skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A next generation nuclear reactor is not going to couple to air but probably to carbon dioxide and then to a powerset like

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857331...

Nuclear also competes with fossil fuel powerplants that capture carbon. There are many options such as: (1) turn the fuel to hydrogen and burn the hydrogen, (2) run the exhaust gas through an amine stripper, (3) burn the fuel in pure oxygen so the amine stripper has less work to do (recycle the combustion products so the turbine doesn't burn up), (4) chemical looping combustion that uses a metal like iron as an oxygen carrier, etc.

The cost of something like that doesn't look crazy, optimizing it is a job for the systems engineering department, you can compress the CO2 to 1500 psi and inject it into saline aquifers which exist in most places. (Drives me nuts that carbfix gets so much press for a process which only works in a few places and consumes much more water than the carbon it captures)

It is not happening because regulators aren't forcing it, there is no carbon tax or carbon credit for it.

You could save the world with a nuclear option that is truly cheaper than the alternatives without subsidy. Anything that involves subsidy is going to give somebody an opportunity to get rich by siphoning off 5% of the credits and keep the gravy train running by paying 1% of that to politicians. Anything like that will run into intense opposition, look like a scam to people, probably be a scam in many cases (extortion like "we'll cut down this forest if you don't pay us" and then the forest gets cut down or burned anyway, unverifiable schemes like grinding up rocks and leaving them at the beach, ...) damage the legitimacy of the government and delay real solutions.
When they freeze customer accounts they're essentially taking away people's livelihood and right to live. In a way, it's like killing someone, but slowly and non-violently. This is definitely unjust and deserves a class action lawsuit.
It won't be friends, just 5-10 people you connected with 10 years ago who still use the platform religiously producing the content.
A sign of the times it seems. This is what happens when so much of how one constructs oneself is as a mere product of circumstance. We are of course, but something in the culture is weirdly centering it.
Based on the URL structure and the content I will venture a guess that this is SEO keyword driven content. They likely have a list of top keywords they’re looking to rank well on and this is one such keyword.
Ask HN: What programming language for needing to interact with SOAP services?
Hello, I have been learning programming by reading some books and have a webapp/SAAS idea. The application will need to interact heavily with the government SOAP servers(words: wsdl, xsd, xsl, schematron etc...)
I don't have deep knowledge in any programming language yet and would like to keep everything in JS since I already have to use it for the browser but the Internet seems to suggest that nodejs libraries for interacting with SOAP are full of gotchas, edge cases and have trouble covering some functionality when compared to something like the Java the ecosystem.

For devs that know multiple programming languages and have dealt with SOAP, do you recommend I just go with the JVM for the backend and pay the price of dealing with two ecosystems? My current book is a java algorithms book so I'm not to far off from the language (although Java libs look scary).

Another maybe non-issue is that since there is going to be lots of xml processing and pdf generation, the single thread nature of nodejs might affect web responses, not sure if worker threads can help here.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs follows this advice: designed for people who'd never used a computer before (no kidding -- this was common in the early 80s), the first lecture introduced the idea of procedures and abstraction and went on to demonstrate root finding, prime factorization, and a little symbol differentiation IIRC. A great way to get started.
Wraparound hexagon tile maps on a sphere
Reddit announced the cause of the outage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/s4095g/resolved_block...

> PetGorignac, Admin, 2 hr. ago

> Hi folks,

> I was the incident commander for this one and came by to drop a bit of information about what happened here.

> We were attempting to mitigate some problematic traffic that had been causing a low amount of site errors over the past few hours. In doing so, we identified some traffic characteristics that we believed correlated with the error rate and attempted to block it. It turns out this blocked Firefox traffic, which we noticed relatively quickly, leading us to revert the change.

> Apologies for the disruption!

> (Also kudos to the commentor who had a great RCA, but sadly the comment got deleted before I could respond)
Relevant discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29938544
Since I cannot talk to a large number of Republicans (or Democrats), I prefer to let opinion polls do that for me. Reuters/Ipsos would not appear to have a particular axe to grind on this issue, and as of May of 2021, they had the number at about 53% (they also document their methodology and questions etc.) A more recent poll by the Univ of Mass in Dec 2021 puts the number at 71%.

If you're going to cast "all media" as untrustworthy, then you're doomed to only know the world through your own senses. Yes, there are concerns about the accuracy of polling, for a number of reasons that include partisan response to polling in general. But I'm not prepared to say something like "well, the Republicans I know ...", because there's no possible way for my personal experience of any group (Republicans or not) is sufficient for me to draw any conclusions.

I would have thought that the combination of UMass and Ipsos was reasonably neutral enough that more or less anyone could agree on the claim "a majority of Republicans believe that Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 presidential election". Apparently not ....
cant even imagine how exhilarating that must be to find a lost treasure. Im well aware these probably don't have much value but still super cool
They're hoping to get to build some. Not in the US of course.
I mean without understanding the material constraints behind manufacturing of the tests it would be hard to say what the upper limit of our ability to manufacture them really is. We make lots of things in large quantities if we really need them.
It's a tricky problem. I just have to believe there's a way we can make the world work without ads at all. They're just gross. But I have no idea how that could happen.
I believe it has to be replaced every 4 years of operation as intermediate level radioactive waste.
Do the exercise on a spreadsheet. One row per year to make things simple.

Make 3 columns, "mortgage paid," "investment", "no-mortgage". Pretend the house is $100k. With the mortgage you get to keep that money and invest it, so first row in "investment:" should be $100k. Put $0 in the "no-mortgage" column, put $-421 * 12 in the "mortgage paid" column. I got that number from a mortgage calculator, assuming $100k loan and 3% interest over 30 years.

Then in row 2, "mortgage paid" cell should be previous cell - $421 * 12. You will keep paying this for 30 years.

"investment cell" should be previous cell * 1.05. We assume the investment return is 5% over long term.

The no-mortgage column stays 0. You spent the $100k to pay for the house, so it's gone right off the bat.

Repeat this for 30 rows (years). Then at the end look at the difference between investment vs. mortgage paid columns.

And then get back to me and tell me if you still think that is a "smaller total return" :-)
Excuse the rant but i have a working theory that it is an unchecked feedback cycle that's decades old, only now based on political party.

People generally hold sweeping, often negative, opinions of "those people". Over the decades, "those people" has been defined by race, religion, ethnicity, etc. Today in the US it is which political party people perceive you to be affiliated with.

I call this a feedback cycle because in my experience the people using this sort of rhetoric aren't interested in being proven wrong. They have chosen consciously or otherwise to vilify a group, or buy into preexisting vilification. Undoing that is hard work so it just doesn't happen. Absent any pressure, people assume themselves correct and chalk up another datapoint confirming their own biases.

This is readily apparent in response to any mass killing/tragedy. My more politically extreme friends seem to race for any evidence they can find that they perpetrator is Democrat/Republican. Of course this boils down to pure speculation (gun ownership, smokes pot, etc), but the urgency and desire is there all the same.

In summary it is little surprise that the politicians in Washington are so hardlined on their stances and party affiliations. This is effectively the government the voters have demanded. When the citizens of a country start vilify half the country, their representatives reaching across the isle is political suicide. And thus we sit.
> So then how do you take showers or in general, how do you move on from being stuck and change activities? How do you motivate to do anything?

Because eventually the physiological system normalizes and you have enough dopamine to do things. It's functionally impossible to wrestle yourself out of being in an executive dysfunction spot, though.

> have you ever said to yourself at the count of three you will get up and do the task you have in mind?

Hahahaha, yes. Hundreds of thousands of times. I'm surprised you would have reason to believe that I hadn't tried this. It doesn't change that I do not have enough of a specific brain chemical in my neurological system to do something -- whether that's because I have a difference in my neurophysiology or the rest of my body's production of dopamine. And while having specific social structures, habits, and patterns in my life can help, they very very quickly fall apart because my brain will just forget about them, regardless of how much mental energy I expend on trying to maintain them (A dysfunction with object permanence is another problem that may present as a result of the physical condition of ADHD). Actually, it's funny -- it's been shown that the more effort is expended on focus, the less someone with ADHD is able to focus. Because the act of making the effort to focus in the first place expends dopamine!

> “neuraltypical” tactics don’t work

neuro- from the Greek for nerves or the nervous system

neurotypical -- The prefix joined with a word. Originally a colloquial term in autistic circles, but has been adopted by the scientific community. Describes the typical status quo of the brain in the wider sociological context. While there's no evidence for a specific anatomical "status quo" of the brain, there is a broader sociological context present whenever one considers "normality". Antonyms: neurodivergent, neurodiverse, neuroatypical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotypical
Yep. But IMHO the content of the page seems pretty deliberately written to be misleading.

I spent a good 10 minutes trying to understand what I was reading here.
> by asking you to do what amounts to a few carefully rehearsed parlor tricks

Nah. Parlor tricks would be the old riddle questions about manhole covers and light bulbs being warm. It's difficult to gain competency in algorithmic whiteboarding questions without being smart and at least half decent at coding. They're not perfect gateway questions, but most of the alternative suggestions I've heard here or on Reddit are worse.

> And lastly, as a cathartic bonding ritual: "You went in on this high-pressure, slightly (or sometimes very) humiliating performance rite with us together and it looks like you've passed! Or at least it seems now you do not have completely damaged DNA. Now we are ready to forgive and accept each other as equals, or some approximation thereof."

Having worked at Amazon and Google, I really don't see this. People bond over other parts of the company culture, but the entry process, not really. I guess people do talk about the painful Google recruiting process, but that's mostly how fucking long and drawn out it is, people don't seem to really mind the questions themselves overmuch.
Ask them.

Some engineers just want to do engineering. Nothing else. But more often engineers will be happy getting involved with the customers in some way, or working to improve some process they don't like, or some even love doing documentation.

Best thing is to bring up options and ask if any of them sound appealing. Letting people choose their work generally gets you stronger buy-in to what they're doing.
It's not bigotry to observe that there's a significant portion of the population that believes things like 'COVID tests infect you with COVID.' It's just an observation of fact.

My friend's parents (Stockton, CA) aren't getting tested for this reason. They didn't get tested the first time they came down with 'Valley Fever', back in 2020, either.

(They also quit their jobs because of vaccination requirements, and believe that Trump won in 2020, and that he will reclaim the presidency on <a number of dates that have long passed>. It doesn't make me a bigot to point this sort of thing out, or that these beliefs tend to cluster.)
> the economics for fast reactors have never worked (not even in Russia or China)

Russia currently has two sodium-cooled fast reactors that are producing power, the BN-600 and BN-800. They also have another sodium reactor under development, the BN-1200. BREST-OD-300, a lead-cooled fast reactor, is under construction as well.
This is something I have come to realize I unconsciously have gotten very dependent on - MacOS let's you swap virtual desktops for the monitor you are currently focused on without swapping any of the others. I never realized how intuitive this is until switching back to my XFCE linux installation and getting very frustrated with virtual desktops entirely. I might have to give dwm a try again on my linux machine if it supports this.
Make multiple resumes and leave off details that aren't relevant (or are counter-productive) to the job you're applying for.
The only people I know who say that are small business owners trying to give their management employees a pep talk, but not giving them the budget to hire good people.
Apple AR/VR Headset Potentially Delayed Until 2023 Amid Development Problems
> the English language is very verbose. If there are so many words, many of which have very similar meaning to others, then many of those words are not needed?

"Very similar" is not the same as "identical". Having multiple words with similar, but not identical, meanings allows you to express more detailed nuances and shades of meaning.
What’s a pager in the context of a window manager? I’m aware of CLI pagers like less but I’ve never heard the term used with WMs.
That saying really isn’t true. I know plenty of people that liked their manager but still left companies. There are plenty of reasons people leave companies that have nothing to do with their manager.
How do you find good cheap low-self-discarge NiMH cells? I couldn't find any research on them (like the post article but for NiMH) because of SEO spam, and Amazon reviews are (of course) worthless.

Heck, I'm afraid to even buy NiMH batteries because of counterfeits. I bought a few batches of Amazon Basics batteries a year ago and 3/8 are dead already, but even if I purchased something labeled "Eneloop" on there, how do I know it's Eneloop?
See https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6669413-xoXD4J/
I think some of these things ring true but you missed a few obvious ones, most of this stuff has been going on in California which is being governed into oblivion by its leaders:

- California is getting very soft on crime recently, people now realize they can rob and steal what they want and there are zero consequences for it, this has lead to almost a complete collapse of order in most major california cities(see excessive smash and grabs($1B stolen in a few weeks in LA/SF bay area) and skyrocketing drug use(SF has more addicts than high school students) and homelessness, along with car jackings and robberies). I live in california and my family has been here for over a hundred years so I have seen its rapid deterioration in the past 3-4 years.

- Complete abandonment of any type of positive morality from the media or any leaders.

- Extreme division due to both right and left moving farther from the center.

- Sky high college costs have made things very difficult for people that are in college and those leaving the system are left with life crushing debt.

- Housing and rent are at all time highs due to excessive money printing and over generous govt. handouts the past 1-2 years.

- Jobs are available and are plentiful there are just not enough workers for the positions or qualified people for the higher earning ones, in addition alot of people were making more sitting around getting checks and enhanced unemployment than working at the lower wage positions.

- I traveled to multiple states over the last year(Hawaii, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon) and this stuff is not happening everywhere, its mainly in CA and NYC and other high density urban areas.
Well? Don't keep us hanging.
>Getting mad at somebody because they got mad at you for something you did.

Contestar in Spanish, in a second acception.
If you're competent and do your job correctly then it's possible to get NRC approval on the first try. Doing it right doesn't have to be slower or more expensive.
They weren't over ordered. The evidence strongly supports that they were purposely held back by the DeSantis administration and the Florida Department of Health while pushing monoclonal antibodies [2].

> Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said last week that the tests weren't distributed because of "low demand." [1]

> Florida residents have also described months of difficulty getting tests, with long lines and few testing appointment available. [1]

I haven't filed the relevant FOIA requests myself, but Florida open government and transparency laws are fairly robust for those who are inquiring in this specific matter.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-tests-expired-florida-fda...

[2] https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/coronavirus/2022/01...
People still consider coffee and many other minor stimulants safe enough to be consumed during pregnancy, and that people might have largely stopped smoking during pregnancy, it doesn't alter the fact of mass exposure to and consumption of stimulants in the 20th century.
HTMX doesn't include the whole DSL - the example above is using Hyperscript, which is a separate project by the creators of HTMX.
If the sodium is cold you will have the hardest time getting the fuel rods in and out to refuel.
The Fujitsu FM-7 line of 8-bit computers actually shipped with two 6809 compatible CPUs (Hitachi 6309 IIRC) and the second one just did software graphics the whole time pretending really hard to be a GPU.
I have a TCL Roku TV and would love to convert it to a dumb input selector. Not sure how you could flash the OS of it but I'd gladly contribute money or code to make it happen.
One interesting side note is that in the land of origin of pepper in India, to a very large extent Chilli has replaced pepper as the spiciness creating ingredient in most household and restaurant dishes. Chillies of course come from Mexico and are another colonial import. Pepper is now used only in a very few mostly traditional Indian dishes.
>Ish - a suffix that softens the exactness of an adjective.

Spanish -eico, -izo...

>Paragrafryttare. A person who follows written rules to such a degree that they're seen as rigid and inflexible.

Tiquismiquis.

>Cornuto. To have horns, meaning that you (or a particular person) has been cheated on by their spouse or significant other.

Same in Spanish, cornudo.

>A pop song released around spring that gets overplayed during the summer.
Swedish By frobar Go to the reddit thread Disagree

Canción del verano.
USD 14/mo if you sign up in Mexico for the UHD streaming. I noticed Netflix does not block VPNs now, but does filter out non-Netflix originated content when you do.
> While he believes brands should take steps to improve aspects of how they run their business

Says the CEO of most of the worst fast food chains.
The Empress's standard epithet was "Mad Queen Carlota" but I could never figure out why.
IIRC, the earliest Rus strong men were Vikings bought off by Byzantine emperors, changing them from raiders into gatekeepers.
I generally try not to be condescending, and seek to take seriously the opinions of people who do not agree with me. However ...

> And that ... Theory about the lockdowns supposedly not being because of the virus but to hide a larger financial crisis/weath reallocation is spreading quite quickly at least at far as I can tell.

to even mention this "theory" as if it had any credibility whatsoever crosses a line where I'm not willing to cede good faith, sensible thinking etc., and can only react with dismissal and condescension.

"And that ... Theory about the earth not really being round but actually flat but the illuminati prefer that we think it is round because reasons ..." is in the same ballpark.
This is the sort of article you expect to find on a "best reviews" website full of Amazon affiliate links.

edit: As intended, when you Google "best open source helpdesk 2021," Google now just shows the following excerpt:

> Top 10 open source helpdesk ticketing systems

> • Zendesk.

> • FreeScout.

> • osTicket.

> [...]
I would say you use DWM for the suckless philosophy of it at this point, but it is historically important as one of the major early tiling window managers during this current wave that starting around the late naugties. deserves some recognition. It a bit later that bspwm was written, and now it has gained some traction in the "ricing" community. DWM was sort of a default choice for the minimal tiling WM. However, it wasn't for me, I used Subtle for its features and than XMonad for the Haskell experience.

Now I've actually settled into enjoying EXWM the most, feels very natural to have everything to at least appear to be inside emacs. My point is that there is no right tiling window manager.
>Concepts in _____ That are difficult to easily and directly translate to other languages.

Other languages, or English? Because I can definitely come up with some non-English translations to some of the words here. For example, "Haju" and "Tuoksu" in Finnish are "臭い" and "匂い" in Japanese. Swedish "mellandagarna" is also pretty much word-for-word "välipäivät" in Finnish.
I have similarly varied background and I have not had candidate employers put it through that lens.

If anything I find people tend to look upon varied experience as proof that you can add value on multiple fronts and across functions within the organisation, which should make you a slightly less common cog in the machine.
re: #2.

I'm probably missing some nuance to your statement, but in the late 70s CS was part of CS/EE at MIT (within the school of engineering) with course 6.3 corresponding most closely to was people would think of as a CS degree. What was certainly true is that CS was a bit of an odd duck generally with it being at offspring of the Math department at some schools (e.g. Dartmouth) and Engineering at others (e.g. MIT). But it was always under the STEM umbrealla at those schools.