skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our team used it to provide instant excuses/root cause. We also had a list of just about every Rebecaa Black "Friday" parody.

The "downside" is that these custom responses were global, while a slackbot can be channel specific.
I’m an interested layperson at best, but I gather that we know how to build safe fission reactors now, and that the safe storage of spent (or “slightly used” as I’ve heard it called) fuel pellets is a much harder political problem than technical problem.

Gorbachev once speculated that it was actually Chernobyl that brought down the USSR.

I personally wonder if it’s also why we’re going to have a climate catastrophe.
I think about technical skill development as a diverse portfolio. I spend a majority of learning budget on fundamentals, mostly overlearning core knowledge and skills. I spend a small amount of my learning budget on specific techniques, tools, and packages that currently popular. A very small fraction of my learning budget is spent on high risk / high reward elements.
This is maybe a little outside the scope of your article, but I've read about the DX7's log2 based sine wavetables in the past, and it makes sense from a math standpoint (log2(x) + log2(y) = log2(x*y)). However, I find it confusing when I go to try to replicate it. My understanding is that these are NOT floating point numbers. In which case the output would be in the 8bit range of (0-257) or -127 to +127 if we're using signed values.

So assuming I want to represent a signal value of 127 (i.e. sin(t) = 127) using base 2 logs, I punch this into my calculator and i get log2(127) = 6.9886.
But that's not what's going to be stored in the signal LUT since it's a floating point number.

I think I'm probably missing something obvious, but any clarification would be amazing.
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Reprocessing works fine in practice, as others have mentioned, it’s uncommon because it’s politically unpopular. Partially because everything related to nuclear anything is politically unpopular, partially because having high-purity plutonium lying around poses nuclear weapon proliferation risks. Though this can be avoided by breeding and reacting in situ.

> why is there so much nuclear waste that has not been bred and reprocessed?

You may be inclined to wonder why there is so much nuclear waste at all. After all, we could just melt it, dilute it into a slag with a bunch of silicon, cart it off to a boat and dump it into a deep ocean trench if we wanted to be safely rid of it. But we don’t want to be rid of it. It’s extremely expensive to produce and extremely valuable, and any permanent solution for storing nuclear waste needs to be reversible in case we ever want it back for reprocessing.
The problem is that there is easy too much stuff out there for anyone to be competent in the basics of all.

Eg, everybody should learn to dance just to learn decent posture and how to move yourself. Everybody should learn how to grow a few common vegetables. Everyone should learn how to extinguish a fore for each class (A, B, C, D). Everybody should learn some basic first aid outside of CPR and putting a bandaid on it. Everyone should learn the rules of the road - even if they don't drove (to get a feeling for what others that are driving will be doing in the next few seconds). Everybody should learn enough about musical theory to recognise the basic structure, variations on it, and various genres. Everybody should learn a language not spoken in their immediate environment. Everybody should travel, and, when travelling, once or twice look beyond the default tourist traps and experience another culture. Everybody should know some basic self-defence. Everybody should have sufficient financial literacy to do grocery shopping. Everybody should learn about history. Everybody should learn some basics about minorities (race/gender/handicap/...), including what are really offensive stereotypes (to avoid) and common problems (to be able to help). Everybody should learn how to sail - trust me on this one. Everybody should learn how to "navigate" from place to place without a smartphone. Everybody should learn the basics of organising a small get-together (including booking venue). Everyb should learn how to gauge prices for things/services they rarely buy/use. Everybody should know at least one sport and their body sufficiently well to be able to stay in shape. Everybody should know some basics of multiple religions (since you'll run into them). Everybody should know how to use the index of a book. Everybody should prefer vi over Emacs. Everybody should know how to cook several different meals. Everybody should know enough about nutrition to be able to not to die from malnutrition when having a choice for foods. Everybody should be able to swim - including swimming a short distance with their clothes on. Everybody should learn to ride a bike. Everybody should be able to change a diaper. Everybody should learn to be able to teach some basic things. Everybody should learn more about cosmology than "that's the Big Dipper". Everybody should learn geography - at least rough position of multiple countries and cities. Eveeybody should learn ice skating / skiing / snowboarding.

That's just some stuff from the top of my head. I miss at least half of that.
Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy
> Would bitcoin mining be better if it would use clean energy?

No, Bitcoin mining should not exist. It serves no demonstrable net-positive value to society.

> I think you really are mixing two things here

I'm not, you seem to be confused. Energy production is produced only because it is economically viable to do so. Bitcoin makes it economically viable to produce most forms of energy, regardless of that specific source's environmental impact. This is harmful consumption of energy. Like leaving the lights on when you're not home, simply because you don't care. Bitcoin is not indifferent, its core function is to increase energy usage. Some people would have you believe Bitcoin's core value is its use as a currency. Its value is as infrastructure that wastes energy for profit, and the collective buy-in and infrastructure created to ensure it remains a store of value.

You could maybe argue this is worth it, if there were absolutely no other way to do it. But there is, and it works much better. Central banking is strictly superior to cryptocurrency for most reasons that the average person cares about. If you don't agree, that's irrelevant, because you're an outlier. Most people want cheap transactional costs, fast transactions, and for their money to have stable value. They couldn't care for a second if the transaction is cryptographically secure as long as it's reasonably insured.
>you need a driving license to buy booze

There may be some variation by state but you typically need a government-issued photo ID (Added: If they check, most places don't if you're obviously old enough.). Which often means a driver's license but can mean a state ID that you get instead of a driver's license. In theory you can probably use a passport/Global entry card/etc. But the more unusual ID you try to present, the greater the chance some store clerk won't accept it.
I've a great affection for Minolta, though born from retro appeal because I am not old enough to have seen their best stuff first time around. I'd love to know more about how the company operated during the 50s to 70s.

Their 1970s models, the X1, XE, and XD seem technically really exciting but don't appear to have held the attention of the professional market - unreliable, lacking something important, too expensive, or is it just about the brand? I gather that few XEs and XDs (the X1 is too rare to count) have made it to the present without some reliability problems, but that's not so surprising given the time span.

Briefly - before the pandemic arrived and took away most of my spare time - I had a hobby of repairing the Minolta SR-1, the earlier purely mechanical camera sold from 1959 to 1971. The SR-1 is interesting because it was Minolta's ongoing "entry level camera" rather than a single specific design - they used the same designation for at least five different cameras underneath, in the course of its sales life. They're surprisingly different under the covers, and you can track a bit of what was going on elsewhere in their product line through them.

So the SR-1 model A is a solid mechanical design, complicated but not too difficult to understand and repair. Model B is almost identical on the outside, but mechanically quite different underneath and with some odd design decisions that might have been a weak attempt at cost-saving or possibly about synchronisation with another product (this is the sort of thing that makes me wish I knew more about the company). I haven't seen a model C and am not totally sure it exists. Model D I think is a bit of a mess, combining the mechanicals of earlier models with various new features (primarily the lightmeter, though support for it existed in the model B even though the accessory didn't). And model E is a serious clean-slate rebuild that is mechanically simpler but less accessible and far more like what competitors such as Pentax were producing at the time.

I use an SR-1 model A as my usual film camera, it's a bit big and heavy and the winding lever carves a big channel in your forehead but it's so beautiful and satisfying to use.

(I wrote a couple of blog posts about the SR-1 models A and B, at https://thebreakfastpost.com/2019/12/21/notes-on-the-minolta... and https://thebreakfastpost.com/2020/03/12/notes-on-the-minolta... - I wanted to bring it up to the D and E but reality intervened.)
Since you offered: what is that trace called that is presumably electrically connected to the ceramic cap solder seal? I've wondered about its function, but have never been able to distill the prior sentence to the necessary power words.

Also, here is an extra ham-fisted attempt to get you to cover an off topic interest of mine: did you know that the Soundblaster DSP was an 8051? Cool, huh? pleasedoan8051deepdiveimbeggingyouplease. I'm aware of only one gate level analysis, with evidence of its existence on archive.org... tragically the spider never bothered with the actual zip file and the author is long gone.

Thanks for all the great reads, btw.
> It affects school trips too -- if some kids don't have European passports, before they'd have used ID cards, but now they'd need a visa.

This is even more complicated than it appears because of jus sanguine and immigration.

If you're born in France, you're not an automatic French citizen unless you're born to a French national. You get the nationality of your parent(s), which might make UK-entry complicated. Only once you're 13 and have lived in France can you apply for French citizenship[1], and even that can take 1-4 years [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_nationality_law#French_...

[2] https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Obtaining-French...
When All the Media Narratives Collapse
Unfortunately I frankly need ancient and wise cultures learnings in order to fold my t-shirts the right way.
Fun fact: when you get money in and money out the same day on an account, some banks count the money out first, so that they can charge you for a possible overdraft

Edit: just saw another comment on reordering by tx size, omg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210357
Impressive what you can create with web technology these days
I know. I've just been going through an algorithm book and trying to implement them and the graphs were easily hardest to implement in Rust despite the pseudocode being simple as peanuts (and trivial in a GC language).
It's too bad glass beer bottles seem to be going out of fashion these days in Ontario. Instead, people seem to be moving to aluminum cans. I miss the old days when you look at the bottom of a beer bottle and see a ring of wear because that glass had been recycled dozens of times (just washed and reused). You can see the ring of wear in this old bottle:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jqHUfssta_Y/Tbt_aoiPgjI/AAAAAAAAB...
Eh; sum types, everything-is-an-expression, and composition over inheritance get you very very far toward optimal language design. Sure there are some potential economic improvements that could made to Rust, but the foundation is so strong that I don’t see anything that makes those same design decisions supplanting Rust. More likely that a new Rust edition would incorporate those kinds of changes.
You're being way too charitable, it's because of race.

If it's foreigners hammer down. Mostly white Americans on American soil? So called "patriots"?

Well now let's slow down. Don't want to violate any rights.

I mean even think about it for second, the Jan 6 conspirators have it in their mind they're doing what it takes for their country, formalities be damned.

Sound like any other organizations you know?
I'm pretty sure it is false: there is a reason why Norway is not in the EU, probably related to its oil ans gas riches, and in that area it neither has obligation to uphold EU standards nor does so in practice.

The rest of "benign" regulations it may accept wilfully.
At the risk of sounding like a shill

For the record, this is not a shill. I don't even know who Jenny is.
Could you explain more? I was mainly thinking of the small creator who might bang out one or two great works over a lifetime when I was considering the 40-50 year lifespan, reduced when going to market. Wouldn't 10 years be too short?
As usual, everything that is infinite meets another barrier in physics. Initial investment is the barrier for every energy plant. But I also imagine ourselves already using energy like it’s cheap, trying to illuminate the moon with a big ad for Coca-Cola, “since we now have enough energy for it”.
I am not convinced, do you have any sources that prove your conspiracy?
I have no clue what your vice link is supposed to demonstrate, or how it is remotely relevant. Maybe you linked the wrong thing.

> Perhaps instead of trying to dismiss this dissent as part of an echo-chamber, you might look in the mirror and ask if your perception of these issues is governed by your own echo-chamber?

Throughout this thread there are a small number of people declaring that likes/dislikes lets you detect "propaganda", "misinformation", or demonstrates "public opinion". This is laughably, ridiculous untrue. Any actual poll has perilously little in common with the ratios seen on YouTube.
> Isn’t SALT preventing double taxation?

Alternatively, enabling high-tax states to increase the burden of taxation while depriving federal government of tax revenue.
Definitely. Just go look for the official line on how to eat for losing weight. They actually recommend lots of small meals as often as possible. It's ridiculuous.
I want to live in the techno-libertarian Utopia you think this is
If you check english wikipedia, it lists “Concern” as a type of business structure that predominantly exists in Germany[0]. The word has be pulled into english, but it’s definitely not a commonly used english word, and it is likely pedantically inaccurate in reference to an American corporation.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concern_(business)
In principle they can, in practice the limitations on processing power have caused the sounds they produce to lack the richness of analog. They're getting better though.

The thing about analog is that you get a lot of random variation in the waveforms. A naive computer implementation will lack that variation. A better one will purposely add particular random variations. The really good ones, like Diva (which runs on a regular computer), will run SPICE-style simulations of the actual analog circuitry, but running that at full fidelity is still pretty processor-intensive.

There are lots digital hardware synths that emulate analog. There are also hybrids, like Novation's Summit and Peak. These start with digital sound generation, but using FPGA to run at a much higher sample rate (24 MHz instead of the typical 48 to 96 kHz). Then they convert to an analog signal that runs through analog filters, then they convert back to digital for effects (reverb and such). The advantage of starting with digital here is that it can start with different waveforms than the ones easily generated by analog circuits.

Further muddying the waters, modern analog synths have components with a lot more precision than in the old days, so they also lack some of the random variation of the old stuff. That's great for staying in tune, but now synths like the OB6, which is pure analog, have added "vintage" features which artificially add the variations again.
Apple has lost the functional high ground (2015)
Not just lack of passports, but France has tons of children born in France that aren't French citizens. For them, entering on a French ID card made life really easy.

Getting and having a Malian or Algerian passport and then a visa for UK entry sets a high bar for entry.
It's well established that patents work for drugs in the sense that drug companies make a tremendous investment in developing drugs.

For other things the case is less clear.

For instance fighting between Curtis Aircraft and the Wright Brothers held back the U.S. Aircraft industry for a decade until the Government saw it being a crisis in WWI.
As was posted on HN a few weeks ago this seems to have been part of an advertising / propaganda effort by the plastics companies, alongside the idea of recyclable plastics.
Glass and ceramic share something in common. When they are forged entirely of virgin material, they are more prone to deformation and stress fracturing. So you pulverize old pieces and add them into the mix prior to firing.

If it’s stronger, you can make it lighter and still meet safety margins. This makes preconsumer recycling virtually mandatory, and makes post consumer a more attractive option.
Hello! We're a small full-stack JS dev shop that just launched our first blockchain-based app! We originally did this project to learn Solana development and to submit it to the Ignition Hackathon (we did not win ;P).

It's been a fun journey and we plan on blogging about our experience and open sourcing our code to help others like us!

Feel free to ask us any questions! Web3 is a new and exciting space and we want to help others that are new to the space like us.
That's how I give ssh access to collaborators on VPS, add people to blackbox in git repos or share encrypted files with them.

It's pretty great.

I forgot where I learnt about it; I think I was inquiring how NameCoin was able to gift their cryptocurrency to GitHub developers with more than 50 followers.
Most EE immigrants did not get British citizenship because there was no need for them to bother. I call BS on this anecdote of yours. I personally know dozens caught in the Brexit mess and of those who were able to vote in the referendum not one voted leave.
Not the original poster, but I don't want to spend my limited time on earth trying to minimize the money I'm leaving on the table -- thinking about credit cards, points, money systems and wheeling and dealing in order to eke out a little extra scratch is thinking I would personally rather put toward nearly anything else.

That's why I would rather spend my own money when someone is willing to lend it to me for free.
Yes, though primarily forge.mil as a patched OpenSSH source. It was based on an original PKCS#11 support [0] [1]. An old version of the patch is pretty small and available here [2].

Additionally, I wrote an SSH Agent (in JavaScript, for ChromeOS, but works on any platform) that has these modifications [3]. I use this more frequently these days (via Tcl [4]).

[0] https://marc.info/?l=openssh-bugs&m=119214228626872

[1] https://rkeene.org/viewer/archive/openssh/openssh-4.4p1pkcs1...

[2] https://rkeene.org/viewer/archive/openssh/openssh-4.5p1-pkcs...

[3] https://cackey.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact/0d0e90bbfdee672c

[4] https://cackey.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact/183583332c474aa9
Project Euler was how I learned to program back in the days. I used to do a lot of Math but I was terrible at programming and really hated the way it was taught at school.
Writing about fnsrgle is hard. You want to explain the floofies but whe you spronge the blaly nobody can rebinnle the magrafan.

Look, it's simple. The magrafan is the problem because speexzle but watrea 24 Avery haalso fnsrgle.

This is why reading about Haskell is hard. Because you need to explain fnsrgle using ordinary words, and then explain floofing, but you cannot use blintzes to explain floofing, or concepts like higher order types, or applicative, or any of a multitude of concepts which are alas given, to understand Haskell.

Happy rebinnle-ing
Assuming anything during covid times is a joke. The passport issue is a non issue, have you ever seen the number of Russians in London? Not only they are not an EU citizens they are also from a country which is not always in very friendly terms. This is just the usual CNN political agenda derived type of "news". I am sure once all the restriction on travelling stop the UK will become again a prime destination for tourism like it always was.
ethereum.org

go as deep as you like. it's an awesome resource for all technical levels. you will learn all Blockchain concepts in general, Ethereum specifics and everything in between.
Why not learn a stable technology instead?

For example, instead of Crystal, you could try something like Common Lisp or Haskell, both of which are really, really stable.

I would even put Rust into the "stable" category... they value backwards compatibility very highly, while allowing breaking changes to happen in newer "editions" of the language (without breaking code written for previous "editions"). Stable does not necessarily mean old.
How in the hell they calculated so much overdraft fees? They charge 500% overdraft?
I think this an uncharitable simplification of a complex issue. Cloudflare tries to balance itself between censorship and overreach of what their customers are doing with their service (booting off Parlor earlier this year for example) as well as what the law-enforcement legally requires them to do. If Al Queda hosts a website on AWS, the problem is exactly the same.

And now, we have people essentially conspiring that Cloudflare creates their own DDoS attacks just so to prevent it based on a glib oversimplification.
Yes and no. Yes because you can't run a ship carrying some containers on a certain line as often, which means that the wait after missing a ship is likely going to be bigger. But also no because fundamentally the problem of having 10 delayed 2000 TEU ships is not that different from 1 ship of 20,000 TEU. Not to mention that ships only got about 2x bigger over the past 20 years, so the numbers I just pulled out of my ass are quite arbitrary.

More smaller ships would give a bit more flexibility, but I don't think it's an easy fix for the current problems.
Does this also apply to iOS and forced updates? ;)

Trade offs in the form of hardware and software are what I constantly have to think of.
I wonder how many capture plants and energy would be required to bring it back to a normal level.