skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a nuclear 'renaissance' arises, strategy will be at play: Russia and the US will obtain uranium from their 'partners', in Africa China will probably gain new partnerships, and other nations may encounter some difficulties.

Moreover (source: UNECE): "mining impacts are technically highly dependent on ore grade, as the efforts required to extract a fixed quantity of ore is proportional to the amount of rock to be extracted, therefore inversely proportional to the grade. This is true at the individual mine level, for which such a model could be derived; more importantly, this assumption is valid for open pit and underground mines. Warner and Heath test this relationship and its
influence over the full life cycle of the technology, showing that a lowering ore grade may lead to tripling life-cycle GHG emissions by 2050 in case of a sustained growth of installed nuclear capacity"

Read: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1530-9290...
"Depending on conditions, median life cycle GHG emissions could be 9 to 110 g CO2-eq/kWh by 2050."
https://archive.is/f6Y07
Pretty interesting, but why did ruqqus die what is the reason to bring it back?
This isn't really about targeting specific users, rather seeing overall aggregated metrics.
hey tbranyen - happy to chat. my discord account is same as my handle here. :)

Nice work on diffhtml!
If Factorio took place on Earth, that would be pretty dark. But, remember the backstory is that you've crash-landed your spaceship on an alien world filled with giant hostile insects who will attack you when you get too close, even if you build nothing and never pollute. Hardly a paradise!
I would love to have ears on the internal dev channels right about now.
Hehe eventually it is https://www.thefreedictionary.com/misguidedness
My life crossed Cory's ;-) long time ago, so not sure if it was subconscious influence.
So now there is only one browser that won’t track you, and it’s Safari.
This does not help with the initial compromise, but they demonstrate that with a software-only change, you can use existing LEDs as receivers in addition to senders!
The irony is that I'm telling about open-source software flight simulators[0] and comparing them to YSFlight (which is partially open-source) from point of software.

Where 'meheleventyone' droped IL2:Sturmovik in actual thread just as "alternative game to play" — there is nothing about its software development described here and IL2:Sturmovik is not in whole or even in part open-source app.[1]

Lets not manipulate in the middle here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299850#30302334

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299850#30301295
Where I was at senior was the base title. Then there were numbers after the title and team lead after.

At the time I would not have marketed myself as a senior but that's what they paid me as/my title and I kept the job for almost two and a half years so I guess I'm senior?

I avoid using the word engineer though as I don't have a degree.
I am almost 42 and my net wealth is <$0. I've experienced your anxiety and gloom but these days I am pretty happy and optimistic about how much I'll enjoy my life as time goes on. The trick is to go deep in something narrow and high-skill-cap (for me it happens to be card games, but the what doesn't really matter). The quest for deep expertise is a boundless source of surprise, discovery, and rich, cheap pleasure. You are wonderfully lucky - with $500k in the bank you can afford not to work for a decade as you develop that deep expertise. I guarantee you that after 20,000 hours of [whatever thing] you'll be able to make money from it if you need to. But don't worry about that now - just pick something deep that you can do at a high level well into old age and focus on getting good. I don't mean good enough to get a job or whatever - I mean GOOD
Why even bother with Mozilla at this point? Partnering with the one of the top sources of spyware?
It's a replacement for Bouncycastle classes, using DirectByteBuffer wrappers to replace primitive arrays.

One difference is explicit zero() method via ICryptoZeroable interface which clears the buffers.
Clearly not something being done for the benefit of the users. I don't want any of my information (supposedly anonymized or not) from my browser leaking to advertisers if I can help it, and here my browser provider is taking steps to help facilitate this transfer. I'm really losing trust with Mozilla between moves like this, their in-browser advertising, their continual re-enabling of the user studies telemetry writing over my disabling of it (has happened at least 3x times).

You can't monetize your users if they all stop using your browser, Mozilla. We need an alternative.
Yep, it's aimed mostly at console users though it works with emulator too, just without sprite sync. WIP on sprite sync for emulator to bring that back
> ok, how do you implement a break of the iteration in map in JavaScript?

If you want something that behaves like:

array.map(x => {
if (x > 2) { break; } // can't really use break here!
else { return x; }
});

you do this:

[...array].map((x,i,a) => {
if (x > 2) { a.splice(i); }
else { return x; }
});

(if you don’t need the array later, you can just use “array” instead of [...array]; the latter is just used because the break effect is achieved by mutating the array to delete all the elements subsequent to the one you are working, terminating the iteration, and copying the array initially means you don’t stomp the original.)
Someone please correct me if I'm speaking inaccurately, but early reactor design (1950s/60s/70s) focused on light water reactors, which meant enriched U-235 fuel (@ ~3%?). By design, these reactors also convert a portion of their U-238 to P-239, only some of which is then consumed in the reactor.

Consequently, for widespread nuclear reactors (read: in many countries), you also had widespread proliferation of lightly enriched uranium (in the fuel) and proliferation of plutonium (produced in the fuel as the reactor runs).

Both of these remove the most time and energy consuming step (low level enrichment) as an obstacle to state nuclear weapons development.

And they're fundamental to the way light water reactor technology works, especially with the limitations of the period. So the only way you could have had proliferation-resistance would have been to have some sort of global fuel-control and -custody agreement (presumably run by the United States, USSR, and maybe France, depending on the time period). Which sovereign countries would have likely felt some kind of way about.
Nope. Still only working very sporadically for me.
Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronic instruments
they're not identical but they're also not totally independent. There is a certain percentage of the population that is very vulnerable to both illnesses, yet they can't die twice.
Call me old school, but I don’t want this kind of stuff on someone else’s server.
My company’s IT policy agree as well. We really need all these SaaS apps in containerized forms as well.
Exactly, and not everyone knows to go do this stuff. It's like this NPR piece on why there are so many sprinters in Jamaica.

https://www.npr.org/2012/05/04/151956595/a-need-for-speed-in...

Spoiler - it's because it's seen by kids. If a kid in Jamaica wants to be a runner it's obvious to them what to do. Its being told to them every day in their sports entertainment, local events, advertising, etc. It a kid in Jamaica wants to be a CS person, they have no clue what to do. No TV ads, local clubs, events, races, all grooming them day by day to he a better programmer. We have that in the US, in the Bay area, etc. We are grooming young STEM folks from the beginning.
> It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressively.

I get that this statement sounds intuitive to you, but I would challenge you to substantiate a correlation between gun restrictions and increased violence with bladed weapons with some data before talking about causality. I personally think the majority of such violence is opportunistic, so I would be surprised if such a correlation were truly borne out by any data.

> Texas does have bans on specific types of knives, but not a blanket ban or anything w/ length.

When I was growing up in Houston, it was a felony to carry anything with a blade over 5.5" on your person. (I distinctly remember my scoutmaster warning us about locking or fixed blades >3.5", but that may have been a Houston or Harris County ordinance.) It looks like this was effectively repealed in 2017 per https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-l...
> especially for a larger breed that runs fast.

Young Husky. Medium breed that can run far and sometimes doesn't listen (like a cat... but bigger)

They have pet trackers.. But I'm not sure if its because its transmitting a lot and its close to them on their collar.. In this case in on her going outside harness..
I was a bit worried about posting here because I had a suspicion I would get comments like this which assume I'm here on a PR pitch and clearly come at me with assumptions of negative intent.

I'll make a few points:

1) Stalking is completely different than a data platform used for targeted advertising and research.

2) Good minds can disagree on how user data should be used. We decided to shut down our data business because it wasn't worth the distraction - we have over $200m of revenue and it is not core to our business so we decided to move on. It should be noted we have always been extremely transparent with our customer and allowed anyone, whether a free or paying user, to have fine grain control over how we use data.

3) I am not positioning us as a more-private alternative to Apple. If this is a real problem that is emerging, I'd like to understand how we can address it. There are a lot of smart minds here.

4) Our user base is largely middle American moms - this is not the place we go to do PR!
T-Mobile will give you unlimited talk and text + 2.5GB of data for $15/mo.

https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/plan-detail/t-mobile-connect
That's all. Also, it was owned by a rich guy who would make objectivist pronouncements all the time, and provided an army of worthless pundits for news channels. Eventually baby Forbes was a vanity presidential candidate who did Saturday Night Live.

It certainly wasn't the Huffington Post cesspool the internet turned it into, but like a lot of other print magazines it built its brand on the one big press release and special issue it put out at the same time every year.
It's not critical infrastructure.

There are better alternatives, even, that are a quick and painless install process away. For example, nixpkgs is competitive with it, and does not include the Google phone-home supercookie tracking spyware that is on by default without consent in every Homebrew installation, and works great on macOS.

Homebrew could disappear tomorrow and nothing extremely bad would happen. That can't be said for the power grid or water system. Tossing around the term "critical infrastructure" for things that are important but very sub-critical is hyperbole that waters down the (important) term to meaninglessness.
Yeah an earlier poster mentioned something about there being no black box problems and that all the information to do anything is already out there to read. I think this is only true if you are looking to beat the game in a prescribed way. There is a massive amount of space for experimentation and defining your own resource restrictions and goal state.
Here’s the problem with aggregation. Even if the if is not attributable to you as an individual the data can still be used as a weapon against you. I’ll give an example: Imagine that you are a gay person living in a country that kills gay people by law. If gay people are frequenting websites that indicate they like to hang out at a particular bar, this gives authorities more than enough to target that group while still not using your personal data directly. The indirect aggregated data is just as harmful as if they had targeted you personally. This is where companies try to fool you into thinking you are safe to give them a “non identifiable” advertising id and aggregating your data before selling it. It’s not safe.
People who have this POV often miss the point:

- A degree from Princeton (or other elite schools) is worth a lot of money regardless of what you actually learned there. For the rest of your life it follows you around and helps your career.

- You are likely to make connections there who will help your career even further

- You get access to many of the brightest minds in academia to learn from

- You get world class competition... for many people (myself included) I work harder when I'm in a class with smart people than i would if I were studying a textbook on my own

- You get a 4 year experience that many people would consider some of the greatest years of their life
Exactly. I just switched back from Apple Music to Spotify (I used Spotify before Apple Music, when podcasts were unavailable where I live).

I returned for missed recommendations. But now with all these podcasts issues I am really thinking about using mp3s again.
I took linear algebra the same semester as computer graphics - the first half of CG was all about 2D stuff - Bresenham's line-drawing algorithm, things like that. First half of LA was pretty much everything I needed to know to understand matrix operations in OpenGL, which was the second half of CG. Worked great! I still remember most of the relevant stuff 20 years later.

The second half of linear algebra was a bunch of stuff about eigenvectors and eigenvalues. We never were given an explanation why you'd care about them, and I still have no idea why you'd care about them.
No. Topics is oriented at targeting ads to people with specific interests.

This technology is designed to measure "conversion", e.g., when people click on an ad and then buy the corresponding product in a privacy-preserving way.
Yes and that needs to be "designed into the system" with assurances, checks and balances. Currently it is not which is why Washington swamp is still degenerating.
Is there some sort of a common pattern in the authentication and authorization problem of the digital service:

1. I can associate a phone number/email to a bunch of online services, but to unbind any specific one, I need to visit that specific website to put a request.

2. Especially for recycled phone number: it is nearly impossible for the new owner to unbind and clean the connection made by previous owner.

3. Cancel the recurring payment on your card. You either go through the service provider or call your bank/credit card issuer. However, it is usually more complicated compared to the moment when you clicked yes button.

It is super easy to start a digital service, while the other way around is not easy, and more than usual, hard as hell.
>a technically proficient attacker could infer the value of a encryption key given the GDP of the nation-state, if the data was granular enough

Hm. So maybe the recent spike in inflation is just a series of ones in an RSA key?
"We go to the moon not because it is easy, but because if we don't then some commie bastards will get there first."

I am all for exploration and science for the sake of science, but any talk of colonies is just wasted breath at this stage. We need to first explore how to live within our means on earth.
Like living in airlocked spaces, with the constant hum of air conditioning? Oh, the slummers on earth have UBI which is basically worth nothing.
There are all kinds of choices when making art of any sort. The internet more or less proves that there are many things that never even appeared to the creator(s) as choices at all, but to those interpreting/experiencing the art appear to have been choices made for a reason.

Why did she wear a red sweater? Why was it set at the equator? Why did it rain? Why is the only named plant a phylodendron? Why did they leave for 2 days and not 3? Why did journey go north instead of east?

People convinced that all art is created by careful choice-making at every possible juncture seem to find it a little difficult to accept that the creator(s) of a piece of art that they like may not even have experienced a particular story/view/sound/structure point as a choice at all.
> If you build a super private solution no advertising company wants/can use, then you’re just waiting time.

Which is why regulation is needed. Otherwise, any solution needs to be more attractive to the advertisers than the people they stalk (i.e. everybody else).
Checks date: No, it's not April 1st. Which would have been a fine day to make this announcement and possibly get away with it.

In case you were still on the fence... Mozilla has been trying very hard to eradicate the enormous amount of goodwill they built up over the year. Oh, and it's Facebook, not 'Meta'.
Depends on the startup to be fair.
And, as with DNT, by disabling it you'll just add another feature for identifying you.
agree, extreme temp variations and a toxic atmosphere would make living there very difficult(not to mention the journey!). Much better to try a moon station first as its a few days travel and then compare what went right/wrong and then think about replicating that for mars. Having water on mars does help its case though..
Computer model shows the best ways to slow the spread of Covid-19
> EDIT: submitted the current one here https://mirage.io/blog/announcing-mirage-40-beta-release

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301071
the reason for pdf integration is precisely integration with org/roam. i read a lot of pdfs and emacs pdf reader does not do smooth scrolling, which is a bit of an annoyance. having this feature available will solve that. plus nyxt has awesome page searching capabilities
I would say "The general movement towards decentralisation".

The spirit is broader than most people think. A lot of discussion seems to focus around NFTs or the latest crypto scam but there is also a lot of great open source development towards sovereign data or decentralised identity for example.
I mean that we do know what it is like when users are stalked with our product - we've heard all sorts of crazy stories over the years about our app being used for stalking - it sucks when we hear it and we help with law enforcement. This just hasn't been a thing for Tile (yet anyway - probably due to the much less dense network).

I think we will end up with ID verification - I bet Apple could do that too. Then you'd be risking a felony if you use the product illegally.
FLoC is for targeting, this is for attribution.
Hopefully non-non-drowsy antihistamines aren’t considered “sleeping pills”?
We can just outlaw certain types of tracking, your employer does not need to be given a seat at the table, nor does it deserve one.

Meta will happily use any data they can access about people, and this will just be an additional data point that augments the extensive behavioral profiles they have on most internet users.

This is yet another attempt to not accept no for an answer when it comes to data collection, because not getting any data on users who refused data collection is unfathomable to them.
>If you want to solve hard problems that haven't been solved before, pay attention to that math and those proofs.

You are right that these people will have a hard time later. What also needs to be understood is that paying attention to something in which you have no curiosity is hard. I never paid attention to Maths / Stats / Probability and now I am having a hard time trying to learn machine learning / AI. But now my curiosity for these technologies is dialled up all the way to 9 and in my free time, I am relearning all these concepts I missed.

And what I have discovered is that these concepts were easy. The university presentation of it was done without any motivation. It took a useful and easy subject of math and made it hard.
I didn't know what rubber rooms were, here's the wiki link [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rubber_Room
Thinking high level, does anyone have a sense of how many folks get paid to work on Firefox?

Which projects currently under the Mozilla/Firefox umbrella are worth splitting off and funding?
Do not subscribe to YouTube Premium. The whole thing just makes the problem worse by still allowing ads and requiring you to log in using an account that is also tied to your real world identity (for payment processing). You just end up giving more data points to Google to track and don't get rid of all ads.
A lot of that assumes an already functioning economy on Mars. We're not going to be sending anyone other than the richest people up to Mars in their old age. And for stuff like food and hydroponics you could have that on the Moon which is the natural waystation to the Asteroids. The Asteroids are going to be where all the mining is. Entertainment also assumes an already existing economy. Space tourism is the only thing that seems viable in the short term.

About all I can see is producing methane for rockets in Asteroids and being in a much shallower gravity well than Earth. That assumes having an economy established in the Asteroid belt already though, and the cost of sustaining a colony on Mars is going to be its own kind of high overhead. It may be expensive to ship fuel off of Earth, but the people to support the refinement process already exist.

At some point there will be a flip where a Mars economy becomes self-sustaining, but so far I'm not seeing it during my lifetime. My guess is that we're going to be tethered to the Earth for a lot longer.

(Basic science is also great but that's the kind of things that governments support and its not self-sustaining any more than Antarctica is -- which I suspect is closer to the model for Mars in the next 50 years).
> Advertising provides critical support for the Web

The premise is flawed, IMO. I remember a time when the web was just fine without incessant advertising. If it disappeared it would still be fine. Some sites would die out, others would rise.

I've said it before, but I personally would be fine with every site that relies on advertising for its existence to go away. I also think this would improve the signal:noise ratio of the web considerably.
Factorio has trains. Also, at my programming job they frown on the use of shotguns, flame throwers, explosive rocketry, and the use of tactical nuclear missiles to solve problems.
There will be tons of people who will rightly rake Mozilla over the coals for this so I don't need to do it.

That being said I honestly feel for Mozilla in some way. Making a browser as your primary product is just not profitable without monetizing your userbase in some form or fashion and it takes a shit ton of work to keep it modern and secure. They will get dragged through the mud no matter what they try. People still rag on them for accepting money from Google to be the default search engine.
A new programming language for high-performance computers
The pre-print goes over the infiltration process - basically you shoot a laser at an LED on the air-gapped system, it induces a current, and you measure that current.
It's not like they have ever hidden it. Pretty much all Mozilla revenue comes from their deals with Google.
> You typically have counter-measures in place to detect when someone is firing a laser at your exterior glass windows to exfiltrate data/IP. I assume it can/does happen.

It does, either in films or intelligence lore, but not for all intents and purposes, in regular life (regular life including corporate espionage). As for counter-measures: curtains.