skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DISCLAIMER: I am a nuclear expert who got into nuclear to help fight climate change.

> if only because the upper bound potential for damage is so much higher.

Chernobyl was a nuclear excursion that blew the roof wide open and shot fuel out into the air. Air rushed in and ignited a nearly inextinguishable graphite fire that propelled the nuclear fuel high into the atmosphere. There was no containment structure around the core. And yet this killed 60+ people, caused up to 4000 early cancer deaths, and (yes) did cause a bunch of thyroid cancers. (Fortunately, thyroid cancers are usually treatable. Not saying they're ok, but not fatal like fossil + biofuel air pollution).

I would claim that Chernobyl is a reasonable example of a nearly-worst-case nuclear reactor accident. With modern reactors having containments, it's hard to postulate radiation releases of that magnitude. Case in point, Fukushima was 3 meltdowns and had much less radiation release and therefore health impact. I don't think saying nuclear reactor accidents are nearly unbounded wildly beyond Chernobyl is reasonable.

And again, fossil + biofuel kill a Chernobyl's worth of people every 7.5 hours...! The WHO numbers linked are due to the fossil fuel + biofuel. I'll link more detailed meta-analyses below.

Also, the area around Chernobyl is not really uninhabitable at all [1]

[1] https://thoughtscapism.com/2019/05/08/what-about-radioactive...

As for thinking the UNSCEAR values on deaths are a sham, yeah I mean Greenpeace has been saying against all scientific consensus that the impacts are way higher for years. But the science does not support that. UNSCEAR is basically like the IPCC for nuclear.

I highly recommend listening e.g. to Gerry Thomas on this topic for details. [2]

[2] https://www.titansofnuclear.com/experts/gerrythomas

As for air pollution, see this [3] for more specific attribution to fossil fuel and biofuel.

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Davis is a gem of an opportunity for myriad reasons. The target market for new housing is not more students, it's more young (and young at heart) professionals. A modern mid-rise within walking distance of downtown would likely sell out before it's even built.
https://twitter.com/blokovi/status/1480945535620108296

Apparently the qr code (and related timestamps) are generated when the result document is downloaded, not when the test is performed. Der Spiegel should have confirmed their theory with other serbians who have access to test results.
I think the parent comment was about reading and writing csv files. The documentation you linked says "Access to data files is currently read-only."
I cannot stand this kind of comment. It's worse than nerd sniping. Rude for no reason, not curious, not intellectually stimulating. Reddit level drivel.

Perhaps a better question would be - for public or enterprise facing projects of similar budget, why is the perceived $X/$Y/$Z so much lower? That is a discussion worth having, and can help unpack your bias and assumptions into a worthwhile conversation.
You can test it out with meet.jitsi.org or via element if you like
There are two forms of loss, loss of the theory, and loss of the practice. We will lose the practice - all the tribal knowledge that comes from doing it quickly. However so long as we can still read the physics, engineering and math text books we can recreate something similar. It will take a few years and we will make mistakes, but take a bunch of "smart people" and give them time and they could re-create anything from first principals.

It only took a few years for the Manhattan project to create nuclear bombs once physics advanced to the point where we realized such a bomb wouldn't need to be the size of an aircraft carrier. Only a few years after that (and a much smaller budget) to make a non-exploding power reactor. There is no reason society couldn't duplicate that if we wanted.

Now the tribal knowledge does help a lot, it you still have it you can take a lot of time off. However it isn't needed.
He worked on the steam turbine portion of the plant and the stories I remember involved clever ways of routing the incredible amount of pipework containing steam, coolant and who knows what else, to the right place and dealing with the extreme pressures.

I also remember him gleefully describing how robust the containment shell was and just like the piece in the article, being able to easily withstand a fully laden jumbo jet crashing into it. My young mind couldn't comprehend why anyone might do that and how utterly unlikely it was that someone might use an aircraft as a weapon.
I'd like to offer an alternative to the surrogate method... Many of the folks on our team have kids and, like so many people worldwide, were greatly disappointed by what happened in early 2020. We watched our kids suffer as this normally human-rich interaction was replaced with powerpoints and tiny talking heads. We decided to offer a solution of our own.

Our team developed https://sharetheboard.com - an app which digitizes handwritten content in real time. The practical application here is that any analog surface/content can be shared simultaneously online, in real time.

For teachers this is valuable for a number of reasons (direct feedback from educators):
- it allows them to teach "as they always have" - standing in front of a board or writing on a notebook, etc.
- they don't have to learn anything new
- they don't have to buy new equipment
- they can simultaneously address in-person and remote students (again, without "doing anything new")
- they can work (in the same way) from home, when needed

You'll note that many of the above points are of interest to school administrators as well.
- No hardware + no learning curve = high adoption.
- Mobile/scalable = fast deployment.
- Low cost = well, low cost.

For students (direct feedback from students):
- the biggest plus is that this is as close to "like in class" as it gets: they get to see their teacher's natural body language, maintain eye contact, see the explanations evolve on a familiar medium (whiteboard, chalkboard, etc.)
- they can do more than ask questions: the app facilitates direct interaction with digitized content
- they can focus on the lesson: the app allows you to easily save board contents any time

What was meant to be a quick response to a problem is beginning to turn into an actual product. For better or for worse, some form of remote interaction seems to be in the cards (not only in education) for quite some time. Our goal is to help make it a more real/physical experience, despite being shared remotely. Interested in feedback from teachers, parents, and students on this thread.
What is the difficult part of setting up git?

1) Setup ssh keys

2) Create GitHub account

3) Push public key to GitHub

4) Setup username/email

5) Setup org. permissions on repos

Done..?
'Am I going to legitimately continue to spend $ buying good masks, to potentially protect a small subset of the population ...'

Please stop that. Don't martyr yourself doing safetyism for me. Getting yourself healthy may be best for everyone.

Once we saw the Canadian border close to travel while the Mexican border stayed open, it became blindingly care this has been theater. Many people like theater.
I work on Firefox and have the same question. These release notes in particular didn't really seem to have anything worth commenting on, other than to wonder wtf they mean. And yet, here it is on the front page.

It does seem like it's mostly driven by people's desire to complain about Mozilla, defend Firefox, and/or opine about the direction of the web. Which is fine, though it's kind of funny that those discussions get attached to minimal release announcements.

(Don't get me wrong; it's sort of gratifying to have one's day job product showing up regularly on HN.)
Nothing to show the folks back home, risk of being either primaried or challenged by the other party.

Welcome to politics.
You can use the latest goodies in environments that you control. Server side node, client side node, etc.

This is a common thing when working on library-like-things outside the web too. Widely used C++ libraries generally aren't taking hard dependencies on C++20 features right now without continuing to support e.g. C++11/14/17.
You can't download the PDFs without getting a cookie popup on those sites. Car companies are really keen on knowing who you are.
I see, I was wondering why an intense message would indicate a pressure play rather than a grim reality.
So why would it be better to learn about those things when the brownout was permanent?

Seems like very short-sighted thinking.
It depends on the age of the undergrad and what country they are in.
I wouldn't trust these GRQ schemes. They're always scams that will steal your money.
Thanks for the feedback and the kind words. We're always working to improve our hand writing features so stay tuned for that. I added all the other items to our list as well. Let us know if you think of anything else!
I would've expected this to be done at the OS level, or at the very least have this configurable and opt-in at the browser level just so you know and can decide as I assume that it would be counter-productive to have both the OS and the browser do it.
So do deprecations.
Travel bans, plus fallout from Trump era policies have led to a 9% drop in H1B visas [1].But could it also be that now companies are more remote-friendly, there is less of a need to sponsor workers? Companies a few years ago based in big population centers like SF, NY, LA had lots of competition for workers within reasonable commute distance. There was a need to sponsor workers to meet demand. But with covid, more companies are hiring remote workers (my 2 previous companies ditched offices completely and went 100% remote. TrueCar went from all workers in Santa Monica to all over the country, and Cameo went from LA/Chicago to worldwide. No need to sponsor someone to come from another country when you can just hire them to work from where they are.

1. https://m.economictimes.com/nri/migrate/9-drop-in-h-1b-visa-...
Imaginary numbers seem like something that shouldn’t be taught in high school. Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus are all useful even if you don’t recall the specifics of the notation and calculation. Imaginary numbers are niche.

They feature fairly prominently in quantum mechanics.
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To young people who never used SMS and will grow up only on WhatsApp, FB messenger, Viber, Snapchat etc.

Snapchat is basically MMS with rich user experience and advanced features. Is anybody still using MMS when you have something like WhatsApp and Snapchat?
> such as requiring entrants are fully vaccinated

That's not what they're doing, which is the whole point of this story and controversy.

But anyway a tennis competition should be the very bottom of the list of anyone's priorities.
I think there is a lot of similar language/perspectives etc in the recovery world -- as a prominent example, many years ago I was dismayed when a friend of mine joined AA to discover that one of the steps was admitting to being powerless over your addiction -- I was certain at the time that this was exactly the opposite of what a healthy approach would be, to wit, repeating the mantra that you can and do have control, and fostering that belief.

However in the many years since I have had more exposure to AA and other recovery programs and I've discovered that while there are other programs (such as SMART recovery) that take drastically different approaches, in practice AA is really the only program with a significant success rate.

I known people that entered a recovery program, "got better", and moved on with their lives successfully and I know people that first got started with AA 25+ years ago and still attend meetings at least weekly today. Not to gatekeep addiction but I think the people from this first group are not "real" addicts in some sense, and for those people you are probably right and continuous self-labeling would be harmful.

But for the people from that second group, I think it's true -- there's literally no hope that they will ever live a happy health life outside of a program that keeps their focus on their addiction/recovery every day. Any significant loss of focus will result in an immediate and precipitous downward spiral. For these people "sober addict" isn't something that's damaging their self perception, it's something that's improving it, because they're comparing it to the only other option they have which is "active addict".
dsq references a benchmark done by q (https://github.com/harelba/q/blob/master/test/BENCHMARK.md) that indicates that octosql is significantly slower.

However, octosql's GH repo claims otherwise.

Does anyone have any real world experience that they can share on these tools?
Hi HN, author of windowjs here.

I was planning to have the project in a more complete state before announcing to HN :-)

It was mostly a fun project to put together v8, GLFW and Skia, and I hope others find it useful and fun to work on too.

If you find this interesting then consider getting in touch via GitHub Discussions or the mailing list and helping out with the next features: WebGL 2 API, networking (fetch) API, sound, etc.

I don't have much experience collaborating in opensource projects so any feedback is very welcome. Thanks for having a look!
Same thing with Android - while you can certainly still upgrade your apps, your OS won't, as most manufacturers want you to buy a new phone after a certain period of time (2 years, usually). I really hope to see an EU regulation to put an end to this consumer-hostile behavior some day.
GitHub Actions output replaces all 1s with *
This right here - was about to recommend a ChromeOS device for my father-in-law but this gives me significant pause.
Are there any economists out there? How is it possible that inflation was basically 0 for more than 100 years? Does this imply that productivity and the money supply grew at exactly the rate (Which could imply neither grew at all, which seems implausible to me, but I also have no idea what I'm talking about.)

Edit: I just remembered they also mentioned the textile industry grew so it seems that there must be some productivity gains to be had over the period.
Where does it go when it runs out of fuel?
> in space

Pretty much all space-faring SciFi, including "hard scifi", is basically garbage that you can toss out the window as far as expectations go. Think things are hard to cool on earth? Space leaves you with radiative cooling only. The least efficient (space x time x cost x performance) type of cooling in the known universe. Internally-powered propulsion in spacecraft is never going to happen with thermodynamics around.
Yes, although our experience in going through the painful PPP process with one bank caused our firm to switch to another bank. When sudden changes like the PPP loan process happen you can tell which banks are prepared and which aren't. On that note, I recommend Chase and can't recommend our local bank. The CUs also weren't well equipped to deal with the PPP loan.

Certainly you don't need to bank at Silicon Valley Bank or whatever is favorite of VCs or investors these days. The article talks about SVB Go, but it's basically your run of the mill mobile banking app (which doesn't get good reviews on Android, btw). Chase's mobile app has been high quality for a long while. I don't see the reason to go with any of the banks mentioned in this article.
Soldered parts are prone to fractures in BGA solder balls which are more annoying and expensive to repair compared to cleaning up sockets and rubbing pads with a pencil eraser one in a while.
There's not just SpaceX creating large rockets. Neutron, New Glenn etc. I'd hope some of those would be running in 20 years time or even better. FH can have a larger fairing but it's not 9m, not by a long shot. Also we'll see 3 this year, there was supposed to be one a couple of months ago but the payload wasn't ready.

Also, sure you can have more complex methods to get to the stage where it's analogous to a single large mirror, but that's why it took 25 years to make JWST (amongst policical reasons too, but still).

If constellations are so bad to astronomy, why do ESA want one?

Finally, I think you'll find KSC in Florida is slap bang in the middle of a huge nature reserve, as it has been for the past 50+ years
On. I'm a Director-level at my company, and there are engineers that work for me, and I have no idea what they look like. All I've ever seen are their initials on the Zoom call. This drives me nuts.

I've noticed that leadership tend to have cameras on and non-leadership tends to have cameras off. I don't know what the mindset different is there, but it kinda sucks for someone like me.

I often assume that people with the camera off aren't paying attention, and that's probably not something that you want others to think of you.

I do think that visually seeing people can create a stronger sense of connection than with just voice.

Also, as a hearing-impaired person, reading lips really helps, and if I can't see your lips, my understanding of what you're saying is impaired. So, I guess... consider turning your camera on.
Yes--basically a tech like Bluetooth will come out and then a bunch of dumb patents will come out for 'controlling a microwave with bluetooth' and 'controlling refrigerator with bluetooth' and the patent will be approved even though they are completely obvious and the exact same thing.
I really enjoyed We Are Bellingcat (a book by Eliot Higgins) as well as the Bellingcat documentary:

https://www.bellingcatfilm.com/
I don't want to get into this old issue but I just noticed that all my notebooks are rectangular with sharp corners regardless of the manufacturer. I mean paper notebooks. It would be silly to patent and sue for that and with the hindsight of 11+ years that was a silly design patent to award. My Samsung from 2019 has rounded corners. I can't even remember how it ended except that some lawyers made a zillion of money out of it.

Whether it's appropriate to use sharp or rounder corners for a given tool is common knowledge dating back thousands of years. In this case it's based on grip, handling, taking it out of a pocket, not piercing that pocket, coexisting with other items in bag, etc.
I could resonate with OP watching Netflix solely because he paid for it. I pay for Netflix, Disney+ and Prime. The only way for me to NOT get the most of them and waste my time (watching the generic netflix shows) is to browse a few minutes of IMDB beforehand, keep a note of all the movies which fits my interests and search them up on netflix/dinsey+/prime. I know this is still a waste of time, but atleast this was I get the satisfaction of watching what I selected and not what was selected for me.

PS: Even though I subscribe to three different streaming platform, 1/3 of the time I don't find it and have to go the pirate way.
Hi, I wont say you need to read a whole book, but some amount of reading is required to deploy any stack. Nobody was born knowing everything and my book is intended for people like me that are just learning how to do deployments with elixir. It is helpful for us to have a guide and a comparison between the different alternatives that exists right now.
Hope the book helps facilitate new developers all over the world to use elixir in production.
Have a nice day
Meanwhile let's all accuse him of being a dirty cheat no matter how implausible such a potentially ruinous fraud on its inevitable discovery.

After all the man is guilty of covid wrongthink, so who knows what depths he'd sink to.
I don't think "totally open" is an enforceable legal concept, so what do you expect the courts to do to fix this problem?

Anti-trust law is long standing with lots of precedent to work off of, so it had a natural application to the Microsoft case.
Golf has a shorter path to "world championship." Compete in local qualifiers, then sectional qualifiers, and then win the British Open ("The" Open). I suppose you'd need a some number of rounds (6? 20?) before then to build up an official handicap first, so that they'd let you into the local qualifier, or you could fake those.
You don't have to force them to log in, replace with https:// and it works anonymously as it did before
Nobody is moving DRAM on-die. Apple puts DRAM on-package, and x86 laptops using LPDDRx solder it on the main board next to the soldered-down CPU/SoC. The advantage of doing so is not latency (which is still dominated by stuff that happens entirely within the DRAM die) but rather that LPDDR allows for lower power draw for the same bandwidth.
In Des Moines more than 80% of all power comes from renewable sources. Despite that my power costs are good. Iowa has a lot of land relative to people, but still there are a lot of power that other states are throwing away. (Texas as someone else mentioned is also doing well)
This is super important for everyone to see. The timestamp is not proof of time of test but rather the time that the test was "generated" for download. Anyone prominent on Twitter should respond and assist with this information.

I've done these kinds of systems many times in the past and there could be any amount of reasons why a timestamp is included like this. Especially with weird government regulations, policies and rules that mandate all sorts of info to be included inside government documents. Like adding a year or date to when a company was registered to a company's company registration no.
You are absolutely correct, it even has a massive sun-shield for that :D
What difference would that have made? None of the evidence in the dispute is focused on the test result itself, it's all about when and by whom the data was entered.
completely agree. but this looks kinda neat & legit. i'm still waiting for my payout...
LINQ went the other way - a language for queries against (among other things) relational databases, different than SQL.

Wonder how, say, jq would look like working with tables in RDBMS.
> not like he tried to cheat the tournament or Australia with this

If the evidence presented here holds, Djokovic submitted falsified documents to the Australian government and courts. That's potentially visa fraud, perjury and a bunch of things that would put an ordinary person behind bars for years.
For anyone interested, further info:

- I checked the cached (by Google) copies of the hacked pages and they include mentions of a "Databricks SQL Connector". So if I search for "Databricks" Google thinks "it must be a programming thing".

- If I now search for "databricks series a valuation" I don't get the spam results, for some reason. I think that if I repeat the search Google produces the exact same results... but internally, since I first searched, it might have realized that those sites were not good.
If you don't check the notifications, you aren't closing/deleting reported issues, so potential users have a chance of seeing the report.
Uhh it is absolutely true. The top 100 companies in the US by market cap are predominantly tech and healthcare based. We are increasingly outsourcing production of physical good to outside markets. 'There is a lot of physical stuff going on' isn't a useful assessment. Of course there is a lot of physical stuff going on, we are the largest economy in the world, there HAS to be.

The shiniest companies look great because they are able to automate and scale with incredible margins.
Thanks for the resources.

> I am a nuclear expert who got into nuclear to help fight climate change.

I think that is very noble. I am thinking of eventually moving my career to solar or wind for the same motivations.

Chernobyl was partially contained, it could have gone far, far worse. IIRC only 1 of 4 reactors exploded? I suppose hypotheticals are not extremely useful, but what is the hypothetical upper bound on the most catastrophic nuclear scenario?
There is someone doing just that in the thread above.