skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1% of commercial reactors Have failed catastrophically.

That seems a bit high to me. There have been a lot of commercial reactors.

> Seems like terrible track record.

Even if true, everything fails sometimes. Rooftop solar has a surprisingly high death rate from people falling off of roofs while installing it.

Ultimately it's a question how safe nuclear is relative to other power methods, probably in terms of deaths per terawatt hour. And even counting those catastrophic failures, it turns out it's actually extremely safe. (...which really underscores just how horribly dangerous some of the alternatives are...)

None of which means nuclear power is economic.
For me, and everyone I know personally that uses Firefox, the primary motivation for using Firefox is because it uses a non webkit/blink engine, and we want browser diversity. If that goes away we there is a lot less reason for us to stick with Firefox.

Although I suopose there is still manifest v3...

I fear that if Firefox switched to webkit or blink, they might lose a significant number of existing users without a clear way to win back more.
Usual yields are quoted at 60-75%. More for smaller chips. But can you even tell how many cores are actually running in your iPad? Maybe they do fuse out a faulty one.
Podcasting is in a weird spot right now where the strategy that most podcasters take is to be on as many platforms as possible and there's a cottage industry+ supporting that initiative. It's the same effect as syndication but it looks more like federation. And if you look at the most successful audio content distribution strategies over the last 100 years and ongoing, exclusivity has rarely worked. Fundamentally it requires a content creator to choose to release to a smaller market, which is different than other content that is far more expensive to finance or maintain distribution (like film/video).

Basically what I'm saying is that cornering podcasting isn't going to work. But inverting the market to be cornered to the syndication/creation side and not the distribution/consumption side there might be a more effective way. I'd suspect that eschewing both publicity and censorship would be critical to cornering that market. After all, Disney+* and Pornhub have content made with the same tools and sometimes the same people, while both retain their image.

+ if you want to see what I mean, turn on your adblocker and go to open.spotify.com and start browsing podcasts from ESPN, APM, and others and open the developer console. There are a number of interesting failures when ads are resolved, and a lot of little companies you've never heard of writing some cool networking infrastructure to distribute podcasts.

\* well maybe not Disney+. They might have a policy for this exact situation.
Every single bolt on a plane is tracked from the steel foundry to retirement with serial numbers and testing and certification and everything.
Someone should make a museum of bizarre advice found on HN.

No normal company is going to sign _any_ contract provided by a prospective full-time employee (except perhaps if you are a sought after celebrity being hired at a VP level or above), so it would just be a waste of time and money for someone to take your advice.

Even if the hiring manager personally wanted to, there is no process for doing this. They don't have lawyers standing by to review such contracts. It would probably be hard to even find out who would have the authority to sign such a contract.

Further, retaliating against whistle-blowers is already illegal, as is ordering employees to break laws, so I don't know what additional protection you imagine you would get from such a contract.
In the 90s some politicians tried to ban gangsta rap, and there was an official policy that "prohibited any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing their sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces".

I'm not trying to negate your experience. I'm just adding context about other people's experience in a recent past.
There are quite a few ways to generate electricity from solar, and not all of them degrade over time or are "poisonous".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Solar_Project
2SD vs 3SD is a big deal in biological organisms.

If we look at height, that's a 6'7"/5'1" male or a 6'1"/4'8" female.

At those numbers, the probability that there is a medical issue--malnourishment/endocrine problems/Marfan's syndrome, etc.--starts being non-trivial.
Get a Britta or other water jug, and keep it in the fridge and full. Have a large drinking glass readily available near the fridge. Every time you want a snack or sugary drink force yourself to drink a pint of water before you eat or drink anything else.

Buy a great big jar of pickles and or sauerkraut(Avoid sweet pickles and olives though), especially if using the water trick. Go for these as a snack first as it will replenish the electrolytes lost through passing water and improve your gut flora or biome.

Buy some celery (even though it's expensive), eat as much of it as you want it takes more energy to digest it than the calories it holds.

Start a food diary, include date and time, plus calories and dollar value of everything you put into your body.

Quit drinking if that is when you binge.

Buy a scale and weigh yourself before eating a meal.

If you are alone, before eating or drinking anything, say out loud "I am making a conscious decision to eat or drink this" Make it a mantra of sorts.

If you are religious, pray before eating or drinking.

I you watch a lot of TV, MUTE the commercials. Food porn commercials are much less effective without sound.

Re-package large containers of snack food into snack sized portions. It's too easy to scarf down a giant bag of chips or any other bulk snak food.

Buy a mouth harp (AKA Jews Harp) I don't know why this works but playing one seems to help cravings pass quicker for me.

Sugar free gum might work if you have healthy teeth.

Caffeine and other stimulants do supress apatite but come with their own problems.

Don't eat anywhere but at the kitchen or dining room table.

Don't cook more than what you want to eat during your meal, left-overs in a fridge are like a devil on the shoulder to a binge eater.

If you're trying to lose weight, stop wearing fat clothes when at home, those comfy sweatpants make it easy to forget about weight problems and shovel food into your mouth.

Count the number of times you chew before swallowing and increase that number after each swallow when snacking.

Reward yourself with a new source of pleasure when you make it a certain amout of time without binging.

Finaly, don't give up when you relapse, binging is an addictive behavior and follows the pattern of addiction, just learn from your mistakes and try to avoid them in the future.
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A video with only a few hundred views is not going to produce much YouTube ad revenue. In order to sell the idea of making money from YouTube ads, one needs to convince ad buyers and video uploaders that videos can receive millions of views.
Thank you! Any particular recommendations from your experience? (I may end up spending my whole weekend on this :-D)
Let's say in your heart of hearts that you earnestly thought that, for whatever reason, women couldn't be effective software engineers. If you said that in public, you should be fired because it would immediately call into question your ability to work within your team, your ability to respect your co-workers, and potentially bring negatively adverse financial consequences to your place of work and damage its reputation.

Now, I don't know what you actually believe, but it's worth noting that you currently have all the free speech you want and have always had. What you're arguing for is free speech AND no consequences, which isn't and was never guaranteed.
But isn't Zinn's intention still to achieve truth? He just believes that to do so one must take into account the current state of the world, and biases in collective understanding, and that's why his works were in reaction to the lack of bottom-up historical analysis of his day. From Zinn's point of view, that part of "the truth" was underrepresented at the time.

I mean, his autobiography is titled "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train", so I had the impression that Zinn cautioned against attempts at objectivity/neutrality because it often serves the status quo, and actually hides the truth, not because "he believes he serves a higher value than truth," as you say.

At a high level, this seems pretty uncontroversial to me, blind pursuit of "objectivity/neutrality" is not uncommon, and often leads to false equivalences, perpetuates misinformation, and results in real societal harm. For example, see the framing of "the climate change debate" in popular media for decades. Furthermore, in such cases, some parties may passively benefit from such "neutrality", or even actively play a part in creating such a framing in bad faith.

Therefore, if you believe that you exist at a point in time when the oppressed have not had their side of history told, and your aim is to reach "the truth", whether for the sake of greater understanding or for the benefit of society, then it follows that you would need to counterbalance existing biases and even strategize against bad actors to reach the "truth".

It's entirely understandable then, that Zinn's attempts at bottom-up history would be valuable in their time, but if successful they would lose their significance, and their flaws would be more apparent, as new works would build upon, correct, and challenge them.

In that sense, I find Zinn similar to figures like Rachel Carson, who's work was revolutionary in her time, but today would be easy to find flaws in, dissect, and dismiss, but only because we have a better understanding of environmental issues and phenomena.

Anyway, my point is just that it doesn't seem fair to me to say that Zinn believed he served a "higher value than truth," it's not so simple.
> One could easily argue that Joe does in fact not debate many of his guest and instead allow them to use his show as a platform if they so desire.

I haven't watched a lot of JRE but in general I see nothing wrong with people having the time to layout their thoughts and opinions more or less uninterrupted for an extended period of time and then listen to rebuttals and debate in comments or separate blog posts, videos etc.

The other end is political debates or interviews with opinionated journalists where they barely have time to say a sentence at a time. This doesn't have to be bad but a lot of time its just bickering and platitudes. It doesn't provide much depth.
I want people to pay. It will

- Reduce majority of bots by making them unsustainable.

- Provide direct money to improve moderation and make platforms liable.

- Make journalism cater to individuals rather than ad networks.

- Remove toxicity because trolls won't pay after getting banned regularly. No need for other fingerprinting methods.

- Reduce the number of users and silo them automatically.

Free business models are anti-competitive and result in worse service for the users by making platforms accountable to advertisers (other companies) than consumers.

Force facebook to introduce minimum payment based on purchasing power. Outlaw free/freemium models in software or limit them to a time period (3-6 months).

This won't apply to non-profit services. And open source will be fine since it will only apply to services or for-profit companies.
Which funny enough, IMHO, are some of the craziest things on his podcasts. I really want his assistant dude who looks up things on the computer at some point to be like "hey it says here that vitamin C hasn't been proven to prevent illness by all these studies"
https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/ikf9at/full_list_...
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This isn't about whether help is provided in-kind or in cash; there is indeed good evidence that the latter is better. And there is evidence that a lump sum is better than an extended dribble: that was more or less my point in the comment you are responding to.

But also, this is about the fact that if you provide help when a person just starts needing it, it might not take much to get them back to financial stability. If you instead wait until they have been out of the workforce for a while, lost their house, and maybe ended up with a substance-abuse problem as a coping mechanism, a much larger investment will be needed to get back to "normal". And that's not even counting the suffering involved in the interim in the second option.
100% of fossil plants fail catastrophically; the catastrophe is just a bit slower.
Now that WFH has been "discovered" it's doubtful. I mean if everyone works from home just one day a week, that's 20% fewer sandwiches they will need to buy.

I’m not so sure. Just because you’re working from home, that doesn’t mean you want to spend a significant amount of time shopping for and preparing lots of different things for your lunches. If you were OK with that, you could easily have taken a packed lunch to work before and probably saved quite a bit of money, but the existence of the sandwich shop as a concept suggests that plenty of people prefer the convenience and variety they offer.

What I do expect to see now is a rebalancing of where these places are found. Not so long ago, we moved from a busy area of Cambridge (UK) to a village a few miles outside the city. Life is different here, but better in most ways. We don’t have a Pret sandwich place or a Wetherspoons pub here. We do have a couple of local cafés and a baker, though, and several other pubs. We also get something I had only noticed in passing while living in the city, which is the food trucks that travel around and set up in a different spot each evening. Each truck typically has its own speciality cuisine and they’re great if you want something interesting for dinner.

As far as I can tell, these are all independent small businesses, often run by the owners. We were worried for them during the months when almost everything was closed down because of the virus, but fortunately they made it through and now they seem to be thriving, presumably because they’re well placed to serve a suddenly-larger local market.

I have nothing against Pret. I've eaten there many times when I’ve been travelling for work or shopping for a while in a big place. But almost everything is better about those local businesses I mentioned. If the strange circumstances this year cause a permanent change in our lifestyles and if that makes local catering more viable at the expense of the big convenience chains aimed at a commuting workforce, I find it hard to see a downside, at least in the long term after a possibly disruptive period of change. The trade and jobs will probably still be there, just in smaller businesses serving their own communities.
I would say it is markdown files, and Visual Studio Code. :D
> Post-registration clinical trials involving more than 40,000 people in Russia will be launched in a week starting from August, 24. ... The vaccine has received a registration certificate from the Russian Ministry of Health on August 11 and under emergency rules adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic can be used to vaccinate the population in Russia. Mass production of the vaccine is expected to start in September 2020.

It feels like it's "under emergency" marketing and it is still ongoing phase 3 trials. I hope they have enough sense to not mass vaccinate everyone in a month or two.
That's true but it's also true that neurogenesis will start at some point during a fast. For me, it's around day 3 or 4. It's an evolutionary mechanism to form new connections in the brain to help find food/survive.
Interesting. When and where did "they publish[] their algorithm?"
That is an impressively large install base!

Are you marketing this campaign to your corporate customers?

I would also suggest adding a higher level sponsorship level eg $50k (because it's a small amount for some of those companies who have used Sciter in their mass market products)
It's actually here at the bottom:

> On the other hand, it is entirely possible that Russia will hold off vaccinating its general population until it has received favourable results from the phase 3 trial. In which case, the announcement of the approval of Sputnik V might amount to a political gesture, rather than a serious attempt to circumvent the standard process of vaccine development. The FDA has stipulated that a vaccine against COVID-19 should be at least 50% effective. Sputnik V might well meet this criterion. But until the phase 3 trial is completed and the results are made available, it will not be possible to make any judgement. “It is certainly not advisable for any vaccine to be used in an uncontrolled way before it has been through proper testing to determine whether the immune response it produces is actually protective, and there are no unexpected adverse events”, stressed Openshaw.
What about that statement is anti-transgender? If anything it sounds like he is anti-transgender-extreme-activist. You can put me in that camp as well, I despise those that want to politicize innocent people for their own power.

And I fully support transgender rights, my high school friend's son in transgender from age 5 so I've seen this first hand especially during the most formative years.
I went with Colyseus for my multiplayer bananagrams prototype. It’s not quite the use case, but it did make life easier after figuring out how to model the game with Colyseus’s state mechanics.

Basically you apply game logic on the server to mutate game state, which is automatically synchronized to each client. It’s been a few months and I don’t have the code in front of me, but can give more details later if you’d like.
IME the best way to quickly get a very practical grasp of orbital mechanics is to play Kerbal Space Program. I felt like a 6 year old kid who just got his favorite candy when I docked one spacecraft to another the first time.
I'm not claiming the past was perfect. Some changes are absolutely positive.

Here's my anecdote. I look back at films from the 80s and 90s where free speech was discussed or otherwise a component of the plot. It was unthinkable to censor thoughts, or allow the government to spy and collect data on the citizens.

Both of these notions seem to have disappeared.
> I can't afford $10,000 for FCC certification, and therefore I have no solution.

That's not how it work. You start by selling them, prove the concept, and when you have the money, you sort out certifications & whatsnot.

You won't become a unicorn if you think about doing everything _by_the_book_ from day one.
Transinistria, the Area Between Moldova and Ukraine
There is no definition given for what "well regulated" entails. A bunch of nerds on the internet can certainly form their own militia to practice with crypto munitions.
If Apple wanted to bin the chips, they have devices crying out for low-power draw, albiet slower clock. They can sell a tonne of earphones, watches, HDMI enabled USB-C dongles. They could re-purpose chips which can clock 10x slower for 1/2 the cores, and still have too much CPU. But free.

They can use them for the Apple touchpad, the keyboard, the on-mobo controllers which currently consume non-general-purpose chips, if they want to. If they displace a 10c part by an otherwise redundant $30 part, they are still ahead, if it works.
SiFive announces new RISC-V processor
I am a proponent of objective/ inter-subjective morality. I am just not a proponent of it’s quantification. It emerges from self-organization - it isn’t deterministic.

Measurements/quantities are about the past (a posteriori). Morality is about the future (a priori).

If you measure “health” or “ethics” at X (X>0), where in your model would it say whether X OUGHT to be driven towards; or away from 0?

And yet human health has greatly improved over the last 2000 years is a true, qualitative statement.

Quantitative models are just instruments. Those instruments themselves can be used ethically or unethically.
US CO2 emissions have been falling for more than a decade and are at 1990s levels, and will continue to fall.

Energy is the lifeblood of civilization. Reducing the cost of energy, and widespread availability of energy is responsible for saving perhaps a billion lives and bettering nearly 10 billion lives over the last century (that is to say, basically all of them).

The idea of putting a stranglehold on worldwide energy production or access is abhorrent when you look at the on-the-ground effects that such a policy would actually have on people’s lives. As you rightly point out, the most marginalized people worst of all.

Even if we could somehow stop industry from emitting even a gram of CO2 on 1/1/2021 going forward, the climate models still predict their 10 meter sea level rise just given the current greenhouse levels persisting.

The only answer is technological, and in my opinion it’s frankly not even going to be that complicated of a problem given the resources and technology available circa 2050 to deal with it.

Franky, solar shades seemed a lot harder of an ask pre-Starship. Looking forward to seeing SN8 reach for 60km in the near future.
This is the same failed illogic that racists use:

"The white race is being genocided out of existence by liberals and leftists! They're embracing open borders! We can't just leave our politics at home, we need everyone everywhere to know our plight!"

Sad that the LGBT and trans colleagues you know are using the same tactics Nazis used.
I find this view difficult to square with the fact that not too long ago we were censoring and blacklisting communists, and the lingering sentiment is not “whoa, we were really against free speech for a while there” but “communism is evil”.
Not intense at all.

As a screw in the Facebook machine, your significance is trivial. This is true regardless of your intention.

Get over the ethnical drama I would say. Big tech is about as ethnical as banks. In another word, the companies don't care, and they are probably not.
Yes, there's a lot more to it than that.

For instance, the interface and array/matrix types make vector operations really natural and efficient in python.
Well, I am still hoping for ITER.
A problem with game theory: as far as I can tell, it offers crisp results for zero-sum games, but as far as positive-sum games (which is what marriages, as well as larger assemblages, such as nations, ought to be) it turns out being a jerk is a theoretical solution. (presumably, usually people don't marry jerks, but at the national level, it's uncommon to vote with one's feet)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481298

An east german teacher: Hans, why do you always say, 'the Russians, our socialist brothers' instead of 'our socialist friends'?

Hans: Na, ja. We choose our friends.
Steam's CDN(Limelight) provides the fastest download speed in my experience (like 600Mbps, limited by my connection). Maybe very popular torrent is also faster but not to be guarantee to be.
There really can be no objective universal king of breakfasts. Tastes are set in childhood and vary across the world.

Speaking subjectively as a South Asian person, there is not a single thing I find appealing about the Full English, visually or tastewise. However, your sweet dishes and desserts are very good indeed.
We are a lot further along with fusion than with alternatives to massive rockets.
Yeah we are more divided than ever, even more so than that time we owned human being and fought a war over that.
Namecheap and Tucows/Hover/OpenSRS are the only folks I would trust with domain name registrations.
I can speak to GoDaddy's practices. This exact same thing happened to me. I've never searched another domain through them again.
Boardgame.io is good but it doesn’t have timers, iirc
Are there any other programs like SmileBasic? Maybe Squeak, APL/J/K, Lisp?

Or maybe are there any better ways to input text into a 3DS?