skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China marched into Tibet in 1950, immediately after the founding of the PRC. It was part of the Qing dynasty, and the Republic of China also considered Tibet to be part of China. It's hyperbolic to say that China is expansionist because 70 years ago, it invaded a territory that every successive Chinese government for hundreds of years has controlled or claimed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

It can be stored safely, it's not even that difficult nor costly.

And for a fun side-project, check out what they make the blades of wind genreators out of. The 100 meter long ones they need to replace every 5-10 years because of mechanical wear and tear.

Answer: They're 100% unrecycleable carbon fiber or plastic fiber. The current "recycling process" is "dig a big-ass hole and dump them in there".
The jackfruit [1] of South Asia and South East Asia are from domesticated tropical trees closely related to the breadfruit [2] which was part of the Austronesian expansion:

> Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) family (Moraceae) believed to be a domesticated descendant of Artocarpus camansi originating in New Guinea, the Maluku Islands, and the Philippines. It was initially spread to Oceania via the Austronesian expansion. It was further spread to other tropical regions of the world during the Colonial Era.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruit
50 nmol/l (20 ng/ml) is right in the middle of the 'insufficient' range. Did you mean ng/ml? The upper limit for most labs is between 175 and 200 nmol/l.

In my personal example, taking about 6000 UI (plus 300 mcg K2) for a year put me just under 200 nmol/l. I did an experiment and stopped taking it for 2 months (but kept taking K2). After testing again I had dropped to 70 nmol/l (top of the insufficient range) and had mild symptoms of muscle ache and fatigue. Needless to say, I've started taking it again (and will aim for 175 nmol/l).
> This sounds to me like "having views I like, because only undecent people would think otherwise".

Yeah, that's a sentiment you hear a lot in political discourse these days. But if you follow cryptocurrencies, you wouldn't get far with this attitude. The combination of technological, financial, and political issues that make up this field draw a lot of different people to it. Including a lot of wackos, often even with a cult following. So you need to have a good filter to find the interesting stuff.

But I followed him long enough to notice that there is no interesting stuff anymore and some of his content was showing uncomfortable character traits to me, so I unfollowed.

> Do you have an instance of Nick being nasty or indecent?

This Twitter thread by somebody else is a good start.

https://twitter.com/OneAdamReese/status/1270108913111691264
DICE recently published three interviews with dads who are going on extended parental leave (one for 5 months and two for 7 months) [1,2,3]. They are all producers but I think their experiences are somewhat indicative of the work culture in many Swedish (tech) companies.

The following excerpt is from [3]:

There are parts of my surrounding family that expressed their concerns, “if you go away, your career is going to suffer”. I’ll be honest and say that I also had similar concerns the first time I went away. And when I returned, I came back to a slightly different role. That sent up a flag for me. The team had been restructured and I was now asked to support a leader as opposed to be a leader - like I was before I left. I was to support Lars Gustavsson, our Creative Director and the famous Mr. Battlefield. So while I was no longer THE lead, I was still in the leadership group plus I was now learning from a seasoned pro. So it worked out and ultimately I feel my career was not negatively impacted in any significant way.

For this parental leave I worked with my manager Adam Clark (Head of Production) to establish a departure plan which started in Summer 2019. We planned which areas I would work on, and we created a rough initial plan for the transition period. We spent the remainder of the year fulfilling that plan at quarterly intervals.

The result of this early planning is that my role will be covered in full while I am away. My lead position will be covered by another Producer who has worked with me for the past quarter, being onboarded regarding all crucial functions. This type of commitment to planning gives me confidence to go on leave, knowing I will come back to a similar well planned roadmap in 2021.

Additionally a number of my colleagues have been transparent on what they want me to do when I return. Both Ryan McArther (Sr Producer) and Andreas Morell (Sr Producer.) have had sit downs with me and detailed the role they want me to take upon my return. That again, gives me confidence to leave and enjoy my time away.

[1] https://www.dice.se/news-articles/life-at-dice-why-3-dads-ar...

[2] https://www.dice.se/news-articles/life-at-dice-why-3-dads-ar...

[3] https://www.dice.se/news-articles/life-at-dice-why-3-dads-ar...
No. Some things are genuinely becoming easier and simpler, just because we have the extra oomph to make different trade-offs between implementation complexity and performance.

Simple example from outside of computing: if you have high quality steel available, the design of many machines becomes much simpler.
As if this subject was not obscure enough to most people, the top comment redefining the go-to reference as a 6 hour interview in German is really "peak HN".

PS. Personally I love LibreOffice and mandate it on all systems in my company.
That would be the case, were it not the case that halfway through the trial, the prosecution completely changed the charges on which Assange is to be extradited, and neglected to send those to the defense and expert witnes in a timely manner, to the point where a recurring theme has been that the expert witness statements have been criticized for only discussing the original set of allegations, while they only gained access to the new allegations sometimes literally hours before they were due to give their statements in court.

Those sort of actions already destroy the notion that the trial is normal to begin with.
To be fair, as has been discussed elsewhere in this thread (and my own personal experience) was that it opened up this kind of marketplace to a lot of people who weren't buying these kinds of drugs before, due to precisely the risks you mention.

I guess there probably aren't too many statistics about the users of Silk Road though - so I'm not sure I can back up that claim. :)
yay more complexity smh

at first blush I don't care for this PEP
This is the second time in recent time that I've seen this issue talked about. I'm glad because it's been bothering me for a long time now.

A couple years ago I discussed it with some people from a newspaper I worked for, and the bottom line was that they don't see another way at the moment. I don't know for sure if they view any model other than a subscription as crazy because they don't understand it, or they think they'll make less money, but the basic idea at the moment seems to be to have a certain (not huge) number of loyal subscribers, people that basically open your page first thing in the morning.

Bray thinks they are wrong because he will never subscribe to everything, but I'm not so sure he is right either. Can a smaller newspaper really compete with the New York Times? If I can pick between a micropayment for a NYT article and a smaller regional paper, who will get my money? Subscriptions let the publishers keep their head above water, which is best they have for now.

The more I think about, the more I think the model of a newspaper in general is stuck in an era where you had to buy a physical good to read news. You buy a newspaper, you like it, you subscribe. It gets delivered to you to your house. This is no longer the case and I can read whatever I want from anywhere on the globe (and I do). Most likely we will need to lose what we have before we realize there is value in having a local newspaper. If there is.
It's more than that. Open floor plans make it impossible to talk with your team. Because if you do talk you're bothering everyone else. Working from home, it's much easier to do phone conferences, because people don't have to lower their voices to not disturb other office drones.

Apparently you're supposed to go to a meeting room, but in many places they're often 100% used most of the time, and what's the benefit of moving to a different room for an impromptu, 5 min chat?
I use json.pizza [1] on the web but have not hit it at scale. Likely it would choke. Still a great little tool.

[1] https://json.pizza/
Very few commutes require the draining of an electric car battery. If the cars were parked plugged in during the day they whey would likely have sufficient capacity to help with the main after-work spikes, base load nuclear during the evening would then recharge over night.
This is a minor issue in the TikTok war.

#1 is national security.
#2 is trade, level playing field i.e. tit-for-tat policies.

Secondary issues are:

a) As you say, competitive fears - but TikTok is not a threat in that sense.

b) Trump's personal ambitions and elections. TT users apparently screwed up his GOP nomination event. Likely nothing at all to do with CCP, but Trump is an emotional guy, and I think this is 'him getting back at TT' on some level.

But #1 and #2 are legit and the first-order issues. There need be nothing else to legitimize this.
It solves the problem only partially: newspapers can't live from small payments on popular articles only, they need bundling to generate enough volume.

Same thing can be seen with music industry: spotify doesn't pay enough per play, so artists are now told to use spotify as marketing, and make money from performances.

Not sure what a newspaper performance would look like.
I think the title is misleading.

There was xdialog 20 years ago. And libnotify has like 15 years too.

I understand "modern bash" as in any other scripting or programming language: It's about what caveats of the language quirks, the optimizations and the failure scenarios, that you solve with your code conventions, which people didn't use to use, some years ago.

Change things for the sake of having something "newer" available for me, is something I try to avoid at all levels of my life.
Elliptic curves are uniformly hard. If you could solve the elliptic curve discrete log problem (ECDLP) on any non-negligible fraction of inputs, then you'd break a lot of cryptography. In fact, the use of Pedersen commitments is based on nobody knowing the logarithm log(H) of a specific curve point H with respect to the standard base G.
An efficient algorithm for solving ECDLP on a non-negligible fraction of inputs, could fail on input H, but one would eventually work on some random input r * H for a randomly picked scalar r, giving log(H) as log(r * H) / r.
I dont understand what you are trying to say.
why do you assume that? With my second child I took 4 months of parental leave (2 of which simultaneously with my wife) & divided between ages 0-2 & 10-12 months old.
Handling Recurring Events in Rails
> Radioactive material is treated differently because it is dangerous at a distance. You don't need to eat it or even touch it. Simply standing close enough to it is enough to be harmful. It's just not comparable to anything in a solar panel.

I don't think that is true, the article cites that the majority of the bad cancer cases from Chernobyl were caused by ingestion of tainted milk.

Besides, the core of that argument there is you have no evidence ergo there is no problem. That isn't a good argument. There are some horrific substances used in industrial processes (like, eg, the production of solar panels). Just because you want to think about them in nuclear but not elsewhere doesn't mean the problems go away. Industrial waste is industrial waste; humanity has been ignoring this stuff for millennia. It is no reason to block something as measurably environmentally positive as nuclear. The numbers suggest nuclear does less harm.

We should be holding all the options to the same safety standards.

> After decommissioning a solar farm, at worst the soil might not be suitable for farming but nobody would complain about building a house there. For the same to be true of a nuclear plant a very expensive decommissioning process must be completed.

Don't build a house there then. Incidentally it'd be a prime spot for a new nuclear plant.

These things are perfectly safe for people to work in, the issue is highly localised. The area of a plant is small. And, again, by the numbers a solar panel farm is going to sterilise a larger area of land. The fact that in theory it could be used doesn't change the fact it is going to be unusable by virtue of being covered in solar panels.
Ah, browsers. Vsync timing is basically impossible to guarantee with them. It's dependent on which browser, browser version, which OS, and I suspect even which graphics card and driver (because OpenGL is affected by those).

I use this to asses:

https://www.vsynctester.com/

but this doesn't give me a feeling that all browsers in common use will do "buttery smooth" any time soon:

https://www.vsynctester.com/firefoxisbroken.html
Kettle, meet Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, HN.
why do you say that? I truly want to know why I should pick LibreOffice over OpenOffice, or on Mac NeoOffice
It always makes me so happy when I see multiple F/OSS solutions to a problem :)
> I'm hoping one day someone will make a statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power. I'd jump to that in an instant.

This part inspired me to look up the wiki page "Haskell Lisp [1], because I somehow remembered that some people were trying to make a Haskell that could be written in Lisp. But this page reveals even more interesting efforts:

> Shentong - The Shen programming language is a Lisp that offers pattern matching, lambda calculus consistency, macros, optional lazy evaluation, static type checking, one of the most powerful systems for typing in functional programming, portability over many languages, an integrated fully functional Prolog, and an inbuilt compiler-compiler. Shentong is an implementation of Shen written in Haskell.

> Liskell - From the ILC 2007 paper: "Liskell uses an extremely minimalistic parse tree and shifts syntactic classification of parse tree parts to a later compiler stage to give parse tree transformers the opportunity to rewrite the parse trees being compiled. These transformers can be user supplied and loaded dynamically into the compiler to extend the language." Has not received attention for a while, though the author has stated that he continues to think about it and has future plans for it.

But this page does not list everything and there is Hackett [2], which introduces itself with "Hackett is an attempt to implement a Haskell-like language with support for Racket’s macro system, built using the techniques described in the paper Type Systems as Macros. It is currently extremely work-in-progress." - though it seems that it didn't change since two years.

And finally there is Axel [3] - which introduces itself with "Haskell's semantics, plus Lisp's macros.
Meet Axel: a purely functional, extensible, and powerful programming language."

Disclaimer: I never learned any Lisp, went from C/Java/JavaScript/Bash straight to Haskell and am a Haskell beginner for lifetime. Though I love the language and the fact that I will be learning it and surprised by it for the rest of my life.

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Lisp
[2] https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett
[3] https://axellang.github.io/
There is easy solution for this: syndication/bundling.

1) You subscribe only NYT for $221.00/year

2) You subscribe NYT with digital syndication bundle for $521 and you get unlimited access to NYT and all other papers, including all local papers. The extra $300 is divided between papers according to the articles this subscriber reads from other sources.
Ask HN: What interesting concept/theory influenced your interest in science?
I am trying to motivate my kids to pursue STEM disciplines in the future, can you share what I can show and explain to kids so they will be fascinated and fell in love with STEM?

my personal favorite is fourier transformation.
The advertising angle is very good one. US media and sports companies are already self censoring because of the economic retribution they might face in mainland.
And now you end up with "attempted bribery" charges on top, that may actually stick even if you can prove the cocaine story.
Yes I know, but I currently have a good setup with WSL1 where my code lives on my Windows disk, IntelliJ runs on Windows and I use WSL for terminal tools like git/zsh/tmux/terraform/kubectl etc.

Just switching this setup verbatim to WSL2 will most likely lead to performance problems on file I/O from WSL to the windows disk (due to the architectural changes from WSL1 to 2). File I/O within WSL became faster, but crossing the boundary is more expensive making tools like git unusable when the code lives on the windows side. I could move the code to the WSL side but then every IntelliJ I/O operation needs to cross the "slow" boundary. Unless I also switch IntelliJ to WSL so it will probably take some experimentation before I arrive at a proper WSL2 setup that satisfies my needs.
> FB primarily pushes content posted by your friends

This used to be the case, but is very very far from the case now in my experience. Most facebook newsfeed content is algorithmically driven too (to the point that it's mostly put me off using facebook and pushed me to instagram where most content is still from people I explicitly chose to follow).
thoughts on sorting oneself out, albeit with difficulty:

seek variety of manipulated information:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24600424

systematically analyse received information:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897577

analyse especially source levels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459177

compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403135 and remember we may have evolved big energy-guzzling brains in order to see through primate politics.
How lovely. Is this affordable anywhere other than a petrostate?
> This is the second time in recent time that I've seen this issue talked about.

If you have it handy, could you please link to the other discussion?
Oh woops just habit to set https now. Page is from an earlier time when we didn’t mind static sites not being https.

Visit http://pow.cx
If you could filter and focus raw radar data in realtime it would be really cool!
ElasticSearch Multitenancy with Routing
"VkFFT aims to provide community with an open-source alternative to Nvidia's cuFFT library, while achieving better performance."

There are no error bars on the graphs, so it's very hard to judge if the minor differences are significant. I work in research, so probably I'm peculiar about this point, but: I'd expect better from anyone who's taken basic statistics. But from a quick look, it seems like the performance is pretty much just "on par".

It would also be nice to know how performance is on other hardware. I'm assuming it's tuned to nvidida GPUs (or maybe even the specific GPU mentioned). But how does this perform on Intel or AMD hardware? How does it compare to `rocFFT` or Intel's own implementation?
As far as I know it's just an abbreviation that, by accident, is close to "Zuse", but has nothing to do with it (someone might want to correct me here if I'm wrong)

It was developed by Germans, so SuSE means: Software und System-Entwicklung (or english: Software and systems development)
The only valid storage for renewables as of today (already built or could be built today) is pumping water or pressurizing air inside rock.

Both of which are only valid if you've already got the natural formations for that.
In a nutshell, how does VAC work?
So the author is probably not speaking to you personally. It's a valid test for people that only use dark themes though. Why the snarky response?
There is no such thing as batteries for wind/solar. You have battery-based peaker plants and occasionally you may have the right geography to for pumped storage. But no, there is no battery storage technology capable of bridging the variability of wind/solar.
A Biopic of Mohammed Yusuf Khan Alias Maruthanayagam
Demanded is a weird term here. No one demands "ls", not the banks/insurance companies back then, not the Twitter users today. It's a tool, not an application. You dont buy your computer (or cloud VM) to run "ls".

Back in the days consumers were not in the software picture so much. Maybe some pre-PCs were catering for home users, maybe some BBS to dial into, but that was it.

This has changed. And this is why we have Twitter.

> programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years.

Where do you get this from? I dont see such trend at all. Okay, some library needs to be replaced, and we share more code nowadays (the stacks are deeper, but what would you expect? more cycles to burn and more ecosystems). But no-one factors in the cost of constant rewriting to stay up to date with the hippest stacks.
You know, treating tourists poorly has very far reaching consequences for Thailand. Before this commotion poeple would possibly only avoid that one particular resort, now people are talking about never visiting Thailand in the future after what has happened to the guy.
Correct. The right questions to ask is not 'But what about Chernobyl' (which is unlikely in most countries) but instead:

What about decommissioning costs?

Fukushima is a good example of costs from a normal accident we can expect from time to time. Costs are at 200b USD and rising, and they still don't have the reactor site under control.

Even normal decommissioning is incredibly expensive and usually covered by governments and ignored in the costs of electricity.

https://nuclear-news.net/2020/09/24/9-1-2-years-after-meltdo...

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/fukushimas-final-costs-...

Nuclear fusion (if we ever get to commercial production), will make nuclear much more attractive again though and cut decommissioning costs a bit (though there is still the question of how to deal with reactor parts).
That sounds exactly like lebensraum, which if you're not familiar was an effort to create a "Greater Germany" through the annexation of ethnically German neighbors.

There are more than a million people whose only crime was they were not Han Chinese who have been sent to camps. It is an ethical imperative to make a stand.
I'm not OP but... I think there are so many reasons to call bullshit on this that are totally independent of whether I or you or anyone likes wiki leaks or Assaunge himself. This is about justice, the rule of law, press freedom and basic fairness long before its about whether anyone likes this particular defendant (let's face it, he's not as charismatic as say a dead fish).
>> I am pretty sure that Facebook/Youtube/Twitter will be targeted next in some way

Amnesty international was refused entry to observe the Assange trial. I don't know how it is on your FB search, your twitter search, even google news search, but this is harder information to find than i'd expect.

Perhaps this genuinely isn't as newsworthy as i was thinking it should be but then i feel like i have been privvy to every minute detail of Carrie Lam (and the CCP) vs the protestors.
>TikTok relies much more heavily on an algorithm than FB, though. FB primarily pushes content posted by your friends, while TikTok pushes anything that might interest you. They can subtly influence you.

I think it's very naive to think that FB is not doing that.
Or people just accept it - I knew a lot of people in the area I grew up who were fishermen and were away from Sunday evening to Friday most weeks or worked on the North Sea rigs and were working two weeks on and two weeks off. Nobody seems to regard that as unusual and families coped.