
> Sanity suggests including it in a type signature, either in the return type or with checked exceptions

Yet basically all of Rust's std::io propagates just io::Result<T>, which is Result<T, io::Error>, where io::Error is a generic result that could be anything vaguely related to the outside world. It's as useful as writing "throws Exception" in Java. C# gets along fine in practice using unchecked exceptions everywhere.

Your point would be stronger if, say, File::Create specifically said it could fail only with things like disk-full, file-exists, and so on. But all it actually says is "this can fail". The information richness you're describing does not exist in practice.
I guess the reason is probably that it probably requires a developer with a midi device, and it affects too few users for Mozilla to want to prioritise it. The bug currently has priority P3. There are about 8300 existing P1 and P2 bugs, and over 10000 P3 bugs.

Saying that it works in chrome, brave, opera, edge etc sounds like “look at all these other vendors who put the effort in” but really they are all running the same code these days so you could instead write “chromium implements it”.
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But is this just saving the planet from only the most pressing symptom of human over population? If we do get an abundance of cheap clean energy, what then?
Citizens United v. FEC invalidated laws beyond the specifics of the case. I think your argument is a pedantic one. I'm not a lawyer, but I follow politics more closely than probably 98% of Americans and I've commonly understood Citizens United to be related to what most Americans and the press refer to as "campaign finance", which is more broad than the strict definition you're using.

CU is listed in a Wikipedia section titled "Campaign finance in the United States":

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

To use your own words, in "ordinary parlance" CU is part of campaign finance.
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Well, I'm writing Java code and exception can be thrown from literally every function call. It's hard to not expect it. It's easier to find code that never throws exceptions. It does not make it any harder to write. Basically you use try-finally for resource release and avoid long living mutable objects (which survive request for typical request-response style server) or write code extra carefully, so those objects don't stay in bad state, but those objects are extremely rare. So in the end it's not hard to write that code.
But the math.log10 solution is unfortunately "wrong" too, at least in my python3 implementation.

import math

def digitLengthCorrect(n):
return len(str(n))

def digitLengthClever2(n):
return 1 if n == 0 else (math.floor(math.log10(n)) + 1)

testcases = (
[10 ** i for i in range(300)] +
[(10 ** i) - 1 for i in range(300)]
)

for t in testcases:
a = digitLengthCorrect(t)
b = digitLengthClever2(t)
assert a == b, (t, a, b)
An abundance of clean energy would solve a pretty huge amount of our problems for quite a while. That's not to say that everything would be great forever...but we'd have a whole lot more breathing room to figure things out.
OpenAI released the final instalment of GPT-2 and it is awesome
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It's also theoretically possible that they could be a single country, if Henry V had not died at a very young age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England
The EU has banned the testing of cosmetics on animals for the last decade without the sky falling in.

Medical products typically are tested on animals. But it’s only so effective.
He's the founder and CEO of Odoo SA. Most of his posts do have a disclaimer, seems like he forgot this time.
You can’t make a loyal mafia out of just anyone who shows up.
> .. workers there are known for working doubles while ..

this is classic slander .. you just grouped every worker into some obviously reckless and illegal BS. Whatever is said after this will play to the emotions and prejuidice of the reader -- anti-factual AND anti-empathy at the same time
> They encountered numerous hurdles including poor record keeping, uncooperative clerks and hundreds of destroyed files.

Well this is terrible... I'd have expected courts to do things by the book.
The amount of complexity that it would be necessary to simplify and approximate would make any answer to this question meaningless.

And it's not only an IT systems problem. It's a comprehensive systems problem.

Which includes training, and counterparty expectations, and manual data entry, etc.
Or it could be an opportunity for Airbus to publish a “Fly Airbus” website. I think they’ve already done it in the first years of the A380. That way the plane brand filter is embedded before even starting the search.
This is precisely the power of the Rust model of errors: nothing can fail unless either a) the type signature says it can, or b) it's not sane to try to recover from the failure.
Well, I don't think you're wrong, but no need to be so cynical. :) This isn't like some industries where they might just pop up with a commercially viable product out of the blue and start making money. The nascent fusion industry needs support from the public in the form of public policy, research funding and investment. I wouldn't be surprised if this piece was basically fusion industry PR machine reminding us all that they still exist and could be interesting in the near future.

My understanding is that so far, it doesn't look like wind/hydro/solar can scale to our needs within the timeframe that fusion might be viable (and yes, I know, it's "always 20 years away", but hopefully that changes eventually), so it's still a worthwhile pursuit, IMO.
I always felt like edge computing was more along the lines of clients that do all the computation themselves, then federate their data among peers, instead of each client connecting to a server.
In the wake of discovery of attacks by China[0] and the NSA[1] Google has adopted a nation-state actor threat model and a siege mentality around data access and encryption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
Does anybody know how to remove the forward/backward arrow buttons in Firefox for windows? I love how customizable the UI is, and they allow you to remove the reload and home button by default, but other things like the forward/backward button and search bar are fixed to the toolbar.
Extreme Nationalism was and is the symptom of the time. Plus Nationalism is perfectly normal as long as it doesn't go extreme.
It seems to me that one could avoid storing any tritium as a liquid. Tritium gas is light will generally tend to rise. Insoluble tritium salts will be less likely to enter the ground water.

Although... an inexpensive risk mitigation would be to wrap any tritiated water tanks with sodium polyacrylate. Imagine a giant diaper. Leaks would be absorbed.
They didn’t get the date wrong, just poorly phrased it. Here's the original sentence (from the Internet Archive):

> On February 24, 1942, after Canada’s entrance into World War Two...

And after the correction:

> On February 24, 1942, several years after Canada’s entrance into World War Two...
People are paid based on what they have the leverage to demand, not based on what's right or wrong.

Regulated taxi fare formulas usually include both time and distance. A mile in a traffic jam will be based on time. Ten miles with no traffic will be based on distance. Why should truckers not get paid for sitting in a traffic jam if cabbies do? It still costs the trucker time that he can't be doing/working something/somewhere else.
Paging dang... link change?
More breathing room for mankind, yes, but not necessary the rest of the natural world.
The birth rates seem to be declining in the developed countries, to the point where we might have to worry about underpopulation rather than overpopulation as the markets stop growing and the older part of the population begins to strain welfare systems.
Speeding up backups for big time series databases
Oh, and you're ultimately sourcing truth from people who are minimally trained on (and have minimal time for training on) the system.

Because they've spent the last couple decades focused on medical training.
There do seem to be many different definitions of "edge". The parent and grandparent above, big CDNs with "edge functions", etc.

Has anyone compiled a list of concrete example use cases?
I must note that she did end up sending the documents the government asked her back in 2018.

They merely reopened the case and saw that there were no missing documents. She could have gotten the same result by re-submitting the application instead of going to the media.

This whole story sounds more like some politicians are trying to get a spin out of it.
Agree the penalties should be compounding and increasing exponentially. Also, fine shouldn't be a fixed one, but part of your income like in rest of Scands. Then the choice is much more difficult.

Also I've recently bought new car and collected 3 fines within first 2 weeks. They weren't quick enough to arrive to change my behaviour and this would've bitten me way too hard than it should.
I really think Minecraft mods are an underused method for teaching programming. I first got into programming in 7th grade developing mods. Times have changed, but ~5 years ago there were great tutorials, documentation, and good support channels (IRC) for modders.

If regular development is too complicated, there are mods that add programmable computers (Lua, iirc). You can use them to mine, build, automate, or in the spirit of Minecraft, really do whatever you want.
It's a pity they decided to put anything about climate change in the story, and especially in the sub-heading - this story has good information in it that could be beneficial to tons of people - and it's going to make many discount the accuracy of the information as a whole, right from the beginning.

If this story had taken out 3 of the 5 mentions of climate, it would have had the same info: there are steps that can be taken before and during a disaster to help people survive and thrive a disaster.

these bits are not needed in the article at all, they add nothing, taking them away takes away nothing (other than making people question legitimacy):
"As climate change makes disasters more severe"
"As climate change makes natural disasters more common"
"As the climate continues to change"

Good info that could have many benefits for many people that almost seems packaged into a "submarine article" for pushing the climate change agenda with 'think of the children' - pity indeed.