skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really is the key question here.

If my boss is making small talk, and asks what I did at the weekend, of course I am under no obligation to tell him. I can tell him it's none of his business, and I'm quite within my rights to do so. Some people would.

But in the long run, whether it's right or wrong, not answering probably makes my life harder (passed over for promotions, etc.).

So I don't ask this question from those who report to me, because I can't easily ask it in a way that doesn't seem to carry an obligation to reply.

And neither I nor my boss have a gun and a pair of handcuffs.
To anyone who thinks this is cool: Check out Cody's Lab on YouTube, who's spent the past two years working on his own Mars simulation base solo in Nevada and makes excellent videos about it. It's called "Chickenhole Base".
Well our product was already something that included the openssl library, so we would have had to release a new version of our product when there's a patched version of openssl anyway.

At least updating it is easy now - we've put a lot of effort into that process recently.
> The HN consensus has been that there is no shortage of labour as long as you can just pay more and get the labour.

The problem with this argument (as a native German speaker) is that in German, there do exist two different concepts that are both translated with "shortage" in English:

- [die] Knappheit

- [der] Mangel

"Knappheit" is a sign of an efficient market: if the supply decreases or the demand increases, the prices go up, so only the buyers that are willing to pay most get their share. This makes a market efficient.

"Mangel", on the other hand, means that (nearly) no matter how much you are willing to pay, you cannot get the good. This is a strong sign that the market is broken (often because of regulations).

Of course the media in its agenda loves to confuse these two concepts and writes of "Fachkräftemangel" ("shortage of professionals"; even though "Fachkraft" which I translate with "professional" here, actually literally means "field [field of study] force"), hiding the fact that there are no signs of Mangel, but of Knappheit.
Sadly no. While I think that it would work and probably be cheaper and easier than fusion, fission has an absolutely abysmal public image.

People are terrified of radiation, even if the danger is very low. This means it becomes prohibitively difficult and hence expensive to build and run a fission plant because safety has to be prioritized so heavily. That is even if permission is granted to build in the first place.

I think it is unlikely for irrational fear of fusion to become mainstream like it has with fission.

Because of this I think the barriers to fusion power are at this point lower than the barriers to scaling up fission power.
You are right about the risk of misunderstanding the word "radiation".

However, the same risk applies to "explosion".

It is probably better to not use metaphors like "radiation" or "explosion", but to just say something like "diversification event".

However, "radiation" already has a long history of being used in the biological literature with this particular meaning, of divergent evolution, so for those familiar with the jargon, it seems an appropriate choice, even if it might not be the best word to use in something intended for the general public.

The "radiation" events are not events when the rate of mutations was higher (even if it is likely that the mutation rate during Cambrian was a little higher than today, due to higher ambient radioactivity because less of the primordial radioactive nuclides had already decayed by then).

The "radiation" events were events where a much larger proportion of mutants survived enough to have descendants, because of less competition that would have otherwise eliminated them.

This allowed a chain of neutral or bad mutations to lead eventually to improved organisms for certain conditions of life, while in the times of high competition it would have been impossible to escape local optima.

So while the rate of "raw" mutations was about the same as in other times, the rate of successful mutations, that persisted in the DNA of the descendants, was higher.
Over here in Finland, nobody has returns in each room. It's a cold climate, so houses are heavily insulated, and moisture condensation is a concern during the winters.

We typically have returns in toilets, showers, etc. with one or more supply vents in each room; a large room may have several. Air flows in via supply vents, flows out under mandatory gaps in doors (if closed), through to the toilets and then outside. Moisture, CO2, and smells are constantly flushed in the right direction.

When the hood is on for cooking, air supply is typically enhanced so it doesn't mess up the overall pressure too much.

Incoming air is filtered, of course. The ventilation unit transfers heat from outgoing air to the incoming air to save energy and avoid problems with condensation.

In my home office, TVOC as measured by an Eve Room rarely goes above 100 (mostly happens when I pour an occasional whisky in the evening).

Old houses don't have ventilation machines at all, but rely on natural ventilation instead: warmer air flows upwards via chimneys and such due to gravity, pulling in fresh air from whatever gaps the structure has (accidental or purpose-built).
> How are heart disease and cancer not natural?

The parent isn't claiming that; they are pointing out that heart disease and cancer are just as natural as aging. We spend a lot of effort to cure heart disease and cancer, so why not do the same with aging?
Tagged template combinators work surprisingly well [0] for injection sanitation/intuitive fragment generation while giving access to full set features of underlying database.

[0] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/tsql
> Is anyone building fission reactors, or any kind of huge concrete building out in the ocean at all?

Yes, they are and it is a huge political issue in nearby countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power...
The article lists black projects. Like Israeli and South African nukes.

Subcritical testing is allowed by CTBT. Computer simulations can do the rest.
> The sooner you learn to deal with rejection, the better off you are.

Definitely a good advice. Thank you. I appreciate it.
> A BIOS is just code at the cold-boot memory location

No, the BIOS (or UEFI) does quite a bit of system setup and provides quite a bit of system services. It's much more than "just code"; "just code" can do anything, a BIOS has to do many very specific things.

> Equally, the TRAP mechanism for I/O to terminal is not vastly different to the INT 21h mechanism

And what does that have to do with anything? What software uses an interrupt to display things?! LOL

INT 21h is for input, first off, nothing "to terminal". But second, that hasn't actually been usable in about 25+ years.

> I don't think this is as far from a running model of an early 8- or 16-bit as you might be implying

I don't think you understand just how complex computers have been for the past decades. The author's stated intention was to "better understand how computers work". This project did not teach him that; it taught him how CPUs work(ed). You can argue that it taught him how computers worked 3 decades ago all you want; that's not even slightly relevant.
China has zero community transmission.

Here on HN, there are plenty of people who live in China, or who have family/friends/colleagues in China. They can tell you what the situation in the country is.

For more than a year, bars, restaurants and most other things have been open, mass gatherings have been allowed, etc. In densely packed cities with Guangzhou and Shanghai, what do you think R0 would be under those circumstances? Any community transmission would quickly grow into a major outbreak, just like in Wuhan in December 2019.

Yet there's no such outbreak. And no, there's no conceivable way the government could hide such an outbreak.

That's why it's simply not credible to claim that there is any substantial community transmission in China.

The other thing is that you can look at how rigorous the reaction is to every new case of community transmission. There have been small outbreaks in China over the last year, but they've been contained using contact tracing, mass testing, and lockdowns (usually only of individual neighborhoods, but sometimes of cities).
I’m in the early stages of working a compiler in Rust and haven’t gotten to the IR infrastructure yet. With Rust’s borrow checker, how can I make the IR graph safe, with its control flow preds and succs and data flow inputs that make it so there isn’t a clear owner for any node. How does rustc do this?
Everybody makes mistakes when writing comparison functions
I guess in general I tend to ask myself "why do X?" rather than "why not do Y?" and if there isn't enough benefit to doing X, I just work with what's there.

Premature optimization and all that yada yada :)
What do you mean when you say “1 to 2 std div above….”?
Funny, isn't it? The human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic fields, yet in the end he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick!
https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page and Ben Eater. LOL
Curated resources to learn dev career skills
anonymous and my data in the same sentence ? No thanks.
Yes, ironically enough, physicians don't pathologize death the same way most of our culture does. They see it enough for it to lose the quasi supernatural grip that it has in a culture that doesn't talk about it, and so they're just able to make much more measured decisions about quality of life at the end of life than other people.
1) the rights to show those programs outside the UK don't exist

2) If they do exist, this would cannibalise the income via global sales, and someone has (rightly or wrongly) crunched the numbers and determined that selling Top Gear to foreign broadcasters makes more money than having iplayer as a subscription. There may also be political issues with having iplayer as a subscription too (including a call from the right wing to make iplayer subscription based for everyone. After OnDigital/ITVDigital collapsed, the BBC got in very quickly with freeview, ensuring that large numbers of decoders lacked a CAM and thus making it harder to argue for subscription)

See also Channel 5 sell Peppa Pig to Nickleodon rather than doing it direct. Or paramount selling rights to Star Trek series' via netflix or amazon rather than paramount plus outside the US.
Okay. Please feel free to explain how he would do I/O on an FPGA with this code, without a VM monitor running inside another OS to do the I/O for him.

While you COULD build an LC-3 with I/O - and make it a useful computer - that STILL wouldn't teach you how "a computer" (as in today's mass-produced computers) works.
This is a bit of an aside - but can anyone explain why Electron apps use so much memory/system resources? Is this a fundamental thing or accidental thing and could be remedied rather easily? I wonder why there hasn't been significant effort directed toward this, as this is the number 1 issue of desktop applications today.

I have a few guesses/questions:

- What kind of data is causing the GBs of memory usage? Is it JS objects, cached content, intermediate rendering data?

- Chrome is architected as a multi-process app, in order to isolate and share resources between websites. Since Electron runs as a single app, it doesn't need this overhead, how hard would it be to turn it off?

-Would it gain us a lot if we removed v8/minimized JS on the 'frontend' and just pushed all the html from the 'backend'?

-Is using node as the backend the cause of excess resource usage, would using something else be better?
Huh? No, the author's definition of computer is overly narrow. A CPU is NOT a computer. The ONLY thing he built was a CPU. I'm not sure why that's difficult to understand.
Email is not "technically federated". It's de facto federated. You can run your own email server on your home computer.

Anything less centralized than email isn't going to be "Web3" because it's not going to be a web at all. For the purposes of the internet, there is no functional difference between federated and decentralized. Two strangers must have a way of contacting each other -- something like an IP address at a minimum. That's a centralization point right there.

In the case of the web, DNS is going to be the main way that things are centralized.

Blockchain is similarly federated -- it just has a way to make sure that each node has a mutually agreed upon state. That doesn't make it decentralized, it just makes it redundant and distributed.
The anti Facebook slant of the mass media is appalling. A gazillion words to explain that content reported by users is then judged by the company as abusive or not.
> I would only make the bet if I understood both sides

AD: So this is integral to our system, those who are being asked to endorse candidates won't be doing so if they don't feel they either understand what the company is looking for or how capable their candidate is.

Think of the person you respect and admire the most in the workplace, and they've just asked you to endorse them for a role similar to their current one. The endorsement you give is contingent on them passing the probation only, would you give it?
The problem is people used to watch Blue Peter, Tomorrows World and Reith lectures because there was limited choice. Now they on the whole don't.

The article isn't advocating getting rid of the BBC, it's just reflecting on reality. The BBC has for a century been part of the nations culture. People from all backgrounds and all areas of the country earned their blue peter badges because they came home from school and blue peter was on.

That's decreasingly the case now.
Are there any successful cryptocurrencies that aren't based on proof-of-waste? El Salvador's and Panama's moves seem like the start of a bad trend.
What does "legal tender" mean in this context? Normally, as i understand it, it means you must accept it for payments of debts. So will El Salvadorans be required to accept bitcoin? Can your employer suddenly announce your salary is now paid only in it?
One things that obsesses me now, is how many other technologies are waiting to get has much money as mRNA vaccines did.

How often the solution to complex problems is still kinda of "throw some money at it"?
> but interstellar travel would not be much of a challenge with that sort of energy abundance.

I don't think I agree.

1) The extremely high (but still finite) amount of energy required to evaporate the Pacific Ocean is still much less than the infinite energy you need to accelerate even one single space traveler to the speed of light. Infinity is weird.

Of course we won't be trying to reach the speed of light but the energy (and fuel) required to move half the species (so that the other half can stay on Earth/Mars/…) will still be significant.

2) My second argument was that the Stefan-Boltzmann law is just the same on board the space ship. And if we live there for generations, chances are our energy consumption per capita will be similar as on the planet we left, and so we will be running into similar issues with Stefan-Boltzmann's law. Sure, we can split up the passengers across multiple space ships and make each ship much bigger (to increase surface size) but not only will this increase the total mass and thus fuel required for the trip but we would probably still not achieve the (rather high) surface area per capita ratio that we have on Earth.
Is the memory limit of max 16GB artificial? To make sure it's not used in server environments or something? Or does some component(s) get significantly cheaper with that limitation? Seems low.
Nice blast from the past -- I used xemacs from around 2000-2005, including for reading email and IRC, because that was a thing people used to do. I had a setup where I used it graphically at the machine, but could also ssh in and attach to the same process on the terminal, which I think was why I wanted xemacs rather than GNU emacs.
Actually kudos to the BBC for pointing out possible supply chain issues following Brexit. We should have seen more of this kind of challenge to both sides.
This isn't how it works, though - they are two separate issues.

Of course we shouldn't have substandard care, palliative or not. Of course we should try not to let people suffer. It isn't like palliative care is at all affected by whether or not we have assisted suicide, as we can obviously have good palliative care without allowing assisted suicide at all (or the opposite, but we aren't that cruel yet).

But not matter how much we try to make folks comfortable, it simply doesn't always happen and not everyone wants to die slowly, even if they are comfortable in the meantime. Even the most comfortable care we can muster for the majority of folks doesn't result in a good quality of life, after all. (Of course, some folks are more comfortable than others just because of income and situation, which we can lessen but not get rid of entirely).

Assisted suicide shouldn't always come from the folks receiving palliative care, either. I'm fine with folks having plans in place to die if they have dementia, for example, or if their wish for a decade has been to kill themselves, despite getting are. Or heck, even if someone wants to die at x age, if they live that long. Well-planned assisted suicide should be available.
In the El Salvador law, Article 7 goes beyond the typical definition of legal tender - the recognition by courts as payment for debts - and requires everyone to accept Bitcoin.
Those are pretty awesome, I found these drawings of one: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZG31KG

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> "A 49-slide internal company marketing presentation from December, obtained by ProPublica, emphasises the “fierce” promotion of WhatsApp’s “privacy narrative.” It compares its “brand character” to “the Immigrant Mother” and displays a photo of Malala Yousafzai, who survived a shooting by the Taliban and became a Nobel Peace Prize winner, in a slide titled “Brand tone parameters.”

what on earth? Legitimately how do you design this and don't think you're in some sort of American Psycho skit.
AD: We have clauses in place for these scenarios, Higher will act as the mediator in instances where a clear reason can't be established.
"Just handed the money", my ass. Did you ever work in science? How to you even think that money should be distributed in scientific institutions? Everyone gets a share based on ... what? Their degree? Number of publications? Consensus by committee?

And for comparison, look what the ISS has brought us commercially: We have a fully commercial manned spaceflight planned for next week. That is a massive achievement without even considering all the scientific work on the station.
> considering I got it under $25K

Doesn't this answer the question? Batteries were and are still too expensive.
Don't confuse ignorance with indifference. Most people can't tell you anything about engines but they certainly can feel that a Porche drives better than a Camry. When you talk about Electron you'll hear things like "why is my computer so slow" or "my fans are always on" or "my battery life is terrible": people will know, but they won't know it's Electron.
Not only tracking. For text sites it's just waste of bandwidth. And where I live internet is slow.
There's also a language problem: "retard" is a common word in french which bears no insult in it and simply mean "late" like in "being late to work".
I think multiple governments have certainly colluded to cover things up and perpetuate lies many many times.

If you aren't concerned about undue influence of Russia or China on people within the US government, let alone the collusion between western nations such as five eyes countries, then I don't know what to say.

I'm not sure what you're talking about researchers in public labs or what you think exactly I'm alleging here. It's not anything about the validity of scientific theories and data gathered about covid and vaccines. I never said anything at all about vaccines until right now, in fact.
> AD: The fact that Paul is taking on all the risk, in effect Paul has made a self-endorsement via proxy...

Is funding your own stake via a third party explicitly allowed, or is it abuse that's too hard to police and therefore you turn a blind eye, with the above justification?

If the latter, employers should be aware they may be biasing hiring in favour rule-breakers.

For most jobs, there are plenty of people who can do it. Of those people, this system advantages those with easier access to some financial capital. Not great for diversity or social mobility.
I always found that story highly implausible, somehow this alien monster - the 'human' - has evolved a defense against one of the things that binds all life together but has a fatal weakness towards something otherwise innocuous, and it has traveled through space to the one planet where its weakness can be found!

It is just a hackneyed updating of the myth of Rolnak of the three stones, only with a sharpened stick taking the place of fire.

I guess some crafters of tale care more about the money than coherence in the tale.
It sound probably be "std dev", shorthand for "standard deviation".
Here is a list of API mocking tools that covers HTTP but also other protocols, including OSS and commercial software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_API_simulation_t...
Sure, but they also pressure folks into marriage and birth and organ donation and all sorts of things. It is definitely possible to do it in ways that help minimize this.

And even then: We already allow families to decide to take folks off of life support.
I read a interesting take on this, in case you're interested: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/daa93b9686f554ac7097158383b...
There seems to be, within the Australian users of HN a strong pro-censorship and anti free speech feeling. When the US users wake up, we should expect to see more push back on this story. I'm continually puzzled by the cultural reasons for such but it could be that these users are being honest and unfiltered with their own posts on social media. Perhaps americans are more filtered?

I suspect, politically, that it's because of two things:

Firstly, News Corp which has poisoned the well, it has made these users suspect and distrustful of all media now and welcoming of their governments censorship.

Secondly, it's due to the coronavirus lockdown implementations and associated anti-lockdown protests where the concept of free speech is now associated with harm and danger to themselves and their community.

Culturally, it could be that the users are members of the urban-living educated tech literate class. This class, and class issues generally is a new thing for Australia. Australia thinks of itself as generally classless and equal. I think we are seeing a kind of new tech class but without the informal rules (e.g. filtering, politeness) governing how more entrenched class based societies operate. But as I say, I'm puzzled and guessing here. It's certainly the only English speaking country where the users appear to be both champions of their government actions and anti news. Perhaps theres more nuance.

It could be that these users are actually just being honest and unfiltered in their posts here, which is sort of ironic given the nature of the featured article.
The "anti Facebook slant" is rooted in a history of complete disregard for user data and privacy, so I find it warranted.
Buy land and protect it with an extreme passion.