skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many species able to create damages by several millions of dollars (Not, I'm not joking).

Genetic contamination of endangered native plants with hybrids that are almost identical (or had being genetically modified), would be also a huge mistake
They are not wrong, but also not right in all scenarios. Truth very much depends on the reactor design.
Thorium is often associated with Gen4 reactors which are responsible for the claims of superior safety. Not much, but some of the safety benefit comes from thorium. Similar for the claim of less waste: Some reactors have better neutron economy, burning their own waste down to more shortlived and therefore "better" isotopes. Or, by the same mechanism, can utilize existing waste as fuel. Also, continuous loading and separation of isotopes only works well with liquid fuels which is a Gen4 idea.

Thorium is more of a side-topic there.

On the economic side of whether thorium is cheaper, the submission argues in a very underhanded manner. Yes, fuel is cheap compared to building the plant in all cases. But the fuel cost of thorium is an order of magnitude below uranium due to no enrichment (for light water reactors in the fuel, for heavy water reactors of the water). And possibly (for liquid core reactors) the unnecessary fuel elements production.
I'd be curious what type of insight they're getting from markets such as China, India, Russia, South America and SEA. I couldn't find much on their site. Their estimate could still be relevant for their target market, while being completely off globally.

Also, only looking at public internet traffic is a mistake since this isn't solely where AWS is trying to compete. You need to consider _all_ hosting, including government, intranet and other private players, which AWS does attempt to capture.
I think pg makes an excellent point here.

The Modern American Think Piece is ripe for disruption. I, like I imagine many HNers, am troubled by the shameless grift, anti-intellectualism, and dull senility of the current fashionable op-ed essay hegemony (The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, and People. I hope to be one small part conquering this decrepit aged cement hedonism, if I can be cursorily self-promotional.

Nevertheless, I think pg's fine wisdom shines again in this elegant (and yet fashionable) think piece.
On my computer I ended up going through a rdtsc instead of a syscall…
Drew: unrelated question having just read your software distribution post and noticing you use Alpine - have you tried NixOS? What does Alpine have (or lack that others have)?
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Agreed. There is still a lot of work left to do!
Give it some more thought. By having a third level, your representative is only shared with another few hundred people, and you talk to him/her semi-regularly. And the 2nd level rep talks to that person regularly. And your concerns and values get heard and acted on.

Instead, in the current system, whoever has enough income or clout gets to talk to the Congress reps, and everyone else doesn't matter that much, because their vote can be bought with some well targeted political ads exposing the opponent as [insert unacceptable description here].
> As for static libc: please don't do this.

Preaching to the converted here, I'm a big fan of dynamic linking. It seems that while Go binaries are generally statically linked (last time I checked, which was a while ago), that libc is generally dynamically linked for the reasons that you have stated, also also because some features like NSS require dynamic linking to work correctly.

Disclaimer: I mostly program in C and C++, not Rust or Go (yet).
A popular hybrid model with programs like UltraEdit and many Wordpress plugins is you pay once to own the software, get free updates and support for X amount of time, then have the option to extend or renew later if you want to. I can still email UltraEdit and get installation links for my copy dating from before 2013, and I did recently (I still enjoy using it for some specific tasks).
Wow. That's impressive.

Crystal is a solid alternative to Go. I gave it a solid look when figuring out which language I should learn. The only reason Crystal didn't make it is because it's just missing some core features. The one that sticks out is there is no way to get the length of a channel last time I looked.

But this is impressive and I can't wait to see what's next
Isn't Amazon comparison shopping on its own though? As multiple sellers can sell the same item at different set prices? All able to offer FBA 2 day shipping?
What bullying? Mean editorials and tweets?
All his life, his health was poor. It took more than 50 years to find out why
Very insightful and cool to hear about new tech making it into the MRFs. I was impressed back in~2014 so I bet there are way neater techniques now days.
I use Clockify for personal stuff. Is Timelite competing with that?
Android is even worse in this regard. There really is no way to undo changes in text fields! I'm generally a happy android user, but I find it absolutely infuriating that this hasn't been implemented. Text editing on phones is fiddly, and I've lost quite a few comments/messages due to this issue.
What is that beautiful desktop wallpaper? any source?
Good for you! Just don't expect us to pay for your recovery if you fry your brain on it.
Ironically they are using some sort of Clay Linux and SUSE for the new Big Red III
There's a link at the bottom of the readme.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/78375860

Seems to require login, though.
Wow. Preemptive multitasking, graphical window management, POSIX-like, in a programming language that to my knowledge it hasn't yet been done in... and in just several months of work.

There's no smoke and mirrors as far as I can tell. I dug back to the initial commit: https://github.com/ffwff/lilith/commit/c9fa1053dc6a22d630ee6... - and it's just bootstrapping to VGA.

Very well done, and inspiring. Makes me want to try OS dev again.
Yang is to be credited for stating he is open to all possible solutions to the climate crisis, and rightly pointing out that with a crisis of this magnitude no solutions should be taken off the table at this point. Something other candidates are reluctant to do when it comes to the topic of nuclear energy.

He shouldn’t be expected to be an expert in the nuances of the technology or fuels. This should always be left to the appropriate experts in the Dept of Energy, etc. The job of the president should be to identify the problem (in this case climate change), and task the appropriate agencies with solving it, which will involve a variety of actions.
Nope, not in any way. There's a use for larger solutions like Clockify even if it's just personal stuff and not with a group. I just want a small timer with a log sometimes though and that's what Timelite is for. Clockify is a perfectly fine solution for that too if you need it's features.
No, at no point in this conversation did I discuss what should be done in response to Amazon's monopoly power.
For me the magnifier didn’t help since the cursor would always move as I lifted my finger.
It is completely free.
Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
I highly recommend to anyone that has not tried it: do LSD whenever you are given the chance. Preferably, as in Leary's timeless wisdom, it takes place in a "good setting and setting." However, this ought not to disturb you. Make sure you have friends around for your first time, some favorite tunes to listen to, and maybe even a hiking trail to mosey on through. That's all you need really.

I understand that microdosing is fashionable (aha that pg advice comes in handy right away) but doing large proper "acid trip dood" amounts of LSD is also quite beneficial too. It's like psilocybin, for anybody who's done mushrooms but not LSD, yet distinct in its very own manner. Can be both zany and lucid perfectly simultaneously.

However, all that high (hah) praise noted, I want to warn that this is best avoided for those with a family history of schizophrenia. It is a well-documented fact that psychedelics can trigger latent mental illnesses, especially schizophrenia.
This one is pretty good : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otoCxbZel1o
Or just use the long-press menu like you have been for ten years? Nothing changed.
Pragmatic Programmer is still a good book, not as revealing as before but still has lots of good advice.

Code Complete is a problematic book. It has some good ideas but also has some very bad ones (cone of uncertainty, 10 times productivity in good programmers, etc).

Design Patterns is mostly obsolete. Functional programming techniques made a lot of Object Oriented techniques irrelevant (e.g.: observer pattern vs callbacks with lambdas).

Art of Computer Programming is the book everyone mentions but no one reads. A classic that people actually read is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

My recommendations: "Code" by Charles Petzold,"Don't make me think" by Steve Krug, Working Effectivelly with Legacy Code, by Robert Feathers, Clean Code by uncle Bob,..
I have one of the few Android phones with a physical keyboard and I have the dollar sign key mapped to ctrl. I was pleased to discover ctrl-z works the way it should. This doesn't help the vast majority of users, I know, but it's one more thing I love about having a physical keyboard on my phone.
Sorry, I mean free as in "Libre". Freedom to do what you want with the software.
WiFi toggle is in the Settings app where it's always been. What's so confusing about that?
If some other party did have your contact info and marketed to you based on your purchases, controlled the entire transaction, shipped the product to you, etc, each detail makes them more the retailer and the third party "seller" more of a supplier than a retailer.
I'm involved in a public education nuclear website. We get tons of questions about thorium so we made a few pages to handle stuff like this. For instance, we have one on molten salt reactors specifically (which aren't always fueled with thorium) [1].

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html

And then we have our most popular, the Thorium Myths page [2].

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html

I love that Yang is bringing the discussion to the capabilities of nuclear technology even if I consider it a bit misguided to focus on the thorium fuel cycle. There's a phrase in nuclear advocacy today: "Come for the thorium, stay for the reactors"
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So can once and forever tell me someone why I can be tracked by a 3rd party app when I explicitly disable location services in my android phone? I'm not.talking about the device vendor or OS maker.

Can it really be so many people are so god damn stupid to leave that service on all the time or is it me here being goddamn stupid and naive :)
What is the half life of the replacement parts of a windmill?
Glad to see Don Norman getting some attention. I’ve always liked him. The Design of Everyday Things should, IMO, be required reading for anyone that designs anything.

I think that Tog feels similarly. When OSX came out, he wrote a polemic, slamming the Dock.
The convenience of not having to learn another interface is worth it to me. booking.com may suck, but the individual hotel's website will probably be less usable in the basic sense of taking more clicks to get a booking done and be unfamiliar. Agoda is no better than booking.com, Google doesn't have enough coverage. So what's the alternative?
Beautiful writing by a man who seems to have lived exactly the kind of life all of us should aspire to: a life that encompasses the totality of the human spirit. While not always easy and most certainly chalk full of regret, the alternative is of no life at all. I firmly believe one should die thinking about what a crazy trip it’s been.
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If it is not stable enough then it is unstable. Where do you draw the bar on stability, if not airworthiness?
Yes it’s more complicated but that’s how all security works and why security exploits are more expensive today than before.

That's how security theater for software works. Today's attackers are well-funded and technically competent. This is a a defense against script kiddies.

The way to get rid of buffer overflows is to get rid of C in trusted code, not requiring users to go through libc. It isn't hard any more. We have Go, Rust, C#, Java, and even node.js and Python for server side. If you're running C in a user-facing server application, you're doing it wrong.
Hell yeah Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't is my favorite damn YouTube channel.

Like everyone else here, I sing high praise of Tony. His absolutely lovable one-in-a-million combative yet beautifully intelligent personality is perfect. I've developed a recent intense interest in revisiting my garden, which I attribute exclusively to stumbling upon his videos. Sometimes YouTube's Big Algorithm does something right. :)
Hence the aforementioned PDF/A, which is a version with a fixed set of features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
the study demonstrsted safety, not effectiveness; which is ironic, because the safety of lsd is well established, while the effectiveness of anything to treat alzheimers is not.
Crystal has the most badass color on Github. Solid black.
Its easy to make bombs from U-233. In fact it is better than plutonium in some rare circumstances. Check out the discussion and cool declassified letter from the Livermore bomb letters here: https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html#myth3
You shouldn't expect unbiased analysis from anyone, about anything. Don't look at other peoples' viewpoints as something to either wholly adopt or wholly reject; instead as datapoints to influence your own :)
Metrics, A/B testing and top-down management. It's well-known that commissioned salespeople always acted like this. A/B testing means the whole website has the same incentives as someone working on commission, and the same behaviour will result.
My wife's mom is very similar, from the physical abuse to the insults. Our church friends (those who know) generally get it, but we've had interactions where my wife has been criticized for not having an active relationship with her.

There comes a point at which you can forgive, you can let go, but you can't invite them into your life, both for your family's safety (literally) and per their own wishes. They've shown many times that they don't want a relationship. They want to use you, control you, and abuse you until you try to kill yourself.

It's hard to grasp for someone who hasn't been intimately connected with that type of personality, but there are some parents who genuinely don't love their children and shouldn't be near them.
It's actually #000100.
So apparently the euphemism for annoying sign-on-stick ads is a “bandit sign.” Junk removal business thriving by spreading more junk.
I don't even know what to say, but you are definitely the captain now.
Agreed. Super impressive. I really like Crystal and hope it continues to get traction.
I just wish they offered a one-time payment as they used to on Steam. I hate having to budget for another subscription.

I think thats ironic.
Same, I know someone who worked there early on and they speak highly of the company & the culture
Who could be right, the multiple designers who do this every day, or my opinion about data (which I don't see backed up by any data)? If Steve Jobs had followed user preference he'd have made a faster flip phone.

On another topic, putting someone's job into quotes just isn't a good look for any argument. If you have to straw man to get your point across, it might not be that great.
Maybe it's just because I come from Ruby, but Crystal seems like an amazing language. I'm interested why it seems to be getting little attention compared to Go, Rust, & Julia. It seems in the same league to me.

Kotlin and Swift have more obvious reasons for their adoption.
Oh nice! Mine has left-shift and right-shift, I mapped right-shift to ctrl long ago (so I can use screen when ssh'ing from my phone) but never thought to try - undo (and redo, ctrl+y) both work here too.
> similar radioactivity at 100 years to uranium-plutonium fuel cycles, and actually has higher waste radioactivity at 100,000 years

At 100 years your radioactivity is still dominated by fission products, which are the same in either reactor. At 100,000 years the radioactivity is minuscule with any reactor.

But what you don't have with thorium or fast uranium reactors is a lot of transuranic waste, like plutonium. That's the stuff that people think has to be contained for 10,000 years. With just fission products, you're back to the radioactivity of the original ore in 300 years. You do get a bit of very long-lived fission product but it's not much radioactivity.

Also, the total volume of waste is about 1% as much as with conventional reactors, since 99% of conventional waste is (mostly) U238, some leftover U235, and transuranics. A molten salt fast reactor will fission all of that very effectively, and a thorium reactor doesn't have the U238 or make as much transuranic in the first place.
Exactly. The takeaway should be that Yang is approaching this issue from a position of technical merit and not on an irrational emotional basis like most others. This is to his credit. Properly technocratic leadership is rare in the USA and it's beyond time for them to experiment with it.

In my opinion the analysis linked to from HN is laughably flawed. It's not exactly wrong, but it's so terse and reductive that it might as well be. For example— while the waste from the thorium fuel cycle could be used to make weapons, but the fuel would always include some Uranium 232 (a gamma emitter) and therefore it's more difficult to handle safely and your entire weapon manufacturing pipeline is able to be monitored from afar by foreign governments.
I've been reading The Economist's Hour by Binyamin Applebaum[1], which presents the dramatic changes of antitrust interpretation in some depth. Recommended read btw.

Bork credited Aaron Director, one of the first generation of the Chicago School and Friedman's brother in law, as his main influence. So making the consumer and efficiency the focus can be considered an early casualty of the wave of neoliberal deregulation we've been living with for decades.

Of course what is not considered is impact on workers, innovation, political power, market etc. Essentially it's hollowed out to benefit large business.

[1] https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/08/31/when-eco...
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I don’t dispute most of the factual claims in this article.

But this whole lens on what creativity “is” smacks of someone really hoping something so mysterious can be explained using concrete and easy to understand concepts.

I’ve personally known and worked with some real creative powerhouses.

This sort of article doesn’t really address what makes them effective. It especially doesn’t describe how they seem to think about it, which, I would say is the most interesting topic.
Sure, but the problem is most demand occurs when intermittent sources do not produce energy. This plan really aims for about 40% green energy not 95% green energy. Hence why Germany's emissions have remained flat despite large increases in solar and wind generation.
The author makes this exact point if you read past the 3 bullet points up top, such as the part about how Amazon has 50% of book sales, noting that to regulators it matters how you slice it.
While this is probably wrong, it’s a fascinating theory.
Hi all. Sharing with you a rudimentary webapp I had been running locally until now. It's an aggregation of several podcast feeds I follow which are related to software engineering and web development, nothing more.
> But the fuel cost of thorium is an order of magnitude below uranium due to no enrichment

This turns out not to be true in practice. Uranium-238 is fertile just like Thorium-232. To run a reactor off either of these fertile fuels requires breeder reactor technology, which involves chemical separations and exotic fluids. In practice, this has always been more expensive, even though the U-238 or Th-232 is not enriched. It turns out that breeder reactor infrastructure outweighs the cost reduction in not having to enrich.

In fact, this is the primary reason that we don't have any breeder reactors today: it's simply cheaper to mine and enrich uranium than to reprocess. There are political reasons as well, but the primary reason is this economics.
At the last company I worked with, our React codebase was very heavy with enums for exactly this reason (thank you Typescript). Anecdotally, it makes reading a new codebase WAY easier: switch(state) is much easier to understand than if (a bunch of flags).
What's Crystal's unique selling point? It's older than Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Nim, or even OCaml, and doesn't really offer anything they don't. More Ruby-like syntax? Fine, but most people don't particularly like Ruby syntax.
Interesting choice of syscalls: https://github.com/ffwff/lilith/blob/master/userspace/librar.... No fork; instead it seems to implement spawnv.
Apple TV without a doubt has the most poorly designed UI of any Apple product.

There is so many problems with it it’s like they invented AppleTv+ solely to raise money to pay a team to basically entirely rewrite AppleTV.

It’s hard to believe Apple even sells the AppleTV.
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Glassdoor is about the crappiest website I’ve seen. Requires a different login for each of it’s 100 country domains it has. Never seen anyone do it that unprofessionally. My .com login isn’t accept on .co.uk and when I reload the page it goes to .hk where I currently am and my login isn’t accepted there either.
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I hope you're not suggesting that modern mitigations such as W^X and ASLR are "security theater" :/
im not sure it's useful to hold yang accountable for such technical minutae. i generally believe that nuclear has an important role to play in our mitigation of climate change, but that our bias to remember flash-point events like chernobyl and fukushima will overshadow the far more deadly and ubiquitous proliferation of CO2 and methane that lacks the same "pizazz"
Even though it's 03:06 at midnight local time I just shot Apple a support ticket asking for help. I assure you that Angeldust is/should be available on both the iTunes and Mac App Store.

If you're still interested in trying out the product, can you try manually searching for "Angeldust"? I'm using the Dutch App Store(s) and the product shows up on multiple Macs and with/without being signed in.
Some of US Military's current R&D needs (SBIR 20.A and 20.1)
So PDFs are the Mercedes Benz of document formats?
> and if no one steps up to maintain it, it will be removed.

"You don't break userspace". How many decades until people who no longer have source for the broken binaries that they run will stop complaining?

How long until sysadmins know to turn the knobs on?

How many knobs are sustainable? How much will they interact, and in how many ways will those interactions expose vulnerabilities?

The Linux way to introduce this is hell for everyone involved.
2019 is the year the world turned on big tech
That's an interesting take, I didn't even consider the privacy issues of remote medical sensing.
Congratulations, amazing work!

I absolutely love how you have opted out for frameworks on the website and that it just work. Kudos!

The same for your considerations for making it work on old hardware and you comments on your live stream today about your old Mac and making it run on Windows XP as well.

More developers need that attitude.

I wish you all the best and I hope this becomes a Minecraft size success!
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