skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP but presumably because footnotes are a hack to hide away things you don't want many people to look at [0]. Enron was famous for this and I suspect many fraudulent companies do the same.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2002-02-03/the-fine-...
The headline is potentially misleading. There are already "nuclear power plants" based on radioisotope decay of Pu238 on Mars (and old ones on the Moon) as well as beyond, such as Voyager 1, 2, and New Horizons (all of which are still operating). They're called RTGs.

In order to get approval to launch nuclear material, the launch vehicle must be nuclear-rated (like human-rating, it ensures safety). With the recent retirement of the Delta II, only the Atlas V is currently nuclear-rated, but eventually others may be. Additionally, the fuel is encased in boxes designed to withstand launch failure and impact into the ocean without releasing the contents.

In the case of RTGs, the fuel is always releasing heat and is always radioactive. For fission reactors, the fuel is relatively inert and non-radioactive until it is turned on.
It's unlikely this is going to remain the case. The US had 3 straight days of ~1100 deaths. If that continues for 2 months (and doesn't get worse or better, more likely to get worse given the infection rates) the US will be far worse than Italy and France and gaining on the top 2 spots. If it increases as it should, it will be much, much sooner.
50% per year - that’s what you missed.
We will soon find out if China was able to poach critical knowledge from those people. China has a rather poor trackrecord of valuing human resources.
This is interesting. Once you had a set of moves 'down', could you execute them accurately on a pretty consistent basis? At that point... I know dancing requires focus, but once learned was it still more mentally taxing/draining than other well-rehearsed activities?
In order to get approval to launch nuclear material, the launch vehicle must be nuclear-rated (like human-rating, it ensures safety). With the recent retirement of the Delta II, only the Atlas V is currently nuclear-rated, but eventually others may be. Additionally, the fuel is encased in boxes designed to withstand launch failure and impact into the ocean without releasing the contents.

In the case of RTGs, the fuel is always releasing heat and is always radioactive. For fission reactors, the fuel is relatively inert and non-radioactive until it is turned on.

The casing works pretty well. I believe there's even an instance where there WAS a launch failure with an RTG (Atlas V has never had a legitimate launch failure and it has flown almost 100 times), and they fished it out and reused the fuel for another mission.
Observability the Hard Parts
Dancing is a sport. I bet that it's the same with other sports that require a lot of body control and coordination (being your own puppet master).
> Chinese culture is more open-minded about animal consumption

You mean like how pedophiles are more sexually open minded?
You've obviously never seen Little Shop of Horrors. Feed me, Seymour!
I would love a tiny fraction of that 250M number, even half a percent, only a tiny 1.25M will do.
Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading
> Host all OpenJDK Git repositories at https://github.com/openjdk/.

Good choice from moving to Git [0], very risky move on moving to GitHub. If this was just a mirror then that would be fine but it is moving from Mecurial to Git and then the whole project to GitHub.

They should do what Xfce, GNOME and KDE have done and they have self-hosted their own repositories on Gitlab, which GitHub requires the Enterprise Edition for self-hosting. Not really an option, unless you want to pay for this.

The risks outweigh the pros for GitHub as I have said before [1] and will say it again. Self-hosting over 'centralising everything' on GitHub.

[0] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23849565
Nasty!

Keen to try it though.
Some that I know of:

- https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack

- https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks

- https://gadgetbridge.org/
Thank you so much, can confirm to works great. In case anyone looking for how to, follow the instructions on https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-optio..., uncomment the PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 line.
I want ecom software which rivals Shopify but it's free and self hosted like Discourse.

Payment method support: stripe and PayPal are enough.

But must have shipment tracking maybe through integration from some service.

All Shopify alternatives suck.
YEARS ago at a conference I got really mad at Gosling and told him that Java was going to be Open Source one way or another and that they might as well Open Source it now and maybe SUN wouldn't implode.

Well... I was right.
Ah, yes. I have seen this movie over a dozen times, with my first viewing at about age 4. George C Scott's performance is more sublime than the command presence of the real Patton.
This website is refreshing over and over making it impossible to read on my phone ...
I have an old hack for FS1 that added CGA color on IBM PC. I wonder if they would like it.
I mean, even if the effect is significant, it might just come down to the fact that for one person the activity alleviates stress and for the other it does the opposite. Sure, the physical activity is good for circulation and cardio/strength will vary a lot, but I imagine most of the mood-altering aspects and impact on things like GABA/cortisol/glutamate are largely dependent on whether someone is genuinely enjoying themselves, just ok with it, or find it to be a chore.
Ironically, this HN comment is probably the only place where I'd have heard these terms, or that I need to know them for an interview :)
Student-developed device predicts avocado ripeness
Yes. At any gathering of a certain type that’s large enough, like a music festival, you run the risk of eating or drinking something that’s been spiked with something. Most people who do so try to be up front about the “bonus content,” but because of legality they will often couch it in lingo like “space brownies” and the like. If you don’t know what that means, you could be in for a wild ride without anyone having ill intentions.
Currently, the registry has to keep checking for new messages; it can't be notified by the writer that there are new messages. I don't know about if this software providing a web interface does that or not, although it is something that I would want to define the protocol of, which would be independent of the implementation, and would be simple to implement even to just use curl without many complicated commands. (I have no intention to use the web interface, and currently do not use twtxt at all, but if I do, I would like to have this protocol, and for other servers (maybe even this software) to support it.)

Of course for many things, microblogging is too short so I would use NNTP instead (which I already have set up). But many things are short and are not worth making many NNTP messages just for that, so twtxt may be helpful.
The second part of your need is interesting.
I'm being a bit generic but to speak with CEOs, it would greatly help to know about strategy and competition. It's a loaded term and here's what I would recommend:

1. Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage [0] or Understanding Michael Porter [1]

2. One of the things that really applies well to tech businesses has been Platform Business Model. This book [2] is a good starting point

3. The Lean startup [3] and Hacking Growth [4] round up the tech books that I have benefited from.

3b. Warren Buffet's letters are a classic to learn about businesses and help when you are dealing with CXOs.

4. With these basics in place, I would recommend Stratecherry - the blog and Economist for keeping up with the current developments in the field.

Good luck!

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Competitive-Advantage-Creating-Sus...

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Understanding-Michael-Porter-Essen...

[2] https://www.amazon.com.au/Platform-Revolution-Networked-Tran...

[3] https://www.amazon.com.au/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful...

[4] https://www.amazon.com.au/Hacking-Growth-Fastest-Growing-Com...

FYI, I come from a similar background. Was a techie for 9+ years before switching to an MBA and can personally attest to the materials given above :)
This is misinformed. The full cradle-to-grave lifecycle of nuclear power on our planet is underdeveloped or halted due to alarmism.

- Waste can definitely be reprocessed if new power plant reactors were built, capable of burning such waste; we have a few such reactors but too few to process all the waste in a short time. An additional problem is that the waste contains plutonium, and various nuclear weapons limitation treaties may have clauses about production of plutonium. (Pu is of course a fine nuclear reactor fuel, if used correctly.)

- 3 Mile Island disaster [1] and Fukushima disaster ended up with very, very few casualties. Chernobyl, of course, produced many casualties, but to achieve that, the operators had to explicitly switch off almost all the safety systems of the reactor, and then do a number of grossly incompetent actions. Fukushima had a huge tsunami and a huge earthquake, and misconfigured cooling pumps.

- Nuclear is a one-time thing. But that time is plenty long. I do not expect the nuclear reactors on the moon to ever exceed 10 GW of power in total. Also, there are no plans to mine uranium on the Moon; a ton of fuel delivered from Earth would last quite a long time.

- Renewable energy definitely should be harvested on the Moon! But to pass it to the dark side, you'd need to build and maintain serious transmission infrastructure. It could be more expensive and less reliable than a small local reactor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Hea...
> 3 mile island, fukushima, and chernobyl could likely all have been prevented. all include an exclusion zone of some shape or size. none have experienced meaningful amounts of cleanup.

That's just wrong. Fukushima has been and still is getting a major cleanup operation. They removed the top layers of soil in many places. For chernobyl it's not economic because the Ukraine is very sparsely populated.
On the paid front I do:

Down Dog / HIIT by the same company.

https://www.downdogapp.com/, $39.99/yr for random autogenerated workouts and yoga routines and other apps all included in the price.

On the free side:

The staggering amount of content on youtube. Search for HIIT and sort by recently uploaded. Fantastic high quality content and more variety then one person would ever need all for $0/yr.
Pffft, I grabbed an old cardboard box and used it to convert my sitting desk to a standing desk.

(Seriously; it's the perfect height box)
I can’t tell if this is a joke.
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1217/

They haven't even done animal trials yet.
You don't have to believe these claims you know. And you need to add up all the latencies of all the components in the chain, from your keyboard and mouse to DirectX or whatever it is...
IBM India is primarily a service arm. I have a sweet story for IBM India too. I hope I'm not offending anyone. I had a friend working there long back after he was acqui-hired for a JavaScript tool he wrote. He kinda looks up to me. Once I was looking for a job, he told me that they are looking for a "Head of Design" and introduced me to have a meeting with one of their Heads.

In the pursuing interview/talk, my response to how I can build a team meant for the web/app was -- design alone is pretty meaningless, so let's create a team that understands designers' creativity and the power of engineering.

He thinks I was crazy because I told him I code my designs. Some of his words;

- "Designers should be shielded from Engineers, so their creativity is not limited."

- "I have avoided the other team and kept to my design team, and when the deliverables are passed-on, my job is done."

Of course, I looked up the guy later and learned that he has steadily grown his career like a well-designed graph, from an intern designer to the head of a design team in about 20 years.
We keep talking about small businesses largely because of political conditioning.

Small businesses struggle because people are too poor to afford anything more than cheap crap at Walmart and McDonalds. We should focus on providing basics to all americans instead of getting upset when the pop-up barbecue ice cream truck doesn't make any money and went under when people's health became more important than someone's life long "dream" to become a barista at their own cafe.
I use https://ewolo.fitness :)
We don't know where DDR lies on the scale of brain plasticity since it wasn't tested but good points you make. In my own opinion I feel DDR would be better than repetitive physical exercise but not as good as dance.
The URL ^^ didn't work for me .

This one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMySF1nkN8o worked for me in Australia
I think saying that that the parent's statement "comes across" as condescending and rude is taking the principle of charity and presumption of good faith a bit far. It is condescending and rude by any standard of good manners and productive conversation that I care to engage under.

If a child learns the hard way that X -> Y I don't berate them and call them stupid for not listening. It doesn't make them more likely to listen the next time. Same with adults, really.
Seems geo restricted. I had better luck with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMySF1nkN8o in Oz
Ask HN: Anybody know somebody working on Google App Engine?
I have an app I haven't deployed for a few years. It's been chugging away providing a bit of pocket money for years. I pay google a few hundred a month in hosting.

Today I installed the gcloud tools on my new PC and attempted to deploy to my sandbox in preparation for fixing a few bugs. I've found that my Model classes now just throw "Missing or insufficient permissions" exceptions when attempting to fetch data from the data-store.

I don't really know how to go abut debugging it. I've read through the docs and as far as I can tell it should all just work.

Any suggestions?
Is there some other solution to this than to cryptographically sign 100% of the files in your system with a key that is only written down on paper?
Jeff Bezos also came from DE Shaw.
Might hinder the astronomy.
I fell down a Wikipedia Hole deep into the history of nuclear reactors in space. There are many radioisotope heater units (RHUs) in space, such as those used by Chang'e 4 to survive the cold lunar nights, and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), such as the MHW-RTGs used by the Voyagers, the GPHS-RTGs used by Cassini and New Horizons, and the MMRTGs used by Curiosity and Perseverance. (An RTG using 241Am has been proposed for an interstellar mission, as it’s 432 year half-life could provide 500+ years of power [1].) The only nuclear fission reactor launched by the US, and the world’s first, was SNAP 10-A, a 235U - Zirconium hydride reactor with a thermal power output of 30 kW and sodium-potassium (NaK) coolant. It was launched in 1965, stopped working after only 43 days, and has undergone 7 “anomalous events” in which nearly 50 trackable pieces have been seen shedding from the parent body. It should stay in orbit for 3000 years unless it breaks up further. The remaining 30 or so known launched fission reactors were in Soviet RORSATs: nuclear-powered, ocean-surveillance, active radar satellites in LEO that required periodic boosts to prevent reentry. They were designed to launch their enriched 235U reactors into a high orbit at the end of their operational lives, but this didn’t always happen. (Those high orbits will last 300-1000 years, but the nuclear fuel has a half-life of 70,000 years… so future generations may not think highly of us.) In 1978, the Cosmos 954 RORSAT malfunctioned, reentered, and broke apart over northern Canada with the reactor attached, scattering radioactive debris over a 800 km long region and increasing awareness of the challenges around space debris— the USSR eventually paid $3 million in cleanup liability, about a ⅕ of the true cost. Other satellites have also broken up and spread radioactive debris, including the US’s Transit 5BN3 (carried a SNAP RTG) and the USSR’s Cosmos 1402 RORSAT, or have leaked radioactive coolant in orbit, such as the higher power and higher orbit Kosmos 1818 and Kosmos 1867 RORSATs, which both seem to have leaked trails of metallic NaK coolant. The usefulness of the Gamma Ray Spectrometer on NASA’s SolarMax mission was reduced by anomalous gamma ray emissions from these higher reactors. Collisional breakups among the ~30 reactors in orbit are likely over the next few hundred years [2]. Near future use of nuclear power in space may include NASA’s Kilopower reactor and Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator, and potentially even nuclear rockets. Related: This 158 page NASA PDF [3] contains a delightfully detailed history of space debris and was a primary source for this writeup.

[1] http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/misc/trieste...
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0273117791...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20170503083646/https://ston.jsc....

(If you're into this sort of nerdery, I write about this stuff weekly in The Orbital Index - https://orbitalindex.com)
I don't feel like the people in the study were pair dancing . Or improvising. They were learning dance in a classroom setting. " Each block comprised the teaching of choreographies of five different genres: line dance, jazz dance, rock ‘n’ roll, Latin-American dance and square dance "
oh wait, I forgot my SO is helping out with the rent after we moved to a much cheaper town, dude paid slightly less than twice my year's rent for this. Dude paid three months of my friggin' rent for his webcam.
No.

I'm advocating that Apache Foundation (or similar) oversee the direction of the project to ensure that equality is maintained
Performance is great on single thread/single CPU, but performance is even better when doing multi-threaded for most scenarios.

In terms of development, we prefer developing on lesser hardware so that we can be sure that Pixolage will run super smooth for most setups (although long compile waits can be frustrating).

For scalability, nothing beats multi-process. (Due to the way the OS manages communications between GPU driver<->process using the GPU).

Completely agree - Picasa is/was a great application!
The HN nuclear apologists are disgusting.

Japan will end up spending in the area of $1 Trillion dollars on Fukushima "cleanup" - where "cleanup" means moving dirt from one pile to another forever.

250,000 residents were displaced, many living in school gyms until they died.
While softwares are scalable. Problem is that you not the owner of those softwares, will you be able to negotiate with your employees to give you 1-10% of the total profit they generate. Unlikely! Yes, software developers make a lot of money but they still end up in category of "expense" not revenue generator in accounting. You'll only get paid what it costs to replace you.

You need to start a business where you own total upside and total downside. It's high risk and high reward game, if you get lucky - you'll be in the names like Bezos.

Having worked with software developers, they hesitate from charging too much as they don't understand the value of the work they are providing and are generally happy making stable amount of money over lifetime.

This is not bad if you value stability. But if you want more, you need to play with fire. Highly likely you'll get burnt but that's what it takes.

I quit my job to produce 3d printing filament and I am making 7000 euros a month as the business grows, I'll probably make more but see it's a limited scope process to make filament so it's very scalable. I expect upside to increase steadily over few years before I plateau and then I plan to move on to another opportunity.

Here's my project:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Just like me, pick a problem where people have money to pay and start finding how how to reduce costs and increase sales.

In business/sales/marketing you need to display confidence which often software developers lack (because they know of so many ways things can go wrong). Customer doesn't like this, customer wants to feel that your solution is flawless without any holes! That's where clever sales person come and sell the software solution for several multiples of what it costs to make it.

When you've enough money, you don't need to struggle - you need to do things that are fun for you and have upside.
NGINX still uses Mercurial
The military complex wants to fund the space force!
I’m a Corp finance guy and agree with your comments more than most on this thread. Very little value in knowing double entry accounting. It’s actually a key difference between most finance and accounting. I don’t even deal with that stuff. I know all about how it works sure, I had to take accounting classes in college but it’s not a routine part of my job and certainly no other executives.

Accrual is important. Mostly because it impacts timing and gives you some levers to adjust to make the financial statements the way you want. Eg depending on your goals, you may want to form a strategy on when to sign a vendor contract.

Financial statements is where it’s at though. And it’s easy to learn from a book. However, what you need to learn, is how this general knowledge fits your company. This is really the difference between good and bad CxOs (and I’ve seen my share of both).

This is a different path. It’s metrics and KPIs. It’s strategy and knowing what’s important for the company. Are you conserving cash, are you growing at all cost, prove you have an ROI on your project, prove you can execute the project as promised, articulate why a project is off the rails (signal risk). A lot of this is financial politics, but if you talk the talk and earn credibility you’ll be seen as has a strong fiduciary over your domain. Also, depending on the size of your company, get a finance guy that reports or has a dotted line to you. If company is too small for that, you can just build a very good relationship with the finance team. I’m my experience, 25%-50% of our job is partnering with other executives; meaning we educate them (comprehension And prep for meetings with other executives/BOD) and we have full scope knowledge of what every other department is doing.
I do think it's an important concern, even though I absolutely love Github. Most importantly though, `git` is not centralised, and no service like Github, no matter what it does, can ever stop the decentralisation, roll-your-own-ability, or forkability of open-source software.

So probably it's OK for now for the majority of the community to use MS's platform Github, because other options exist and it's not hard to move to them or create new ones at any time. Github doesn't own our brains, nor can it do any harm to the powerful GNU GPL.
Most of those few dozen soviet reactors are still in graveyard orbits today, in fact.
This strikes me as a first-world privileged thing, similar to how Europe built its industrial revolution on coal but now tries to prevent others from doing the same thing. Even in the US we eat domesticated livestock (cattle), cultivated but not domesticated livestock (bison), and entirely wild animals (deer). Any of these could vector a novel illness to humans.
I have no idea how java inserts itself so further down the stack (below X? USB?) and measures so high up (after compositing??), but it works!