skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is when I posted that, I hadn’t heard of Cat’s Cradle; I was just familiar with what the fictional ice-nine referred to.
Betamax was slightly technically superior, but the reason it lost was that Sony initially limited recording times to 1 hour. This meant that most movies required 2 Betamax tapes, vs 1 for VHS. Betamax players were also much more expensive.

The point is that a lot of "bad ideas" have something major going for them.
The full text is:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Note that "abridging the freedom of speech" is preceded by "or", so consequently, "Congress shall make no law" also must apply to "abridging the freedom of speech" or else the sentence makes no grammatical sense. To interpret it as you do would be to violate one of the canons of construction.
This assumes of course that one wants to survive.
I think OP meant nuclear is only safe because of massive capital expenditure making it safe. A community of almost any size can run a bank of solar panels or wind turbines safely, but a nuclear planet needs an well-trained and expensive staff on standby to monitor and address any issues.
> Equality can be argued for in terms of economics, game theory, the objective recognition of commonality between humans, and from many other avenues, without reference to religion.

Literally none of that makes any sense. Within the system of human dynamics, nothing within that system can place an a priori restraint on the "right" rules for the system's existence, and it is literally impossible to talk about anything objective from within an intersubjective system. You're running up against Godel.
> The main use case for qemu-user is.. running programs for one CPU architecture on another.. most people don’t realize that you can run a qemu-user emulator which targets the same architecture as the host.

I believe there is one important caveat here: the OS has to stay the same.

https://superuser.com/questions/1355064/qemu-user-mode-emula...
> Things only really get bad when people are encouraged to form and defend identities around characteristics like race, religion, national origin, etc.

The concern was that some of these “funny names” were based on laughing at other people’s race, national origin, etc. That’s the opposite of promoting it.
This is a very North America centric view I think. The Simpsons aren't nearly as popular in other countries.
My own anecdotal evidence agrees with this study. About the only difference the night mode feature seems to make is that it reduces eye strain. I still feel wired and unable to sleep properly if i use my phone late in bed either way.
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The title should be:

White House eyes subsidies for existing nuclear plants to help meet climate targets.
Sebastian actually tried fundraising, but I think the campaign got stuck at about 36k of the 100k goal. https://rome.tools/funding/

VC money is just on another level, although as you said it comes with its own difficulties.
> Most Muslims aren't Arabs.

Exactly. Our lack of education and portrayal by media has basically informed the West that Arabs are Muslims and are synonymous!
Nice, that home gym sounds like a great set up. I've built one at home, focused around a rowing machine (one of the best workouts in my opinion) + weights. I use YouTube row along videos for motivation.

I don't know if the live classes would provide much value to me (I struggle to enjoy in person fitness classes too), but judging by the comments on here, I guess a lot of people do value them a great deal.
PBS Kids did a good job with this, in my opinion, with their green characters. [0] I think replacing the default yellow skin with green would be a good thing.

That said, the on-going work into representing all humans in emojis is wonderful, and I really admire the clever technical solutions like this handshake proposal.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/PBS_Kid...
You can't be serious. If what the gp says is true, then tiktok leaks your full name to anyone you share a link to. I see your HN username, nor bio, mentions your full name. Perhaps you are comfortable sharing this with anyone you communicate with online, but I'm not.
> I believe it was "for each launch, the chance of killing an innocent bystander must be less than 1 in 10,000".

The earliest thing I can find that seems relevant is the Convention on the international liability for damage caused by space objects [0] which was published by the US and USSR in 1972. This doesn't list risk in terms of probabilities of deaths but instead makes it clear that signatories are "absolutely liable to pay compensation for damage caused". It is in turn based on the Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

Interestingly, gov.uk has detailed current guidance for entities applying for licenses to launch from the UK [1]. This states that "all licences issued must state a limit to the operator’s liability to indemnify UK Government for claims".

[0] https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20961/vo...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-a-license-under-the-ou...
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There are already some attempts at creating new operating systems off of seL4. The most complete at the moment is Genode. There are also attempts to port existing OSes to seL4, such as qubes. None of these are particularly mature.

In terms of creating a Linux replacement, drivers are the biggest hurdle. There are some attempts to programmatically port the netbsd suite of drivers, which seems to be the most promising. Apart from that, drivers will likely need to be ported manually.

The GNU userland is also unlikely to be ported easily en-masse due to the capabilities-oriented security model, although some projects would definitely be easier than others. Things like SystemD would be a monstrous task.

I personally think that apart from drivers, which can use traditional microkernel approaches, it's probably time to start implementing some of the better OS ideas that have come out in the last 30 years, as opposed to just trying to replicate a posix environment. For example, NuShell has a ton of promise, but isn't particularly posix-y.
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> Nuclear power is very safe

But is it only safe, because lots of time and energy goes into making it safe? If the systems keeping it safe no longer exist — let's say all the security staff are killed by a pandemic, or there's a civil war, or society collapses, is it still safe?

I can put a solar panel on my roof and not have to worry about it destroying my neighbourhood — even in the event of a disaster.

> cheaper

It's well documented now that solar is the cheapest energy source.

That may well be because it's had a lot of investment — maybe if people weren't so afraid of nuclear it would be the cheapest instead — but given that it isn't and we're on the clock...

Using old waste to power nuclear reactors sounds like a good idea — but is it possible in our time frame? If yes, then I'd be on board, but I suspect the answer is that it that it isn't.
A word processor like Word is really aimed at larger, more complex documents with formatting.

Notes are usually smaller with simpler structure and formatting. With notes, it helps of the app gives you a way to organize the notes. This is really a different use case.
Don't remove them, stuff them with dummy values. It's way more fun, Chrome extension incoming
One issue with micro-reactors is that they make non-proliferation harder. It's much easier to verify that no uranium goes missing from 100 giant reactors than 100,000 small ones.
When "move fast and break things"... breaks things.
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"Web components" is really a collection of several independent specifications. Custom elements and shadow Dom are two of those, and I tend to agree that sticking with just custom elements will save a lot of headaches with the way things are now.
> There is a difference between good assets (AAPL, Bitcoin)

Wasnt Bitcoin considered a bad asset in the past?
Interest-based and cohort-based targeting is anti-privacy. Sites can make do with contextually targeted ads only.
OT: I hope Dan Luu write his blog more often. There is no post this year and he seems to be consumed by Twitter. His tweets are witty and I like it, but I miss his long form, super deep dive kind of writings. These are marvels. I also like the witty ones like this, and I would love to have it as blog rather than as tweets.

Totally off-topic: One of my favorite from his writing is "Sampling v. tracing" [1].

[1] https://danluu.com/perf-tracing/
They’re not though
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White supremacy is so baked into American culture that over 90% of immigrants to the US are non-white.

The US is the least racist nation in the world according to Pew surveys.

What we have an abundance in the US is people who, if racism disappeared tomorrow, would be out of work and have to find a new career. These same people are the ones who act as if the election, to 2 terms, of a black president translates to the US making no progress on race since the 60's.

I grew up in a mostly black county in Virginia. I know what demagoguery looks like, and witnessed it with the GOP for decades. The Democratic party has embraced it, in a big way, since Hillary's loss. It works to win elections, but at the cost of elevating racial reductionism in POC. And the more POC embrace racial reductionism, the more moderate whites will do the same, creating more white supremacists. I've already witnessed colleagues who are moderate getting frustrated in meeting where they are demonized, and next thing you know they are googling and listening/reading conservative authors who mirror their frustration and amplify it.

Singer didn't deny that white supremacy "exists". He simply stated, in my opinion correctly, that it's not embedded in American institutions. Because it's not, as evidenced by the fact that we actively import (to an extent unsurpassed by the vast majority of nations in the world) non-white immigrants to the tune of over a million a year.

My next door neighbor is an Indian immigrant family. My neighbor across the street is from Vietnam. Both are naturalized citizens, and this ethos is going to try to say that the institution that naturalized them is white supremacist. It's patently absurd and irrational, and appeals to gullible college students and losers who desperately want to externalize blame for their failures.
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This is like the opposite of the 1982 Tylenol recall[1]. Deny the problem. Minimize the impact. Until the outrage reaches such a level that you have to do the recall anyway and your reputation is now dirt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders#Johnso...
look, i'm not making a point specifically about the topic of this overall post. but DAU type metrics are used to justify all kinds of poor designs
It's too bad politicians don't have a way to express their policy views to everyone in as much detail as they need, spanning as many hours as it takes. Oh yeah, they do LOL.

I wonder how long it'll be until we have the first "big brother" politician that has web cams in their office and is transparent about every decision they've made?
Yeah, I learned this harsh lesson doing deeper research in recent years. I was really hopeful for NuScale and similar SMR style approaches, but now I understand more clearly why that's so unlikely to work out.

I'd love it if someone shows up tomorrow with some clever idea that changes the capital costs and long timelines, but I don't think we should be allocating significant capital towards that as hope alone.
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Did you an I work at the same place? We had the exact same thing happen. Incompetent CTO bought millions of dollars in unnecessary crap and consulting, quit and joined the unnecessary crap company.
But if you then brag about your locker room conversation to a journalist while on the record, that then become in the public stage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune
Whoa I did not know about this. This would have saved me so much time during Advent of Code…
If I recall correctly TimescaleDB is mostly some extension functions for Postgres, with indeed some specific indices that vastly increase some often used insert & lookup query's.
You can also just extend it with PostGIS for those really fancy smancy geographical oriented time series query's. Pretty neat stuff running out of the box. Here's the docker implementation: https://hub.docker.com/r/timescale/timescaledb-postgis/
Interesting! Thanks!
I knew specifically about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 not getting tried by the Americans, didn't know the rest.
I’m starting to think the best way to succeed as a startup is to get a bunch of negative comments when you announce your work on HN.
Probably because it ignores the fact that solar isn’t predictable (nighttime? clouds? dust?) and nuclear is.

Solar is NOT a replacement for nuclear. It absolutely can augment power generation, but it - especially solar cells - is not a reliable base load provider.

No amount of hand waving by solar cell proponents will change that. If we ever discover a way to reasonably store electrical power that’s far more reliable and cost effective than chemical batteries then that equation will change - but we aren’t there today. Nuclear is here now and there are more than enough designs that are inherently safe and cost effective that never get discussed because everyone emotionally freaks out as soon as the word “nuclear” is uttered :p
Exactly. The product never gets a say in what is done to/with it.
It seems clear that if the serialization matches, the objects are equal. It is not at all clear that if the serialization mismatches, that the objects are necessarily not equal, just that they are possibly not equal.
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That and in cases where they link to third parties they now apparently use such a tracking link but with the orignal URL as name.

So something would look like:

https://externalwebsite.example/some-article

but would link to

https://example.com/someone-clicked-on-link-id-123456
I feel like Google search is definitely regressing. It's almost like they are allowing old ways to game their search engine to creep back in. Maybe all the original engineers are gone and the new ones are making the same mistakes again.

I'm seeing top 10 search results with malware, redirects to affiliate links, sites with just garbage content, the SERP quality is way down.

I would love if they would launch a new product.

Google Classic Search

Search like it used to be.
> What am I missing, what's the elevator pitch for web-components and shadow DOM?

There's none except the oft-repeated "use the platform!" (as if other frameworks and libraries use something else, and not the platform).

Currently web components work, if:

- you have a large distributed team, and

- you need to have consistent elements and styling across many properties, and

- your components can be expressed as "leaf elements". That is, view-only elements. No forms, no state, only presenting some data.

Beyond that the elevator pitch is "for the past 10 years, and counting, we've been bravely trying to fix the ever-growing list of problems that web components introduced by simply being. And we're solving that by throwing more and more javascript at the problem".

A very non-exhaustive list: https://twitter.com/rich_harris/status/1198332398561353728?l...

And things like participation in forms? It's "solved" by adding Javascript: https://web.dev/more-capable-form-controls/

Which is ironic, given that the original pitch was "we're piling more and more into Javascript, and we shouldn't" https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-an...:

--- start quote ---

I think we’re stuck today in a little bit of a rut of extensibility. We wind up leaning on JavaScript to get things, because it is the Turing complete language in our environment. It is the only thing that can give us an answer when CSS and HTML fail us. So we wind up piling ourselves into the JavaScript boat. We keep piling into the JavaScript boat.

Bruce yesterday brought up the great example of an empty body tag, and sort of this pathological case of piling yourself into the JavaScript boat, where you wind up then having to go recreate all of the stuff that the browser was going to do more or less for you if you’d sent markup down the wire in order to get back to the same value that was going to be provided to you if you’d done it in markup. But you did it for a good reason. Gmail has an empty body tag, not because it’s stupid. Gmail does that because that’s how you can actually deliver the functionality of Gmail in a way that’s both meaningful and reliable and maintainable. You wind up putting all of your bets, all of your eggs, into the JavaScript basket.

--- end quote ---
The AWS billing dashboard has a "budgets" feature. I just added a daily account-level budget of $1 to my dev sandbox account, and setup an alert at 50% of the budget or $0.50. It took about a minute to setup.

You can choose to include or exclude refunds and credits. If you exclude them, I am guessing but it should show your true cost without the free tier pricing. If they are included it would tell you the impact right after any free tier offers expired.

Perhaps setting a budget like this should be part of any organization's new account setup process.
You are exactly right. The funny thing is that the short story in question, Harrison Bergeron, was meant as a satire of right-wing fears of slippery slopes toward sameness. It's no coincidence that the comparison is made here; the comparison is exactly what Kurt Vonnegut was making fun of when he wrote the story.
I've been testing out Neeva (Ad free, subscription based) since I got off the waitlist for testing. I was skeptical at first, but just from anecdotal experience I've had a more pleasant experience not dealing with Ads. I also have noticed I do less specific website searches as well, which is a proxy metric for better searches?
I have one that's specific to new technology.

A few years ago I got to sit in a meeting between reps from a bunch of GenIV reactor startups, and a former head of the NRC. The reactor people had one complaint: that the NRC required near-complete blueprints before they would even look at a design. It cost several hundred million dollars to get to that point, then the NRC would give a flat yes or no. If no then you were out of business, and if yes then you still just had a paper reactor.

That's a really difficult environment for investors. They said it would be a huge help just to have a multi-stage process. The NRC person was unsympathetic, said it wasn't the NRC's job to help develop nuclear technology, and brushed off climate change arguments.

Fortunately Congress has gotten involved since then and things seem to be improving a bit.
If you think emojis are meaningless, you're missing something. Emojis are not substitutions for words.
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Nuclear is more expensive per KWH basically entirely because of the regulatory environment. Not because of anything physical about the method or its fuel; it's not more expensive in France, for example. Get the costs of regulatory compliance down and nuclear becomes the cheapest power source for both capital and ongoing costs.
I’ve never seen any indication that Donald Trump is racist, how can it be “well established”?
One would think the ultimate “subsidy” would be making the current regulatory environment more rational, no?
I've seen it with Salesforce at least two times, of course not a board seat but the exec joining SF in a comfy role after launching a very expensive project at the company the exec came from. Could be that they were so impressed collaborating with Salesforce that they immediately before the project even ended wanted to join them, but it at the very least smells fishy.
The DoJ press release has the actual crimes listed:

> Kail was indicted May 1, 2018, of nineteen counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and seven counts of money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 (mail fraud), 1343 (wire fraud), 1346 (honest services fraud), and 1957 (money laundering).

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...
I see, yeah it's not surprising there were exceptions. Obviously agree with your larger point that winners tend not to subject themselves to tribunals.
| Maybe some parts of toxic masculinity are perpetuated more by women and the media than other men.

Absolutely. During the Kavanaugh confirmation process I was blown away by how many women spouted off the "boys will be boys" excuse. It was frankly disgusting. In a similar way, the body image problems that so many women have are very much driven by male ideals about beauty.
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Hi HN,
We've built a tool that started as a pre-covid project but as we've been preparing to go back to the office its found a new use for showing when people are planning to be in the office, wfh or on holiday.

We've added some extra features for desk booking, booking holidays in advance, team projects and a wall planner to give a higher level overview.

We've got a more advance office/floor/space booking coming soon but the combination of doing demo's while trying to implement features is slowing things down.
I wonder if that emoji could procedurally be generated on the client without officially deploying every combination to the standard.

Male child + Yellow + ZWJ + Gender Neutral child + Yellow + ZWJ + ...

And then it builds up the family emoji from the inside out.
Sure. My point is just that `terraform destroy` doesn't necessarily solve the problem at hand. And you could still end up continue paying for those second-order effects after running a terraform destroy.
> I downvoted and flagged you because I don't have time to figure out what you're talking about. If you have something to say, say it.

Thank you very much. I'll bite.

But you have the time to unroll this so called 'conversation' and not bother reading the grandparent's comment. Your 'explanation' is completely irrelevant to the point.

If I have to partially self-censor certain words because this whole 'conversation' (If you can call it that) cannot remain civil or erupt into a flamewar due to extremely politically charged folks like yourself immediately reacting to certain keywords then I'll continue to do just that.

> I mean, '(D..O....S)'? We're not children here

Good. Maybe you're smart enough to fill in the blanks yourself? I'm not bothering to help those politically sensitive users flagging everything they disagree with as some sort of thought crime.