skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'What if' scenarios were the rationale for building nuclear arsenals in the first place.

The Soviet submarine example is an interesting 'what if' because the same Soviet rules of engagement that entitled the crew to decide to launch tactical nuclear weapons against potential threats required unanimous approval from all senior officers, and only one of the three argued against a launch. We're obviously talking about relatively small tactical nuclear torpedos against a naval fleet rather than wiping out cities here, but I'm not sure that example of one in three opposing a nuclear response supports the narrative that we won't find any people willing to fire low yield nuclear weapons against [notional] military targets in the event of a presidential order against a recognised hostile power, even if there are others in the military who would try to stop it.
Given it affects the ESR release, I suspect it's been around a while. More details would be indeed be nice!
Anyone quickly know if this fixes a bug introduced yesterday by 72, or if this is a longstanding bug?

(e.g. Canonical seems to still be on firefox 71 via standard ppa)
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Airpods dominate because when you put them in your ears, they work immediately. They also have a great case, which means you usually have them with you when you need them.
In the case of many games (mostly shallow MMOs), it is so much more fun to reverse engineer and break the game than it is to actually play the game.
> facepalm

Sorry if it sounded sarcastic, this was a sincere question.
Numbers like 8088 vs 80286 vs 80386DX vs 80386SX (which was basically a 286 iirc) were confusing to people back then too. :) Then you had the 486SX and DX and Cyrix introducing things like the 486DLC...
Or that 1 apc (attoparsec) is ~3cm...
I feel like there's an important message somewhere in this post
oh... now I understand the purpose of the TDMA. Using actual optical switching to interconnect. Very interesting!

Got any pointers to the sort of optical switching components you're using?

[I've been out of the networking business professionally for almost a decade now, so I'm a bit out of touch with the state of the art in optical stuff--- I was somewhat surprised recently to learn of the existence and low cost of LR4 40gb optics. :P]
My argument would be that some kind of coordinated global price on carbon would be an economically cheaper way to prevent and mitigate climate change than arbitrary and unbounded externalization of the costs of it on individuals.

I agree with you that there's a deep and fundamental coordination problem, which is why de facto I think technological solutions will be what have to save us. Which is basically putting many millions of lives at stake with a hope and a prayer, but that's the best we have.
> As often said when trying to push a bad solution instead of a good one.

Natural gas isn't meant to be a solution, so it doesn't make any sense of complain about it. The US is switching to it because it's better than coal in almost every way (safer extraction, cost, air population, carbon). We're essentially getting the benefits of natural gas for free.
Both are heavily subsidized due to externalities. So wind and solar subsidies seem good to do given that reality.
It's not structured as a zero-sum game.

Unless you take money from some people and give it to people who don't feel like working. That would be zero-sum.
Having such a repo would be great, but IMO we'd still need those dumb PDFs.
You can step outside without being in a vacuum.

Have you read the Expanse books? They kind of touch on this subject.
Are there other runways that are so dead-on?
What is the type of apps that one should use D for ?
I think this is one of the main issues with languages that did not gain traction and that is they are too generic and try to be too many things to too many people.

If i exclude the financial backing i think languages that tried to tackle one specific thing did rather well. Rust came to be to address the issue with security and there is not really an alternative. Yes people use it for cli tools or backend services but that’s just because they are riding the hype train.

The same with Go.

On the other hand we have things like Dart which did not really try to solve an issue people felt they have.
The same with Crystal.
Nobody really needed faster Ruby that much and if they did they already needed a production ready solution which was just too hard to deliver.

A language like Nim reminds me of D. Its author is also a brilliant Phd CS person but I feel like he does not really have a problem to solve. It’s all just an intellectual challenge. Companies like Status.im ( backer of Nim ) have a problem that they are trying to solve by using Nim. Making the right and the perfect solutions is hard but this evolutionary approach is really harming the expansion of the ecosystem. Nim has just too many features and too many approaches to memory management (recent gc:arc release). But it is all too half baked and does not support the features Nim advertises that it has.

This is basically the same issue i have with D. I have no idea what I would use D for. And could i rely on D in the domain i pick it for ?
Eg the same field where Go excels.
Not by the metrics "tediousness" and "applicability to later vim usage".
Ah yes, the old everything-is-broken-and-software-engineering-has-all-the-answers trope.
Natural gas seems like tech dept to me. Take short term gain over long term. Hope that you'll address the tech dept sooner rather then later.

Sometimes that's the right call, and sometime the wrong call. I'm not qualified to tell, but I don't think this is a case of perfect being the enemy of the good, since all the other alternatives aren't perfect either, and seem equally viable, as opposed to a perfect over engineered solution that would never ever be able to actually materialize and ship, which is generally when the phrase perfect is the enemy of the good applies.
This is an amazing collection of advice and experience. I'm not a woman in tech but I have worked with and managed plenty. I really appreciate this list being shared and publicized. Hopefully it helps some people stay in the field longer than they otherwise would have!
I find myself on the opposing side of this debate. I am fine with hiding local gems from the frothing online masses. I don't want to one day go on a favored hike of mine, which has always been deserted and hard to get to, only to find it swamped with gumbies because someone posted it online. I would especially resent it if I were to find that the newcomers were all tourists or out-of-towners.

Locals put time, money, and effort into outdoor locals and communities, often in the form of trail or crag restoration/cleanup days. It is completely understandable that they don't want to see, for example, their favorite "hidden" trails ruined from the impact of a 10x increase in traffic and the associated littering, defecating, urinating, drones, off-leash dogs, loud children, etc. Locals deserve to reap the rewards of their efforts. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's.

I, personally, have found some boulders that I cleaned and developed for bouldering. Never in my life will I put their location on mountainproject or a similar crowd-sourcing site. The risk for idiots blasting music or littering is too great.

Is it elitist? Yes. I think this is an issue where elitism is fine.
I don't think he means it's a valid justification, just a rationalization that is sometimes used, whether valid or not
>> Not a huge fan of 3D printed cases since they will probably not do super great with the heat over time. If you like this form factor, check out the mini-box M350 or the Velka Velcase 3.

I can see that. The original Mellori has been running over a year with no issues. The plastic is mostly 3mm thick, and the cooling solution covers most of the inside surface. It's my development machine, so it doesn't work as hard as gaming would push it. Compiling code will max all 8 threads for a minute or two, but the fan doesn't even spin up all the way.

>> the lack of a B550 launch to support PCIe 4.0 on a cheaper board without a chipset fan

Yeah, I was looking at the Aorus x570. It looks like the fan is attached to a NVME cooler. I could probably remove that and put a passive heat sink on. The case has good airflow right across that area when there's no GFX card in the slot - air has to go around the edges of the board and out the bottom. With an APU the only use for PCIe 4.0 is for the M.2 slots which are pretty fast even with 3.0. I'm also considering the Aorus B450I as a much cheaper alternative.

I've also considered having it printed from metal.
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> and their navy consists of speed boats.

> and they have good ballistic missile capabilities

That's not a bad resource mix to potentially defeat the US Navy using asymmetric tactics:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a30392654/millenni...

>> Once U.S. forces were within range, Van Riper’s forces unleashed a barrage of missiles from ground-based launchers, commercial ships, and planes flying low and without radio communications to reduce their radar signature. Simultaneously, swarms of speedboats loaded with explosives launched kamikaze attacks. The carrier battle group’s Aegis radar system—which tracks and attempts to intercept incoming missiles—was quickly overwhelmed, and 19 U.S. ships were sunk, including the carrier, several cruisers, and five amphibious ships. “The whole thing was over in five, maybe ten minutes,” Van Riper said.

> The problem? U.S. forces had expected Van Riper to sit back and come under attack, and then to launch a counterattack with his surviving forces, which could be easily brushed aside. Van Riper, who actually wanted to win the exercise, refused to sit on his hands and let the Americans attack first.
TeenVogue has done some of the best political and cultural reporting over the last few years. Teenage girls these days apparently care very deeply about the issues that matter. Today's scandal was surprising to me.
That's the first thing hackers try. The packets are almost certainly encrypted and checksum'ed in a way where tampering is immediately obvious. You end up at the same place - having to modify/hook into the game internals to bypass the anti-cheat.
Agreed. Bisecting a deep and complex version history can be a lifesaver, especially under a time crunch.

Fossil has bisecting with much the same CLI as Git, for what that's worth.
I was suggesting @crystaldev may not have.

And, more significantly, and as you've confirmed, not all in-memory processing is equivalent. There are faster and slower all-in-memory algorithms and implementations

Hrm... Maybe a bogounique implementation might be appropriate here....

(By analogy to bogosort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort)
Summer batch 2020 YC application
Any of you know when the summer 2020 applications START?
That's a great way to compute the distance to a star from yourself stuck on Earth for half a year.

It's not a great way to understand the magnitude of that distance when planning a trip.
They sure did show those empty tents what for.
I always thought of the 6809 as the Chrysler Cordoba of 8 bit microprocessors, with soft Corinthian Leather upholstery and a luxurious automatic multiply instruction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsg97bxuJnc
This is what winning looks like.
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As with so many things domain name related, what is or is not valid varies by and is determined by registrar. The biggest registrars (.com, .net, .org as three examples) generally have a lot of restrictions on IDNs, whereas many countries can afford to allow just about the full gamut of Unicode if they wish.
Master Dongshan said, "Only when the verbal teachings of the Patriarchs and Buddhas are like born enemies do you have a part in study." If you cannot pass beyond, you will be fooled by the Patriarchs and Buddhas.

Dahui Zhonggao
Many people say distance when they mean distance.
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Its solid-state. Old Lidar needed an expensive revolving sensor
> It it a noun vs adjective thing that I'm missing?

Yes, you'll notice they never use the singular "Democrat". They describe democrats, the Democratic party, etc. but only Republicans started using this bizarre "Democrat Party" or the "Democrat nominee" thing.
There is a lot of protest around Hambacher Forst. It may take some time, but then these things will be history. Like the hard-coal mines in Germany, which have been closed. But the production in Germany of coal is actually useful to remind people, that a lot of coal is imported from much larger coal producers and it's not a great idea to close coal mines in Germany and keep buying coal from elsewhere.

Checkout how many mines have been closed by now for 'Braunkohle' / lignite.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Braunkohletage...

East Germany ALONE produced end 80s almost twice as much lignite as the reunited Germany today.

> Maybe Germans should ask their french neighbor for an extension cable or two...

There's the idea for the EU-wide grid and energy market. It's all happening and will take decades, but it is in the works.
As family's age so does our culture and traditions
I can remember being a young teenager and my relatives asking me to help with the family traditions making various foods and alike. I always snubbed this family time to boring or not interested and rather spend time with friends or playing video games.

Fast forward a decade later, I now realize the importance of both spending time with family and how I wish I can go back and learn my family's culture/traditions which can now be passed on to my kids.

Time is a funny thing, it's wasn't valued early on, at least in my case, but it has a way of coming back with a vengeance.

I think it's important to record perhaps even share our family's traditions with family or even others who are interested. Since it has become apparent age isn't slowing down anytime soon, I thought I could look into solving this problem for selfish reasons, but I also think it could benefit others in the community as well.

Since I am planning to solve this personal issue, I drafted a quick survey, which I think may help me and/others who are interested.

If you'd like to fill out the survey please do so here:

https://forms.gle/vHcQGPXapzswVt6Z7

Thanks so much for your time.
Given how fast the human race evolved (compared to how old the earth and life is,) I wouldn't make any assumptions about multicellular life.
That's an awesome book. One must remember that it was written by Caesar as a political tool - hence, it's more of a boastful biography rather than an objective non-fiction book. Never the less, the book is great anyhow.
Well I definitely didn't expect to see this at the end:

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 – 1934)

But I believe he's probably still right in 2020.
remote work

travel less

focus on developing strong local relationships
I suspect Uber usage will dramatically plummet after this. Because they have introduced uncertainty in the consumer experience/pricing.

Has any business that has adopted this ever NOT lost customers? What other commodity is offered at ‘flexible’ pricing?

Interesting that it’s only in California. How long before this spreads.

Also: [..] For riders, there are potential downsides. Short hops might get rejected. “If you just have to get across town quickly at rush hour, will drivers say, ‘Forget it, I won’t make any money,’?” Miller said.

Drivers also could refuse to take trips going to certain neighborhoods, a form of discrimination against lower-income areas.

Uber, which cautioned in its blog post that drivers should not engage in discriminatory rejections of trips, said it will monitor trips to guard against these issues.[..]
By internalizing the cost of pollution, specifically, a carbon tax (though also a methane tax and a mercury tax).

I don't know if nuclear plants are covering the costs of storing spent fuel, but they should, and coal and natural gas plants should have to pay for the crap they release into the air.

Markets will only allocate resources appropriately if you internalize externalities. I can't think of a case where doing so is the wrong decision.
They've already been used.
>>if we want that to change there needs to be some source of external regulations to prevent it from happening.

External Regulations is what created the problem in the first place

it is a Perversion of Copyright, Patent and trademark laws that allow these companies to lock down their hardware in the first place

A return to proper, very limited, copyright is the solution, not more business regulations
>What I would prefer to see is a LiDAR/RADAR combination. When both systems rely on "photons" you suffer the same inherited weaknesses of both. i.e. fog

Fog isn't the only problem with relying on ambient photos. "Nighttime" is a really big problem here.

I really don't get this idea that optical sensors and processing are the solution for autonomous navigation. I propose this simple test for the pro-camera people: get in your car at 1AM, drive to a very rural place with a windy road, then turn off your headlights, and try driving on that road at 55mph. If you survive, come back and tell us how safe you think that exercise was.

LiDAR doesn't have this problem, because it generates its own light source (a laser), and doesn't need overly-bright headlights to turn darkness into daytime, with all the problems that's now causing (light pollution, vision problems in people who drive at night from all the glare, etc.).
Why is this the top comment?

@dang, spam account posting misleading comments
If you find any proven cases where a vegan was inspired to start eating meat because of this name, I look forward to seeing your investigatory blog post.

All kidding aside, even if you are against the idea of being a carnivore, the name of a programming language does not promote such a thing.
This is absurd, are you aware that people in Croatia had a mass epidemic of thyroid failures in children? That is a massive endocrine disruption at a very young age, these people then had children themselves and the affects to them have yet to be discovered, I worked with a woman in Istria that voiced these concerns, her child had to be hospitalized several times for weight loss and and heart beat iregularities. She was a proponent of entering the EU solely because her child may have a chance to have access to more promising medical technology.

Fukushima is habitable? Are you seriously insane? This is Abe's solution to get people to move back:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/japan-fukushim...

Chernobyl devastated large swaths of Ag land in Germany when it happened that still haven't entirely recovered...

Listen, maybe these things didn't have a direct impact on YOU so you honestly believe this, but I've seen it and lived with the affects of Nuclear Energy accident first hand, and they are costly environmentally and devastating psychologically. Its what turned me into a staunch environmental activist, but the toll of it is something I have to bear alone, and PTSD is only one of the things I have to live with, and I was an adult when it happened.

I cannot even bring myself to look at what has happened in the near 9 years since Fukushima's children were exposed in masse anymore for fear of inducing panic attacks. I can't even go to my friend's wedding this Spring in Japan because of the fear and panic I feel inside. They were already having a very significant spike in thyroid disruptions in 2012, heart problems soon followed, and the cover up began for pregnancies from that time--just as they were during Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I'd say that the biggest proponent(s) of Nuclear should have to live next to the plants themselves, which incidentally are being phased out in California due to our collective efforts, and see what those 'safe levels' really mean. But go ahead, get a remote job and live next to some of the most grossest offenders in the US for a decade and then we can re-evaluate your position:

https://www.times.org/nuclear-power-back/2018/3/8/the-most-d...

Until then, you're just mis-informed entirely about the reality of Nuclear Energy Production and its consequences, and have at best a very glib understanding of it. Hell, to this day I cannot find a proper study done on them monitoring the radiation effluence from San Onofre and its surrounding areas from before then event and leading up to the massive leak. Let alone the epidemiological impacts of it, my old landlord just died in December from heart-failure and he was a lobster fisherman from the San Onofre region.
> Bluetooth may really get better next year

If you believe this, I've got a bridge to sell you.

It basically doesn't matter what "bluetooth" the absurd, bloated standard says. What matters is what implementers do, and what they'll do is hack together the cheapest, fastest version that kinda-barely works on cheapo Chinese hardware and test it only with a couple popular Apple devices.
Those things are basically useless. Especially on fat people
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21980558
Pretty close to 1.2in, hence why I just prefer to remember a parsec as quite close to 0.1 eft (exafoot).
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More like a dog whistle.
> Said in other words, if you wait long enough, a catastrophe is inevitable.

But the catastrophe in nuclear is substantially less damaging than business as usual in coal. I've lived in a coal mining region, I'd have better health outcomes if I'd lived next to Fukushima when it was melting down. And I don't feel threatened by the risk of either.

The damage done by solar/wind is also flying under the radar, but they are being scaled up to industrial levels of production. Nothing done at industrial scales doesn't produce a lot of waste and environmental damage. It is likely that nuclear is still safer and more environmentally friendly than the renewables.

Nuclear is safer than a hydroelectric dam, for example.

These risks are so firmly within the tolerable zone it isn't funny. And the negative exampels are all talking about 50 year old technology which is obsolete. Even Japan is re-opening their nuclear plants, presumably bowing to the reality that their Fukushima response was overly paranoid.

And it is a tired argument I always make, but "handle our nuclear waste for the next 10k-100k year" - be serious. We have waste that lasts forever and we have plans to store it for 30 years. There is nothing there that matters and the people getting worked up about it are mistaking opportunity for cost. We have the potential to manage waste from an industrial nuclear process. That makes it unique, most other processes we dump dangerous waste, forget & hope. We produce much scarier waste than nuclear byproducts and the volumes involved are tiny.
I've just started an opensource project (platform) that closely matches your idea. We gathered over 60 people interested in contributing on Slack in just two days.

A quote from my post on dev.to where it all started -

"A platform where people can express their app wishes (e.g. "I wish I had an app for X and Y") and vote up other people's great ideas.

Developers can use Appwish to keep track of the most wanted apps and features. They can assign themselves to projects, create dev teams and collaborate to fulfil people's needs.

In the future, the platform could also introduce elements of fund-raising or voluntary donations for the most appreciated developers and teams."

At the moment we are on stage of planning features/architecture and the development will start soon - we got frontend developers, backend devs, devops, a few designers and even mobile devs. + We were offered free hosting on one of startups offering managed Kubernetes clusters.

If anyone is interested, I can share our Slack channel/Github URL - we put everything in public anyways :)
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