skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am hopeful we will see a creative renaissance in technology in our children. You can do more than consume with your phone today. Our children have ipads which are hybrid computers at a young age and are learning to access information more readily. They are general knowledge whizzes and learning to do more than just consuming. The software is better and with cloud services the average child will probably never see a data center or build a PC however they most definitely will use airtable and probably build an app in the cloud. The world for them will have opportunities at higher levels of abstraction. At least i hope that is the case.
The most likely explanation is that coordinated mass reporting of these posts is triggering removal algorithms.

In that sense, the "glitch" is that the removal algorithms are susceptible to being gamed.
Yep. All of this. I tried using Git LFS for a project and reverted back to links to cloud server for the large binary blobs and hashes on those blobs.
“in the course of your employment” – how common is this in the UK?
UK contracts often state that the company owns everything developed "in the course of your employment". This clause sounds very innocent. But it's not. See [1]. Note that using you own equipment, in you own time does not save you! From [1]:

"If material which includes IP rights is created outside office hours and/or using the employee’s private resources this may give rise to arguments that the rights belong to the employee rather than their employer, but that is not decisive. The fact that work is done outside normal working hours does not necessarily mean that the work is not done in the course of employment as, for many employees, there is often no clear demarcation of the hours of work.

The key question to be asked is whether the work was the kind of work which the employee was employed to do i.e. whether it was within the scope of their employment. Could the employee have been ordered to do the work and would it have been a breach of contract for the employee to not do it? The terms of any contract of employment and job description will be relevant, however, these (and duties more generally) often evolve in the course of time and it may therefore not be appropriate to rely on them exclusively."

How common is this in the UK? It seems like every company has this clause. How is one suppose to do anything on the side?

References

[1] Russell-Cooke associate Emily MacDonald looks at intellectual property rights within the context of the employment contract (2020). Available at: https://www.russell-cooke.co.uk/insight/briefings/2020/intellectual-property-rights-in-the-course-of-employment-who-owns-what/ (Accessed: 12 May 2021).
Overhead wires work fine with the railway network but somehow I think that having all these independently operated trucks drawing power on one pair of wires might be a challenging problem.

A single train draws a lot of power (several MWs) but it's one entity and as such can easily be managed in respect to having the power system functioning.
But having tens, maybe hundreds of vehicles draw power on the same wires would need to be coordinated somehow.
I don't see how this is strange, I think I failed to explain myself.

The defining feature of books is that you can read them, and books are useful because they have that property. You are literate if and only if you can read a book, regardless of whether you are reading a book at the moment.

The defining feature of computers is that they are arbitrarily programmable machines, and computers are useful because they have that property. You are computer-literate if and only if you can program a computer, regardless of whether you are programming a computer at the moment.
Or the minority known as the American oligarchy.
If it was intended to be used in the cloud for example it's going to be doing more work but probably designed around a memory-bound load rather than integer throughput.
You're comparing less than ten years. Here's what I see, 2009-2019:

iPhone 3g: 4.5 Wh / 0.0335 kg = 134 Wh/kg

iPhone 11: 11.91 Wh / 0.047 kg = 253 Wh/kg

For a 1.9X improvement.

Agreed, consumers aren't seeing 3X. But they should be seeing better than 20%.
When it comes to hot-button geopolitics, is there such a thing as a reverse Hanlon's Razor? Where you should be attributing such "glitches" to malice and not stupidity?
I wonder why should someone use either of those, if typically you'll end up with something Django like but less pretty?
I sometimes use Flask if I need to spin up a tiny API, but for something bigger DRF and Django just saves time. I get that this stack is boring, but is battle tested, has no surprises and just works.
If I need performance then I go for Golang.
Good point. Imagine the millions of collective hours that would have been saved by everyone hacking their own text editors together.
MH370 debris hunter, Blaine Gibson, pleads for co-operation
My wild guess is JIDF [1], or a similar organization, is using multiple accounts to flag posts as violating community standards. Once it reaches a certain threshold of “downvotes”, some algorithm by Twitter/Instagram hides the content.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Forc...
The first time I heard the phrase digital native was about ten or so years ago from a then 22-year-old guy in IT. I get what he was saying; most of his life he had digital devices and internet access so it was more ingrained in his psyche. He was trying to use it as a differentiation between him and the rest of us old farts. Of course he did not have enough context to realize that folks older than him were no less digital native with our own computers, video games and slide rule calculators.

At the end of the day it is just a term millennials used to market themselves in the tech community. I am sure the kids born in the 2010s will come up with their own differentiations (first always connected generation maybe?).
The thing is that computers are useful for so many things that I find even just attempting to define what is "tech literacy" difficult and bound to endless discussion, and well the result is this blog post and the following debate here.

It's like you would like to claim "desktop literacy" for the noble tasks that can be performed on a (e.g. wooden) desktop, traditionally it being let's say copying evangelical scriptures, and are angry against those ignorant young folks that don't give a fuck about the bible but find writing novels cool, and let's not even talk about the peasants that merely use their "desktops" to cook and eat (and in the background you have a pen maker who listens to the copyist rant, with a small smirk)

At this point the vague "tech literacy" term is not useful anymore, and the problem is just that more precise terminology is needed to communicate efficiently.
Thanks for writing this, and makes me want to read the book
That is exactly what ranked choice voting would fix. If there are 5 democrats, 5 republicans and 5 other parties/independents on the ballot, you can now make a much more informed decision (and have your vote still count) without having to bow down to the extreme voices from either party. The mindset of "I'll just vote D or R down the ballot" is no longer an option.
We're talking microreactors here? There's no huge containment facility. They're not all that large.
> Enriching 90% uranium to weapons grade is trivial by comparison to enriching natural uranium to even just 20%

Naturally occurring uranium is 99% U238, and 1% U235 (and some U234, but that's a trivial amount). 20% enrichment means that 80% of the fuel is U238. You only need to take out 1/5th of the U238. In order to weaponize uranium, U238 concentration needs to be reduced to 10% or below. You need to take out about 90% of the U238. Sure, if you're staring with 20% enriched uranium you'll need a factor of 20 less input material. But that's not very significant, uranium isn't particularly expensive. The factor that's limited by centrifuge capability is the final enrichment purity. That's why one of the main things nuclear weapons inspectors look at are centrifuges.

> Also, you can make a bomb with uranium enriched to much less than weapons grade -- you'll just need a lot more of it compared to 99% enriched uranium.

No, you can't. The presence of too much U238 prohibits a runaway nuclear reaction regardless of the amount of uranium. You can get fission from lower enrichment, but not runaway fission. It's like flare versus a firecracker. And that's a desirable trait in electric power generation. The main principle of weapons inspection is to ensure that a country's enrichment facilities can only enrich uranium to a purity sufficient for power generation, but below weapons applications. The height and diameter of the centrifuges are the main factors here.
Pushing Github past the 100mb limit has to be the most requested feature. Ridiculous that we have to use the fudge that is GitLFS.

It just adds complication for a limit that shouldn't be there anyway.
2 adults at $1000/month.

They do play somewhat of a role, but... again, for someone pulling in $72k - even as a single person, they may be paying ~20% of their income in taxes. Assume $12k for insurance - maybe another 18% - this might be approximately 40%.

Married and with kids might increase health insurance, but would reduce taxes because of deductions.

Locality - local/state taxes might increase this - I'm in a mid-level tax state - not no taxes, but not a New York.

Someone earning $72k who is married would have a $24k deduction - they'd be paying taxes on max $48k. MFJ status with no kids earning $72k would be < $6k in federal taxes.

Single earner at $72k - federal income tax in US is ~$8900. It's not nothing but that's nowhere near 50%.
> Everyone who bought along the way... has been crushed.

Everyone who was crushed was under-diversified. Individual stocks fall by 50% all the time.
Stealing might be extreme, but it's certainly disrespectful.

* They can pay you more

* They know you're worth more than what they're paying

* They know you want to be paid more

* They won't pay you more until you make it as inconvenient as possible for them

Businesses are comprised of individuals working together. "Just business" is a convenient excuse to be a jerk.
I guess orbital space could be auctioned instead of homesteaded but SpaceX could probably afford to outbid Kepler and OneWeb anyway.
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I think the clown world is hiring someone who wrote:

“Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they’d become precisely the sort of useless baggage you’d trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.”

It's especially ironic after an epidemic plague where 70% of health care workers are women. But I guess they're mostly useless baggage who are full of shit. Unlike this guy. See, he really understands how the world is and is just "telling it like it is". Let's trade all these useless women for shotgun shells, and hire people like this guy instead.
This is very cool, In my head, writing a game engine seems like one of the real 'final frontier' projects -- an os, a compiler/language, a game engine all feel like similar levels of project insane complexity with limitless scope.

Every time I've attempted even the basics of graphics programming I very much get scared off when it doesnt click quickly (if anyone has tips on how to get into it, it would surely be appreciated :))
The geographic description offered in the article is interesting to me... well, except for Columbia who knows what's going on there - it sounds like this may actually have been a legitimate tool accident since American Indigenous peoples and Palestinians are likely to register as existing in one nation and then frequently border hop in quick succession. If an automatic tool saw tweets from a certain user coming from IP Addresses in Australia and the UK interleaved during the same day it might mark that activity as spoofing - the palestinian border is incredibly complicated so I would be amazed if some users didn't constantly bounce back and forth during a daily commute. Indigenous communities are probably in a similar situation - they might have a cell tower or two marked as being within the rez with several other surrounding ones being marked as being in america proper and, due to hills, trees and whatever - their phone constantly bounces back and forth between the two.
Cool. Thanks for the response. It's definitely an interesting project. As a long-time RTS fan, I'll be following this project closely. I hope to have some time soon to come back and give it a more thorough read.
I would highly recommend zero-sh[1] for those looking for a consistent simple tool to manage dotfiles on a mac.

1. https://github.com/zero-sh/zero.sh
The author has a point. I disagree with it fairly strongly however.

"Digital Native" doesn't meant built digital, it means uses digital means first.

I get it's a slippery concept. YouTube creator sounds like a narcissistic ploy. It is, to a minor degree, but it's creating content for others to use.

So to map an analogy, this guy is complaining about people using the roads he builds and knows how to build, and fails to recognize the farmer, the opera singer, the teacher, the Cloud Engineer, and so on that use those roads regularly.
Paypal already does this with bitcoin.
It’s weird for people of Latin descent. If they’re on your side, they are people of color, if they are not, then, by magic, they are no longer. This happens to Hispanic cops as well. If they are on the other side of the progressive equation, then they’re also people of color.
Never thought to think about it this way - back in the day I just assumed they are most likely just trying to get more visibility with the news of the app going behind a paywall making conversation - and then later playing the "ok you win -card" and reversing the decision (with the customers are more important than money feels). Though back then there was no Signal or any other real mainstream usable alternative, and also Zuck hadn't bought them out yet I believe.

But you might be right, if the snowball was about to go out of control this would have been a smart way to throttle growth, a little uncertainty would do the trick and is also conveniently quickly forgotten without significant PR loss. Good angle!
That brings to mind "safetyism" coined in the The Coddling of the American Mind.

Unsurprisingly safety is invoked in a variety of ways when certain people encounter ideas they don't like.

Doing so allows a person to completely sidestep the responsibility of mounting an argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M...
Yeah, the "holding corp with a business plan to buy a building with a down payment and a mortgage — renovating it, collecting rent and deprecation, and later selling, hopefully for a profit" is a pretty normal thing, and describing a huge portion of commercial real estate (n.b. this means real estate owned for profit, not in the SimCity zoning sense). A failure leaves the lender owning the building. This is expected.

A single owner running insanely levered stock trades, though, could easily be found grossly undercapitalized, and that's another matter entirely.
I spent way too many hours in a darkroom in high school and college. While it was fun, I'd never want to go back to all the time spent messing with chemicals.

Video of course was even worse. In fact, I was somewhat into film at the time but the overhead of dealing with heavy tape camcorders and editing was more than I could deal with. I'd definitely have done more if I'd had access to even an iPhone and Final Cut Pro X.

Good photography and good video are still hard of course. But so many barriers have been removed.
And if both sides are inciting violence?
Speaking of California. SF bay area has a 20% probability of 7.5 earthquake within the next 30 years[1]. Probably not a great place to build stuff either.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-probability-earthquake-will-o...
Man Who Is Paralyzed Communicates by Imagining Handwriting
An experimental device that turns thoughts into text has allowed a man who was left paralyzed by an accident to construct sentences swiftly on a computer screen.

The man was able to type with 95% accuracy just by imagining he was handwriting letters on a sheet of paper, a team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.
> if one side is directly inciting violence

Who determines this? If I ask my Jewish friends, they'll say Palestine is inciting violence. If I ask my Palestinian friends, they'll say Israel is. Who should Twitter ban?
Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency you pick when you don't want to improve or change anything about cryptocurrency. It's the digital gold cryptocurrency.

Many people have tried over the years to improve it such as reducing bottlenecks etc. At this point, I think they have proven that they are not going to make structural changes. And so I think the rational response is just to appreciate and use Bitcoin for what the devs or evil conspirators or whatever have decided that Bitcoin is going to be.

Thankfully we have other cryptocurrencies.
Right there's no huge containment facility, but there's still a concrete dome over the reactor isn't there?

I'm still not seeing how our hypothetical terrorist A-team inflicts more damage by attacking a microreactor versus attacking a populated area directly.
I think it should have been written differently to begin with. I'm not a lawyer but they could probably target specific people to benefit from minimum wage (i.e. by age group), and/or have the minimum be a function of a number of factors. So minimum wage for a teenager with no kids is different than an adult with a family.
Totally agreed. I'm going to be a lot less charitable than you, because to me this is some pretty obvious gatekeeping and I don't have patience for it.

This attitude was around for a while when Linux started getting easier to use (I feel like it's gotten a bit better, but maybe I'm just a part of better communities now). It's the same attitude that came up occasionally in game dev around Unity. It's pretty predictable and pretty tiresome. I don't think the author is a bad person or that they hate kids, but I think this kind of attitude is something that shows up regularly in technical communities and it's worth forcefully stamping out.

This article as it's written isn't interested in education, it's purely inwardly focused on describing how hard the author had it growing up, and how rewarding it was, and how great they turned out, and how everyone else who didn't have that same experience is a poser. It's purely designed to put younger generations down and denigrate them rather than reach out to them in any kind of thoughtful or meaningful way.

The author isn't proposing any solutions. Forget solutions, they're not even identifying problems. There's nothing of substance in this post other than bragging. No mention of how proprietary hardware incentivizes lock-in. No mention of how laws have changed. No mention of how software gets written today and how our toolkits affect accessibiliity. No mention of the rise of SAAS and how that affects people's ability to modify the programs they run. No mention of education challenges. Just nothing at all.

The only reason this blog post exists is because the author is mad that some kids are getting more attention than they did. And while it's worth talking about increasing barriers to creation, the author doesn't seem to be equipped to do so, and their targets of ire (streamers and content producers, arguably some of the more technically involved youth communities out there today) are poorly chosen.

> "If anybody is a digital native, it is me. I did not just grow up with computers, I grew up alongside them."

We get it, you're very smart. I'm super proud of you for installing Windows from a floppy disk. Do you want a medal? Should we all clap for you? Round up and scoff at the people who didn't appreciate your generation enough?

Notice what this article never says. It never says that a reduced hacker ethos in younger generations is a problem. Its primary concern is not that younger kids aren't engaged enough with technology, or that they're not hacking their devices. The primary complaint this article raises is that younger kids are called digital natives, a title that the article is concerned they don't deserve.
> They probably released other documents earlier

The letter at the beginning strongly implies they did and this was just the last record responsive to the request.

> they couldn't have released it earlier

That is not at all clear. FOIA applies even to classified documents, to the extent that they contain responsive information not subject to classification (and which don't meet any of the other remaining FOIA exceptions). The standard appears to be "reasonable segregable material". Many classified documents (including this one) contain portions that are not classified.

Large chunks of this document are paragraphs marked as unclassified, including much of the material pertinent to the FOIA request, so it is unclear to me why they would not have released the unclassified portions previously. (Unless they did, and this is a second release that includes more due to having been declassified.)
https://www.radiantnuclear.com/
All the Why It Has Never Been Harder to Be an MLB Hitter
Respectfully, I think you were the one who was perceived as baiting people with your initial post because it seemed to be hinting in an aside that any Python project in general is difficult to deploy and then not elaborating; then kind of seen as further baiting people after multiple replies inevitably constructively asked you for clarification on what you were referring to and you seemingly dodged the question by saying they were baiting you and that you won't dignify them with an answer.

It seems like it was probably just a misunderstanding due to an ambiguous way someone could interpret your post. I see what you likely actually meant, now, and that you probably weren't talking about some issue with Python but about different levels of complexity in deployment in general, but I also initially misinterpreted it like the other posters did and thought it was a jab at Python.

So everyone was basically misunderstanding everyone else and mutually thought they were being baited even though they weren't, I think.
Why huge amounts? These reactors are supposed to fit on a semi truck (see e.g. the articles "infographic").
A side topic: is there a concrete reason why github's LFS solution has to be so expensive?

IIRC, it's $5 per 50GB per month? That's really a deal breaker to me and wondering whether people actually use LFS at volume will avoid LFS-over-GitHub.