skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly the generation of radioactive material in fission plants was considered potentially fatal all the way back to Fermi, who said way back when:

> It is not clear that the public will accept an energy source that produces this much radioactivity and that can be subject to diversion of material for bombs.

However, the nuclear fission industry has arguably shown that it can technically manage radioactive wastes without undue harm to the populace. Fission plants have killed up to 4000 people while producing 5% of the world's energy. Fossil kills 4.2M people/year at 84% total energy. The math suggests that nuclear fission has been highly successful. But the public largely still doesn't like it.

Fusion indeed has a better going-in position. Potential complications involve how hard/complex/expensive it is to realize the engineering challenges.

Aneutronic fusion plants, like fossil plants, will likely also have an EOL from a thermal creep, corrosion, cracking, etc. POV. Normal fusion plants will definitely have a EOL from neutron doses to structural materials.
Average in 2011 was 61,9 yo for Greece and 61,5 yo for Germany. This is an average between all the jobs, classified unhealthy and not.

But although it was less than Germany, let's say 60 or 59 or even 55:

1) lenders knew it, so it's also their fault on not weighting the risk well or not asking for an higher interest rate or avoiding giving them money at all. To check is their responsibility.

2) IMF decisions brought an increase in suicide rate and children mortality rate. Are the lenders allowed to bring death to the borrowers? Is this illegal for the mafia but allowed for IMF/ECB/EC?
Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?
How do alpha particles get turned into current on a line?
If you've not used an ML before, start with Elm.

Once you feel you have that sussed - it shouldn't take too long - pull up ReasonML and give it a go. Use the Bucklscript-Tea library - the architecture will be familiar from Elm.

Then give Reason-React a go.

Once that itch has been scratched move on to PureScript for a whole new rabbit hole to fall down.
How about declaring any conflict of interest what-so-ever? any connections or vested interest?
7nm Boosted Zen 2 Capabilities but Doubled the Challenges
Inherently flawed compared to what model? Have you cross checked-it with other models?

I think it's amazing how well a simple model with just 2 variables can explain the difference between Bitcoin price movements in the first few years and later years.

Time based models are so much worse that it's crazy. I don't know any model that comes even close to it.

Anyways stock-to-flow predicts that for a halving of money issuance the demand for the asset as expressed in market cap will be 8x.

If course market cap is a strange and not perfect metric for demand, but that's still the best we have for comparing assets and asset classes.
I would be very cautious about this article; the botometer tool used to do the classifications is known to be problematic and the study is not available for dissection.

I used to work with people at Oxford University who studied this stuff, and it teaches you to be careful. See this thread by a former colleague for some reasons for scepticism: https://twitter.com/_FelixSimon_/status/1230862078950420480
It's not always free. What's the prices when it's not free? Do you just take a bath on profitability every time you have to pay higher prices when there is demand? Do you not mine when it's not free?
> making authoritarian statements like "it is settled"

If you are allowed to have and share your opinion that it's not settled science, would you be willing to elaborate on how it is "authoritarianism" for a scientist to share their opinion that it is?

> These bots being more proof of the case

With tweets like "Get lost, Greta"?
Everyone knows, privately in their inner thoughts, that "biz-speak" is baloney.

They use that language as a front for insecurity, not knowing what to say, or not being willing to say what they really mean. If the PHB is obfuscating an unpalatable (and non-negotiable) demand in biz-speak, it's not like parroting back some biz-speak is going to change his mind or strong-arm him.

You chances are better if you address the actual issues in plain and sensible language (or perhaps don't say anything at all). Even if it doesn't work, it at least lays bare the insincerity of the PHB's biz-speak.
Netris – Multiplayer Tetris clone playable over SSH
Oh yes, delation... Nothing like not trusting anyone, especially your peers. Lovely!
So does your check / payroll deposit come from the PEO? W2's are about who paid you.
> On the other hand, organizations that are able to keep their internal deliberations private have a strong advantage over ones who must ‘think’ openly.

I agree, but an advantage over whom exactly? In this case it's simply an advantage of the ruling political and economic elite over European citizens (Greeks especially).

There are few instances when things really should be kept secret e.g. during wars, but this was not one of them.
I am not sure what you are talking about. What authority, other than the courts, could punish you or force you to stop talking?

Are you just saying that moderation should be illegal? In what way would going to court help you if you've been moderated off a platform?

Are you attacking some sort of straw man central censorship authority that would exist outside of the courts?
> Sorry it took so long to get back to this

No worries! I appreciate the effort you're putting into your responses, even if we might disagree in our conclusions. :)

Now, not to boil down your extensive post, but I'm going to highlight a key statement from that 2017 paper that you describe as the "most comprehensive study" about the GBR:

> unusually warm sea temperatures in the northern Great Barrier Reef resulted in widespread coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017.

This directly contradicts your claim that ocean temperature has absolutely no effect on coral survival.

In fact, in multiple places that paper speaks to climate change as a key contributor to coral die-off. Here's another one (Section 5, "Condition of coastal and marine ecosystems", "Summary of evidence"):

> Mid-shelf and outer shelf reefs in the southern half of the
Great Barrier Reef have shown the capacity to rapidly
recover from previous disturbances; however, a severe mass
thermal coral bleaching event in 2016 resulted in significant
coral mortality, especially north of Port Douglas.

I honestly don't know what to say at this point.

I'll be extremely blunt: I feel like you're cherrypicking, not just papers, but statements within papers, to support a conclusion you've already come to.

Again: I absolutely agree with the conclusion that controlling coastal pollution can have a profound effect on reef health. That is unquestionably true. But the evidence is clear that climate change is also an important factor, as indicated in the very papers that you cite, and that coral will continue to die off if we don't work to solve both problems. Finally, I agree that coastal pollution management is lower hanging fruit that, if addressed, may give us more runway to address the larger issue of climate change, as these reefs may then be more resilient to increased water temperatures if pollution stressors are reduced or eliminated.
> code is always for the machine at the end of the day

On the other hand, code is read much more than it is written.

You may also regard efficiency as a necessary evil if the cost is readability.

Ultimately the winning strategy in this regard is achieving "free abstraction", making code that is both readable and efficient. Different languages aim at this. C++ has been best at this for most of history. Haskell and Rust are competing at this now as well.

OCaml isn't exactly efficient because of free abstraction, but because of its extremely simple translation strategies. OCaml's "flambda" compiler extension wasn't released as stable until 4.03 (2016), which means that before that, very little high-level transformation was happening.

My experience is that OCaml programmers care about low-level optimization, for good and for bad.

For example, in this StackOverflow response there are two examples of a function 'partialsums':

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37694313/make-ocaml-func...

The one that Jeffrey Scofield provides is essentially more efficient because the accumulated value is a list, just like the end result, whereas my solution accumulates a tuple, which means every iteration of the fold involves boxing and unboxing that tuple. An optimizing compiler working at a higher level of abstraction might figure that out and re-use the memory of the tuple, but no sir.
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If you have an issue with the content of the OP's comments, you should address it directly. Dismissing a comment because an account is new is weak.
Some members of group X do something big part of society perceive as bad. Then The People gang up and take care of whole group X just in case.

I read your comment 2nd time and it feels identical to what Nazis said about Jews. The group owns disproportional amount of wealth, some of their practices are questionable... So why not remove whole group for good.
I think you do get this correct. It is the bank's responsibility to assign its loans properly. That's the risk they take and why they get to collect an interest.
Maybe watch this video of David Graeber from start until 5:20, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs
He makes the point more clearly.

I mean, do I get this correct? Would you say that when people need to pay their debts, the bank gets to enforce measures despite it causing the debtor's children dying (i.e. increased child mortality)?

I might have gotten you wrong here. It is not easy to parse a 100+ word sentence.
“Google hasn’t agreed to a waiver that would give state attorneys general documents obtained by the U.S. Justice Department for its own investigation, the Journal said, citing a “person familiar with the situation.”“
Given the downvotes, perhaps it wasn't clear I was referring to myself.
I would argue that a context menu is not a mode. You always e get the same action when you right-click the mouse: a context menu. It may have different selections on it depending on the object being selected, but it's not like right-clicking the object has unexpected, different behavior every time you do it.
Was it wrong of me to be amused when I got to the end of this post on internet privacy concerns and Google, only to see a link at the bottom encouraging me click in order to follow the author on Facebook?
You misinterpreted what I said. I said that I don't have evidence that inertial electrostatic confinement is not based in fairy tales. As in, they are a reasonable route to explore.
I see that now, yes I do. I think maybe the headings and subheadings are also throwing me off as well. I wasn't sure if I was reading one of those types of blogs that have a continuous feed of articles on one page.
> > Why is that a problem developers need to solve? A bad hiring process hurts the company much more than developers.

> Its not well thought out company policies that interview and hire people. Generally its other developers insecurely biasing their decisions on subjective considerations for their personal preferences. That hurts the company and potential candidates, but this is still how software hiring works in most cases.

You're not answering my question: Why is this developers' problem? Sounds like a problem for companies, not developers. If you think this solves a problem companies have, then companies should pay for it, not developers.

> > I'll also point out that a bachelor's degree in CS is a certification

> No it isn't. A medical degree is not a medical license and a law degree isn't a law license. No education is a real estate or truck driver license, though both of those licenses demand some form of education. Hopefully the education has prepared you for both the real world and for the licensing, but clearly this is often not the case in practice, at least in software.

Okay, if your definition of a certification is that it's required for employment, then why not just require a CS bachelors for employment as a software developer? If you answer that, you have the answer for why people are against certifications.

Yes, interviews are subjective and ineffective in identifying suitable candidates, but a) I'm not sure why you think that this is a problem developers should solve rather than employers, and b) I'm not sure why you think a standardized certification would be less subjective. If anything, a standard certification is going to be much poorer at identifying candidates suitable for companies, since specific companies have specific needs.
It is incomplete because Google Play Services contains functionality closed to developers, unrelated to the free online services provided by Google.

Your point stands, nevertheless.
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You might read "pure market" as "self-interest seeking", as opposed to some entity acting as a regulator in the public interest.

In the case of a brick-and-mortar store, part of what the retailer is paying is for a physical retail location, which you might think of as access to a specific cohort of local traffic (foot, vehicle), and customers, in the sense of patronage of a retail establishment by custom (https://www.etymonline.com/word/customer).

Since that is a finite set, and there are often (though not always) competing retailers, practices which alienate customers tend to be counterproductive.

I was actually thinking of the local B&M hardware store where the staff know their products, and customers, and I've been making a series of (to date, satisfactory) LED bulb purchases whilst writing my earlier comment. What is ultimately carried is a function of the store's specific traffic, the parent corporation, and other arrangements (there are periodic government and utility incentives for low-energy bulbs), but the local staff and management have some agency.

Existential Comics' "Freedom Monster" thought experiment is worth consideration:

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/259
How Founders can avoid drive-by-management
Theory: Non-linear knock-on effects of Coronovirus
>serious questions about how much of that is natural cycle and how much we are doing. We know we are doing some, we don't know how much, but we keep saying that this is settled science when more valid questions need to be asked

your statement is false, and it's a climate denialist talking point which was important enough such that climate scientists systematically examined and refuted it in the context of numerous pieces of peer-reviewed literature:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044...

""Despite a high degree of consensus amongst publishing climate researchers that global warming is occurring and that it is anthropogenic, this discourse [that humans may not be responsible for some degree of climate change], promoted largely by non-scientists, has had a significant impact on public perceptions of the issue, fostering the impression that elite opinion is divided as to the nature and extent of the threat [when it is not]."
As a recipient of a transplanted kidney in the UK I have to say for this is what the Fuck!

No Apologies for the profanity there
Given the logo, I'm assuming this is intentional?
CH4, aka Methane, is one Carbon atom and four Hydrogen atoms. There is no Helium in Methane, just Hydrogen.
Every Java developer ever: "after >=10 years of java, I switched to ruby|python|js and I'm so much productive now!"

Also, surely your 25 years of experience have nothing to do with you being more productive now than 25 years ago.
In Harold Nicholson's lectures on diplomacy, he mentions Woodrow Wilson's advocacy of open diplomacy. At Versailles, Nicholson was amused to find that the Wilson's discussions took place in a room that had a U.S. Marine with fixed bayonet patrolling outside the windows.

Nicholson makes the point that the text of agreements should be known when they are made. The discussions that arrive at them, not necessarily.
Another type of writing that happens a lot especially on HN that is better than essay writing is dialogue. You get immediate feedback on what you failed to make clear and what points you missed because your intuition skipped over it, or if you're genuinely wrong.

Still even in dialogue, arguments become circular because a lot of dialogue is selectively interpreted and misinterpreted at a subcncious level.

I was recently introduced to a way of writing that makes all your points unequivocally clear. It may not lend to enjoyable reading but it makes your stance and point solid and clear. I post the dialogue below and while there's a lot going on (not relevant to this post, it's a debate about how function composition is a central feature to functional programming) in that dialogue the main point is that it evolves into a different format at the end to make things completely clear you can see the evolution just by scanning the conversation (especially near the end):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22290188
Kickstarter Was Supposed to Be About Capitalism. So Why Did It Oppose Union?
I wonder if all the teachers in MIT are as good as him?
from the article:

> substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages
It won't happen. A man who pretends to be a woman still carries XY chromosomes. This is a fundamental reality with no way around it.
IRedis: A Terminal Client for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting
There’s been a lot of promising work done on IEC by a startup called EMC2. Their reactor/fusor design is called Polywell.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
Also alcohol companies as well.
For anyone using these videos now to help them learn linear algebra, id like to suggest a FULL STOP and watch this YouTube playlist FIRST.

Strang is absolutely enlightening but I found it incredibly moreso after watching 3blue1browns series on visualizing linear algebrahttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
Macroservices is a winner.
People don't do it much, but if you're using the most popular build system (dune) you can replace your .ml files with .re ones and it will Just Work. So you can use OCaml projects for reference (I think anyone who's doing Reason should have a vague grasp of OCaml syntax, it's not really that different).
It simply isn't true though, they are rarely required together. His example of the location of a city could have been replaced with gps co-ordinates in the place of a descriptive phrase.

NASA deals with strength and precision together all the time, it's rare that they are both needed on the same task at the same level. The requirements for precision and strength to be shared in an essay is to construct sentences that are clear and cannot be interpreted in multiple ways and then fill in the descriptive detailing with precise information.

Strength takes from distilling multiple possible interpretations down into one clear and correct direction. Precision is about highlighting the qualitative properties and exact quantities of your subject.

They don't conflict. They are rarely needed together.
And I couldn't read the article because of my adblocker
Except that in the case of politics, the "out group" who that information is kept from are the people being governed. And do you want politics to have a "strong advantage" over it's citizens?

By the way, this goes hand in hand with the encroachment on ordinary citizens' rights (often with exceptions being carved out specifically for parliamentarians).
This reminds me of TetriNET [1]. This looks amazing, and I'm definitely going to give it a go. Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetriNET
On every single repo index page that has "anchors" that I've tried over the last year. The markdown is now interpreted different so anchors are class="anchor" and not real anchors. Maybe you didn't fully disable JS? Make sure JS is disabled before you load the page and you've cleared your cache (ctrl-f5 in FF-alikes).

I just went to the most recent github tab in my browser session and found one instantly: https://github.com/quiet/quiet#dependencies
This is about "elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy"
It reflects the anti democratic perspective of the Eurogroup and is one of the most fundamental political issues of our times.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/markcarrigan.net/2017/05/08/ele...
Scenario for a Hypothetical Private Nuclear Program
> On an average day during the period studied, 25% of all tweets about the climate crisis came from bots. This proportion was higher in certain topics – bots were responsible for 38% of tweets about “fake science” and 28% of all tweets about the petroleum giant Exxon.

Meaningless without a baseline percentage of all tweets that are fake.

> “More often than not, they turn out to have all the fingerprints of bots,” he said. “The more denialist trolls are out there, the more likely people will think that there is a diversity of opinion and hence will weaken their support for climate science.

The article doesn't discuss what any of these fingerprints are.

> Thomas Marlow, a PhD candidate at Brown who led the study, said the research came about as he and his colleagues are “always kind of wondering why there’s persistent levels of denial about something that the science is more or less settled on”.

How any self-styled scientist can claim something a complex as the earth's atmospheric behavior is "settled" is beyond me.

Just recently, a study appeared in a peer-reviewed journal by a non-"denialist" group regarding the outsized effect of CFCs on polar warming:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00108-2
Great article, thanks. It fills me with melancholy, knowing that such a brilliant mind left this world too soon.
I've been on the other side (CS professor for two years, apparently students really loved my work) - if you can, email them and tell them about your appreciation. It's worth it.

I don't know about others, but in my case I had to put up with a lot of BS, and "older" colleagues that were envious of my "performance" (annual feedback reviews by students). These few emails (and two letters!!) went a long way for me.
Their whole strategy is dumb. They could be winning the legal cannabis game but rather they fight against it.
Visual Studio with Visual D is a top notch D experience.
Chagatai – The Language Named After a Man
You are invited to try it. You will not be able to avoid the laws of nature, and there will also be many legal hurdles. But if you make a big step forward, you will undoubtedly be a Nobel Prize candidate.
Laser inertial confinement causing a nonthermal chain reaction has been making headlines since 2015. I don't think that aspect of this approach is the exciting part. It's how promising their simulated performance improvement is from the use of a laser that causes additional magnetic confinement (I'm a little iffy on how that exactly happens).
Check out Oni Vim 2: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/blob/master/README.md
Robert Morris's solution is wrong for most of us about casual conversation because it's valuable to be wrong sometimes. But in terms of deciding which essays you publish it seems quite valuable. Out of all the media I produce from conversation, to video, to casual writing, to essays, essays are the ones I least want to be wrong in. Also, the process of refining an idea is a valid one. Barring topics on which you are an ideologue, seldom are you so wrong about an idea that you think it's perfectly correct and nothing bothers you or makes you question it through many edits.
Show HN: Hawkeye Access – Control your Mac using head movements
Control your Mac using head movements.
Rotate your head to move the cursor and make facial expressions to click, drag, and scroll.
Powered by your iPhone’s TrueDepth camera.

Try out the Hawkeye Access for Mac beta: https://www.usehawkeye.com/access-mac
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The story could be about perseverance paying off, instead of a breakthrough portending big changes in near-future drug development.