skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering renovation of one of the reactors in the STP (South Texas Project) nuclear plant cost ~$5B I find that $10B suspiciously low. The renovation project I was made aware of was supposed to be done by Fluor. I don't know if it took place.

The Wikipedia page for STP talks about some $10-14B for two new reactors on the existing site. Originally applied for circa'07. If the reactors ever get built they will cut down on natural gas usage and be more more profitable than gas plants over their 25+ year lifespan.

I can only imagine a modern net-new nuclear power generation facility in the most hospitable jurisdiction would cost beyond $20B when all is said and done.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be scary, but I don't think we should be willfully ignorant. I want to know what happened. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
off-topic, but this is a great open-source anime image reverse search engine: https://trace.moe/
In shock move, US backs waiving patents on Covid vaccines
If one of the factors is extremely secure (pushes, smartcard FIDO2, yubikey) then I think it is reasonable for the other factor to just be a PIN instead of a password.
> defined paths

Maybe they went to the wrong school?

I once did an analysis of the stress produced when the gear box ran full speed into the stops. My colleague looked it over, and asked "what book did you get these formulas from?" They weren't in the book, I derived them from principles. I.e. I wasn't trained to plug values into formulas, but how to get the formulas needed.
Are you road-tripping to the Nordschliefe?
Trump is an elite but paints himself as an everyman here to "drain the swamp". Being elite and a populist are not mutually exclusive if you can fool the public.
Yes, the fact that each application is usually a process, and a mix of Linux kernel features are used for sandboxing, namely LinuxSE, seccomp and eBPF.

Also despite being based on Linux kernel, since Project Treble Android has doubled down on its Binder mechanism for IPC across drivers, kernel and activities with multiple processes, which in the end makes it look like microkernel based architecture.
Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU)

They should really just call themselves the ACU, they are wildly pro C++. It's progress that there is even a C talk at all at their conference but even looking at the title it's pitching itself at "No really, C isn't completely worthless"

One day such language wars might seem quaint. While everyone has their livelihoods tied to their chosen technologies it probably won't. C++ is fine imho fwiw. It's just not anything like "always and everywhere a better choice that C which should be treated as a virus."

The Scala folk are worst at it around here that I've seen but my experience may not be yours. People used to say similar of the LISP people on newsgroups. Perl was the first I saw where Larry and co. spent a lot of resource trying to make that not happen in the community. Python did a decent job following from what I've seen. C++ has always been pretty brutal in silly ways. I hope for it to calm down. Having one purely C talk at the conference of the Association of C and C++ users might be considered in some spheres to be "progress of a sort."

edit: disclosure. I am a member of the ACCU.
US tech appears rife in this right now. I follow lots of engineers on twitter and some folks seem to spend more time enrolled in their own victimhood or the victimhood of others who cause they love to rally to (because they get to point victims and their own invented perpetrators). I often want to point this out, but I would risk losing my job.
Number 2 for instance, is such a small chance it is not really worth mentioning. I believe white people get hit by lightning something like 6 times more likely than blacks and it happens way more than being unarmed and shot by police.
Health boss unsure how many patients impacted by dosage bungle blamed on Windows
There has got to be a middle ground on pay. I've worked contract positions that transitioned to full-time. There is something wrong when a company tries to transition me to full-time at less than half my contract rate. I'm talking about total compensation: base pay, pto, bonus, equity, health insurance, even employment tax that they are legally obligated to pay. The sum of that was less than half my contract rate.

How can I be paid more than twice that for two years and then they claim they can't afford to get anywhere close for a full-time position?
Even if one asks probing questions about the project the candidate lied about doing?
Factory farming normalizes extreme violence and exploitation. It teaches humans it’s acceptable to profoundly harm and neglect living creatures for profit. I have to imagine this has highly negative spillover effects on society at large. It’s making our society more depraved than it otherwise would be if we just grew plants for food.

Or, consider animal agriculture’s role in deforestation of the Amazon, in massively polluting our planet, and in being a breeding grounds for zoonotic disease transmission, etc.

IMO “allowing” a cow to live the entirety of its early life as a confused, neglected, and often tormented slave doesn’t offset a single one of those evils.
> long after it's become obvious that the person in question is simply abusive and taking advantage.

Do you consciously notice this change in your own perspective? In real time?

I only do this in retrospect. I can look back and see the thing that should have been obvious, but wasn't at the time. All the red flags.

I have found my ability to detect them has accelerated and my tolerance for them has declined.

We are supposed to be tolerant, work hard, do more, stay late, go the extra mile... and, as you said, it's taken advantage of.

At some point, I realize people are taking advantage of my good nature. And so then I just walk away.

But I wish I could not feel bad about it. Guilty somehow.
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Nuts are not a calorie crop, they are a relatively high-cost garnish/flavouring.

Honestly not sure if you are joking or just being glib? Nuts are extremely calorie dense.

Almonds - 165 calories per oz

Iceberg - 4 calories per oz

Romaine - 5 calories per oz
LLDB core dump support improvements
Security for similar offerings in AWS and Azure is quite good, I guess that wasn't the reason, after all Google only hires creme de la crème.
I believe you're looking for something like https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT.
The Art in the Oval Office Tells a Story. Here’s How to See It
what macron announced was just PR speak.

ENA will be closed, a new school with a different name (ESP) serving the same function and doing exactly the same as before will be opened in 2022.
Hence the C-a-a for a literal C-a. It's not the same but hitting control a a isn't much worse than just control a.
I asked the same question couple years back and got quite a few good tips and advices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989627
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The training is what requires a good GPU. For inference, a CPU should be fine.
I despise the idea that had come from I don't know where that analytics and continuous user tracking is how you improve the product
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Hosting your digital identity step-by-step [video]
Cheese has more salt.
If you have entanglement then it is quantum. Yes. But the comment was you 'just' need polarized glasses. So if 'just' polarized glasses for a few $ means: "and of course a biphoton source for a couple of thousand $ and some coincidence counters for another couple of thousand $", then you only 'just' need polarizers.
> If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically?

I couldn't find the source for this now, but I read somewhere that just skipping one meat-based meal a day would have more positive environmental impact than all your other individual efforts (recycling, solar, avoiding plastics etc) combined for the same day.
JavaScript for Shell Scripting
You make a very good point (and thanks for the links).

However i would not let China off the hook until we have figured out exactly what happened. If nobody is held "accountable" (for a certain definition of this word) it is bound to happen again and the next time it most certainly will be "biological warfare".

This needs to be treated as seriously and as comprehensively the way we treat Nuclear Weapons.
> Programmers are comfortable with just being pointed to a repo and text files, while non-programmers want WYSIWYG docs somewhere central, which is the last place most programmers even think about.

Yup, I think if you are forced to use central WYSIWYG documentation, it makes sense to link to it from the readme in the repo. There's nothing worse than having documentation but being unable to find it or being unaware of it - it may as well not exist, and was a waste of time writing ;)
I've never been in a room on a hiring committee where they were like, you know what? let's give this white guy a chance. I have been in the room where were like, let's give this minority an extra chance literally dozens of times. I find it very hard to believe that there is an elaborate rouse being played on me personally and that despite not knowing any single person who would actively discriminate against someone, it is everywhere and omnipresent. Do some racists exist? Sure. Are there enough to create this environment where it is a major problem for minorities? No. No way.
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Early in my career, I was unlucky to work at several toxic workplaces. After a while I learned to quickly exercise my rights and quickly cut all ties with the company when I observe some red flags. Slavery is not a thing anymore, job mobility is.
I see that you are very certain. Why are you so certain, when the reasons you’ve given are based on speculation? All license managers are default deny, that’s the purpose of licensing, I don’t see your point.

Maybe it would be better to propose a clear and workable alternative rather than re-stating your opinion of the thing you imagine this is. Do you have a suggestion for how to improve the vest or it’s financing plan, one that doesn’t damage their business model from their perspective and also improves safety?

> “Default deny” and “safety equipment” are like oil and fire.

I’m not sure it’s worth discussing this platitude, it might or might not be true, and it might or might not be relevant. The fact of the matter is that in this particular case, the default deny aspect of the vest’s system and the safety features were designed so they don’t intersect. You’re asserting that they do, but the documentation says otherwise. Why are you ignoring their statements on the matter? It makes the argument weaker. If you’re certain it’s a bad design, then show how it’s a bad design despite what they say, rather than forming reasons by willfully disregarding valid information.
I would agree with you if I accepted your framing of this. I think the framing is too narrow and doesn't do justice to the issue but within this frame your logical argument definitely makes sense.

I'm sure you may object that your frame is simply a semantically equivalent restating of what I was saying. So I would counter that that's simply your interpretation.

by the way I love your phrasing two equally unreasonable cults that's exactly what I think. the reason I think your framing is wrong is because there's not an equivalence, which I think you are assuming, between people's individual experience and people without that experience. So I'm not asking you to be a member of either of those unreasonable cults I'm not asking you to believe in aliens and I'm not asking you to believe that experiences fabricate their stories. I'm just asking you not to discount people's experiences and upon hearing those to keep an open mind.
It comes down to two things: consistency of brand, and constantly creating content. Media does the rest. If you think about 45, he almost always wore the same thing, put his name on everything, applied the same style of opinions to everything (either loved or hated something, with limited nuance). Offered a simple opinion on everything.
Famous SO for #3 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
I don’t think the issue is that Oxbridge students aren’t on average, smart. It’s more that the implicit assumption of smart people can only come from Oxbridge.

Branding is powerful, and it’s easy to fall into the trap in thinking that the smartest person from UCL isn’t as smart as the dumbest person from Cambridge. Being in America, I’ve seen lots of people just throw out resumes just because they’ve never heard of their school, or they didn’t go to a prestigious school.
Nice dialog box library
And if the article tells the truth? Why would author's racial preferences matter? You might be surprised how much of modern tech was developed by racists and other bad apples. If you are from the US try reading how your rocket / space industry had been developed for example.
Dupe.

Peloton recalling all treadmills after reports of injuries, one death (cnbc.com)

254 points by da_big_ghey 1 day ago | 240 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049985
Git your blame in your Python Tracebacks
Git, Python, Tracebacks, Blame... need I say more?
Seed oils are toxic. These fake "meats" are the some of the worst processed foods around. It's sad people are being duped once again by the food industry and medical establishment. This will only further worsen the awful health of the population.
Does Facebook produce tangible goods?
If you are planning on eating an amount of burgers where their nutritional value matters, you should have a critical look at your diet.
Rufus is great for writing Windows ISOs to thumb drives. Sometimes it tries to be too smart though. In particular I had trouble writing a SmartOS disk image successfully.

I tried writing something[1] that would be a little smarter than Win32 Disk Imager. That is, it will adjust EFI partition labeling. Otherwise it will just write the image. After some experimentation that is what was needed to get a SmartOS disk image to boot on my old laptop.

It sounds obvious in retrospect, but you can’t use something like dd to write invalid disk partitioning data and expect it to boot. EFI expects there to be a header at the beginning and end of the disk. Furthermore, I can’t try to “optimize” my disk image writer by skipping zeroed sectors and expect everything to work out fine. Without knowledge of the file system format, leaving sectors uncleared causes all kinds of fun data corruption.

[1]: https://github.com/AustinWise/SimpleDiskImager
Seed oils. See Dr. Cate Shanahan.
This essay resonates a lot. I have currently a crazy new idea. I feel I am a domain expert. I am working really hard on it and have good feedback from non tech people in the domain.

Still, so many non experts dismiss my ideas and prototypes. Without asking Why, How, etc. And feeling good about themselves, tapping themselves in the back for "helping me make my ideas better".

I am not talking about other domain experts, those criticisms are super interesting. But being a computer dev and/or being smart in your domain does not make you a domain expert in my domain.

The ratio of supportive people vs incompetent critics is astounding. Even as I have one successful company behind me already. The lonely reference at the end feels right.
Not OP. While I've personally not yet fully migrated out of Google, I found Synching and Resilio Sync quite useful to transparently backup photos to my own computer. And to prevent losses, I have a Backblaze subscription.

While I do have a VPS, it only has like 20GB, so I've yet to find an affordable and easy photo sharing solution.
I really think it's just the other way around. The more people make this about China, the less likely we are to find out the truth. If it's used as a geopolitical chess piece, it will get bogged down forever in political mud, which is kind of where the question is right now anyways. People will decide what they think about it based on how they feel about China. That's crazy.
4 hour version.

https://youtu.be/PR2BSGQt2DU
Your not wrong or anything but I think the general counter argument here is that because something is deemed to have always happened or to happen in nature does not automatically make it right. There’s a term for the argument “appeal to nature” which sort of fits here, you can use this to justify all kinds of things.
Ask HN: What's a problem you wish someone else would solve already?
So the premise of this question is:

- You have identified a problem worth solving either in your personal life or in your field, but:

- You don't have enough time to dedicate to solving it, however:

- You've mulled it over in your head quite a bit and you have a few ideas of how you'd tackle it if given the chance, and:

- You don't mind if someone else solves it, you just hope someone will soon.

Constraints:

- Your problem has to be solvable in some way (i.e. no breaking the laws of physics unless you're willing to prove they're broken already).

- Your problem can be as complex as a moon shot (i.e. moon base) or as basic as needing a 50-100 line Python script you haven't written yet.

- You must provide at least one possible solution. It doens't have to be perfect, but the goal is to open your ideas to critique from others so you can identify flaws in your thinking.

- Your solution doesn't have to involve a business plan and profit generation, but it also can't cost trillions of dollars. If FAANG can tackle it, it's valid; if the only actor that can carry out your solution is the Federal Government, it may not be a good fit.

- You must prove that this is a problem in some way - how would solving it improve peoples' lives?

This is your opportunity to share your crazy ideas! Problems in niche fields that tech workers don't regularly encounter would also be super valuable (I think it's really easy to convince yourself that all problems have been solved already if you focus on software exclusively).

Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

(Due dilligence: I posted this same question exactly a year ago! Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846911. No, I'm not a VC :P)
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How do ordinary people manage bung up their systems so badly that the thing to do is reinstall the whole thing?

And this happens often enough that it’s worth carrying around a tool to do this? I thought that by now systems would be adequately armoured against this.
Not sure if you remember what happened with that. The creator of dogetipbot held the money that wasn't withdrawn, then eventually froze withdrawals and absconded with a possible fortune (they claimed they were burning it to pay for ridiculous server costs, but I can't imagine running it would cost more than $20/week unless it was horrendously misconfigured)
This is like NewPipe, just more convenient. And you can't find that in the Play Store, right?

Plus, it needs almost weekly updates to function because Google (my guess!) intentionally breaks some API slightly, just to make this sort of thing more difficult.
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That seems far more complicated than just using DISM, PowerShell or wimlib (on Linux or Windows) to split the install.wim file into two parts, which I believe older versions of Rufus (or a similar utility) offered to do.

https://wimlib.net/man1/wimsplit.html
That is one of the points in the article in favour of a lab leak hypothesis. People have been searching for an animal host (not necessarily a bat, could be an intermediate host) for over a year now and haven't found anything. The animal host for SARS1 was found in four months.
Yes, huge tech companies have lots of orgs and teams, which means there won't be one singular culture. Some teams will be toxic, some won't, some will be in between. Certain huge companies will have more "good" teams than "bad" ones. Then you have places like Amazon, where bad teams are the norm, and good ones are exceptions.
> With a 0.95 R^2.

That's not the R^2 of your SAT based on income; that's the R^2 of average scores within an income bucket. Predictability based on income is far, far lower with other factors more significant (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gs5v3pv).

> The idea of standardized tests exists because of racism. It was recognized by its inventor to be a tool for racism and classism.

Huh? Prior to tests, schools were even more classist. Standardized tests have also been used in all sorts of societies historically explicitly to break class lines. i.e. the Chinese Imperial Examinations (created over 2,000 years ago) intentionally were created so that candidates were not just merely young aristocrats recommended by other aristocrats (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination).

And yes, the institution of holistic review (ironically, not relying as much on tests) was absolutely driven by anti-semitism. See https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/21/holistic-admiss....

Of course, neither the history of testing or holistic admissions says anything about the actual value of them today.
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I won’t read articles by scientists who whitewash colonial European exploitation with pseudo-science which claims that Africans are poor because they have genes inferior to the rich white men of Europe. Yeah, the same men who colonized and brutally exploited Africa and India and China and the Middle East. Yeah, those that robbed the world like common bandits while pretending they had a burden to civilize the “savage”. Europeans should leave Africa alone — because they still are exploiting them — and then pay them reparations.
For SARS (2003) It took 3 years to find the intermediate host (civets). And 14 years (2017) to find the bat parent of the virus[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

Guess who found the bat host? Shi Zhengli of the very WIV in question.
I had to invest 50 € to buy back my old phone number for a week to get to my old Google account. I had password, backup email address, could answer the questions. But the google bots insisted on sending me a SMS to a number that didn't existed. There are many points where I lost trust in google, and this was one of them.
I think the easiest way to write webassembly is to write it in webassembly text format:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...

And then load that code via

WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch('mycode.wasm'))

It would be even nicer if it could be done without a pass through the network. But I think there is nothing built into browsers to support inline webassembly.