skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All excellent questions, these should be addressed every time nuclear is considered.

I'm not sure existing nuclear is all that competitive with renewables+storage, but better designs absolutely could be. Better designs also wouldn't produce long-lived waste, and could also transmute existing long lived waste into short term. This will require R&D.

Increasing the number of wind turbines increases the risk of collisions with aircraft. What level of risk is acceptable to you? That's the question, not "will there be any increase in risk at all".
FLPC (Forth Lisp Python Continuum) is now self hosted
This man was a public figure with an NYT bestselling book who, based on evidence elsewhere in this post's comments, publicly and privately harassed multiple women over years.

Is it possible people already knew of him prior to his hiring?
Francis Willett is the lead author on the paper. Here’s his contact info: https://profiles.stanford.edu/francis-willett
Yes and it would have caused even less damage if the WHO hadn't taken a whole year to reverse their stance on transmission methods, but instead kept parroting the "short range droplets"/fomites theory, which was good for security theatre but not much more.

I mean: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1390738628528201735
Part of why this seems to have teeth though is procurement policy. I was actually kind of excited reading this, seems to do more with more power than I would have guessed.

Though I guess companies probably will jack up their bids to cover any extra costs, even if they should have been doing basic security from the get, so that might be an 'unfunded mandate' in a sense
git supports large files, it just can't track changes in binary files efficiently and if they're large you check in a new blob every modification.

If they're just sitting around it's fine, but then why would you have them in VC
Another poet , Aimee Nezhukumatathil just released this book https://bookshop.org/books/world-of-wonders-in-praise-of-fir... and it also has this same gait as this piece. It won like a trillion awards and is quite lovely in the same way as this.
> On a side note, one of my favorite science/fantasy fiction authors is a professor at Brigham Young University. He completed possibly the greatest fantasy series every written, so I don't see any reason why a class about fairytales wouldn't work.

Uh, did I miss something or who’s this author you speak of?
Dude, this is not a balanced take on the situation. It is an appeal to emotion dressed in only the thinnest trappings of reason.

> Over the past year, a fearful public has acquiesced to an extraordinary extension of expert jurisdiction over every domain of life. A pattern of “government by emergency” has become prominent, in which resistance to such incursions are characterised as “anti-science”.
Back when computers were connected only intermittently, UUCP was the means of doing this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
I wouldn't do the same thing in their shoes? And mind you I am not trying to claim sainthood here. If it was a few million for following a legal method of tax evasion I'd be highly likely to do so.

After I secured enough money to comfortably retire though, every dollar I got through unethical means would feel less like "securing my future economic safety" and more like "unabashed greed"
How so? I had some bad managers before and this guy, who I never listened to before until now ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE0pIKV5Mlc ) sounds ridiculously less bad than some of those managers. Part of it is because, it does not matter that manager thinks you a are worth less than nothing. Not to the real owners anyway. What matters is whether they deliver on what is needed.

Everything else is noise.
Just because the US' leadership is absent in one area does not preclude it from being present and effective somewhere else.

Similarly, just because the US' leadership is both absent and therefore ineffective in an area does not imply that were the US' leadership present, it would still be ineffective.

Certainly, per the parent comment, we have examples of the US' past leadership in this context leading to a very different outcome. We know that leadership was abdicated (and in fact, actively eviscerated) during the prior presidency.
That's not exactly accurate, because his book was obviously modeled on the 'gonzo' journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, and that sort of writer from the 70s. Those writers mixed fiction and fictional devices into their "nonfiction", consciously pushing every edge they could, with the intention of shocking the squares and thrilling the hip. To anyone familiar with that genre, it's clear that such passages are satirical excess, not meant to be taken literally, or at least mostly not, but with enough ambiguity left over to be dangerous.

What's interesting in this episode is how the culture has shifted. The exact same style that once delighted the counterculture, which at the time was what progressives all identified with, is now a transgression that gets you banned from progressive circles, which have since become elite circles culturally, with growing political power as well. All of this is a tectonic cultural shift, and it's fascinating!

There's a very interesting intermediate case at the midpoint between Hunter S. Thompson and this guy: that is the similarly gonzo The eXile which was produced by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi during their time in Russia in the 90s. The worst passages from that publication—which were far more misogynistic than anything this guy wrote—were dredged up a few years ago, with the intention of denouncing the authors as part of MeToo. In the end, nothing much came of it, partly because one of the women being written about came forward to say that those passages were satirical and that she had always been treated well by the authors. But I think the more important difference between that case and this is that the culture has shifted significantly in the intervening 3 or 4 years. If this incident were happening now, I bet the outcome would be different. The very same gunpowder that made counterculture heroes of Thompson and his ilk, and which the eXile guys got away with by a hair, now blows up in your face, and at much smaller doses too.
This. Facebook is a small startup and don't have moderators to check the validity of the report bombing at all. It's totally a glitchy algorithm. They're totally not waiting to use the «glitch» argument to counter it the moment there is a public outcry.
How do you then handle a worker that claims white men are inherently racist? Or a worker that posts red-headed men are ugly and stupid? Or a worker that claims almost ex-military people are ignorant and violent?

Do all workers who are men and ex-military have the right to demand their removal?
It’s also possible that your keyboard is slowing you down somewhat. I started using a super crappy keyboard a while ago with wobbly keycaps, poor actuation pressure, and excess key travel, and my typing speed & accuracy both dropped by over 5% just because the keyboard didn’t work well. It probably won’t take you from 75 to 100+, but if you are looking for something that might give you a modest improvement, you might look at the keyboard you’re using and see if you can find one that works better with your hands.
Well, he promoted and personally supported the forced sterilization of people. And he was, even by the standards of the time, a HUGE racist. Just some little stuff, no big deal. You can't say anything these days!
Yep, exactly my interpretation. And I agree with GP about the harm of those circuses. It's diversion-by-division.
^ feel free to expound. This is an article claiming to only look at female/male faces in movies. What does your comment mean?
I'm sorry you have such low standards.
What a beautiful piece. Thanks for posting.
Do you mean the American political system in general?
Yeah, just don't do GoF research. Or don't let it escape from a lab. Or, don't lie about it when it does. Or, contain it if it does. Or shut down travel outside the country if it does. Or, don't cripple Australia with a trade war if they suggest an investigation into the origins of the disease are warranted. Or don't cancel people if they wonder if maybe it didn't come from nature. Or, do the audits to verify the labs doing catastrophic research are doing it safely and properly. Or, don't sneak in funding for something that has already been declared a risk to human existence. Or, don't pay "non-profits" millions of dollars to pay enemy nations to do research into how to turn a virus into a bioweapon. Or value the health of the world over the profits of corporations.

I bet none of these ideas are in the report.

* read article *

Nope.

* reads report *

Oh, I got one: Waive IP rights to vaccines.

Their suggestion: Give the WHO more money. They'll do it better next time apparently.

I guarantee you, if China had said, "A bioweapon we were developing escaped the lab, lock everything down!"

This would not have happened.
Personally I don’t think the missing global leadership was with the president - it’s with Congress. The president gives us a nice “name” to blame but it’s clear that since around 2007 Congress has largely abdicated their role in US politics leaving open a huge power vacuum.

Even if a president wanted to tackle climate change, a border wall or a Babylon tower they would be unable to get anything done before their term is up. I’m not old enough to know how things felt before Bush, but it seems like Congress used to actually exercise its power in the past
Uhuh the WHO has concluded that more power and control should be ceded to the WHO in emergencies:

"""

Identifying a systemic issue, the report said the WHO lacks the power to investigate and act swiftly when confronted with potential outbreaks.

"Technical expert missions can be dispatched to individual countries only with their permission, and a system of preauthorization of missions has not been established," the report said. "Often lengthy negotiations with governments for access by missions are required after an outbreak has been notified."

"""

There's a "systemic issue" where you won't let our 'expert missions' into your country and boss you around.
Yours may have been the only copy ever purchased :)

Hardly. It wasn't wildly popular, but it was widely available on early 68000 machines. It was easy to port, and you got a little bit of useful software along for the ride. In addition to various Motorola (VERSAbus) machines and the small guys like Sage and Stride, HP sold it for early HP 9000s. And it was available on the Tandy model 16.

You want really rare...there was a Zilog Z8000 version of CP/M. I think there was only 1 production machine it was released on (Olivetti M20).
Right? And yet we are perfectly fine mandating social water cooler socializing despite effectively them reducing productivity. This has nothing to do with productivity.

It is a power play. Pure and simple.
Future of expeditions to Mars?
You can borrow against it, and that wouldn't be a taxable event. Not sure what % of your portfolio lenders allow though.
Nice dunk, except I'm not accusing someone of heresy/trying to get them fired.
Can Cobra export the script in text form (and import them, of course)? That would make the language much more powerful and useful because people can then start exchange ideas and cross-validate other people’s works. It also makes the code easily reproducible.
I had to put in a lot of effort to write a useable slide rendering engine for my presentation app SlideMagic that was super precise, scales up and down without issues, and still enabled clicking things in the UI. If Google has a good canvas-based engine, hopefully they will open source it as a new standard.
I'm guessing it's David Wolverton, although he is not currently teaching there.
Actor sues TikTok for using her voice in viral text-to-speech tool
I think they’re being sarcastic.
I think this piece is really about identity, and what happens when you establish and associate so deeply with an identity that when something challenges it (e.g. the passing of a job opportunity) it turns your world upside down. The author claims to have found peace in motherhood and that the job she was seeking wasn’t even that great, and perhaps the interviewers single minded, and maybe the entire process a little absurd.

What I find interesting about this is that looking through the lens of ones ego, this seems like the logical way you would cope with losing a job - just convincing yourself it wasn’t ever really what you wanted
AMX is available in userspace, but only used by their Accelerate.framework library. Apple does not document or expect them to be used by any apps, and I expect they'd reject any App Store submissions that use them, as I doubt they guarantee their continued existence in their current form in future CPUs.

FWIW, the compresssion instructions are used by the kernel, and I don't even know if they work from userspace. I've only ever tried them in EL2.
How so? Is it racist too? Please help me out here.

I am trying to be reasonable about it, but the reaction to my simple statement created ridiculous level of response I did not expect so I expect to defend it.

I repeat.

The only thing that matters is whether this person can do their job.

How does that make me sexist?
There's plenty of papers you can find online where people beat the STL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-eurosys14.pdf It's usually because there's some use case or underlying assumption they can make that the STL can't, because the STL is designed to be the best possible one-size-fits-all-approach, which is even further constrained by things like ABI history. So it's always a discouraging sign to hear a software engineer talking about such things as though they're holy, since that'd be like hiring a tailor who uses spandex.
It's nice to see a business rather than the consumer on the other side of a unfavorable contact.
It certainly wasn't a secret that he wrote the book! But "very misogynistic" is only one part of a long and not particularly hostile interview. If you stumbled upon this interview without the benefit of today's context, would you really be able to conclude the guy's permanently unemployable?
I highly doubt anyone will lose their job for censoring Palestinians if not rewarded for it. Facebook has been banning Palestinians or pages sympathetic to them for a while now without any consequences. I would actually argue the volume of censorship of Palestinians has increased as the deep state’s control over Facebook has increased.
I use tuffmail (https://www.tuffmail.com).
I can’t believe no ones pointing out that maybe they aren’t accepting bitcoin right now because they believe it’s about to experience massive volatility and/or drop soon.
> Among the first things he said when he rediscovered his voice was that he was going to murder his superior, chief engineer Henri Somers, as soon as he had the chance.

One has to wonder what where his thoughts for two weeks ..., probably, for whatever reason thoughts where around time when engineer told him something that he did not like, and it was so minor, he would forget about next day in normal times, without giving any thought what so ever.
It seems like Ethereum is what's going up at the moment. No idea why.
> If the simple thing is sufficient, don't do the complex thing.

I fail to see how JWT is complex. It is actually quite simple--it's bog standard public key cryptography. Hell for most requests, even your damn load balancer can validate the auth token, your front-end servers might not even see the request for an expired token!

I would assert all these homegrown "just throw a redis instance at it" solutions are far more complex. Now you gotta deal with cache invalidation and that isn't fun. Plus it is a network request, and that takes a long time... time which I could spend doing something more useful for my customer.

The decision tree for JWT is easy:

- Is the token expired? Yes -- Return 403 (note: your load balancer can do this)

- Is it for a "sensitive request"? Yes? Verify token against auth server

- All other requests (99% of your traffic) - Validate the token locally.
it's not the hash table lookup that is expensive, it's the network request.

Computers are not good at network requests because physics says they can't be - it takes orders of magnitude more time for light/electricity to traverse even one side of a datacenter to another than it does to go from the CPU side of the motherboard to the RAM side.

For plenty of use cases, the additional network roundtrip is very affordable. But it's simple math that explains why this might easily become half or more than half of the total load on your systems if you want to "just do an additional (network-mediated) hash table lookup" on every request.
I... do not see why we would presume that.
There is currently also a Palestinian spam campaign on Facebook. Look at recent posts from popular media pages on completely unrelated topics. The comments are flooded with repetitive Palestinian messages.
I’ll start paying heed to this line of reasoning when a significant portion of tax revenue is spent bombing innocents. There’s very shaky moral grounds for many of our actions overseas, and I don’t blame any rich person for wanting to control policy for significant philanthropic efforts.
If it was ever found out that Facebook was eavesdropping on a large portion of internet users via their phone microphones to target ads, the consequences to Facebook would be extreme and far reaching. It’s simply not worth the risk to target ads slightly better.
On a single usb stick we have interactive games and all human knowledge available, I think mars explorers will be just fine.
By "Obama" I'm referring to the era. I agree the focus on presidents is silly; GP was contrasting Trump on Covid-19 vs Obama on Ebola and I think that's a silly comparison. Trump is terrible of course, but that is not really the relevant story here.
Begging for something rarely yields a high quality result.
repost top level link, dunno what this WBUR stuff is

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
This is by far the only reasonable argument in the entire thread. I don't automatically accept it, but I can see its merit.
I'd be afraid of losing my house, but it's not the only place I could live.
More of a layup than a dunk.

The people trying to get him fired have read his stuff. They quote from it extensively in the open letter: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-h....

Your claim about the mob not reading his stuff applies to you, the person citing hearsay from YouTube comments (!!!). It demonstrably does not apply to the people who got him fired.
Thank you for the link. I am the original submitter of this topic. WBUR is Boston’s NPR station, which has a huge listener base, and I say this as a west coast person.
> Over the years I have applied for hundreds of professorships, and even received some interviews.

How may professorships are there per PhD graduating?
Bose built the first FDA-cleared hearing aids that won't require a doctor visit
95% of users send 25 invoices a month or fewer? This seems really low!
Brandon Sanderson

Maybe he is not actually a prof.

Finished The Wheel of Time series after Robert Jordan passed away.
It is very freeing to realize there is no One True Path. If you thought becoming an academic was The Only Way, and it doesn't happen, you either live a miserable life or overcome this failure and progress forwards.

I think "Fuck the Bread" is the realization that something the author desired so hard, and tried so many times to get, ultimately does not determine her path in life and her mental state of being.

I would further say that there is an unhealthy way of viewing life currently in vogue where everything is "systemic" - you can't possible overcome issue XYZ because of systemic reasons ABC that are out of your control. So... why bother?

But all of that is a psychological trick - life is what you make of it. If you aren't happy, no one is going to make you happy but yourself. This is simplified as the "bootstraps" vision of the world, and obviously helping people and receiving help is important (no man is an island), but true happiness can only come from yourself and living life the way you choose. When you stop giving a fuck about what other people think and start living the way you want, is when you truly become free and actualized as an individual.
In Slovakia it does have legal power. The advertising law prohibits unsolicited advertisment by paper mail, e-mail and telephone. For paper mail it's opt-out (No junk mail sticker). For email and phone it's opt-in (no cold calls). Works well for paper mail, but not the others.

Also here it is not the postal service that distributes the junk mail leaflets but independent agencies. The Post has monopoly on letters by law. Other deliveries have theri commercial providers alongside the state Post.
He started last week apparently.[1]

[1] https://www.axios.com/apple-severs-ties-with-antonio-garcia-...
My Omega Seamaster gains ~2-3 minutes a month (so roughly 4-6 seconds a day.), it's rather annoying but I understand that it's pretty common for an automatic mechanical watch.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I’m not sure regarding any efforts to bring this case before a Palestinian court. I completely agree that the PA is ineffective at governing and deserves much criticism for the current state of affairs. Progress on the two state solution has been stalled for years and reaching any agreement at times seems like a pipe dream.

My understanding from the UN link that I shared is that international law applies here as Israel is an occupying power. I am not sure whether there is an international court to hear this dispute and rule according to the applicable international law. If there isn’t, though, I can’t bring myself to justify that Israel has the right to apply its laws and courts in order for there to be some system of law and order. Even if the PA is in effect ceding this responsibility to Israel through incompetence, applying Israeli law and adjudicating in Israeli courts sets a precedent that any occupying nation can do this in land that is not internationally recognized as their own so long as there is no functioning law and court system in that land. To me accepting this as precedent feels like a slippery slope toward an invitation for nations to engage in annexation and colonialism.
It wasn't the leaders it was the followers. Or rather, those who refused to follow. No one followed up on the US leader's claim that it came from a lab. No, they said, "He said it so it's a lie!"

And they continue to say that. This isn't on Trump.
Sure, but if you pay yourself a very nice income and realize very many nice incomes in capital gains, then you're still coming out way ahead.
> there are $65 mi available in liquidity on LN

According to a fairly reliable source [1] it's actually $320 million (on the network + sidechains).

[1] https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/139252761698122957...
The amount of blatantly antisemitic “the Jews control the media” trope comments in this thread is truly disturbing. If you have nothing more than insinuation to contribute, don’t.
Whether or not it's considered relevant here, I hadn't seen this before and I found it very moving. I'm glad it was submitted.
There is different ways people have done it but there is only one standard.

Make issues on GitHub and hope for the best. Most of the time it's already a "I don't care, won't fix".

Apparently people just don't care that I have .cache mapped to a tmpfs and they don't care that their cache stored in .config or .shitappdevelopersinc is thrashing my remote backups.