skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
Sucks that she had problems with the Litter Robot. I love mine, and it's only malfunctioned once in the last several years. And for the fur, just get a Roomba.
But also be sure to read critiques of Debt written by economists.

Here’s one by Noah Smith: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...
Nope. Just a guy who's a fan of an old comedy tape called "Dating 911".
Add in breeder reactors and reprocessing providing a factor of 200 improvement in fuel usage, and we have enough uranium for millions of years.
I (sort of) work in the advertising industry. I'm really excited to see this change, but the major players in the industry just weren't ready for it, and it would have been very chaotic with lots of money on the line.

I think waiting until early 2021 is better than having anything that depends on ad revenue see a huge dropoff until the industry figures things out.
>> The feeling that it's just completely impossible to know what's going on in the world is really debilitating.

Is it? Why? Does it meaningfully change your life to know what's going on everywhere from the mundane to the impactful?

Our lives are lived in the present, locally. You interact with people in your community thousands of times more than people you read about thousands of miles away.

Be where your feet are.
I get occasional palpitations. In June suddenly it went 20x more frequent for 2-3 weeks, no other symptoms. Would love to know if it was the rona.
An automatic feeder is worth having. It seems to decouple the food from the owner in the cat's mind, so that if they're hungry, they go sit by the feeder instead of complaining to you.
Flaws? The meltdown was caused by a deliberate action on behalf of people with control of the plant.

I haven't watched Chernobyl because I prefer to not get my history from television shows with a narrative axe to grind.
It is definitely psychological.

I was suffering daily after COVID when living still under lockdown.

I moved to a non-lockdown country (where the strategy is now herd immunity) and felt better immediately, and now have zero lingering symptoms.

Lockdown and Government restrictions are more suffocating than COVID.
Vaccine or bust.
Here’s a good critique of Debt by Noah Smith: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...
The article reveals the real concern - google has impacted "telecoms and media companies".

These groups are VERY powerful. They don't want things like net neutrality, they want to hoover up broadband subsidies without actually delivering service (and often faking coverage maps etc). And despite all their claims, they are enormous monopoly like groups, now under republican administrations with much GREATER concentrations across both content libraries and internet access (time warner etc).

Under this administration, massive anti-competitive consolidation has been permitted and encouraged in areas with much much greater consumer harm, by companies who IMMEDIATELY go back on their promises.

"How Trump’s Department of Justice Just Gave Hollywood Megacorporations Unlimited Power"
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/hollywood-paramount-decre...

"On August 7, US district judge Analisa Torres granted the Department of Justice’s request to terminate the Paramount Consent Decrees"

The absolute ridiculous irony here is the govt is hand over fist screwing consumers, and now is going after... google!? ... has having ripped folks off?

Do I believe my cable co was both selling my data for profit and jacking up my prices because I had no choice? Sure, even when their service was terrible I was stuck. Any enforcement? Bare minimum (I had to call monthly to get them to remove their modem rental fee - I wasn't using their modem, but a year after I started they added the charge and insisted I had their modem but wouldn't tell me the device ID).

Australia / New Zealand are going to be some good examples here. Very arbitrarily (vs principles based) rulemaking coming.
Seems like you'd be the one surprised: Even though they have cut their lobbying budget in the past two years, Alphabet has spent more on lobbying Congress over the past decade than any other tech firm, except maybe Amazon.

[0] - https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
I suspect some of this is news coverage and metrics.

People tend to chase after what is measured. Most of the metrics are rates of people who get it and rates death. This is further broken down by region and demographic. So, we talk a lot about these things.

The other issues surrounding it are either not being measured or the measurements are not public. So, we are not talking about them or chasing after things that impact them.
Google still makes money on them and has no incentive to crack down.
What effect does tire width have? Very narrow (<165mm) tires vs dual tires of trucks for example. Smaller area of friction versus lower pressure
To nitpick, some naval reactors are designed to use LEU. E.g. French submarines run on 7% enriched fuel. And reportedly Chinese subs also use LEU.
"Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-di...
It's just Nintendo's ad but I thought the online/offline game interplay was interesting enough to warrant a submission.
Local air pollution is a problem somewhat orthogonal to general carbon emissions/ecosystem damage that're far from where humans live. Both problems are important, but there's nothing wrong with recognizing that they're different harms. Reducing local air pollution is still a worthwhile goal to discuss without having to take on the task of making the entire modern economy less polluting. (For a historical example, consider the removal of leaded gasoline/paint)
Good employees are an ASSET, and treating employees shabbily jeopardizes your chances of hiring the best ones.
I can't think of a specific paper/s off hand but having been at labs where they do climate modeling and going to every talk I could I've heard estimates of tens of trillions to hundreds. So the ballpark at least passes my sniff test, though I know that this isn't a hard source. It is also difficult to estimate the damages and costs of climate change which is part of why costs vary so widely. (e.g. do you include events like Katrina?)
Automatic Tor v3 onion services (hidden services) for Docker containers
Tgppl, a radically new type of open-source license
The problem is that you get into things that aren’t part of your duties that are still expected of you. Such as commuting to and from work; It’s necessary to commute, but it’s not part of your duties.

It’s unsettled (in America) what’s the right answer to that, but an argument against it I’ve heard is: if you get a job and the employer agrees to pay for a 10 minute commute twice per shift, but you then move 30 minutes away, why should the employer be on the hook for that extra 20 minutes (40 per shift)?
> I circulate air in my house every day

Might be hard to do that in really cold weather. I live in a place that's very warm and the windows are always open, so I can't relate.
Yeah, this is crazy: Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> (ALL the way to the bottom of the list, past all apps) System Services -> Location-Based Apple Ads. Oh, and if you have text size increased by any amount, “Ads” doesn’t even appear and it’s just “Location-Based Apple...” (on or off).

The harder something is to find and disable, the shadier it seems.
Good point, I agree entirely. It's clear that nuclear power needs to be under the control of responsible governments, built in safe locations (i.e. not on fault lines, not in tsunami zones), and needs solid maintenance budgets.

All of these things are solvable problems, but if we don't solve them before all the current nuclear plant techs age out, we won't be able to apprentice people and keep the culture of solid maintenance alive. At that point, they really do become an albatross.
It's really hard to comprehend just how much heat a reactor can make from decay alone. Like... boiling a hot tub in only a minute.
Not knowing the answer isn't carte blanche to throw your pet theory out as fact, either.
It's Settings->Privacy->Advertising (at the bottom)->Limit Ad Tracking, and looking that up reminds me that it's been a while since I last reset my advertising identifier, another option on that same page.
"In 2015, President Obama found that a separate repository for defense-related radioactive waste was required. DOE reported that defense waste is smaller in volume, less radioactive, and thermally cooler than commercial spent nuclear fuel, stating that a defense repository may be easier to develop."

https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_nuclear...
> Understanding hooks did take effort. Only after I read Dan Abramov's article a few times was I able to write hooks w/ deterministic results.

A tool for building web pages that requires that level of effort to learn it is not a good tool.
This would make for an interesting exercise.

const React = /* Implement this */

function HelloComponent(){
const [myNumber, setMyNumber] = React.useState(0);
// Simulate rendering data to a screen
console.log("My number:", myNumber);
// Simulate rendering a clickable button
const click = ()=> setMyNumber((num)=> num + 1);
return click;
}

React.mount(HelloComponent); // prints 0
React.simulateClick(HelloComponent); // prints 1
React.simulateClick(HelloComponent); // prints 2
React.simulateClick(HelloComponent); // prints 3

General idea being that the React item may be stateful, but the HelloComponent must be a stateless pure function. How can it draw on React's statefulness, while only using that useState() call?

I am working through this exercise now, but I'm already finding myself doing some pretty hacky things to make this work (like finding out who called a function using arguments.callee.caller.name). Still, it's pretty interesting.

Edit: My solution to this: https://gist.github.com/rashkov/f765917d09ebd629f385c21195f4...
I guess that Linux `/proc` is different from Plan 9 `/proc`, and Linux `ps` is different from Plan 9 `ps`.

So maybe yes.
Ask HN: Why is not tech or even FOSS regulated with predatory pricing?
It seems completely unsustainable if (especially) big tech uses open source or free tiers to win the large majority of users.
Million acre forest fires are expensive to deal with. Likewise, drought, relocating billions of people displaced by sea level increase. Might be an under-estimate.
It's really disheartening. Until recently I lived in Capitol Hill, Seattle, 4 or 5 blocks away from CHAZ/CHOP. I saw with my own eyes what was happening. I saw with my own eyes buildings get set on fire multiple times within a block of my apartment. I saw with my own eyes the riots, looting, violence, nightly political shows of force. Just two days ago they were molotov cocktailing a police precinct. There's even video evidence of all of this.

Yet all I read about on mainstream news is how it's actually mostly peaceful. I see Facebook friends who live 2000 miles away from Seattle re-posting news articles about how there's nothing really going on in Seattle. But I've seen with my own eyes what's going on.

It's really approaching a 1984 level of situation, where we're expected to just believe whatever we're told, even if we obviously see the problems. Where everybody is supposed to just accept what the media is telling us, rather than what we can see is happening. If they want something to disappear (like rioters throwing molotov cocktails) they just don't report on it, and it ceases to exist. But you can bet if a Republican starting throwing molotovs for their political beliefs it'd be front-page CNN for days on end. It's all so political and so manipulative.
The world is filled with naturally occurring phenomena far more dangerous than a big pile of low-grade nuclear waste. The really dangerous stuff ceases to exist after a few decades of sitting in a cooling pond, and then what’s left has such a long half life that it’s not particularly threatening. Water is an incredible radiation dampener, and the ocean is already chock full of dissolved uranium. The only reason we don’t just toss our low-grade fission waste into an oceanic trench somewhere is that it’s valuable and wherever we put it we know we’ll probably change our minds and want it back for reprocessing at some point.
I feed my cats at a random time between 7am and 10am (between 7 and 7:30 during the work week, between 8 and 10 on the weekend). They never bother me in the morning on the weekend, and on the rare occasion they do they usually want to play. I think the randomness has helped, especially the extreme variability of the weekend.
Sure, but the linked post didn’t say the inflammation was “severe”.
The ISP's are probably who are pushing for this
Climate change his hardly an existential threat for humanity. We survived the last ice age with stone tools, this is a less severe change. Economic impacts from things like rising sea levels really depend on how much we spend on maintaining things as they currently are vs adapting to the new normal.

Aka do you live below sea level, raise the city, or move somewhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
The key criteria for something to be called a psychological disorder is it has to hurt the patient in some way, causing them a disadvantage in life.

To flesh this out:

>Studies have shown that women are attracted to these personality traits in men.

Woman are attracted to men who are as successful or are more successful as them. NPDs and ASPDs (though more rare than NPDs) can fake being successful and others fall for it. This relationship is often short lived once they realize they were tricked.

The most common form of employment for someone who is ASPD (what you're calling psychopathy) is being a homeless alcoholic. The second most common is being in prison. The leading theory is ASPD is an adult who did not grow out of their terrible twos. This does not help an individual succeed in any shape or form. ASPDs do not and can not maintain relationships for a long period of time, and the few high functioning ones not in prison or homeless roam around like nomads from town to town leaving once they are no longer welcome.

Machiavellianism is a philosophy or a set of beliefs. It is not a psychological disorder. It does not harm the belief holder. Machiavellianism is a sort of game theory on a macro nationwide scale.

I can continue with NPD (narcissistic personality disorder), but I can assure you in the long run it does not benefit them. They believe manipulating people is better for them and will jump through mental hoops to justify their behavior to themselves. When someone is thought of as a con artist or a gold digger, that is most likely someone who is NPD.

>On a group level, anxiety in individuals may be evolutionarily advantageous

Anxiety is assuming (usually unconsciously) a negative outcome will happen. It's a danger feeling. When anxiety moves from a rare feeling to a disorder, it's because they're overly assuming/believing faulty futures. This can come from faulty logic, or being told incorrect beliefs during childhood, or many other situations. Anxiety as a disorder has no advantage to the user.
That's because "liberal" in the U.S. typically means "neo-liberal", so the focus on corporate sponsors shouldn't be a surprise.
The ci/gitlab runner bit, might be the best part of gitlab - it's pretty straightforward to set up (we self-host gitlab and ci).

The omnibus-installer (for gitlab itself) works - but knowing a bit about rails (gitlab is a ror monolith) - it's a bit terrifying.

But the runner is very nice.
What's amazing is that covid and politics at eso crazy that the hurricane gets nearly no news headlines.
From the evidence I've seen, vitman D deficiency is a bigger problem than vitamin D toxicity.

We already have dozens of RCTs showing that vitmain D supplements prevent respiratory infections.

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
Banks aren’t really concentrated, though. Lots of competition in the area.
Road to Genius: Advanced No.28
IMO, how much regulation there should be has to do with the potential risks.

Food preparation is food preparation, and the practices needed to make food safely do not require years of education (and are proactively ensured by inspections everywhere in the developed world). So that risk can be crossed off the list easily.

Other risks? That the bread tastes bad, or that the business will not be run profitably? Those risks are better borne by the person investing their capital and labor, rather than trying to protect people from themselves through more education.
In my opionion, it seemed to really "pick up" around chapter 6, "games with sex and death" when it really started to get into anthropological nuts and bolts.
Do billboard work? Does a fox ad work?

Come on - the company spending the money has MORE visability into what their google ad spend buys them then in almost any other area.

I don't even care if I overpay on a "bid" for a spot - the metric I'm using is return on spend. And trust me, the mainline media companies driving this do not promise advertisers "fair" bidding. They have sales people trying to extract every nickle they can (through sometimes horrible accounting practices where they pay different divisions to drive up various "costs").
I think the tides have been turning on avoiding all sun exposure. While you obviously want to avoid getting burnt, the benefits of adequate sun exposure seem to outweigh the harms.

Rhee, H. J. van der, E. de Vries, and J. W. Coebergh. “Regular Sun Exposure Benefits Health.” Medical Hypotheses 97 (December 1, 2016): 34–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2016.10.011.

"Since it was discovered that UV radiation was the main environmental cause of skin cancer, primary prevention programs have been started. These programs advise to avoid exposure to sunlight. However, the question arises whether sun-shunning behaviour might have an effect on general health. During the last decades new favourable associations between sunlight and disease have been discovered. There is growing observational and experimental evidence that regular exposure to sunlight contributes to the prevention of colon-, breast-, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple sclerosis, hypertension and diabetes. Initially, these beneficial effects were ascribed to vitamin D. Recently it became evident that immunomodulation, the formation of nitric oxide, melatonin, serotonin, and the effect of (sun)light on circadian clocks, are involved as well. In Europe (above 50 degrees north latitude), the risk of skin cancer (particularly melanoma) is mainly caused by an intermittent pattern of exposure, while regular exposure confers a relatively low risk. The available data on the negative and positive effects of sun exposure are discussed. Considering these data we hypothesize that regular sun exposure benefits health."

Hoel, David G., Marianne Berwick, Frank R. de Gruijl, and Michael F. Holick. “The Risks and Benefits of Sun Exposure 2016.” Dermato-Endocrinology 8, no. 1 (October 19, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1080/19381980.2016.1248325.

"This review considers the studies that have shown a wide range health benefits from sun/UV exposure. These benefits include among others various types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer disease/dementia, myopia and macular degeneration, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. The message of sun avoidance must be changed to acceptance of non-burning sun exposure sufficient to achieve serum 25(OH)D concentration of 30 ng/mL or higher in the sunny season and the general benefits of UV exposure beyond those of vitamin D."

This change in thinking has been a long-time coming. There have been results showing studies since the 90s showing lower melanoma mortality from those having more sun exposure, as described in this review:

Egan, Kathleen M., Jeffrey A. Sosman, and William J. Blot. “Sunlight and Reduced Risk of Cancer: Is The Real Story Vitamin D?” JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute 97, no. 3 (February 2, 2005): 161–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/dji047.
Amazon can easily point to Walmart, Apple can easily point to.. Every other phone that's not an iPhone.

Google is the only one who doesn't have anybody realistic to point to, and no, Bing does not count.
This is known as psychodynamic therapy for others who want a name for it. There are therapists that specialize in it. I must warn you its a very long type of therapy with a lot of sessions, so it will cost you $$$. Also some people use it as a weekly whining session for years and never get anywhere with it, so please go into it trying to get results.
This is a poltical play. All of these should be targets but the WH is looking for a pre-election "win", more symbolic than anything.

Google is ~80% of search in the US. Large percentage of online advertising. Lots of anti-competitive stuff to point to.

Apple is 50% at best of the smartphone market and their major competitors are South Korean and Chinese. Targeting Apple, with no major US competitor, is NOT a win. Not a good thing to be bringing up in an election year.

Amazon would also be a complicated anti-trust target, you need to specifically focus on online retail effects while not allowing Amazon to switch the conversation to talking about general retail and Walmart/Target. So, too complicated for any kind of quick traction.
This seems pretty promising, though small n, result. Vitamin D is so ably we’ll well attested as a prophylaxis for pulmonary infections — in fact there was a large UK study published in January on this very facto.

Starting in February I went on a prophylactic supplement of Vit D, Vit C and aspirin because of the then-unnamed Covid-19 virus. The aspirin (actually started that in april) is because of the pervasive excess clotting and sudden strokes in young people showing up in ERs (less attested in the US than some other countries for reasons I’m not sure about). I’d never taken supplements before.

I’m immuno compromised so with my doctor we worked out the regime above plus some prescription drugs I won’t mention.

So far, so good, but I’m isolating' so this could be a case where I’m also preventing tiger attacks.
I'm a fan of Hugo and the Docsy theme
FWIW Gitlab's default timeout is 60 minutes and you can view logs of a pipeline as it runs.
Not everyone is the same, but too many are. I have similar experiences of newpaper articles: whenever I happen to know the case in deeper detail, I find the newspaper reporting sloppy at best, and drama-seeking and distorting at worst.
I feel that you're rushing to judgement and assuming the worst.

The article sings his praises. The photograph isn't the best, but perhaps it was an attempt to illustrate his quirky and iconoclastic nature.

I fully agree with you that this is a sad loss. Much too soon.
What reality do you exist in that you could type this comment with any sort of sound mind? Did you even watch the included body cam footage? Read the numerous other case studies that support the tone of the article? Why are there so many people who comment on everything that offer nothing useful or interesting, the only purpose of the comment is to cast doubt and undermine the information and the resulting conversation. Where do you guys come from? What's wrong with you? Why do you feel the need to be this way? Are you organized? Do you have meetings where you talk about comments you left pointing out that CNN didn't say what KIND of pizza the president ate so we can't believe their report he ate pizza at all?

Please just stop being an ass.
Wait until I tell you about the major media corps!
> Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right?

From what I recall of the time when these networks were popular, that wasn't the case; there was some way to make Windows Media Player download malicious executable files when playing a video file.