skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But crucially, commercial spent nuclear fuel is in containers. Spent waste from weapons development was often just dumped in a pit and buried. Our priorities were very different in the 1940s and 50s. Seriously look at this picture [1]. That encapsulates the attitude towards nuclear safety during the early cold war. The soviets just dumped their waste into a lake [2]. Not to mention we detonated a thousand or so nuclear bombs, many of them above ground.

1. https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_Nevada/Nevada_and...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay
You’re quite right. That was a typo/brain fart, and by the time I noticed it my comment was past editing.
> Most distros

Most distros those days come with journald, and to best of my awareness journald does not have per-unit (or better, per unit per message type) configurable retention.

Still in the TODO list today: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/908dbc70d6abeb9f6562... (since at least 2016), with corresponding issue gathering no traction: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9519
The defense waste is just a fraction of the total:

"The U.S. commercial power industry alone has generated more waste (nuclear fuel that is "spent" and is no longer efficient at generating power) than any other country—nearly 80,000 metric tons. This spent nuclear fuel, which can pose serious risks to humans and the environment, is enough to fill a football field about 20 meters deep. The U.S. government’s nuclear weapons program has generated spent nuclear fuel as well as high-level radioactive waste and accounts for most of the rest of the total at about 14,000 metric tons, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). For the most part, this waste is stored where it was generated—at 80 sites in 35 states. The amount of waste is expected to increase to about 140,000 metric tons over the next several decades. However, there is still no disposal site in the United States."

https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_nuclear...
Amazon was ruled using federal law as not everyone in the suit was based in California. In this case, it’s Californians suing under California law.
I suspect his doctor just knew to code it properly as low vitamin D for monitoring of replacement therapy. Since he legitimately has low D and is on replacement therapy there’s no issue. For first timers not sure if they are or not an experienced doctor will just label it this way anyway and tell you 9/10 it’ll work. 1/10 you’ll have to pay the fee. It’s just another example of our nonsensical health system at work.
the body makes vitamin D3 when UVB rays hit cholesterol in the skin

sunscreen either blocks, scatters, or absorbs those rays

seems to reason that sunscreen slows down sun burn and vitamin D3 production
Worked at a company that considered Optimizely for one of their possible A/B solutions. We went with another vendor, but I then ended up writing an in-house solution that took about a month [w/o analytics].

It is very easy to implement this in-house so long as you own the systems and don't outsource [too much].
The Furminator is for long-haired cats, and is not the only brush/comb you should have. I use it to remove excess fur, then I use a soft wire brush to groom and distribute skin oil. The Maine Coons love the Furminator, the Siamese don't like it and don't need it.
Mizzou has a 10MW:

https://www.murr.missouri.edu/
> Millions more take HCQ as a malaria treatment. It is generally recognized as safe, if you do not have a heart condition (and even then a short course is unlikely to yield adverse outcomes).

COVID-19 can infect the heart and damage it. As safe as HCQ might be on its own, here it's adding extra load to a system that's already under stress.
How about just oTo1InclusiveVal ? I know very simple, but would get the job done ?
Is BMI a good indicator of obesity, though?
Things are always different when deployed, I want to see how it performs before real world before getting excited.
There's a long explanation when it comes to ps, but the very short answer is twofold:

* Don't parse the output of ps, unless it is my ps command (or plan 9's one, as here). See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/593198/5132 and https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/578816/5132 , and their further reading, especially Greg Wooledge's article.

* /proc is as portable as ps, but that doesn't really amount to much because neither is really portable at all. Pretty much every operating system's /proc is different; and no implementation of the ps command fully conforms to even the limited subset laid out in the Single Unix Specification.
Was it not just a bit of a joke? I enjoyed it and it made my partner laugh (I think that's a first for a HN post).

And we didn't know about those grooming gloves, they look great.
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If Apple is indeed rolling out their own ad program and giving themselves preferential access, it would be thermonuclear valley war.

Nobody cares about individual users in the end, once in 50 years you might get a politician who rises to a populist challenge.

But when you take 1/2 of some major adjacent-competitors money away, then it's war. The stakes are 10's of billions and every lobbyist, lawyer, marketer, PR person is going to be engaged.

I wouldn't quite speculate on Apple's motivations here, but it's a very real and big issue. They can screw you and I, and even Fornite, but Facebook? An then 'self deal' with their own ads? Even that is a risk.
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Probably the op spent $100k to exercise the options. It's likely this deal will wipe out all common shareholders and only the VCs will get anything. That's a $100k loss. The op will be spending the next decade writing this loss off against capital gains and earned income.

I've been there.
That study is from 2014.
What if an employer chooses to be located three hours away from the nearest affordable housing?
I find that Youtube is a very underrated source for those traditional journalistic practices. It's amazing how many great interviews there are with formats that allow interviewees to actually answer a question rather than provide a TV sound-bite. There's such a huge variety of content creators that you can often find a primary-source for major events.

It also helps the recommendation algo if you use separate accounts for watching entertainment vids vs. this more serious content.
Thanks for linking that. It does a good job of drawing out some of the feelings I had when I read Debt. On the one hand I'm very glad I read the book. I found it very enlightening in terms of various aspects of history and anthropology, as well as enlightening about various leftist ideas. On the other hand I can't say I came away feeling like I had read a "correct analysis" or that I really understood any better how anything worked. (I'm quite surprised to see so much praise for it on HN actually and such little challenge, the sad news about the passing of its author notwithstanding.)

[EDIT: There are also some good counterpoints to Noah Smith's critique in the comments, for example https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt...]
Same! If you haven't already come across it https://gyrosco.pe/ might be worth a look.
Flight attendants have unions but still don't get paid unless the airplane door is closed.
Can't believe Folex carpet cleaner / stain remover isn't in there. Works great for dog or cat vomit on cloth surfaces.
https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
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Regarding smell, consider trying a raw meat diet. I use Purrform (UK) but there are similar in other countries.

I was a sceptic, but since converting to raw meat diet, there is almost no poop smell except when I feed too many treats. Living in a small London flat, this has been a game changer.

Obviously there are risks with raw meat diets and they aren't the cheapest. Do your research, understand the potential issues, choose a quality vendor, make sure you keep up to date with parasite treatment. All that being said, my cat seems to enjoy the food more than any other high quality food I've tried, and is as fit and healthy as he's ever been.
Fun idea and great for kids but how much playtime would you realistically get out of this? Seems like it would be boring to see repeating scenes of your own home after a while.
Donate your blood through the American Red Cross and they automatically test everyone for antibodies since June 15th and will tell you.
Because it’s not just distance but time, often being suggested to be 15 minutes: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/public-health-...
No need to share this link twice. Especially since the piece is itself more of an unfocused mess than the book it intends to critique.
It’s politically motivated.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11587977354888888...
The last ice age occurred gradually over the span of millennia. Anthropic climate change is occurring in an instant by comparison. Not to mention, humanity survived by mass migration, something that's a lot harder for integrated global economies to do. Few believe humanity is going to go extinct. But extinction of industrialized civilization is a more real concern. And the collapse of industrialized civilization will undoubtedly entail the death of over 90% of the human population.
Wish I’d been able to mitigate the content on this page whilst fully embracing the joy that visiting the URL brought me.
Sounds good. Those close to us are the most likely to have news that has actual significance to us. And are probably the most trustworthy.
This reads to me like saying "the best way to determine if god exists is to read the hebrew bible, the koran, and the book of mormon and take the average".

It starts with the assumption left, right, and centrist sources all have biases, but those biases cancel out. That the "middle" of those things is meaningfully better.

I see no evidence that that's the case. All popular news sources these days seem to be biased towards corporate profit.

"Left" and "right" both exist relative to each other more than they exist relative to the truth.

Reading several news sources to find the truth begs the question of if modern news sources, regardless of political bent, are meaningful sources of factual information vs sources of advertisements and outrage.

For the sake of presenting a counter argument, I think that keeping up with the constant inflow of news doesn't get you meaningfully closer to the truth compared to reading well-regarded books on recent history around the world, and using that as a lens to understand the present. Well-regarded non-fiction books are generally better researched than stories on "this senator just had a haircut", and the recent past shapes the present significantly, not to mention repeats itself shockingly often.

By reading left and right sources, you're assuming you can find similar stories on similar matters, when the most important matters are not "the president tweeted X" (which both sources will report on), but rather information about the structure of cities, the human condition, and changes thereof ("a postmortem on this transit project shows that we, as a society, should think in this way"), which usually no news agency will report on. It's just too dry, unless the researcher dresses it up and makes it flashy.
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Our gym group broke up due to covid and all 3 of us gained 20 lbs each.

Ancedote sure, inevitable maybe. But this wasn't some January new years resolution, this was April.
I interpreted this as a facetious remark grounded in a concern the brush is slighly harmful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fuel_Tax_Agreeme...

If you have a commercial vehicle you are supposed to be tracking how many miles you travel in each jurisdiction and how much fuel you buy in each jurisdiction.
Yeah we wear too much sunscreen, a significant number of people are vitamin D deficient. From the UltraMind Solution book, you need the active form cholecalciferol in your supplements. You can safely take 5000-10000 IU a day for 3 months to get up to the optimal levels, then 2000 IU a day for maintenance. The Ideal range is 50 to 80 ng/ml in your blood tests. Also just minimal outdoor sun exposure is the best way to get it, no sunscreen. 15 minutes if you're light skinned, 35 if you're really dark.
> 1) Litter needs scooping every day.

Blows my mind how many people let it go for days and days and then complain. Literally sub-20-seconds every morning to scoop into a small office garbage can (with a foot pedal) fitted with a plastic bag. The garbage can controls the smell, and every few days you toss the plastic bag in the garbage. Done and done.
They are not free, if you need to buy a phone to use them.
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Because tech has monopolies over specific markets (or duopolies) engaged in anti-competitive practices that harm business and consumers while being comically unregulated.

Banking, credit, and defense all have a pretty good balance of competition and regulation. That's not to say there aren't areas that should be targeted by governments, but tech is hardly a "soft target." It's never been hit!
The fundamental problem with UI frameworks is figuring out what to re-render based on some event, while also providing a declarative view of the code to the developer.

Some libraries optimize this via micro-optimizations (e.g. inferno is carefully crafted so that browsers use the hidden classes optimization nearly all the time). Some libraries do this by compilation (e.g. svelte takes assignment expressions and rewrites them into a reactive trigger call). And so on.

The problem though is that no matter what the framework does, there's no way to render 1 million things in a page all at once (and yes, people do try that). On a fundamental level, doing anything a million times synchronously will block the main thread (javascript is single-threaded, you see).

In the mithril.js community for example, the solution is to say "well, don't render 1 million things, use pagination or occlusion culling or search or some other mechanism since no one's ever going to meaningfully interact w/ 1 million UI elements simultaneously anyways". In the React world, concurrent mode is a technical attempt at addressing that same issue.

There are various different use cases that fall within concurrent mode's scope, e.g. avoid stuttering animations (the mithril.js community answer in this case btw might be "well, use CSS" or "use lifecycle events and vnode.dom to drop down to vanilla JS").

The React team is corporate-sponsored, so they solve problems in very different ways that an OSS project run by volunteers.
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Toronto's deep water cooling system is the largest in the world, and air conditions a good chunk of the downtown core.

http://buildipedia.com/aec-pros/engineering-news/torontos-de...
European ISPs report mysterious wave of DDoS attacks
I think that the best thing, which is really hard to do with the internet, is to let time pass. If you're 1-2 weeks, 1 month behind the news, you will probably get only the important news. Following daily news is madness and useless unless you're making money out of it.

As someone I know said when I mentioned a new revolutionary battery technology has been discovered: I'll believe it when the researchers get the Nobel prize for it, in 10 years.
This is largely because JavaScript has weak areas.
Political alignment isn't the problem. Every outlet will spin the same facts differently, sometimes intentionally sometimes not, because of this or that ideological commitment. They will choose which facts to foreground and which to background ("framing"), etc, etc, all that media studies stuff. Bias is fine. There is no such thing as an unbiased media outlet.

I'm talking about a different problem, which is that increasingly, the basic facts don't even enter into the discourse at all! That's the case because the institutions that used to carry out the basic functions of journalism are now facing tons of pressure to cut their costs, and all of that.

Disruptive "decentralization" pressure from the tech industry, often discussed as a "solution" to this mess, is actually a major cause. And it's of course not a solution at all because it has no answer to the basic material problem: once we've defunded traditional journalism, who is actually going to do the work? News is basically the production of information about the facts of unfolding world events. Now that we have no foreign correspondents etc, news ends up just being the production of information about the news itself (the only part left is the bias!). How long can we keep doing this, I wonder?
Uh, why 1:3? European cars are generally about 4x lighter than European TIRs. If the proportions are similar in the US, you should be asking about 1:64 if the cube is right, or 1:256 if the fourth power is.

Edit: also, there's the duration of use per day. Typically about 1h for cars and 10h for trucks here, so you should be asking about 1:2560.
You may be right - I'm certainly making an interpretation there.

Edit: I realized something about my priors in this case. I've long had the sense that flattering vs. unflattering photo choices are a powerful way by which newspapers (or some faction of editors within them—I don't know how newspapers work) express a pre-existing agenda.
> These are HUGE risk factors.

Given that Vitamin D deficiency can cause high blood pressure, their decision not to correct for this might be the better option.
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> wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises

I used to have that problem. But I now make sure to exhaust my cat, feed him, and poop him before I sleep. And he no longer wakes me up in the middle of the night. Works like a charm.
I appreciate your view on the matter. In this case, however, as disgusting as it sounds, it's the "authorities" themselves serving that kind of content. Actual honeypots. No point in reporting, they perfectly know. Better to just run away and pretend nothing was seen.
"De jure" was breaking down in the Weimarer republic like it is in the US today.
This study was on people in their 60’s - 80’s, in case anyone else panicked after reading the title. I am literally in the middle of dealing with some of the worst sleep in my life, but am in my late 20’s. The idea that these problems could eventually result in Alzheimer’s is terrifying to me because my mind is literally who I am.

Just a few years ago all these problems seemed so far into the future that they were irrelevant, but every day I’m realizing more and more that I’m on a train barreling through time.
"Bullshit Jobs" had a profound change on my outlook in the tech industry. Perhaps it was because I was on the heels of leaving Amazon at the time I read it, but it changed my mindset on what I should be working towards in life.

Sad day
Randomization doesn't ensure perfectly balanced groups-- it just ensures that the imbalances of variables you don't measure (including things that change after randomization not related to your intervention, with blinding) are drawn from a distribution that you can apply rigorous statistical reasoning about.

Yes, we can see some things are a little unbalanced. But the effect is so massive: we might see 4/5 of the control's rate of ICU admissions if the "one prognostic bad risk factor" determined outcome entirely; instead, we see 1/50 of the rate.
yeah well you’re not being persecuted. for many it may as well be the 12th century or whatever
FYI, to the ready point, as Wikipedia notes: "The DOE was to begin accepting spent fuel at the Yucca Mountain Repository by January 31, 1998 but did not do so because of a series of delays due to legal challenges, concerns over how to transport nuclear waste to the facility, and political pressures resulting in underfunding of the construction."

The anti-waste-disposal crowd in the environmental movement feels exceedingly disingenuous.

The amount of goal post moving they've engaged in over the decades makes it clear that their actual goals are to prevent any waste disposal site from being constructed, rather than specific, actionable complaints.

Which is insane, from a net-benefit perspective, as the alternative is to leave nuclear waste dispersed around the country, closer to population centers.
The idea in principle is solid, most roads are empty most of the time and just sit in the sun. But making a surface durable, keeping the it clean and transparent but also providing good grip in all weather conditions are all hard problems. Solutions to one of them often make the other two worse, and many attempts choose materials that fail spectacularly at all three when tested in the real world.
Numerous other Big10 schools are saying they're not seeing this in their athletes that have tested positive for COVID-19.

https://saturdaytradition.com/big-ten-football/report-multip...
Please note that latitude, season, and cloud cover makes a big difference in the amount of time you need outdoors without sunscreen
I would say _Debt_ debt is pretty grand and sweeping, whereas _Bullshit Jobs_ is a much quicker read. However, some of his insights into the "spiritual violence" of a bull shit job really, deeply, changed the way i spend my time, and as good as _Debt_ is, if I could only choose to have read one, I would choose _Bullshit Jobs_.
Great answer and compelling thanks. However, ouch, you used the B word. I also read the Bible for the cultural relevance. I found it to be incredibly boring as well. I do not feel better off having read it. For contrast, reading Harry Potter (just as an example) does not enlist such a feeling of monotony and dread. It generally just hums along and is mostly enjoyable. I have often heard this 'canon' argument ie. If it survived this long, and was so influential, it must be worth reading. However precisely this argument unravels for me when reading the Bible itself in its entirety. On the contrary, if one is like me one becomes convinced of humanity's inability to select valuable work for lasting significance, and even more doubtful of the Canon as a great starting point. It seems to be like a 3500 year old imdb with a really inconsistent voting mechanism, if the analogy makes sense.
Nukes are slow from a cold start but they can throttle up and down with load.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Nuc...

Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope.
Not quite what I said. I said they are not needed for rank and file application (domain-centric) development, IF the tooling and programming language are decent.

If you bring up a scenario, I can probably poke holes in it. Done it many times in many debates. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I keep winning THIS one for whatever reason.
Yes, this is all true, and yet it’s the unknowns that will get us. There was a time where burning coal seemed like a good idea.
We get 18% of calories and 37% of protein from animal foods (same source as above).
How much legitimacy does the UN Human Rights Commission have? (Hint: Look at the members.)

Having members in common with the UN does not automatically give it legitimacy. The UN does some good things, and does some things that are to give tinpot third-world dictators a chance to look respectable. The efforts involving the second are fine for trying to nudge countries into being more like the normal world, but should not be given any real authority over anything.

The question is, which camp does the ICC fall into? That question tells how much legitimacy it has as a court. (And I don't know the answer, so I'm not going to give one. All I'm saying is "It's like the UN" doesn't make it legitimate, at all.)