skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magic beans. They were supposed to automagically populate inside a java UI (applet?).

seriously, I think the reason is so you could override the getter to do something else, like compute a value and return it... but in practice this almost never happens.
> As a simple exercise, imagine that the deforested land had been left fallow, and the CO2 emitting business had set up shop at a different plot of land. You wouldn't ascribe the CO2 emitted by the business to the Amazon, and therefore, when you DO ascribe it to the Amazon, you are double-counting the effect.

Here you're assuming all the same industrial activity would have happened, just elsewhere. But that seems like an unfounded assumption that ignores how deforesting the Amazon opens up new cheap land to enable more industrial activity with lower costs than would otherwise be the case.

Land is finite and not cheap. Pretending that eg. new farming would have simply happened in the same way and quantity elsewhere had the Amazon been protected is a more egregious lie than trying to include economic activity in the net greenhouse effect of the whole Amazon.
Not really. Basically just slightly scarier than the bomb itself.

It's not an effective terrorist strategy, since slightly raising cancer risk over a long period of time is one of the least dramatic and fear inspiring things.

The really dangerous stuff they don't seem to do, like lighting the forests on fire at the height of fire season, or engineering an airborne pandemic. Thankfully.
This is fear mongering worthy of "Fox News" here in the US.

Uranium is about $30/pound... and 7kg is about 15 pounds.. so $450 of uranium?

Source: https://ycharts.com/indicators/uranium_spot_price#:~:text=Ur....

Uranium is toxic, and burns, but it's not a high explosive, just something you don't want to ingest or inhale, lest you get heavy metal poisoning, and an increased risk of cancer.

[Addendum] Long ago I was talking with colleagues who worked at a Nuclear Power Plant, they described the inbound fuel shipments as something you could camp on top of.

Also: It takes the resources of a nation state to separate vast quantities of natural uranium into U-235 or other pure isotopes.
to help the citizens who, outside of their control, lost that retirement fund.

D or R (or whatever) the Govt (via fellow taxpayers) should help other citizens.
Thanks for calling this out. This is not something I would have thought to check myself. It's unfortunate the most common use of the word toxic is in a very abstract sense, but the behavior you identify is just plain unnecessary rudeness and a much more suitable use of the word.

Can we assume people are acting in good faith until we have reason to think otherwise? As highlighted by the green-is-yellow issue, it is OK to simply say, "Understood. The color scheme has been previously discussed, is popular and isn't currently considered for change. But you can configure it yourself by <link-to-documentation>..." The accusation of an entitled attitude appears a bit of a leap to me too. To be fair, while a tad rude in tone, the dev's second post is an improvement.

Or perhaps, "We don't have a lot of resources for this level of detail. Sorry." (Open-source honesty?) Or even, "If you wrote a patch taking the values from rxvt it would be considered but possibly rejected after discussing policy with lead devs."
Sadly, the Amazon basin has been on fire for decades. It’s destruction will be one of humanity’s biggest regrets.
It seems like Silicon Valley, as it's increasingly moved towards being dominated by a few giants, has increasingly been dominated by the employee bureaucracy class that you describe.

Instead of companies filled with risk takers working for crazy founders, now it's just the path followers playing it safe, checking off the boxes to go get the guaranteed money and not that much work at the FAANGS.
It's natural Uranium. "Highly explosive and radioactive" is just sensation seeking news. Naturally occuring Radon-222 which is also an alpha emitter with a half life of 3.8 days instead of 4.68·10e9 years is a lot more radioactive than Uranium-238. It's still a toxic heavy metal.
Israeli forces showered Palestinian worshippers with stun and tear-gas grenades
Well U metal can oxidize so I guess if you made it into a powder it could react violently???

But no, 7Kg of natural U is not “highly explosive”.
And from the dev's followup explanation it just feels like their default is that everyone is entitled so they react accordingly. That response sure came out of left field, and I think the dev is lacking a little self awareness. Taking a defensive stance from the beginning is just bound to cause unnecessary drama.
only the beginning of time
You cannot escape the burden of training people to do it, because someone has to check the machines figures for drift due to defect, improper implementation, or damage.

See the Patriot missile systen fiasco.
Why duck? WSDL still beats the crap out of most newer would-be contract definition standards. OpenAPI is ok, but the tooling comes from all from the same place.
How about the global community paying Brazil to keep it untouched.
but article mentions it's worth ₹21 crore (2.8 million USD). If only these news media were little bit more curious, BARC would not hesitate in giving details,
I remember traveling around some islands with a new acquaintance on his own journey. I remember him saying, "It's amazing and romantic. Most of the folks here have never left. All they need is right here."

Fast forward a day.

"Americans are idiots because they never leave America. Most of them don't even have a passport."

Okay.
I mean soylent is pretty easy
Agreed on highlighting with a different background color. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find a background color that is different-enough from the usual background while maintaining a high enough contrast with the text sitting on top of it. This is especially true if your syntax highlighting color palette covers all the hues you could use.

So here's another protip: Make the highlight pop with a brighter left-border, so your background color doesn't have to pop so much on its own and you have more wiggle room to maintain contrast. Something like what mdx-prism has in their readme image [1], though I don't like the specific blue-on-blue colors. This blog article [2] has an example in the middle with nicer colors.

[1]: https://github.com/j0lv3r4/mdx-prism

[2]: https://leerob.io/blog/mdx
What a great approach. The easy social studies courses are made so horribly boring that it drives students to study the hard sciences.
That's interesting that it was exactly 7kg. Maybe they read this document first:

(§ 40.22 Small quantities of source material.)
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part040/p...

"(a) A general license is hereby issued authorizing commercial and industrial firms; research, educational, and medical institutions; and Federal, State, and local government agencies to receive, possess, use, and transfer uranium and thorium, in their natural isotopic concentrations and in the form of depleted uranium, for research, development, educational, commercial, or operational purposes in the following forms and quantities:

...
(2) No more than a total of 7 kg (15.4 lb) of uranium and thorium at any one time...

"
I don't think saw dust is considered fibrous even if a tree is fibrous... I would think that to be considered fibrous, it would have to be longer in one dimension.
I love how it’s described as “highly explosive”
Uranium isn't highly explosive.
Goldman Sachs executes its first Bitcoin derivatives trades
You can use the ore to produce potent sources for calibration and such. As it is though, this seems like an overreaction.

Radon detector / Alpha-beta radiation source.
https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=9166
What censorshipt? it is all over the news, as per usual the Muslims are being violent and blame everybody else for the outcome of their violent ways.
Male or female that wouldn't change my opinion. Please tell me how that matters?

Who is this individual truly hurting? Do they deserve capital punishment, possible jail time, ruining any future jobs or prospects because she stuffed a ballot box?

Would you want the same federal charges brought if it was a physical ballot box with paper?
Mark Wisde is one of the most talented security engineer I know and his handbook, while short, genuinely represents the state of mind of a typical security engineer in a security team. I read this in a day and I would recommend it to anyone who's interested in having a more "security-oriented" mindset, even if not working in a security team.
100% correct. For example, the Chicago food depository is an amazing organization with a really well run warehouse. It’s best just to give them cash because they can buy in bulk and obviously it’s easier to manage large quantities of identical products than one-off donations.
Yeah, but 7kg of ore wouldn’t cost $1.5 million.
ApplePay is built on top of the existing credit card infrastructure and all the merchant fees that come with it. Making a transaction slightly more convenient for a customer is not much of an incentive for a business owner when the customer can already pay with a card. Plus, what incentive does a merchant have for allowing ApplePay when they have to fork over an additional 0.15% on the transaction?

The sorry state of the industry is that the payment network processors have absolutely no interest in reducing their inflation-proof fee schedule. Unless Apple made its own network from the ground up with dramatically lower fees, it was never going to take off with merchants.
> I am extremely skeptical that, even if all the logistical problems could feasibly be solved, we'd find 70 million people in this country that would choose to live in that region once all the dust settled.

Well they'll have to, because there are a limited number of areas in the US making jobs. And the US population is growing not shrinking, so even if jobs fan out to other, less-crowded population centers, we're just kicking the can down the road. Let's not forget about all the pollution that vehicles cause, which is a direct side effect of suburban sprawl. According to US gov't data [1], transportation is almost 30% of our emissions.

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec2_2.pdf
I mean, $500k/yr is about the comp for a senior FAANG engineer gets in SF bay.
While the world is at it, should they add China and the US to the list of countries to invade for good of the environment?
It’s easy to produce crap documentation though, and I think that if companies were forced to produce it, most of it would be pretty worthless.

It’s the sort of job you’d give an intern if you couldn’t find something else for them to do.
Thanks for the thorough response! This helps me understand the motivations behind Smithy. I’m going to dig into the project and keep an eye on it as the tooling develops.
Except that you do not own it and apps may disappear. We can still run hypercard stacks many decades later... I doubt we will be able to run actual power apps in 15 years.
problem at least on OS X is none of these term replacements render fonts as well as the native term.
So they found some guys selling uranium ore - if you could build a bomb with that, they would have done that back in Rome.

The clown posse photo fits perfectly, then - a bunch of tourists presenting their latest costumed catch, complete with the obligatory nose sticking out of a mask.
If the rest of the world depends on it, then that sounds like a great reason for the rest of the world to pay a large sum of money to Brazil, in exchange for it's services.

That would certainly be cheaper than a war, which would probably just cause a large amount of damage to the forest anyway.
That is a fantastic life as far as I’m concerned.
That's fair. But in return, I offer the counter-argument:

When you double count like this, you are implicitly assuming deforestation ALLOWED the polluting business to occupy the new land, and they wouldn't have polluted to the same degree elsewhere (because it wasn't available, wasn't as profitable, or something else).

A totally reasonable claim! I could explore it further. But IMO one should make this claim in good faith, make it clear what you're proposing, not engage in this kind of statistical sleight of hand.

I am totally opposed to deforesting the Amazon. But I'm sick of political participants that think it's OK to lie to people, simply because the implications of the lie favor some greater truth.
Navy also uses inertial navigation. It needs to be calibrated with GPS every now and then but you can get away without a GPS downlink for a while before drift becomes a problem.
If they could successfully pull it off, yes.
I think it does a GC pause on every scroll. If you just scroll and wait a few seconds it renders. That said it got so frustrating I stopped reading, even though I was curious :(
People working the register at Goodwill generally aren’t volunteers, they are paid employees, though they are often paid less than minimum wage.
The cost of disposal should be taxed on purchase, and disposal made free.
Fearmongering nonsense. This was natural uranium ore, not explosive, not highly radioactive, not dangerous, cannot realistically be used for any nefarious purpose.

This was a scrap dealer trying to make a little money in hard times. There is absolutely nothing to see here except the profound stupidity of humans over-reacting to something they know nothing about. Move along.
I would assume it's fried or cooked with his other food. Eating a whole onion is pretty hard on the stomach.
But wouldn't it be less destructive to simply pay Brazil a large amount of money for that?

A war would probably just damage the forest anyway.
I have been listening to an audio book, Man’s Search for Meaning, written by Viktor E. Frankl a neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.

Like many books written of experiences involving extreme suffering and trauma it’s extremely powerful and I tend to have to stop just to contemplate and dwell on certain passages or just sentences. I like your “thought experiment” as it’s not unlike how I go about reflecting on these kinds of books.

Frankl talks about being on a train being moved from one camp to another, and upon seeing there were no chimneys at this new camp there was a silent celebration among the prisoners. For whatever inhumane reason, that night the newly arrived prisoners were made to stand (I believe naked) throughout the whole night in the freezing cold. Yet they were all still greatful not to be at Auschwitz or another camp with chimneys. There is a separate passage where he describes the types of prisoners, the last he describes are those who had lost all meaning, spirit and would walk up to and grab the electric fence.

I can’t tell you how much heart it gives me to think of the human spirit in these conditions that can’t be broken. It’s very similar to some of the slave narratives I read, and on occasion coming across passages with descriptions of slaves on a plantation celebrating the opportunity to sing and dance together around a fire at night. I have shared with others I wish if push came to shove I’d have that type of spirit, to your point about brainwashing, I’ve received similar responses that I am romanticizing it and even that my mental impressions reflect racism, but The reality is I could have pointed to many other counter examples from my readings like the prisoners that lost meaning and grabbed the fence, but for better or worse that doesn’t lift my spirits and it’s not the examples I tend to pass on.

I often ask myself what I think I would do in a camp or on a plantation, what actions would make me the most proud and if I would have the courage and spirit to make them, but I never pretend to know what I would actually do and I’d never once judged the actions of any of them...even the most deplorable acts, like the prisoners that worked on behalf of the guards for the slightest of comforts. Even more challenging is trying to put myself in the shoes of some young German or Southerner born into and inheriting the evils of these situations, it’s a lot easier to say what I hope I would do, but just the same I have to admit no one knows what they would do, after all how many people do you really encounter that are willing to go against the grain rather than fall in line much less when it means death?
If its natural why are we arresting people for 7kg. 7kg of unenriched uranium is nothing to worry about. If they had many tons and were planning on enriching then maybe be concerned.
It's actually 10.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

The death penalty stoops to the level of violent offenders and state processes that can never get convictions perfectly correct all of the time to be moral and ethical. There is no "undo" button on state-sanctioned murder, needle or drone strike.
Despite the headline Coronavirus is the biggest threat to India now.
The problems California faces have been decades in the making.

But I am specifically commenting on “the state income tax on a prof's salary is 9-10%. CA is basically telling me (and millions of other millennials) that we are not wanted here.”, which the OP was lamenting. I see that as a direct result of how Californians vote and how they fund their state government.
My opinion is that students not on classrooms are much less prepared to deal with those, according to you, non "well-socialized" students from traditional schools.
I was saying that there are people who live long lives in relative isolation. People in rural parts of the US and places like Alaska.

Frankly, I believe those types of studies rreally about happiness with ones social life, not about ones social life relative to others. But that's just my take.
If only aliens would show up and pay us for samples of unique living things
Is "A man has fuck-off money in spades" an untold story?
There are four nearby my place. I've put books in all of them, and they'll sit (along with the others) for months.

The local thrift store used to have a very large book section. I noticed that most of the books sat there for months on end. Eventually, the store just boiled it down to a tiny 10x10 section. I'm sure most of the titles went to the dump.
People seem to have some questions about my comment, here’s a much more detailed analysis: https://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2009/06/...

In short, the DOJ has generally contended in the past decade or so that sheltered workshops represent discrimination based on disability, and has been suing to shut them down or force them to pay their employees minimum wage.
The way I always imagined satellite star sensors was like then-cutting edge megapixel cameras but a lot of early “star tracker” sensors were more like a single intensity sensor that rotates on an axis.

As the sensor(or sometimes the whole satellite) rotates, there’s wide blanking period where sensor is registering the Earth, then there will be series of peaks with specific known range of intensities, like ping ping pause ping ... that ends with sensor registering strobe from the Sun. Either the time from one peak to another or time from end of blanking to some peaks can be measured and “correlated against database”, in reality added and multiplied with just few int values, and positions as well as angular velocity can be calculated.

Being familiar with PC culture, I feel like I tend to overestimate complexity of then-classified military technologies. It’s pleasantly surprising how simple and elegant those classical systems can be.
108k for a fresh grad? That's just not accurate.

The Greater NYC area will net an entry level dev 60-75k max in most cases. 108k is much closer to the average, taking into account highly experienced outliers.

National average of entry level dev salaries for reference:
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Entry-Level-Software-D...
I'm not sure what your point is? It's not a charity, pays taxes, doesn't receive government funds, and I presume its employees are paid more than the minimum wage/22¢hour.
Uranium has no stable isotopes. Some are more radioactive than others, but ‘radioactive’ uranium is a redundant term.
> and burns

Do you mean it is flammable, or that it damages tissue as an acid would? I don't believe either is the case. It's not something in the form of dust you would want to inhale, but clothing and skin would stop anything unenriched uranium would produce.
California needs to drastically ramp up water availability from new sources. Otherwise there isn't much point to the rest of this conversation.
> two pieces of fish, one big onion, an egg, baked beans and a few biscuits at the end. For lunch I have a pear, an orange and four sandwiches with paste. But I allow myself a bit more variety; I’ll sometimes have soup if it’s cold.

This would be a great meal for a North Korean farmer. If I read this same article by a North Korean farmer, it would either involve a different food listed, or they'd probably be lying about being a North Korean farmer.

> A UN assessment found North Koreans had been surviving on just 300g (10.5 oz) of food a day so far this year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48150205
The international community?

Let me guess: the US with a Democratic president + some meaningless European countries. All waving the flag of self-righteousness while they sign exploitative contracts to “rebuild” the country they bombed.
The US DOT has been studying this for a few years now, and they concluded in January 2021:

> The demonstration indicates that there are suitable, mature and commercially available technologies to backup or complement the timing services provided by GPS. However, the demonstration also indicates that none of the systems can universally backup the positioning and navigations capabilities provided by GPS and its augmentations. The critical infrastructure positioning and navigation requirements are so varied that function, application, and end-user specific positioning and navigation solutions are needed. This necessitates a diverse universe of positioning and navigation technologies.

* PDF: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2021-01/F...
In theory the tax write-off makes sense: instead of the government serving as a middleman for charities and making political decisions on who-gets-what, it allows the citizens to more freely support the charities they like directly.

Sadly, in its present form, most people in the US seem to be too exhausted and cash-poor to donate larger amounts more frequently (even before COVID), slowly increasing the reliance on larger endowments based on the whims of fewer and fewer people/organizations. People with lower incomes also probably don’t pay enough in taxes to really reap the benefits of the write-off since it’s only a deduction.
This scam presented a fake NSL to the registrar so even a premium registrar wouldn't help.

Multiple domains through multiple registrars seems like the only work around.

You could establish 3 domains for a user to recognize: application.com, application-login.com, and application-announcements.com

Users know to go to the login domain, and know to verify they are sent to application.com.

Users know that all announcements appearing on the login or application domain would also be posted to the announcement domain for verification.

On the login domain you would only enter a username and then be forwarded to a password page on the application domain.

An attacker would have to take control of 2 domains to get your password, and all 3 to intercept payments.