skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mid term plan is that generation 5 reactors should be producing much less waste that is less radioactive for less time. They do this by closing the cycle and reusing waste again and again.

The end result is expected to be waste with a half life of around 100 years. This means a feasible option is to just stick it in a warehouse for 300 years. The danger isn’t proximity to the waste, a concrete container is plenty, the danger is a 100,000 year half life meaning we need to solve for geological time scales. With modern reactors that will no longer be the case.

We’re not quite there yet, but research was getting there until much investment stopped in the last 10 years due to public dislike of nuclear power. Renewables are doing really well in some countries now which is great, but I do think this would be a good, feasible, safe backup plan.
Who wants to stand in a huge line just to enter Costco in this scorching heat.
I managed to establish that flask headspace oxygen concentration played a critical role in synthesizing silver nanocubes after spending a year trying to reproduce a paper which didn't mention it at all.

Emailing the original papers authors I managed to extract the comment "we place the lid lightly on top of the vial" (which only stood out in a photo as something which didn't make sense) and then filmed a bunch of my vials and noted that whether it worked depended on how the water evaporating/condensing sealed against the loose fitting lid.

(This was after a lot effort spent drying ethylene glycol too)

Turns out, you can get a perfect result everytime if you drop the reaction vial headspace oxygen to 17-19%.

People just don't monitor what they should (or take a 1/10 success rate since for most nanoparticulate research one vial goes a long way).

I'm still really proud of that but damn does it explain replication problems to me.
Before the AWS gig, I was a bog standard “Enterprise Developer” or Architect depending on the month of the year doing yet another software as a service CRUD app bumping around in mostly small local companies that no one had ever heard of.

When I was looking for a job in 2016 locally, I emailed a bunch of local external recruiters and was juggling eight or nine openings. I did six phone screens in one day from different companies.

I was no special snowflake. Anyone who could call themselves a “full stack developer” with 5 years of experience could do the same thing. Heck, I didn’t know any of the $coolkids front end frameworks.

The process was the same - one phone screen, a half day in person where you spoke about your past projects, maybe did a coding test that was barely above FizzBuzz level of complexity and show that you know SQL.

A local full stack developer who had any kind of experience could get the “right now” job within a month if they weren’t being picky.

Of course post-Covid, things are different.

So either way. If you are looking for framework developers (no insult intended - that’s what I was as a developer until recently) the process is easy if you’re any good. If you are looking for “smart people” (tm). They are able to do the leetCode monkey dance. Who is left that is willing to spend hours doing take home tests? All of the best candidates know how to play one game or the other.
Yup. My sister too.

I had a text from her when I woke up the other day, she'd bought a new phone and now the company was asking weird questions.

I figure for sure it's a scam and I phoned her immediately. But I gradually realised it's actually not what I thought. I normally buy phones by just... buying a phone, like a cheeseburger or a T-shirt, cash or card. But she's got a new phone on contract, so that's a credit deal and the questions they're asking, though prying, are credit agency ID confirm questions. Where you've lived, photo of a passport, stuff like that. The firm seems legit, they're not new to the business, they have a relationship to a Credit Reference Agency that I've worked with before, so it's probably fine.

She seems reassured that I'd actually thought through why this might be OK, and so long as her new iPhone shows up in the next few days all is good, otherwise I guess I need to walk her through anti-fraud processes in case somebody got all that as precursor to taking out credit in her name.

With my mother I got a call from her one day because her PC was literally screaming. She'd clicked a link or visited a web site or something and now it was constantly loudly demanding she phone the scammers and give them money to "unlock" it. She'd had the peace of mind to instead walk into another room and call me. I talked her through switching it off, bringing it up in safe mode and forgetting the (hijacked) default page on the browser. Relatively simple scam, but I expect it's effective on too many people.
I'm aware they're two different things. Believe it or not, the rest of Hacker News is not five years old.
After Reaching 4M Users, Bitcoin Exchange Luno Enters Kenya and Ghana Next
Why wouldn't solar thermal have the exact same issue with mirrors getting dusty though?

I suspect that solar thermal is in more than a lull; I suspect that it's been obsoleted by PV and we aren't going to be seeing many new installations at all.
> ICE Says Foreign Students Can’t Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite [Pandemic]

This article title has been truncated in a really silly way.
The announcement is available here as a PDF from ICE website: https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf

This has put an immense pressure on universities and international students. In particular, due to the very short time to make any changes, this announcement has posed a serious challenge.
I have no personal experience but my waiter and restaurant owner friends seem to think that gift cards are also a good way to skim some money from your employer while traveling. Buy some bread and peanut butter at the store, get a gift card and a drink at a restaurant. Or if your per diem is big enough, go all out and get a meal and a gift card.
This is my spouse also. I can't go, lest I pick up something and pass it to them. So we order everything online now. When it arrives, we let it sit for a bit, then bring it in and wipe it down with disinfectant. It's a pain, but we can afford to do it, and it's very convenient. It does suck not being able to just run out and pick up that one thing you forgot, though.
Ooh look, Moldbug hired an editor.
"estimate"? How can they not know exactly how many people have H1bs?
It's not the mask, it's the hassle of going to the grocery store and locating the items and waiting in line and dealing with those temperamental self-checkouts.

Today though it's amazing. I put together a grocery order at my convenience and place and pay via the app, and it just magically shows up at my door within a convenient time-frame. I don't have to answer the door, I don't have to talk to anyone, I don't have to sign a receipt. It just shows up.
It's atrocious but most companies won't reveal specifics because _those_ people were hired via the same process. So it plays into survivorship bias. And nothing will change.
There's also an interesting sub-class of this scam that targets employees of certain size companies. Due to anti-bribery laws/rules/regulations gifts of cash to other companies are usually forbidden (and every employee with an expenditures line should generally be very aware of that), but non-cash redeemable gift cards are often still seen as fair "gifts" for various types of incentives/thanks/congratulations efforts. So gift card scams are sometimes even more effective for corporate employees, because corporations already abuse gift cards as a grease currency, and some corporate employees are very used to buying strange amounts of gift cards and giving them out in strange ways.
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
Grocery shopping was one of my guilty pleasures. Gets me out of the house, walking around, thinking of combinations to cook, etc. Since March, I've been 100% Instacart, and notice them all over my neighborhood each day, so certainly I see the mentioned explosion.

That said, I miss shopping and to be honest, Instacart is both expensive and unreliable. I'll go back to in store once things die down, and I'm sure many others will too. Meaning, I think this is more of a spike than a long term trend.
In case anyone is interested, below is R code to read these data and compute the regression. The summary() reveals the p value for the slope to be 0.437, and that for the intercept to be 0.32.

d <- read.table("https://pastebin.com/raw/HhWTKZRb", header=TRUE)
m <- lm(cumulative_covid19_per100000~proportion_binge_drinkers, data=d)
summary(m)
It's simpler. Hire people who don't suck and train them.

And, amazingly enough, you find those people generally become quite good.
Huh, did not know this. I was just going to implement Carousel as an option in my editor!

About your second link, is there a site that gives general advice on UI/UX based on A/B statistics?
~50% of us homes are heated with nat gas.
If you're interested in getting started with paper crafts like this, PePaKuRa [1] is a great software that takes care of all the 2D shapes arrangements and addition of padding for gluing pieces together.

[1] https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
Buying a house at SF prices is always contributing to displacement, for in your absence there would be less demand for houses and the prices would be lower.
Some of the tech startups that took government payroll loans
Ask HN: Career growth – when to stop climbing, am I at my upward movement limit?
I'm not sure how much higher I want to climb the corporate ladder, although my current position seems like a stepping stone for many, and it seems like the company thinks the role I'm in - that is, the role itself, not me specifically - is a temporary step. The role above me does seem like a destination for many.

I also feel a bit stuck - a few of my peers have moved up, while I haven't, and I may not be suited for the next level, even if I want to move up at least 1 more? I'm not happy to admit how much that hurts my ego and maybe I'm disappointed/giving up because I don't want to face others around me saying "why are his now former peers moving up and not him?"
FTA: Citizenship and Immigration said in its report that coming up with a number for H-1Bs living in the U.S. “is complex, as no electronic data system tracks or houses this information.”

A scream emoji seems appropriate...
I suspect I know why you're being downvoted...

WHO say there is no evidence that asymptomatic carriers can spread the virus, and if you have the disease, people should stay indoors. Therefore the mask is redundant.

But wait, the CDC recommend (and where I live TfL have it mandatory) wearing a face mask, otherwise you're "killing grandma".

I've even seen plenty of articles suggesting that wearing the mask is making things worse, or that lockdowns are making things worse, etc.. The information overload is getting extreme.

So which is it?

I wouldn't be surprised if mixed messaging is the reason why people have given up caring.

Example: "Young people aren't affected.. wait, yes they are, wait.. umm wait no they're not"

Our global institutions having fundamental disagreements is so dangerous. I spend hours every day reading into this stuff and I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do, so how is the Average Joe who just wants to get along with life supposed to know what the correct course of action is?
For the record... sure you can!! :D

An ISA/IDE cable is just copper ribbon cable using .1" spacing, which is what the GPIO header pin spacing is on a Pi. There is a pin blocked on the standard ide female connector but that pin is just one of many ground connectors on the Pi. Clip it off or dremel/drill out the hole as needed. Jeez, now I just convinced myself that I MIGHT use the cable some day. Thanks a lot! >:/ Was trying to throw it away.

There's a PCI bridge for the raspberry pi 4, if for whatever reason one would want to do such a thing. Drivers might be a problem if the card's linux support sucks but that's kind of a separate issue.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-4-pci-express...

EDIT: Oh, maybe your point was that the reason to keep the 486 around is to use old ISA/PCI cards - sorry, I mentioned ISA cables in OC so thought you were replying to that. Yeah, point taken, but I'm skeptical that there are any but the most narrow cases where the function of an old ISA/PCI card can't be replicated/emulated with better performance on a Pi. I mean, trying to think of the edge cases - an old SCSI RAID controller? Maybe some proprietary industrial controller stuff? but yeah. My comment about junking the old stuff was just a criticism of the inclination I think all of us nerds have to get that old box back into production use at home. I think there are very few - if any - cases where that makes sense anymore.
You want the government to be more effective and efficient at tracking people?
>For the product consistency, I assume you are talking about non-fully-automated factories? With full automation "adherence to best practices" hopefully shouldn't be as hard to ensure, I hope.

Automation certainly helps, but there are quirks and hiccups you could run into. Let's say you built a factory every 5 years. Along the way some machinery vendor goes out of business. You might or might not have the machine design, the rights to make another version, etc.

As you build out, you figure out things that work well or don't work well, and you make adjustments to your process accordingly. Building every factory identically or at the same time is probably a bad choice unless everything is really well fleshed out. The marginal benefits of upgrading older factories to the new standard is rarely economically viable.

>For tariffs, if we assume that a big part of the specific industries playes are distributed internationally, the size of the industry in general should be the much more significant factor, as you are not lobbying individually anyway, right? If you can even go as far as fluidly shift production between countries you should be to negotiate better lobbying deals, which I understand is how the automotive industry operates to some degree?

The actions I've seen (not limited to former employers) include CEO's meeting with high level federal government officials, getting local property tax exemptions for expansions bringing jobs, and collaborative industry group action about unfair dumping of product on the US market.

Remember each manufacturer in an industry group has a different structure. Some things are good for the industry as a whole, and some are more beneficial for one manufacturer than another. CEO's advocate for their own company too, not limiting public actions to trade group actions.

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Previously I hadn't covered capital expenditure. Building factories is super expensive and tooling factories is also super expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if the facility and tooling would run 100M-500M.

Even in manual assembly, you'd have jigs and tools to buy, go/no-go guages, etc.
> My dad is not a gullible man

I don’t think you get to say that anymore. It is hard to judge the people we know correctly, but of the many steps, thinking the government would want payment immediately in gift cards must be the biggest gullible jump.
Doesn’t only apply to ivy leagues. I have a coworker than attended cc for 3 years and then transferred to a super elite/expensive private school in Oregon for his final year.
They know how many have h1bs, but not how many of them are actually in the US. Which is just amazing. We need to bend over and let them take our privacy away so they can fight the terrorists apparently, but the same government doesnt even keep track of how many h1b holders are in the country? If the data of who every citizen is calling on their phones is so important for national security- how is it not worth the government's time to collect and analyze data to figure out who is actually in the country?
LuckyYou – a cross platform app to do lucky draw based on tauri framework
One trick that worked for me:

* Don't keep my phone in my bedroom. I keep it several rooms away and now wake up to an analog alarm clock. Out of sight, out of mind, for me at least. I've seen my phone screen time drop from several hours a day to generally < 1 hour (of course some of this has been diverted to more computer time, but on net, it's less screen time overall).
So when a H1b holder enters the US with their H1b, there is no way for the border official to know if it's real? That seems impossible to me.
Hah no - physical, manufactured products
And ox head (https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-letter)

Who knows what these things will look like a few millennia from now.
I don't think it's suspicious, I think it is quite commonplace for people to amplify their roadmap and accelerate their business by having a resource that other people don't have.

The possibility of an unfair advantage is how you get investors to close.

He should be compensated for that, it would be fun for it to be suspicious if we knew the cost of the other places they looked at, and if this was much more than those costs, but the mere convenience of a large transaction to the father doesn't elevate that at all. Just reminds me of the resources I would like my family and network to have to make our good ideas become more viable.
I was thinking amusement park carousels! Seems like some kind of Rorschach test..
Have YOU read the book? It's earnest, non-sarcastic, with an entirely different message. Calling it 'opposite' would be unfair but it's almost that.
well if they claim the H1b program is abused, you bet I'd want them to have real data to report that
Of course it exists. It's called an I-94. DHS has that info.

Every single foreigner is assigned a unique alien number and tracks your entry and exit into the country.

They just don't want to deal with connecting information from two different departments.
People out and about shopping or working are also more likely to be the ones spreading the virus. So even though the 20% rate may be an overestimate, if the people more likely to be 'superspreaders' are now immune, that may reduce transmission.
Yeah I just added the parent expected contribution and the student work contribution to get around 15K, either way it is pretty clear that students on aid (the majority of all students) aren't paying anywhere near 60K.

Also per that NYT article on wealth at colleges ~15% of Harvard frosh come from the top 1%, so that's a decent chunk of the remaining 45% that clearly don't need aid and likely did not even apply for any.

I doubt you will find many people out there that feel they paid too much for Harvard. Certainly there are bigger fish to fry as far as college tuition rip offs.
The key that people who call it “liberal bullshit” never seem to understand is that you can believe there is a problem while being part of the problem. The fact that your existence is evil does not mean you cannot, or should not, advocate for reduction of evil while still existing.
> 3 and 4 are tedious, since you always need to prove that the inputs are nonzero.

Or assume it. This is what you have to do in real life anyway. If you can't assume the inputs are nonzero you have to prove it. Otherwise the proof doesn't work.
Then of course there are the maddening cases of accidental correctness. ie. a bug in your implementation of the wrong plan does the right thing.
Anyone know how this compares to AV1?
ICE Outlines Rules for Foreign Students Taking Classes at U.S. Colleges in Fall
"We're using human-assisted-AI in phase one to enable a faster market entry, and are confident fully-AI-enabled technology is ready for rollout soon" is a surprisingly reliable way to get massively funded.

The horde of mechanical turks is really expensive, but with near-infinite VC capital, many labor-intensive white-collar markets can indeed be thoroughly disrupted.

Selling ten-dollar bills for five dollars each is guaranteed to gain traction, and you just need to convince investors that you're just a few quarters away from being able to print your own.
The article discusses how it’s different, including how the director and screenwriter felt about it. (quite negatively)
> thinking the government would want payment immediately in gift cards

But this is not what happened.
> the inflation that people have been afraid of for maybe two decades now keeps not coming isn't a dismissive Fed talking point

It's dismissive because you're just reiterating the same paradigm the Fed has been using to get us to the state we are at. Of course the system looks consistent with the system's own rules. That is not evidence that its metrics are appropriate, nor its behavior sustainable.

> we now live in a world where raw capital is no longer a rare commodity

Also explained by the Fed continuing to print more money. Private raw capital is not in demand, because it's even easier to get newly created money. Hence the stock market continuing to go up because there is "nowhere else" for savings to go - usually private capital would slosh over to bonds during a recession.

> The interest rate on your savings account is not important compared to gainful employment by the populace that happens when we don't have too tight monetary policy.

You're significantly expanding the scope of the argument here, in an attempt to backstop with another dismissive Fed talking point. That will make any short reply look disjoint, but I will point out: 1. technological progress was supposed to make less human labor required, yet everybody is working even more. 2. women entering the workforce (good for women's self-determination, obviously), yet the labor per person has still not decreased 3. many non-productive administrative jobs have been created, especially in sectors that receive newly created money. 4. ridiculous malinvestment bets such as e-bike/scooter rental. 5. massive waste stream and unsustainable depletion of natural resources. To me, it seems like we have more than enough "gainful employment". Rather we need to stop turning the screws on the working class, especially those who still lack jobs in spite of gross overproduction.
How will you never ask them for money, I was stuck in Vietnam, had my cards and cash stolen. Visa will not send a replacement to Vietnam. There was no alternative except to get my sister to wire me some money.
I "grew up on" Object Pascal as a developer — first Turbo Pascal, then Borland Pascal (for DOS and Windows), then Delphi, up until the early 2000s.

Back then, I wrote GUI apps and commercial games, but I also did a lot of non-GUI development in Delphi, using technologies like COM, MAPI, etc. While Delphi itself wasn't "meant" for non-GUI development, it was still a very nice experience. The interactive debugger was fantastic, as it always was in Borland's tools.

Nowadays, I don't see room for Object Pascal. While later versions of Delphi have improved on the syntax (e.g. generics), it's still a fairly old-fashioned language. It doesn't really have anything special to offer someone who already knows C#, Go, Rust, Java, Nim, etc. There's a strong Object Pascal influence on both Go and Nim, and those languages improve on it in every way, including the size of the communities, the available libraries, and so on.

Delphi's killer app used to be GUI development on Windows, but these days you need to target multiple platforms, and I'm not a believer in cross-platform GUI toolkits; you end up with something that doesn't look great on any platform.

I look at Object Pascal with a lot of fondness, but it's mostly nostalgia.
Yes, but for the 50% of students that are not on financial aid, this must be pretty galling. These students may be rich, but a lot of them are not multimillionaire-rich. Even a family earning 200k a year will feel the pinch.