skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fusion doesn't want the stink of the word "nuclear".

One of the best marketing ideas for thorium breeder reactors is to call themselves "thorium reactors" rather than "nuclear reactors.

This memo stinks of the established corruption that tainted the term "nuclear":

- solid fuel reprocessors protecting their turf and forcing solid fuel designs

- government regulatory structures forcing light water reactors and restricting/preventing/choking funding from far superior alternative designs

- militaries protecting its access to weapons-grade isotopes

- treating everyone like they are 5 years old in press releases, which aside from being condescending, feels like they are hiding things

- hand-waving safety, which fukushima showed is very much a problem and wasn't just a "crazy russians at Chernobyl" problem and will be until the Light Water/Solid Fuel Rod design is finally abandoned for a modern safe-by-default design like LFTR.

Wind and Solar are currently running away with the power generation economics, but LFTR-based nuclear reactors absolutely should be neck-and-neck with them, and if the US had given proper investment two decades ago, we'd likely have modular small-scale reactors for a very very wide range of applications that is carbon-free:

- baseload grid

- industrial (aluminum + steel)

- desalination (extract lithium too)

- actual green hydrogen for transportation needs that aren't BEV possible like shipping and airlines

- LFTRs can reprocess/burn/consume solid fuel rod waste as well

Basically until an entire generation of baby-boomer regulatory people die off and eliminate the chokehold of solid fuel light water reactors, nuclear will be a second-rate option.
No opinion on the accuracy but there are numbers out there [1] that an hour or more is pretty average. Not London, but I live about 40 miles out of a major city in the Northeast US near a commuter rail and a major highway and it takes me a good 90 minutes+ if I'm traveling into the city for the day either by train or car. (I did actually commute about half-time for about 18 months at one point.)

[1] https://bmmagazine.co.uk/in-business/londoners-commute-74-mi...
Did you ever stop and consider why it was built so close to the Polish border ?

They're in need of a good PR move ("oh wow Berlin so cool") and cheap labor.

A company is a company is a company, they're not here to create job and support communities, wake up, this is ridiculous

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/building-delays-at-tesla-...

> Business Insider also reported on "undignified working conditions" at the construction site. Several Polish workers were quoted as saying they have to work 12 to 14 hours per day, Monday through Sunday. Despite corona contact restrictions, up to 350 workers are thought to be housed in a small hostel, with up to three people sleeping in small rooms. Furthermore, the research revealed that labourers at Tesla in Grünheide are allegedly being paid only €8.70 per hour, under Germany's €12.85 minimum wage for construction workers.
> nothing more I can do

Notwithstanding everything else you said, you don't know that for a fact. Some unlikely interventions can have a massive impact. Even if you're content with your sleep it doesn't mean it can't be improved.
You know what, that's a pretty good reason. Guess I'll add "click an unsubscribe button on a simple website" to my list of acceptable ways to handle unsubscribing. :)
I consider myself an excellent middle manager. Having some of my staff work from home is a problem for me because they’ve specifically told me “I hate working from home. It crushes my productivity and happiness.” So I am working to find a future where they can get back to a state they like without sabotaging my reports who prefer working from anywhere.
“Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve” - John Wheeler
The Matrix.
The problem with bitcoin mining is that it is really easy to move the servers to a different country that does not have this tax.
The "spewing BS is order to show the world how much you care about safety" part of the safety cargo cult bothers me a hell of a lot more than safety features enabling less attentive behavior.

If I had a nickle for every social media user who's screeching about how airbags are all that's good in the world but who doesn't understand the inherent tradeoffs to a bag of dense air occupying the space in front of the driver or how a crumple zone is basically a single use spring I would use the money to hire people to beat the first group of people over the head with highshcool physics textbooks.

I wish we'd regress to '50s attitudes about safety simply so that the people who care about safety no longer have to be held back by the people who crap all over everything by wanting to be seen caring about safety.
I'll be honest. Nobody cares about Africa (or South America). Everyone only cares about the starving children there. So we send them food and clothes to clear our conscience. Problem solved.
Are there any simple generally understandable comebacks to cheap rhetorical tricks like this?
Adorable pearl clutching.
Interesting; a relative of mine was diagnosed with a mild deficiency and was told that it's very common in the UK - presumably even more so now we've all just spent the last twelve months stuck indoors. Seems like we could probably all benefit from supplementing at least some.
check this out - https://insomniasos.net/, and Huberman's guide on sleep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1TxQj9IsQ
Look just be honest with yourself, you were in a prime position to buy bitcoin early (you are on HN so you likely heard about it before, let's say 2013). And you didn't, so your vested interest is in it failing. The environmental considerations just give you the flag to rally around. Your comment history has plenty of negative mentions of cryptocurrency/BTC but I cannot find anything related to environmental concern that is not cryptocurrency related. I also have never seen a comment where you want to ban something, does that mean that bitcoin is the only " exceptionally pointless wasteful activity" that you know of? If so, even that should tell you something about your true motives, if not where do you protest about these other activities?
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Please imagine, as me and the GP may, that one assumes oldtimers means the people pulling up in the parking lot. I wouldn't be so quick to think someone defending an age group underrepresented here is a troll
Surprised this post isn’t getting more comments. The result is pretty clear with over 10,000 participants in the study.

>>Total hours worked increased by roughly 30%, including a rise of 18% in working after normal business hours. Average output did not significantly change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, but uninterrupted work hours shrank considerably.
I was in a bit of a weird half-rate math competion team/club where some people who were there to get out of history class and some people who were very much the opposite and were some of the smartest people I've ever talked to. One thing I noticed is that all the power competitors had good calculation ability, but whereas some people were just really fast calculators and, like your lab friend, could calculate huge multiples in their head, others were actually subpar at that type of mental math and instead were just familiar with, for instance, all the perfect squares/cubes/powers of 5 up to 20 and beyond because they've just encountered them a lot.
Bitcoins show the same aspects in those who've been charging you 1-4% for the pleasure of doing what bitcoin achieves
When I started my newsletter, I was seemingly the only person using email for long-form. Now everyone’s doing it.

The situation with Outlook should hopefully improve in the next year, as Microsoft is planning to make different versions of Outlook work basically the same, with the web version as the baseline: https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-wants-to-unite-all-...

The downside of this whole saga with Apple is that other than this Apple basically renders emails better than just about every other service—rendering essentially using the Safari engine. Gmail has improved but inlining CSS is still required because of it.

If everyone was working to a unified standard life would be easier for email senders … possibly even recipients.
> For those wondering what this is:

And here is a list of alternatives.[0]

[0] https://alternativeto.net/software/openrgb/
> "no one has verified their assets"

It's worse than that - they were audited by Friedman LLP in 2017, but chose to suppress the full outcome: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...
Probably a lot less than the generations who grew up when it was acceptable to drive drunk and/or not wear your seatbelt aging out.
That's where it ends. Cuomo is an asshole.
> Sooo... do you think it’s better to have higher transfer fees?

So many conversations with Bitcoin advocates involve them putting ridiculous statements into the mouths of others.

No one said that or anything like it.
Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?
Per that image, none of which are available at all in the US, Canada, Australia, or most of Europe, so...
Putting aside for a moment whether this will actually happen, I would like to ask: how?

How do you effectively ban circulation of certain types of information?

The entertainment industry didn't manage to achieve this over the last 20 years.
Does Safari 15 finally fix viewport height?
One of the YouTube videos claims that they are self-replicating structures that were "evolved" in another simulation. So possibly the appearance of being designed comes from the fact that they were selected from the best of whatever was produced by that other simulation and placed together for a video.
Similar for me: "first name @ first name . fi".

I used to use steve.org.uk, but since moving steve.fi. The Finnish suffix is much easier to explain than the ".org.uk".
RAII and smart pointers definitely were a thing in the 90s. I wrote lots of COM code using these techniques. According to wikipedia, RAII was invented in 1984-89.
Mirandas, Bridges, Overpasses (2018)
> How is this different from money or the financial markets?

A big difference is that the sovereign requires you to pay taxes in a given currency at the threat of punishment. So long as everyone needs to pay the taxman, the currency that the tax man accepts is gonna have at least some value.
Probably the best applied math "tutorial" without all the bullshit I've yet seen is the mathematical background appendix in Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction by Kevin P. Murphy.
Yes.

I said it about the Patriot Act and I say it about this.
I agree, literally the only negative is it's current energy use, but even that has been blown out of proportion and has not been fairly compared with the energy use of other sectors and technologies.
Remind me the carbon footprint and transaction costs of Bitcoin again, and compare that to the costs from institutional payment gateways?
Not more than China and India.
Get with it China bots. Try harder next time.
Because the Netherlands make significant money from funnelling money to their tax havens. If people can do it themselves with bitcoin, how are these tax-pros supposed to live? /s
Depends. Is Shiller recommending to buy vitamin C?
hyperhopper wrote "* 2 commutes a day".
Options trading has far more structure to try and keep you from hurting yourself than crypto does.
A Roman would likely have taken issue (and maybe taken offense) with that claim.

The men of Britain are taller than the Celti, and not so yellow-haired, although their bodies are of looser build. The following is an indication of their size: I myself, in Rome, saw mere lads towering as much as half a foot above the tallest people in the city, although they were bandy-legged and presented no fair lines anywhere else in their figure. Their habits are in part like those of the Celti, but in part more simple and barbaric— so much so that, on account of their inexperience, some of them, although well supplied with milk, make no cheese; and they have no experience in gardening or other agricultural pursuits.
It's actually not about buying but downloading. I regularly buy single tracks and downloading them one by one is very tedious: You have to click on "download", you get to a new site to download this single track, then you have to wait up to 10 seconds for the on-the-fly encoding, and finally you can download it. It's so bad I pretty much stopped "impulse purchases" of single tracks.
Making a Platform Adaptive for Everyone
I think Amazon is having trouble hiring and retaining talent. Given the horrible covid situation in India, the L1 Visa pipeline must have dried up. And their reputation has taken quite a hit given all the stories about PIP and the political/toxic culture, so no experienced engineers wants to go join a place like that. I guess, this is them panicking.
They can bar merchants from accepting the currency. This means that it's only useful in the black market.
I’m not suggesting a pair of western reporters. I’m suggesting hundreds of western reporters, each with complete authorization to speak with anyone in private, to go anywhere and gain full access to any location of their choosing. If the NYTimes reports that they went to Camp XYZ and found a shoe factory, and the Washington Post went to Camp ABC and found something less pleasant, then the NYTimes would want to go visit that same camp, along with the other 98 reporters. This isn’t a sinking ship with no independent observers. These are millions of people, supposedly in camps… or shoe factories.

As for the gulf war justification, I have voted against every politician who ever authorized force based upon that deception. Unfortunately my fellow countrymen are willing to excuse it, and thus the lies will continue.
Only if you naively cherry pick nations to make a clickbait title.
I had a 2 hour commute in - and I was 30 miles out of London. Drive to train station, get train, walk/Tube to office and that was on a good day with no train delays, I stuck it for 4 years
Moved to the Midwest where I had a 15 minute commute and could afford a home (which I am currently WHF from)
I think the only move is to answer it honestly. It isn’t even a trick really; it gets to the heart of the matter.
And without the complete abolition of capacity to transmit the disease you're still a risk to that goal.
Let them enjoy it?
Instead of trying to achieve a perfect ideal you should first find a solution that can get everyone on board. Replacing ICEs with EVs is just one step of many but it's the most agreeable solution over the short term. It's already difficult enough to get people to care about the environment at all.
All terms are invented.
auto_ptr (precursor to unique_ptr) was first proposed for standardisation in 1994 [0], and there was probably non standard versions of it before 94.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/1994/N055...
It will never be used as a general currency by the man on the street.

For example in the UK we have Direct Debits which are backed by the DD Guarantee. If a DD is wrong or fraudulent the bank must refund you without question and they initiate a DDIC (indemnity claim) against the creditor bank. This could not happen with Bitcoin.

Same for problems such as push-payment fraud - they are rolling out confirmation of payee to try to tackle this. How could Bitcoin be a viable payment method in it's current form when addresses are anonymous (in the context of PPF)?
>the carbon footprint of Bitcoin

Still less than the carbon footprint of the people running our current fiat-based financial infrastructure.

It's the bankers who have jets, mansions and yachts, not the bitcoiners.

Edit to clarify:

Not that riches is somehow "wrong" - it's just that with major value comes major costs, which in practice mean major energy usage.
Fiat is slightly different in that the government can guarantee a certain level of demand for it by requiring taxes to be paid in it. If you you don't like jail and have a tax liability in US, you can't think dollars are worthless.
Libya is still white then? It feels like you're just moving the goal posts to include all people under "white". If the Roman empire had covered all of sub-saharan Africa I wonder if you would be arguing that they're really white after all.

The whole point is that ancient peoples, and especially Romans, are not a homogeneous group of people. Whether they define themselves as white is not what you should be arguing about, because most definitions of "white people" includes a diverse set of ethnicities as well.
Elon should be happy that on Mars, there will be neither a regulatory body nor environmental groups.

Maybe they should just cheat like VW did? /S
I see some objections here saying the level of "green" should be more related to the cars itself, not production. I find this is a bit like enjoying the sausage but looking away from how they are made, because it is rather nasty.

Tesla has a way of presenting a " clean" product , but plays very dirty on all other fronts, like pricing lies , fsd promises which never materialize etc

I think the whole supply chain , including production do contribute to how green a product is.
I recall attending Bay Area cryptocurrency meetups before the 2017 price surge. After mid 2017 the average IQ at the meetups was inversely proportional to the price chart and it has been that way ever since.

I can't fault someone for making a profit by researching a technology, investing, holding for the long term, and selling. We want capital to flow to the best ideas. But this is more MLM-style dog-eat-dog money making. It's unclear how it could have been prevented.

Ultimately greed and excess ruins everything.
IIRC there's some research that suggests maths education before 8th grade doesn't really do a whole lot long-term. I doubt that'd be true in a perfect world with personalized maths education for everyone, but I'd buy that waiting until a kid's capable of conceptualizing stuff rather than trying to push them when they're not ready really cuts down on learned helplessness.

ETA: On the other hand, I'm not sure how I feel about that framing. I hated it as a kid when I asked about something and an adult wouldn't even try to explain it to me, or point me in the right direction to learn, and just say I wasn't ready to learn that yet.
It also has most of the free world as its customer and if it didn’t exist then China or Russia would be determining what you can post on here.
Those references don't say what you think they say. What is an mRNA chromosome, then?
Exactly right. Money that can't be spent is worthless and without exchanges that's exactly what cryptocurrencies would become.
I have a dream in which cities will offer free parking on the outskirts in garages, and free light rail/subway transit into the city, with zoning laws that emphasize a walkable city. I can dream, but I think it will require separating people from their cars and getting them comfortable with that.
> My approach to detecting fraud is to always assume the worst possible reason why someone did something or why something happened.

This goes against Hanlon's razor, though.
Haha yeah I do expect I’ll eventually run into confusion. For the most part I’m rarely giving anyone an email address in person or over the phone anyway.

I live on a street with a long, somewhat weird name that sounds like one word if you say it too fast but is actually three words. It’s much more of annoyance than my email addresses hah.
You are absolutely correct.

To be honest, what I do does not work for the vast majority of people, and even though I do it, it does make me nervous.

But one big reason I still do it is that the current culture thinks I am a terrible person anyway, so they are not going to think worse of me.

I have already been the target of collective vitriol once, when I spoke against one particular Open Source project rewriting in Rust.

So I have already weathered such a storm, which means I can do it again if I become someone's new target of the week.

Can everyone do that? I don't think so. So yeah, you are absolutely 100% correct.

(Side note: that experience with Rust has pushed me away from Rust, period. I don't want to be part of a community that does that. I know the Rust maintainers don't like that culture either, so I don't blame them. But it still exists, so Rust doesn't seem like a community that would want me in it.)
It doesn't matter what messages laypeople received from the media. All that matters is if those laypeople were capable of discovering the same facts which congresspeople had access to. Congresspeople were also subject to those messages in the media which downplayed the severity of the virus, and many laypeople also sold stocks in February despite the media opinion.
I have yet to meet someone who complains about insomnia who actually accurately follows all of the advice.

Notably usually absent or poorly followed:
- waking up early, at the exact same time, every day.
- as SOON as you get up, you need to eat a heavy breakfast of fats and protiens with as few carbs as possible. Some people think they are special snowflakes who "have never been able to eat in the morning", you need to practice it and get in the habit then you will be able to.
- ACTUAL psychological separation of bed, and screen areas.
- not sleeping in the same bed as someone else to those it applies to
- keeping your room around 20 degrees, if you cant decide, colder is the preference for sleep as we did not evolve with masses of blankets and insulation.
- understanding and handling rumination, more complex but if you handle tasks in a way that leaves you with unresolved threads all the time, you will ponder on them endlessly. This must be handled sensibly.
I've worked on several code bases that nominally are C++11 or 14. However they still contain a lot of code written by people still coding like it's the 90s.
How does China compare? They are building tons of coal plants as we speak
We talked about this during the outage before but any API requests related to account information should not be going through a cacheable CDN.

At the mild end, you could get stale data. Deposit some money and the cache doesn't reflect making you wonder whether the deposit happened or not.

On the worst end, you get this - all users get exposed the most recently requested data.

All this to save... a few kB?
AI-Designed Microchips Now Outperform Human-Designed Ones
The Netherlands is a modern country we don't use cash unless we buy drugs. I don't even own a single coin at the moment lol.
Not a lot of stuff is bought directly with gold either. Itd’d be more like banning gold, except harder to enforce.
Yea its really great to be prosecuted for no reason except the whims of the powerful, we should really all be in favor of making everything illegal by default.
Walker responded to some of his critics here:

https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...
Who else is there… AMD?