skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, having a 400 kW EIRP source anywhere nearby should be immediately obvious to a NSA or probably anyone with almost any radio receiver, the interference would be terrible.

This was exactly my thinking, somebody in the local area surely would have noticed this thing was turned on. You're not going to dump 400kW of energy without screwing with something.

> So yes, this indeed exceeds health limits (in .cz: 50 W/m^2 for workers, 10 W/m^2 for civilians) and is kind a lot.

Is that an enormous difference? It's three times health limits - but how long would you need to hold it there to get health problems? My guess is quite a while to fry your noodle?
I mean, yes? We should seek to contrast fatalities across every major energy source if we can?

But given that we don't have perfect numbers we have to go off of the ones we have, and solar installations are over 4x the death rate than nuclear. The only reason I bring it up is this constant barrage of anti-nuclear sentiment even though nuclear works great in countries where it is approached correctly. Canada and France, for example, have professional, reasonable cost nuclear that create the medical isotopes we need.

It's all besides the point though, because coal is 1000x more fatal than nuclear, and like I said in my original comment, I'll take anything but coal and oil.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
You claim that “the price will have hugely different consequences for steel than natural gas production” as if that’s a problem so big that we should agree with you that a carbon tax is not a great solution. Why is that so bad - isn’t raising the price of steel exactly what a carbon tax should do?
Completely off-topic, though related to your observation: one thing I greatly appreciated about the movie Her is that they never give any kind of visual representation of the AIs, not even an icon or anything. I thought this was a very bold choice, especially for a main character in a visual medium, and it made her (sic!) all the more memorable for it.
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congrats on publishing! it was SUCH a good read and incredible quality. Absolutely recommend that everyone get it before the free period runs out, and then buy the full edition anyway because it is that good.
Rust’s syntax is definitely complicated and that’s one of my least favorite things about it but it’s extremely consistent. What gives you the “all over the place” feeling?
I've seen this "Elon comes from stolen emerald money" story a lot, but as best I can tell, the following is true:

- Elon's father claims in the mid-80s he bought a partial stake in an emerald mine in Zambia. There is no paper trail of this ownership, so we are taking his dad at his word here.

- Zambia was already independent at the time and in no way an apartheid state. The ruling party was ideologically socialist and African nationalist.

- This partial ownership of the mine obviously did not make Elon a super wealthy kid, as he moved to Canada for university, gradudated with $100K in student debt, and according to roommates and friends at the time, he was notoriously frugal.

So it seems like even if Elon's father is telling the truth here and the mine even existed, that wealth didn't seem to be significant enough to give Elon a huge boost when he came to North America.

There are definitely a ton of things to criticize Elon for, but I am not sure the emeralds is one of them.
Compile time hit meaning it's difficult to get the types right or something else?
> Proof of stake is the dead end. You do not want large holding players to controlling the emission of a coin. They will corrupt it.

This depends on anyone actually having anywhere close to a majority stake in the coin, no? My impression was that various PoS coins largely avoid this some way or another (e.g. Cardano, which will actively avoid "oversaturated" stake pools when deciding which one should create the next block).
The french didn't need anything fancy. They stadardized and then scaled production of reactors. They now have the cheapest energy on the planet, sell excess to others, and have no carbon output from electricity generation.

"Freedom fries?"
Every car that has an infotainment system that could potentially be hacked in this way. I have a recent Chevy ICE that gets OTA software updates.
Nobody linked to that here, they made a lot of vague assertions. But you could, yes, and I'm sure that wiki page would be much easier to source than with the Democrats, because there are more people (many more) using overt racism in the Republican party today.

That's still not an actual response to what I posted, it is what we all know to be whataboutism. Nobody wins by playing the "they do it, too, but better" card. It just makes the losing party look incompetent and a little evil.
There is no renewable energy source that is faster than simply maintaining existing nuclear capacity. Lots of nuclear power plants are at risk of closing. A small subsidy to keep them open until we build out sufficient renewables to shut down all fossil fuels is a freaking steal considering the effects of climate change.
The problem will solve itself by the time the deadline comes and the bug is not fixed.

Meanwhile, don't promise anything, don't commit to anything but don't burn any bridges. Be professional, explain what do you think it is, what might be wrong and why is it hard.

"This bug will require a longer investigation and we cannot commit to any timeframe for its resolution" (unless you have a fallback/workaround ready or it is something you don't expect to be complicated)
To give counterexamples, you can be banned for life from owning a gun if you commit a felony. Likewise you can be banned from voting, banned from living near a school or church, and there are tons of other lifetime bans more serious than a ban from Facebook.
I think the following does not particularly offer any deep insight:

"Curious why he would need to move to a more prestigious position? Most people realize by their 30s that prestige is a sucker's game; it's a way of inducing people to do things that aren't much fun and they wouldn't really want to do on their own, by lauding them with accolades from people they don't really care about."
Facebook is the defacto public square of the US, at least during a pandemic where social media is the only socializing many are going to do. This is an extremely pernicious situation for American freedoms, if it's this easy to prevent a politician from speaking, especially someone so prominent then what hope do western freedoms have against rising oppressive forces like China?
Yeah. Uranium for sale, no permits: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c...
There's magic in the dialogues of the series. I am watching it for the second time.
It should not prevent you from being able to read the screen
Thanks! Glad to share my perspective and happy to receive yours.

What's your take on the article & story btw?
> I suspect you’re approaching this from a viewpoint of energy austerity

Not really. I'm just saying that all renewable, non-nuclear is possible...some time in the future.

Realistically, I think even in some kind of idealized future, there will be a lot of nuclear power in the mix. Hopefully it's safe, low cost and produces minimal harmful byproducts.

In truth, if nuclear can get excellent enough, which is a real possibility, then it becomes effectively more clean than solar and wind, right? The energy density is so high, there is a LOT less to build.

Given the choice between our land covered in solar panels, wind mills and battery farms, and a few very large but very safe and cost effective nuclear power plants....that choice gets pretty easy in my opinion. But I'll take the former as well, if needed.
Appreciated! Will give it a listen.
In this case likely means inhalation through the nose
I don't think the Navy is "just" the customer in a normal DOD contracting sense. It looks like more joint research and DOE involvement. Plus, mix it multiple contractors and locations and you have a very complicated chain.
Violence isn't the answer
Does that behavior warrant enabling?
I'm not sure if there's a real strategy here or rather it's that one of the top researchers in the field, Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio made the explicit decision to stay in Montreal [0]. If the name sounds familiar, he's Samy Bengio's brother.

[0] https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/
I think that Simpsons never intended their characters to be race neutral. They are social/cultural parodie where it is always pretty clear who exactly they make jokes about.

There are also some episodes that are very clearly explicitly about race. If nothing else, the use of n-word makes it super clear who is white.
I'll play Devil's Advocate here: there are sometimes critical business deadlines that absolutely require timeboxing a bug at the risk of losing a contract. I wish the world could conform to SDLC best practices, but sometimes reality is messy, and hindsight is 20/20. So that said, I think the real problem here is what you alluded: several people attempted unsuccessfully to solve it: how many man hours was this? How any calendar days? Did you report this up the chain early on, or was management blindsided by it because you kept hacking on it as shadow work, or didn't communicate how critical it was? If you did your due diligence early on, then I agree with everyone saying you should leave. If the people issuing the directive didn't receive adequate warning from your team, fix that next time.
“bamboo ceiling”
I hadn’t heard of that one before. Could you expound on it more?
They don't claim to be objectively fair. They claim to ensure that Facebook is acting in alignment with us stated policies and values.

Whether they're being objective judges is a question, but they've not trying to determine if facebooks policies are objective, but if facebooks non objective policies are enforced fairly and consistently.
Could just as well be titled “one more reason why middle management is worse than no management.” Bean counters only know how to count, why do you expect them to make rational, qualified decisions from a distance?
Incentives shape culture more than the inverse.
Interestingly they haven't just banned Trump, but they've also banned users posting any content containing Trump so even an interview of Trump is not longer allowed on Facebook:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/03/31/facebook-donal...

It's hard to know what the limits of this action would be. Presumably the mainstream media can still post clips of Trump and this isn't being applied fairly, but does that make it any better?

IMO this censorship of content is more worrying than banning Trump himself. Limiting what people can even post and say about a past US president on the largest online communications platform on Earth is obviously a problem regardless of how you feel about Trump. No company should have power like this.
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Am I reading this right? Does cost of living in Bangalore same as Nashville?

(I am not aware of the formula here but I assumed cost of living must be a factor in it)
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> the rollers are much larger than normal giving it a lot of torque

Excuse the pedantry, but I think this is the incorrect physical explanation. Larger rollers mean that the linear speed at the rim is larger, and the roller impart in fact less force (e.g. conservation of energy).

Does not mean it is less dangerous. It's just dangerous for different reasons than you state.
I read the readme, now can someone explain what this is like I'm stupid?
I didn’t even know about x3000 actually, maybe I’ve taken it unknowingly!
I dunno, for some domains it feels like 80% of the job openings are using Go.
That was true of Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos for sure
You can’t talk about tilting trains with mentioning the ill-fated British Rail Advanced Passenger Train that started in the 1960’s. The article gives it a short mention.

“Iwnicki thinks the biggest problem with the APT, devised in an atmosphere of "blue-skies thinking", was that it included too many innovations at one time. The casing, bogies, tilting and other features were all new - setting itself an impossibly high benchmark for success. But these have since become commonplace around the world, he adds.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35061511

https://www.crewehc.co.uk/apt
Sorry, I didn’t meant to accuse you of calling him something, just to point out blocking aggressive strangers on Twitter is the rational thing to do instead of something reprehensible
"The sphere will withstand the initial impact of a natural disaster, as well as sharp object penetration, heat exposure, blunt object impact, and rapid deceleration."

But will the occupents survive?
All razorblades are unsafe, we still make razorblades.

You've seriously never heard of the term 'safety razor'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_razor

Now, they're still not things that you would give to a child, but the point is, we don't just throw our hands up and say 'razors will never be safe, why bother?' but instead, we try to make them safer. Doing nothing because we can never achieve perfect safety is reckless and uncaring.
I'll have to read the book because I thought this was actually the strength of the method not a weakness - that difficulty to decarbonize means it'll either push alternatives that are easier to into the market or allow the market to pay the cost to do the difficult changes in the most efficient way it can find.
You're right. To be clearer, the emphasis was on making it too easy to specialize: people don't just stop at maps and filters, they specialize everything, and that can have a significant impact on compilation times. For example, in Rust, people write stuff like [0] for the tiniest bit of syntax sugar, and they often don't bother extract out the non-generic part.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24088407
>” Zhu believes his preference to seek consensus instead of shutting down dissenting views or engaging in noisy debates is a cultural trait his investors mistook for weakness—a stereotype about East Asians...”

I could be wrong but on the surface it looks like he’s looking for an excuse to blame something else.

That stereotype was for Japanese who stereotypically seek consensus (but it’s more an expectation that you will agree with the boss rather than achieving managerial nirvana). In any case I have not seen that as a stereotype for Chinese or Taiwanese or any of the Chinese diaspora enclaves in Southeast Asia so it almost seems like someone wanting to take advantage of other people’s uncertainty of a stereotype where it’s kinda plausible.
I’m afraid that doesn’t make any sense at all. Can you try again?
Only if you live somewhere where healthcare is a privilege.
Making the basic buffer overflow demo more approachable
This guy sounds great. I'd love to work with him.
Why do you believe Trump is dangerous? CNN did nothing but lie about him and give endless coverage to rampant speculation. Literally everywhere there was any doubt, they brought on "experts" to exploit doubt and never gave Trump the benefit of any of it.

The "emporer has no clothes" moment for me was when after a dozen or so appearances by Adam Schiff on CNN, MSNBC etc that he had seen proof that Trump was a russian asset, he presented zero evidence during the early 2020 impeachment trial. There are a lot of liars in politics and I wish more people would admit their side has their fair share of them.
Presumably that it’s inherently slow to compile. “Getting the types right” happens before compile time.
I don't know if that's better or worse, but my intuition is that a sweeping, solve-all solution will take forever to get through and measures like this are easier to push through faster. In software terms, it's more akin to a gradual refactor than a rewrite.
DDoS attack took large sections of Belgium's internet offline
I wouldn't even be surprised. Like a 500W transceiver using encrypted radio signals by the sides of their bed. The boss says "you better keep an eye on this thing, even in your sleep!" - and all the high ranking officials keep their communications device right next to their heads as they sleep.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. You've done it repeatedly in this thread, unfortunately, and have even crossed into personal attack. That's not cool, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

We've had to ask you several times in the past not to do these things. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of this site to heart? We'd appreciate it. We're trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck, if possible, and using HN for these acrimonious battles contributes to destroying this place. The site guidelines are the way they are for good reason and they need to take precedence.
I agree that promotions are broken, not sure about making them public or votes or whatever.

I think ultimately part of the problem is that promotions come with raises, companies are cheap and only have room for so many staff or principal engineers.

It doesn't help that turnover in this industry is high, but working (note: not good, or bug free, or even high quality, just working) software is still produced at a high rate, so business types don't see a problem.

Software developers must seem extremely replaceable due to how much churn exists in the industry and how software is still being made at breakneck speed in spite of the churn.
Yeah, I'm surprised the author of this paper doesn't have a side project that shows how many WSPR stations are being chewed on by a cat right now.
I am just playing the devils advocate. If there was some sudden emergency, fire in the cockpit while copilot was outside, it is possible that the pilot wouldn't have time to communicate before losing the ability.

But if we take everything into consideration, three additional turns, direction where the plane went, exact moment when the plane lost it's transponder, ... - the most likely explanation is pilot suicide.
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I've recently tested 20 different webgl libraries. I was looking for anything with hierarchical scenes that performance-wise would be as fast as hand tuned vanilla webgl. Only play canvas came close but it has one annoying feature. There is IDE with the same name (from the same company) and every time I searched how to do X in playcanvas, first 10 items in search were always for ide (e.g. go to menu x, choose y, move slider to z), not library (use function fooBar(x,y,z)). This made development extremely annoying so I abandoned it and went vanilla webgl.

They should rename library to something else (libcanvas or something).

Imagine you are deep in the "zone", solving difficult problem, you write search query while still desperately trying to stay in the zone and every time you press enter Google stabs you in the back. It was hell.
> The tilting causes discomfort.

True. I regulary used Finnish Pendolinos over 10 years ago and it was a pretty wobbly experience. Nowadays they run with tilting disabled and I had nearly forgotten about it.

Until I travelled on a Swedish X2000 many years later and immediately felt it again. Maybe a bit less wobbly, but pulling you "into the wrong direction" in a more determined way. Not really pleasant and I can easily believe people getting "sea-sick" especially when working on a laptop.

However, without tilting and the same speed the sensation might be worse. I guess we don't know, because without tilting they reduce the speed in curves.
Gotcha, I was imagining more Titanic-style than say those on modern day cruise ships.
For this price, you can build a proper cyclone cellar with drainage, ventillation and most importantly escape hardware.

This thing is a coffin if it ever gets under debris, and a floating/drowning coffin if it gets into water. Bonus points if you end up tossed and upside down.
Followed this one closely as did many in the Silicon Valley IT circle.

Court docs showed he was making ~900k per year so this decision was very short sighted.

He bought a house with kickbacks for ~800k which was forfeited as part of sentencing and now worth over $2.5M.

Prior to getting caught, he had been recruited as CIO of Yahoo pre-acquisition to Verizon. There is no public data on his salary but comparable C level excecs were making millions per year. The previous CIO had a $30M exit package.

When Verizon bought Yahoo he could have made millions more in retention and/or exit package.

All said, this easily cost him $10M in lost compensation to date and orders of magnitude more given his career trajectory.

Albeit he made a poor decision, Mike was an incredibly talented engineer/leader. Shame to see his career end this way.
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I think the idea is that the steel/gas price changes would be disproportionate to their real carbon uses.
Consumers are for the most part ignorant of or indifferent to worker abuses. "This may kill you" is both an easier story to sell in the media and more compelling to consumers.
Yeah, not saying it would. Even at higher doses you can usually read a screen, but the many other psychological effects will make it hard to process what you are reading. Especially, if you aren't experienced with it.

My point was that seeing visuals on a screen doesn't necessarily mean it's a large dose, especially for a first time user. Definitely not a microdose, but getting the dosage right is an art.
Not sure why you think those are exclusive. All companies mentioned have offices and comply with law on both regions.
Stabilized maybe, it’s probably necessary for something even if we don’t know what yet.
Unless you're advocating some kind of fundamental change in our systems of economy and government it seems kind of pointless to point out how a plan which has no hope of making it through might be better.
If they are a CEO and they do that just before a big investment meeting to the point that everyone notices something is wrong and someone else has to take over the lead. All of that when you know your current investors are trying to reduce the risk of the company.

You'd probably be in trouble.

And if on top if that you would be freely talking to the press about various issues even after the board has asked you to stop it.

You'd be fired. Which is exactly what happened here.

If your company is big enough to think going public, "Let's try LSD just before a big meeting" is not exactly the kind of idea you want your CEO to have.
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