skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, I was a mediocre Calc student and walked out of the final feeling like I'd utterly bombed it, but had the same prof for Calc II and apparently I'd managed a solid B on the final so something had stuck.
We're stuck with the gaseous waste from fossil fuels for millennia. We're stuck with megatons of radioactive coal ashes forever. We're stuck with toxic chemical compounds necessary to build anything industrial at scale (including solar panels, batteries, windmills etc) forever too.
Would be interesting if that fifty are paying for linkedin membership
Is it really? Yucca mountain is basically right next to the site where the military conducted over a hundred nuclear weapons above ground, and a few hundred more below ground. Putting nuclear waste in an area that's already contaminated essential presents no change.
I think the context matters a lot:

- this was a brutal unplanned event

- people were still trying to reach higher comfort, psychologically unsettling
It would be really nice if the other features of github could get into the decentralized model of git... I could imagine issues and PR reviews/comments all being mini-commits to some kind of parallel metadata repo under the hood for example.
Personally getting diagnosed with dyslexia was a huge help to me. Like the article mentions it allows a mindset change when you can put a name to why you can't do something despite a tremendous amount of effort that other people can seemingly do easily. It also becomes a valuable tool to help protect yourself when needed. There were multiple times in my elementary and middle school years in which the ADA needed to be evocated on my behalf in defense against two specific bad teachers I had over those years. I wouldn't have gotten the accommodations and help I needed if the initial diagnose was just "slow to learn to read".

Side note, this was only possible because my parents knew the system, my mom was a teacher, and they had the resources and wherewithal to fight on my behalf. I can certainly see how not having that helps contribute to the inequality talked about in the article. I can also see how parents looking for any advantage for their child might abuse that system. However I don't think the potential for abuse warrants throwing the baby out with the bath water.
My "fight" is that you have now made two plainly false claims: 1) physics precudes renewables from providing our energy needs. This is just a silly claim. There are no such "physics" and if you think that "energy density" stops this from happening, you clearly haven't run any numbers.

2) Renewables aren't reducing carbon output. This is also incredibly bizarre.

> You might want to re-assess why is it that you are seemingly so emotionally invested in saying no to the only technique that has an extremely low death count per TWh

I'm not saying no to nuclear. I'm saying "no" to ascientific claims about "physics" and "energy density."
I would love to hear some objective arguments to use Namecheap instead of Gandi (which I'm currently using). The only reason I'm still using Gandi it's because it works and I never had any troubles with them (although my requirements are super simple). Would anyone recommend me to switch?
Thanks for bringing up these two points. I have heard people saying lets put solar plats in deserts. They don't realize the deserts also have an Ecosystem.
21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
Buying a domain is not the same as hosting the DNS for that domain.
Now compare the space taken by the buried reactor facility and produced waste, with equivalent number of buried wind turbine blades for the same amount of energy produced :).
Some Notes on Aurora Database
To me, this is a valid response. If you can remember back when we as humans used to gather together in public places, we had lots of options on who we talked to at that gathering. If someone always talked about something you just didn't care about, you could walk away and talk to other people. People that you found yourself regularly talking to about things that everyone found pleasant were called friends. People you talked to occasionally were called acquaintances, and people you preferred not to talk to were called many things, but friend was not one of them. If some of your friends like the people you did not, they were called a friend of a friend but you would not refer to them as your friend.

In Facebook, there are only "friends". So, if you don't like what they are always carrying on about, don't have them as a friend. Just like in real life.
>Unfortunately, some abusive users were beginning to use Send to ship malware and conduct spear phishing attacks.

Isn't it absurdly incompetent of them not to foresee this?
I'm german. and yes I know about that.
It's even worse that our politics fought that it is a good idea to keep coal alive that long, worse we keep lignite alive that long, which is probably even worse than anything on the market. (we are the biggest in lignite and it's the worst thing you can do to your environment. Hambacher forst is a eyesore for our country [1])

but as already said it should not be a tradeoff between coal or nuclear. I do not doubt that nuclear is better than coal, I doubt that nuclear OR coal is the solution we should target at the moment.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hambacher+Forst/@50.907264...
>and Management division may force in future to ditch Gecko and adopt Webkit/Blink in the hope that it could bring more userbase (just my thought) to lessen maintainance and focus on revenue.

They laid off most people working on Servo, so the adoption of WebKit/Blink seems rather likely.
People fall for it. It's horrid, but smart from a tactical perspective.

I wonder if there are resources on creating divisions. It's a very interesting social science topic.
Incompetent electrical work can be "fun." I've encountered:

Permanent lighting fixtures wired up using lamp cord.

A light switch mounted directly to drywall without an electrical box.

14 fixtures, including receptacles, on a single circuit with a wire length of >100 feet.

A 40 amp continuous load connected using wire rated for 32 amps in continuous duty.

A 60 amp breaker "protecting" a wire rated for 30 amps.

Indoor-only, dry-location, cable used outdoors where exposed to weather.

Indoor-only, dry-location, cable buried underground.

Receptacles connected using 10 AWG wire despite the fact that the connecting screws are only capable of securely connecting 12 and 14 AWG wires.

Building ground consisting of a copper wire buried in a deep hole instead of connected to a ground rod.

Neutral wires from four 15A circuits connected to a single 14 AWG pigtail in the service panel.

Multi-wire branch circuits wired with both hot wires connected to the same leg at the service panel. Illegal, and very dangerous, as heavy loads can overload the neutral wire to twice its rating without tripping any breakers.

Worst of all, the most dangerous work was done by allegedly qualified electricians who were trained to know better.
> All of these things are true.

That's highly debatable.

> They're not political statements:

At least the first is a political judgement.

> 1. CA mismanaged its forests by not doing proper controlled burns

The vast.majority of the first within the State are not subject to state management; 3% of the forest land is controlled by the state or administrative subdivisions. 57% of forest land in the state (and 47.7% of total land area of the state) is directly controlled by the federal government and some of the rest by federally-but-not-state supervised tribal governments. In between there is some private land which the state has less control over than the state-owned land but more than the federally-controlled land from which it is excluded from management. So even if there was mismanagement by the state, there's very limited potential impact.

> 2. Climate change making conditions ripe for fires

This is true.

> 3. PG&E was negligent in maintaining its infrastructure

This understates the case; PG&E was between grossly reckless and actively malicious in maintaining it's infrastructure.
I observe that the same is true for the paper's authorship information, but nobody seems to have any difficulty placing that prominently near the top of the document itself.
> I don't want to be part of a machinery that spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories.

You're swearing off the internet entirely?
Great point, power density should be calculated based on land usage.
Doesn't HN have some sort of "flame war" prevention feature where people are automatically prevented from commenting/replying in rapid succession? Rate-limiting posts/sharing and comments on Facebook seems like a good place to start. Maybe it isn't necessary (and probably not possible) that we stop disinformation entirely so much as we slow it down.
Whether there’s actually network between components is something a platform team can handle based on their best judgement. Having collections of containers that always run together is a common pattern.
Is there really that big of an advantage to avoiding the network boundary though?
True but I’m not sure if when I think about the various ways to send a file on my computer that my web browser really comes to mind.

Super neat service, makes total sense in Mozilla’s portfolio but I don’t see it as a natural part of the browser.
> you could easily end up a year or two out (the date that matters isn't the date of publication, it's the date that was in the author's head when they wrote something like "Twenty years ago")

Doesn't matter. If the author was thinking of a specific year, they'd say the year. If they say "20 years ago", everything that was "20 years ago" this year is also "20 years ago" a couple years from now.
What if I live frugally and buy investments with the rest. Have I wasted all thst money on assets or am I providing a loan to enable growth?
Scaling up fundamental quantum chemistry simulations on quantum hardware
> So people shift to mailing sealed anthrax envelopes (which has happened).

Which they also scan for?

The USPS does try to keep the mail safe, and generally does a good job.

Mozilla cannot make the same guarantees about Send so they shut it down.
I highly recommend HBO's Chernobyl. Explains a lot this stuff. Basically, as a nuclear reactor operates, it is turning the Uranium into lots of other stuff. One component of this other stuff is Xenon-135, which absorbs neutrons and basically gets in the way of nuclear reactions. This is not an issue if you keep the reactor on because there are enough neutrons to keep things going and overcome the Xenon absorption. But if you turn the reactor off, you now have no neutrons from the fission reactions and lots of neutron absorbers. There is so much absorption that it's impossible to start up the reactor for a couple of days. That's why nuclear reactors operate at constant power and only turn off to refuel. This MMR also operates at constant power, which would also have benefits for cycling issues, and uses the molten salt loop to store heat and then use it when it's needed.
I had the same question!

On mobile YT suggested me to watch an old video from a channel I'm subscribed to. It's a good video but since I have watched it already (with my account logged it) and remember it who cares about it. This one time the interface asked me if it's a good suggestion! So I clicked the bad suggestion link, and then the app asked me to categorise why is it a bad suggestion. All the options were about the video itself. The categories were "overly sexualised", "gory", "boring" etc. There was no option to say "I have seen it already you silly". Way to set up a feedback system to get no useful information out of it.
Nice write up!

fyi Your humans.txt page is broken
We Still Need Howard Zinn
Some of my family is conservative and extremely racist towards Mexicans & Blacks, and are 100% fine alienating a lot of us out of allegiance to trump.

I’m jealous of you and angry at the rise of unabashed white supremacy in my circles
> And #4 almost 50% of the land is under federal control

Over 50% of forest land in the state, but almost 50% of the total land area of the state.

This is fairly common in the West and wildly different from the situation outside of the West.
Support for 1,000 fires being better than 10:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/a-trailblazing...
IANAL, But I think device as-is can likely be sold and marketed perfectly fine. Test-kit and dev-kit stuff is regulated a bit differently under the assumption that it's not going to be in mass use, and also that it's likely going to be used to develop another product that will get the fcc certification.

https://emcfastpass.com/fcc-rules-kits-subassemblies/
The question is, Does a recording of it stop being private property if it's performed in public?
"Curb" here doesn't seem to mean "ban". What Facebook wants is for employees to avoid the totalizing view of politics you're describing, where political discussion needs to occur in all places at all times and declaring a "no politics zone" constitutes taking a side.
Probably because they've got great service, I guess.
There isn't much lock-in yet though. If you wanted to move a project from github to gitlab, you could move the code over with a few commands. Open issues and stuff could be moved over with a script. There isn't much 'network effect' that means your project would die on other hosting.
There is no problem at all. Even a nuclear disaster is less harmful than the pollution we currently releasing in the atmosphere.
FWIW Google Meet has a built-in option to filter out non-speech noise.

It works pretty well.
As a freelancer, I honestly prefer charging hourly / daily / weekly. The type of project I do tends to have an ever-expanding scope.

Charging by project would put me in an adversarial position with my client; I'd be forced to always push back when the scope / situation changes.

By contrast, charging by the hour lets me say yes much more often.

Of course, if I were to do more "turn-key" projects, scope would be much more predictable so it'd probably make a lot more sense to charge per-project.
Given

fn foo(x: &str) -> &str {
x
}

calling `let z = foo(y);` is valid. The lifetime of `y` conforms to the lifetime of `x` in the `foo` signature, while the lifetime of `z` can be as long as the one for `x` (up to x's lifetime), but it is shorter (unless you try to do `drop(y)`, which would be a borrow checker error).
Same problem with music, I thought I somehow broke their engine because it keeps feeding me some random hit songs I liked 5 years ago and does it for the past 5 years. You would think they want to show me something new for their engagement metrics but I guess not.
> renormalization’s hostility to microscopic details works against the efforts of modern physicists who are hungry for signs of the next realm down

No, it doesn't. It simply says "your tools are good down to about here; beyond this point, you must use different tools." That's all.
When your company is the place the rest of the planet gather to discuss these very topics, it's not easy to not have to talk about them just in discussing what topics your platform is being used.
I meant the original post, "depends on the person" was the clue. Not the most straight forward language ever devised though.
Ask HN: Where to find foundational studies for virology and germ theory?
I'm curious where I can find the studies that prove:

1- viruses are contagious.

2 - viruses definitively cause negative symptoms.

3 - vaccines work to prevent symptoms beyond placebo effect.

I have looked everywhere but unable to find anything more than "vaccines work because they do." type stuff from the CDC.

I want to review the actual groundbreaking studies that virology and vaccine effectiveness are created from.
It's common for papers to include words like "recently", or indeed "has not yet", which are rather more time-sensitive and still don't specify an exact year.
Is the point you're trying to make that nuclear and fossil fuels can both be dangerous during a natural disaster? I don't think anyone will dispute this.
It would be great to know the capital and ongoing maintenance cost per MWe of load, and the lifecycle cost per gWh. This product is pitched at remote sites, so presumably the costs aren't low enough (yet?) for places where power grid connection is an option.
Firefox Send was effectively shut down months ago due to it being used to spread malware, but you could find messages saying that they're working on bringing it back.

I interpret this news as "it's not coming back".
Legal requests should go through Legal channels. You can have all the evidence you want, but do you really want the justice system involved to be administered by a registrar? No. You don't. You want it to go through the actual Justice system.

If you should be upset with anyone, it's your local police who didn't escalate the case further.
From the conclusion:

> Formal methods researchers who are really keen on rigorous checking and proof should identify and concentrate on the most critical areas of a large software system, for example, synchronisation and mutual exclusion protocols, dynamic resource allocation, and reconfiguration strategies for recovery from partial system failure. It is known that these are areas where obscure time-dependent errors, deadlocks and livelocks (thrashing) can lurk untestable for many years, and then trigger a failure costing many millions. It is possible that proof methods and model checking are now sufficiently advanced that a good formal methodologist could occasionally detect such obscure latent errors before they occur in practice. Publication of such an achievement would be a major milestone in the acceptance of formal methods in solving the most critical problems of software
reliability.

I feel like this presages the way TLA+ (in particular) has had a relative surge among practitioners.
Well, its a bit unfair to say that since Sweden didn't reap all of the benefits of protecting their economy, because of neighboring countries' following a different path, that something was wrong with Sweden's approach.

If I had the right idea, but am surrounded by people with the opposite idea, that doesn't mean my idea became wrong. It only means I maybe wasn't the best at convincing my neighbors.
Centralisation is more efficient. Centralisation is good. Because of centralisation and interconnection (power grid is a network) we only need to have power generation capacity equivalent to less than a third of the total power of all electrically powered machinery.

If every household had to produce its own power, we would need either to carefully plan our usage, or to have as much production capacity as our peak usage, so globally we'd have 3 times as much production capacity as we have nowadays. That would amount to a tremendous waste or resources, an awful misallocation... It would be absolutely anti-ecological.

The more you're using unpredictable energy sources such as wind and solar, the more you need backup power (batteries, gas, coal, nuclear, etc). Case in point: in the EU, there has been virtually no wind at all for two weeks (except in Denmark). So we burn coal and gas, massively.

Germany has a power generation capacity 68% larger than France for roughly the same number of TWh produced annually, because it needs backup production capacity for all its windmills and PV solar. What's the result? Electricity is 58% more expensive in Germany than in France.
The USPS literally detects anthrax too as a result of that happening.
>it seems apparent on many threads here related to energy generation

It might be due to informed people reaching the same conclusion.
I certainly hope it doesn't come to that. Servo was really starting to show serious improvements in both memory usage and speed relative to Gecko and Webkit. It would be a shame to see Firefox devolve into just another rebranded Webkit browser, particularly since everyone loses when things devolve to a monoculture.
I had the exact same experience with Godaddy 10 years ago.
This is the very reason that Safe Harbor laws are in place for these industries.
The rich have plenty of assets
I think Europeans also just care more about the freshness of their food than typical Americans, and they're willing to shop more often for it (i'm American but know Europeans who have culture shock when visiting the US and see the mass-produced, packaged food here).
"Undo chess" is a single timeline that a (human) player can rewind to a previous board state. Movements in time are constrained to moving the board state. Pieces cannot move independently of the board state in time. Additionally, you still play all the timelines that have been created.

In 5D chess, the knight moves two spaces in one dimension and one space in another. In a 2d board, this is the description of how a knight moves. In 5d chess, a knight can move one space back in time and two spaces in the Y dimension on the board two one space back in time. That is fundamentally different than Undo chess.

Additionally, this puts a new knight on the board timeline that is forked off of the previous move - so there are now three knights.

Lastly, as pieces can move through time as well as space, one of the standard wins is a piece that is attacking the king in the past. I had a game where I moved the queen to the same file as the king (which was currently protected) - it was five spaces away. I moved another piece, and then won as the queen was now attacking the king five turns in the past. The timeline for that board is https://slack-files.com/T0VD96U9G-F01A45YRLTG-cf2d776bd3 . You can see that there is no piece at [T-1, Y+1], [T-2, Y+2], [T-3, Y+3], ... until the king at [T-5, Y+5].
After 15 Long Years, a NumPy Paper Finally Appears
That's a poor TL;DR for this paper. It contains a lot more than that.
>Facebook by its nature takes stances on deeply political topics.

Why is that "by its nature"? I don't think that's "by its nature" at all. Phone companies and ISPs facilitate communication between people, but that doesn't necessitate they take political stances on what communication to allow. Why should Facebook? If certain language should be restricted, then laws should be written restricting said language and Facebook should comply with those laws. Nothing about Facebook's nature forces them to go beyond that and act as de facto language legislators.
It's how I vote and how I encourage everyone to vote.
This would be more in the context of FOSS, so the economics are certainly different. I am not sure qualified eyeballs are expensive in this context.
Mozilla had 1000 well paid people, maybe they should have tried to figure this out.

But instead of focusing on their core product, like 50 people dealt with Firefox and 950 did various side projects that nobody used.

I get it, hard projects are hard. But it doesnt help that nobody is interested in Firefox development and most people focus on useless side projects used to boost their CV.
Apples to oranges. Reactor designs are completely different. They are basically set it and forget it designs that then require extremely costly refueling and refurbishment.

Edit: I was wrong, the Ultra Safe Nuclear plan is somewhat similar. My comparison was with typical power grid reactor designs, not disposable reactors like what's being proposed.
... but chess doesn't have 3 spatial dimensions.
Porsche unveils 2.1 MWh Megapack-like charging system for electric cars
that'd be really cool! it's an amazing photo
If you are at work in an open floor plan just trying to do your job while some of your co-workers are carrying on about whatever, you are pretty much forced to have to listen to it. You are now no longer achieving 100% of what you could be doing because your brain is distracted. That's before you even attempt to participate.
Vanilla elixir releases do not support hot code reloading. Distillery releases do, however.
It was entirely my fault to be over reliant on notifications.
Because it’s a public service funded by the government.