skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pirates aren't stealing nuclear fuel from operating reactors. It will literally kill them before they get away with it.

They could potentially breach a reactor deliberately but again...why? It would kill them and not achieve anything.

The design for nuclear reactors in commercial shipping has been to use sealed modular units, who's security system would be that attempting to remove or breach would drop the whole unit to the bottom of the ocean where only nation-state level specialized resources could recover it expediently.
Hanlon’s Razor: Relax, Not Everything is Out to Get You
I don't know that we've sufficiently evolved to walk and chew gum at the same time, yet here we are, walking and texting at the same time. The answer is obvious: there's going to come a day when we're going to be walking around in exoskeletons that save us from ourselves. Because walking where we're going and texting as we're going are both vital processes that can't wait a moment for us to attend to one or the other.
This should be a wake up call to all nations. Your livelihood soon will depend 100% on a fascist country, it will brainwash your kids with pro-CCP ads, your data will be held hostage to a Beijing backed data centers, your politicians will be sold off to CCP agenda, you won’t have a way to speak up, your locally made tools will be worse off, and the expertise to make such tools will die off.

I don’t have a good feeling for the future. Stop buying Chinese-made goods. Boycott now.
There were only 10 students allowed in the class. So you got picked about every 3rd class (sometimes more than once per class).
You could try an Ask HN? I would love to read this book.
If we run out of oxygen it will mean habitat loss and biodiversity loss and a slippery slope down to slime and more jellyfish
Political science, like all the social sciences these days, has an extreme ideological skew. Consequently, any subjective evaluation of the openness (or any other kind of goodness) of a particular country is going to partially reflect merely the extent to which that country reflects the prevailing ideological skew among the experts doing the evaluation. In the present climate, it's difficult to imagine a well-run democratic country with politics opposite to that which prevails in Western academia receiving a great score no matter how well it's run.

Personally, I consider these sorts of studies as just noise. I can't trust any of their methods or conclusions when the researchers are all drawn from an intellectual monoculture that demands constant activism in favor of that monoculture.
It is a parody to Spotify Wrapped, an end-of-year summarization of what a person have listened throughout the year. Search #SpotifyWrapped in Twitter for an example.
It gets worse:

In my view schools/universities are institutions for mass indoctrination. Noam Chomsky has said something along similar lines. I borrowed the words from him.

A bunch of my other observations:

https://realminority.wordpress.com/observations-of-the-world...
The whole "...we don’t want duplicated subscriber lists" is a very arbitrary requirement.

What's more, all this could have been avoided if a proper relational database structure (not even denormalized, GordonS) was there in the first place.
If you are in the US, make sure you are up to speed on any county/local regulations and tax laws about running a business. Even as a freelancer and depending on your area, you may need to obtain a business license, pay gross receipts or any other such legal obligations.
I do this sometimes when developing software.

I write a comment in the code or on a notepad to let myself know where to continue.

It makes getting started easier the next time. Starting with a focus is a a much better feeling than where do I start now.
Microsoft wants everyone to follow its lead with its new mobile design
What you said, is irrelevant to the main discussion (biology.) Whether not passing down your genes is good or bad for the person or society is a different discussion.
So you cannot have companies like Amazon which had no profits for like a decade.
> ...complete absence of a competitive, platform agnostic packaging & distribution solution

Well, to be fair, it's more like there are two (or so) good cross platform ones at the moment, but there isn't one so popular to be de facto. And there isn't one that is standard.

Besides, the most popular packaging and distribution systems for native code might still be the popular Linux distros. Packaging and distributing precompiled binaries with native ABIs (not targeting interpreters or runtimes) is much more complicated. Folks have decided to value other things than portability of packages for now. That could change in the future.
New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)
Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
Hi,
I believe I'm a decent programmer, may not be a rockstar or anything. Recently I've changed my company to one of the "sought afters", and I've noticed that I've been getting some comments about the quality of work and some uncomfortable questions about my skills. I've been forced to change my design more than once during code review and there were other times when my PR was outright rejected as it did not meet the required standards.

Now I'm a little worried that if my situation doesn't change, my career would suffer. I've started to watch a few videos online about design. But I'm not sure if they're going to really help as they usually talk about very basics which doesn't help in real world coding.

I usually take 3-4 tries with some significant amount of testing to get my code to a working state. I refer to stack overflow or ask my colleagues if I get stuck on some design / technology feature which I haven't seen before. I feel the above contributes to reduction in my speed of delivery and the rush to complete the deliverable on time, compromises the quality.

Are there any good ideas to improve one's coding / design skills significantly ? The challenge here is to deliver good quality code, while maintaining a decent speed of delivery.
> a critical East Coast mentality and I’m not a fan of West Coast yesism

As someone who have no idea what this refers to (I'm not from the US [I'm assuming East/West coast here refer to the coast's of USA]), could you expand on what this means in reality?
Right, thanks for the discussion, it has allowed me to pinpoint/remember the actual issue that I have :

It's about trying to push too many things on the Internet through HTTP, about trying to transform the browser into an OS inside an OS (which is a lot about the Microsoft vs Google battle over personal computing).

Protocols, not platforms !
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841059
RubyConf 2019 – In the beginning, there was “require” by Adam McCrea
Took a project as a whole price. As a result, the client asked for a lot of changes and paid only initial price, of course. What was supposed to be a short 2 days project blew into a full month. Learned my lesson, never worked on a fixed-price project again, only hourly. Now I welcome clients with gazillion of change requests and new features since I get paid by the hour. Also allows me to be at hand maintenance guy after project is done. This way pays the bills quite nicely.
That would seem like a trademark violation as they are clearly trying to make it look like the CE mark in order to fool consumers into believing the product is certified...
You may optionally purchase coverage under COBRA, typically at the full price, which your employer is required to sell you (assuming the employer meets certain criteria).
My parents and teachers gave up on attempting to assign me homework and make me do it. I despised homework. Interesting assignments were great! But day to day homework? Never did it, which isn’t a good thing (and this isn’t me attempting to brag).

The only reason they stopped is I was getting top marks in every subject anyway, and the only reason I had that was I had a tutor who pushed me so far beyond high school level that I was finally interested in the topics again.

The neat part was: to learn those topics, she gave me a crash course of most of the year 11 and year 12 curriculum in 3 or 4 months or so, because I needed the base knowledge to learn the cool stuff
For a few years he has claimed that the US had a sealed indictment on him in secret it was left unproven until recently when part of it was revealed and then it was confirmed.

There's also the case of ladar levison getting a national security letter when his business was FBI'ed for hosting encrypted snowden emails. That letter meant he could not even tell his wife what was happening, including going to court and being generally railroaded by the legal system. His defcon talks on the legal lies he experienced in court are amusing. Being accuses of running from police put the backdoor of 5 story apartment building with no exit for the sake of speeding up proceedings along with his lawyer being bismurched for ties he knew nothing about and copy and paste text in the prosecution's legal docs.

I mean the US had Guantanamo, secrecy in the US government has been the norm for a while.
The fact that ARM is written as Arm really threw me for a loop here. At first, I thought they were talking about a new programming language or something.
Yup, I did! I can even see the utm_source and utm_medium query params in the URL that I guess is supposed to unlock the article. But this is what I see https://i.imgur.com/pN83qpg.png
BPF link: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-o...
> it has been shown that homework is essentially useless for learning performance

I am curious, is this about some particular kind of homework? From my own experience, I would think that exercising a subject alone (which is what most homework was in my school system at least) is a very good way of understanding it better. I of course remember not wanting to do homework many times, and I remember excessive or idiotic homework assignments, but overall homework seemed to be one of the major modes of learning for me.

Also, related to Gates, Page, Brin - I don't generally think that it's a good idea to look at a small number of very successful people and try to emulate some part of their life experience - you are, în general, very likely to fall for some kind of survivorship bias, or accidentally home in on a less important detail (for example, Gates was probably helped much more by his extremely wealthy and well-connected family than any particular aspect of his schooling).

On the other hand, there are many voices saying that one of the important purposes of the public education system is to engender conformity, which is very rarely conducive to a truly out of the ordinary life. Noam Chomsky would be one of the most credible, and he has often credited his own career to his non-standard early schooling.
I didn’t say anything about this particular viewpoint.

I said the New York Post is a conservative paper:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/

You should try to understand the biases of any given paper when reading their opinions.
> Having lived in Russia for 6 months in the past, it's is not as bad as western media makes it seem. Unlike China, their internet is still open.

That would be great, if Russia were not actively working on closing off its Internet as China did and for similar reasons. [1][2] The Russian firewall is being put into place now. It's obvious what they will do with it. The sole reason it's still relatively open is because the Russian state is incredibly backwards technologically, it is operated top down by very slow fiat, and so it has taken a long time for the Russian authorities to implement total Internet control within their territory. They've been working that direction for a decade.

> Also, internet access is much cheaper there than in the west.

I fail to see how that's a good point. Russia is a very poor nation, with incomes less than 1/3 the median of the EU and less than 1/6 the median of affluent Western nations. Of course their services cost a lot less than in Denmark, Sweden, Germany or the US. As one example, Romania's Internet (famous for fast speeds at low cost) costs a lot less than it does in the US as well, appropriately so, their incomes are 15%-20% that of the US. The median Russian is poorer than the median Romanian now. To adjust to US income standards for Russian Internet costs, they should not be paying more than roughly $8 to $12 per month.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-sovereign-internet-la...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50259597
Yeah, I've always had the impression that Australia, or at least its governments, has a disconcerting authoritarian streak that just isn't found to the same level in other western democracies. Possibly impacted by not having a real equivalent to either a US style bill of rights or something like the ECHR.
Being successful academic is all about optimizing for various tests and metrics and beating tests. It would be hard to find more institutionalized occupation.
A Guiler’s Year of Racket
Actually I wish they would say what they know about our online activity. The answer can't be as they said. They do collect some (telemetry and Mozilla accounts). I don't think it's much but it would be nice to know.
This one also includes https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin, with search/profiles/lists:

https://lucidindex.com/self-hosted
Running Linux Apps on Windows with Alpine WSL and VcXsrv
I'm a non degree student at an ivy league and I took a course this semester because I wanted to learn the basic fundamentals of electrical engineering. Because I'm learning because I want to, I put in effort into things I find interesting and difficult without the pressure of deadlines and grades. I love grades because it gives me the feedback I need (otherwise I would "learn" from youtube videos and pdfs) to assess how well I know the subject.

I can take breaks from truly hard problems until I have enough clarity of mind to approach the problem with a new perspective. I can't do that with a deadline.

I don't care if the answers "are out there" meaning the professor has returned graded tests and posted the answers; I do the work because I want to learn. That paradox of students wanting to review graded homeworks and students who want to learn by doing the homework is resolved practically by those that are more vocal about their wants.

I'm happy to take my time, doing my best (with the understanding that my best takes time) and observing my grade afterwards. Sometimes my learning takes me down paths that harder and more rewarding with the consequence that I take longer than others: I am a slow learner.
Does anyone know a self hosted licensing server? A sevice that software could call with a license key and some stats, and it would verify the license, the number of users or whatever and log the stats.
They are not suggesting hydrogen. The article is specifically about _electrofuel_, which is extracted from a mix of hydrogen and carbon dioxide in a very power-hungry process; it’s a transparent liquid similar to diesel, and energy density is not too far off.
Parsing Thunderbird Message Filters with TypeScript
> Russia was ruined by Yeltsin

This is just propaganda. Another way to look at it: Putin, as a head of FSB, sabotaged Yeltsin to get into power.
See also the portion of "The Humble Programmer" starting with "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. In the case of a well-known conversational programming language..."
Your profile does not give a way to reach you.
Probably that if you show any weakness - anything from physical discomfort, being sick, not being 100% mentally, the customer may end up losing confidence in you. It's better come to delay and come back fully prepared.
I'm from the US and have no clue what this means.
Good grades = Passing well paying jobs resume filter = startup initial capital for 90% of the population without access to the bank of mom and dad or a large inheritance.

PG starting to lose touch with regular joe.
I made this mistake last year, choosing a start date of the 1st. Normally, this would not have been an issue, but it took my employer several weeks to have their benefit management company activate my benefits.

Fortunately, my act of loudly demanding they make the benefits retroactive to the 1st got things sorted very quickly. But, this is because I knew how things worked.

I would also recommend to US-persons to not switch jobs around a month boundary.

The employer-linked healthcare system is burdensome to both employers and employees. It’s not going to change without a dramatic change to the group insurance model.
Hass.io is homeassistants distribution for raspberry pi (and I think other devices as well) which runs docker and home assistant itself.
The plugins allow to extend homeassistant with standalone software e.g. MariaDB or mosquitto.
Those programs aren't part of or written for homeassistant but are accessed through network.
Passwordless logins through email should be an option, not the only method.
I'm insulting Elon Musk for being a rude jerk. And according to his own argument, I'm getting away with it. I mean, no one could possibly equate Elon Musk with something that noxious waste spews from, could they?
Because natural talent alone is not sufficient to be the best at something. It takes time and work. Fans only see the end result, and miss the life dedication to achieving that result. When genetic talent plus insane work ethic collide you get people like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James. Without a work ethic they all may have made it to the NBA, but I doubt we would have known their names. You also have people like Steph Curry, who at least on the surface isn't a genetic freak, but has been practicing basketball since before he could walk.

Knowing he’s ordinary, he’s always trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he’s had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody’s talking about his ‘god-given talent.’ That’s how men who don’t try very hard comfort themselves.” -Musashi
> I can't get my head around why I would let some ads trough to earn some bucks. It totally missing the point.

The point is so you and everyone else can continue to enjoy free content.

> What we really need is a way to pay for content so content creators can survive without ad revenue.

Brave solves this as well. You can buy BAT instead of earning it by allowing ads. BAT is distributed to content creators with ads on or off.
I got into consulting mostly for the freedom and schedule flexibility. I work when I want to, and if I wake up feeling tired or unmotivated I can take a morning off instead of having to grind through it. And I can spend significantly less time working overall.

I've also found that consulting gives me a healthy amount of emotional separation from my work. I'm hired for a specific task, and I can take pride in doing that well. The long-term success of the client isn't my problem and I don't have to stress about it.
Assuming your truths are reasoned then yes, but that is not the only way to have a truth. Second hand truths inherited from others can be instilled by an emotional relationship or claims of a spiritual experience from drug taking can generate psychological experiences that are sourced as more true than reason.
> I’ll go out and say, a person who is not born in Australia should not be allowed to run for public office. Please provide a strong argument otherwise.

I'll bite. I'm an Australian citizen (born and lived +25 years there) who now lives in France. My son was born in France but qualifies for Australian citizenship. Should he return to Australia, renounce his French citizenship, and run for office, why shouldn't he be able to serve?

Australia is a country of immigrants. Where someone is born is hardly a good guide to whether they are capable of representing other Australians in the parliament.

Why do you believe that my son or anyone else born overseas would be set on subverting their new home?

Or from another side, why would my son (born in France) be any more subversive to the Australian system than me (born in Australia)? Why is where I am born a good guide to whether I'll be subverting the system in favor of France (in this case, or China in your example)?
Windows CE and Symbian weren't as complicated and yet had even less memory to play with.
And Lesson to Learn is when real life problems come, people will ask can you solve the problem not what grade you got.
And Symbian did as well.
> And for all vaccines that will be used in the future?

What an absurd presumption. Erect a slippery slope and challenge me to defend it all the way to the bottom? No thank.

These things need intensive scientific studies to be proven safe. I assume that most will fail before they reach human trial. And policies surrounding vaccines should be done on a case by case basis.
Tensorflow is a proof that some people in Google don't understand software engineering: They don't know and can't decide even what interface they want to expose/hide.

It is a disaster.
Obviously time doesn't exist. Too much confusion about it in popular science articles makes people hard to understand it. Like here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170233.
On Android's case, free beer for OEMs above all.
(working in the field and away from my computer so using a throaway)

Basically you have two different laws that apply here. Eprivacy and the GDPR:

* Eprivacy has been updated in 2009 and says that you need consent of the user for any read/write operation in the user terminal, unless it has been specifically requested by the user. The wording is strange, but it has been interpreted mostly as being about cookies and any other sorts of tracers. That includes fingerprinting. The thing is, it is a directive, so each European country transcribed it slightly differently! Sometimes, the national DPA (data protection agency) does not even have the authority to apply this law. This is the infamous "cookie banner" law. Note that all login cookies, cart cookies, consent cookies are generally regarded as exempted since they are needed to provide the service asked for by the user.

* The GDPR that everybody knows.

The thing is, since the GDPR, the consensus among DPAs has been that the consent used in Eprivacy is in fact the "GDPR consent" (freely given, no negative consequence, easy to withdraw, requires a positive act, and so on). This is a major change, because most cookie banners used now don't have those characteristics. Keep on scrolling to consent won't fly. "I consent"/"more option" buttons won't fly. "Use you browser settings to block cookie if you don't like it" won't fly. Cookie walls won't fly.

This is the current interpretation of the law among most DPAs. And yes, most website are violating it, but in the sense of Eprivacy, not the GDPR. The non harmonization on the European level makes it harder to engage in repressive action but I have faith that this will soon change.

In the case described by the article, you would need a GDPR consent to carry on fingerprinting, so TikTok is in violation of EPrivacy. When DPAs will start repression, they could be targeted for that.

My two cents!
To use a fun analogy, the teachers write the unit tests and you pass them by writing a mock or fake implementation of knowledge.

edit: and now I got to a point in the article where that's pretty much already said. Well, too late to delete this comment now.