skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't consider unions a political issue then what is your definition of politics? The organization of labor is one of the central pillars of civilization and has been political since time immemorial.
Isn’t that why people have a right to vote?
No, I'm not saying that we should not use Thorium at all. I'm saying that the internet claim that thorium reactors cannot be used to make bombs is patently false. It bothers me that there is misguided understanding of thorium that ends up trashing advanced nuclear in general in favor of thorium.

There are 2 true benefits to thorium over thorium: less long-lived transuranics (but more deeply-penetrating 2.6 MeV gammas from Tl-208) and the ability to have a breeder with slow neutrons (less specific fissile inventory, but more problematic graphite).

The major health threat from any nuclear reactor is large early release dose, which is proportional to power level and power level alone (Watts is proportional to number of atoms fissioning per second). In this, Thorium fuel is very similar to Uranium fuel. Long-term waste ends up in a deep geologic repository in any case. Uranium-Plutonium cycle can breed as well or better than the Thorium-Uranium cycle.

I like thorium a lot. I just don't want people relying on stuff that is factually incorrect to promote it. It's easy to promote without being wrong.
Hopefully only when stdout isatty().

Edit: Nope, writes l̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶s̶ file names to output regardless. Boo.
Previously, "[f]or patent reasons, Firefox [did] not directly support MP3; instead, platform-native libraries [were] used to support MP3."[0] Now it uses ffvpx, which is their fork of ffmpeg. [1] [2]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/A...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582271

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/media/ffvpx...
Instead they seem to be making the UI worse. The new about:config seems to be a step backwards relative to the old text one (I particularly like that you cannot just browse, you have to know what you're looking for first).
There is lots of code that is difficult to understand, for anyone.

What about code that proves a complex, many page mathematical theorem?

What about code that does complex and very math heavy things like GCM encryption modes, or statistical compression via prediction by partial matching and arithmetic coding?

Just reading the code isn't always enough, plenty of complicated code requires understanding of concepts far outside what you could hope to fit in a comment.
https://www.onedollarglasses.org/

The make affordable eyeglasses for poor countries, teach them how to make the lenses, repair the glasses etc.
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Where do you source the data? Looking at Google Trends, the graphs don't match up at all with your graphs, so I assume you have another data source that you prioritize.
Thank you! Yeah that's part of the secret sauce... but what I can say is that we monitor lots of different places: search, shopping, online communities looking for interesting topics and then we cross-check that against Google Trends data and curate topics ourselves.
It's funny reading all the debate about different wordings because it totally misses the point. The wording doesn't matter, only the delivery does. The recipients's interpretation of the question depends on who is saying it and how they say it. Whether or not they include the word "just" is irrelevant. Any single one of the phrases mentioned can be delivered in a way that causes offense or doesn't.
Working on Ubuntu for me.
One of the editors it lists is "vy" : a Vim-like in python: https://github.com/vyapp/vy

Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd love to have a vim that is more pleasant to program.

edit: added link
I'd be concerned if the idiots taking decisions and crashing the financial system when interest rates were at 5% were not severly punished and let loose when interest rates were at 0%, almost like an arsonist being put in charge of a gas station.
Oh wait, they weren't....
This. BYOD is a very bad idea. It has no upside for the user. It’s all for the benefit of the employer in multiple ways. Don’t do it.
Not Theranos: New blood test detects multiple conditions with one sample
https://www.sens.org/

They're working on solutions to problems we all face.
Does a remote wipe also wipe out cloud backups? Couldn't the employee simply restore from a backup (cloud or on-disk)?
Charity Navigatior and many similar sites fixate on unhelpful stats like the percent of the budget "wasted" on admin expenses and overhead to an unhealthy degree. To operate effectively charities need to spend money on high quality leadership and support staff, and while doing good motivates many to accept lower pay they can still be pricey.

Furthermore, the more complicated what the charity is doing the more it generally costs to hire competent employees. If a charity wants to hire employees to rigorously evaluate whether their interventions are working, this will also add to overhead.

More controversially, I think the fixation on charity CEO pay is also misguided. They still generally earn less than they could working for similar non-charitable organizations, and being good at CEO-ing is a difficult skill. Hiring a bad CEO can tank an organization. (It's definitely also possible to spend a lot of money on a bad CEO, it's not a guarantee of quality.)

In fact, higher overhead (a negative factor in Charity Navigator's score) correlates with a better Givewell recommendation.

> The mean of the fundraising expense ratio for charities (the money spent on fundraising divided by the total expenses of the entire organization) that earned a gold, silver, or notable rating by Givewell (41 charities) is 0.073, while that of the charities reviewed by Givewell but not ranked well (253 charities) is 0.054 (p-value of 0.05, i.e., statistically significant at the 95% level). The mean of the administrative expense ratio for charities that earned a gold, silver, or notable rating by Givewell is 0.102, while that of the charities reviewed by Givewell but not ranked well is 0.092 (p-value of 0.35). Adding administrative and fundraising together, the mean ratio for charities that earned a gold, silver, or notable rating by Givewell is 0.174, while that of the charities reviewed by Givewell but not ranked well is 0.147 (p-value of 0.11).

(Note that I weakly suspect this person might be misusing p-values, and should be less confident in the causal nature of this correlation. However, that is still sufficient to prove that overhead isn't inherently evil)

http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/09/why-ranking-charities-by-...
I think he means private messages but there is one tip I can give you that adds much to the experience: Stay logged in and use IRC like email exchanges on slow channels and in private conversations. IRC ofc does real time chat but the best stuff is even slower paced than email. If no one is talking for months it is perfectly fine to answer a question asked half a year ago. Logging in to dump a question then leave again 5 min later is a bit like removing your mailbox after receiving a letter or quickly switching off your phone after each call. Don't expect anyone to be interested if you use the web client.

Also, asking questions is fine but answering them is much better if you want to learn something. Other peoples q&a is just as useful. Lurking is fine. Just find the channel for every language and every tool you use and stay there forever.

Some channels have a separate #foo-social or #foo-offtopic place for [usually slow paced] interesting stuff that is unworthy of the main channel. Travel around, check out new places. Some are well hidden.

If you are truly a useful asset you get to behave.... uhmm... somewhat like an idiot.... don't go ask the biologists where the white stork gets the babies from on your first day.

Enjoy!
I always prefer X is wrong to You are wrong about X. Separate the error from the identity.
Avrdude – AVR Downloader/UploaDEr
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Use it daily. ##math on freenode is not replaceable. I visit a few small ones now and then.

Not to go off-topic but I saw that article about PIA on the front page yesterday. Does that mean freenode will need a bit of hosting help from the community?
> What are your thoughts on https://www.charitynavigator.org/?

Not really the same thing as GiveWell's analysis. To use the first example I checked, compare

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

to

https://www.givewell.org/International/charities/Heifer-Proj...
To make money, study maths or economics at a top university
Virtualized OSes can still access network hardware directly via SR-IOV
> This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 by using displayable characters rather than control characters in the 80 to 9F (hex) range.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode
There are other reasons for rotors to be overhead, as well. Locating the center of mass below the center of thrust makes a more stable system. Viewing the ground, which is something that many passengers would desire, is much easier when there isn't a bunch of machinery in the way. The further rotors are from the ground, the less likely they are to strike debris when landing and taking off.

I'm trying to think of reasons it would be good to have low rotors... maybe something about noise experienced by the passengers?
>, leave your politics at home,

If you accept sexual harassment, abuse of power, support of dictatorial regimes, etc. at the workplace you are going to live in a hell hole for the lest of your life. I will recommend being smart about politics and do it from inside a union or other protected group. But, to never just accept that things are bad without remedy. We have gotten really far as a society to give up now that things are easier to change than ever.

> I’m sure they regret their initial idealism

What great things Google have done since? Google is big enough and rich enough to not have to innovate or do anything interesting anymore. Google is just another part of the system. But, for any startup is impossible to succeed without people involved with strong believes and able to move and inspire others.

Google change makes sense from an economic perspective. But, as a society hurts us and we need to fix their attitude individually and together through unions and other collective actions.
Hi there, the graphs do actually match up - it's just the Google Trends default time period is usually different to ours. Plus the width and height of their charts make the chart gradients look flatter than ours :)
"One can voice disagreement with a course of action and then agree to go down it anyway to be a team player. People do this all the time..."

Yes, and at the point you stop repeating your disagreement, you have begun to self-censor. People who say everything they think, are described as "having no filter". The difference between "self-censoring" and "having no filter", is whether you think it's a good idea or not. Groups where those opposed to an idea do not, at some point, stop saying so, do not cooperate well.

Which is not to say that it isn't often a bad thing that they stop saying so. However, knowing whether it counts as "self-censoring", requires knowledge of whether their criticisms are well-founded, rather than providing that knowledge.
Doctors Without Borders just because of their ability to get care to almost any part of the world. I consider my contributions to it a form of compensation for my tax dollars that go without my consent to fund our hungry war machine.
I'm interested in your thoughts on this. You noticed a grade differential in raw math concepts. Is it possible to notice things like creativity, communication, and imagination as applied to mathematics?

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/11/more-on-chinese-an...

>In many cases, the teachers would like to take a lesson from American schools and concentrate more on imagination and resourcefulness. They say it is the parents who want to keep the focus on objective assignments, drills, and tests to prepare students for exams.

>Any understanding of Chinese culture has to begin with how a "repeat after me" education focused entirely on objective tests affects communication skills, analytic thinking, teamwork, creativity, imagination and initiative.
Ask HN: Where do you do quick back of envelope calculations?
Before Apple killed the Dashboard in Catalina. I had this widget called FormulaCalc that I loved.

It was very basic, screenshot below. It had two long text fields on top of each other. You'd enter a mathematical expression in JS in the top field (e.g. "3 + 4 / ( 5 * 0.9 + pi) + pow(2, 4)" ) and as you typed it would auto-generate the result in the bottom field in real time. I would have several instances of this widget in my dashboard so I could quickly and easily do simple calculations or do multipart calculations, copying the result from one widget into the input field of another.

I'd use it constantly for things like measuring stuff for frontend work, doing some rough analytics from db queries, or even just back of envelope budgeting / tax stuff. Using it was so automatic and immediate that it became such an essential tool.

Screenshot: http://www.mindlessflash.com/formula_calc.png

Since I upgraded my OS I've been using the evaluator in Spotlight and the calculator app on my phone and it's not as good because you can only work with one formula at a time. So I guess I have two questions:

1. How do you do rough calculations day to day, what tools do you use and are you happy with them?

2. Do you know of any products / solutions that are similar to the dashboard widget I described above?
That is literally impossible, because workers' rights are inevitably a personal issue for a worker. Workers' solidarity, which is _essential_ for strong unions, means being an ally of causes unrelated to yours.
I was under the impression that the best way to learn is complete immersion. My mind immediately goes to Bart Simpson learning French to thwart his captors (season 1 spoilers, sorry!).
Adam's Apples
Somewhat off topic, but I very recently started working on a global charity search engine based on open data sets. The thinking is that you often care about location of operation and not (just) about base country. End goal is to provide api for other platforms to build on, like a platform about sharing donation preferences:

https://github.com/juliuszelf/global-charity-search-engine

I made an earlier attempt a few years ago, this page shows more about the 'why':

http://juliushuijnk.nl/project/charitius/
hellcow was asking why they switched to Mulled. commoner suggested it was because ProtonVPN didn't do WireGuard.
“We should have a Union to negotiate with management” is orthogonal to “we should cease all work for law enforcement”.
With the pending sale of PIA to CyberGhost, I was looking for an alternative to Librem Tunnel. A lot of users on the Purism forum suggested Mullvad and it looks like this uses that. I'll definitely be trying this on Linux when it's available.

It's a shame Purism picked PIA to partner with, I want to support the company but Librem Tunnel is the only feature justifying the $7.99/month Librem One fee for me and I don't want any of that going to CyberGhost. I use Librem Mail too, but they don't offer a price package that includes email without VPN.
Shrinking tabs are awful, though, when you keep 500 to 1500 tabs open. Not that I'd do something like that..
Agreed. For a while my company allowed Office 365 access from my cell phone without installing anything but now they require inTune and reserve the right to wipe phones but promise to never do it. I guess I will stop using Outlook on my phone...
So I can say I support the AFL-CIO or whatever but that doesn’t mean I have to also believe in socialism or that I cannot support or vote for a Libertarian. It doesn’t mean I need to also be active is water rights or clean energy policy.

I may simply want better working conditions with no strings attached.
Semiconductor stocks are bubbly,as sales are worse than most investors think
+1 for Joplin. I moved all my work notes to it and set up Syncthing with my phone and homeserver. Works beautifully.
you mean filename, not line numbers?

option -h will disable filename in output
Google offers two versions of this wipe. The whole phone, and only employer data. Wonder if they did the whole phone on accident, malice, or they are trying to say they "wiped" the phone but only removed employer data.
Where did you get an implication that Wireguard was US-only. The poster you are replying to is simply stating since Wireguard may still be a bit buggy, they are rolling this out in the US first to iron out any kinks before making it widely available.
Yes, but what happened to the individuals involved? A lot of them went home with giant bonuses.
I fail to see how it’s any different from how most modern, efficient resource distribution systems function, especially given how underfunded these systems are in many states. Access to long tail items is done by internet request and managed through better resourced, offsite storage, just like it is in the context of retail. Many well-funded library systems are actually better than services like Amazon at this. One of the books I received this week was so obscure it’s not even for sale on their or many other sites, but again, I had it at my podunk branch library in the Midwest, freely available to me within a week of my request. Your local library system probably offers similar services if you speak to its librarians.

If your argument is that we should have well-funded and staffed libraries of an academic caliber in more cities, I completely agree. But doing so would involved a broader conversation about the wealthy’s attack on public goods and upper income people’s disinvestment from them/preference for private services as a form of class signaling.
You can still browse all options if you search for "*" (without quotes)
So which politics are OK and which aren't? They're both politics even if they're "orthogonal".
You know, I really wish that Plan 9 had done better. To a very large extent it's Unix carried through to completion.
> At a public protest just days before her firing, Rivers told the 200 Googlers who rallied in opposition to her suspension that Google had wiped her personal phone when it suspended her, erasing many months of photographs

Ouch. Presumably this would have been MDM?

I've never understood why phone makers make this possible for non-device-owners, as it seems like a gigantic foot-gun. To say nothing about the ethics involved.
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Oh yeah, definitely. Shell is not a office but a zillion offices spread throughout the globe.

Probably my main problem was I worked for the data management department where the most experienced people were semi-technical and had geoscience backgrounds. Intelligent people, but internal software tools were still very new to them and many were still doing things they did in the 80s.
One could use FAANG data centers to host them for free, it would be really great
https://www.givewell.org/

In case utilitarianism is the correct moral framework.

https://www.splcenter.org/

An attempt to slow the US' descent into fascism.

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/

It really fucks with my head that people are starving.
What we've learnt from 3000 bug reports
There are ways to do so. The archive is made up of many, many torrents (I believe it's a monthly if not biweekly update of the database). If you have the storage/bandwidth availability for the whole 32TBs, please get in touch and I may be able to help you get the whole deal without too much hassle. Otherwise, just pick some torrents (it would be best to pick them based on torrent health, but they are so many to check manually) and try to keep seeding as much as possible.

EDIT: To find libgen's torrents health, check out this google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hqT7dVe8u09eatT93V2x...

Thanks frgtpsswrdlame for the heads up.
> clear and repeated violations of our data security policies

Who’s data did they access? What data was accessed? How was that data used?

Google knows they’re in a bind, because if a few SJWs accessed internal Google data in a “bad way” (as viewed outside the Bay Area monoculture) then that’s going to be a really bad look, maybe even worse than a hacker.
https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack#threads
Even the existing repurposed one doesn't work on my up-to-date Linux Mint installation.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2B58/browsertes...
"Coming into this with fresh eyes, my first thought would be to use sshd. I'm thinking that might not have solved your problem though. Did you try that and it didn't work out?"
So can peoples FB posts... and the mic on our phones.
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No, the best part about them is that they're not known to the general public. If you spend enough time on IRC, you'll find your way into social channels naturally.
I think it is more "obviously wrong in face of evidence and refuse to reconsider" than informed experts per se. Doctors being stuck up about handwashing because they heuristically interpretted "a gentleman's hands are alway clean" as a descriptive instead of a directive was certainly groupthink.

It is possible to be wrong and not be engaged in groupthink or right and lacking logical basis.
Student solves a 100-year-old physics enigma
Hahaha - thank you! I did want to have the story on paper for myself to look back on, but some traffic is a nice bonus :)
I think the cannonical "efficient" charity would be incenticide treated bug nets. Against Malaria Foundation distributes them to entire villages, but the largest effect is for children 5 and under, for who catching malaria is much more likely to be fatal.

Grain has some potential negative effects, squashing local food industry, etc, but it's not like domestic bug net companies and a key part of the economy in the same way farming is.

I dunno, I feel like stopping kids from dying is better to focus on first compared to letter writing. But I'm a bit of a Utilitarian, and an aspie, so perhaps I undervalue the human element.
I remember talking to people involved in those kind of projects at the time and even they noted that Anglo-Irish never seemed to turn down an opportunity to lend money.
Keep a personal and work phone separate.