skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like the equivalent of saying "prosecutors aren't going away, and adding defence attorneys on top of that is not an improvement if they share the same flaws".

Lawyers are famously hated around the world. But it's almost universally better to fight one if you have one on your side. Same with unions and companies. Having worked in two companies in the last few years in the same market, in the same area, one union and one not... The difference is night and day in favor of the unionized shop.
Proof of the horrors of lockdown. People now have hour long discussions with google over dinner.
> but just as we don't judge the bear for killing salmon, I don't think it's right to judge a human for killing a cow to eat its flesh

The difference is you, as a human, have a choice. You are capable of living a healthy, full life w/o eating the flesh or excretions of animals. The bear (or lion or tiger) has no such ability to choose.
If anyone is looking for something like this but uses flexbox positioning (no absolute positioning) and support for other frameworks (Vue, Svelte, plain HTML/CSS, etc) - https://github.com/BuilderIO/figma-html
I'd be very curious to learn of any country that is going to forcibly administer vaccines.

Australia have tried for years, and the best they can do is tax breaks if you do get vaccinated, and barring kids from school and daycare if they're not.

(NOTE: I am NOT anti-vaccine, and I will be getting it as soon as I'm able. I just don't think it's possible for a country to physically force citizens to get a needle against their will. I've certainly never heard of it)
Likelihood of mutation is not the dominant factor in determining how or why a variant becomes established in a population.
Also requires knowing what those employees actually want.
Following that logic China and India should be a lot more problematic than Brazil. As a matter of fact, both of those countries "mismanage" Covid-19 as well.
It would make the fans come on occasionally, which was annoying. But in general I am of the opinion that apps shouldn’t be using processor time when they’re not doing anything useful. This is why I always have a CPU monitor open: it quickly lets me know when something starts doing unexpected things.
Well, it wouldn't hurt if at some point we finally have, you know... Romanian capital :-)
> Regardless, these people tend to masquerade as "entrepreneurs", "researchers", "thinkers", "doers", or as "authors"

And activists.
A ship has a captain and crew, a boat does not.
Black Death(Plague), Spanish Flu and COVID-19 originated in China.

If you ask me how to to prevent future pandemics idk ask experts but something has to be done. Get global public health standards or something.
Yeah, that as well. Unfortunate.
We do need shirts?
It is not. I was there two weeks ago

Your argument is so bad. If that is the case, then alcohol prohibition was successful only if people complied to it. The same with the war on drugs
This is not a particularly useful statistic unless you include the varying levels of public services.

I just did a similar analysis for a job in the US vs one in Canada. The actual salary in the US was much higher, but including healthcare expenses closed a lot of the gap. In some cases (e.g., chronic illness or young kids), the lower Canadian salary was a better "deal" overall.
> Are there safe breeder reactor designs?

Yup. As shown in data above, current nuclear is about as safe as you can get. On top of that most breeder reactors operate at low coolant pressure, enabling even more robust safety. For example the Experimental Breeder Reaction-2 did two famous demonstrations in 1986 where they turned off the coolant pump without inserting the control rods and the reactor both shut itself off anyway and removed the afterglow heat with passive natural convection.

> How to prevent people taking some plutonium on the side?

Same way we do today. Inspections and safeguards. You have to remember that it's wayyy easier to just buy natural uranium and enrich it than it is to steal radioactive plutonium from quasi-military guarded facilities. Furthermore, the latter can be done whether or not we have any commercial nuclear power so it's basically a moot point.

> bad publicity

Sure, but we can try to show people statistics to convince them that scary-looking things can sometimes be appropriate and good. Air travel would be a good example here.

> Also I do not think that anyone seriously accounts for the excess deaths caused by isotopes/heavy metals polluting the downstream farms of the Hanford site

They absolutely do. Hanford impact is extremely well studied. These are WW2/Cold War era nuclear weapons sites, which are not necessarily comparable in mission to civilian power generation.

> As for China and Russia: Is it fair to compare with these countries, considering their current standard in terms of environmental safety and concern for human life versus monetary interest of a few?

Do you say the same regarding current low solar manufacturing prices, driven almost entirely by the Chinese? If you want a more US-focused example, consider that the US Navy regularly constructs 300 MW nuclear power plants to power submarines and aircraft carriers in shipyard environments with excellent cost and schedule performance.

> Are there positive effects too? For example, will certain plants be able to grow under the shade photovoltaics provide in a desert?

Surely there are, but most people like to take the precautionary principle about such dramatic and vast geoengineering efforts.

> If we could truly build perfectly safe "nuclear batteries"

The "perfectly safe" standard you're applying to nuclear but not other energy tech is very perplexing to me. Why not 'anything 2 orders of magnitude safer than fossil and biofuel is safe enough'?

> How is all that fuel shipping to and from these mini-reactors going to be handled?

Like this [1] ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHtOW-OBO4
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I had an run-in with a plagiarism checker in undergrad (USA, 2008). A professor ran a research paper I had submitted through a plagiarism checker and it came back a 100% match. (I had researched and written the paper myself.) It led to a very awkward meeting which started with him saying "I think we both know why you're here" and me having no idea why I was there.

Luckily it ended with him resubmitting the paper to the checker and it coming back clean. (I got an A.)
Reminder that herd immunity is a term only applicable to vaccines

Herd immunity is applicable to immunity and susceptibility in a population. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/52/7/911/299077
The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence
We don't plan road building based on off-peak usage numbers; why would we plan for rail that way?
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> They were incredibly noisy - the servos were banging away like mad, particularly if you were doing anything database-like, which I mostly was.

heck, even my 5.25" c64 drive was so noisy from knocking its head that I kept the cover unscrewed to realign it on a regular basis. especially after trying to use "copy protected" disks that causes even more knocking.

I was also confused when 3.5" floppies came out and were stiff, and people started talking more about "hard disks".
What are you missing? The fact that it doesn't really matter if the virus was transmitted from bats to pangolins to humans or from bats to humans in a cave or from a mishandled synthetic virus. Who cares at this point? The damage is done and we knew with near 100% certainty that it was only a matter of time before something like this happened, and China was always a potential hotspot.
The problem is if X rental car company filed 100 false reports across the country, how would you ever know or track them down? Seems like a case where a corp can enjoy the protection of working across jurisdictions like a serial killer who hops counties
Guess I’ll go for a swim!
Do you potentially see a middle ground where you could export reliably optimizeable assets like CSS and design tokens, and then instead of trying to export a perfect representation of the design, you could export a high-level scaffold that would at least get the developers started, perhaps by laying out named - but not implemented - components (ideally following a predefined architecture template).

Code frameworks have long found success with this scaffolding approach, where you can provide structural hints/direction to the average intermediate/junior developer who can handle the component-by-component implementation but might need a hand with broader architecture decisions.

Most large enterprises I've seen are full of exactly these kinds of devs who are primarily tasked with component/page-level implementation, but if you leave them to make decisions about how to separate and lay out components, you get a lot of inconsistency across your teams, even when the designs are consistent.

This would be a valuable problem to solve that I haven't seen talked about much.
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There's a good chance your death will be human-related as well, I guess we better take care of that then.
> How is this possible?

I can think of only a few scenario's where China messed up and the West remains silent. One would be where personal interests or blackmail would cause the decision makers to change their tune. A plausible one is where the West does not want to step on any toes, to safeguard that little data coming from China, while it is silently gathering international support for when the pandemic is under control. Another where SARS-2 developed from SARS-1 when it recombined in Wuhan in a HIV-patient (perhaps after a failed vaccine trial). If you are interested in protecting the health of the population, it is more important to shield possible victims of panic and hate, than to have a million negative mentions of HIV, China, and vaccines in the news.

I suspect Peter Daszak will face accountability due to the Streisand effect of his PR campaign against "conspiracies". You can't write a paper condemning scientists for even suggesting it was a lab leak of a human-intervented virus, and then field an objective origins investigation. A lot happened in 2020, but I doubt we forget that blatant mess.

Even if this turns out zoonotic (I hope it does), Daszak will scream he was right suppressing any investigation into opposing hypothesis. No scientist should live that down.
Bolsonaro is clearly an idiot, he has refused to buy vaccines many times, and we only have the coronavac vaccine because of the state of São Paulo. Stop being delusional.
Blaming Bolsonaro alone is like blaming the scarecrow for the problems in the farm. Brazil is a very complex society that suffered for 3 decades with systemic corruption, poor education and a very problematic public health system. Ask any low-middle class brazilian -- me -- what he thinks about public ICUs and the answer will be: "There is no such thing". Brazil is not a developed country doing bad in covid because of its president, rather, it is a poor developing country struggling to survive covid in spite of any president.
reading this they made a group of people doing tests about "fluid reasoning and working memory as well as numeracy." and then let these people do a course in Python in Codecademy (the people did not have any programming experience before). They found out that the ones that were good with language learning were really good in (the first steps of) learning Python in Codecademy (they checked these with multiple choice tests and "Participants also had to write some basic code in a rock, paper, scissors programming exercise"). It appears like an alright study but I wouldn't go so far and say that it necessary means language learner become better programmers than those with strong math skills. Being able to program those mini programs in codecadamy (where everything is right in front of you), is very different than programming bigger programs (and I don't even mean those where you need algorithms, ML or whatever). I know from myself that I struggled a long time in programming because I couldn't keep the structure of the code in my head or think about how to come up with what to do next to reach my goal, whereas I always was a very good language learner (e.g. English as foreign language) where learning vocabulary is not complex at all. I agree regarding syntax, people who learn syntax in foreign languages fast are most probably good in learning syntax in coding languages.
Vietnam and New Zeeland have had no flaws. They don't preach, but could be an excellent example of how to do right. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam-2020
My elementary school had 5.25" disks, but 8" was before my time (and really, 5.25" almost is).

3.5" disks were called "disks", but occasionally something would refer to them as diskettes. Diskette was not a normal word for any context.
Fukushima was a triple meltdown after total inundation of 1960s-class reactors. The short and long-term death-toll from radiation was quite literally zero, as reaffirmed by UNSCEAR just last month [1]. I don't think the "boundlessly large nuclear accidents make the technology untenable" argument really holds water given this kind of experience.

[1] https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2021/unisous419....
What about Inspiring Young Aspiring Bakers to bake bread for free so we can all have free bread? Is that a business model?
Hasn't the US been sanctioning Chinese firms for a while now? If you do a quick search, it goes anywhere from tariffs, banning export of key technologies to outright imprisoning executives.

The latest move is to de-list Chinese firms from American exchanges, which is going to severely damage Chinese tech firms ability to raise capital.
> errors thrown for unused imports

You're doing something wrong if it doesn't get cleaned up automatically.
Appetite is exceptionally low for ill advised forever wars... defending an ally against the CCP however is something that many Americans would likely be in favor of.
China would intervene if they started a nuclear program. I was mostly being facetious. But it would be rather satisfying after China has spent the past few decades propping up North Korea and letting them develop nuclear weapons. If Taiwan all of a sudden was a nuclear power, that would pose a serious threat to China.
I haven't worked with uipsth directly but have some experience with similar automation tools. They are the worst and if needed it's a pretty bad sign.
The article is also not "left wing," either. It's nonpartisan in tone.
Are you saying there aren't any left-wing populists, or that left-wing populists are good?
Significant harm has been done, for which they very well may bear a certain level of responsibility. Speaking to that effect would be a start.

I suspect people in media are afraid of speaking out against China. For example, there may be consequences to speaking out if China ever invades and occupies other countries - at that point dissidents will be in danger, especially those that spoke against them in the media.
IKEA is another great example of a business that uses food to get people through the door.
That budget notably doesn't include the time commitment, although the article does mention:

> The front brake air intake alone is said to have taken 52 hours to complete.

I wonder how that extrapolates to the whole project. Maybe that part took a long time and everything else was quick. But I kinda doubt it.

On the other other hand, spending quality time with your kids is good, and hopefully the kid was patient enough to learn that making really cool stuff sometimes take a long time.
They were not criminals. Dilma did not commit a single crime, and Lula's trials were completely fabricated. Even if they were, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let their country in this situation.
This really isn't an acceptable response. I cancelled my account and moved back to AWS S3. Unfortunate.
Re: lockdowns

> The shock of the second wave is changing people’s behaviour. Governors and mayors are now tightening restrictions and people are obeying them more. From March 22nd a nightly curfew in Bahia begins at 6pm rather than 10pm. Bahians have recently cut in half the distance they travel, according to mobile-phone data. This is slowing covid-19’s spread. Dr Vilas-Boas estimates that the number of active cases in Bahia has dropped from 21,000 to 17,000. The number of patients waiting for beds in icus fell from 513 on March 12th to 280 ten days later.

Emphasis added.
Classified US military war game set to take place
Are we talking about ads on the Amazon app/site for products on the Amazon store? Or ads on other sites on the internet for Amazon products?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605151

Is this some bizarre coincidence?
Another returning at Malaga airport today was Shaun Cromber who despite voting for Britain to leave the EU, didn’t believe it would end his Spanish lifestyle, he said: ”Yes I voted out, but I didn’t realise it would come to this ... long term I think the Spanish will regret chucking us out of Spain”

Among expat Britons in Spain who voted for Brexit, was this a common attitude that they would be allowed to stay? Or were they told they would be allowed to keep residency rights?
They appear to be saying that left-wing populists are less harmful than right wing politicians.
If you have to buy bots like this you are already fucked. Your workforce is already spending enormous amounts of time doing simple processes or data entry.
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A few years ago I was looking at purchasing an IBM DisplayWriter from someone. I had a handful of devices with 5.25” drives but have never an 8” drive in person until then.

Unfortunately the machine was not in a working state. There was some suspicion that it was a simple issue, but I’m not an EE and I try to make sure my retro equipment works prior to buying it. Since the system wouldn’t boot, I was unsure whether the drives were even working. I ended up not buying it in part because of this and in part because I was moving soon, but I kinda regret not doing so, seeing how rare full DsiplayWriter systems are and how much a complete system will sell for (a lot more than I was going to pay for it).

At the time I had done a small amount of research on using the disk drives with a PC. I was mostly inconclusive with me finding maybe one person selling boards to adapt 8” drives. So it’s cool to see something like this now.
Public opinion is that US handled pandemic bad but US is the most developed country in the world. There is no real public health system in US because health system is largely based on robust private health care sector.

It seems like China handled the best this pandemic so we all should ask them how they did it. We should send our health experts to China so they can learn something.
> Who cares at this point?

ppl who are not total morons.
It would be fun to go to Mexico or Spain and talk 400 years old Spanish like it's normal.
Interesting, in a way: asking to delete the tweet has likely given it far more audience than it originally had. Streisand effect, maybe?
China has provided help for dozens of countries, vaccines, health resources, and they managed to control the virus when the West did not care. Remember when the virus arrived in Italy? China was already under lockdown.
Are police reports filed anonymously?

> Are you implying that the developers that created this back office tool should be liable for the false police reports?

In other fields, having an engineer's signature (or the lack of) means something, legally speaking. Good luck getting any kind of insurance on a new construction that wasn't inspected or built by someone licensed.
You aren’t seeing the forest for the trees.

The market for these secondary implementations is tiny, and that is coming from someone who worked at a company that had CUDA executed from a spreadsheet.

The C#/Java et. al isn’t what made CUDA popular nor what would make OneAPI succeed or fail.

CUDA became popular because of its architecture, using an intermediate assembly to allow backward and forward compatibility, it had exe Elle to support across the entire NVIDIA GPU stack which means that it could run on everything form bargain bin laptops with the cheapest dGPU to HPC cards.
It came with a large library of high performant libraries and yes the C++ programming model is why it was adopted so well by the big players.

And even arguably more importantly is that when ML and GPU compute exploded and that wasn’t that long ago NVIDIA from a business perspective was the top dog in town, CUDA could’ve been dog shit but when AMD could barely launch a GPU that could compete with NVIDIA’s mid range for multiple generations it wouldn’t have mattered.
Should have bought some Bitcoin, waited a couple years, then lambo
Is this a meta-joke? 4h ago somebody posted your exact first sentence. :-/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604648
I stopped using it long ago because of this (still open) issue which is now 16 years old https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/2191
I mentioned this in another thread but this simply is not true. Thorium breeder reactors are indeed sustainable, but so are uranium breeder reactors. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604898
Sure, but announcing it loudly and publicly is self-serving.
The stuff that needs any active maintenance is not supposed to go into the long term storage. Basically hot stuff just sits in a pool, then sits in a yard somewhere and natural air movement cools it. Then when it gets cool enough it can go into the mountain/formation.

> glaciation

Seems like a very future problem. If humans are around by then, we can move the stuff easily.

> We have made surprisingly little progress in the regard of long term storage

Agreed.

But this is not exactly a problem for nuclear power. (Even if it has become a talking point.) Nuclear waste storage is a boring and simple problem. (It needs cooling and physical security.) It should be put simply on a big remote boring military base - plenty of them in Nevada - so people don't worry about it being close to where they live.

Long term storage is a long term problem it needs basic research, and simply the continuation of our civilization, which then puts the waste where currently it thinks it should be.

Eg. it's completely possible that 500 years from now we'll finally recycle it, and then dump the rest into the Sun just for the lulz. (Or put it on an inert rock.)

Though I think we should build the amazing big spikes someone proposed to mark the site as "bad": https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/temple-of-doom-...

> I think this is preferable to nuclear energy which is not that dangerous but has the potential to become a unmanageable catastrophe at some point.

Agreed!
What was the cause of the false positive?
There are people in Taiwan who agree with the "one China" policy, and claim that the government of Taiwan is the ruler of that one China. Declaring independence means renouncing their claim on the rest of China.

Now, in the real world, that claim plus six bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks. But politically, letting go of it might cost more than any political party is willing to pay. Thus both sides of the straights cling to the "one China" fiction.
Yes, it is a completely non-partisan article. It doesn't even mention Bolsanaro's political affiliation, it just accuses him of coming up with quack cures and dirrctly opposing efforts to contain the pandemic.

It reads like a completely business-like, dispassionate take on the situation in Brazil, appearing in one of the most respected and well-known right-wing newspapers in the US.
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Are you making an attempt at humor or are you just copying and pasting parts of comments to make your own comment?
100%, I like how you think <3 :)