skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I’ve never understood about the anti-proliferation arguments of small reactors.

Ostensibly the reason why bad actors (“terrorists” etc [0]) don’t have nukes today is because it’s hard to enrich the fuel.

Because small reactors with safer designs often have a side effect of creating enriched fuel as intermediary product. (Meaning such designs would make it easier to enrich fuel than building thousands of centrifuges.)

So, we decide not to build them.

But, what’s stopping the bad actors from building the smaller reactors themselves, as an “easier than building thousands of centrifuges” method of enriching fuel?

In other words, why would preventing the bad guys from using such tech, be a reason for the good guys to avoid building such tech? If it really does make enriching fuel easier, couldn’t the bad guys just build the reactors themselves?

If we were serious about non-proliferation, and the breeder/thorium/molten-salt/etc designs make enriching fuel easier… wouldn’t the idea of a reactors be the thing we want to protect? Rather than just the physical reactors themselves?

[0] Substitute “bad guys” and “good guys” with whatever group you want, the point is the same.
Considering msm is pure fear mongering, no not really
I’m all for kids doing dumb shit, getting hurt, and learning valuable skills and life lessons. It can be very educational and fun for all parties involved.

Where I get concerned is when people are playing with tech can a easily move from “skin burn that heals in a week” to “partial / complete loss of sight in one eye” with little obvious indication that you’ve crossed that boundary.

Lasers in particular can be very nasty in this space. An simple 1mW green laser will look basically identical to a 1mW IR laser. But the IR laser has a real risk of causing partial sight loss because it not visible, so you don’t blink or look away when it shone in your eyes. Instead the first indication of a problem will either be pain or partial loss of sight, at which point the damage is done and can’t be repaired.

To further complicate things damage to eye can also depend on if the laser is pulsing or running continuously. So laser that seems “safe” when operated continuously can become extremely dangerous when pulsed.

Finally if you’ve got a laser that burn your skin. Then it’ll annihilate your eyes in a instant. The optics in your eyes have a focal magnification of about 100,000x so 1mW/cm2 becomes 100W/cm2 once it hits your retina. Which itself is not the most robust organ in the body.

In short things like lasers create a difficult to control hazard that pretty much targets on of the most sensitive, important and difficult to repair parts of the body, the eyes. People live perfectly normal lives missing fingers and toes, with 3rd degree burns and horrific scars. But permanent sight loss is a totally different ball game, it’s high impact, life long, and we have pretty much no technology that can reverse it.

So please, encourage your children to mess around with technology, take stuff apart. Burn fingers, break bones and slice up hands. But for the love of god, protect them permanent sight or hearing loss. Let them lose that stuff at music festivals or too old age. And doing that mean making sure they really understand how dangerous lasers can be, and how something a simple as taking your goggles of at the wrong moment can have huge life altering ramifications, before they start playing within anything more powerful than a DVD player.
Just because you have launch capability doesn't mean you have the payload to utilize that.
Lay bricks? Wut? I thought most houses are 3d printed nowadays…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity
Agree. I found it interesting but incredibly irresponsible. Grown up me knows enough to stay away from this kind of project but 14yo me would have been sourcing laser LEDs and junked microwaves minutes after viewing.

Don't understand how something like this can stand while other videos are pulled and the creators banned for life for simply expressing a politically incorrect opinion. Where is that editorial control when its really needed?
I wonder if they have a major Postgres database that hit transaction ID wraparound? Postgres uses int32 for transaction IDs, and IDs are only reclaimed by a vacuum maintenance process which can fall behind if the DB is under heavy write load. Other companies have been bitten by this before, eg Sentry in 2015 (https://blog.sentry.io/2015/07/23/transaction-id-wraparound-...). Depending on the size of the database, you could be down several days waiting for Postgres to clean things up.

Even though it’s a well documented issue with Postgres and you have an experienced team keeping an eye on it, a new write pattern could accelerate things into the danger zone quite quickly. At Notion we had a scary close call with this about a year ago that lead to us splitting a production DB over the weekend to avoid hard downtime.

Whatever the issue is, I’m wishing the engineers working on it all the best.
Yes and no. When software developers are working remotely their bartenders are going to be in the same areas.

Cities can’t just be waitress jobs for other waitresses, they need a core of non service jobs to work.
Because we all have enough batteries, right? You need enough batteries to provide hundreds of megawatts of quick power daily. See Figure E.2 https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2011/load-following-npp...
As far as I can tell, it’s not higher dose.

> It was scanned on a GE Revolution CT machine. The scan was performed using technique optimized for human extremities, and employed very thin slice thickness of 600 microns.
The Witcher 3 starts off sluggishly, but it gets significantly better after you complete the Velen quests.
It's not that simple since those refugees need to be productive. Are they going to create businesses? Invest in the town? There's a reason they usually go to larger cities... Schemes like this try usually try to attract rich foreigners or educated professionals looking to opt-out of the rat race for the investment angle. Not just labour.
Ask HN: Will there ever be a vendor agnostic GPU interface?
We moved from almost write once run anywhere OpenGL to vendor-dependent Vulkan / D3D12 / Metal / WebGPU, which is kinda impossible to support all without heavy abstraction layers and shader transpilers. Is there any possibility that we'll have easy cross platform in graphics realm in the future?
When freedom of belief is outlawed we are all doomed.

If I want to believe in a giant spahgetti monster in the sky that heals me and protects me, that is an inalienable right.
> working remote

That assumes there's viable internet connection, which is often not the case in small remote villages (that is one of the huge caveats).
A couple of possibilities...

I know they said they weren't hacked but they were hacked.

or

They are completely inept and have no disaster recovery plan in place, etc.
Fastmail Is Down yet Again
I recently bought a Wacom tablet, but didn't install any drivers except those
that are in the free-software repository of Void Linux, which I suppose don't
do this. I wish it were easier in general, though, to find out whether
hardware requires proprietary software to function. For example, I'd like to
get a document scanner, but, since I don't know of any model that can run on
free software, I just do without.
+1 Interested in hearing about your experience getting citizenship.
No rich foreigners are needed. You need healthy, young, and muscular foreigners. And not lazy ones.
I know more than one person who has been "lucky" in that way remarkably consistently for decades. At some point you start to ask if they are making their own luck.

These are all people who have no-nonsense investing strategies. They don't do anything weird or controversial. They typically look for value and fundamentals and they make their biggest gains simply by buying or selling at a good time by recognising something important before the market.

An example I always remember one of them giving me was a company that made building materials. During an exceptionally wet summer a lot of building work stopped because sites were washed out. Stocks in the big homebuilders had fallen heavily and this smaller supplier had tracked them down. However it fell so far that its price-to-book ratio was less than 1. (Roughly speaking that means the cost to buy a share is less than what that share would be worth if you could distribute the current value of the tangible business assets to the shareholders.) My friend invested and after the bad weather passed, trade returned to normal levels, the stock price corrected, and they had made a very good return over a few months.
> And the ones where the attacker would have access to only the encrypted data seems very unlikely, like physical access to the data center

This is the primary purpose of encryption at rest. It is not unlikely. Have you ever worked in an average datacenter? Some of them have very little physical security and don't monitor employees' access to cages. And if you have a cage on the same floor as another customer, all it takes is a fake name badge and a clipboard to walk up to someone with their cage open and say you're doing a routine inspection. Walk into the cage, pop out a drive, put it under your clipboard, walk away. Ask physical security pentesters how "difficult" it is to steal from a datacenter. And let's not even get into dumpster diving, where clients regularly toss entire servers without erasing disks into dumpsters.

Like someone else said, it also is a good practice in multi-tenant configurations where a misconfigured storage or compute backplane could expose data to the wrong tenant.
I wonder how the market is going to react when it opens tomorrow. I am thinking a quick scalp with weekly $RBLX puts, then when it recovers double up on cheap long call options.
Who said anything about commuting? These schemes are typically looking for remote workers or those looking to setup tourism businesses.
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> Essentially, the only "advantage" of not running your functions in a subshell is that you can write to global variables.

subshells are ridiculously slow because it's a forked child process. imagine forking for every function call in your program....

> I simply do not understand why people keep recommending the {} syntax at all.

because it's almost always what you actually want.
House prices have never been high in small, remote, depopulated villages, which is where these 1€ houses tend to be.
my interpretation of the bible says i need a machine gun and a lifted truck
A €102,000 house in Italy doesn't sound like the worst deal in the world.
Calvinists would like a word ;)
Probably implying use of `declare -pf` to turn functions into strings which can be evaluated by a remote shell.
Compared to the rest of the world, i'd say mobile internet is great across EU. Nordic countries in particular have the best service & price i've seen so far.

It's true though, remote areas still struggle with good internet.
Nuclear waste is very compact and small.

Tell me about the storage and disposal costs of all the solar cells and wind turbines.
At least they've had another party in power since they've gained independence and there's momentum for change. There is hope.
He does talk about how fast his eyes would burn if exposed to the laser.

If it helps people get off the couch is it really that bad? I want my kid to grow up too, but protecting him from all harmful information is just going to turn him into a potato or worse.
Presumably the owner of the Instagram handle was not interested in selling it. I suppose Zuckerberg could have seized it but that's a heck of a way to get your rebranding effort going.
If they had decent WiFi (which they may not yet have), one could start a place for and run by geeks, say "Geektown".

After the pandemic, I'll take many folks some time to be able to live without those daily Amazon deliveries again...
Lol, sure mate.

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Or maybe you thought about using some *waves hands* machine learning™?
Maybe this will change with Starlink or over time but usually remote places in Europe have really, really slow internet connections (if any) so they are not really suited for remote work unless you can do everything via Citrix or similar.
Many would argue that resisting tyrannical mandates is a compassionate and sacrificial act that is in the interest of their neighbors.
What other patterns do you prefer in Python?

Patching feels a bit messy, and if you patch out some imported module "mymod" in the implementation, it breaks when "import mymod" is changed to "from mymod import myfun", which should be an implementation detail.

You could do something tricky with the import system to substitute modules, I suppose? It seems like this should solve some of the same use-cases as DI, but I haven't seen a clear and straight-forward description of how to go about it in a clean way.
"Putting my wants above the needs of others." (forbidden).

The church looks quite luxurious and many pastors have a good life financially and in terms of leisure ...
A subway, but worse
In the immediate short term, yes, obviously - stress, long hours, etc. In the immediate aftermath, probably too: Burdensome mandates from management that isn't always aware of reality to "make sure this never happens again".

But if the organization is functional, in the medium term, this may also mean staffing understaffed teams, hiring SREs, etc. - which can mean less stress, no more 24/7 pager duty, better pay etc.
The old "shoehorn the Jesus meme into a contemporary frame" tactic is always itching to be exercised.
There are (/recently have been) similar programs in the US too. They're not as valuable as clickbait though, because people here are familiar with how undesirable the locations generally are.
If there's one thing I've learned from the world of think tanks it's that you have to be extremely critical when someone starts arguing about the woes of SMEs.
This is far and away one of my favorite metrics. If I see something with more comments than upvotes on here, I can expect an intense debate over something controversial. These tend to be some of my favorite comment sections.
Early return is definitely a part of the problem. One thing you could do with generics is create option/result wrappers that would work with any code and hack together a try/early return solution using panic/recover, but you'd offend the Go community, and at that point you might as well just use Rust.
Is "Peak" in the same vein as Malcolm Gladwell or "Good to Great" which preselects a handful of prodigies across all fields then makes broad, definitive (unscientific) conclusions based on some posthoc observations?
Might be the case in the US, but GDPR in the EU requires informed consent for this sort of analytics gathering. With the keyword being informed.
> According to The History of LISP, the same was true for LISP 1.0. Native integer support was added later as a performance optimization.

I feel like this just distills the ethos of LISP so perfectly, I'm gonna use this to explain it to people now.
Just a note, since a lot of people will probably miss it: this was made in the Squeak dialect of Smalltalk.
Path of Exile said they’re working on a mobile version 2+ years ago, but I guess that’s dead, since there’s been nothing on it
I agree 100%. QNX is lurking in products you may use. It was the OS for the show control system that is used throughout entertainment where real-time is necessary for the safety of the devices it controls, which also have hardware safety at the lower level. I would drop into the QNX terminal for certain tasks. Unfortunately, you used to be able to download the show control software and play with it, but it has since been bought buy a company that sells it with the equipment they rent, so you need to buy trainging and it is behind their wall now. Not QNX, but the show control software that runs on QNX.
The trend I've seen in big tech is that microservices architectures kind of negate a lot of this benefit though. Yes, there might be SRE's who are on-call for existential company-wide outages, and ideally they have some general knowledge about some of the biggest systems and common causes of issues. But for any issues that are due to bugs in the code or configuration of one particular service (which is usually most issues), there is a separate on-call rotation for each service. These folks are mostly just regular engineers that are primarily responsible for building features and delivering under time pressure and don't have the luxury of a lot of training & practice dealing with incidents until they happen for real.
I thought it was a certificate issue? I am looking at robox.com and the issuing CA is GoDaddy...
That’s where Starlink comes in.
“Eye Movements: A Window on Mind and Brain” by Roger van Gompel
Is there an estimate as to how much of that $2 billion he saw as commissions? Even a 1% commission would $20 million.
I'd prefer "deprecated" which is what the teams I've worked on used. That's an actual programming term as a bonus.
Bash can also employ a kind of function pointer, which can greatly simplify command-line argument parsing. Consider the following simplified example:

ARG_ARCH="amd64"

ARGUMENTS+=(
"ARG_ARCH,a,arch,Target operating system architecture (${ARG_ARCH})"
"log=utile_log,V,verbose,Log messages while processing"
)

utile_log() { echo "$1" }

noop() { return 1 }

log=noop

By creating a comma-delimited list of command-line arguments, the parsing logic and control flow can be influenced from a single location in the code base. The trick is to eval-uate "log=utile_log" when the "-V" command-line argument is provided (or assign ARG_ARCH to the user-supplied value after "-a"). Using the $log variable invokes the function, such as in:

preprocess() {
$log "Preprocess"
}

If "-V" isn't supplied, then every invocation of $log simply returns without printing a message. The upshot is a reduction in conditional statements. Function pointers FTW. I wrote about this technique in my Typesetting Markdown series:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...

Here's a rudimentary implementation and example usage to wet your whistle:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/scripts/...

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/installe...
A good, fairly recent example from the city I live in, of hard drives being sold that were (accidentally) absolutely chock full of unencrypted customer PII: https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/4476625/ncix...
It looks like [0] there currently exist extensions for H.264 and H.265. I don't know anything about Khronos politics, but I expect there's nothing that would stop e.g. Google from proposing similar extensions for VP9, AV1, etc., besides the need to actually get it implemented. (The H.264 and H.265 extensions have only AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA employees listed as Contributors.)

[0]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions...
Right, but the fuel cost goes up over time as extraction gets harder (eventually requiring entire new types of facilities, which themselves take a decade to build), even as wind and solar continue their exponentially decreasing LCOE cost curve.

The exponentially decreasing cost curve is the part that I think people haven't actually internalized. The arguments on the pro-nuclear side are pretty much the same as they were ten years ago. (right down to 'we'll have thorium in ten years!') But things are very different now: It's like arguing for large scale investment in punch-card sorting machines circe 1960. Yes, the punch-card sorting machines can be used to manage all your bank data, but the digital processing are getting exponentially better with time and have been actually better for a couple years. But the proponents of punch card sorting machines haven't internalized the message yet.
Money can be exchanged for good, services, and access to some abandoned industrial facility with a long windowless corridor or even tunnel.

Sometimes, it doesn't even take money, just knowing someone who knows someone...
Full nucleotide base sequences for all of the Covid vaccines approved by MRHA
Exactly -- check out script in the link, it shows how it would be used. I'm not sure why the first `remote_cmd` is called (probably local testing and forgot to delete it), so ignore that.

Try this and you'll see how it returns a dramatic amount of bash as its output:

remote_cmd="`typeset -f` ; function test123 { echo hi! ; }" && echo -e $remote_cmd
Bash scripting helped me out of a big problem a couple of decades ago. It's nice to have a tool around that doesn't change out from under you.
The workaround of pointing/recording content using a mobile camera is guaranteed to always work regardless of any flimsy DRM scheme these vendors implement [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Judging from my youtube recommendations there are a number of brits/germans/etc moving to northern Sweden to buy cheap but now crappy houses that need a very large amount of work (foundation work/insulation/fixing various rotten wooden parts/sometimes even roof leaks/etc). They seem to be seeking a homestead/off-grid kind of life. I'm kind of skeptical on how they'll survive the coming winter, but we'll see. :)

Good for them if they're able to fix those houses, I guess.
what the eat
My wife is starting to go through this, would love to learn about your experience and any tips you can share.
I was thinking of Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies.

It's not so much that they have a story, because there's more to it than that, and the lore seeps through every aspect of the games.

I have never played a game that does cosmic horror so damn well (because Lovecraftian games are about 99% disappointing, or cliche rip offs of like two Lovecraft stories).

I prefer Sunless Skies, but both of them look gorgeous, have amazing sound design, and while abundant with moments of terror they are a real feast for the imagination. It's the writing that ties it all together, makes it special.
> If you have italian ancestors

This is key. I was born in Italy, but to American parents living abroad — and I don't have any Italian ancestors. I don't qualify for Italian citizenship, because Italy is jus sanguinis, not jus soli.

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

Good job keeping me out, Italy.
Read up on Bogleheads and investopedia. The goal is to keep fees low. Max put your 401k
True, if you need that (I do), but I have not encountered issues since the past 15 or so years. Before that it was harder. Obviously there are places that have nothing: I have lived there too and that is a lot more hassle. For me still better than a city. Each their own.
I got punished in elementary school because I didn't say "under God" when reciting the pledge of allegiance. While these means aren't 100% effective, nonparticipation is noticed, is punished, and labeling children as "problematic" for insufficient or wrong religiosity / patriotism can snowball and stick with them for life.
Mass Effect storyline is really nice but if it was put into a movie format it would be a generic scifi flick without emotion. A lot of time is needed to develop the characters and the details possible more than what TV viewers would have patience for but because its a video game it means you get breaks from the narrative because yuou live the story.
Try to turn it into an stl file, slice it and print it :-)
Repeat Yourself, a Lot
.. per year.

1. There are ~800 million people suffering from hunger.

2. One meal is ~$0.25.

3. -> almost two meals per day assuming WFPs already existing fixed infrastructure can just scale.

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It's still peanuts in the global scale. Equal to $600B capital giving 1% of annual capital gains.