skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sustainability: Nuclear fission fuel on earth can last about 4 billion years using breeder reactors [1].

Safety: Fossil and biofuel waste kill 8 million per year, compared to "up to 4000" total, ever, from commercial nuclear power.

Cost: Fossil and biofuel cause those health effects and climate change. Nuclear does not. If those were considered in markets, nuclear would be excellent. Furthermore, modern nuclear builds in Korea, China, and Russia are cost competitive without that advantage.

Geoengineering: Turning the Earth's deserts black with solar PV causes serious impact on the environment [2]. It's arguably more environmentally friendly to not have that kind of geoengineering impact.

Perfectly safe fuel rods: again, we're comparing a hypothetical danger that we have good solutions for [3] against a present killer of 8M people per year...

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-...

[2] https://thenextweb.com/science/2021/03/02/solar-panels-in-th...

[3] https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
So this guy just got found out, got kicked out of school, changed his social media profiles and then just... evaporated? Just running around out there doing whatever with another guy's tattoos?
> It was a joke my friend.

Can you explain the joke? What was the set up? What's the punchline?
Bah, it's the same as Maths: notations 'compress' the formulas but at the cost of having to learn these notations..
People were clearly misled. So intention is on the leadership that misled them. That intent was to change the election outcome by means outside the constitution and Law, under coercion and threat of violence.
Ah yes, Expert-Exchange - the site where you could simply google your way around their paywall. Never took this page too serious, tbh.
Leah Rowe, trans dev of LibreBoot, supports RMS, who was accused of transphobia
Exactly, terror is based on perpetuating the idea that anyone could be the victim of a terrorist attack. That they are simple and easy to do so the FBI/CIA has no chance of catching these "rogue" actors. Dirty bombs just don't fit into a typical terrorist's prerogative. Dirty bombs aren't cheap and can't be made by anyone. It takes a lot of time to collect the materials in a way that isn't immediately noticed.
There need not be a tester for a test to exist. The organism tests itself in some sense. The system (universe) tests the organism, the same way things can stand the “test of time.” Whether you personally interpret this as intelligent design is entirely outside of the discussion.
>Surely any file format/DSL/programming language you write will be parsed server-side?

Well, Javascript has been used for over a decade heavily on the server side, with Node, WASM and other projects.

And as far as raw speed goes, something like v8 smokes all scripting languages bar maybe LuaJit.

So, there's that...
The world population at the beginning of the 20th c (i.e. before the oil age) was ~1B, which was the highest in all of history. We are currently ~8B, on our way to 10-14 by the end of this century.
I'm in the market for new flat screen TV. Hopefully I can find one made in South Korea or even Japen, and will pay a premium for it. A pitiful sacrifice to make from someone who can easily afford it.
Plutonium is not a naturally occurring element. Plenty of stuff is man made.
Sure, but if massive amounts of people disagree with that take and think the library is strong, intuitive, and best-in-class, maybe someone is just struggling with understanding the structure of the library
What supports that statement exactly? If you split your big projects into crates it would recompile pretty fast. C++ can also take ages to compile (eg. compiling Firefox from scratch). Keeping your code modular to get decent compile times seems like a win win.
In the Melzer Philosophy Between the Lines book mentioned in the article, the author does a pretty throrough job of making the case that pre-modern philosophical writing defaulted to esoteric style, while in the modern era we default to exoteric.

He does this by pointing to the allusions and references they use and the clear contradictions within them - often inversions of meaning from the original sources that are alluded to. Socrates makes these errors, as does Machiavelli. If you assume the errors are mistakes, the work's apparent conclusions become more shaky, but if they are intentional puzzles, the work gains additional meaning. We often use puzzles as teaching devices and writing isn't really different in that respect.

It's not really different from reading for literary subtext, it just applies that toolbox more widely. I believe it's more useful for writing than for reading because esotericism makes it easy to encode something legible only to intended recipients. I would not expect to parse new wisdom from the utterings of a CEO, as in article's example, until I become familiar with corporate culture in general.
Not really. I am actually accusing the previous President of the United States of criminal conduct and neglect (ref. the many cases against this person).
I'm not sure what history books you are reading, but Britain did, in fact, have slavery, and traded in slaves during the American Revolution. Trade of slaves was not outlawed in Britain until 1807 and ownership of slaves was not outlawed in Britain until 1833.
Loading the page without JS, it said, "You must have JavaScript enabled to experience the new Autoblog. Please follow the instructions below to enable JavaScript in your browser." Instead I removed the elements with fixed, sticky styles, and the page worked perfectly. One more page that requires JS without needing or using it.

Once I finished with that, the page is super!
I'm just showing that the argument can easily be used to draw the opposite and "wrong" conclusion from the one that was intended to be reached.
Spoken like someone who has never taught real students!
Kann ich wohl glauben!
Her iphone is probably misconfigured. She probably has two contacts for you, one email-only, and one telephone only. If you merge the contacts, it should start defaulting to sms.
Yes, the time that a dirty bomb is most dangerous is before it goes off
That report is a reasonable snapshot of knowledge at the time, but it was published in 2014 and some of the underlying data dates back to 2000. You can see the data sources that went into the technology-specific metrics in Annex II:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

"The data on nuclear power was taken from Lenzen (2008) and Warner and Heath (2012)."

"Photovoltaic power: Ranges are based largely on the reviews of Hsu et al. (2012) and Kim et al. (2012)."

"Wind power: The data is based on the review of Arvesen and Hert-wich (2012) and has been cross-checked with Dolan and Heath (2012) and Hertwich et al. (2013)"

Let's go back to the Hsu review cited for photovoltaic generation.

"Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Electricity Generation: Systematic Review and Harmonization"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1530-9290....

If you look at tables 1 and 2, it's aggregating studies from the years 2000-2009. Most are from 2006 or earlier. Solar manufacturing has improved a lot and costs have fallen dramatically since 2006. At the same time, nuclear projects under development since 2006 in Europe or the USA have cost much more than originally planned.

China continues to build new reactors; it's an existence proof that new reactors can be built. But China also builds wind and solar farms cheaper than Europe or the USA. You can't get a Chinese energy project at Chinese domestic prices in either the USA or Europe.
The OAuth 2.0 RFC specifies the 'password' grant type, where the user provides the username and password directly.

I'd contest the claim that OAuth was not intended for authentication, because there are no authz uses for the password grant.
There's a market for trucks with drivers seat toilets.
Both a gap and an opportunity; someone like an agency or a FAANG with a budget for something like this might do well to - invest in the formal methods talent pipeline and - very technically interface with e.g. Everest about PKIX as a core component in need of formal methods.

"The SSL landscape: a thorough analysis of the X.509 PKI using active and passive measurements" (2011) ... "Analysis of the HTTPS certificate ecosystem" (2013) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=16545...

TIL about "Frankencerts": Using Frankencerts for Automated Adversarial Testing of Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations (2014) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3525044230307445257... :

> Our first ingredient is "frankencerts," synthetic certificates that are randomly mutated from parts of real certificates and thus include unusual combinations of extensions and constraints. Our second ingredient is differential testing: if one SSL/TLS implementation accepts a certificate while another rejects the same certificate, we use the discrepancy as an oracle for finding flaws in individual implementations.

> Differential testing with frankencerts uncovered 208 discrepancies between popular SSL/TLS implementations such as OpenSSL, NSS, CyaSSL, GnuTLS, PolarSSL, MatrixSSL, etc.

W3C ld-signatures / Linked Data Proofs, and MerkleProof2017:
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/lds-merkleproof2017/

"Linked Data Cryptographic Suite Registry" https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ld-cryptosuite-registry/

ld-proofs:
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ld-proofs/

W3C DID: Decentralized Identifiers don't solve for all of PKIX (x.509)?

"W3C DID x.509" https://www.google.com/search?q=w3c+did+x509
I can see you have no intention of communicating with me in good faith, so good night.
The biggest artifact from STEPS was Frank, which was at the time bootstrapped using Squeak Smalltalk and included the work from Ian Piumarta (IDST/Maru, which was a fully bootstrapped LISP down to the metal), Dan Amelang (Nile, the graphics language, and Gezira, the 2.5D graphics library implemented in Nile, which both depended on Maru), Alex Warth (OMeta, which had some sort of relationship to Ian's work on Maru), Yoshiki Ohshima (a lot of the experimental things from Alan's demos of Frank were made by Yoshiki) and then several other names. I got close to getting Frank working, but honestly, I'm not sure it's worth it at this point. A lot of the work is 10-15 years old, and the last time I dove in, I ran into issues running 32-bit binaries. The individual components are more interesting and could be packaged together in some other way.

Since it was a research project, STEPS never quite achieved a cohesive, unified experience, but they proved that the individual components could be substantially minimized and the cost of developing them amortized over a large project like a full GUI environment. Nile and some of the applications of Maru, like a minimal but functioning TCP/IP stack that can be compiled to bare metal by virtue of being made in Maru, still fascinate me.

Work on Maru is ongoing, albeit run by a community (with some input from Ian), Nile has been somewhat reborn of late, Ohm is again under active development as the successor to OMeta and Alan is still around.

(Source: Dan is a friend and colleague, and I've met a few of the STEPS/VPRI people that way.)
>Renewables have actually caused multiple deaths during the Texas blizzard because they couldn't provide enough electricity during the cold.

Please, quit spreading this false/fake BS information. This is not what happened in Texas. You're willing to do the research on the support of your point of nuclear saftey, but then you got very lazy with this statement and did not research this clickbait level comment.
Did a whole generation really just "march off to war to put their lives on the line"? While of course there were people who volunteered, in the USA the majority of soldiers fighting in World War II were conscripted – they went because the state told them they had to go. And there was still a lot of isolationist sentiment and reluctance to get involved in the war in Europe even after Pearl Harbor. Are the figures not similar for Canada?
Or rather they do whatever seems least likely to upset their major advertising customers. And that's not a bad thing: they have a business to run.
No jobs for 13 million Uygurs, hoping that they will overthrow the government. The same thing US is hoping to achieve in NK and Iran.

I don't trust these NGOs, especially after watched the Netflix documentary about fishing. It is just another way for someone from a well connected family to make money and fell good.
I think the positive here is that more people got to learn about the person's work. Sure he didn't get credited, but the important thing should be his research, not himself.

And the tattoos I can't even begin to understand what the issue is. Walking down a busy street, I can't begin to count how many mimicked tattoos I see.
How do unused imports relate to a language's suitability for data science? Your Python IDE adds and removes imports as you use them. Your Go IDE adds and removes imports as you use them. Unless you're using "ed" as your editor, it shouldn't even be something you see or ever think about.
> ... the build has a budget of about $20,000.

Oh, well, one can certainly buy a real (not 3D printed) car at this price tag. Even a cheaper old car to rebuild together is a great old-school learning-and-bonding project. Though Lambo is a Lambo, it surely trumps a Corvette.

Hope the kid got to drive that beauty at his tender 11-years of age.
SCSI uses their own controllers that receive a set of commands and take it from there for the data retrieval operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_command
> there's no context for art without the space in which it lives

Interesting - I tend to think of context in terms of things like social, cultural, or historical context rather than the physical space.

Potentially online museums and galleries can provide a lot more historical context than a physical museums could, not only by providing supporting information but also by including many works that would not necessarily be located in the same physical museums.

But I'm intrigued by the physical space issue - perhaps using 3D graphics, VR, and AR could help virtual gallery attendees to gain a better spacial understanding of the work as well as how it is displayed in the physical museum.

In terms of current social, cultural, and historical context, I think virtual galleries can certainly present works in the context of current culture and recent history, and I also wonder if there are effective ways to provide a shared experience of visiting a gallery with other people, including people that you know as well as random members of the public, much as you might have in a physical gallery or museum.
No, the wordplay works with variations of the words "for" and "long".

The "furlong" etymologically means a "furrow length" which is what you could call that spot everyone sets up for the narrow tetris block.
Oh man. If half of the stuff he is claiming in this article was true then in a few years pretty much all encryption used online and with banking will be totally broken, much less bitcoin.

If we had a functional 4000 qubit computer so many things instantly break that it would be insane. The absolute silly nature of this article is painful.

Yes... quantum computers could break bitcoin by 2022, but we could also discover cold fusion and have a base on Mars by then as well using the same probabilities.
We don’t really have a good definition of random to start, but we can say things are more or less random than other things. When people say evolution is entirely due to “random mutations,” I would argue that’s misleading, because it’s less random than arbitrary bit flips. If an entire chunk of a gene from an already-evolved organism can enter at any time, that in my opinion is less random than the bit flips hypothesis. And sure, people in this thread can say this is old science, but my point is around the popular understanding of evolution and how it is communicated to students and the general public. It’s less random than total randomness, and many people completely deny it.
> will just ban all Chinese trade

This can’t be done without triggering a depression and causing massive shortages. The economies are too connected. We could add more sanctions, increase tariffs look at better trade deals to encourage buying non China. But the idea of just banning Chinese trade is fantasy.
Not trying to start anything, but what's functional about Python? It doesn't have/support tail recursion, a strong type system, pattern matching, immutability-by-default for lists and dictionaries.

From where I'm standing, python has some features that kinda look like functional programming concepts, but overall is an OO imperative language, like Ruby and many others.

My understanding for its preference from the DS community is due more for its library support in that domain.
I'm an engineer turned VC, and I read HN on most days.

Eng career: one of the first 10 engineers at LinkedIn and Factual, and one of the first 10k engineers at Google.

Investing: I'm a partner at Susa Ventures. We're a $90m seed fund and we've backed companies like Robinhood, Flexport, and Fast at seed stage.

- $1m-$1.5m checks, generally when companies are raising $2m-$5m.
- the 4 areas where we're most active are enterprise SaaS, fintech, logistics/supply chain, and healthcare IT.
- we can invest pre-launch or pre-product, but prefer for there to be an MVP and idealy a few early pilots/contracts/users.
- we like companies that have the potential to build strong moats in the long run (network effects, proprietary data, etc.)

Easiest ways to reach me: @lpolovets on Twitter or leo at susaventures.com

I've gotten more and more bandwidth constrained as our fund has grown, but I do my best to reply to emails/DMs where I'm a fit or could be helpful. If you mention HN, I'll prioritize your email. :)
A lot of comments on military response. None of that really matters. The first is always a political and domestic response, and if that is not there (in the US), there will be no military response, only "stern condemnations".

Does the US have a political climate to support a defense of Taiwan (current R/D divide), and a domestic story to sell to US citizens on why it should intervene? What is their reason to defend it? That they're saving a free country? But it was never a country even to begin with.

Remember, even during the height of WW2, it needed a strong story to sell citizens on why it should intervene only after 2 years. Why would anyone believe the US would act sooner this time? And given Taiwan's size, it's definitely not going to take 2 years for an annexation. Basically after 2 years, "who cares"?
Trump was still President for a few weeks after January 6th. A lot of the capital invaders thought that Trump would pardon them, win or lose. You can see it from their court cases.
Like maybe if it was cited properly...
From the @AmazonNews Twitter[1]:

> You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one.

Meanwhile, The Intercept has mountains of evidence that Amazon itself knows that its workers pee in bottles[2].

It's so blatant that I thought the account was a parody, but it's real.

[1] https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1374911222361956359

[2] https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottl...
My mental model always formed much more around what kind of data flows and interactions happen between components.

As a big fan of Domain Driven Design I found "domain storytelling" a useful technique when adapted to software systems.

With these diagrams it was much easier to convey complex systems and their temporal couplings. Especially to higher Management as they can actually "read" how the sequence of events flow.

Try it out and see if it can be another tool on your belt.

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https://domainstorytelling.org
This is absolutely fascinating to watch how a single ship van basically stop 10-15% of world trade cold with little effort. It's especially amazing finding out more and more how thoroughly stuck this ship is.
Sidenote: you should really learn about the EVM and be able to synthesize the same answers as I did

this is unrelated to being a “blockchain skeptic”, a “no-coiner”, a “bitcoin only, Ethereum is too centralized, dont mention any other distributed ledger around me” person, or anything else

The EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) concept is as important to be up to speed on as the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) concept
I never played the Hobbit but The Lord of the Rings game that followed made a big impression on me. It came in an enormous box with the Fellowship book and two cassette tapes for my Amstrad 464. Something about the sparse graphics, the super-slow speed and the fathomless Tolkien lore gripped my young imagination. I never beat the game, but I still remember how gripped I was by possibility.
> Every [software business] is a snowflake.

As much as I appreciate this comment, it's less limited to software than you paint it to be. When you start digging into how businesses actually make money, you quickly realize it's rarely what it seems.

Many gas stations that are wildly successful, such as Sheetz and Wawa, don't make their money selling gas, they make it selling food using gas as a commodity to get the customer in the door. Likewise, McDonald's doesn't really make its money selling food either, although this is a lot more complicated and heavily involves real estate and franchising.

In other words, nothing is really as it seems when you peel back the veneer. Software just happens to be relatively new and is poorly understood by most people.
Right, but that's one of several components of sustainability. Another component is whether the energy source is renewable, which biogas is.
And while we've been asleep focusing on tearing ourselves apart with political divides, China's been preparing for exactly that. The reason war is likely is because they're ready for it. They think like Go players, not like Chess players.
Immaculate conception refers to the fact that Mary was born free from original sin, not that Jesus was conceived with a sexual intercourse.
That's hard to determine, I think. The wars aren't isolated actions that make or lose money, they're embedded in a frame work, that, at large, has probably been very beneficial. More influence, better trade deals, technological dominance, economic advantages. The average wage in the US is significantly higher than in most of Europe, so average citizens probably do profit.
Enough people to keep a couple of companies in business, and NVidia doing collaboration projects with Microsoft and Oracle, HPC is not the only market for CUDA.
The older living sharks would use up resources that the younger ones need to thrive. So it’s way more efficient to get the older population out of the way sooner.

The longevity of the Greenland shark, humans and other long living animals, is in spite of evolutionary pressure to reproduce, raise the next generation and die.
When they want a library and toolkit for building parsers and languages, rather than a general programming language based on Scheme.
How does CUDA support any of these (.Net, Java, etc?). It's the first time I hear this claim. There are 3rd party wrappers in Java, .Net, etc. that call CUDA's C++ API, and that's all. Equivalet APIs exist for OpenCL too...