skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find nuclear to be extremely cool but I'm unsure of it's long term viability due to the human factor. We already have a few major nuclear incidents that could have gone way worse which suggest that our designs are not as resilient as claimed, be it due to poor design or poor maintenance and human interaction. When things go bad, we need heroism to fix it, it's not simply like losing electricity or money but people are required to do extraordinary things to save the rest and I don't believe we can keep doing it successfully each time.

Also, the responsibility it creates stretches for far beyond human life and even generations. I will call it a solved problem if we can get rid of the waste somehow in less than a human life.

I don't trust our species to do the reasonable thing every time and even if we want to do it right, we tend to forget or downplay the consequences of a failure. It's not just that we keep doing the same shockingly stupid or brutal things but at the same time we can have very dark side of self harm and delusions. For example, there are groups of people who believe that after a cataclysmic event, we all will go to heaven where everything is perfect, therefore the logical action to do is to force god for the rapture day by starting one. These days that kind of groups are managed but I don't think that it's impossible of them gaining power to do horrible things like nuclear annihilation.

Just look at the Middle East, the place used to be technological and cultural powerhouse not that long ago in nuclear waste time scale. Places that are complete shitholes today used to be nice places just two cesium-137 half life cycles ago.
AC is generally optional especially in non-urban New England as well. It's probably pretty standard in new houses. But, in general, people in older homes, will put it in as part of a broader renovation, just stick in a window unit or two in the summer, or just make do with fans and it being overly hot for a few weeks a year.
1password 7 on Windows has been around much longer than the linux/electron version - but it's getting "updated" with the "unified experience" in 1password 8.
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True about the AC. But Seattle is slightly cooler year-round, right?
With over 1.5 billion active users... 6.5% is still a very large number of people!

Also.. not sure what safari/iOS did in their early years with keyboard password entry capitalization... but if they did auto capitalize... since Apple is so good at saving profile info across new installs/os updates... I imagine there would be a large portion of old apple users with perma-capitalized passwords out there as well.
That is an awkward wording, but the author explains exactly what he means in the next sentence, agreeing that switching FAANG for a startup for financial reasons is stupid. If you switch, do it for other reasons.
Depends on the Germans? It's just more polarized here than where I've lived in the UK. The closest reference point I can think of is the UK in the 80s. There's an active far-right (the AfD got 27% of the vote in Saschen recently) but there's also a lot of people who will bend over backwards to make foreigners feel welcome.
I think there may be some confusion here. Reading the original tweets from @featherless, I don't see any intent to actually change the end-user design. For example:

> This evolution of how we approach design for Apple platforms has enabled us to marry the best of UIKit with the highlights of Google's design language.

I'm reading this to say that custom UI components will be replaced with UIKit components that will be customized to have Google's design language. But at a high level, the apps will continue to look the same as they currently do.
If I needed a transplant for anything, I sure as hell wouldn’t trust my body on its own because “COVID’s kill rate is very low”. That’s not to mention the rate and severity of permanent lung damage and lingering heart issues.

It’s also a matter of resource scarcity, so the vaccination becomes a layer of filtration that helps maximise the chance of success. It’s much like the dilemma of unvaccinated COVID patients, they take up resources and often elected not to take the vaccine for no good reason, when they turn they have a much lower chance of making it through compared to a breakthrough vaccinated patient. The first in best dressed attitude is not compatible with optimally saving as many people as possible in a resource scarce environment. Hence the increased triaging
Most people might never realized things like that, because they aren't good enough at math (or software) to see the difference between an ordinary everyday mathematician (if there was something like that -- maybe a high school mats teacher), and Paul Erdos.

Maybe from most people perspective, everyone else is about as bright as everyone else. Because they cannot tell the difference. (And instead people fallback to things like how others dress and how self confident they sound)
It has a GUI
> Small work issues cause outsized emotional responses

Yeah, I'm going to have to get out more. I work remote in a city where I don't know anyone, so I spend a lot of time at home. Couple that with programming being my sense of self worth from a young age and having a PR get a handful of comments makes me anxious. Bad habit - I know.
I'm curious, many comments here mention all the legal and regulatory permissions-based aspects of getting into the HAM radio network, but what is it, practically, that stops any young person from just buying the right equipment and starting with transmissions on their own? Does anyone even seriously enforce this? Why is it so regulated in the first place if its just partly amateur hobby radio of a sort? Asking as a someone who knows very little about HAM.
Ignoring dollar amounts, are we even able to mine raw materials fast enough to get the required battery capacity in place? Or would the plan be to burn fuel at night and sequester the carbon during the day? That sounds inefficient :/
I thought the same, and was surprised to find the problem here seems to be that there's no part of the HTML spec to set the allowable characters in a text input.

So JavaScript to intercept keypresses or postprocess the string is risky at best and often poorly implemented.

If it was in HTML it could be reliable, and have a unified behaviour when text is pasted in.

For phone numbers there is a "tel" input, so the undesirable behaviour your experiencing may be in spite or because of it.
Tax attorney, was a general IT guy/systems administrator/software engineer in a previous life and I maintain an interest.
Not 50 years worth, but some. I remember it being criticised as bad practice, but also common.

But this is from memory, you'll have to look it up if we want to dig deeper.
Delta does not appear to make children sicker
I would be surprised if anywhere in the US didn't allow at least 1000 gallon propane tanks. At least, any somewhat rural location that would be sensible to take all the way off grid.
Worth noting that everything is relative to the other options.

Production of hydrogen (via a variety of methods) for use in vehicles is actually more efficient than gasoline (including hybrids) if you measure well to wheel.

It just in turn gets stomped by battery electric, so it has little future there, but that doesn't mean it is bad compared with the status quo. Like Windows phones were better than Blackberries and (pre windows) Nokia, but not as good as Android or iOS.
This sounds like a combinatorial explosion situation for longer passwords and longer changes required.
Double-whammy article, second title: Secondary immune response stronger after infection than after shot
Too many people don’t do their research and understand how preferred status on the cap table works, minimum payouts, and other things that are typically (sadly intentionally) withheld from employees receiving these offers. People hear about startups selling or being acquired for millions or even billions but too often nearly all that money is just paying back the original investors with some modest returns so they can move on. There can be little, or even nothing, for employees holding options. If the company is acquired you might get a nice stash package to welcome you onboard with a t-shirt.

Obviously there are other stories that see employees become fantastically wealthy, but that’s a rare exception not the norm. Equity comp at a publicly traded company (via RSUs) is very different than equity comp in a privately held venture. With RSUs you’re still at the mercy of the market but you know how much they’re worth literally second by second.

At a startup as an employee you should generally assume those shares are worth nothing and be OK making what you’ll be making then. Anything above that is a nice windfall bonus.
>It’s not the 1980s any more. Education has moved forward. Whether NYC will execute this well is, of course, up in the air. But that what it has identified is what has been widely used and proven better than binary tracking already, for the students that would be tracked into G&T, for the students that would not, for racial and socioeconomic class equity, and in basically every other conceivable manner is not up in the air.

I'm replying here to your reply ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806171 ) to my comment.

You make a bunch of really good points. I haven't been in the NYC public schools in nearly 40 years and the elementary schools in nearly 50, so I was unaware that the G&T programs weren't actually housed and run within each school.

In fact, when I was in elementary school (1971-1978), the gifted and talented programs were just getting started, and were housed within neighborhood schools[0] as a separate track.

After reading your (and a bunch of other) comments, I realized (as you already knew) that G&T programs had been moved to completely separate schools. Which is a terrible implementation of G&T.

But even back then, only a small number of city schools had those programs at all (they certainly didn't at mine -- PS 84 and JHS 117).

I was just a kid, so I don't know what justifications were made for moving all G&T programs out of the neighborhood schools.

There should be G&T (or some tracked analog) in every city school, something to which you alluded.

tl;dr: You were absolutely correct. My comments were based on an understanding that was decades out of date.

[0] https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/metro-learning/spoils...
Their renderer is why I love and hate Flutter. It's so easy to become productive in Flutter, but the end result always feels off-brand on every platform.

I suppose the exception is the web, where React-based rendering and CSS resets have killed off most of the native feel anyway, but Flutter on the web is too slow to actually be usable in my experience. Yes, with a high powered laptop and a JS-optimized browser like Chrome it's acceptable, but that just shouldn't be necessary.

I can see Flutter have its advantages, like on Fuchsia where "native" isn't defined by anything else and on kiosk systems where the application is the only meaningful UI that'll ever be shown, but in apps I'm just generally annoyed by its seeming popularity.
There's a bug that hijacks your back button. At least on mobile.
122K / 200K have returned per this 2019 article:

> Radiation from the fuming plant spread over tile-roofed towns and rice paddies across an area the size of Connecticut. The meltdown 150 miles north of Tokyo drove more than 200,000 people out of the region. Most believed they were fleeing for their lives. Now, almost eight years after the accident, the government has lifted most evacuation orders. Nearly 122,000 people have been allowed to return to communities where weeds have overtaken parking lots.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fukushima-residen...
So compared to Switzerland many day to day things you want get done are just less convenient, less straight forward, less predictable. Getting from A to B, buying exactly what you want vs. what is available, making contracts, lack of consumer/renter protection, etc. But those are mostly balanced out by other day to day things that are nicer here, like the friendliness of the people.

The big things that are mentally taxing for me are the gross income gap, inequality, classism and their effects on society. A somewhat benign example. Couple of years ago I went to a small alternative rock club in Switzerland while staying there for vacation. Through the night I met a plumber, an investment banker, an electrician and a physics phd student. They were all there, just because they shared the same interest in music. You never see this here. Classes don’t mix. And this goes trough everything. From pre-school to careers to leisure. Social mobility is very tough.

On the other hand, this is big part of the reason I moved, to have more meaningful work and at least try to have a positive impact on the aforementioned problems.
That is not very long not even one generation.
Like "oh wait", it seems to derive humour from its implicit logical rebuttal:

"But, Mr. Crockett Texas is hell."

In a similar vein, this also from the 19th Century:
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

"But, Mr. Kipling a good woman is a ... oh wait."
Chernobyl's plant was built in 1972. Fukushima's in 1971. One would hope the technology improved a bit in 40 years...
Ask and you shall receive [1] If you are having challenges with OpenLDAP you may find some useful articles on ServerFault [2] LDAP schemas and implementations can get complex in some organizations. I've been lucky to mostly inherit the simpler schemas.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33402119/why-is-the-open...

[2] - https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/ldap
It seems you live in US. In other parts of the world it's perfectly normal to have time off and benefit from it. But as a compensation wages are higher.

However, I prefer having some free time for myself than accumulate a large amount of money.
> You can also use GraalVM to compile Java programs ahead of time these days, and get much faster startup.

Just wanted to add a note that there is a tradeoff involved, as programs compiled with GraalVM will have worse performance compared to running directly with the JVM, but the startup speed will be faster.

For CLIs, GraalVM is a god send.

For long-running servers/daemons, JVM is still king.
This sounds incredible, does it allow for redistribution of the fixed product? Or is it just for the purposes of notifying the creator of the problem and its solution in one go?
> History shows that outrage does something, when it turns into laws. Todays outrage is managed ressource going nowhere.
So what I'm reading is: there's nothing wrong with Material Design aesthetically, but the design choices commonly made when choosing Material Design are regularly poor.

That's fair.

Unlabeled hamburger menu buttons and gear icons placed every which area (sometimes multiple!) are great examples of (admittedly common!) abuse of what can be a powerful UI concept.
It IS expensive. And will take another 30 years to complete.
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This isn’t entirely a bad thing. Trying to cram everything into coastal areas is not sustainable.
(I just work up and my brain is not yet fully functional, so what follows is probably totally stupid)

Notation: "||" means string concatenation.

Let password P = P1 || P2, where len(P1) + len(P2) = len(P) and |len(P1) - len(P2)| <= 1.

Let H1 = hash(P1), H2 = hash(P2), where hash() is a cryptographic hash function that produces at least as many bits as the longest allowed password and satisfies whatever slowness and memory use requirements that you have for a password hash.

To store a password, store P ⊕ H1 and P ⊕ H2.

To check a password candidate C received at login, let C = C1 || C2 using the same splitting rule as used for P above, and compute C ⊕ hash(C1) and C ⊕ hash(C2).

A login is successful if either P ⊕ H1 or P ⊕ H2 is within edit distance 1 of either C ⊕ hash(C1) or C ⊕ hash(C2).

(I've omitted salt from the above for simplicity. Replace the hash with a salted hash if you want salt).
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Be cooler if you could implement Material Design in a more usable way than even Google, no?
I am guessing there are about a thousand different answers to those questions depending upon where you live in the US, to say nothing about the rigor of the enforcement.
> It's worth remembering, also, that vaccination reduces transmission, in turn reducing severe cases.
Agreed. Downvotes on this comment are BS. It's a legit point of view that I've heard many times from locals.
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Note to the author: Would love to see the totally twisted package. Please.
Of course it did but do you think that people in the 70's were promised anything less than perfect safety?

Was the deal something like “now you get electricity and a salary but there’s a chance that you will die or lose everything you worked for your entire life overnight if an experiment goes wrong or earthquake hits”.
As someone with experience as a startup employee and founder, having negotiated startup offers from both sides of the table and seen several unfavorable and favorable liquidity scenarios play out, here is the advice I give people:

Treat stock options in an early stage startup as if they are worthless. Don't make salary/equity tradeoffs and instead, negotiate for both the "high salary" and "high equity".

Stock options have a number of "gotchas" that may not be immediately obvious:

1. Exercise price and exercise window. It takes a lot longer for a startup to exit than than most people would like to think (if it exits at all). 10+ years is my experience. You're probably not going to stay with the company that long, so when you leave the company and want to keep your shares, you only have so much time to exercise them (this is the exercise window - typically 3 months). It could cost you many $thousands to exercise and there is no guarantee your stock will be worth anything. You are essentially now an investor in the company and you are afforded none of the protections that the company's venture investors received.

2. Liquidation preference. In a liquidity event, the company's venture investors get paid back some multiple of their original investment (typically 1-2x) before any common shareholders get paid (which includes options holders). If the company is not valued above a certain threshold at liquidity, then common shareholders get nothing. As the company takes on new investors, this liquidation preference starts to add up, and as an employee you are not going to be told what this amounts to. You could exercise your shares, pay the company money, have the company exit for an apparently attractive amount, and then get nothing because the liquidation preference threshold wasn't met. The company exits, and you lose money.

3. Tax treatment. Assuming the company exits while you are still an employee (i.e. you have not exercised your shares) or the company has an attractive exercise window (10 years is not uncommon nowadays), and the valuation is high enough not to trigger liquidation preference, then you will make some money. Unfortunately, the amount you earn will get taxed as income, not capital gains, and the difference is significant. To be taxed as capital gains, you have to exercise your options and hold on to the shares for at least a year before selling them. Some companies offer early exercise benefits, but if you do this then you could potentially lose money as I described above.

RSU's on the other hand (essentially just plain stock like founders get) do not have to be exercised and are taxed as income on their value the moment they are vested (or on the value of the entire grant on the data of issue, assuming you file an 83(b) election with the IRS). These have value, and I would be comfortable with a salary/equity tradeoff for them. This is something you should ask about during negotiation. If RSUs are off the table, then you can try asking the company to pay the [early] exercise price for you as a signing bonus.
Very few people are racist, although you will find that if immigrants come from eastern europe instead of exotic countries like Ethiopia and Tanzania, the percentage of racist people towards them increases dramatically. Even so, few are overtly racist, yet somehow the society behaves in a way that precludes true integration.

My friends from Romania are paid significantly less than their native Austrian collegues. Are their bosses racist? I don't know, I don't necessarily think so, yet the society somehow converged to this state.
I can't tell, but it'd never be allowed. Grab an AAA game, fix a bug in it, and now you're free to redistribute the game without consequences. That'd be insane.
> Because we need a lot of energy and fast to scrub all that CO2 gas, coal&oil threw and are still throwing into the atmosphere.

Nuclear power plants have lead times of about 10 years or more, so if we need more now (as in this or next year) nuclear power plants are not the answer.

There are wind turbines with 10 to 15 MW from Siemens-Ganesha, Vestas and some other corporations, available now. Those do not need a lead time of ten+ years with huge initial investment and permanent high security and waste management overhead like new nuclear power plant do. 75 of those replace one nuclear plant block, as most of those output ~1 GW.

> Also because we need baseline power for when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shinning.

Wind turbine towers have heights of 100 to 250 m, there wind is not as restricted as at ground level, at least if not in very mountainous regions and rather steady.

No wind is just not a thing in the atmosphere at that level, albeit too much wind can happen in storms.

For the theoretical no wind and the more real, but not frequent, too much wind you can use power storage and load management, which needs to be (and is already) implemented anyway. Same for sun, albeit not shining can be a real problem there.

Now, Lithium or soon also NaCl batteries, to Pumped-storage hydroelectricity to storing energy mechanically are all great but just help for very short to a day or so, what do for the rest? Well, the problem for too much wind (or the hypothetical no wind) is always local to a few 100 km radius, continental Europe (for example) has huge in-sync grids with a bunch of 360 kV AC or 10+ kV DC interconnects to move around 100s of GW for a reason, so just take it from somewhere else (often things even cancel out).
That's not the full picture. Population adjusted, violent crime is at nearly the lowest level it has been at it decades. Murder has spiked, but is still way below the peak of the early 90s [0]

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/57581270
That article shows no proof and links to a site that no longer exists.
I appreciate the care taken "back in the day" to make COs fit in to their surroundings.

A friend and I drove around Cincinnati looking at some of the old COs. The COs in Cincinnati, by and large, fit with the architecture of their neighborhoods. Many of them are architecturally interesting.

http://www.co-buildings.com/oh/513/

I really appreciate that this site lets other people see them.
Seems like you can distribute it. But you can't create a competing product based on it. See point b here, that should let you send patches.

> 2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not permit the information obtained through its application:

> (a) to be used for goals other than to achieve the interoperability of the independently created computer program;

> (b) to be given to others, except when necessary for the interoperability of the independently created computer program;

> (c) to be used for the development, production or marketing of a computer program substantially similar in its expression, or for any other act which infringes copyright.

Edit: The point of the ruling was that this clause can be interpreted to work for fixing bugs and not just interoperate with other programs. So everything here goes for fixing bugs as well.
Shhhh... don't let science get in the way of the ongoing power grab by the surveillance state and the ongoing money grab by big pharma