skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He might be referring to Germanys beacons of good corporate governance and not corruption; Deutschebank and Wirecard

Either way using relativism to minimise a crime is sophistry

"I murdered a few people - the US government kills thousands of people a year in <current war>" - you're still guilty of murder, even if someone is better at the crime than you are.
"I never heard of it happening, so it is universally true that it never happens."

Meanwhile, the actual state of affairs is[0] that there's one allergic farmer child per three allergic non-farmer children. Don't believe everything you read online.

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11048766/
All indications are that much was learned by industry and the NRC after TMI:
"...The NRC said the TMI accident also led to increased identification, analysis and publication of plant performance information, and recognising human performance as “a critical component of plant safety”. Key indicators of plant safety performance in the US have improved dramatically. Those indicators show:

• The average number of significant reactor events over the past 20 years has dropped to nearly zero.

• Today there are far fewer, much less frequent and lower risk events that could lead to a reactor-core damage.

• The average number of times safety systems have had to be activated is about one-tenth of what it was 22 years ago.

• Radiation exposure levels to plant workers have steadily decreased to about one-sixth of the 1985 exposure levels and are well below national limits.

• The average number of unplanned reactor shutdowns has decreased by nearly ten-fold. In 2007 there were about 52 shutdowns compared to about 530 shutdowns in 1985."

https://www.nucnet.org/news/three-mile-island-led-to-sweepin...

No one ever promised that there would never be a nuclear accident - that would be unrealistic for any power source. But historically nuclear power has been safer than all the alternatives that were available.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

Unfortunately anything at all related to nuclear is covered by the media orders of magnitude more than other power sources so many people have an understandable perception that it is much more dangerous than other sources of power. 200 thousand people had to be evacuated in CA a couple of years ago because of a lack of maintenance on a hydroelectric dam could've let to catastrophic failure. We got lucky that time as the rains stopped just in time, but how much did the media cover that story? How much would they have covered it if 200 thousand were evacuated because of a nuclear power plant?

It is possible there will be some major advances in grid storage that will allow us to stop using natural gas to cover for the intermittent nature of wind and solar. But what if that doesn't pan out? The dangers we are facing in the coming decades are immense. Is your fear of nuclear power so great that if you had to choose, you would prefer the world to suffer through catastrophic climate change rather than use nuclear power?
Come on Guardian.

It's a joke. Now they can't take a joke or let alone meme or create parodies and remixing images for laughs?

Maybe they should keep their guard down for once.
> But they are a public company, and a new CEO can have different priorities.

And CF have access to decrypted SSL for many sites. Stuff like passwords, personal details, keys and tokens.
Signal pumps all traffic across AWS infrastructure, where the simplest of all traffic analysis can deanonymize its users. Signal relies on phone numbers (for reasons), which again is not exactly the best "metadata" to carry around. If you look at the NSA material in the Snowden cache, it becomes clear that the whole "US kills based on metadata" is fed by piggybacking exactly on such systems, like deanonymization of simple VPNs and other "streams of data with simple proxies in between".

PGP can be used to encrypt headers such as Subject. Mail addresses can be temporary and pseudonymous much more easily than phone numbers. One could imagine building something like "Signal" on top of PGP and "email" that has all the "metadata hiding" properties of Signal, and more, e.g. by introducing delays and random relaying order on SMTP level.

Deltachat is an example of an open project in that space: https://delta.chat/
Forgive the slight tangent but I'd like to talk about Rails in general:

Just last night I was migrating an app from Rails 4 to 6.1 - I have been using rails since 0.9, but I think my long relationship is coming to an end.

What I loved about Rails was that it built a web framework with the same basic idea as Ruby: optimize for developer happiness. Trying to use the webpack integration (released with Rails 5.1 I think) is a nightmare. Suddenly my clean Ruby world is polluted by JavaScript package hell, there are now two parallel asset pipelines with subtly different behavior, I can no longer reference JavaScript directly in my views, and the convention over configuration Rails approach seems to have been superseded by a tool with the most nightmarish proliferation of necessary configs that I've ever seen.

To top this all off, none of this is documented well in any of the official Rails resources. The Rails JavaScript guide mostly focuses on their rails-UJS tool (which is fine, though also lacking in actual API documentation) and makes no mention of any of the webpacker stuff. The only docs I could find were in half finished pull requests in forked repositories, and some brief notes in markdown files.

Before starting with Rails 6, I was excited to try out the new Stimulus.js, and hopefully the improvements derived from Hey.com. Now I want to tear out every bit of JavaScript integration from the framework and manage those assets entirely on my own.
Honestly for what this cost in human loss of life and financial loss it would have made sense to clean the ground underneath the towers or perhaps install fire suppressor systems the entire length of the line. A few sprinklers at the bottom of each tower and a single water main to supply them can't possibly cost the same $16 billion that a wildfire costs. Even if you put a $100 Raspberry Pi with a temperature sensor, smoke sensor, and computer vision at the bottom of each tower to detect fires. 85 people would be alive right now.

But no. They won't even replace a $12 hook.
> You just only hire people who already agree with you. You don't even have to do this consciously, it's the default human behavior.

Exactly - our product uses angular because two of our core engineers loved angular, helped people who were having trouble with angular, and hired people who also liked angular.

Not because angular was the best tech choice. We didn’t even do a proper evaluation.

And this is for a hundred million+/year project......
Spider-like venom found in Australian stinging trees – pain can last for weeks
> Even assuming they can get 90% yield right out the gate (maybe generous)

That seems outrageously generous. Rememember that Apple doesn't (as least hasn't so far) bin their parts to sell the ones with faults via different configurations. The only way to get a chip yield like that for a single device configuration is with a ton of redundancy.

I certainly don't know what the yield rate is of Apple silicon, but I definitely don't believe 90%.
> But as a numerate and earnest environmentalist, I don't see where the case for it lies.

There's two main benefits to nuclear:

1) The big case is the lack of good power storage. While areas like the South West US have plenty of sunshine to go around, most other places don't have this luxury. Therefore you need substantially more storage. I'll give you an example, I've been sitting in Oregon for the past week and sun levels have been pretty abysmal, the past week. Dust and ash are covering panels, making things worse, and this is the sunniest time of the year. There's plenty of times I don't see the sun for a few days straight. Same with wind. Because of this we need to mix up our power sources a bit. I mean you also don't want to depend on only two power sources. I think most of us in the nuclear community agree on: wind + solar + hydro + nuclear as the model. Without good enough batteries nuclear is a great option for baseloads. Remember that you need enough battery storage for rare events where there isn't much sun and wind. Current solutions aren't quite there yet without massive footprints, CO2eq costs, and a high price tag. The unfortunate fact is that wind and solar can't stand up by themselves. They need support. People talk about how you can do it with batteries, water storage, whatever, but until it is implemented I'm not holding my breath.

2) Nuclear has a small physical footprint. This means less disruption of local wildlife, homes, etc. This is a big environmental factor to me.

As to what these people are doing, there's a few factors they are banking on (bets). It'll be interesting to see how that pans out and if their bets can pay off.

- With small modular designs they can get the benefits from economies of scale. This hasn't ever really been a thing for nuclear in the past. This has been a big driver for the huge costs.

- Small reactors should be cheaper to insure (this still needs to be resolved from what I'm aware of and has historically made small reactors unattractive).

- Small and modular enables the ability to better fit the local environment and meet the specific needs. Southern California? Probably don't need any. Alaska? Few would be nice. The idea behind these is that you don't have to transmit energy far (lower loss due to transmission), can add independence from the grid (to corporations or universities), and you don't need to put them in areas that can better rely on wind and solar, i.e. better scaling than conventional nuclear plants.

Of course, this is still a bet and has been one people have been talking about for well over a decade, but why dismiss it before they place their chips? If the bets pay off we should welcome them with open arms. If they don't pay off, well we're on a forum hosted by a startup company where we all know most startups fail. Glad someone at least tried. We're not talking about enough investment money that it would sway the scales and it is good to spread out your bets.
> Once you realize how things work from the inside, you realize that the majority of people do want to make the world a better place

It's hard to square that with the algorithmic feed, likes, etc, which are making the world worse every single day in favor of engagement metrics. We've known for many years how destructive these are.

Facebook and Twitter could literally make the world a better place simply by disabling those kind of features. Just remove them. It doesn't get easier than that to substantially improve the world, yet it's not being done.
Signal has been working on features like "sealed sender", which encrypts the source metadata: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

I don't know if they can do anything about destination or time, but even hiding the source seems like a significant advancement.
How times have changed that a 14" telescope is "modest" :) My first was a 50mm refractor, and I used a 5" Maksutov for the longest time before settling down with an 8" Dob. An 18" truss-tube Dob is in the works.
Advanced Rest Client (ARC) – Free and open source API testing tool
As someone who cut his teeth on bioinformatics before eventually just completing a full computer science degree, I was a bit worried that this article wouldn’t address the applied scientific audience well. Pleasantly surprised, though, at how well this article evangelizes NumPy to that exact community.

Many labs are gaining access to or creating physical tools that create data analysis over experimental design problems. Biologists transitioning from running gels to detect the existence of a gene to running sequencing or flow cytometry to segment populations, for example. I remember seeing I think an RNA-seq experiment that tracked the full lineage of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells by a professor - my jaw was on the floor at the level of insight.

One remaining step is transitioning many bioinformatics courses from applied tooling to general program design and open-sourcing. I’ve noticed a few labs have done that really well for years, but it is not often found as a field-level skillset.
I have 3 banking apps doing this same thing now. So some developer of some framework that sold it to these banks has implemented a hacky method of jailbreak detection.
If the chip yield is 100%.
The date ranges they show are 2040-2060. Mortgages are typically 30years. If you buy a house this year you'll be right in the middle of this outcome when your mortgage is paid off and at an age where you'll be looking at retirement.

I'm imagining it being much harder to sell a house in an area with many web bulb days and resulting in a cratering real estate market in those areas most affected.

How long until climate change starts driving real estateprices and also where people decide to start a career or family?

The USG does pretty much everything it can to prop up home prices as well, possibly as a counter argument to the above question. Will that trend continue when it becomes overwhelmingly difficult to live/farm in those areas?
Is it weird that I'm seeing almost nothing about this online?
I had to reinstall every month or so, other devs didn't seem able to maintain a good configuration for more than two weeks.
Odds that this winds up with a Linux release eventually?

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How did the patient die? How did the delay cause the death?

There are tons of ransomware cases everyday we can look at. This has no info about the gang yet. It does have the exploit (CVE-2019-19871) which is good, but no real IT analysis yet.

So this is about the death.

Can you run me through the process of the death so we can talk about how to stop this again.

Could the IT routers going down cause a similar issue? Why could they not see the severity of the case and stop the re-routing? Was this tied to the failed computer system?

Why was the nearest hospital so far away? Here's a map - https://www.google.com.bz/maps/search/Duesseldorf+hospitals/...

Why is sending people to other hospitals such a big deal? Is this unusual? What's the normal kill rate so we can gauge the severity?

I'm happy to recover the thread, you think it has value. I just need the bits filled in, Thanks.
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The linux kernel can do an interesting twist on this, because it controls when execution switches between cores. It only needs 2*num_cpus counters for kernel things (2 because one is for normal execution, second for interrupts).
A New System for Cooling Down Computers
That would make sense for people who consider privacy as single most important measure for communication system. That is not true for everybody. The advantage of OpenPGP is that it does not break any existing advantages of e-mail (except perhaps simplicity) so it is unequivocally better than unencrypted e-mail, while other protocols may have better encryption / privacy, but are worse in other measures.

For me, open-standard-ness and federated-ness are two measures that i consider even more important than cryptographic security. So communication protocol that does not satisfy either of these have little value to me, i would rather use e-mail.
I'm confused how much responsibility you want to put on a service provider.

If someone sends an encrypted email containing illegal content, is email then considered harmful?
I unabashedly would love to do this
What are the initiatives about then, if not the laws and/or prohibiting discrimination? Do these companies agree with your claim, are you getting that from HR and/or company lawyers, or is this an opinion?

I've never been to a diversity training program that did not talk about the laws, and I've been to many. You are suggesting that companies are wasting their money for no reason, and consciously running training programs that are unnecessary? Why would "most" companies do that?

> Most such companies are actively complying with antidiscrimination laws.

Complying with US discrimination law means that companies are providing "reasonable accomodations" for people in historically discriminated categories, and for anyone who might file a complaint in the future. Educating the employees about acceptable behavior is a pretty obvious way to avoid getting sued.

> It's not a case of "Hey, we suddenly realized we're not complying with laws, so let's launch these initiatives."

The risk of running into both PR & legal trouble over diversity complaints has risen over time, due to increasing levels of education, increasing exposure to cases of discrimination and abuse, and generally increasing awareness of diversity issues.
Tend to so but it depends on situation.
Why Apple Didn’t Announce iPhone 12 on “Time Flies Event” on Tuesday
I use this firefox addin, it put a cross next to user comments and videos and lets you hide videos and comments from those users/channels in the recommended videos, searches etc;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-clean...
Rugby is also dangerous but I think it is still better than football, at least from the little rugby I’ve seen the tackles and collisions aren’t nearly as high impact (whether because or no helmets or the rules of the game I’m not sure). Also the equipment is basically a striped shirt and cleats.
NOne of us should feel compelled to crowd into large cities anymore. NOT in the 21st century, and CERTAINLY not after we've clearly demonstrated as a workforce that we can very easily get our jobs done remotely. Sure, that's not for all workers, or even most, but a huge proportion of us could very easily move to small towns all across america to relieve the crowding pressure in cities or the most trendy suburbs.

IF and ONLY IF: employers join us in the 21st century, and embrace remote work where they can.

(and the real danger, as I learned in the 1990's, is not even being remote - it's being "not at the home office" of a distributed organization - it is a career killer, and when that "business cycle" inevitably hits, your remote-office workers are always the first to get cut. This shit has to stop if we're going to get out of this "crowded into cities" nightmare).
did u mean to add "lol" to the end of that URL?

Correct URL:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-cr...
There's an easy way to remember this with a little knowledge of nuclear. Radiation means the material is losing mass (yes, even gamma emitters. Remember Einstein). If it is putting out a lot of radiation, it is losing a lot of mass. Therefore, logically, it can't last that long.

Essentially it is like having a well. If you attach a firehose to it you'll drain it overnight. If you attach a dripper to it, it'll take centuries to drain.
Wow, this could have made such a difference to the direction of the internet, government surveillance, and maybe even saved the lives of dissidents- if it had been done 20 years ago.
Care to elaborate on why it’s “really awful”? It’s my daily driver, clocking over 12 hours a day at least 6 days a week with not so much an issue.
> I think you're getting at the idea that instead of having objects differ in their behavior by overriding methods, you have them differ by having fields bound to objects that implement different behavior.

I guess I'm more getting at the idea of changing the game design at any point by adding or removing components, a way to make it easier for devs to cope with changing requirements (and they are always changing ofc), but you are right about favoring composition over inheritance, that by itself is pretty good.

I can't really talk about "things that are often claimed" and from the way you talk about this it seems like you have come across different opinions from mine on what ECS is or its value. Sad to see such a useful pattern get "corrupted", but I suppose that is inevitable.
I mean it's the dream, right? It's what we all wish we could build.

You design a system that gives you (the hoster) zero ability to inspect, modify, block, censor, restrict any of your users' content and in doing so you're allowed to abdicate all responsibility for how the system is used because you're literally incapable of controlling it. Pure infrastructure with none of the messy real-world bits.
Right, I can imagine if you wrap memory allocation correctly you can do that. But CPUs have finite memory, so a program can guess where it sits in the real physical memory, and from that derive a potential list of programs that already exist. You can probably even run profiling and figure out _what_ other software is running, by their allocation totals.
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If this is deliberate policy from the Whitehouse then I think it’s an own goal. They are ceding to the vision of their opponents in order for some short term pwnage.
Some Cape York locals use dilute hydrochloric acid on their skin where they've been touched by a stinging tree. This is said to dissolve the glassy spikes, and greatly relieve the pain.
In contrast to ansible issues, which would have changed tracker or repo ~30 times in that time.
Dns is like a big phone book with domain & its host server's ip address, all dns servers around the world routinely & frequently copy each other's changes & updates, but the additions & changes originate in TLD Owner's zone file, a master phone book for that TLD, & then it propagates to other world.

A registrar takes your money & coordinates with TLD owner to add your domain to the master phone book. In about x time, minutes to hours to few days, all servers over the world has your domain's dns information. Most of the time registrar's job is done, & now hosting provider as well as dns servers come in picture.

Now, when a user types your domain, his internet provider or dns address server looks up the relevant ip & or ask around. Closest/fastest/reliable records are then used. Your registrar usually do not control or operate these servers, but Google 8.8.4.4, Cloud flare 1.1.1.1, your ISP & such operate these.

The geographic closeness to hosting servers is preferred, but I think geographic closeness to register doesn't matter much.
I should have picked a better word than "traditional", which isn't quite right as you say. Perhaps "unproven", "run-of-the-mill", or "inexperienced". It may entirely within the skills of a good "traditional" contractor to do right, but there is at least a bigger downside with potential mistakes due cost of repair, if not a substantially greater chance of mistakes due to the abnormality of the building. So, it's important to be picky.
You're making the assumption that the people running these companies are trying to take over the world with AI or whatever. They're not. They're just trying to make the most money and do what's best for the company. The AI, the political influence, etc. are all just side effects of that. There's no conspiracy because nobody is conspiring. Everyone is just doing their jobs the best they can.
Margaret Hamilton, of Apollo fame, designed and still advocates something called the Universal Systems Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Systems_Language
It's much easier (and virtually undetectable) to MITM when you are also the reverse proxy though.
Without reading, I even know what you are going to say, yes, that shady tricks Godaddy already doing it for at least 10 years lol.