skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who cares about the surface storage temperature? a dirty bomb can deny access to surrounding areas for prolonged times.

A dirty bomb is a device specifically designed to disperse radioactive material. Spent nuclear fuels is actually much less harmful than the isotopes that could be used in a dirty bomb, and it's potential for dispersal is much less in a ground collision than in an atmospheric detonation. Nuclear waste would get dispersed over a few hundred meters, and the top couple feet of dirt in these areas would be cleared away and replaced.

> theres so many potential failure points, here is another: if they fly through the electric pylons and into the cooling tower, there is no place to dump the energy as the reactor can't be shut down immediately, and cooling will fail soon, ...

Which is why most plants have more than one cooling tower (well, some don't have any cooling towers if they're cooled by ocean water). And even in the event that all cooling facilities are destroyed, plant operators would insert the cooling rods to shut down the reactors. There are backup diesel generators to power the control systems in the event that the plant's main electric generator fails.

These kinds of scenarios are borderline absurd. By, the way, what happens if someone flies a plane into a chemical plant manufacturing solar panels? Harmful chemicals could be released into the surrounding areas. Should we shut down solar plant manufacturing until this failure point is addressed? Of course not, such a complaint is as nonsensical about the ones you're trying to make towards nuclear.
There does seem to be an attitude, especially among the "lifestyle business" crowd, that SEA exists for Westerners to live like kings, with it borderlining on a masters/servants mentality.
Microsoft demonstrates how to increase green energy one rooftop at a time
If you’re going to ironically post foone's tweets about not wanting their tweets to be posted, the least you can do is get their pronouns right
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I read through https://support.getintra.org/s/article/How-Intra-works and it sounds exactly like any other DoH client with a denylist.
There should be no paternity leave at all, because paternity leave means that the other single guy with no family have to work more for free to compensate your "vacation". Democracy is tyranny of the majority where the largest part of population make laws in a way to benefit themselves and make the others tax-slaves.
It's worth noting, for context, that for western audiences, Trip Advisor is the Gold Standard for travel reviews in this area. This is where they left the reviews. Restaurants will give a 5-10% discount on meals if you leave a review. Restaurants, tourist attractions, hotels/hostels etc have big Trip Advisor signs in their windows. A couple of bad reviews could be costly for a business.
I agree with you, but we probably have different opinions as to which internet should be considered a success :-)
Middle brow dismissal. It’s like the people who dismiss productivity advice as all being the same when the reason it’s mostly the same is it works and the doing it is the hard part.

> Paul Graham, News.YC’s moderator emeritus, says that “The defining quality of the middlebrow dismissal is that it’s a cache dump of the writer’s prejudices…” This probably explains why they’re so common. It’s natural to see any news story as confirmation of your existing prejudices—but it’s easy to read confirmation where it’s not there.

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...
How thick?

Check out these, with humans for comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuclear_dry_storage.jpg
These are some good hacks and tricks!
The good news is that these fun days are still upon us. I'm a member of the Bitshifters collective: https://bitshifters.github.io/

For example, the most recent demo led by VectorEyes, called Evil Influences, breaks new ground in BBC Micro video chip chicanery: https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-evil-influences...

Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjhKY67fPI
In your point, what do the haves have that the have nots don't?
Other countries fare better vs. Covid due to hydroxychloroquine, not lockdowns
If it does business in China, then it's beholden to Chinese law at the risk of no longer doing business in China.
CEO of a multi billion dollar international business

Companies simply can’t always pay people to not work for 6 months to a year, so they’ll go somewhere where they don’t have to.

Why ‘simply can’t’ a ‘multi billion dollar international business’ offer paid parental leave, if so required by law? This does not make any sense, large international corporations will do business wherever they can profitably.
I’ve been involved in many recruitment processes. Companies are far more scared of you having done lots of short jobs than of having taken gaps, especially if the gaps are easily explained away as “time spent caring for family” or “self-directed study”
What OS are we talking? It sounds like you need a real time os.
There's no shortage of rich westerners trying to use those poorer countries as their cash cows (think cheap VAs, the traveling entrepreneur living cheap there, etc)
Which ISP are you using? Because alexa.com, trinet.com, behance.net, NYTimes are working for me.
Ask HN: I am the poster-child for the Wuhan Virus, should I change my ways?
Have scientists figured out how to weaponize the common cold?
When I was 12, I tried to program a Mario knockoff into my calculator. I wrote the program to show the first screen of my super cool game, got about as far as programming what happened when you hit right, and realized I was likely missing something (loops).
That introduces a host of new problems. Workers will likely have to leave their families behind for a week every 2 months. And where will they stay during office-week?
Okay, maybe. But usually this is not part of the description of "choosing the right tool for the job".
please tell me how i rank this page
https://printcosmo.com/boxes/donut-boxes/
Well this is what I (and others) have already done in the replies below (at least). But again the OP's title is clearing proving 'foone's point.

On the other hand, if foone doesn't like the fact that their 'public tweets' are being linked on HN and bots, etc they can just lock the account to 'approved' twitter users and their 'problem' is solved.

Whatever you post on Twitter or the internet will most certainly get linked on external sites, forums, etc. It's quite naive to not expect this.
One reason for the United States being seen as a good place to do business is because it is consistent. You don't need to worry about being subjected to the whims of a strongman in order to do business in the US; there is supposed to be a firewall between the business of government and certain political pressures.

Regardless of the risks and challenges increasingly posed by companies that have, at best, murky relationships with the folks in Zhongnanhai, attempting to circumvent this process is an outrageously offensive and damaging to the long-term ability for the US to be able to assert rule of law and democratic processes as the way forward.

One can cynically argue it was always a flimsy patina anyway, but the behavior of, whatever this is at the moment, is disorganized, suffers from shifting reasoning, dubious personal intervention by POTUS, and lacks the due process that we demand of the US government. There has been not a single shred of meaningful evidence presented to the public that TikTok itself is engaged in active spying or intelligence gathering on the part of the Beijing. I would not be surprised if the federal government had evidence that Bytedance is using TikTok for nefarious reasons, but as the saga has dragged on it becomes increasingly unclear what evidence exists. First it had to divest; now it has a "strategic partnership" that's somehow still being sold as a divestiture?

On what basis are we to trust the random proclamations of an executive branch that blatantly and unabashedly lies to the press and the public at-large even over trivial nonsense, declares all unfavorable news as "fake" and suffers endless information leaks from people who have repeatedly been burned by its mercurial cast of characters?
Both my wife and my ex are very successful in sales. Both worked in B2B sales for large companies you probably heard of. Both had science degrees but are not overly analytical. I currently work in Finance supporting the Commercial team for a division of a $20B business. Here’s what I see that makes people successful:

1) wife and ex are not what you would think are first glance as sales people. Far from pushy, one a bit shy, neither big networkers. However, when It comes to the job, they always do what they say they will do, when they say they will do it, the way they say they will do it. Their customers (well most anyway) love working with them because they get a prompt response and follow through on commitments. When a problem occurs, my wife is on it and doesn’t rest until it’s fixed.

2). You need to make it about your customer, not you. The sooner you realize helping your customer helps you, the more successful you will be. I’ve worked at large companies where salespeople only do what’s in their goals and bonus. Unless you are lucky, this will backfire.

3). Be interested in who you sell to. I work at a company that sells chemicals, some of which they could get elsewhere. The relationships the sales team build are amazing. They know everything about their customers personally and I’m impressed with the little details our commercial team remembers.

4) know everything about your product, from how it’s made to who makes it, what’s it cost to make, how does your accounts payable team pay bills for you materials, how does sourcing buy those materials and from who, etc. no question is too detailed!
I'm not the original commenter but I'll provide my few cents.

Especially with Apple's eco-system. Most potential buyers would have an Apple account with valid payment. Reducing filling credit card.

The other benefits on both ends is app updates and the ability to have the app accessible for you even if the app website drops or anything.

Having said that, that's one opinion and I'm pretty sure that other people would be happy from your current workflow that cuts less on your revenue.

> If it's on App Store and also open-source, would you still buy it?

There are plenty of such apps. The first one comes into my head is Cyberduck.
https://cyberduck.io/
(Though they seemed to reduce the number of mentions about it being open sourced)

One wonder though,
Since your app is very scoped.
It can easily be universal and benefit from the entire apple eco system.
Yep.

Important to note that this is Envoy the company, not Envoy the pink mustache factory thing used to let people do terrible things with HTTP.

Random note: red teams <3 the networks used by "room tools" and the like. They usually have access to all kinds of tasty tasty data!
It's relevant for other tourists who want to know the level of risk they are subjecting themselves when visiting. The Thai resort really Barbra Streisand'ed this.
The problem with geothermal power is that it's only feasible in a few areas. California already generates about 5% of its electricity from geothermal power: https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/renewables_data/geothermal....
Nothing, but the actual engagement with any of these ideas is approximately 0%. In a work presenting itself as the collected Almanack of Wisdom by a Wise Man, one would hope to see more than pithy collection of buzzwords and advice, all centered on "Getting rich." If the primary reason you're interested in Buddhist techniques is to make money, I think you may have missed the point.

If Silicon Valley (the satirical TV show) had a book version, it would look something like this.
> solely on the The Pulfrich effect

Did you read the whole post? There's

- The Pulfrich effect

- The way human eyes are built

- The case of astigmatism

- Studies targeted towards computer screen use
Some people may remember: first there were video terminals with light-on-dark to conserve fluorescent layer of CRTs, IBM PC continued the tradition and then Apple Macintosh came out with white background. Apple's argument was that people's eyes were trained for black-on-white print and it was one of the distinctive features of the platform then.

There must be a reason why the print developed as black-on-white, maybe people preferred it this way.

So pick what you prefer: paper-style or CRT-style.
You cannot say "A" is evil because it does "X", so we will also do "X" and then still claim "A" is evil without saying you are evil yourself.

What you are saying is that unless PRC becomes like the US, the US has to become like PRC. I'm amazed how this is not clear to anyone following this. The only way to go forward and not become what you are pointing fingers at is taking the high road. The US is clearly not doing so.
There might be a survivor bias here. How can we know how many similar projects didn't make it out of that cohort?
Perhaps, but as America has a reputation for putting people in jail for quite a few ridiculous reasons, we should be the last people to pass judgment on other countries' arrest policies.
Because they do not know, and are domain experts, not licence experts: like probably almost everybody else here.
In countries where the government pays the leave it’s not a big deal. In these countries we just planned for higher headcount. Usually not a problem for software dev because non-US salaries are so much lower in the first place.

In countries where employers are on the hook for some or all of the cost, we just factored it in to the employee costs. Again, because software engineers were paid so much less in those countries it wasn’t a dealbreaker.

At least in the software field, the US salaries are so much higher that the overhead is not a big deal in European countries.

We had a lot of young people who wanted to relocate to US offices when they discovered the salary differences, though.
[Rhetorically expresses curiosity at what those terms might have looked like, broadly speaking]

Not the obvious, like "everyone's going to look the other way", but more like... target account upper watermarks, "motivation threshold" (ahem), internal tracking (if any), collective opinion on precedent, etc.

Oh, and scale.
That is how C++ started to be used back in the 16 bit days.

Oh the arguments how it was an heresy to even think contaminating the source code with C++ constructs.

Track down any C vs C++ flamewar on Usenet back in those days.

NDK exists since Android 2.0, hardly anything new, as is currently more castrated than on those days.

It is impossible to create a production level game engine in Android without reaching out to Java, given the API surface.

Game devs will use whatever the platform owner puts them on the table, when the platform is enticing enough to refuse being part of the party.

Just like if enough Indies make money with HTML 5 games, some bigger studios will eventually suck it up and use JavaScript, WebGL, and whatever tooling targets WebAssembly.
A major difference is if defamation is considered a civil or criminal matter. In some countries such as Thailand, a defamation claim is a criminal matter, which can get you arrested, jailed etc., before going in front of a judge. It can and is used as a weapon, often in politics. In some other countries, a defamation claim first needs to be judged valid before arrest.
Rsync in a bash script is a pretty good way to go as far as simplicity, plus you can just ship the built files rather than the entire repo.

Things do get a bit complex if you try to make your home made solution more robust. But on the other hand if you manage to do it then you have a solution you can deploy to any standard cloud server.

Here is a good writeup of such a home made solution to give you an idea of what that might look like:

https://dev.to/justincy/blue-green-node-js-deploys-with-ngin...
Azure only supported RSA keys last time I checked.
> Annoyingly SSM still requires managing ssh keys and users somehow

No, doesn't require managing ssh keys. SSM can work with SSH keys but it's not required. The downside I found is that all users connect with the same uid/gid which does not work great for bastion hosts where user profiles are required (e.g. connect to EKS API). You could work your way around this with documents permissions per user, but it's not great.

The user management is handled by IAM.
Just because it doesn’t look like this has been mentioned already. I’m not sure that the time it takes to process and recognize a character in milliseconds is the primary bottleneck to understanding code. It
is merely assumption, but I assume that code comprehension is far more difficult and slower for most than standard reading. There can be a significant mental burden when working out all of the fine details of how the code will operate, especially if written by someone else. It can be even more difficult when the code isn’t intention revealing.

On another note, there are the often cited user studies that show that interfaces that are purely more aesthetically pleasing tend to be used more efficiently vs the exact same
interfaces with “uglier” presentation. So a color scheme that is most aesthetically pleasing to each user might provide a subconscious boost in wielding their editor and its features.

As a third and less related thought, I think we could make much bigger strides in understanding code by creating better tools, better static analysis, better IDEs, etcetera. This is just my opinion but I would guess that additional tooling to help you discover and analyze the behavior, relationships, and history of the code you’re reading could yield better results than the 15ms character recognition optimization. I would also guess that for most, far more time could be saved speeding up builds and tests. That’s not to say that it’s not worthwhile to optimize character
recognition speed. But I would guess that character recognition speed is not the main processing time in the mental “stack” when reading code.
He works in Thailand. What are you talking about?
The reason I mentioned this was because for me it's actually not.

I am persona non grata with UKVI apparently (I've been turned away at the border when I didn't have a visa), so I always apply for a visa in advance now.

It's annoying but it's not the deal-breaker people in this thread seem to think it is.
Why not? RSA is perfectly secure and more compatible. Short public key is nice, but does not matter much in reality as you'll copy&paste it anyway.
True respect laws and you won’t need to go to jail like millions of other people who do write negative reviews and haven’t been sued
How many places can a person reasonably travel to if they have to be conversational in the local language first?
OMG. I want to go back in time when things were pure and clear. Thanks for sharing. That is what my code looked like in the beginning of time but for a different comp.

Sheds a tear and pours himself a drink.
> Workers will likely have to leave their families behind for a week every 2 months.

Yes, or they could continue to live locally. It's about more flexibility for what is the right choice for each family. I don't see this as a problem.

> And where will they stay during office-week?
Hotel, AirBnb, corporate short-term housing? People travel for work all the time and it's not an issue. If hotel capacity becomes insufficient other solutions will pop up - like furnished apartment rentals. I don't see this as a large issue either.
I support long paid family leaves, but I find this framing odd:

> The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) grants some mothers and fathers the ability to take 12 weeks unpaid leave and return to a protected job, depending on the size and type of the company. But the law leaves many parents at the mercy of the state in which they live (only three, California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, grant paid leave) or their employers’ individual plans.

Why shouldn’t different states have different leave policies. It’s no weirder for different states to have different leave policies than for Germany to have a different leave policy than France.
I don't know Ruby enough to comment on that but I would guess it requires a scheme as well.
>...use that money for renewables, transmission, and storage.

If grid storage was simple or easy, it would have become ubiquitous decades ago. To deal with seasonal variations in power output, would require new massive battery systems that could store power for months and/or a massive over buildup of power generation. Neither of these options would be cheap and it isn’t clear how the cost would compare with building nuclear power plants. More importantly, nobody has yet tried to build such a long term grid storage system. (And no, using natural gas to cover for shortfalls from power sources that are intermittent is not a long term answer.)

Many people also ignore how expensive and time-consuming it would be to rebuild the grid so that for example, the southwest could provide solar power for the east coast. Even the relatively small proposed Tres Amos SuperStation hasn’t been completed yet.

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. In that case - great! 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?
NeXT drivers were in Objective-C.
From my experience, there is a lot of anger generated when those who have so much, avoid paying even the bare minimum compared to those who have very little.

The average lower-to-middle-income family with a mortgage and a couple of kids, sure they have a lot to worry about and they really need that money. Pay as little taxes as you can because what you save goes to feeding your kids, paying for college, and putting gas in the minivan.

Someone who is essentially playing a game (Trump) to maximize one number (income) while minimizing another (tax), I don't think a lot of people have a lot of sympathy for. Accumulating wealth really is a game at that point, no different than speedrunning RE2, or trying to YOLO options on Robinhood. It's not like Ivanka is putting the money into diapers, summer camp for the kids, and tires on the minivan.

In that sense, Trump doesn't have a lot to lose (anything to lose, really - just monopoly money). It's just numbers in a spreadsheet, it's not your kid's Christmas presents, or fixing the water heater, or getting a new set of tires on the family car. It's paying off Stormy Daniels who you slept with 4 months after your wife gave birth, Jared getting a fancy new tie, and your son Eric getting to go to Africa to shoot some new animal.

People are pissed. I think they have good reason to be. The system benefits those who are playing a game, and hurts those who are actually playing with real odds.
Wikipedia is not a good source one way or the other.
Can't we be happy for some people to be financially rewarded for legal / intellectual achievement in public service of justice? Rather than selling things that contribute to the decline of humanity?
Free speech is a right that applies to citizens, not foreign governments.
I wasn't trying to list out all the causes of the civil war, it wasn't topical when discussing taxes. I didn't say it was "THE" cause.
And it seems anyone who has traveled outside of their home country recognizes this list as the bullshit that it is. Please stop linking it.
RSA 1024, which is supported, is not what anybody would call "perfectly secure".
Yeah, I think of it the same way :/

This will likely make hot-desking the norm (already is at plenty of places).

On a selfish note, I already have a house in a tech hub, so I'd love for things to go back to how they were pre-covid.