skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this actually sounds like it could be bent toward fissile uranium production

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle

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from the wiki:

The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, [232Th], as the fertile material.

In the reactor, 232Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233U which is the nuclear fuel.

Unlike natural uranium, natural thorium contains only trace amounts of fissile material (such as 231Th), which are insufficient to initiate a nuclear chain reaction.

Additional fissile material or another neutron source is necessary to initiate the fuel cycle.

In a thorium-fuelled reactor, 232Th absorbs neutrons to produce 233U.

This parallels the process in uranium breeder reactors whereby fertile 238
U
absorbs neutrons to form fissile 239Pu.

!! Depending on the design of the reactor and fuel cycle, the generated 233U either fissions in situ or is chemically separated from the used nuclear fuel and formed into new nuclear fuel. !!

The thorium fuel cycle has several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycle, including thorium's greater abundance, superior physical and nuclear properties, reduced plutonium and actinide production,[1] and better resistance to nuclear weapons proliferation when used in a traditional light water reactor[1][2]

!! though not in a molten salt reactor.[3][4] !!
I was interested in using Aegis, but unfortunately I can't import my current keys from Google Authenticator.

It's "supported" but only via accesing the Authenticator's files (or by havitng root access) which in my celphone is not possible (OnePlus Nord).

Weirdly enough, Aegis does not support bulk importing keys from a QR code, which is how you can migrate from one Authenticator instance to another (e.g. to a new phone).

And I am too lazy to go over each key, reset it and load it up again in Aegis.

Hooefully they'll add this feature at some point in the future.
And Java since Java7 which was released in 2011.
Indeed. Besides, there are not so many offers in such sectors.
Or, "Arm Wrestling"
What's different in China's case compared to other protectionist countries is they can get away with being protectionist.

How can they get away with it? They have powerful people lobbying with foreign governments on China's behalf. Take Apple for example: they contract out iPhone manufacturing to Foxconn in China. Due to the low cost of manufacturing they are able to generate astronomical profits.

Every measure against China will directly or indirectly impact some US multinational corporation and it's natural for the corporation to lobby Western governments to put the brakes on such measures.

On the contrary, if you look at Iran or Russia, multinational corporations don't have a similar deep-seated interest or supply chain infrastructure as they do in China. How did this come to be? A lot of it can be attributed to Deng Xiaoping's setting the tone for China's relationship with the West: “stabilize the position, observe calmly, take all in stride, never take the lead,
and hide our capacity to bide our time.”

More on that in this essay:
https://www.hoover.org/research/china-us-relations-eyes-chin...
i agree. the problem i have with the author's comment is "loyal". I think we need to distinguish people from justing trying to make money (apple, microsoft, tesla) and being CCP agents.

The author clearly suggests this American CEO is a "loyal CCP" agent. I am just curious how did she/he spot him?
I hope this doesn't come across badly but: NimForum is an open source project, as such I would encourage you or anyone to help improve its efficiency. I think there is a lot of low hanging fruit here and I'd happily help with any patches that fix them.

Back in 2018 when I implemented the basis for this modern reimplementation of the Nim forum I focused on the functionality and a solid CI so that we can easily accept others' contributions without fear of regressions. Unfortunately I had only 2 solid weeks to make this a reality and optimising the code size didn't make the cut.
A lot of my family has lived in SF for decades, all of them have moved out in the past 4 years. It's a monstrous dystopia now. The ultra rich completely insulated from the human misery sprawled out in every direction around them while their peasants toil away as tiny ants looked down upon with pity from their gleaming towers.
012345 is the old way of doing octal notation in Python, which has its roots in C. I'm guessing they want to prevent ambiguity by making it so that it's an error for "012345" to be a decimal literal.
Maybe I misread, but where did the Taliban feature?
Thanks, I definitely don't understand the argument.
You should do 2 things to mitigate this:

1) Install ClearURLs. This addon strips tracking identifiers from URLs. If you hover a google search link you'll see it doesn't direct to you to website.com it directs you to google.com which then forwards you to the site you clicked without this addon

2) Configure Temporary Containers to make a new container for every different subdomain or domain. This way, if you click a link from google search, regardless of using ClearURLs, a new container spawns for any domain/subdomain that does not match (ex: click netflix.com from google and TemporaryContainers identifies this and spawns a second tab for netflix). This makes some things impossible, like SSO, so configuring it properly can be tricky. You might be able to configure it such that only links clicked from google.com spawn a new container and those that redirect to sso sites don't, but I haven't done this. You can always open a private window where the context is shared (temporary containers don't work in private) if you need SSO.

Obviously there's more you have to do to be even safer because with pings on by default and js enabled on google, they can still see you clicked a link. Also, with Google Analytics (GA), they can infer someone searching "x" and then "another user" from the same IP fetches "x" GA tracking scripts a second later is the same person. The list goes on and Google really likes tracking people, so it's very difficult to mitigate. The first and most important thing you can do is GET OFF CHROME/EDGE!
This person is using tumblr as their blogging platform- I don’t think they are making great life choices overall
A language-agnostic helm-like script orchestrator
sounds like Mumbai or Karachi or any other large city in a developing nation. sheesh.
Just curious why it failed...
this is the podcast from the Economist that goes into a little further detail about the failures of the SF gov including the corruption issues and the anti-liberal housing policies:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/checks-and-balance-bay...
The questions are all valid. My beef is that he's not asking to get the answers, but to plant notions in our head.

> How many million houses has Airbnb taken off the market so far

Is AirBnB expected to know which houses are owner occupied, and which are only occasionally listed? I mean, they can likely infer it from how often a unit is listed as available, but I doubt they make people disclose that. Same point for the other one.

There are independent ways to study this. You don't need to rely on AirBnB to find it out. A simple Google search reveals this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/airbnb-probably-isnt-dr...

Granted, it's a bit old, but could he have not done this before posting it?
Exactly. Even when it’s inlined, having a comparator with if/else is much, much slower than a single memcmp
abject tyranny = 'you don't have a right to participate in the public'. I have a right to participate in society. My kids have a right to participate in society. Nobody can take away that right in perpetuity, under no circumstances. Including conditioning on (miraculous, but shoddy) mRNA vaccines.

Covid does not have 1-2% mortality rate among the unvaccinated. The difference between <20s and >70s is orders of magnitude. From BBC: 'Data from the first 12 months of the pandemic in England shows 25 under-18s died from Covid. [...] 13 living with complex neuro-disabilities [...] 6 had no underlying conditions recorded in the last five years. [...] 25 deaths in a population of some 12 million children in England gives a broad, overall mortality rate of 2 per million children.' For comparison, the death rate from drowning for 5-19s in US is 1/100k, 5x larger (20x if we only count healthy children). For 1-4s the drowning death rate is a calamitous 3/100k, 15x larger (60x if we only count healthy children). And that's just drowning.

We need to get a grip.

Traditional vaccines provide long term, often lifelong protection against nasty diseases. Some of them are sterilizing the virus, leading to eradication of the disease. mRNA vaccines do not prevent infection, do not prevent transmission, need a 6 month booster and are at risk of becoming obsolete and require a different vaccine strain (and then we boost each vaccine strain every 6 months?!)

> Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told Fox it was likely a vaccine-resistant variant would emerge.

> Bourla said Pfizer could make a shot tailor-made for such a variant within 95 days of its discovery.

> The CDC director said the virus could be "a few mutations" away from evolving to evade vaccines.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db149.htm

https://www.insider.com/pfizer-ceo-vaccine-resistant-coronav...
It becomes more difficult. There are a few supported memory managers by Nim (including Go's GC!), but with ARC you explicitly move or deep copy the structure.

Obviously this is a bit more difficult than say Java, but then you never have to stop the world.
> The search is very snappy

It's running on Cloudflare workers. Some 500 servers I guess! It's kinda of an overkill for the use case but I did it as I was looking to explore their API.

> I wonder if some color-coding would help here?

tbh, I kept trying a few combinations and then gave up. Design is not my strongest skill.
Yes, luck plays a big part of it, so it's important to redefine your perspective so you don't value dominance over others or class or such things, because that can be a lost cause. You were given a hand of card at random, and while there is some wiggle room in terms of how far you can make it given the cards you were given, a bad hand is still a bad hand, and can only let you do so much.

Focus on your personal growth, but understand your circumstances and where you start from, and recognize how much you managed to optimize and accomplish relative to that.

And in my opinion, there's no place for hard work within this framework. The feeling of hardship is your body telling you your circumstances ain't cut out for this thing. You also have the ability to reason, so you can reason that some hard things are worth pushing through the pain, like say for a life saving surgery. But sometimes I think people reason that they will be able to push through something, yet fail consistently to be motivated to do so. That's when you need to realize, hold on, ok, this ain't gonna work for me, I need to find something else that's easier. And no, the people who made it where you failed didn't do so because they just pushed through that same hardship, generally it just wasn't as hard for them to find the motivation to push through.
Thank you for this thorough and balanced explanation! This is probably why all the GUI frameworks in Rust (that I've seen) require message passing like this. You have a really good handle on the borrow checker's benefits and limitations.

I'm trying to make a language (https://vale.dev/) that addresses the borrow checker's limitations (by making it automatic and opt-in) to handle cases like these, if you want to drop by our discord (https://discord.gg/SNB8yGH), I'd love to get your thoughts!
Good software existed in the 1980s, running under MS-DOS. It can be built for any platform, but unlike DOS, there are many more components in the stack that can fail today.

The constantly shifting sands on which we are expected as programmers to deliver something stable make it far more challenging that the days where you knew your user was likely to have 800x600 VGA graphics, an Epson Dot Matrix Printer, and a few hundred megabytes of hard disk storage.

Expecting someone to push a good user experience through a cell phone network of variable density and quality, to any number of proprietary platforms, each with its own rapid turnover, and sometimes even switching CPU, is just plain nuts. This represents a moving of the goal posts, on an epic scale.

It is almost trivial to deliver an application that works well on a desktop running an operating system. It has been easy since the days of Windows 3.1 and Visual Basic/Turbo Pascal for Windows.

It has been trivial to support networked applications since Windows 98.

Cross platform applications aren't going to give as good an experience, but are good enough now in 2021, as long as you are willing to compile native code on each platform.

The current trend away from desktops/laptops, and onto mobile devices, and/or the web, has fragmented the market and requires time to build a new set of tools to cope with. It might be 5-10 years before things settle down and it's as nice as Windows 3.1/VB6.

We have much better version control systems, thanks to GIT. The decades of Moore's law have rendered it cheap to just store all versions of everything, thanks to good diff algorithms and the content addressed nature of GIT.

The real problem we all face isn't our tools as programmers, but the operating systems we use to execute our programs. We're still using systems which were suitable for classrooms and small companies of the 1970s and 80s. Where it was expected the same people were responsible for the code, operating systems, management, information input and output.

The era of persistent internet, mobile code, and rapidly proliferating levels of abstraction reliant on the "magic of open source" to somehow fix all bugs, is destined to crash.

Things won't be stable until running a piece of code is as safe as plugging a lamp into a wall outlet. If there is a fault in the lamp, it won't cause your house to burn down, or your bank account details to be emailed to North Korea. The worst to happen is a tripped circuit breaker.

Capability based systems such as the ever tardy GNU Hurd, Google's Fuchsia, or Genode offer the ability to run any code safely, without unwanted side effects, no matter how many bugs. A task can only corrupt the files you allow it to access.
No, I'm saying that NYC is a very large city (speaking geographically, by population, or by politics). It has the super-liberal UWS and Greenwich/East Village, but also the UES, Staten Island, eastern Queens, Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, old-line Italians in Arthur Avenue, Howard Beach, and a lot of ordinary middle-class areas. All those areas balance out the nutty leftism of other parts of the city.

San Francisco doesn't have anything like that. As the article discusses, the middle class has been fleeing San Francisco for decades. it's never going to elect a Bloomberg, let alone a Giuliani.
What is the point of this article? The bulk of it is explaining that things are bad in SF, and that the city government is to blame. Sure I’ll buy that. But then it makes a leap of logic by claiming—or rather insinuating—that the reason for why they don’t fix those issues is because they are dysfunctional. As for why it is dysfunctional. Well:

> As it is, the city has been safely Democratic for 40 years and seems allergic to choosing a Bloomberg-type figure from one of the big tech companies to try something different.

So it is the voters fault, I guess. And specifically, the voters fault for not electing a conservative enough of a mayor.

This is a trash article. And is more of a partisan propaganda piece then actual news.
All signs point to lambda being more virulent/deadly etc…. Still has nothing to do with the vaccines.

If covid mutates sufficiently fast, say as fast as HIV then we will have a big time problem.
yep.

I moved to the SF Bay area from NYC 4 years ago and I routinely tell my friends that you need to watch out for human, not animal, feces on the street.

It's really sad to see people who are employed that are still homeless and have to deal with mental issues :(
27 year San Francisco resident here. The government here is dysfunctional because that's what people voted for. The fact that people pay so much to live here says that people are willing to put up with a lot in exchange for living in a diverse and beautiful city.
Reminds me of a Star Trek DS9 episode that takes place in an SF of the near future.

"By the 2020s, those without employment, as well as those with mental problems, were moved into the Sanctuary Districts, which would later become no better than slums."

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Past_Tense

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots
I’m talking about the crash phase
The homeless and those issues pretty much only exist in the tourist areas near downtown, the tenderloin, soma, etc. The tourists come and see all of that and get the idea SF is some horrible dystopia, but unless you live in those areas, it's not a problem. I lived in Noe Valley for 3 years and never ran into a single problem from your list. SF is so much more than downtown.
We aren’t running out of helium in the short-medium term but it’s still definitely a limited resource and there is a legitimate concern about losing access to terrestrial helium once we’ve extracted all we can. Unlike fossil fuels, helium isn’t something we can synthesize from elements that are abundant on Earth.
That is a very real danger with constant medication and vaccination - however the observed effect has been the opposite. The lowered impact of sickness leads to shorter periods of contagiousness which has lowered the spread rate. The vaccine is effectively lowering the r-value.

A large proportion of unvaccinated persons is strongly correlated with higher case rates.
I suspect China doesn't really need western markets in the long term so denying access isn't all that powerful. Their population is the same as the entire OECD combined. They could become an entire "western developed economy" isolated within themselves plus a bunch of 3rd world allies.
Photoshop gives you a lot of tools to tweak beyond simple contrast and saturation sliders. The curves UI has been in it in some form since very early versions in the 90s. It lets you dial in a transfer function for each color channel (or luminance) as a bezier curve. The UI shows you a histogram so you can easily understand what's going on with the actual numerical values, avoid clipping, etc. There's plenty of smart tools in the more recent versions too.

Another simple but subtle advantage is you can do these corrections in a perceptual or near perceptual color space like CIELAB, rather than simple RGB. Particularly when you're pushing saturation this gives more natural looking outcomes.
Oops. I guess I misremebered.
With the design of the search and the choice of titles that they push on the App Store editorially, I don't think it looks like they're trying to avoid gambling-type behavior at all.

If they were responsible about it they would allow you to set preferences to filter out titles which have IAP. Also it would be granular; you could configure so you can see or not:

1) Titles which have one-time IAP for permanent feature unlocks.
2) Titles which have set-price recurring subscription IAP.
3) These are the evil ones (not universally so, but unbridled they are. I agree with the general conclusion of Kongregate's CEO as summarized in the article linked for this overarching discussion.) These should even have some sort of account lock-out that's harder to override available: Titles which have some sort of endless in-app currency.

For those last ones, it would also be responsible of them to have it so you can setup with an account-level monthly budget which has, say, a 24-hour minimum cooldown to override.

Otherwise, yes, they are basically encouraging addiction just like casinos and probably ought to be regulated as such since they're not self-policing at all.
I think the Mongol Empire illustrates that if you have overwhelming military advantage and are prepared to be absolutely ruthless in using that advantage, you can actually go pretty far with pretty minimal diplomacy (which is basically offering a chance to submit before you invade).
What kind of settings? If you want per-site settings there is (was) uMatrix which allows for extremely granular configuration. Sadly it is discontinued right now. But it still works.
Organize Thoughts with Custom Voice Input System
I built software to help me organize and understand my thoughts. It works as an automated system that will call me and read a script, and respond based on voice input.
It uses text-to-speech and speech-to-text to adapt responses to what I say.

For example, I can go through to script to help me prioritize my day and what to work on. I can clarify my thinking best by speaking, and the script being read out keeps me on track and accountable.

I'm curious, Hacker News - is this something you would find useful?
How would you like to use it; what types of scripts would you write?
I took pairs of 15 and 40 pound dumbbells into the office. People could come over for a change of pace, get the blood pumping, and leave. They weren't much of a distraction and didn't take up much space.
Well your employer probably doesn't want you to leak work to competitors.

You probably don't want your employer to know that you have cancer, are hiding a fling, and could soon have family problems requiring you to take a leave of absence.
Why US citizens are so obsessed with working hard?

I wonder who's actually pushing americans to work harder?
Apple Is About to Sniff Out Child Exploitation Content from Devices
> It’s just remarkable that contractors removed software and weapons systems from the Afghan army as they left. Remember, U.S. generals constantly talked about the strength of the Afghan
forces, but analysts knew that its air force - on which it depended - would fall apart without contractors. The generals probably hadn’t really thought about the logistical problems of
what dependence on contracting means. It’s just stunning that NATO forces would be trying to stand up an independent Afghan army, even as NATO contractors disarmed that army due to
contracting arrangements.

from https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-war-in-afghanistan-is...

Probably it was someone else's job.
Depends on the day
China isn't just taking tech IP. They're taking everything. They localized and took a bunch of train IP from German company they partnered with in the past. They've been doing it for decades.

You can say we do that all the time, but have we really been prohibiting experienc and technology for diesel engines?

Like you say, maybe we should, but it will be an interesting argument to have with companies that really want access to the market, and view this specific aspect of the contract as none of the governments business.
In my org, we define latency targets early (based on our user's needs where possible) and then our goal is to maximize utilization within those constraints.
You are right, we could probably re-run SQLite purely in memory, but only because macos dynamically allocates additional swap.

However, I would not expect much improved performance, because I do not believe that SQLite has a different sorting strategy when running in memory. It would only save some i/o operations, which are very cheap on the macbook anyway.

Either way, would be an interesting experiment.
Now remind me how many millions of $ were invested in this product for how long?