skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"High level nuclear waste" is such a weird idea once you take a bit of in depth look at nuclear technology. It's just fuel. Just nuclear material. No need to "manage for extremely long periods of time". Only requiring more sophisticated Fast Neutron technology to be used, and if used, provide practically unlimited supply of electricity and nuclear material to a nation.

The reason as to why "safe storage of nuclear waste" is a problem lies in the last part: unlimited supply of nuclear material. Completely destroys national security for everyone. Without that part the problem reduces to just engineering challenges of building and running some Sodium cooled Fast Neutron reactors.
You can build recycling plant and force PV vendor to sent their panels to said plant once the panel hit the end of its life.
How Good Is the MAT1 Funnel System?
Yup. Not sure how this is different from any of the security tools / exploits used to break into networks.
Why would you want to run Kodi on Android when you can run it on Linux ?

Not trying to be snarky, really want to understand.
How many people have backyards to compost stuff and the time to do it? 25%?
But the alternative to decision by metrics is decision by committee. The former may be gamed, but the latter may be corrupt. The inherent human nature that leads to corruption cannot be fixed, but in theory there could be a metric that isn't flawed. Therefore the solution is not to abandon evidence based policy, but to have more and better evidence based policy.
In general there is an inverse relation between the half-life and the intensity of radioactivity of an isotope. Isotopes with a long half-life decay very slowly, and so produce fewer radioactive decays per second; their intensity is less. Istopes with shorter half-lives are more intense.

In nuclear waste, isotopes with very short half-lives, say a few days or even a few weeks, are not the major concern. They will decay to negligible amounts within a year or two. Isotopes with very long half-lives, more than 1000 years, are likely to be less intense.

Long-term isotopes are more complicated. They don't dose as heavily, but there are a lot more issues than just that. Plutonium for example is comparatively long-lived, but some of its decay products can be quite nasty. At the extreme end are isotopes that are so long-lived that their hazard levels are close to zero. Uranium-238, the kind left after the fissile 235 is removed, pretty well falls into this category.
I think this is an important question. Donation of organs after death can happen when people are declared dead due to brain death, or when they are declared dead due to classical criteria including cardiac death.

"Donation after cardiac death", as you might imagine, seems a bit weird when the heart is the organ being donated. And so it's a recent invention for the heart (though it has been around for a long time for other organs such as the kidney[1]). There is a free access article from 2018 about the necessity and ethical considerations of cardiac donation after cardiac death in Circ: Heart Failure [2].

1 = https://health.ucdavis.edu/transplant/nonlivingdonors/donati...

2 = https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118...
I take it all apart and show her the carnage.

Then deploy my backup one I have at my work bench. (It is connected to a great CRT. Reasons.) Edit: Honestly, when I am in flow, I sometimes put a classic from my youth on. Raiders of the lost ark, or Wrath of Kahn. It is just nice to glance over at the CRT and muse. Brings back good vibes.

Then, probably just clean and fix the contaminated one.
I'd assume you're referring to this source (https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons) which gives 0.6% of total electricity production.

Out of total energy production that's closer to 0.07% (~170,000 TWh in 2019 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...).
I agree with your point, but want to point out that this last happened in 2011, and before that in 1989. Certainly not a 100-year event, and likely to become more frequent.
I was curious if the mining algorithms could be tweaked to avoid detection.
This is a truly FIDO key producers centralized consensus network.
I'm not talking about a transaction where someone performs for me, that's not what copyright refers to, I'm talking about an infinite well. And the comparison was between any infinite well and an infinite well of water. Granting someone scarcity rights on an unscarce resources is inefficient. Society would, instantaneously, produce a lot more value if all of the things that were free to reproduce were reproduced at the quantity demanded.

The question of copyright has ALWAYS been one of incentive, and I think my argument to that point is pretty clear.

Further, I am not misusing the word monopoly. Copyright is precisely monopoly distribution rights.
Huge difference in wear, yes. But not in the direction you think, I think. Warming up an cooling down is more damaging for a card than running constant temperature. It 'jiggles' parts more.
Some people find stalking, and tools which could enable stalking to be undesireable.
There is a lot of talk about investments / trading on this thread so I thought I'd drop some of my thoughts and experiences here.

1) You can be right and still lose significant amounts of money. I've lost many thousands myself on something that I was eventually right about, timing is key - and it doesn't do to dwell on any decision - whether because you lost or could have made more. Sure, if I'd just invested my pocket money in bitcoin when I first mined it in 2012 I'd be retired already - but I didn't - shit happens.

2) If you are attaching emotion to your positions you're doing it wrong. This is a huge point, not one I've personally mastered - which is why I don't play with stocks anymore.

3) The whole cycle of emotions surrounding markets is explained brilliantly by George Soros in 'The Alchemy of Finance'. This is an excellent read. It's interesting and illuminating that Soros was a student of Philosophy and not strictly mathematics or business.

In my own experience there are two layers to markets - what actually is and what people think is or will be; usually the latter is much more powerful in terms of short term positions. One of Soros's points is that the two interact and influence the other eventually.
Engineers Learning to Say Yes
Thanks, Christopher Alexander is great.
Show HN: Video Hub App 3 year anniversary – video organizer
Well, I can grab the tab off the browser window, then enable 'always on top'. But yep, that's more than one click, so I guess if someone does this all the time then it makes sense for them to automate it.
Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records
>So if you parents aren't from PR, or if you do not speak spanish or what?

If you are born in Puerto Rico or your parents are Puerto Rican, you can get the PR citizenship document, which has little value, outside of using it to show Spain you're Latin American (after you've reached the 2-yr mark legally living in Spain). So, you'd need to be Puerto Rican in one of the ways described, plus find a way to legally live in Spain for 2 years, then present the document when you apply for citizenship.

>I'm thinking about moving to PR if there are more Covid restriction due to the new administration (curfew like in Europe)

PR's Covid restrictions at the height were just as bad, if not worse, than other places. But that depends on case numbers. Currently the situation is as follows (site):

https://www.discoverpuertorico.com/info/travel-guidelines

>I'm also considering Spain

If you can show enough funds to sustain yourself while in Spain, you can apply for a non-lucrative visa which means you won't be able to take a Spaniard's job but you can still work online for a company abroad. It's essentially a non-work visa. Funds you'll need to show, per year, are at around $27,000 (even if cost of living is way less). Initial visa is one year, renewal is two years, and the second renewal is also two years, which gets you to the five year mark where you can apply for permanent residency. After your first 183 days in Spain, in a calendar year, you are considered a Spanish tax resident, and Spain has rather high taxes. Under the US-Spain double taxation agreement, you'd pay taxes to Spain and then apply for a credit on your US taxes.

Spain is really locked down, internally, so if I were you, I'd wait til late 2021 to consider coming here. It's insane the amount of things I cannot currently do here, and have not been able to do for many months.

Although if you want to be in Europe and wait it out, try Albania. Americans can stay there as tourists, visa-free, for one year (due to the US having helped Kosovo in the 90s, where 90% are ethnic Albanians). It's cheap, beautiful, and has nice people. Check out Dabble and Travel's late 2020 YT videos on Albania. Georgia is another country where you can stay for one year, as an American.
I was thinking more of advances in manufacturing that would make living on Mars more self-sustaining. Labor will be extremely expensive in space, so extreme levels of automation would be very useful.

I doubt the sort of teleportation you are talking about there could be made to work, but if we assume that it could, it would make Mars more like Antarctica than colonial North America. It would be a place to visit, but would just be a research appendage without its own self-sustaining population or manufacturing infrastructure.
Can someone please explain to me the appeal of telegram (as opposed to signal)? Maybe I don’t understand something or am too old but how is it a safe haven compared to WhatsApp in the wake of the WhatsApp debecle. I just fail to understand.
I released Video Hub App [0] three years ago as charityware [1] ($3.50 goes to my favorite cost-effective charity - almost $10,000 donated as of today). After the first HN discussion [2] I made it MIT open source.

It's Electron & Angular so it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The version released today lets users browse, search, and preview their video gallery on their phone or tablet as well.

[0] https://videohubapp.com/

[1] https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992
Yes, the publicity around the case overshadowed that this wasn't a case about health resources, but about what was right and best for the patient.
Broadly speaking, two types of death are recognized with organ donation. Brain death, where there's no brain function at all and cardiac death, where there's no cardiopulmonary function.

Brain death in isolation generally provides the most viable organs, since it minimizes so-called "warm ischemia" time, which is the time that the organs are warm and without viable blood flow. However, sometimes patients don't meet brain death criteria strictly, or they do but the donor next of kin decides to donate after cardiac death (actually, the next of kin/family determines what the donor would have wanted and there is a strict legal/ethical precedence on what opinions count). In those cases, cardiac death is initiated by stopping life support and waiting 2-10 minutes after "death" to initiate organ harvest.

So, it's not that the heart caused death, it's just that it stopped beating, generally, due to lack of oxygen. Which means some of its cells certainly died, but by minimizing the warm ischemia time (by hooking up to a kind of life-support machine), that damage can be limited.

Patients do not have to matched strictly by age. Anatomically-speaking, body-size is the most important criterion. Obviously, matching needs to happen on antibodies/rejection and several other factors as well.
What the Emoji You’re Sending Look Like to Your Friends (2015)
For the vast majority of people Bitcoin in its current form provides a worse user experience than PayPal, VISA, etc.. because the fees are a lot higher and the transaction times are longer.

If you want to buy $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin the $5-$50 transaction fee doesn't matter. For the majority of people it matters though.
Yes. I flip the switch to allow such software almost daily. Probably lots of others on this site do the same. If you have the chance to use MacOS then you can try this for yourself.
There are some VISA's offered to tech explorers like:

- Taiwan (Gold Visa) https://t.co/jaLtwUr9fd

- Finland (90 day trial)

- Singapore (Techpass)

- Portugal (Tech Visa)

- Tulsa pays you 10K to relocate https://t.co/Qwpoiwj3Fm

- New Zealand (EHF) https://www.ehf.org/

- Chile (Startup Chile)

- Estonia https://t.co/cZWk4yJRQC

- Wyoming (best US crypto laws)

- Golden VISA (Dubai) https://t.co/vjSK1kVm7g

- Lithuania https://t.co/TJYCgnHxn3
55k and 75k yearly pre-tax, but as a PhD student and recent graduate we expect to get a significant increase in a few years as I also join the industry and we both level up.

But, as said by others, comparing raw numbers is pointless. Even if we spent the 2/3k that are left each month, we'd still have health insurance and pension paid for by our taxes. We aren't forced to build so much wealth to weather bad times because proper insurance is built in the system.
I did something similar to this for a hackathon in university. Obviously not as sophisticated as this, but the concept is trivial. If you know enough about the command line to install it, you can build it.
Definitely as CH takes part in the freedom of movement with EU.

My comment was really about non EU+ nationals. If you get a working permit as a 3rd party national with no treaty with EU, in eg Germany, can you just move to Spain and work?
In the current use case of FIDO keys, it's in the user's best interest to ensure that the hardware is genuine, not tampered with, etc. In this proposal, it's the reverse: the user benefits from tampering with/simulating the hardware.
Gimme a break. Don't pull the Reagan/Bush/libertarian "all regs are bad" line. It's tired.

The NRC knows their job, have excellent people, and are good at it. It's like questioning whether we need the NTSB or not.
In case you are still reading this: the book is about ancient LISP (LISP 1.0, 1.5, PDP-6 LISP), which was dynamically scoped. The Y combinator requires lexical scoping, though.
You're sure about that? I don't think so. There's tons of connections made from people transferring short, human-readable handles. Think business cards, word of mouth.
e.g. I'm at (@) handle. That's much easier to lookup as opposed to searching for someone's name. It may even be a business that's not tied to the individual's name.
Graft and corruption make sense to politicians. They don't make sense to the country as a whole. Public Choice Theory offers explanations, not justifications.
The author says that PoS algorithms are centralized at heart, but does anyone know how this applies to Nano? I read the paper a few years ago and couldn't find any obvious disadvantages or centralization to it, and it has PoS, no fees, and instant sending.

It's always seemed too good to be true, but I've never seen anyone mention a big downside to it, so I've always wondered.
Modern landfill techniques are actually quite scientific and regulated. It's not as bad as the far left portrays. We do need to encourage more reusable things though. Plastic and aluminum can be almost 100% recycled. Plastic is much much lower. It will take more than one solution to fix the problem. I think composting is a pipe dream though unless someone figures out how to quickly do it on a very large scale. It's fine for home gardeners but the rest of us simply aren't going to do it.
It's interesting how the vast majority of comments focus on the salary part when the author actually only lightly touched that subject and mostly covered a completely different subject.

Does that tell something about the readers? ;)
Dragons in the Department of Corrections (2016)
For me this ended meaning lots of student loans and feeling like I'm way behind in life. But glad nonetheless that I found something where it doesn't feel like hard work just to go to work.
Critical Thinking May Not Be a Skill
>Which should still be a proxy for overall market

Unfortunately not true. Just because some FAANG in the area will be able to pay you €150k+ TC, doesn't mean all local companies will automatically try to match that. You might be surprised how wide the TC gap is between FAANG & Co. and local players who might laugh in your face if you ask for more than €80k. Simply put, most EU companies can't match such levels of pay but will have no shortage of talent.
With some of these people sitting on three passports, I doubt they'd put any deep history to use -- treating a town the same way many mutual funds treat a stock: "this company no longer meets our investment criteria" -- DUMP
A million dollars is 20k per year for fifty years. You can life pretty well off that in one of the poorer European countries, or in a poorer area of a richer European country.
This. I wish people would stop saying the NHS is free because it's not.

It's equal for everyone regardless of your income and that's awesome as far as I'm concerned. Some others, not so much, particularly those who think that they shouldn't pay for someone else's treatment.
Lots of people here are shitting on mongodb(maybe rightly so). But I think the biggest problem is that the developers making the decision on what kind of DB to use just do not understand these tools.
I always recommend reading Designing Data Intensive Applications as soon as you have an inkling that you will be asked to make such decisions in the near future.
It's too bad the companion does not work for Mac. So, when I use this, it does not stay "on top".
Ha, I'm literally looking into the same thing as well. Somehow I was never informed that me and my kids are eligible. Its supposedly somewhat easier because because my mother is an Italian citizen and living. But I didn't want to have to travel somewhere either. I did read something about how you can get it done quickly while in Italy. I'm kicking myself having missed the chance to do that while I was there a couple of years ago. Open to any advice you might have.
The sentence was unnecessary to both your point and any argument in general. Why did you include it? Why are you defending it's inclusion? Why are you now saying "google it"?
You can use streaming apps on the same device not so with linux. On Kodi android you can even get 4k hdr netflix with the input steam addon.
Coverage in the NYT recently too: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/arts/music/senyawa-alkisa...
You could probably develop one if you want. This is exactly what ride-hailing app Grab did in their app to make a call without exposing their phone numbers by forwarding calls to their server instead.
Yeah the key thing here is it's just so easy to spin anything as the solution to some problem the company has, and there's always problems around.

"for funsies" probably isn't that far off. Because the process is more like someone gets interested in something at some point. Then at that point +~1-6 months someone raises a problem and some senior dev gets stuck on the idea that the awesome thing they read about can solve it. Then before you know it whatever tool they want to use has more bells and whistles than the average mars lander and does everything short of curing cancer.

There's rarely any good correlation between the problem and the solution. That gap can just be bridged by buzzwords. The true correlation is usually between the solution and whatever the most senior dev on the team thinks is shiniest at the moment.
I don't understand that you're trying to say, but of course my point is that the authors and ratifiers of the bill of rights immediately turned around and abrogated them.
If you can't purchase the GNSS HAT, use an old Android phone and install Termux on it. Then run some bash scripts on the phone that will do the job.

The phone will communicate with your network over wifi, and replaces both the Raspberry PI and the HAT.
Easy to install and use on several Android TV boxes out there. NVIDIA Shield perhaps?
My sadness was in wanting people who will do what you say. I'm just starting my business but if there's one thing I hate about computers it's the way they do precisely what I say.

From what I've seen of the world over my almost 10 years in industry there are very few people who know what they want. The ones who want to hire a tech and tell them what to do usually know the least of all.
So you're making those numbers as PhD students instead of workers? Where do I sign up? ;)

What domain are you in if you don't mind me asking?
I remember this from around 2010. Helped me go from liking trance and "techno" (what we called house music in high school) to having a broader appreciation of the untz and untz-adjacent. Glad to see it has been updated.
Between the almost annoying seriousness of 2001 and the irresistible madness of Dark Star, Silent Running is in an very difficult spot where it's almost impossible to win anything beyond honorable mention for trying.

But once you've sat through Tarkovsky's Tokio driving sequence in a cinema those three all seem kind of superficial (my opinion, and probably mine alone. And I'm not sure that it would survive a re-watch of Solaris, it's been a while)
I grinned. That is what makes doing this right now OK. Kids are great!
Nuclear also isn't 'on demand', but load-following at best. You'd have to add some peaker plants (or storage) into the mix if you wanted to go majority-nuclear as well...
So? Peopel should start stopping research on plastic alternatives? Probably not right? I don't think you can translate their research to saving oil through ev cars.

And i think we should just do both. I'm able to advocate for less production of plastic and EV use and less driving around for nothing.
Mostly software subscriptions, actually.. things like PS Plus, etc. On consoles, you need to pay money (subscription) to be able to play multi-player for instance (whereas on PC it's free), and games in general are more expensive compared to PC (last time I checked).
Cause there are hundreds of cheap android TV boxes one can buy which don't run Linux. Also kodi for android runs on amazon's fire sticks and Googles new chromecast (the Google tv one)
> Since covid, talking to my friends in the USA about Australia feels like punching down.

Funny, talking to my friends in Asia (to which I consider Australia/NZ to be a part of) it feels the exact same way!

I can tell them how I go anywhere without wearing a mask, some people make snide remarks but that's it - while they have to declare their address in restaurants, and face all kind of restrictions like not being able to return to their country without a quarantine.

> I’d much rather make a bit less money and live in a country with a functioning healthcare system

With money, in the US you'll get the best healthcare money can buy (or you can travel to Asia to get it cheaper)

For the rest (welfare etc), I really prefer the US way - it feels better to me to have people strongly incentivized to behave, yet free. I guess we are different.
The APIs for bot programming for telegram are great - good documentation, stable, lots of options/libraries for different languages, and possible to do much more complex bots than other messaging platforms.
If this had Unicode support it would be an interesting alternative.

Not everyone needs the humoungous set from LibreOffice/MSOffice.

Albeit Groff+Mom plus Magicpoint and sc-im+gnuplot can do miracles with very, very little resources.
> ETH uses proof of stake

AFAIK they have pledged to move to proof of stake for quite some time now, without delivering so far.
I see no reason to think FTL will ever be possible. That FTL is a trope in SF stories doesn't meant it's an aspect of the reality, it just means that it enables one to write more interesting stories.
Aren't you talking past the accusation? It isn't just troublemakers that were pushed out. Low scoring students will be, too.