skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people are using the words 'nuclear power' like the word 'disease'. There multiple different kinds of nuc power. I disagree with our use of fast breeders and other reactions that also keep our supply of weapons grade fissile material 'fresh'. However there are other much safer reactions that are much safer and aimed more at energy generation like molten salt reactors - thorium, fluoride?

Just like there are diseases with which we can cope(chickenpox) and others which are horrible(smallpox), we should not use the words 'nuclear power' in planning or discussion among educated people. 'Nuclear power' is only useful in third grade science class.
To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air
Twitch U.S. audience down, ads falling short of internal goals
This. I clicked from the HN-linked page over to the main page, scrolled through it, and still had no idea what I was looking at.
The difference between the problems physicists were tackling at the turn of the 20th century and the ones we're trying to tackle today is that we don't have the technology or the resources required to build the kind of experiments that would allow us to study these phenomena at a meaningful scale and test out our hypotheses.

E.g. https://gizmodo.com/we-could-solve-the-mysteries-of-time-and...

"We Could Solve the Mysteries of Time and Space—If We Had a Particle Accelerator the Size of the Solar System"

That's the problem. Our collective civilization will need to move a few levels forward before we can afford to tackle these problems.
I don't think that's been made public.

Some speculation on possibilities in https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-s....
Ask HN: How do you choose a programming language?
Many of us use multiple languages, but usually select one for the next project randomly (based on current interests, whatever is trending, etc.)

If try to summarize use cases for languages you know, what language decision tree for your next project will emerge?

Simple example:

(if graphical (elm) (
if a one time script (bash)
if a frequently used script (nim)
if for system level programming (rust)
))

Any form (photo of a drawing/pseudocode/svg) is welcome!
> There's also no reason the compiler couldn't allow the deferred call once the last reference has been utilized

There's one reason not to do this - preserving the language semantics. Rust's version of RAII drops owned objects at the end of their scope for the same reason, even though it 'could' do better especially given NLL.
The funniest one is the "experienced product manager way" IMO. I've seen plenty of those "experienced project managers" work, and the description is spot on. It's amazing that such impediment to productivity is even tolerated, let alone paid handsome amounts of money for. All while the company _thinks_ they're getting better productivity.
Statistics Review for Data Scientists
Yeesh, who drew the shadow in that logo? The top edge, and the area inside the top of the H is totally wrong.
Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says
Yep, sounds like Amazon. I used to joke that the only Engineers who were there longer than four years were either getting divorced or were already divorced. You did not find very many who were married with kids AND happy working there.
> It is like if one day someone told you 'fish' was a loaded negative term to refer to people who went to college.

It would probably be spelled "phish".
You arent wrong. Look at Dolby and their clever injections into every new standard despite both HDMI and Bluray already provisioning uncompressed LPCM 7.1 channel audio.
Modal editor are not dated. You’re saying this as if the command line itself is dated. It’s not, casual user can go ahead and use Windows or Mac, but shell and she’ll editors will not in the foreseeable future be dated.
In the automotive and aerospace world, of course tests in the real world cannot cover all cases (cost, time make it impossible).

Even most (not all, but almost none for meaningful applications) computer program cannot be proved to come to an halt [0], so complete testing is impossible by essence. We can only use more restrictive rules for programming but cannot formally guarantee anything.

As those systems are tied to the physical world, a whole lot of complexity is added by uncontrolled parameters.

Yet we love testing things. So a lot of techniques exist, such as SIL [1] and HIL [2].

So you could imagine using a real dashboard hooked up to a plane simulator. Which would enable testing the device in a wide array of conditions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-Software-in-the-Loop-SIL
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop_simulatio...
org-mode on spacemacs against texlive for the win.
Law Puts Us All in Same Danger as Eric Garner
Why are we turning off our headlights in this exercise?
Can San Francisco Be Fixed?
Running an effective data science POC
I started using Linux in 1997 and just today I've found out about pgrep and, on reddit, sudo !!

What a day!
To your point about throwing out the baby with the bathwater, here is the strength of the EU argument:

"The EU community is a challenger to the standard gravitational model, believing space-time to be a misinterpretation of the Universe. The things we see in the Universe – from large scale filamentary structures connecting galactic clusters, to Earth’s climate and meteorology – are plasma phenomena driven by electromagnetic forces."

Note that it's still in an early phase & the physics is being figured out. This includes a heavy reliance on reproducible physical experimentation & unified models from small to large. Existing classical physical models are preferred. Custom math may come later, as one can create a Hamiltonian to model the phenomona, but the equation does not bring understanding of what is occurring without an underlying physical explanation.

> When you look at pictures like [1] it's very hard to accept a kind of galactic-cluster level atmosphere that would produce that type of lensing.

It's also difficult to accept that space-time is warped, especially without physically reproducible experiments, however we somehow trained ourselves to think this is the orthodox opinion. It was also once difficult to imagine the Earth not being at the center of the Universe.

The EU critique is that plasma is ubiquitous in space & the phenomenon has not been explored. It's only recently that we have discovered the onmipresence of plasma throughout space, which is something that Einstein did not account for in his models.

https://thedailyplasma.blog/2015/12/23/lensing-by-refraction...

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

QM does have a connection with Maxwell's Equations as QEM.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/wcchew/qem_papers/QEM_NewLook...

Plasma Physics offers a way to, with physically reproducible experimentation, create a bridge with astrophysics.

There's even multiple hypothesis to explain the nature of Gravity.

Black Holes have not been directly observed & the Plasma Physics/EU explanation is that Quasars are a z-pinch in a galactic Birkeland Current.

https://www.everythingselectric.com/birkeland-currents

How do we know that the Atomic clock frequency itself is not be affected by gravity? It seems like a simpler explination than "space-time" being affected by gravity while the Atomic clock frequency remains consistent in the reference frame.
I'd say he's pretty well known in Spain. I knew about him from school, so maybe your school didn't teach you about him or you didn't pay attention.

I studied first in Madrid and later in Galicia.
FWIW, the bug I linked to doesn't necessarily manifest itself as a crash. But it doesn't apply to the Mozilla binary.
"I'm not as sure this time," Altman said. "The thing that made me want to do that last time around was this feeling that everyone was saying we were in a bubble, and I thought that was wrong and disingenuous for a couple of reasons. This time I don't feel that way."

Interesting.

On the bet: to be fair, he was very, very close to winning (for those who didn't read, he was correct on 2/3 predictions, and the third was a $200B collective valuation for several companies that are instead currently valued at $167B).

edit: just realized this duplicates several other submissions that in some cases are better https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
Yes and no. I'm a git guy and a fan, but you can really, really mess things up. Usually, this is only when using features like force push; however, there are arguably legitimate use cases for that.

Buddy had a teammate that almost force pushed references from a slightly different repo. What a mess that could have been! I agree regarding the usefulness of reflog, and think the complaints about messing things up with rebase, reset, ect are overblown. It really isn't an issue for intermediate users.
I think we get them for much less.

But Netronomes are remarkably cheap, and you can "offload" eBPC to run on the card's custom cores.
I liked how you built the /die/{n} URL so that you can just bookmark it and it will update for you. Nice work.
Blog Post: Implementing a Cooperative Schedule in a Rust Kernel
Why podcast fans will always reject a “Netflix for podcasts”
Thanks for this - sent to my printer for a weekend self training session.
Ah, and that explains the neutron star skepticism [0] too.

[0] https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/neutron-nonse...
"being a better consumer is the answer" no thanks
Don't fund Software that doesn't exist
Why is this downvoted? For lacking compassion? This is one of the few truthful comments on this thread, which is otherwise full of speculation and rumor.
Myself, I've had ICL surgery (Implantable Collamer Lens) as vision correction in both eyes (I wasn't a good candidate for Lasik). With it includes 100% UVA/UVB blocking. It's basically a permanent contact lens implanted behind the iris and in front of the the natural lens. So, sadly, no ultrahuman UV vision for me. My only "bionic" ability is saving my natural lens and retina from UV exposure.
Good tips. Yeah, that sounds consistent with my experience. Got there early, had a great hike up to the lodge, but didn't go far past it. Then ran into huge crowds on the way down between the cave and the trailhead.
Encrypting everything is a good way to get them to harass you more. First of course they'll compel you to give up the encryption key, so what's the point of encrypting it? Then comes the inevitable lame argument of "if you had nothing to hide, why did you use encryption?!" Encrypt things just for your general privacy (ex. from theft), but against the government, it's counter-productive.
When mentioning C# (not sure about any other language), I would have mentioned the using statement and IDesposable objects.

This way each object's needed cleanup is encapsulated in each objects dispose method(s).

Granted using compiles down to a try-catch-finally with the Dispose method called in the finally, but there is an elegance to it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
In my exposure to number theory, this certainly seemed to be approaching. Grad students barely have a grasp on the basic definitions; postdocs seemed shaky but familiar; professors "get it" but don't claim to understand. And sure, we've got Terry Tao making everything look easy, but that isn't a comfort.
Anyone remembers Libra? It started selling!
Heres Tweet: imgur.com/a/dbb4aMk and Official Site: librai.co
I personally believe a lot of that stuff cannot be further studied unless we are able to divert solutions to other problems in our society first. I'm saying that we need to have things like mass quantity sustainable energy, significant automation, global unification and standards, higher minimum education levels.

I'm saying that imagine 50% of the population works in blue collar general labor or semi-skilled labor fields. Now in this hypothetical worlds, all those jobs are managed by autonomous robots. Also we have a green power that is sustainable, storable, sufficient for even double the population, and can be held in high densities at low volumes. So there are now innumerable sectors within the economy that we don't need people themselves to learn. That leaves more time for people to take extended amounts of time to learn and study. I mean quite literally a Star-Trek "post-scaricity world" in a lot of ways. People use time to further themselves and expend time on cultural or scientific endeavors. Life is no longer about struggle and survival since money clearly would have no value if any and everything can be made or consumed for free. I mean it's really interesting to think that the only "conflict" that would exist is between people trying to min-max life in terms of achievement. There would be no achievement in religion, money, or ownership since everybody can do it.

Ultimately what I'm saying is that a lot of our advances are contingent upon other sectors becoming automated and allow for more people to get into academic sectors.
I doubt anybody uses "democrat party" for reasons related to the demon-rat moniker.

It seems to be more about disputing that the party is in fact democratic. Among other things, the superdelegates make this clear. It's also the matter of the party making a name-grab for democracy itself, which is a more valuable trademark than anything associated with the republic.
There was a time where some brokerages would report ESPP correctly and some wouldn't. Thankfully, the IRS stepped in and mandated consistent reporting; unthankfully, they mandated that brokerages consistently report ESPP incorrectly.
A few years ago NASA launched the Aqua satellite which has the capability to measure and visualize methane hotspots[1]. Hopefully this will allow us to mitigate the well head methane leaks. But I agree that this is a bridge technology at best and we need to transition to renewables ASAP.

1 - https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87681/a-global-view...
Orthorexia – The Perfect Diet
Ahh I was thinking they were options. Never mind. Does one still pay taxes every year on the RSUs should they rise in paper valuation before vesting?
I flew a 747 on El Al last year. It's a great plane and I'll be sad to see it go, but it's not gone yet.
"laying the groundwork for his eventual emperorship".

Worth pointing out that Julius Caesar was never emperor and its difficult to say that he really aspired to such a position. Yes, he was dictator for life but Sulla had fairly recently been appointed dictator with no time limit applied so that wasn't without precedent. Working out what could have happened of he hadn't been assassinated is difficult. Did he take on many of the trappings of a king? Yes. Did he seem to try and avoid that same perception, such as with the crown at Lupercalia? Also yes. Whatever he was though, he certainly was not emperor.
Because identifying as part of a group is part of the mechanism that lets humans act collectively. Same kind of thing as the need to belong to some group, organization, or clique. Humans acting collectively are safer, stronger, better fed, and in general reproduce more successfully than humans who do not.

Being able to essentially choose a group to belong with is beneficial - it's a shortcut to most of the benefits of group membership (in ancient history, I mean) without having to be born into the group or be one of the "O.G." members. There are advantages for the rest of the group, too - they can get more people on "their side" and committed to their welfare without having to birth/raise/feed them.
Advice from a fellow dev: add a crash handler and set it up for an automatic submission of crash reports (symbolicated callstacks of all threads) via HTTP POST to a server.

Better yet, turn it into something that others can use easily by configuring things like the server to which send the reports.

I did this for SumatraPDF (https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/blob/master/s...) and now I think it's a must for writing desktop software that runs on other people's machines.

A shockingly low number of people report crash reports.

I know because I show a message box telling them to submit a bug report for a crash. I get plenty of crashes but no bug reports.
According to my memory they have been sold with NT (4.0?) in Germany by a long gone PC retailer called Vobis. I think for
about 5000 DM.
Anyone remembers Libra? It started selling!

Heres Tweet: imgur/a/dbb4aMk and official site: librai.co
They aren't really ascetic practices inasmuch as they're the most pragmatic advice that can be given under the circumstances of what is a budget factory meditation retreat.

With that limitation, you're generally forbidden from being admitted if doctors think that the absence of your medication can result in a problem later down in the retreat.

Surely there are retreats where things are analyzed case-by-case in a much more thorough basis, but they're not entry-level, cheap-or-free retreats that Goenka is.

The critique in the article is valid but it comes with the territory. I also feel that a lot of things the author find difficult or annoying are things you just need to learn to roll with with in the same way that being an adult means being patient and learning to just deal with some difficult stuff.
The large NUCs are kinda weird I agree (I treat them as a stretch from Intel), but the small-sized ones are super cool.
A comparison like this would be much more informative if it used more than one layer of setup/cleanup. When you get to four or five, it really highlights how well some of these scale up (or not). Also, neither nested functions nor mini state machines seem to get a mention, which is a shame. Nested functions are a good example of an approach that gets unwieldy fast as layers are added, and mini state machines scale as well as the "kernel" style without having to endure app-snobs' sneers for using a lowly goto.
I think the author missed the point about not engaging in intellectual discussions or questions. The very fact that if you intellectually dissect the course or the time, you move away from the very thing you are supposed to do. Stabilse yourself.

The article felt a little negative and while Goenka may or may not be enlightened a lot of teachings and discourse are but classical buddhism. The author I felt fell in the same trap Goenka does of criticising Gunaratne.

Don't know who Goenka is but have several family members who have done Vipasanna and have been privy to their experiences.
Clean water is a renewable resource so I don't see the absurdity.
Teen Vogue pulls glowing Facebook story after 'sponsored content' accusations
We are still in an explosive growth mode, and probably will be for a very long time (>100 years is my guess). But yes, it will be asymptotic at some point, unless you think the amount of science to grasp is infinite.
If this article went viral somehow and was able to drive crowds to the one “best” hike — then it would be actively bad for that hike ...
Physics might be bumping up against limits of knowledge, but I think it's quite short sighted to claim that this means all of Science is bumping up against fundamental limits.

Just because many of the questions we want to solve today are of practical significance (inventing new medicines, perhaps) doesn't make it any less scientific.

Indeed, almost 20 years after the Human Genome Project, we have only scratched the surface on how to understand what any particular genes are doing, and are very far from doing anything more than "hacking" on existing genes, let alone writing a biological program from the ground up.
Lisp in Small Pieces https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521545668/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i... is excellent, and I think would help.
Pass on the gig.
Oh it gets even better! If you work for a nicely performing stock like a FAANG you can encounter this gem:

(Simple Round Numbers)
1. Get Base 100k + RSU 100k over 4 years
2. You work hard, company does better, yay!
3. Stock goes up RSUs now = 200k
4. I am sorry we cannot give you a raise because your total compensation = (Base+All RSUs) is over out allowable funding for your role. No raise for you! But keep up the good work!
5. Anytime yet get stock #3 happens... you get stuck with a low base and monopoly money.

Try getting a bank to give you a loan with a huge RSU number... it can be done, but oh my god what a PITA.
Good read. For anyone wanting to find more it appears his real name was Clayton Billiam Schwartz https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.asp... https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/?name=clayt...

He actually had a thread on a motorcycle forum detailing the trip and comments post accident https://advrider.com/f/threads/seattle-to-argentina-on-a-klr...
You took maybe thirty second to write your rant and demand others spend hours or maybe even weeks coming up with an entire education program to fill in the gaps you have in your knowledge. This is a huge discrepancy in effort required. Perhaps if you volunteered to do push ups for the entire time posters went through the primary school education you missed, it would be equal effort and you'd get a better reception. As it is, you're being lazy and whining that others have done the work required to understand basic science.
Yeah also the serif of the C has no drop shadow from the arc of the C or the serif itself. But maybe it’s graphical humor.
The C# version is lacking the using pattern.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Nouns can't modify nouns like adjectives can, but they can be modified to be adjectives.

Friend = OK

Friendly = OK

He's a friendly person = OK

He's a friend person = NOT OK

He's a friend = OK

This should be something most speakers learn early, though, maybe they won't know all the rules for modification and will make up an incorrect adjective. I.e., He's a democratly person.
I used to believe the most important scientific problems have yet to be solved, but this really was the last great mystery out there.
Interesting. Do you have a lot of first hand experience with law enforcement?
Is there a way to obfuscate client data so that employees can't view it?
there is active project to use modified sailboat radios and old cold war transponders. I believe it is active in China and north korea to go around the great firewall.
The better advice is to know the laws of the country you're in. For example in Germany you can simply refuse to give them your password and they can't use that against you in any way. No need for a reason or plausible deniability. The same strategy wouldn't work in the UK. Here is an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
At least in the psychological sciences, he's not wrong.
You'll know your worth to the company by how little they give you for RSUs.
Source:
https://www.flightglobal.com/in-depth/ntsb-to-address-rare-t...
Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog. For $50k, You Can Clone Yours
Bizarre how that changes around the world. Here in the US (let's say average suburb around a moderately-sized city):

Chinese: $-$$ Tex/Mex: $-$$ Indian: $-$$$ Thai: $$ Japanese: $$-$$$ Italian: $-$$$$ French: $$-$$$$

Note: Tex/Mex, Italian, and Japanese availability, quality, and pricing vary widely according to where in the country you are.

I'd chalk up French to the 1980s. As in "If you wanted to be a really good chef, you studied French cooking", which resulted in popular "If you wanted to go to a really fancy restaurant, it was French."

Thankfully, that seems to be fading in the urban US in favor of more local/fusion emphasis.
Which also applies to the code the anti-cheat stuff is having you run. The point is they have a mechanism to download and run code without you explicitly validating the code.

That is happening with or without this anti-cheat stuff, so what is the difference?
I am also curious as to what exactly do you mean by "technical writing"?
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the detail!