skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once the radioactive material is released from a safe container, the cleanup effort to discover and contain it is immense

Larger than dealing with an oil tanker spil or gas line explosion ?

The main problem with nuclear is potentially global consequences of an accident - small reactors don't have that and people are used to dealing with localised risks.
Apple Notes is my go-to for “almost plain text.” It’s simple, instantly syncs across phone/desktop, and I can throw in bulleted lists, photos, PDFs, or whatever else if needed. I have meeting notes, to-do lists, journal entries, and god knows what else in there.

It’s not perfect - Markdown, or at least code blocks, would be nice, and tags (I think those are coming in the next OS release), but in terms of ease-of-use, I haven’t found anything close.
Great, a whole new way to automatically introduce bugs through code duplication.

From the examples:

body: text=${text}

`text` isn't properly encoded, what if it has a `=`?

rows, err := db.Query("SELECT category, COUNT(category), AVG(value) FROM tasks GROUP BY category")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer rows.Close()

shouldn't we want to cleanly `rows.Close()` even if there was an error?

float(value)

where `value` is a currency. Doesn't Python have a Decimal class for this?

create_table :shipping_addresses do |t|

that's an auto-generated table, that one's debatable but for starters a `zip` fields makes it American only. And doesn't the customer have an e-mail address instead of a shipping address?

var date1InMillis = date1.getTime();

But what about the time-zone offset?

I could go on, but literally the first five examples I looked at are buggy in some way.

Edit:

const markers: { [language:string]: CommentMarker } = {
javascript: { start: '//', end: ''},

Wow.

Edit 2:

function collaborators_map(json: any): Map<string, Set<string>> {

Not exactly buggy, but 8 lines of tedium.

What about

new Map(json.map(({name, collaborators}) => [name, new Set(collaborators)]))

instead?

Edit 3:

const images = document.querySelectorAll('img');
for (let i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {
if (!images[i].hasAttribute('alt')) {

I mean, I get it, it's auto-generate code. Maybe in the future they can narrow it down to auto-generating good code.

document.querySelectorAll('img:not([alt])').forEach(

(or)

img:not([alt]) { border: 1px solid red; }

(or)

eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y because that maybe that img was rendered through react.

(or)

it should really be an `outline` because we don't want this to reflow the page and we can. And maybe a will-change.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configur...

Not mTLS, but AWS metadata v2 has moved to an authenticated session-based system. Of course, an attacker who can make arbitrary requests can create tokens for limited sessions, but it's certainly an improvement.
I curious about typing "const api_key" and see what the editor adds hahaha
Out of curiosity, did you sign an invention assignment agreement at both companies? Is so, I wonder how that works (I am not a lawyer).
Normal people don't get fired, or quit just in time to avoid getting fired, from every job. If you're smart enough for the job, then there's something else going on that a psychologist or psychiatrist is well-equipped to handle. Like I said, it's not necessarily ADHD. But it is abnormal behavior and if it makes you unhappy or unfulfilled in this life, then you should do something about it. A good place to start is a mental health professional.
It's the famous Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi. The linked Ontier press release* quotes Wright's legal team:

>“Dr Wright does not wish to restrict access to his White Paper. However, he does not agree that it should be used by supporters and developers of alternative assets, such as Bitcoin Core, to promote or otherwise misrepresent those assets as being Bitcoin given that they do not support or align with the vision for Bitcoin as he set out in his White Paper.”

They're saying the project bitcoin.org promotes is using the whitepaper dishonestly to promote itself. Which resembles to me a trademark dispute, instead. And usually the trademark or copyright owner has solid proof of ownership.

* https://www.ontier.digital/post/uk-court-awards-bitcoin-crea...
But it's not exactly true. His body statistically is not the best for football. In fact he had a growth problem he had to take hormonal treatment for. Initial coaching opportunities are thanks to the parents, but then he had to work hard to qualify for Barcelona youth program. Then he had to move to Spain as young teenager to be able to continue training at the required level. Amount of hard work and sacrifice he invested is way beyond that most other footballers do, and incomparable to normal population at all.
I enjoyed reading your other comments maybe out of implicit bias, and this is tangential maybe, but just the same I'm curious about what you make of Nima Arkani-Hamed's recent work—namely amplituhedrons—in this larger context.
>> where *nix systems would use plaintext, shows just how far behind the FOSS world is.

Plain text is a design decision that is still advantageous today. Plain text is universal and easy to build more complex formats on top of. It can easily be inspected, edited, compressed, encrypted, diff'ed, filtered, and processed by tools on any platform.

ESR wrote: "Text streams are a valuable universal format because they're easy for human beings to read, write, and edit without specialized tools. These formats are (or can be designed to be) transparent.

Also, the very limitations of text streams help enforce encapsulation. By discouraging elaborate representations with rich, densely encoded structure, text streams also discourage programs from being promiscuous with each other about their internal states and help enforce encapsulation."

Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s01.html
Door and window frames are the only wooden element in most houses. You can instantly see if they have never been replaced, and after 70 - 80 years they look quite old. Now imagine the whole house looking like that.
I saw someone on here had a program that went in your profile and rewrote all posts with garbage data before you deleted it. Like for Facebook, Twitter, Discord, etc. That way you know their database is filled with junk data. I'd really like to know what that was again so I could peak at it in case I ever wanted to do that.
You might be dealing with outdated price information. I just picked a random available 6 letter domain "prider.eth" and it costs ~$5 a year with a ~$12 fee. That means you can register an "unstoppable" domain for a decade for ~$62 at this moment. $12 seems like a pretty reasonable fee for such a service.

Secondly, you need specialized software for HTTP, it's called a web browser. There are browsers that have (or will) have native eth/ipfs support. I think Brave already does out of the box. People will download whatever app their friends are using, even if they have no idea what's going on underneath.

The HTTP gateways for all this stuff are only so "legacy" tech can communicate to that world. It's a bridge, not a destination.
Probably OP was thinking at services like ISP, cable and mobile providers. I do not see US ISP or mobile companies have a chance to compete in EU markets.
Nah. Remember that "Google AI signs you up for a hair stylist session" demo? We never got anything out of that.
A comparative look at AWS messaging solutions – SQS
I think you could set up something clever where the QR code redirected to the correct menu 95% of the time, and maybe it didn't charge the credit card initially, and that would last longer than if you had charged something immediately 100% of the time. However, I think your point still stands that it's not worth the trouble and it doesn't scale well.
Probably true for data processing programming.

The thing about UI programming (and a lot of comms programming, too), is that the ability to completely abstract all the factors relevant to an entity is pretty important.

Good UI is very complicated. As someone above pointed out, it can be insanely complicated. Comms programming is basically the same thing.

It's pretty much a requirement to be able to abstract all the particulars of an interface behind an identity/state wall. I used to write procedural programs that ran an entire GUI (and device control), and OO was like a gift from Santa. Applications that used to take weeks, and were bug farms, suddenly took days, and hardly had any bugs.

We can, arguably, do without inheritance (the part of OO that everyone loses their bottle over), but that encapsulation is pretty damn important. This means that we can add a button to an interface with a few drags on an interface description screen, and a copy/paste (if we're eschewing inheritance) of a simple class or struct definition.

I like inheritance, though. It helps me to refactor the code down to a fairly manageable (and debuggable) scope, speeds up development, and helps me to keep quality very high.

It's like everything. We need to be good at what we do, and have a good command of our tools; whatever they are. FP is certainly not for the faint of heart.

The tech industry is absolutely obsessed with taking almost completely unskilled, junior, developers, and getting them to produce release-quality code, unassisted by experienced architects. Vast resources have gone into trying to make this work. It is not new. It has been going on for as long as I have been in the field.

And it always ends in tears.
True, gaming is a great way to make friends and connect… with a bunch of other losers!
Wrote my own vaguely Zettelkasten-inspired system because I wanted something that works at the command line and followed my own idiosyncratic (or idiotic) preferences. The data lives in my keybase KBFS mount and I symlink it into my home directory.

You build up a hierarchy of notes, but you can also cross-link so a note appears in multiple places. You can also drop arbitrary files alongside any given note. I expand it occasionally as I need new features; most recently I added regular expression searching and a command to locate "orphaned" notes. It's at https://github.com/floren/zk which contains the Go library to interact with the files on disk, and a command-line tool which wraps the library.
> not vaccines that are given to everyone a few times

I agree, and therefore Pfizer and Moderna have an incentive to claim annual boosters are needed. To get recurring revenue.

I'm not sure why you feel we disagree.

I was just also saying, "I'm happy to get a useless booster, as long as its safe" because the extra volume of mRNA production should drive down long term manufacturing costs.
That's a start, but we still need multimedia handling: conversion, editing, etc. And we need a way to easily edit stored content: I create it, export it, now I want to edit it ...

It's not like posting something on Facebook, or using a good text editor.
Sometimes I laugh at arguments like this, sometimes I get pissed of. You are seriously disconnected from reality if you think this will change anything except all laptops having a front webcam. I haven't seen one without it ever anyways
That seems extremely unlikely. However, even a Sept launch date would be an AMAZING accomplishment.

Would love to compare cost and time for SLS vs this Starship launch.
Are you against school vouchers? Why would you want parents to not be able to select the school their children go to?
No, your convenience is not more important than the welfare and bodily integrity of a child.
I think part of what you're calling luck is what pg calls natural ability and part of it is the idea of "luck favors the prepared". I don't see how you can attribute luck to Lionel Messi's success, with his natural ability+hard work there's no way he wouldn't have been discovered and achieved success.
> In any case, I hope that GitHub is at least limiting any training data to a sensible whitelist of licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache, and similar). Otherwise, I think it would probably be too much risk to use this for anything important/revenue-generating.

I'm going to assume that there is no sensible whitelist of licenses until someone at GitHub is willing to go on the record that this is the case.
I'd enjoy seeing a complete list of the disciplines that require such rote learning. I think the broad categories might be "areas where people invent lots of arbitrary rules" (law, accounting, medical coding) and "complex systems we don't understand well" (chemistry, biology, neurology). Others?
Poll: Biden Leads Trump Among Federal Workforce by 28%

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/09/poll-biden-leads-t...

Democrats Lead Ranks of Both Union and State Workers

https://news.gallup.com/poll/146786/democrats-lead-ranks-uni...
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> We could do it in the US too! Convince the Democrats to give up $x billions in $something to do universal healthcare and I bet you could get a bunch of Republicans to support it.

Nope.

Leaving aside the the current psychotic break the GQP is experiencing this year, universal health care is not something they've ever wanted.

Why? Well, the insurance companies and for-profit hospitals have big lobbying efforts to ensure that sort of thing absolutely will not get passed. Because it would kill the need for them (insurance) or hurt profits (hospitals).

UHC will not happen until there is serious reform with how politicians get elected, and how lobbying works.
Finally, a faster way to spread bugs than copy/paste.
This is very true. Like I said in another comment, the HTTP gateways are bridges, not destinations. It'll only take one or two bridge collapses before people wise up and move to sturdier ground.
The fuel here is in tiny containers (about that of a poppy seed https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/triso-particles-most-robu...). You'd have to crack many of them, and that's not likely from an accident. How what's the ratio of bananas to cracked TRISO particle for equivalent radiation?

The reactors can't melt down, so you'd have to physically crack many of these particles and then distribute the results into the air.
I love plain text. I also need to use images and video.
The Amish don't get the benefit of all the highways in their area, generally don't need paved roads, and don't send their children to public school. Additionally they are pacifists who don't believe in war.

They still pay taxes that fund all of that.

My grandmother became interested in computing and learned how to use the internet in her 80's before she passed away a decade later. The number of people who don't require or want internet access going into the future is going to be very few.
> Some of the best work is done by people who find an easy way to do something hard.

This is a pretty good insight. Every time I’ve been somewhat successful it’s been because I discovered a different approach which made the problem approachable.

When I tried to understand math by rote memorization it was boring. When I understood it as a tool to make predictions about systems, it seemed much more useful. Learning the equations became a side effect of another thing I was trying to do.
I'm not arguing against consent, of course. The data is out there but you are misinterpreting it.

I just think you're taking issue with silly things, overblowing the risks and trying to make other people scared. That's seriously messed up.

Be truthful. You've decided not to take it no matter what. Now you're back-filling reasons not to. If you truly were about your ethics, you'd stop trying to make others afraid because you are.
The question is currently closed, so I can't post a new answer. I voted to reopen it, and I've edited the title to focus on the aspect of the question that is not adequately answered by the duplicate.
I recommend https://bear.app/. It has good markdown support with code blocks and a tagging system I like.
If you could take that job and leverage it to build your personal brand (blog, YouTube channel) I'd agree it's a dream job! The next best thing would be working in a research lab where you get to publish or speak under your own name.
Yes exactly, was looking to comment this. HTML and other formats (markdown) are driven by adoption and stick around for that reason.
Back then poker was way less developed though. Modern constructive approach is relatively a recent phenomenon.
This is most certainly a security initiative to standardise biometrics (Windows Hello). Windows wants everyone to use their “FaceID” because it’s more secure.
I'm sure it is regional. Close climates need more insulation than warmer ones. I've seen variations of this in El Paso (only 1 in foam) for high end housing where the cooling advantages can be sold.

I doubt interior load supporting walls are 2x6. Often there are internal 2x6 walls, but that is to allow extra space for plumbing - 2x4 is plenty strong enough for load bearing in most houses, but toilet drains/vents don't really fit.
Cool. Note that among adults, that rate would be higher. (For the apples-to-apples comparison with above.) Saw one headline that said 80% as of June 1st. If that's true, the original stat is basically equivalent to saying that 50% of the infections are among the 20% of the (unvaccinated) adult population.
I saved this search and use the latest tab to bring it back until twitter caves and reverses course:

https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Are...

This chasing engagement at all costs thing is ruining all of the social sites.
"without a single penny spent of tax dollar money. We've been fortunate to get enough grant money from both state and federal to get this off the ground."

How are state and federal grants not made up of tax dollars?
This post was too long compared to its substance.

tldr: To do great things, you need to be both hard-working and smart.
I had one!
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A common tension we experience with PG's recent essays is that they make you wonder if you fit into his world (the way that Patrick Collison, Kyle Vogt, Sam Altman and other well-known founders do). Those stories usually contain elements of above-natural raw talent combined with insane amounts of hard work and the foresight to channel all that talent and effort into development of highly valuable skills. There are a good amount of people like that out there, and his writing deeply resonates with them. At the same time, there are many more people out there who quickly discover that their lives have very few overlaps with PG's narrative.

For example, perhaps they started a startup and got burned (contrary to PG's narrative). Or they never cared for any skills that one traditionally needs to build a digital product (primarily programming, design, and the intercept between the two in form of a well-rounded PM). Or worse yet, their career took them into the analog world, with all the pros and cons of that universe. Last but not least, perhaps they just simply value the benefits of starting a family and providing for them with a low-to-moderate but predictable and stable income.

If you belong to that latter group, no way that PG will resonate with you, similar to how Karl Marx won't be a favorite author for a monarchist or Rush Limbaugh for a Democrat. Or those people right or wrong? It depends on who you ask. It's the same with PG - we just have to come to understand that the startup world is a polarizing ideology that works for some and not for others. I bet you that any founder out there that made money with a startup is quite likely to like PG's writing. Conversely, if you tried and didn't succeed (or never even wanted to give it a shot), it would be more difficult for you to align your thinking with PG's.
Concrete is a mixture of different sizes of a strong stone, like granite or silicate in a carefully graded mix of sizes from sand sizes upwards. The idea is to get the final block to be 100% stone(impossible) or as close as practical. You then cement this all together (mixing all the while) with powdered cement. Cement is a mixture of
C3S: Alite (3CaO·SiO2);
C2S: Belite (2CaO·SiO2);
C3A: Tricalcium aluminate (3CaO·Al2O3) (historically, and still occasionally, called celite);
C4AF: Brownmillerite (4CaO·Al2O3·Fe2O3).
This is melted at high temperatures into 'clinker' (when melted it resembles lava from which classic roman cement was made as it collected as a fine volcanic ash).
Rock has water of hydration strongly bound into, when melted into clinker the water evaporates = clinker.
The clinker is ground to a powder and added to the graded mixture of sand and small rocks and water is added - it is then mixed very throughly and the final water ratio is established. It is then poured into the moulds that hold the cement in the final shape you want when it sets. You vibrate and shake well to get the air bubbles out and then you want for it to cure. As it cures the powdered clinker absorbs water and turns into the fully hydrated final (set) form. It can take months to fully set, but usually after a day it is into the 60-75% area of final strength. This makes heat = big things need active cooling, small stuff not so much.
As it cures and very strong matrix of hydrated crystals fills all the space = set or cured concrete.
Reinforcing can be any strong material that is not brittle. Usually steel rebar is OK for a dry life structure. For damper areas you can use epoxy coated rebar, then galvanized rebar, then epoxy coated and galvanized rebar. For the next stage stainless steel rebar is the high cost option. Nuclear power stations use SS rebar in some cases.

Corrosion. Steel corrodes. Steel = FE,(1 atom) corroded steel = FeO (2 atoms = bigger) if oxygen reaches the steel it will make FeO - these 2 atoms are bigger than the one atom of Fe.
This means the FeO will expand with an irrestible force (200 times as strong as concrete). It is this rebar expansion that makes huge cracks = more water in, = bigger cracks etc.
FeO is as weak as kleenex as a support member. so as the concret and rebar turn into powder the strngth of the structure vanishes. At some point you get this sort of collapse - all of which was preventable by proper design and maintenance.
Punishment? imprison them in the basement of one of their badly made buildings and let them spend their life waiting for the inevitable collapse.
Concrete Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement
What is your definition of "replace"? Waymo operates a driverless taxi service in Phoenix. Sign ups are open to the general public. IMO this counts as replacing some drivers as there is less demand for taxi service in the operating area.

https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...
Out of curiosity, can you also not hear "vivid" music in your mind? My friend can't, at best he can "hear" himself mumbling something resembling the original piece.

I however can hear passages of music I remember well: the opening from Star Wars, parts of Kind of Blue or songs from Pink Floyd, the intro song of many TV shows, etc. I probably cannot pass a test equivalent to the crossword puzzle either, but I definitely can hear the music and it's not just me mumbling in my head.
Yes, and with the code you're writing/generating.
If parents want to send their kids to religious schools, they can pay for it themselves.
Nuclear power is kicking down the road, for literally thousands of generations, the consequences of our current consumption.

How can anybody justify that?
Largely because you’re running that experiment at the expense of tax payers.
Coinbase is not BTC only.
The crypto market cap is growing exponentially since 2015

Today BTC is only 46.3% of the total market cap,

BTC is proof of work, while the future is proof of stake.

The crypto market is growing very fast and it is changing very fast too.

https://ventures.coinbase.com/
Your estate? The compiler comparison upthread seems to be perfectly valid. If you work on a solo project in c# and die, Microsoft doesn’t automatically own your project because you used visual studio to produce it