skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit nit-picky, but a CANDU reactor does not fission U-238. Neutrons in a CANDU reactor are still thermal neutrons, and if you put pure U-238 in a CANDU reactor it won't run. A CANDU reactor does run on uranium with a lower amount of U-235 than a standard PWR design, and it does transmute some of that U-238 into Pu-239 which it then does fission, but it doesn't directly fission U-238 and it does require some baseline ratio of U-235 to operate.
The CDC's own learnings from SARS-COV1 concluded 'probable airborne spread' and the low efficacy of hand washing as an intervention, but somehow SARS-COV2 was totally different.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/6/13-0192_article

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190272/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5212a1.htm
As a software engineer I was curious about bitcoin in 2017, when price was around $15,000, so I bought $500 bitcoin through coinbase. I created a personal wallet and transferred half of the bitcoin to it.

Two big issues immediately stands out that made me believe that bitcoin has no future:

1. Long latency of transactions. I remember it took about 10 minutes for the purchase on coinbase to finish, and another 10 minutes to transfer half of the bitcoin to my personal wallet. This makes it impossible to use bitcoin as a currency. Imagine I go to a store and at check out, I need to wait for 10 minutes for the payment to go through.

2. High transaction cost. The transaction fee to transfer the bitcoin to my personal wallet cost around $15 (if I remember correctly), an astonishingly high fee.

I kept the bitcoin as a souvenir, and when this year price go crazy, I sold half of my bitcoins on coinbase when price was at $50K, to recoup what I spent on it in 2017; and still kept the half in my wallet, as a souvenir of what I believe to be the biggest ponzy scheme in human history.
Cold wallets solve this issue. Exchanges should be used for exchanging assets, it's not wise to store larger amounts there.
www.gocd.org

See build.gocd.org for an example of what pipelines can look like
The part that surprises me is that anybody uses travis anymore? I figured everyone moved to jenkins like 9 years ago or whenever it was.
The OP is saying that Uber deducted $2.20 from his account with them, so that he paid money to carry the passenger.
Very cool, I'm building a similar project atm as well (not ready to share, but you could dig it up easily), the latex reprinting of input is an interesting twist that I'm sure many people will appreciate.

I am afraid this domain is a prime nerd-sniping range, because there are so many variations on building a better, more interactive calculator. No profits here besides learning and great fun!
“Computer Science” should be called “Computation”. I believe that covers everything we care about in this field. From most abstract math (Type Theory) to least abstract practical theory.
Since 1993, the Swiss inflation rate has been well below 2% in every year except 2008, so you'd still come out ahead compared to the US--assuming you weren't spending all your money on ATM fees.
Really? I haven't had that issue. Or, perhaps I just never noticed that it did that. But generally speaking, all html is displayed by your browser with consecutive spaces collapsed into one.
> you need contact with the real money system.

Yeah that’s what I’m saying. People meet up in real life and exchange Bitcoin for cash locally. Various forums, web systems, and message boards exist to facilitate this.
Neat, now I want a 3D printed version.
My understanding is that the interesting bit is not about the misalignment, but rather the fact that the furin site is an insertion, not a mutation. Additionally, a non-canonical codon that encodes a restriction site.

The idea as I understand is something like this:

1) I want to study what makes coronaviruses go from infecting bats to infecting humans

2) I add a furin site because my hypothesis is that a furin in the spike protein is important (because other coronaviruses like MERS have it)

3) I then try to passage the virus through many generations to see if it preserves the furin site I added (i.e. selects for it) because if it mutates at less than baseline, I know it's important (this also explains the "mosaic" aspect of the other mutations in the virus)

4) To be able to track that, when I add the furin site, I make sure to insert a restriction site that isn't found elsewhere in the genome, so I can do a quick RNA extraction, and restriction digest to see if it's preserved.

Please note. That is my understanding of this one aspect of the lab leak hypothesis. It's not necessarily what I believe to be true. Additionally, it is not the only piece of evidence cited as part of the lab leak hypothesis, either.
> But as far as I can tell, the consequences appear to be foreseen in this case. It’s a drone that goes boom when next to someone.

The immediate second order effect is, people start buying drones programmed to destroy a drone seeking them out. This should be much less controversial than the first drone, since it's not operating on a human target. Now the first drone needs to be able to eliminate one -- and shortly, multiple -- drone(s) before then destroying the human target. The defending drone(s) will certainly increase in number and firepower. It's basically a straight line to automated warfare in the streets with no regard for collateral damage.

The hurdles, of course, would be regulation on the ability to purchase drones, and the permitted level of firepower. I don't like the idea of us negotiating the laws around that while drones are causing collateral damage in an urban (or any) environment.
But not for the last couple thousand, thanks to legal systems, or before that "running fraudsters out of town"
> Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion.

Correction: ignoring speculation, the base asset-value of bog-standard crypto securities (i.e. the ones that don't "do" anything other than get traded around) is sustained by a mix of:

• capital flight (in countries where the routes for regular ForEx conversions have been restricted)

• financial "regulatory sandbox" instruments development, i.e. the ecosystem built on "security tokens." (This, as it turns out, is mostly being built out by the existing financial sector.)

• grey- or black-market purchases — i.e. purchases illegal for either the buyer or seller according to their local jurisdiction. (Which doesn't usually mean criminal activity as you'd think of it, but rather is most often a routing-around of brain-damaged legal codes, e.g. FDA bans of non-dangerous drugs. I have a friend who's trans, who found it impossible to get prescribed hormones where they live — but got them easily on the dark web! Another friend, who had gone through every step in the workflow to solving their chronic illness and come up short, used crypto to buy a Russian medication that doesn't exist domestically, and it solved everything for them. Etc.)

• facilitation of trade in environments with untrustworthy civic financial infrastructure, e.g. Venezuela

• facilitation of trade between private citizens of countries that actively attempt to prevent trade with one-another, e.g. countries who have trade embargoes, or even countries who are at war

Note the common theme: cryptocurrencies enable people to enter into trade with one-another when one or more governments don't want to enable that trade, or even want to actively prevent that trade. That's the "base value" that speculation on cryptocurrency is a multiplier on top of. Cryptocurrencies route around embargoes/tarrifs/etc. in the same way that the Internet routes around downed links.
> 2 of the 3 biggest security vulnerabilities I’ve had to deal with in my career were completely unrelated and wouldn’t have been prevented had software been written in Rust instead.

The last study I saw was that 52% of security vulnerabilities were still basic memory safety vulnerabilities. Memory safety isn't the only thing, but it's still the biggest thing.

> (if your depending on ‘cat’ or ‘awk’ to be bug free for your application to be hardened then you’re already doing it wrong)

People run cat or awk on log files (where an attacker could easily craft particular data patterns) all the time. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.
Unless privacy is a concern (you were on Google photos so far) you might try Dropbox, Amazon, Flickr, One Drive etc. As for self-hosted, think real hard whether you want to be dealing with everything that comes with it.

If I had such a need and privacy was not an issue I would use Dropbox (I already use Dropbox a lot, easy to share, excellent download speeds, and I don't have a huge photo library).

No matter what you do, stay away from iCloud. By God, they have made it so bad that it feels like a criminal offence.
>I wish they would actually explain the security rather than just citing AES-GCM

Yeah, AFAIK there isn't really much difference between AES-GCM and any other AES + HMAC algorithm (eg. AES-SHA1) other than that AES-GCM is more performant. In this sort of use case, that's not really relevant, so it's strange to advertise it like it's some sort of feature.
Certainly london water would kill any espreso machine in no time flat but would also kill the flavour of any espresso it makes. Most people who lived in areas with terrible water would be filtering it somehow at least through a brita filter.

I distill brita filtered water and then re-mineralise it by adding solutions of various minerals in specific quantities. Although not everyone has the time for that. I think brita filtered water and a good regular descaling cycle should be more than enough to make any machine last a very long time.
There's already decent regulation, yes. It may be time for the regulators to actually look at Amazon using those extant regulations, if they are declining returns in clear-cut cases like this.
Uber's handling of edge cases is...something.

My wife is banned for life from Uber because after she was overcharged by a driver by $80 (for a five minute ride), and after Uber denied her dispute of the fraudulent charge, she flagged the fraudulent charge with the credit card company and got refunded via that route. I don't think a human was in the loop for any step of this process on Uber's end.
Sellers do not want, but buyers have the money and hence the power so sellers mostly just have to deal with it.
> which could scale based on units sold, to cover credit card fees

Wouldn't that simply be a sales commission again, just billed yearly?
Understand the Use Case
I have serious doubts that someone downloading this near 30 year old game's clearly fan translated version is going to be shocked and appalled by the poor quality translation and then reflect this onto Kairosoft's "business reputation."

How about weighing a couple potential morons thinking less of a company against the archival value and reach of a project like this? In my view it isn't even close. The translation is worth it.

Not everything needs to be reduced to "business reputation" and "$". Especially when we're talking about 24 year old japanese software. If anything a translation would improve outcomes for the company in myriad ways. One may be laying groundwork for a modern product that they could actually sell.
I have no opinion on whether Facebook is blocking or not blocking something, but this is a pretty big - and common - fallacy. "Never been more X" has nothing to do with "is X". And even if X is true, and social media is a significant theater for X, that has no bearing on whether Facebook blocks X.
I've started adding to my reviews "I purchased the N-pack of color frobbing widget with feature ..." for exactly this reason. It's gotten really bad. Recently saw one which was a water filter assembly that was formerly a totally different kind of plumbing fitting (single part, nothing to screw up).
And efficient fast coordination inside directly networked swarms may be well beyond human operators abilities. Especially in a swarm against swarm situation.
If you are forced to put up with Windows, do yourself a favor and use LSTC. Almost all of this garbage behavior seems to be restricted to the retail channel builds and major update packs.

Sadly there is apparently no limit to what people will be conditioned to put up with.
Not really. Your wallet address needs to be shared with others if you want to transfer money, and anyone that knows your wallet knows all of your transactions. If Google decided to build a crypto wallet into Chrome, I think you can agree it would trivial for them to see all of everyone's transactions.
Speedrun - Monopoly 0:21 (Any%, RNG manipulation, glitchless)
I frequently bookmark both an article + its HN thread when the comments are full of related opinions, info, and links.
I tried to do something similar with Traffic Confusion https://web.archive.org/web/20021203070116/http://hd.st90.ar... I started using a resource editor on the Windows exe to extract resources and substituting in translated ones. Was all by hand (clicky-clicky-clicky) and really needed to be scripted.
Do you think a military commander should know anything about the military/weapons/etc.? Do you think a ship building manager should know anything about ships? Yes of course! It is a myth that you can have a manager managing something that he/she doesn’t understand. Without actually delegating their job to people who do (and then take the credit).
If you're happy, all power to you, not everyone else is. Amazon is essentially doing the same thing credit card companies did in the past. To hide their cost they are increasing everyone else's cost. Their approach primarily hurts people that DO NOT want to shop at Amazon.
Because it's used to launder money for crime, destroy the environment, and supports the cringiest, most juvenile libertarian derp (thanks Krugman!) about freedom from the tyranny of money banking government taxes or whatever.
13.5 miles in 16 minutes. Including stopping? That seems a little quick. Perhaps it was an automatically charged speeding fine ;)
It's also common for Ikea items, in part because Ikea puts a minimum $50 delivery fee on most items, with no option for parcel shipping.
You don't need a reactor to make a uranium based nuclear weapon at all (you just need to enrich natural uranium to a high enough percentage of U-235).

American and Soviet plutonium production reactors were largely (perhaps even entirely? not sure) graphite moderated.
It could be made more resistant to birthday attacks by using the session message count as the IV, but I guess it wouldn't matter unless someone kept one of these terminals open for a really long time.
iCloud is great for a hands-off experience. But if you’re accessing photos professionally or even somewhat seriously, I totally agree.
Interesting to consider that a Jonbar Hinge is entirely predicated on the existence of free will.
That's just an api to generate key and then wrap/unwrap. So OK, you generate the key in the server, and then have to get that over to someone who is using a web browser. How does that work? Then you have to store the key somewhere in the browser and in the server -- is it just in memory, in which case you have to get the key to the browsing user with each connection or if the browser is reloaded? Or is the key stored as a plaintext string on disk somewhere? Is it stored as a cookie in the browser? in gnome-keyring? and how is the key rotated? In other words, key management is the tricky part of all these protocols - is the author rolling their own authentication and key establishment protocol or using an existing one, and if the latter, which one and how are they using it? That's how you figure out the security of this cryptographic system. And remember that any secrets in the DOM loaded from origin X are exposed to code served from that origin, so what isolation guarantees are really being made when you want to make your terminal opaque to the webserver?
Every time I read a comment like that, I feel like there’s a fundamental gap in understanding the field. Bitcoin hasn’t regressed, the tech has just evolved a lot since then but most people just know about bitcoin.
If the manager simply does what the tech lead think is the best decision then the tech lead should be managing instead. If the manager makes technical decisions without knowing tech then he should be fired for incompetency.
Amazon has completely abandoned most of the state of Montana as far as "Prime Two-Day Shipping" goes. I've fought with them for over 6 months now, I ended up getting a 125% refund of my Prime Subscription for the year. Still didn't solve anything, so they told me to email "jeff@amazon.com". I did, got a handful of "executives" who gave me the run around about COVID and shipping delays (which is all horse shit, I provided my order history where Amazon switched my shipping method to "UPS Ground" about 20 months ago, and it takes 5-6-7 days to arrive AFTER shipment. Used to be "UPS 2-Day".

They literally told me they wouldn't reply to my emails anymore. It's total crap, they are using the Prime subs of rural customers to pay for same-day delivery in the cities, and hoping we won't notice.

So, yes, it is regional, but I have not even seen the words "Prime Two-Day" on any Amazon checkout in well over a year.
> Only about 5% of arginines in SARS-CoV-2 or RaTG13 are coded by CGG.(3) This implies that the CGGCGG in the inset would have an estimated 0.25% probability to “naturally” occur as an encoder of the RR motif

Duplications are a common source of natural mutations, so I don't think it's right to multiply 5% like that (ie it's not an independent event)

ie once a "CGG" exists, a single copying error makes "CGGCGG" rather than 2 independent events next to each other.

We know genomes have repetitive sequences, but if you want to test, you could count 2x arginines in the viral sequence and seeing what the frequency is for the codons being different vs the same.
...hmmm.

maybe china is on to something here.
Then you miss ECC if you need reliability. Only workstations equip ECC RAM even for business.
I believe Home Automation needs to start with proper climate control (not with iKettles) because just bringing fresh air from outside probably isn't enough, it depends on many things.

There's so much wasted heat, varying humidity, overabundance of co2 and particulate matter due to pollution in some places - keeping it all at optimal levels throughout the year is no small task.

Everyone knows about air conditioning, but barely anyone knows about recuperators/heat exchangers or has an air quality monitor in their house or at work. If you don't have proper ventilation then most of those air conditioners just recirculate stale air, change its temperature and mess with humidity.
> I don't agree with this. Companies like Comcast are deemed monopolies because their customers don't have a choice. Just as you stated, Comcast gives me high speed broadband. But my choice is limited to Comcast, and the only competitor (if there even is one in my neighborhood) will offer 2MB DSL.

> This is NOT the case with online shopping.

Does this mean that Google doesn't have monopolies, with its 90% market share in search, 70% market share in video sharing (Youtube), and 60% market share in web browsing (Chrome), just because there are alternatives available?
the post you're replying to is in response to Uber Support saying they'll refund the driver...but what is being refunded isn't clear
I immediately found a few Unicode features I hoped were supported but aren’t.

Superscripts: firstly numerals, like 3² = 9, but ideally then letters as well, e.g. 3ⁱ = 3^i. Might be suitable to support superscripts to define nth roots, too, e.g. ⁵√. tan¯¹ can be a thing too.

Subscripts: same deal; log₂ 31 = log(31, 2).

Proper arithmetic operators: times (×), minus (−), division (÷). Also fraction slash (⁄), which can be preceded and succeeded either by normal numerals (e.g. 12⁄34) or by superscripts and subscripts (e.g. ⁵⁶⁄₇₈). (Full font support for fraction slash is weak, but generally tolerable even if imperfect.) Also the prebaked fractions like ½ and ⅜.

Also mixed fractions: I reckon 1 2/3 should be parsed as 1+2/3, not 12/3. Them Unicode fractions can join in here too, with 1⅔ (using a prebaked fraction) being 1+2/3, or 1²³⁄₄₅ (using superscript, fraction slash, subscript) being 1+23/45.

Cubic and quartic roots: ∛ and ∜.

At this point it’s worth just looking through the whole Symbol, Math Unicode category and implementing everything applicable. Hmm, set operations, lots of fun symbols there.

Lots of fun spaces too, e.g. where I wrote log₂ 31 earlier I wanted to use NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE after the ₂, but alas, HN normalises it to a plain old space. That space gets used as a number grouping separator especially, avoiding the whole ,/. localisation problem without being too wide.
There was a thread about this recently:

The New York Times criticizes dark patterns, but fails to criticize themselves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27120686 - May 2021 (31 comments)
1992's Revolutionary reading device for the blind
Two economists are walking down the street and see a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk.

The first economist says, "Look at that $20 bill."

The second says, "That can't really be a $20 bill lying there, because if it were, someone would have picked it up already."

They walk on.
STM manufactured it, a Turkish company

The clients were either the Libyan government (or defense contractor), or the the breakaway faction (or defense contractor), but we don't know which

We don't know who it attacked

We don't know if it killed them

That's frustrating.

Anyway no serious drone introspection is going to come until non-US drones attacks US assets, and ideally because they don't like a US ideology that there is no state-side consensus on changing
I've played the game a number of times as a deployed troop just for something to pass the time which can also be mildly entertaining for some people.
Underrated Writing Skill: Writing a Great Paragraph
I recommend a class on instructions.

Learning how to write proper instructions is the gateway to proper documentation.
> The topic is literally

...yes we agree.

> It would even be actively unuseful. Because this is a cage on wheels

You can go argue with eitland if you want, but their intent was a phrase that could signal "a car, a truck, a trailer with a power generator, etc."

As in a phrase that's vague but correct. I'd rather know something vague than know nothing.

I agree that being misleading is bad. But the LAMP comment wasn't misleading.

By the way, do you ever care if programs are web apps? If no, that's crazy, it matters a lot to how you can use it. If yes, then what is the difference between the situations you care and someone explaining phabricator?

If someone explained what you do with phabricator, but left it ambiguous whether you run it on your desktop or on a webserver, wouldn't you feel like that explanation was missing something?

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Let's say someone had a list of facts about Phabricator to provide context:

1. It's software.

2. It's a web app. This also implies 1.

3. It's used for code and task management.

4. It uses linux, apache, mysql, php. This also implies 2.

When I go in knowing nothing, most of these facts are useful.

It's possible to guess from the article that it's software, but saying fact 1 is still good in making that clear.

Saying 1+2 gives even more info and makes it easier to understand the situation.

Saying 3 is also useful to understanding.

Saying 1+2+3 combines to give a great picture.

Once you've said all those, adding 4 doesn't help much.

But if someone didn't already know the previous facts, saying 4 also implies 1+2. Which is way better than nothing.
Avalanche, cosmos/tendermint, ethereum, mina, celo, dfinity, axelar, etc.
All I can say is that it can't be built overnight. There were 32 years between ARPANET implementing TCP/IP and AOL mailing install floppies around the country. I cannot claim to know that crypto will have the same impact as the Web has, but I claim it will require a similar amount of time to develop.