skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless there's a war. Unless corruption leads to poor management of the plants. Unless nuclear waste is mismanaged. Unless there is an earthquake or tsunami of completely unexpected intensity.

No for mismanagement, earthquake or tsunami, the gen3 are completely safe, all security mesures are passives, unless the fault is directly on the core, it will fail gracefully. Irradiated water might leak, but to be fair, underground water in granitic areas are more irradiated than the fission product pool.

Issues are war (and in this case, direct sabotage from an actor with actual knowledge, or a direct hit into a functioning reactor, so pretty much on purpose strike. I wouldn't be afraid of terrorism) and waste.
No, you can have multiple threads in a python app. And while it promises to keep many things atomic, code like that can be interrupted between each line at minium.
Thats the argument of coal plants for solar and at el sources of energy.

Not feasible, too expensive, doesnt work.

And yet here we are.
>the entire point of these assistant technologies is supposed to be that they seamlessly integrate with the environment

No. The "entire point" is to provide an easier way to do some interactions. On this point, they work super well. They're just not magic or perfect.

However, it definitely IS useful to state the point that way, because it makes it easier to argue that they're pointless toy technologies, thereby allowing you to feel superior.
I think I'd rather have a script I could put on a Raspberry Pi that periodically did actions on their site or via APIs to waste their computing power. If a few million people did that, it might make a difference. Sure, they'd try to block it, but maintainers could evolve the software, like ad blockers do.
I think that makes total sense for a poster.

It's when talking to people that I've noticed a difference. Some people have the jargon, but I can ask questions and learn from them because they can explain the underlying ideas.

Some just hide behind the jargon and can't answer questions - often in the latter the impression I get is that their actual knowledge is pretty shallow. It's not always the case (sometimes people are just bad at communication in general), but it's the case often enough that it's a signal.

It's also something I've noticed more in academia for whatever reason. My off the cuff guess is that both some cultural pressure towards signaling intelligence and prestige is coupled with being hard to understand, and that it's easier to hide with bullshit in academia than in industry. Not that you can't hide in industry too, but entire fields of academia that were total bullshit sometimes perpetuate for decades - companies typically die earlier than that.
It's more the third build system. IIRC

google1 (I can't remember the actual directory name, maybe //google/) used Makefiles and Makefile generators. IIRC there is a small amount of still-live code here.

google2 failed fairly quickly.

google3 is blaze/bazel and is where almost all development is today.

All three trees are actually in the same source control "depot".

If you read enough of their papers this is actually detailed there but spread across different papers.
If the other rant was distracting, then it too will be moved to another page.

But yes, I do believe people claiming that Linux offers the best terminal experience are either doing that for social credit and validation of their peers (in an "emperor has no clothes" way) or due to misinformation and a lack of personal experience with alternatives (in a "micro$oft only knows embrace, extend, extinguish" way)

Some do that for both reasons, and I'll let you make your own conclusion about their demographic group.
I am always a bit suspicions of statistics on countries or other geographical groups of people. The data points are not really independent samples. To take an extreme example, imagine you have a dataset containing Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. I'm sure you could find all kinds of interesting correlations there, but I wouldn't trust them because you really only have two data points: Scandinavia and South America. Even if your dataset has all the counties of the world many of them have a shared history and influenced each other, so correlations between variables may be accidental.

To return to the topic of colors, I wonder why the light or dark versions of some colors are called something else. I can easily imagine a light blue or a dark blue and they are still clearly blue. Same with light or dark green. Dark red is fine, but light red becomes pink. Yellow always feels like a light color, and dark yellow becomes some kind of brown. Is there a physical reason, or are these arbitrary cultural distinctions?
Does Android support broad enough third-party access to NFC to allow a payment system to work?
Either “Hell Yeah or No
I am not sure if this is sarcasm but both of your statements imply that success has to be related to profit/money. I think that is deeply flawed.
>I can't believe the number of people using AMP-blocking extensions is that high yet.

by what metric? I think it being high on the app charts is more indicative of that category being deserted and therefore easy to be on top, than everybody and their mom downloading it. A few days ago I saw a post mentioning that Amplosion was #1 on the "utilities" chart. Now it's #27, and the top apps are 1) a proxy manager 2) calculator 3) dark mode extension for safari.
this is an incredibly obvious yet valuable comment but all the replies seem to be working hard to miss the point.
My mental model is that applicatives are the multivariate analog of functors.

To invent some terms because I don’t know the real ones, call the types `Maybe Int`, `List Bool`, and the rest of the `m a` types “boxed,” compared to types like Int and Bool which we’ll call “unboxed.”

Functors apply single variable functions that apply purely in the unboxed domain. Take a `List Int` apply an `Int -> Float` function and you get a `List Float`. But you can’t use functors to take a `List Int` and a `List Float` to get a `List Bool` with an `Int -> Float -> Bool` function.

That’s where applicatives come in. Applicatives still operate in terms of applying functions that live in the unboxed domain. `Int -> Float` or `Int -> Float -> Bool` and that kind of thing. But if you had a `List Int` and something boxy like `Int -> List Float`, you have no way to get a `List Float` out the other end.

That’s where monads come in. These can operate on functions that don’t only live in the unboxed domain. You can take your `List Int` and your `Int -> List Float` and get a `List Float` out the other end.

As far as what you need to add for something to be a monad, I think there are cleaner answers that are logically equivalent, but what comes to mind is “flattening” (again for lack of remembering the real terms). Imagine you use the functor or applicative machinery on your boxy functions (that take in unboxed stuff and return boxed stuff). For example, using a `List Int`’s map on a `Int -> List Float`. You end up with `List (List Float)`. To build a monad’s `bind` out of that, you need another function to follow up: `List (List Float) -> List Float`. Aka, flatten that list of lists into a single list.
When the platinum coin is deposited, it will increase government's account balance by one trillion dollars, which can then spent in the economy like any other dollar. The newly issued money will increase the total circulating supply of US dollar, diluting its unit value.
It's a terrible headline, but this is regulation, not a ban. This would ban most police use, and would ban private mass surveillance, but would not ban, say, FaceID.
As a non-American, I have listened to Yang a couple of times on Sam Harris's podcast and I have to say, he is one of the least impressive people I have ever had to listen to. I'm not quite sure why Sam and his audience are so enamored with the guy.
You're not wrong. I should have done a better job of explaining my point--this discussion about Singapore reminds me of discussion about other wealthy nations that uses the same phrases and focus, which is what I commented on

Singapore itself is a very strange nation, utterly dependent on other nations to provide it with almost everything it uses (food, machinery, raw product, etc). The fact that it can be managed like a reality-themed theme park is a testament to the ability of first-worlders to press-gang the rest of the world into service. Turning it into a real, self-sustaining nation with wildlife and personal independence is impossible.
I'm surprised that it's only MacMillan and List for organocatalysis. There's plenty of others that come to mind, like Jacobsen.

Regarding MacMillan, his student used proline (which opened the whole proline organocatalysis area) and he said he had "no idea why she did that experiment". He definitely guides his students well.
What does any of that have to do with the claim that professional sports people routinely don't do hard work?
What If the US Defaults Next Week?
Same. I read Ra, Fine structure, and no antimemetic division all online. Then as soon as I realized that there exists a published version, I bought all three.

Most online fiction I bump into is in desperate need of an editor. The qntm books are actually pretty close to on par with a professionally edited book. And the concepts are not something that I normally find elsewhere.
There's nothing wrong with Apple offering Apple Pay. The issue is that they don't allow anyone else to use the hardware in that way.
Sub 10% per annum inflation is hardly a crisis.

Note that traditionally hyper inflation (which people often seem to conflate with our current status) is defined by economists to be 50% per month. The west is a long, long way from any sort of real crisis caused by inflation.
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Maybe you're simplifying for the sake of brevity, but this notion of "use up all your blood sugar" and "switching" (as if binary) between glucose and ketones is pervasive and frustrating. That is not how things work.

Unless you have some metabolic disorder, after your hour+ run your blood glucose is still going to be within, maybe on the low end of, the normal range. Even if you've completely depleted your liver of glycogen, which is unlikely for anything short of marathon distance unless you were already low. If your blood sugar was low (never mind gone) you'd be in serious trouble, dead before long if not rectified.
Not infringing Freedom of Speech in the Bill of Rights is a restriction placed on the government, not private businesses. Private businesses have always had the ability to decide who can use their services, for the most part (I say for the most part because companies aren't allowed to deny service based on certain traits, like race or gender, but that's a good thing).

And your second point, again, is something private companies are doing, not the government.

There's a big difference between individual companies deciding how to police their services versus what a government forces a company to do.
Opacity because if you are detained by the police they should be able to tell you why. Many, if not all, AI solution based on a training sets will have a hard time telling you exactly why you where flagged.

Also even if they can tell you that the AI believe that the combination of your ears and nose makes you look like some wanted person, what are you suppose to do about it?
Yea I think:
- Google and Amazon etc won’t touch it cause it is bad PR
- stores won’t buy it cause it’s bad PR; fear of boycotting etc.
- physical retail is already on the decline; why spend money in a dying industry
- the whole project would have one big flaw - people wearing masks
> annual marriages declining by 40% from their peak in 2013

Does anyone known what is the cause of this?
Ok, so you basically now have multiple windows to hold N tabs each. Now you need to manage windows AND tabs :D

We agree on the fact that bookmark management hasn't kept up with the times. I think bookmarks need to be re-invented for the modern era, no one uses them anymore.

But it also boils down to how you manage your own work. If I open a webpage, my workflow has only this options

- read it now

- bookmark for reference (long-term)

- send to pocket(read later - ereader usually)

- keep it open for a little while for reference (max 24hrs)

So I clean up the house quite regularly :)

Whenever I need to open something (like developer docs), i just Ctrl+L begin typing the title and autocomplete does the rest. Takes me a second and no clutter in my windows :)
That's a rosy, invalid assumption and equivocation. Climate drying, and effectively biome changes in the direction of desertification, across much of western North America and other parts of the world due to climate change isn't conducive to replacing biomass lost to forest fires caused by multi-year droughts.
Few types of quotations could better convince me that their author is not worth listening to on anything related to China. Hilarious.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pr-problem-high-flying-start...

Relevant bits to this particular point.

> For investors, the European market is less overheated and so more attractive to participate in than the U.S. market and less "tough" than China, Russia or Brazil. But that's not thanks to the EU. Systemic problems, like a lack of harmonization across the Continent, mean EU startups have to spend a lot of energy on learning and complying with varying rules, like hiring non-EU recruits or rewarding employees with stock options … Patrick Collison, of fintech giant Stripe, advocates for a "more streamlined common market, fewer impractical and ineffective regulations, better legal treatment of stock options and easier access to visas for highly skilled individuals." … "The startup community has been saying the same things for over 10 years," said Simon Schaefer, president of Startup Portugal. "We always said: this is alert signal code red. If we don't harmonize Europe, we'll never be able to catch up with the U.S. and China."
> radically different approaches

Exactly. Relational databases are fantastic general tools, but various use cases can make more specialized data stores the best choice for a particular job.

Document stores, key-value stores, column-oriented databases, graph databases can all be more suitable for a given tasks than relational databases.
> You can’t throw your hands up simply because you’ll never capture everything in your models.

You can however, decide that the key drivers in your domain are essentially impossible to capture quantitatively and decide not to model the domain scientifically.
This applies especially well to cases where 'tacit knowledge' is important. Because that knowledge is hard to formulate, let alone formalize, it is really hard to quantize.
> Many Chinese believer of "Freedom of Speech" was shattered after seen previous POTUS account vanishes from Twitter.

That's delusional thinking on their part then. There's obviously an enormous difference. Which is why we're able to freely have this conversation on HN.

In China it's a blanket national policy. There is zero free speech in China, as determined by the government. You are not free to set up your own service, blog, site, etc. to skirt that.

Trump is a billionaire and is free to start his own social platform, which has been discussed by his camp on multiple occasions since the coordinated social media bans. He has drastically more resources than he needs to launch a platform to push his voice in any way he sees fit.

Trump wasn't censored by the US Government. Private social media companies decided they disagreed with how he was behaving and or what he was saying.

As someone that isn't a billionaire, before the day is out, with an hour of time, I could choose from any number of dozens of hosts and push a new communication platform out to the world, whether a blog or other. Or just sign up for Substack and say what I think there. I can use it to rant endlessly about politicians, government, ideology, Covid, nearly anything I see fit to say.

You can do none of that in China. The context could hardly be any more different when it comes to speech, between the US and China.
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Stop losing money on Facebook ads
tl;dr I've been running ads for 7 years and want to start productizing myself. Here's some value. Hope it helps.

I'm going to share how you can improve your FB Ad performance in 10 min or less.

You must discover which combo of creatives and targeting yields lowest CPA. After reading this, you'll know how to do this using Excel.

Unfortunately... many don't take the time to understand optimizing campaigns.

Some people hate using Excel. Why?

They hate looking at numbers.
They don't know how to export the data.
Organizing the data seems impossible.
Don't worry!

I'm going to show you how you can analyze your FB ads in 10 min or less.

Here's how, step by step:

Step 1: Open FB Ads Manager
Create a report.
Click Reports, click Create Custom Report, and change Date Range to Max. Choose your columns.
Include names, spend, CPA, and Conv. Value.
Save your report and export.

Step 2: Organize Data in Excel
Don't feel overwhelmed by the numbers. This is fun!
CMD+A and Insert Pivot Table.
Right-click Campaign Name and Collapse Entire Field.
Right-click on the first cell under Amount Spent and sort Largest to Smallest.

Step 3: Colors!
Last step!
Select all rows under CPA and add Conditional Formatting.
See which campaigns are performing over/under your CPA goals.
Expand your highest spending campaign to find which ad sets are winners. Pause the ones losing money!

Hopefully, this post helps somebody.

If you want the video course where I walk you through every step, it's on Gumroad for $10:
https://makesomethingepic.gumroad.com/l/profitable-facebook-...
Borges loved to explore the idea of infinity. Another story of his, The Garden of Forking Paths, explores the idea of a multiverse.

One other interesting tidbit that always intrigued me about Borges is that he became completely blind while he was the director of the Argentine National Library. In a strange irony, it became his own "Library of Babel", in the sense that he had so much knowledge within reach, but limited capacity to interpret it.
If you think it is "Nutty" why did you post it?

It's not a new idea

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

The idea that life originated in a comet or asteroid is still as plausible as any origin of life. All the ingredients of an RNA world are there.

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

There could very well be asteroids with liquid water inside them: some are certainly warm enough, it just takes a "crust" able to hold in a bar of pressure to maintain it.

On the other hand, it is absolutely incredible that a virus living on an asteroid would grow a spike protein that fits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_...

which certainly evolved on Earth.
Link to the SCP hub: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

And speaking carefully to avoid spoilers, I'd say my primary delight in the QNTM et al. AMD stories is how they lean into the universe to subvert expectations. They never turn out how you expect.
> I gotta tell you that unless you're working with absolute bozos, nobody is looking at estimates and saying "oh duh, I am betting the farm this will complete on that date."

Meanwhile, anybody working anywhere close to the retail space fell laughing off their chair. Thanksgiving won't move no matter how much you insult your co-workers.

(This is not limited to retail. Many industries have fixed delivery dates and bet on those. Thanksgiving is just the most obvious example of an immovable object)
Click reader mode in your browser instead of complaining about it here?
Not only people who have had run ins with the police - when I took an entry level job at a bank I had to go and submit my prints to the local gov (via an expensive third party of course) as part of my onboarding requirements (and run a background check). These are now stored forever in some police database; I would guess there are some other jobs like that, maybe government employees as well.
I think the idea is to seed mistrust in the data because there is no way to distinguish between the genuine and the fake data you put on your account. So the fake data makes the genuine practically useless.
From Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia:

> Programs are also considered malware if they secretly act against the interests of the computer user.

There are two criteria that software must meet to fit this definition:

1. The software must act against the interests of the computer user.

2. This must be done "secretly".

I unfortunately do not know much about the Reddit App for iOS so I can't make a judgement as to whether it fits definition 2. I think I can say with confidence it fits definition 1.
IIRC windows has a managed set of page files that grows as necessary.
Like OP suggested, dry wall anchors don't do well with dynamic loads. Every time you put that vacuum back, you will crumble a bit of drywall and weaken your anchors.
Sure, if the economics 101 version of the efficient market hypothesis were true, that's what you might expect to see.
That certainly helped, but it was well known even then that Cheney had a lot of power, and he had many connections. GWB wasn't a complete puppet, but he wasn't fully running the show either.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28770590
Outside of our bubble I don't see complaints about the company itself, but complaints about the product and content.

It seems nobody is very happy with Facebook. I have family members who will always agree that Facebook is full of uninformed opinions and everyone always seems to be disagreeing/arguing and it's full of complaining and political posts. And yet people continue to use it.
Perovskite cell manufacturing is quite DIYable. There's been several experiments (lab-scale, not industry-scale) with making the lead-based perovskite film from waste with very minimal equipment. The main problem is toxicity, both to people handling it and to environment if disposed of improperly. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ2bz6jlbz0
Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked
I've always looked at Yang as "typical mind fallacy" in action. Coming from SV culture, he assumes if you give everyone 10k/year, we all create startups, learn violin or a second language, volunteer in their communities, etc.

Policies that may work for a small, highly-motivated segment of our country do not necessarily scale.
Because a free society is a finely tuned balance between state power and individual freedom, and the pendulum is on the far side of state power since 9/11 anyways.

The same thing that can be used to find perpetrators in minor crimes can also be used to trace political movements, that any given government happens to dislike.

IMO there are certain uncertaintiws that any free society has to accept. One of those is that not every perpetrator will be punished. Not because there wouldn't be a way, but because a society in which this would be implemented wouldn't be free anymore.
It does raise a bunch of interesting scenarios that you could potentially sue over.

If a Jewish person gets recommended Mein Kampf on Amazon, could they now sue over the hateful content they're being shown? Should Amazon preemptively never show anyone content they could potentially be offended by (i.e. a Jewish person would never be able to be recommended Mein Kampf, a transgender person would never be able to see Ace Ventura under "watch next" on Amazon Prime while watching comedy movies, people in Winnipeg will never have Venetian Snares' "Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole" show up on Spotify radio)
I worked at a large gaming company and that was definitely the collaboration model.

Before per-branch controls, the only way to disable write access (while maintaining read access, pull-request privs, etc) to a repository's blessed branches was forks.
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