skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has low power density because it's a gas cooled reactor. Gas is a much worse heat conductor than a liquid.

I'm slightly skeptical wrt gas cooled reactors. Due to the low power density, the reactor needs to be physically big. And since the gas is under high pressure, the reactor needs to be a pressure vessel. Big pressure vessel usually means expensive.

One intriguing development is to use the TRISO kind of fuel that Ultra Safe has developed, but instead use molten salt as the coolant. That allows much higher power density, and doesn't need to be pressurized either as the operating temperature is well below the boiling point of the salt at atmospheric pressure. It also avoids the problem of having the fuel and highly radioactive and corrosive fission products dissolved in the salt, as molten salt reactors usually have.
"solar and wind aren't net positives" is a pretty tired argument. We're already in a second decade of both of these technologies being cost efficient and useful!

Perhaps it's not going to cover 100% of things. But it's a thing you can be doing and it doesn't make things worse.

Meanwhile even with the relatively low usage of nuclear there are two regions of the world that used to be populated with people that now are abandoned.
Wealth of U.S. billionaires rises by nearly a third during pandemic
Because it won't fit inside a USB port any more.
A lot of the .se registrars are in Sweden, but if you're just using it as a name hack then your options may be more limited (eNom/Tucows, Name.com, and Dyn (which was acquired by Oracle and then subsequently by name.com)).

Maybe try Hover? Based out of Canada, provided by Tucows.

You might have to use more than one registrar to get coverage on all your regional domains, depending on how many you have.
The phrase "imperfect automation still has absurd economy of scale" is more insightful than many full-length books.
Does that actually work?

I would think the invisible hand of the market would re-route all that pollution to areas without the tax and the earth wouldn't see that much difference. It's not like they're going to stop selling oil if the EU and US agree to stop burning so much of it.

I agree it's complex, but I think carbon taxes might be part of the complexity. If we're going to start messing about with markets, we should outright ban the offending activity and regulate harshly. If we're going to apply tokenomics to the problem and pretend we fixed it until we're too old to care, that seems worse somehow.

Or we can just do nothing and hope technology saves us. That's what the actual bet is whether we like it or not.
I prefer Dynadot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507331

But I don’t know if they support .SE though.

For .SE domains, Frobbit seems reliable, but I haven’t tested them myself https://frobbit.se/
I have enough legal trouble just trying to get a work visa. I'd rather not risk criminal charges, deportation, or worse for a hobby project.
Coronavirus vaccine would be two breakthroughs in one
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It is hard to grasp because it is a stupid theory. If they wanted him dead, they had him in prison and could have killed him. They thought he was more valuable free after a spy swap.

If they spy swap then poison him, next time they won't get a spy swap - nobody is going to spy swap with a country that then assassinates the swapped spy. They will have gained nothing and lost an option. They will be worse off.

It is possible that the Russians are stupid, and are happy to be worse off having made a point. Stranger things have happened. But it is also possible, and indeed quite likely, they are not stupid and there is something else going on.
Always use the command line whois tool to check domains, never go through any registrar :)

Domain Name: FELONS.IO
Registry Domain ID: D503300001186478247-LRMS
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-09-16T21:06:29Z
Creation Date: 2020-09-16T10:42:26Z

Yep, created 2 days ago.
Either breakout boards or you use the through-hole versions.
I think he means forced to leave because they lost their jobs at Pret/etc, not because of immigration law. In fact he might just mean they'll be gone from those shops.
Very happy with Namecheap [1]. I have 3 domains registered with them, one of them going back a long time. Never had problems with anything from search to payment.

They have 2FA support that works with the open source TOTP apps too.

[1]: https://www.namecheap.com
Massive impact even, according to the headline.

The full paper referenced in the article is available here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3046400
I use Namecheap for domain registration and then Cloudflare for evrything else.
Security has a big dirty secret: it's hard. If what you're doing is easy, it ain't security. Simple as that.

TOFU works if you actually do it properly. That means verifying the fingerprint of the key you just received out of band once time. Now you can trust that key. How many people do this? Even IT professionals just routinely say yes for new ssh keys without checking. That's not TOFU, that's just trusting that you are not under attack which is not security.

TOFU is actually just a degenerative form of web of trust anyway where you just automatically say "I do not trust" to the above so that each new trusted key needs to be established individually. But it does make it easier. Easier to not be doing security at all.
Please don't go on generic ideological flamewar tangents here. It leads to predictable, tedious, and usually nasty threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24508308.
Especially considering the IFR (and it's predecessor EBR II where the experiment the parent refers to was done) are pool type reactors, meaning the reactor sits in a big pool filled with the primary coolant, there are no pipes where the primary coolant leaves the tank.
You're right, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. If we can flip a bit somewhere to save some minute amount of energy, we should do that. For example: optimize PNGs, it's easy and a one time procedure.

We can't change what's in the chair but we can change our product.
I think it's a very small minority, but none the less very loud because the news always picks up on this.

We have to keep pushing back on this. "I am offended that you don't respect someone elses opinion" ;)
Yes. It's packed full of random features and modes, like for architects and so on. Once you figure out which workbench to use it's not too tricky. Save often.
Country means “sovereign state” - no-one’s suggesting EU member states aren’t sovereign nations in the sense US states aren’t.
I disagree. Perhaps it meant so in the past, but nowadays most commentators in Europe use liberal and left-wing almost interchangeably.
https://xkcd.com/2347/

The main advantage of open source for me isn't that all bugs are found. It's that when I encounter a bug I can check the code, report it, fix it in my fork and get it fixed in the main repo eventually.

With closed source you have to make do with workarounds.
Er... array programming and statistical programming languages pre-date both by decades.

APL from 1966, I believe, is the key lang for array programming.

And statistical languages like S from 1976 come to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language)

At a quick glance, it seems PDL is just a variation on S.
With who? I've never seen unlimited data only sims in the UK.
Ars coverage for a more readable summary:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/bellowing-alligators...
I worked on Ruby fulltime in a large team and it’s as horrible as you imagine.

One big ball of connected modules that depend on everything else.

It’s not Ruby’s or Rails’ fault I guess, but it’s easy to screw up and do it badly.

You can make some pretty neat stuff with it but it takes great care and a lot of discussions and disciplined code reviews
Some will pay 10k to speak if it is a famous conference
I’ve used iwantmyname.com for years and am very happy with them. I’ve got around 50 domains in there but have managed as many as 150 through them before. Good support when I’ve needed it and simple but powerful interface.
If it's "painstakingly simple", why did it take 2.5 years for them to find him?
This is plain wrong: https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor
try Anaconda if you can
Oh, there's a binding arbitration clause in all employment contracts.
I don't really understand the multiplayer portion. If I've only played Diablo 2 single player what should I expect to be different in the gameplay. If you say MMO is it a world that's always full of other players?
How many HN karma points are required to flag an article?

Edit: Ah, there actually was a flag link, I overlooked it.
You can get a free DOI for and archive a tag of a Git repo with FigShare or Zenodo.

If you have repo2docker REES dependency scripts (requirements.txt, environment.yml, postInstall,) in your repo, a BinderHub like https://mybinder.org can build and cache a container image and launch a (free) instance in a k8s cloud.

Journals haven't yet integrated with BinderHub.

Putting the suggested citation and DOI URI/URL in your README and cataloging citations in an e.g. wiki page may increase the crucial frequency of citation.

A Linked Data format for presenting well-formed arguments with #StructuredPremises would help to realize the potential of the web as a graph of resources which may satisfy formal inclusion criteria for #LinkedMetaAnalyses.
Do you actually use any of those?

Solidworks is the standard, but the price is crazy (from $5k to $10k per user per year).

The online tools I tried I found to be much less usable than FreeCAD. But I only design simple pieces, so my needs are easy to meet. It's possible that for complex parts FreeCAD is too limited.
It confuses me because the accents are 'missing' (prêt-à-manger). I wonder if people more familiar with French are better at interpolating accents.
> Machine learning can also do a surprising good job of it, especially if you know what the target is (e.g. a face)

Yes. Though that's just a corollary of doing better when you know something about the probability distribution of inputs.

(But a very useful and practical corollary. My formulation didn't give any hint how you might make use of that knowledge of the distribution.)
I mean, props for donating, and I believe that you want both outcomes, but for the sake of completeness the revealed-preferences meaning of your giving patterns is that the marginal badness of a SF youth being homeless is equivalent to 16 africans dying. Like, I'm not saying that to denigrate your choices, it's just an inherent fact of donation splitting.

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2013/11/should-you-only...
The "big production" example that kept being referred to in university was a (Belgian?) metro system. I think it was well suited to formal verification because it had a finite number of valid states, and the cost of failure was sufficient to justify the investment.

EDIT: I now think it was French, source https://www.prover.com/portfolio-items/ratp-paris/
I am distressed by people thinking that's a reasonable point of view.
Just, put the content that needs to be there out and as little else as possible.

If downloading less (off page stuff) is important for a CLIENT device to do, it will do the lazy loading for you. If loading it or not matters the client will do so. (Anywhere that just pulls it all down is still going to do the same thing; since that's the easiest way when it doesn't matter.)
I guess so, but it's not really an interesting question because it's so easy.

Humans are (somewhat) pre-disposed to form in-groups and out-groups, and clearly those people are worse than us.

The only real difference between pre-internet and post-internet is that it's much, much easier for fringe ideas to spread (and often this is good, like gay rights were a fringe idea twenty years ago).

However, we don't get only the good (for whatever your definition of good is) stuff, we also get people who particular in-groups don't like organising, and this sucks. But everyone's out-group is someone else's in-group, so unless you can solve humanity, you're not going to fix Facebook.

To be fair though, I trace the divisions in American society mostly from the decline of the Fairness Doctrine, and all the downstream consequences of that (specific channels for particular worldviews leading to increased radicalisation).
Working from home would likely have a greater impact than anything else listed here.

If I'm not mistaken, the internet uses as much power as all of Germany, or less than 100 million people. This makes our choices as individuals more important than our choices as developers.

Drive less, fly less, consume less.
AFAIK NVidia also limiting streams of NVEnc and patch to remove restriction is available.

https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
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Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
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Well, in this pandemic we don't need to rush this as mortality is relatively low. If it were a variant Ebola, but with the same transmission rate as Covid19 then we'd sure was hell be rushing it.
None of what you said is relevant to Chrome. Chrome still allows ad networks to pilfer this information as of the latest version.

Chrome is the worst browser for privacy by far. Between cookie policies, X-Client-Data backdoors for DoubleClick and APIs like this one it seems awfully convenient that this stuff continues to make it to production for ad networks to abuse with impunity.
The mechanism you describe here is known as "kafkatrapping"[1]. There's discussion in the article comments where it's agreed that the best way to combat this is to call out the person setting up the kafkatrap by telling them what a kafkatrap is, and to disregard their statement/question entirely since it's irrational & circular logic to begin with.

[1] - https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/editorials/wendy-m...
tl;dr: mea culpa

Similarly Marc Defant, former skeptic: https://www.marcdefant.com/2020/06/05/the-younger-dryas-impa...

Changing one's mind in the face of evidence is admirable and distressingly rare. Speaking up to admit having been wrong is oh-so-much rarer.
They would notice the size of the ETL job necessary to do this (and tbh, I don't think anyone understands the individual level outputs of any large ML model well enough to accomplish this).
Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy
1. draw the entirety of fucking owl

2. take picture of it

3. import to Photoshop

4. hit "auto correct"

5. open Twitter app and send it
> Yes, it's absolutely a reason to consider not making something more efficient.

Let's assume a smartphone has a battery capacity of 10WH (3000mAH * 3.7v), and you're charging your phone once per day to make up for aggregate inefficiency. If retail electric is priced at $0.10 per KWH, that's 36 cents per year? On the emissions front, that's negligible.
"Rodriguez was among more than 40 nutrition scientists who gathered in Washington, D.C., for a “Protein Summit” to discuss research on protein and human health. The summit was organized and sponsored by beef, egg, and other animal-based food industry groups" I mean...
"some idiot outraged over the removal of master/slave nomenclature"

Since GitHub repositories renaming their master branch did cost us significant money and almost caused downtime, I would be fully understanding if someone else is feeling outraged about it.

I belive you need to work on your example of a bad person ;)

How about we go with? And then in the same breath that gal defends selling people's secrets for pennies on the dollar and willingly accepting that they'll likely have very real negative consequences for your users once the private data in your database invariably gets leaked onto the internet.

Oh wait, that wouldn't leave much left at Facebook, wouldn't it?

So let's just question the moral integrity of anyone working at Facebook. Seems reasonable, given what egregious privacy infringements their work enables.
> Facebook and Twitter could literally make the world a better place simply by disabling those kind of features. Just remove them.

I'm not sure about that. I agree that the world might be better, but I'm not sure they could just disable them. The next smaller competitor who won't will have more user engagement and grow. If something is a very effective advantage, I believe you can only remove it by coordinated action and enforce it on a global scale.

Modern weapons are terribly efficient at killing people. But if you're the only country that's removing them from your arsenal, you depend on the mercy of your neighbors.
They will, in fact, just hire somebody else. American companies have access to an unlimited supply of labor. Better to stick around and try to unionize. It may not happen in your lifetime, but the other fact is the United States is a corporate hellworld. Workers have no say in anything. Until that changes, the corporations won’t.
You’re talking about being employed by a devil, or maybe receiving continuing patronage from a devil. I’m talking more about having the one-off opportunity to drain a devil’s coffers (whether or not you get the resulting money), without having the ability to turn that into an ongoing relationship.

Basically, this is the other side of the coin to the idea that iterating the Prisoner’s Dilemma gets you the potential for tit-for-tat, and thereby cooperation under expectation of tit-for-tat. In this case, “defecting” against a devil is good — but, just like in the traditional Prisoner’s Dilemma, it’s only practical to defect if the scenario is one-shot.
The problem I have with Namecheap is that I can't make purchases with Indian debit cards while with Godaddy, Bank transfer, UPI and Indian Debit cards are accepted. I have a few domains which I really want to switch to another provider and checked out Namecheap twice but had payment issues. I even tried Paypal which didn't work either.
> We have some major updates in the works.

Will one of those updates be the ability to export domains & expiration dates, from the dashboard?

If so, then say so; otherwise your response feels, well, dodgy. If not, why are you mentioning them in response to offmycloud's issue?

Past that, we appreciate your time here.

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> We've taken to calling that Punjabi Chinese recently, because that seems more accurate

Indian Chinese cusine was developed by the ethnic Chinese community in Kolkata. I really don't see any distinctive Punjabi influence.
I mean the difference is that I can actually play (not only observe) chess with just 1D representation of the game. Whereas football requires you to act physically in 3D space. But you are right, I would also consider "virtual football" e.g. simulated by a computer as 1D.
Godaddy has been doing it for at least decade now, i just searched a domain i think 10 years ago that I in fact needed, however didn't want to use Godaddy for registration, anyway the only mistake I made was, i searched for its availability on their site, and it was available, then i went to namecheap to register it. (im from Pakistan no way affiliated with Namecheap anyhow) .. and to my surprise it got registered within i think 10 min, I was quite shocked, and then I tried to look for its whois and found Godadday had registered it, and I can swear, this was the last time i visited their website.

this godadday practice story keeps showing up every now and then everywhere reddit or HN etc.

Some people say it's great, they 'secure' your domain than hijacking.. blah blah. nonetheless it's a creepy behavior.. in the past such discussion i guess it only cost them few cents to register it for a month period etc.. not sure exactly, some peeps had suggested to make a bot to search tons of them.. but I think it doesn't cost them much... somehow....
Hum, okay I see what you mean. I think maybe it's premiditated to conclude that it's untrusworthy yet, but I wouldn't blame anyone from being a bit skeptical and double checking with say the Canadian and European health institutions to see if the advice is similar, and if not that might need to trigger some investigation into why they'd differ so much? And I don't know, throw in China and South Korea and Russia in there as well, in theory, all country should advise pretty similar things, medical science is mostly universal so any major discrepancy would be disconcerting a bit I admit.

That said, I also don't want to fall into some fallacy of nirvana, I don't believe any governement ever existed in a perfect state with zero bias and total absence of corruption, sometime all we have is good enough to go by.

And I also wouldn't want to fall in the fallacy of inflation of conflict, where because there are scientific disagreement in the medical community, especially given a very new very unknown problem such as Covid, that no conclusion can be reached or that the legitimacy of that field of knowledge is questionable.
So you made a mistake, namecheap made an exception because they understood mistakes happen, and then you moved to a different registrar... where you wouldn't make that mistake? Agree it's not a good look to let the customer think the order was failed and then it proceeding anyways, but I can think of a situation where it was a desired outcome - like you wanted to extend the domain and they moved to do that.
Thunderbird has the only calendar I know that has a "multiweek" display as opposed to (well, in addition to) the utterly retarded month view that exists in every other GUI.

We've been doing electronic calendars for how long now? Why are we still using a paradigm from paper based calendars? At the beginning of a month I can see three weeks ahead, but at the end of the month I can see three weeks behind. It frustrates me no end that this is still a thing. It reminds me of the early days of Google maps when they were no better than paper maps, but now we can rotate the map, zoom in and out etc. But calendars are still no better than paper calendars. Apart from the one in Thunderbird.
To extrude a complex shape from 2D I usually first draw the 2D design elsewhere (Inkscape or Affinity Design) and import to FreeCAD as SVG. This works very well.
If the effect is minute enough, you might be using more net energy thinking about this, typing this comment, discussing it with others and optimizing your final png than actual energy saved for your users.

Feel-good savings are not helpful. You can do it but let's not pretend. Reminds me of an ex girlfriend that would account for coins she found on the ground in her monthly budget...
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I build https://nostashapp.com pretty much for the same reason.

I needed it on very different devices and on mobile.

It is a web app, but it is coming with export functionality.
This is only "bad OOP" if you need to buy 10K books at once and it is actually too slow and there is a significant amount of fat to trim (if you need to call a web service once for every book, incoherent memory access is likely to be negligible).

Otherwise it's obvious, cheap to write, easier to get right than more complicated approaches, and good enough. True OOP is OOP that meets goals.