skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s moving the goalposts, the US only has 95.5 gigawatts of nuclear power and it’s moving away from nuclear. At that level even just 99.9% containment you can replace all US fission reactors and have 1/10th the annual releases your concerned about spread across a much larger area.

Globally, I do think fission or potentially fusion has a minor role because it could be important for a few countries locally even if it’s not cost effective in most areas. But realistically their only really competing with each other.
The review is poorly written and has political bent as should be expected from this website. The historical inaccuracies of the book are hugely overblown by this 'reviewer' and the core story of the book is completely missed. This website has many reviews of this low quality, I'm assuming this was shared as an example of how not to write a book review?
First, I would like to say well done. Not just the project -- it is neat. I particularly appreciate the fact that it includes all the less obvious, to me, pieces like building appropriate box, sanding and so on.

I wish more projects were like this ( as in, showed most of the steps ).
The conversion is free, at least on x86-like platforms, because there are no separate 32-bit and 64-bit registers. Instead, there is a fixed shared set of registers, and the instructions signal whether they operate on the 32-bit or 64-bit value on it. When assigning to a register in 32-bit mode the top 32 bits are cleared, so if x and n were loaded into 32-bit registers, a 64-bit multiplication can be applied to it directly, without any conversion instructions.
That is the idealistic idea, but when companies grow very large they become able to:

* dominate the supply chain, making it impossible for other companies to compete

* write their own laws or otherwise influence legislation to keep themselves in their dominant position
I'd love to see a "mark as spam" for illegitimate notifications.
It takes about a decade for a new tree to start capturing much carbon, and then you have to maintain a forest for 100 years and prevent it from burning, etc. Seems like something we should do more of, but surely not a complete solution to the problem.
It only took a threat to get 15%, and if you make enough money you don't get that deal.
I’m putting together ads that are not appropriate for kids but are being targeted to kids on blatantly obvious iOS kids games.

Where’s the best spot to post something like that to get traction?
Recently started seeing more of this called "tactical urbanism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_urbanism

- Reclaiming City Spaces With “Tactical Urbanism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waiI9EQTdaw

- Tactical Urbanism: An Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEHIgQTmK5g
True, astrophotographers like monochrome camera because you can prioritize gathering brightness signal over color signal, so you get more detailed photo; you can also use narrowband filter and image under full moon or in inner cities.

However, astrophotographers also complain about the price premium of monochrome camera. Given the same sensor, the monochrome version is typically 20% - 30% more expensive than the color version, which is counterintuitive - you don't need to put the Bayer filter on! So if we can perfect the technique to debayer color sensor, the astrophotographer community would be elated.
This is a quasidupe of:

Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200288 - Aug 2021 (163 comments)

See also:

After Apple rejections, FlickType gives up on popular iPhone keyboard for blind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28212219 - Aug 2021 (83 comments)

And previously:

iOS developer who drew attention to App Store scams is now suing Apple - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26504158 - March 2021 (45 comments)

Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069660 - Feb 2021 (8 comments)
Personally, as a HN user, I find that HN users are smart, handsome, and charismatic in a way that smelly users of Twitter and Facebook are not. Also, we are very self aware and intelligent. Very intelligent. This is why the elections can be manipulated by Facebook but here on HN we are wise and intelligent and not fooled. We are intelligent here. On HN.
There is no evidence showing that any US diplomat suffered any brain injury. The Princeton study, which is the only one on the matter, claimed to have found "brain abnormalities" but couldn't determine whether those abnormalities were preexisting conditions or not. Study: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/july/ad... The study has been criticized and essentially called bunk. Read the critique here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/bad-science-of-the-hav...
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> Why should T-Mobile care who it is they are giving phone service to? As long as the bills are paid on time, it shouldn't matter. Here's my order ID and my password.

It's super helpful if T-Mobile knows who I am so they can give me a new sim when my phone is lost or stolen. Of course, it's not great when they give someone else a new sim when they claim to be me and that my phone is lost or stolen.
It would be great to see a walkthrough writing a minimal btree from scratch with reading/writing from disk.

If you've got one (walkthrough with code, not just an existing implementation), link it please!
I don’t think so. Side loading is needed by like 1% of users and for the rest it is bad.

For example, I expect most users are like my mom and will never legitimately side load anything unless malware tricks her into it.

That being said, Apple should allow it like debug mode or whatever. I just don’t think it’s a big deal because it won’t be used much. And if Epic thinks many users will side load so they can avoid 30%, that’s unlikely.
Just to correct this: for as long as I can remember, Evan's stance has been "feel free to fork Elm, just please don't call your fork Elm, since that would confuse people."

There have been a couple of forks with different names, and nobody's been "excommunicated" or whatever. The forks haven't gotten much traction, but they're probably still out there.
Your investment creates no value, this is less like synthetic stocks, and more like horse track betting. Just like with betting, you bet on some companies (horses). The bets then go into a pool (of which visionrare takes 20%). Based on the performance of the company (or horse) you pick, you get paid from the pool.

I'd be surprised if this didn't get regulated as gambling if a government watchdog decided to look into this.
I always see this comment anywhere the thirty percent is mentioned. The truth is that after Epic's lawsuit, Apple did reduce their cut to 12.5% for smaller players. But for the majority of the App Store's time in existence it had been 30% across the board.
I point out that there have been multiple audits, already, and no proof of fraud was found.

Doing a third audit, with zero oversight/accountability, is not a serious attempt to detect fraud. It's a means to "discover" wrongdoing that can't be proven/disproven and further confuse people about what really happened.
This is a really cool concept. It looks like the pilot is specifically targeting low dollar contracts for software eng. I love this.
One answer is accounting rules. In a typical IT shop that supports a business...

Spending for "business as usual" (BAU or "opex") activities must be fully expensed in the year that it happens.

Spending for capital projects (new IT systems and upgrades aka "capex") can be amortized over the lifetime of the project. So if you spend $1M on a new IT system, you might expense it over a 5-7 year period.

So IT organizations will only have permanent staff for BAU and will hire temporary contractors for capital projects.
Your blog is incredibly well done, and it is always worth my time (several times over) to read what you post. Thank you!
Except that, if I understand correctly, this is not the no-fly list. So...
Excel actually has really good JSON import… it's just "hidden" in the Data tab on the ribbon and users don't want to learn how to use it.

I feel so much of what keeps CSV in use is that it's a format that you can relatively easily generate without pulling in a lot of library dependencies and relatively quickly generate something that users can just "double click it opens in Excel".

What the Excel team could really gift to developer humanity at this point is some dumb file extension Excel registers like XLJSON that you could just rename a JSON file to and Excel opens it like a spreadsheet on double click.
They build a fence around the capital to protect against them.

Since there's no way there are actual 1.9 million terrorists in the US. 1.9 million/326 million is about 1 person out of 200 on that list.

In all likely hood, its just a list composed of people in opposition to government.

Can't be many BLM protestors, and leftists, since government is flying their flags.
Simple deductive reasoning will get you to that this list is mostly Trump supporters from his populist movement.

Just read the latest Terrorism Threat bulletin from DHS.
Then visit Gab.com, if you have any doubts on the overlap.

Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisor...
Whats the point of anti money laundering laws when you can open a bank/brokerage/crypto account online with $20 in Monero’s worth of fake IDs and social security numbers.

Could probably boost the GDP by 2% by just acknowledging that compliance is a waste of time and ending that regime.
How to make the Plasma desktop look like Unity (2019)
Still makes no sense. Vulkan exists. Where are Apple and MS now? They have no excuse not supporting it.
Maybe I'm using postman wrong? Besides saving data, what is there to scale? And even saving data is likely a minor point for many who use this, they could export their routes in some way.

Obviously dropbox has a sharing problem to solve, but I honestly don't see what your post adds to the discussion. Perhaps you could enlighten me to the problem that Postman is solving?
>in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a sign

Again, if you interpret changing a tire, spilling milk, or the vomiting after drinking too heavily as art, I disagree with you. Are traffic signs art, in and of themselves? are all signs art?

I don't think I agree with you. I've never read peirce and I don't do that 'argument from authority' thing, but given your wording here I don't think I agree with what you're saying.

>the art is the interpretant formulated by the interpreter,

So according to pierce, my interpretation of this as not as art is as valid as you thinking its art, since that's how im interpreting it? It doesn't seem like a very self consistent idea.
Hacker News readers exist mostly because this site’s users tend to skew heavily towards people who would make such things.
Freeze your credit reports, it's a PITA if someone opens accounts under your name, which will be super easy if they've got your name, SSN, and DOB.
Your posts are incredibly condescending. If you could at least make some effort to explain your thoughts, at least you'd be adding something to the conversation.
My team has been using CoScreen (https://www.coscreen.co/) for collaborative meetings and development for much of the last year and it's been really transformational.

The ease at which anyone can share any window and everyone can instantly interact with it is quite game changing for distributed teams IMO.
> This is why I suspect something shifted with the government. Like they're being forced into doing this somehow.

Seems like undue speculation. The government cares about far more than just CSAM. They care about terrorism, human and drug trafficking, organized crime, gangs, drug manufacturing, fraud etc.

This type of speculation only makes sense if Apple intends to expand their CSAM detection system to detect those other things, as well.
This fact actually helped me reduce sugar intake through soda. I bought a SodaStream and cut all my soda with carbonated water. After enough time, the diluted soda tastes just as sweet as regular soda used to, and regular soda tastes way too sweet. Sure I'm still drinking it, but my intake is down 1/2 over a day. My other trick was to pick 1 day a week I don't drink or consume any sugar (cuts consumption by 1/7 over a week) and during the month of January I don't consume any either (cuts consumption by 1/12 over a year). I've found these short periods of sugar fasting much easier to get through than completely changing my eating preferences, as most people suggest.
> As dysfunctional as this team is, quitting would feel like letting them down

Do you think your FAANG employer would have a second thought about letting YOU down? Doubtful.

The first rule of survival is to take care of yourself so you can help others. In this case, self-care likely means leaving the job.

What would you advise a friend to do in this situation? Are you, as a person, willing to care for yourself the way you might care for a friend?
Genuinely curious question: how does something come to be defined as cutting edge? Is it more of a feeling when someone is working on something that just seems so far away from the norm? Is everyone who is researching ways to cure cancer on the cutting edge, or is it a very small subset of that group? Is it defined by how close someone is to actually achieving a discovery?
The Visual 6502 project is what originally inspired me to look inside integrated circuits and see how they really work. Although ICs seem like mysterious black boxes, you can see what's going on. At least until about 1980, and then it gets too complicated for me :-)

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/
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You know what’s only getting bigger? Apple’s sales and revenue.

They’ve proven time and time again that they know what their customers want and their customers reward them with loyalty and benefit of the doubt. This doesn’t mean Apple gets it right every time, but on balance they deliver.

Articles like this are pointless because they don’t understand why people buy Apple. The article imposes arbitrary values as being the “right” ones and misunderstands what Apple’s customers actually value.

Let me give you an example. I love walled gardens and tightly curated experiences. In fact, I’m willing to pay a premium for them. I don’t care about developers and I don’t care about “freedom”. I simply want a high quality, tightly curated experience. I prefer tight control over the ecosystem by a single party that I trust and have a long standing relationship with (e.g Apple).
>no other computer in history I’ve heard of had operated in such a closed garden

I'm pretty sure all the big videogame consoles do.
Companies like T-Mobile don't do a better job because their is no incentive to do better. Either the government needs to force company's hands through legislation with real teeth or take over the job themselves. The status quo is a failure.
China aims to use space-based solar energy station to harvest sun’s rays power
Typically > 90% of any drug taken orally is immediately discharged through the first pass metabolism (urine primarily, and breath and feces).* The body is good at disposing of substances it isn't looking for, especially when ingested. There are a lot of scare stories about the result (male fish in the Great Lakes with ovaries; therapeutic levels of antidepressants in the Edinburgh water supply, etc) but this is the first article I've seen that talks about the path.

Because of this so-called "first path" effect you end up taking enough that hopefully some (and enough) "gets to the required location" and not too much gets where it's not wanted (most of what counts as "side effects"). The approval process focuses on this and ignores anything excreted, which shouldn't be surprising: with few exceptions the process is #1 safety and #2 minimal clinically effective dosing.

* former pharmaceutical scientist; have designed protocols approved by the FDA.
Nitpick: you're usually not measuring y-intercept, but y value at a point in time. For young people the two are pretty close, but for older ones not so much.

And for young devs, I 100% agree that slope is more important: the 1-3 years they're with your company will be ~half their careers or more, and they will hopefully grow quite a bit. Whenever you hire someone green you're betting almost exclusively on growth as opposed to current skillset.

For seniors (say 10 years and beyond), they're not going to be with you long enough for progress to make a huge difference, especially if they're decent to start out with - maybe that's not true 100% of the time, some people will stay around longer than expected and some people really do keep growing rapidly even into late career, but it's a reasonable guess. You're paying them primarily for the growth they've already done.
This is a reference to the Princeton study. The authors claimed to have found "brain abnormalities" by inspecting MRIs of the diplomats. Other neuroscientists criticized the study. The MRIs themselves are classified and has not been released to the public.
How would the DMV authenticate you?

Would you like each state to do it, or a federal system?

Many state DMVs sell their whole database to private companies like auto insurers and marketers. What makes you think they should continue to be stewards of this sensitive personal information when they have mishandled it so badly in the past?

Why do we need strong ID so often anyway? Most things people demand ID for don't actually need ID.
Here are the main advantages of Parquet over CSV (post author made these points more abstractly):

* Parquet stores schema in the metadata, so schema inference isn't required (schema inference is expensive for big datasets)

* Parquet files are columnar so individual columns can be grabbed for analyses (Spark does this automatically). This is a huge performance improvement.

* Row groups contain min/max info for each column, which allows for predicate pushdown filtering data skipping. Highly recommend playing with PyArrow + Parquet to see the metadata that's available.

* Columnar file formats are easier to compress. Binary files are way smaller than text files like CSV even without compression.

I wrote a blog post that shows how a Parquet query that leverages column pruning and predicate pushdown filtering can be 85x faster than an equivalent CSV query: https://coiled.io/parquet-column-pruning-predicate-pushdown/

CSVs are great for small datasets when human readability is an important feature. They're also great when you need to mutate the file. Parquet files are immutable.

It's easy to convert CSVs => Parquet/Delta/Avro with Pandas/Dask/Spark.

The world is already shifting to different file formats. We just need to show folks how Parquet is easy to use and will greatly increase their analysis speeds & they'll be happy to start using it.

Small nit: the article implies Apache Arrow is a file format. It's a memory format.
What's absurd is trying to paint them as someone who can't simply start supporting Vulkan today and fix this fragmentation mess. Lock-in has no excuse for the likes of them.

And I already brought examples above where MS did the right thing, like with OpenXR.
Mild disagree. Emoji aren't that bad, and certainly have their uses; however, most of the time they look dramatically different than the surrounding text, and can be quite distracting. If they're trying to communicate something important, that works fine, but often the important stuff is buried in the text, and the emoji simply hurt the readability.

Also, there's an issue sometimes whereby people who have nothing worthwhile to say thing that adding a few emoji will now make their message worthwhile...
Looking at the map, Quebec is doing something amazing.

Considering they have extra capacity, it's just sad to see less performing neighbors refusing to buy clean power from them for political reasons. [0] [1]

[0] https://ipolitics.ca/2021/03/02/referendum-in-maine-could-de...

[1] https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-wont-give...
Looks interesting!

I've used both https://www.drovio.com/ (formerly Use-Together) and https://tuple.app/ during the pandemic successfully at work.
The government decided they need to regulate companies and enforce competition laws, so now that they have done that, it’s only natural to enforce this
> So in your mind, because so far we've seen no evidence that this has been abused, it's nothing to worry about going forward?

Yeah, basically. It doesn't seem like people actually use CSAM to screw over innocent folks, so I don't think we need to worry about it. What Apple is doing doesn't really make that any easier, so it's either already a problem, or not a problem.

> And that making an existing situation even more widespread is also completely OK?

I don't know if I'd say any of this is "completely OK", as I don't think I've fully formed my opinion on this whole Apple CSAM debate, but I at least agree with OP that I don't think we need to suddenly worry about people weaponizing CSAM all of a sudden when it's been an option for years now with no real stories of anyone actually being victimized.
Haha...interesting. so it no longer asks you 'did you mean 'moon'
I work for Google Search. Knowledge panels are automatically created and generated. And it is possible that if we have two people of the same name, our systems might select an incorrect photo. My apologies for the concern this has caused you. I'll share more about how you can better get this feedback to us.

We allow for knowledge panels to be claimed. I checked, and yours isn't. This explains more how to do that:
https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/7534902

When a panel is claimed, then when we get feedback about change requests or possible issues, we know they are coming from a verified source and can work better to resolve the issues. This explains more about that process:
https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/7534842

Normally people just don't like the image we show, so we have a mechanism for them to upload a preferred image. That's very easy to use. But in your case, I understand your reasons for not wanting to have an image used at all. I believe if you had filed feedback explaining that, the image would have been removed.

I'll check on this further, but right now, I see that no image is being shown at all. So I suspect that we've gotten the feedback here somehow and taken action to block any image from showing at all. But again, I'll check on this.
> In my college Data Structures and Algorithms course, we covered B-Trees, but I didn’t grok why I’d choose to use one. As presented, B-Trees were essentially “better” Binary Search Trees, with some hand-waving done that they had improved performance when used in database applications.

With modern memory hierarchies that also tends to be the case in-memory (with lower node densities more suited to caches and cache lines).
now we can confirm that AI as as flawed as human intelligence itself. It just dynamically reads all the texts and remembers what it wants without being sure it is right.
huh interesting. So is it basically gone then or were there any permanent things that came from it?