skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the problem with molten salt reactors is that except for a few test reactors in the 1960'ies, nobody has built and ran them. There is little knowledge how well they'd actually work as power production reactors running at high power for years. E.g. how do you do maintenance?

And on top of that, the Th fuel cycle requires reprocessing and breeding, again technology that looks feasible on paper but little knowledge how it would work out in practice.

I'm not saying this as a negative, I think MSR's are cool and potentially very useful technology. We should definitely research them with the goal of taking them into use for large-scale power production. But this won't be ready in 10 years.

Now, I hope I'm wrong, and maybe IMSR proves me wrong by deploying at scale sooner. Though that is the traditional once-through LEU cycle, no Th, but still a MSR design.
If only there was a communication medium which travelled at the speed of light and 100 years of research in information theory and cryptography which would allow secure auditable verifiable elections from the comfort of home. Nah lets use pre-telegraph technology.
Enterprises upgrade on a slower schedule, yes, but they still patch as quickly as everybody else.

Can you patch a docker image? Sort of, but it's easier to rebuild. And that's what they do.
Direct election interference. Please call your elected representatives and demand action. There is no safe alternative to voting by mail in the middle of a pandemic that the Trump administration has completely bungled a response to.

We are watching the creation of a banana republic in realtime.
So, suppose it were possible to simulate a brain. Say someone in the future figures out how brains work, and boils it down to some physical processes to do with neurons and synapses.

Ed Sheeran is then scanned, and a battery of machines produces new music from the patterns in his brain.

What do you think of that?

For me, it seems the creative process must be informational. It's something to do with mixing up experienced life, ideas, cultural tropes, etc. But in being informational, it's also not specific to the first substrate that generated it. In fact you have the luxury of being able to "run the code" on new substrates, and that creates a new economics of what is considered good.
I know this is an annoying thing to say, but:

This is an argument for not having mail delivery being controlled by elected politicians.
Safari is restricted to a range of hardware I'll never buy, so it might as well not exist for me.
Using emotion and color to generate playlists
Selling these resources and your bin taxes [0] are what helps the municipal garbage service covering their costs. If you pay another service to take away the more valuable parts of the trash, you would sort of pay twice, as your municipal provider would not be able to make money on these resources and needed to cover their costs in a different way.

[0] At least here in Germany one can not opt out of this which is a good thing in my opinion. Otherwise some people undoubtely would opt out which would leave us with either unhandled trash or the public having to pay for their trash instead.
> I'd say an advantage of pugSQL is that

Plus it’s got a cool name
Ask Native Americans.
what's the real difference between that vs Jupyter notebook vs Jupyter labs?
HTML engine was forked from Webkit. It's called blink now, and from what I've read the fork was long enough ago to consider them separate pieces of software.
Just to get some real numbers on the table:

- My EV has ~30kWh battery

- I charge about twice a week, overnight, from around 50% to 100%, if I drive to work every day

I have a relatively short commute to work. So this is may be a lower bound. But charging 52kWh every single day is definitely an extreme case on the other end.

Where I'm from, EVs typically charge at 10A-32A at 220V, or 7.4kW to 22kW with level 2 chargers. That means you can't charge a Tesla from 0% to 100% over night, but then I haven't heard of anyone who actually needs to do that every day, if ever. The closest I've done personally is charge a Tesla I borrowed from around 30% to 100% at a cabin, but then I started when we arrived in the afternoon and we left just before noon.

It's weird that you'd call a 52kWh Zoe tiny btw. 52kWh is quite respectable. It's only half of the largest EV you could possibly buy now, and I'm guessing 50-70kWh will be the standard mid/entry level battery size for a long time.

30-40kWh cars might disappear. That'd kind of be a shame, because it's a useful size for many people. And having a larger battery than you need is a huge waste unless you have vehicle-to-grid to get more value out of the battery capacity you're not using. But then again, maybe the 30-40kWh market will be taken over by second hand 50-60kWh cars with reduced capacity.
What about this benchmark?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9900-vs-Intel-...
What I hope/expect to see in the next 10 or so years are triple A game titles similar to GTAV, that start off with a set of characters and a situation/problem, but let things develop organically from there. Not to mention realistic dialogue / realistic reactions from characters to dynamically unfolding story.
One of the key steps in a negotiation is to make the first offer. This is called "anchoring" and its been proven that the person who makes the first offer generally gets more favorable terms. It works because if you set the first offer the negotiation tends to revolve around that number.

To make the best initial offer and anchor it in your favor, you should aim for their limit/walk away price. This would be probably around $17/hr for him since asking him for $18/hr I would believe would be beyond his limit price.

In general you should always make the first offer and make it at the limit of your opposition. How do you know their limit? You have to do your research ahead of time and know your opposition and their needs. This even further proves the OP I replied to was wrong.
Yeah, polling stations are dimensioned for typical turnout, which includes a majority voting by mail.
This is untrue - different states have different standards by which mail in ballots will be counted. A postmark on or before Election Day is no guarantee your vote will be tallied, depending on where you live.
Parenting is about using our experience to avoid catastrophic outcomes for our children until they've developed enough experience to avoid those outcomes themselves.

It's more than that, but that's at the core. Love them, model good behaviors, and don't let them do irreparable harm to themselves or others.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143346
There isn't a symbolic representation of plot semantics. No one cares that A thinks B, they care why A thinks B - and they care even more about what it might mean for what happens next.

Plots aren't a series of events, they're a series of motivational challenges for the characters. The heart of a plot is how they respond to the challenges, and a good plot has a consistent theme which develops a coherent series of related challenges through superficially different events.

The mechanical specifics of the challenges are almost secondary.
It still does. The macOS version has it in the menu bar: View > Outline.
Intel Xe-HPC GPU Status Update: 4 Process Nodes Make 1 Chip
That might work in a normal election year, but this year that solution would still put people in a bind between risking getting a severe infectious disease and exercising their democratic rights.
And why are there Palestinians in those other countries? Because Israel is occupying Palestine and refusing to let Palestinian refugees come home.
I think I'm down with some changes in those regs, especially for me securities, but I don't know how you could do that on a state by state basis though. How could apple handle different patent rules from each state and then litigate on each of them etc
>Please don't incite criminal behavior

This is a gross oversimplification of morality. Regardless, I agree what the parent is proposing wouldn't work well.
We do just in time shipping on top of the post office, so have visibility here. We're definitely seeing mail being delivered more slowly, with more delays. At the same time, it's a question of degree, not a major dismantling of the post office. I'd guess 90% of our packages are still arriving within a day of when they were supposed to.

For context, I run bottomless.com, YCW19. We're shipping hundreds of packages from dozens of locations around the US every day.
After reading the article it seems like it won't effect the election results - other then maybe making them take slightly longer? But even that seems unlikely.
Upstart existed before systemd. I used to think it was NIH syndrome, but its initial release was in 2006, whereas systemd's was in 2010.
> If these guys can generate money from taking it away for free, why am I paying the city to take it away for me?

If I had to guess, I would say because city services do not exist in a vacuum. The cardboard is probably subsidizing the landfill. If someone else takes the cardboard, they would have to increase fees on other waste to break even.

Almost every government service is like that. You may find a cheaper option than postal service to send a letter a couple of blocks within a large city; but if everyone does this, the postal rates have to go up. Urban and high-density delivery subsidize rural and small town delivery. You can find a cheaper insurance if you are a 20-year old healthy person with no risk factors; but if all of young and healthy people do this, the costs for those remaining in the public system would go dramatically higher.
Aren't you glad we finally phased out asbestos in brake pads...uh, real soon now?
Definitely, nuclear power has been developed with bomb production in mind. Now, that's what we have. Lots of bombs and a nuclear power industry that costs more than renewables and endangers the public. I'm not happy about either aspect of our situation. No more of that please.
Intel Previews 4-Layer 3D XPoint Memory for Second-Generation Optane SSDs
What is cancel culture?
That reminds me of the stake Ubuntu Core was born with in its heart:

> An Ubuntu SSO account is required to create the first user on an Ubuntu Core installation.

They just keep flinging shit at nothing and hoping to hit a wall they can build a gate in.

They're trying to boil the frog slowly with Snap on the Server/Desktop branches.

There is no possible genuine motive for these maneuverings to be in the position of gatekeeper.

If anyone at Canonical is listening, you should be aware it doesn't matter how slowly and carefully you approach this, or how you justify it, the first time I'm forced to kiss the ring to get my software to work, your software is gone from any system I own or manage, immediately and forever.

You're not going to get within a thousand miles of monetizing the ecosystem by gatekeeping it -- the moment you even so much as assert the position of gatekeeper you're trying to create for yourselves you're dead to me.
I'm also fascinated by the application of AI like GPT-3 to generating video game content. The best content will come from game developers working with GPT-3, where GPT-3 comes up with characters and subplots without exhaustion, and the game developer filters the generated leads for ideas that stand on their own and ideas that invite more exploration.

It seems reasonable for game developers to be able to generate an order of magnitude more NPCs using this method. The game director can pour their heart and soul into the main storyline, and the assistants can create hundreds of hours of less original but still sufficient content. I imagine being able to create DLC after the initial release at a rate that exceeds any players ability to finish the latest release before the next comes out.
You're right that nixos / all nix packages isn't/aren't perfectly reproducible.

In practice, most of the packages in the nixos base system seem to be reproducible, as tested here: https://r13y.com/

Naturally, that doesn't prove they are perfectly reproducible, merely that we don't observe unreproducibility.

Nix has tooling, like `nix-build --check`, the sandbox, etc which make it much easier to make things likely to be reproducible.

I'm actually fairly confident that the redis package is reproducible (having run `nix-build --check` on it, and seen it have identical outputs across machines), which is part of why I picked it as my example above.

However, I think my point stands. Dockerfiles make no real attempt to enforce reproducibility, and rarely are reproducible.

Nix packages push you in the right direction, and from practical observation, usually are reproducible.
At one point I would think this is insane, but if they can get the "context" stuff working a little better I feel this would be insane... and somewhat plausible. I suppose you'd have to tie 3d models to the story though, that might be difficult.
> Does this mean running in a public cloud might actually be more secure?

No, because cloud providers are one subpeona, court order or warrant away from surveillance and exfiltration of your data without your knowledge.

If the DHS deems you a threat, then all proceedings can happen through secret courts and you'll be none the wiser to it happening, and you'll get a gag order on top of it.
It sure is, but privatizing opens up an entire other can of worms. It'd be far easier to "disappear" someone's mail in a private corporation unless there is strong legal oversight. And that brings it back to having elected politicians controlling who's auditing the private delivery companies. It's a mess.
Climate Neutral is on a mission to make carbon footprinting more accessible
> With all of the syntax growth, SQL could certainly have a join syntax that understands object composition and returns structured data.

I mean, many RDBMS's have support for JSON and/or XML, so you can sort of get it.

However, I wonder if we'd be better of as an industry if we dealt with our data in code in a more relation-y way than an object-y way.
> What happens in two weeks when a security vulnerability or data loss bug is identified and fixed?

The automatic update process breaks software by making incompatible changes, thus preventing a security problem by just not allowing me to run the software in the first place?
Well, many of those people also don't get to take Federal holidays off. See "Black Friday", "Presidents' Day Sale", etc.
I'd argue there is also depth within the "random dice rolls thrown by a [carefully designed] machine", specifically in the design and choices that went into said machine's implementation.
It's certainly a bit meta, but I enjoy this more than human created superficial pop songs.
> This means it's not really any harder to track down

Right. It’s not much different than a constants file.
There are no million dollar ideas.

There are only difficult decade-long slogs through the hard work of building a company, which may or may not one day yield a million dollars.

Take spacex for example, which started like this and 20 years later is aiming for Mars

https://www.starletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/maria...

Or Amazon, which started like this and took a long long time to become one of the biggest companies in the world

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7p9n1j/photo_of_jeff_...

But most people don't want to do the work so they look for million dollar ideas.
Study shows inbreeding reduces cooperation in banded mongooses
Everything except land is fleeting, that is why the wealthy Chinese all buy land outside of China, they know that the things you listed could disappear in a night.
Pander to people acting in bad faith because they act in bad faith...

Seems like a good strategy.

We need the postal service to be a gov entity because the alternative is having UPS control our elections.
Exactly. Basically, if your product needs network access during build, you don't have a reproducible build, and if you don't have a reproducible build, it's only a matter of time before something goes horribly wrong.
> C++ isn't known for building things quickly.

What language is?

If only sticking to deadlines was as easy as changing your programming language!

Alas.
I'm not claiming that this is something that GPT-3 could ever accomplish, but I do believe there exists a middle ground between GPT-3 and full AGI that can produce creative works such as fiction novels.
I agree with most of your statement, but I have a question about this bit

> After all, Epic is not taking anything off the top here;

Apple and Google take 30% and they are giving a 20% discount if you pay directly, so isn't there a 10% difference that they would be taking "off the top"?

Or am I missing something?
The ship will return in a few months, you cannot expect everyone to keep this level of measures indefinitely.
Amen brother! In the decade I spent in that space, customers always thought they had esoteric memory issues or had found some kernel bug. Nope, you just forgot to do the basics like oh dunno... check if it even runs? DB indexing? pfffttt, who does that? ;-)
Do not ever allow an election for who gets to control the nukes be decided by an e-vote. I don’t want Boaty McBoatface to be the president.
> This does not protect me from Facebook being used to mobilize the information deficient to vote to destroy the society I live in

The problem is that there are other people with polar differences in politics from you who also think that the society they live in is being destroyed, for the exact opposite reasons. Facebook should just butt out and let people have their own conversations; they should have no role in curating or doing anything about what people are saying as long as it's not absolutely illegal.

If you don't like it, then you've already made your choice to not have an account. Find some other outlet for your activism if you're so worried that society is being destroyed.
Which IaaS do you use to selfhost for the one at work? How much does the network transfer cost you? Or are they docker pulls internal network?
Also in the 9/11 commission report the one hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui was under investigation by the FBI in Minnesota and their FISA warrant was denied. The dispute was supposedly also over a "lack of communication/cooperation" between the FBI and CIA in active investigations.

Coleen Rowley was the whistle-blower on this event, and testified to congress. Everything on the laptop had the evidence of the 9/11 attacks, but was blocked by the FISA court.

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

Ironically great investigators with 2001 tech could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. Appallingly then the FISA court approved the whole sale surveillance of any Verizon customer. The wholesale Verizon order was the 1st and one of the biggest important information leaks from the Snowden documents.

A court that was set up to protect the civil liberties of Americans during the abuses of the 1960's-1970's failed in the protection of the largest terrorist attack in US history, but was then used to circumvent the civil liberties and privacy rights of a massive numbers of American citizens.

Then the government used the pretext of 9/11 to create these technologies by for the NSA to surveil the large majority of its own citizens, when all that was needed was 1 FISA warrant approval.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_o...

It's appalling, with the loss of our rights and the digital world now being used to further deteriorate these rights when it can be used in such better and positive ways.

Also a 20+ year war, Trillions of dollars, and millions of deaths could have prevented from not blocking this warrant. While right now, with COVID, we could use Trillions of dollars to help keep US citizens safe and use it for small business support during these tough times.
Would it make a difference if you didn't know it was procedural? Games like Dark Souls have a story, but the majority of it isn't spelled out, it's up to you to fill in the gaps based on the environment and tidbits from characters you meet.
It may still be helpful to delay the counting of these votes to further the narrative "look, Trump won by a large margin the first day, then all these mail in votes come in a week later and the winner is now Biden? Obvious mail fraud!"
That's only partially true. Parts that already existed at Oslo's time (Maaleh Adumim) were covered by the agreement. The flip side is that land was also promised in return - a promise never kept either.

There isn't a lot of value for that land, other than it's relative proximity to central region. Israel would be better served, and it would be cheaper to simply build up in the north - very much one of the two national strategies in place.

It sucks - but the reality is that Israel doesn't have anyone to negotiate with. The West Bank had a leader until recently, and Gaza is very much not an option. Making peace elsewhere is what's left, and it'll leave the PA behind eventually.
They were also charged with money laundering. I suspect if they had set up a legitimate business and signed contracts with customers for "free pickup" and paid taxes on profits etc, they wouldn't be in jail.
Remembering Alfred Hitchcock: How ‘Psycho’ Changed Hollywood
> "My system is harder to use" is not a selling point.

Unless you're a Linux Desktop evangelist, then it is because it lets you feel smugly superior to people who don't like wasting their time with shit like this.
Arguably this is what happened with Trump - just indirectly.

But yes, internet voting is decades from ready.
TikTok already scrapes whatever they want. How does Apple’s review process help?

Also, sideloading doesn’t necessarily mean there’s no access controls or permissions on iOS any more. Though Apple might have to step up security and fixore bugs.
I think this is really cool, I'm genuinely curious if there's any advantage of it versus getting the image from NOAA's website?

In other words, is there any data or imagery gathered this way that you can't get from NOAA? (I realize there would be a slight delay before the imagery is available from NOAA).

I'm not trying to take anything away from this awesome project, I'm just curious.
ADHD makes normal life/jobs/college harder, which leaves entrepreneurship as a viable option. It might be less chosen and more that you don't fit as well into regular societal work expectations. That was my case. Worked out well for me, but when I failed grade 12 and then failed out of college it didn't seem great at the time.
With a market potential of $30B / year, according to Elon. Starlink exists to fund Starship because launch revenues are not sufficient.
To begin, Sample Space of Events is a Set.

Simple cases like probability of A or A's complement etc., all rely on basic set theory.

The rabbit hole is sample spaces that are really really large.

What happens to probability distribution of desired events in those cases?
Show HN: I made a p5.js simulation that shows how masks reduce Covid spread
I think for Rust to succeed long term it needs to be run more like C/C++ with standards and multiple compiler implementations for as many platforms as possible. I would be very nervous betting on Rust for a big long term project if there is uncertainty about Mozilla’s future.
I spend hours per day in Jira. Half as a PM, and the other half as an IC.

I've never used Jira Classic, so can't comment there.

But Jira Next Gen projects have been great to work with. So much functionality and bloat is stripped out of Next Gen, sometimes too much was removed I think.

I hear people hating on Jira very often, but at least the way our company uses it, it's great.

The only thing I'd really want to change is (1) performance, page load times are frustrating, and (2) ability to easily move a ticket from 1 project to another project without clicking through a 6 step process.

Edit: Regarding Jira's slowness, I'd highly recommend trying the Mac app which is dramatically faster than the web ui.