skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...The main issue with nuclear power in Europe has always been the storage of nuclear waste

Why would you think that?

In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...What is more important today is why fast reactors are fuel-efficient: because fast neutrons can fission or "burn out" all the transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides) many of which last tens of thousands of years or longer and make conventional nuclear waste disposal so problematic. Most of the radioactive fission products (FPs) the reactor produces have much shorter half-lives: they are intensely radioactive in the short term but decay quickly. The IFR extracts and recycles 99.9% of the uranium and Transuranium elements on each cycle and uses them to produce power; so its waste is just the fission products; in 300 years their radioactivity will fall below that of the original uranium "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry some people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amount of waste is very manageable (the Netherlands actually stores their waste in an art museum!) and in a relatively short amount of time we will likely be able to use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.
Zero config JavaScript/ts lib bundler – bunchee
In the contract world, it's a lot easier.

Your value is 10% of the worth of the total value you're creating or somewhere between $100 to $200/hr, maybe even as high as $400/hr for rare skills.
Or the better team lose by a lot, but catch up slightly over time to the worse team because the worse team was better 20 years ago.
There's a distinction between the poor and the homeless. As much as they don't understand cost of living for the working class, they bend over backwards for the homeless, and needles and shit in streets doesn't exactly raise property values.
People kill over disagreements about "the right thing". Your reduction is not meaningful or useful.
What about Sonic?
They have the same general characteristics as the local NIMBY class, but I think I'd want to see more evidence that they are actually members of that class. It's a substantial accusation to make without evidence, especially since you purport to link that to tech companies being NIMBY by policy -- again, a claim I've not seen evidence for.
Yes, it is certainly far from surprising, but I figured I should post it anyway.
Meanwhile my Xiaomi phone is constantly sending data when on wifi (by looking at the arrows in the wifi icon).

I'm never buying this crap again.
Even DSM-IV had "otherwise unspecified mental disorder" as a diagnosis. https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.books.9780...
On behalf of a firm I work with, I have organized a free online event on CRISPR, called "CRISPR Mutant Ninja Turtles" (I know, catchy title), where we'll discuss gene editing, its true potential and the dangers ahead. [0]

If you're curious about it and want to hear more from a panel of experts, I suggest you take a look.

To comment on the Newyorker article: not only CRISPR can be used to save or eliminate species, but also to restore extinct species (a-la Jurassic Park).

The biggest impact however will be on human beings, and right now I'm a bit skeptical of startups like the Odin or others, because there's not exactly a proper regulation to ensure that they don't mess up, despite mostly good intentions.

[0]: https://medium.com/cota-capital/crispr-mutant-ninja-turtles-...
> The network would be anonymous, with no ads, no cookies, etc.

Let me see if I understand-- Google (dude's employer) was just going to gift internet to the entire city of San Francisco, starting with the poor, 100% free in perpetuity, and somehow promise to never use the data for any advertising purposes whatsoever?

Also-- at this moment my comment is the only one showing even mild skepticism wrt the veracity of this tweet. Good times.

Edit: clarification
I love tests like that, so long as there are some easy enough problems so you don't risk not knowing where to start.

It shows you what the next level is, reminds you that there's more depth to the subject than you can master in 12 weeks.

As long as you get the letter grade you deserve in the end, why not have an interesting challenge along the way?
Historically, it was the other way round. An immigrant only became an expatriate if they took on the citizenship of their host county.

I know that expatriate can colloquially mean a person temporarily abroad, but in this context, it refers to immigrants to Spain who generally intended to stay permanently.
The Progressive Era left a flaming dumpster fire of direct democracy levers that has has only increased government dysfunction in California rather than its intended goal of holding elected official more accountable.

What exactly will this recall prove? The justification for the recall on the website comes off as fatuous hearsay (and why is it also a JPEG?) without additional explanations.

I am extremely skeptical of the recall process providing any real value and think it has often been hijacked to serve dark influence interests preying on the frustrations of the public. The recall of Grey Davis was motivated and funded by Issa trying to get the governorship via a shortcut; I still remember him bawling at his press conference announcing he was stepping out of the race once Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/7VW0v7wwfkQ?t=86
I assume the actual value would be in history of an account as a whole, and karma is a simplified explanation.

There’s no easy way to identify comments on the Internet as stolen, so with enough dedication it’ll be possible to create a system that generate profiles with years worth of life by just mishmashing elements. That will help bots pass spam filter developer on top of existing filter itself.
> if you have to interact with something that has no readline

See also https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
I'm not sure that's quite accurate. Yes, they are a landlord to franchisees, and their profits show up as rent. But those franchisees are all earning money to pay rent the same way: selling hamburgers the McDonald's way. They don't have a lot of leeway to change practices or sell something different, because if they do, the landlord will literally kick them out.

It's basically a REIT for tax purposes, but that doesn't mean they don't profit from selling hamburgers.
Is emigrant not the other side of that coin?
Great suggestion. It’s very underrated
I've heard sincere leftist advocates for universal healthcare and universal basic income argue that it should be truly universal and they said yes, neo-nazis should get it too. Means-testing and adding criteria is starting to become an anathema concept to those who are ideologically committed to universal state benefits. However, that kind of consistent integrity may not extend to the politicians implementing it or the wider public.
Second paragraph of the article is wrong. OpenAI isn’t a traditional non-profit: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof... (capped profit)
Uh yeah, I agree that Terry is a bad decision. That's pretty much how I started this thread. I think it's pretty semantical though to debate whether the court made a bad decision because they were defining a warrantless search or because they were defining warranted searches that don't meet the requirements set by the constitution.
I know you're asking this to try to downplay her remarkable achievements. But her parent is a single mother [1] who's an insurance agent [2].

[1] https://wsspaper.com/65234/news/qa-with-science-talent-searc...

[2] https://dailyiowan.com/2020/11/18/iowa-city-west-senior-dasi...
> This is very true, our media lies to us, and it lies to you, but isn't there something to be said about not having the freedom to think what you want in your own country, nor being able to read what information you want?

Sure, but priorities need to be in order. The average chinese asian person prefers food, water, medicine, competence, before a moderate amount of freedom within reason. Their 'overton windows' are not as wide as america where you have NRA blocking gun law reviews despite mass shootings. You'd also never have someone of Trump-like competence in charge; there's a certain degree of vetting within the chinese political system.

> The second most scary thing to me about Chinese hegemony is that dialogue is primarily based around power. Who has the power to do what, not what is morally right, not the rules that should apply to all countries and people, but most of all itself. So what is China's moral basis and ethics system founded upon? Might makes right. That is terrifying to me.

'Might makes right' is omnipresent in negotiations of every geopolitical sphere of influence. Yes, the chinese have been increasingly aggressive as of recent, but still I can pluck some facts to ally your fears:

- China hasn't invaded any other country since 1979 Vietnam. That's 30+ years.

- It's more interested in growing it's soft power.

- Chinese have had their children being sent to US varsities. When they return to China they'll have a certain degree of ethical standards and impact over the long term. China's government does still listen to its citizens despite what you think.

> Does China's own credibility not matter?

Yes it matters. It's trying to setup global institutions like the Belt Road Initiative, and other Asian lending bank which I can't remember the name of (which the US dislikes). Time will tell if it makes the same mistakes as the western ones have. As I said, watch them.
Never heard of "Lonesome Dove", or that he was the author behind the movie Brokeback Mountain.

I grew up in Italy, lived abroad for a few years in my adult life (northern Europe and Singapore), and spent 2012 to 2020 in San Francisco (I'm now back to Italy).

Despite 8+ years of living in the US, I occasionally stumble on articles like this, and am very happy to discover yet another piece of American culture that I completely missed, mostly because I didn't grow up there nor attended school there.

It's easy for Europeans to dismiss the US as a young Country with little history; but the truth is, the US has had a rather interesting history in the past several decades, and the intensity and variety of it makes it possibly deeper than what happened in a relatively sleepy Europe.
...which is the exact opposite of what these platforms, as businesses, were designed to do: maximally amplify and disperse the most "clickable" information - which is the one understandable to everyone (dumb) and appealing to people's instincts (authoritarian, because we are herd animals).

given the power these platforms have, i highly doubt this attempt to regulate their business in a clearly negative way to them, can be successful. they are so powerful, even CCP is afraid of them, starting a crackdown on social media in China.
It’s a poorly run city with corrupt officials. I’ve talked to Uber drivers from South America who say SF essentially feels like their cities back home but with less violence.

Just leave and spend your tax money elsewhere. I did. And please, don't make the same political mistakes. What matters should be helping the kids, not the career of some corrupt council members who care more about drama than reality.
This is an interesting point! I do agree with you that "they mostly don't have genius-level work to give them" is one of the reasons why this happens.
Researchers successfully implant, then delete, false memories in people’s minds
1) Sometimes they do.

2) Sometimes 10x or 50x or whatever Nx is not really what it's thought to be.

I've had to deal with the aftermath of some "10x" engineers and it's not always pretty. Now you can say that this just means we aren't measuring properly, and the person wasn't really 10x (more like -100x in fact, that minus before the 100, in case you missed it, is for "negative" as in negative 100x) but there are still people around thinking this person was 10x, because they still think highly of the elaborate and tightly integrated ongoing catastrophic disaster fountains he planted in the code base.

But then... yes there are some real 10x engineers. Again this is misunderstood though. I think many people can be 10x (or 50x) engineers, depending on circumstance. It's not always about the person. It's the right context plus the right person.
It depends on how you define a tense. Strictly speaking, English has no morphological future tense, but some tense-aspect combinations are commonly referred to as a “future tense”. In Spanish, unlike «haber», «estar» is not considered an auxiliary verb in conjugation and therefore the present continuous-ish construction is not treated as a proper tense or tense-aspect pair.
I live in the middle of Gilroy (southern end of the Bay Area) and I'm eagerly awaiting my StarLink dish because local internet goes down so often that a beta satellite service is going to be better right off the bat.

And I live in town! Head east of the freeway, and the best you can get is rotting DSL or oversubscribed microwave relay. It's ridiculous.
Drawing Software you need to know
+1. In my opinion Double Commander has the best multi-file renaming capabilities too.
(Don't let the beta status put you off. The releases, as mentioned above, are very stable.)
A liar always covers their lies with more lies. In the case of totalitarian states such as the PRC, it's called propaganda, changing the narrative and rewriting history books with alternative history, aka fiction.

The Nixon administration took another approach in the US: they started the war on drugs to discredit and silence the anti war hippie movement. This worked fine for those in power, but had and still has a lot of victims. Chairman Xi would have probably pulled a Tiananmen.
> maybe it’s time to try some alternatives to democracy.

I've long maintained most people are too easily manipulated and pandered to, and have too poor of an understanding of policy to vote. It's too bad poll tests have a bad history in the US.
There’s an interesting take[0] on defensive mechanisms societies have apparently evolved in order to detect a psychopath in their midst in daily life without having to know that person for a long time.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/05/05/dares-costly-signals-a... on dares and costly signals, also discussing The Psychopath Code by late Pieter Hintjens.
Thanks for posting the link to the "old" Reddit, by the way. It should be default on HN in my view.
Yes. Of course curating dependencies is super important. What I meant by automatically pull future commits is to keep the clone updated. I’m concerned about future maintainability should the main repo be removed from GitHub for whatever reason.

From a security perspective we go into all details before introducing a dependency and track changes on future version - this is also currently a very manual process, not sure how this could be done better aswell.
NFT – SNL
How is this different from any other internet provider? If the users go to google.com then they are giving their traffic to google. Google benefits when more people use the internet, period. AD free means people wanting to use the network wouldn’t have ads forced on them at the ISP level.
What blows my mind is that people seem to forget that time when the tech companies were caught literally conspiring to cap salaries for devs.

https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

It goes on and on. This is just Pando's reporting: https://pando.com/tag/techtopus/
Yank: Yank Terminal Output to Clipboard
No, a 51% attack only allows the attackers to double-spend and block future transactions while they have control over the network.

Re-writing historical transactions from before the 51% attack is impossible, unless he can somehow re-write the hard drives in each node's computer.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
Nike should clarify their statement so they don't run afoul of anti-discrimination laws. One consequence of their action may be that their suppliers refuse to hire any ethnic minorities, as shown in their statement.
It's rare for FAANG to pay over $1m total comp for an individual contributor unless you're a renowned superstar.

There's probably thousands of ICs at those companies who have delivered millions in recurring value, though. At Google scale, a single engineer could deliver 8 figures in value or more.

If you want to extract 50x you'll need to be a people manager. And in my experience, most 10x+ engineers are really bad at leading people. It's hard to be amazing at engineering and amazing at people management.
This is just ridiculous. Unless AI robots are physically wiping our asses, life quality is still a logistical issue and not a money issue.

I can give every citizen 1 million dollars and theres still only so many homes, so many nurses, so much food, so many education spots, etc. And things still need to be repaired, cleaned, cared for, etc. There is never going to be a period where the govt pays people and everyone sits on their asses because things do not get produced and therefore humans do not receive. Can AI help efficiency...sure, but its not going to provide everyone with a dream life of doing nothing and prospering.

The only way life quality for humans goes up is though greater production output (which AI can help). Giving people money does essentially nothing except cause inflation for resources as they are fixed in quantity.
If you were using computers in the 80s you would.
I love this story, especially her attitude about wanting to find out for herself and not take anyone else's word.

That curiosity and questioning what others have overlooked goes a long way towards discovery.
0-Days In-the-Wild
Unfortunately the AI won’t be messing up any mundane details like that.
The first computer I ever used was a Heathkit H89 microcomputer kit running CP/M. Somehow my old man got ahold of an 8" floppy drive from somewhere. I don't recall that it ever saw much use, though. 5 1/4" floppies were simply so much more convenient.

Those were also the days when we still used acoustic couplers with our Hayes Micromodem 100's because god forbid we should ever attach anything directly to Ma Bell's precious phone lines. ALL HAIL THE PHONE COMPANY! BLESSED ARE THE DIAL TONE MAKERS!
The skateboard was actually a very successful concept. The most important ev to date has been the tesla model s, started shipping in 2012 - https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/the-tesla-model-s-skatebo....

Multiple other ev companies used the skateboard. After 9 years, tesla is probably moving to a related system, where the batteries are structural components. But it's been a major success, including for the S, 3, Y. There are more tesla skateboard evs than all other evs combined.
You can check if the Mountain View free internet project happened or not, for starters
Yes, that's certainly fair. Hopefully I didn't offend.

I'm Irish, but once was an immigrant/expat in the US (in that I intended to stay permanently and to become a citizen, but things ended up not working out that way). I always thought of myself as an immigrant, but there were a lot of people I met who called themselves expats and never immigrants. Some almost seemed offended by the word. I think your comment about exceptionalism probably captured the reason why.
A factorial with λ calculus in a post card
I think it's also very hard to even just be proven to be a 50x engineer even within a company. And most companies don't know how to identify 50x engineers. And yes even if they can, they have totally no incentives to disclose this info to other companies to increase competition. But for the most part they don’t have to block this info because they don’t know it in the first place.
I've learned to detach my emotions from my code about 12 years ago when I saw how little impact it had on the business. It was a good lesson to study and serve our customers (and their problems) rather than my solution to it. Jonas Downey writes it well: "The trick is to change how you evaluate forward progress: the long-term survival of your contributions is irrelevant. The important thing is that the product is evolving into the best version your team can create together."
"I haven’t found any resources for". -- are you a city official, or just spreading fud here and talking out of your arse....

we know that SF had a major corruption scandal just few years ago, with even the late Ed Lee being involved, and multiple people arrested.

What Sacca is telling seems completely believable given the backdrop of gross mismanagement, and corruption in the city. It is like those bannana republics that have hit oil, and yet keep grossly miss-managing the revenue/position that they are in.

This is just one of them, where this already a guilty plea:
SF City Hall faces money laundering scandal, duo to plead guilty
https://abc7news.com/zuniga-money-laundering-sf-city-hall-sa...
A WSJ reader letter welcomed a fleeing VC but stated, "I would only ask Mr. Lonsdale and his fellow economic migrants to carefully consider that they are arriving as refugees, not as missionaries."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-peril-threatens-texas-refu...
Sure you can point it out, echo it, but your words mean very little if it's based off dubious sources like Adrian Zenz. To China you westerners look like the guy on the higher moral ground, yelling slogan after slogan together with other like minded people but when approached with facts continue to repeat the same slogans.

Why trust an institution that lies? What happened to the truth? Or do westerners value their version of freedom over the truth? If you want relations to move forward consider that.
Renewables seem like a great way to cap the total possible energy usage of humanity and keep us in a lower-evolved state. I want the future promised by unlimited nuclear energy instead.
Thats complete nonsense. This isn't the private company making a decision on its platform, this is a government agency forcefully having a tweet removed.
spoiler warning

Perfect Blue vibes!
And more important, the Chinese phones unfortunately can come with govt backdoors. I love the hardware on the new oppo but I cant trust my life with chinese os providers. Is there some way to make sure there aren't hidden backdoors in chinese phones? The only way would be if the os was completely open source and available to built with device drivers (which are themselves never open source...).
Thanks. Yes, just meant keeping a local copy of the repo from a maintenance / future proof perspective, but obviously still curate next versions before including into build.
There are pro-china posts with same discussions under them but nobody flags these posts. This is not specific to hn, a common thing you can see on other platforms. This is unacceptable, feels like censorship spreading from China to my home and it must be called out.
A company is, last I checked, free to reject the union entirely and fire everyone (if they strike).

Not to mention your argument should be that cartels should be legal, not that unions should not be.
Afaik in Italy all public meetings are public, and streamed live online from volunteers (small municipalities) or national TV and radio (lower/higher house)
It is a donation to the KIDS, not to the OFFICIALS of the
school district. Big difference.

The parents of the school district should be the ones deciding to send their kids/participate in it, not some corrupted bureaucrat throwing an ideological purity test/hissy fit.
Resource Curse
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" [0] here we come.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_W...