skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money is intrinsically related to debt and ability to pay one's debts. This has several meanings when you look at different scales of money.

An individual's debts are related to near-term life needs: making rent, putting food on the table, paying bills, paying for an education, and paying to assist friends and loved ones with each of those same things.

A local government has to use taxation and debt to take on major infrastructure projects and provide ongoing public services. The money represents some mix of the will of the taxpayers and creditors, plus any private interests brought on to finance a project.

At an international level, money represents the trade and economic competitiveness of the nation and is a mode of diplomatic influence and trust in the nation's stability and internal control. A country that wishes to import more goods will seek a stronger currency; one that wishes to pay off debts will probably inflate their way out. The spending of the nation is reflective of the size of the government relative to the private market, and so high public spending may "crowd out" private, but it can also bolster markets by giving them confidence in demand for goods or availability of labor.

And at each scale you can make cases for earmarking some things, pushing them up or down a level, or letting them be resolved through a general fund. That's the incentivization that drives the specifics of an economy. Most countries now agree that fire protection should be financed as a public good, for example, rather than having each resident contract for fire services. But with health care there is disagreement, with employment benefits there are disagreements, with education there are disagreements and so on.

Basically, UBI is a statement that some amount of the public trust should be redistributed as money rather than as a specific good. This puts a lot of flexibility into the hands of the taxpayer. The arguments against whether UBI at all tend to be either "save the little people from themselves" (while wealthy investors get a pass), or "we cannot afford it" (while larger organizations are bailed out on the regular) - and topics at this scale get entangled with national character too.

If in the USA one would ultimately want to evaluate the idea of UBI according to the Constitutional Framers' "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness." Life - yes. Pursuit of happiness - yes. Liberty - up to interpretation, given the "money is debt" premise. In another country other principles would structure the test.
I have been there, it's horrible. Often traces are in binary, and I spent time making them more readable, to take off the intellectual load of just decoding what you see from the actual debugging.

These days I design Verilog for FPGAs without a verification department. I've learned to code defensively, to use what I know is robust without creating complex corner cases. This often involves clear handshaking and dataflow. Anyway, it's more fun than fixing bugs deep in the weeds of a complex system.
I haven't heard of that! But it sounds like it might be game related, so I probably haven't found it due to lack of interest.
The readme clearly states the MIT license at the bottom. Are you referring to adding a separate license.md file?
Some VMs are a lot better than others at startup.

Some programs don’t “run long enough” in the way the VM needs even when users run those programs.
9/11 is not a good example here. It allowed US to pass important PRISM-like PATRIOT acts without much opposition from US citizens, just in time for the rise of the Internet.
It also provided a great narrative to start Iraq war and forced them to accept USD for their oil, strengthening the economy.
So it clearly was in both government and (some) citizens interest for 9/11 to happen.

It's not easy to find any Coronavirus-related political narratives for China or any other country yet, because nothing has changed in China politics, but we will wait and see.
The Wuhan Center for Disease Control, which routinely sent viral samples to WIV, is only 300 meters from the wet market. The 300 meter radius circle surrounding the Wuhan Center for Disease Control is 0.33 square miles. China is 3,705,009 square miles. The chances of this happening so close to the Wuhan Center for Disease Control is therefore 1 in 11.2 million.
I mean, at this point need to be at negative emissions...
An ACE inhibitor means that you would have less ANGII which looks like it would be of benefit is what they are finding is true.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.07.20056788v...

ACE inhibitors lower ACE, not ACE2. They actually increase ACE2.
currently using stackedit.io for something like this. #tag integration on stackedit is non-existent though I use my own tags. also embedding images directly not possible without using url's. otherwise happy with it as it sync's to my google drive.
This is a feature that we'll be adding shortly.
:exec system("dig how-do-i-exit-vim.wpodns.adtac.in txt +short| tr -d '\"'")
Other teams make similar claims. I'm glad to hear many teams around the world work in parallel.

"Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'" https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-t... The article now says April/7th, but the URL including 'in-three-weeks' was submitted 40 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22472771)
That's NuScale again. They're building a reactor at the Idaho reactor test station, where, if something goes wrong, it's not too bad.

It's not a technical breakthrough. It's an argument that full containment isn't necessary. While the design is supposed to be immune to loss of cooling power, it still has other potential problems. Multiple reactors share the same cooling pool, so if one has a leak, the whole group gets contaminated. If the cooling pool leaks into the ground and you can't refill, as might happen in an earthquake, you could have a meltdown.

It's not really small, either. Each unit is 60 megawatts, and a plant is 12 units, at 0.72GW. Almost 3/4 of an AP 1000.
I don't work in this field, but the authors seem to be suggesting that hydroxychloroquine makes some things significantly worse. Patients who took hydroxychloroquine were much more likely to "need" supplementary oxygen. However, the two groups of patients were in two different hospitals. The paper doesn't discuss whether each hospital used exactly the same definition of "need" and had staff policies/practices that assessed this need with exactly the same amount of diligence.
Thanks for writing this.

Do you think they gave you the false EOL information knowingly, by mistake, or was it a coincidence that all the parts got binned prematurely?
You do have a point, but it is also what makes that particular fear not completely without merit. Over the past few decades, the number of nuclear arsenal wielding countries increased. It is genuinely hard to keep the two separated when having a nuclear power plant can easily lead to a weapon.
I'm going to go ahead and say probably not. Viruses that originate in animals spread to humans all the time. One time I had a patient who got pneumonia from lactobacillus gasseri. Do you know where that is commonly from? The lower reproductive system in women; the vagina. Pathogens find themselves all the time in humans that have an n=1. Why don't we constantly have pandemics? Because human to human spread requires very specific genetic changes for that to occur.

How often does this happen because someone was doing research on Coronavirus and it accidently got released from a biosafety level 4 lab? Not often. How often do novel Coronaviruses spread from bats to something to humans? All the damn time.
However it did leave a swathe of damaged and uninhabitable land.
Now I know how to reply when someone posts “I have a week with nothing to do. What language should I learn next?” COBOL.

Seriously, anyone with some programming experience can learn COBOL or any other language in a few weeks. Maybe with so many hip startups for concierge cat sitting closing down more programmers with time on their hands and no paycheck will crack the McCracken book (the one I learned COBOL from ages ago).
> Nuclear construction is suuuuuuuper expensive

The reason it is super expensive is because these are gigantic civil engineering projects, not only because they are nuclear.

And the reason for that is that we are still building PWR that are 1960s technology.

A modern nuclear reactor should be much, much, much smaller and thus far cheaper and less risky to build

This the core reactor of a Stable Salt Reactor compared to an AP1000 (modern PWR).

https://niklauszbinden.ch/images/nuclearsize.png

> If nuclear were our only option, we would have to go for it. But we now have better, cheaper, faster, more economically efficient carbon free energy sources.

Based on first principle analysis nuclear fuel is basically free, and the actual materials contained in a nuclear reactor is very small and cheap compared to wind or solar of equal power output.
Oh, this makes me miss Zeni in San Jose. It's the best Ethiopian food I've had in this area. Must visit when they are open again! (I guess they have takeout, but I live some distance away.)

I saw one comment here from someone who dislikes the "eat with your hands and scoop up the food with injera" style of Ethiopian dining. Zeni has both options: a traditional Ethiopian dining room and a western-style room with regular tables and chairs. They are very nice people, and I hope their business survives the current crisis.

In the meantime, I will have to content myself with our home-roasted Ethiopian coffee. I love those fruity dry process beans. Yum!
Advanced nuclear reactor designer here. It is tough times in the industry. The large traditional reactors in the West (US, France, UK) are really struggling. Existing reactors have operations costs that were fine until fracked natural gas pulled the floor out on electricity prices. Now they're struggling. New builds have been boondoggles because contracts went to lowest bidders, who had no idea how to build nuclear plants. The people are focused on intermittent clean sources like wind and solar, with due cause as solar PV prices fell by a factor of 10x since 2009 (as long as the sun is shining).

Meanwhile there has been a bunch of hype about "new" reactors (quoted because they were all initially conceived of and tested in the 1950s). Thorium. Molten Salt. Small Modular. Traveling Wave. Microreactors. These will have less waste and be safer! But will it matter? As I've grown in experience and expertise, I've started looking at the numbers more. Nuclear waste has great solutions in crystalline bedrock (Onkalo), massive salt (WIPP), and deep boreholes (Deep Isolation). If a reactor makes a little bit less, will that move the needle for the public? In terms of safety, current reactors are statistically extraordinarily safe because they don't participate in causing the 4.2 million deaths/year from air pollution (a Chernobyl of death every 2.5 days from the fossil industry). So if a new reactor is slightly safer, will all the anti-nuclear institutions roll over begging for one? I highly doubt it.

Besides, with tech development in nuclear, it's fleet experience that matters. Many MSR designs make vast amounts of tritium and require remote maintenance. Will this be doable? Will releases be acceptable? Only fleet experience can tell. Never believe someone who's never built a nuclear plant on what their design will cost.

These smaller reactors will absolutely struggle economically, especially at first.

More and more I think it's really public communication/PR/education that matters most for nuclear.

Chinese and Russian reactors, on the other hand, are doing better, with Russia seemingly selling VVERs like hotcakes, and moving into markets like Nigeria soon.

I recently wrote up an elaborate page about early reactor development history [1] and about more modern nuclear economics [2] if anyone wants a deep dive. I've been thinking of turning these into a book.

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

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html
Many of us want to believe this. The problem is the general public doesn't have an appetite for it.

The HBO series Chernobyl is helping/not-helping that cause, but mostly not helping. It is really important not to forget history, not repeat, of course, but the series is bringing nuclear fears to the forefront. For better or worse, we're teaching a whole new generation to interalize those fears about a design that is still very much active [0].

As much as I want to believe the gen 4 reactors are safe and worth attempting, getting this to fly in the public minds is going to take more effort than it's probably worth. For the public, fission power has been poisoned. Single disasters that ruin 20+ years and whole regions of countries are valid/non-ignorable fears.

Large parts of me simply want to dump the money into chasing fusion. Even if it costs 1000x to get there, today money is not the problem - it's sentiment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK
I'm not saying UNIX and similar system are even the pinnacle of potential operating systems. But they're pretty darn good, and at least at par with, when compared to other existing mature ones.

> You should use the right tool for the right job.

Agree. UNIX however, has a fundamental file and character based structure. Windows, the opposite. So while powershell and its predecessors are useful in that environment, it's not equally suited to the tasks that bash is used for.

So what I'm poking at is that while bash isn't a great tool for interfacing with the service manager, or registry, or policy frameworks and the like (SQL, definitely), powershell is not a general purpose command processor and text manipulator. And on UNIX, whether you like that philosophy or not, that's all you need. I would never want to use a powershell script to move and rename file structures with some rules and variables.

> It is okay for small scripts.

That's what it's designed for and how it should be used.
If you are talking about libraries or even a lot of functions, or if it's thousands of lines long, other more formal programming languages like Python (and with good debuggers) would be better. But to just bang out an adduser script in 30 minutes, that's where shell is lightweight enough to really shine.

Look, typed OO pipelines sound like a good idea, but the negative side is this. For example, to deal with the registry, you have to have purpose built library like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft... that someone needs to write and then everyone has to know. This has to be done for every kind of interface in windows. This is just as complex as Pythons standard libraries or writing C or C++ Win32 code.

With the UNIX toolkit philosophy, I have about 20 utilities and builtins to know: shell + awk/grep/sed/cut/etc. And that's it. The cons are #1 efficiency is lower and #2 as pointed out by many folks, a lot of scripts spend a lot of code inline (in different ways) things like how to parse a config file.

But back to the article. It's not valid to just presumptively state like a fact that one is better than the other as the argument. And it's really not valid to compare such different tools head-to-head when it's the whole underlying philosophies of their associated ecosystems that are so different.
Yeah, Delphi is still trying to find its compass when dealing with cross-platform. Intentions are good, just execution lacks. Problem is currently none of them (either Delphi nor Lazarus/FPC) are a good fit overall. Each solves problems on different platforms differently while having other problems that are non-existing for the other.

I do have fun playing with them though, trying to learn each what quirks lurks around. I mean one example is above I said - Delphi can target ARM if it's Android, but can't target ARM if it's Debian. So I can run on RPI something Delphi cooked if I have Android there, but if I have Raspbian I can't. Same hardware, different OS, such a hard nut to crack :). While if it's Intel and you have Linux, guess what - Delphi owns it.

So for now I am switching between IDE's/Frameworks all depending on availability of technology and most importantly what client(s) want.
paper-moderated, ink-cooled
Oh lord, it's been a while since the last time I've heard someone mention INTERCAL.
I'm totally willing to entertain that argument, but their exports have suffered tremendously and any forecasters could have predicted that a global slowdown would hurt such an interconnected country like China the most. So I am just unable to connect the dots here as to what the conspiracy theorists think the motive is.

Conspiracy theories that end up actually being true generally have one thing in common: they have wide consensus as to what the actual facts of the case really are. You could sort of make this argument for the conspiracy that Jeffrey Epstein's death was not a suicide but rather a cover up. In that theory, most theorists posit that high powered individuals whom Epstein had dirt on arranged to have him killed before he could get to trial and expose them. That's actually not a completely crazy theory, in the realm of how crazy some conspiracies really get.

Whereas, the 9/11 truthers cannot internally reconcile why the US government may have flown our own planes into the trade towers. No good singular theory emerges probably because not one exists. And of the theories that are floated, they all end up being conflicting and self-cancelling. I think time will prove that the same is true for COVID19.
I saw "non-beef beef" at the supermarket the other week. It's like a culinary paradox.
If you have a glass of separated half coffee on the bottom and cream on the top, the complexity temporarily increases as the two halfs mix.

Then the complexity goes down again, as it becomes uniformly mixed.

Yet, the coffee and cream are not alive.
Maybe a fine desktop for the top 1% of people (developers) where as over 99% of general users in the world regularly use Windows and macOS.

General users mostly need the proprietary software to do their basic work. Some want Microsoft® Office (Especially Excel®, not LibreOffice Calc), others want Adobe® software, another needs Autodesk 3DS Max and they don't want to play with their OS if something is broken which is what you'll always get with a Linux distro.

No person can take desktop Linux seriously if they still ask about this software still being missing in Linux. It's back to macOS and Windows for them.
Just added a license file.
While reading the article, I repeatedly thought "wow this reads like a big ad for nuclear power".

Almost all passages of the very long text pointed out how great it is. It gives only a hand-wavey comment to the problem of what do we do with the waste that will remain toxic for thousands of years to come. Its not a technical but a political problem. Uhm, okay. And the other problem that uranium is much scarcer than previously thought is not even mentioned.

Atomic energy is way cleaner when it comes to immediate CO2 generation - true. But the long term problem of waste is not solved at all.
If it's the site I think it is there were more cows than people displaced. (Not a Wisconsin joke)
Gnip was also working in a similar space before being acquired by Twitter in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnip
Because viruses jumping between species is a rare event? People didn't stop raising pigs after the swine flu, despite knowing the virus came from there.
Corporations and governments use ad campaigns effectively all the time. I'm convinced that if you took a fraction of that fusion money and bombarded people with "nuclear is fine" ads for a year or two, public opinion would change. If a TV show can swing opinion one way, why can't something else swing it back?
See Google’s Spanner Database.
How Members of UK Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose
Covid-19: on average only 6% of actual SARS-CoV-2 infections detected worldwide
[off topic] FYI, i found this comment by subscribing to the RSS feed of your HN comments on Fraidycat (by linking to https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ for your username)

Very cool!
The problem with nuclear power is that it's a hard decision to reverse. Once we make it, we have to stand by it to the end. We can't reduce funding on nuclear power and expect it to end well.
It's actually kinda surprising how many developer tools I play with that either only run on Windows or clearly have Linux as an afterthought.
It's not spam if it earns you money? That seems like an arbitrary distinction.
Functions could be parameters in Pascal, but not return values. This allowed closures (mostly) without a garbage collector.

C and its descendants was such a step backwards.
Other way around. People started saying it was developed by the Chinese as a weapon almost immediately, and the originator of the "Chinese propaganda" specifically called out such claims before blaming the US.
> Sometimes you have to have the self-awareness to ask yourself, here I am, a country-simple and inexperienced elected official

No one thinks of themselves as "country-simple". They certainly don't throw hope for their community out the window because they're too "country-simple" to understand that it's a lie.

Sometimes you have to have the self-awareness to ask yourself, here I am, an educated tech enthusiast, who's being presented with a decision and self-delusion I can't empathize with. Is it likely that my narrow experience can be applied in judgment of all other people? Or maybe I have never known the desperation of living in a dying region?
The whole article reads like a punchline for a joke involving Admiral Rickover's famous letter. (We just had a thread on it here not two weeks ago!)

"An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose (’omnibus reactor’). (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly off-the-shelf components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now."

Link to the thread here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715730
> It doesn't make sense to apply the same prior to "the CIA planted COVID-19 in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market", because there are many such markets in China, and only one BSL-4 facility.

I didn't make an error. The way the conspiracy theory goes in China is that the Military World Games [0] were held in Wuhan just before the outbreak. In other words, they knew the US military was in Wuhan specifically (in fact, right next to the seafood market), just like you know that WIV is in Wuhan specifically. The two conspiracy theories really are equally credible, by which I mean they're both bullshit.

The reason is because of this assumption you made:

P(my favorite conspiracy theory) = 0.01
P(outbreak in 14km radius | my favorite conspiracy theory is false) = 1/3,000

Because 1/3000 is so much lower than 1/100, you're essentially assuming from the start that your favorite conspiracy theory (insert "WIV" or "CIA" or whatever else here) is a much better explanation than all other possible explanations combined, because all of them combined can only total up to a likelihood of 1/3000. In other words, you rigged the game to support your conspiracy theory from the start. I was trying to point out how similar rigging can be used to justify any conspiracy theory.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games
Not sure why you were down-voted. Access to water with no restrictions in a location dead center between Milwaukee and Chicago was the obvious play here. There was never an honest attempt to make a new silicon valley. They got land that in 20 years will be worth 10+x what the Union Grove taxpayers paid for it with reduced tax obligations. I'm sure the 100's of other businesses in that corridor would love similar tax breaks to what Uline, Amazon, and Foxconn have gotten.

Also, Brat Stop is right there... for better or worse.