skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of course it has. I'm certainly not an expert, but the plants are operating on a set of risk calculations based on assumptions about their designs. If one of the safety assumptions are challenged, you have to shut the reactors down and address it.

Now, I'm sure you can find instances where this was not done. But if you just vaguely follow nuclear news around the world, nuclear power plants do indeed have correlated shutdowns. The most widely reported one in the past decade probably started with the accident at the Fukushima power plant. But there are many examples of smaller ones.
Almost as hilarious as your support for the deaths of thousands. I’ve been anti-Russia from Day 1. But I’m going to continue to call out bullsht when I see it. Ukraine is fighting a war they can’t win. Not saying Russia is justified but I mean come on. If China rolls up onto US mainland with auto-aim drones, I’m hiding, and if surrendering is on the table then I’m definitely surrendering.
The thing about geometry is that it does not take long before you've taught those four things, and then you start teaching stuff that is specific to plane geometry.
>to stop Ukrainian civilians from “fleeing” into Russia

“Fleeing” is a weird term for “join us or we bomb your children”

China could step in and actually get Russia to follow through with a cease fire instead of claiming they’d have a cease fire only to shell civilians.

If not that, I dunno there’s probably a few more things that could be tried but giving in to the demands of a madman bombing civilians, hospitals, residential areas and schools doesn’t seem ethical or helpful as it will encourage him to bomb more kids.
Saeculum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum

> A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population.[1] Originally it meant the time from the moment that something happened (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the first moment had died. At that point a new saeculum would start. According to legend, the gods had allotted a certain number of saecula to every people or civilization; the Etruscans, for example, had been given ten saecula.[2
They tried to take the gostomel airport, and pushed toward kiev but didn't make actual efforts into pushing beyond the suburbs. The gostomel operation was costly but AFAIK they still hold the airport. The convoys being wrecked are again either unconfirmed or didn't seem to massively alter their progression on that front. Obviously the russians are still taking a lot of losses, but imo it's not nearly close enough to stall them in any significant manner.

(I'd have also expected the russians the be doing way way worse, since the ukrainian army has still been pretty throughouly trained by western advisors in the past 7 years. And after the mess that was the 2008 georgian war, I thought the russian army to be far less capable than the relatively professional army we have seen since they invaded.)

I have not see any effort to actually push through kiev or Kharkov. If anything the push for Kharkov only happened mid last week, and most of the actually important events have been on the crimean/southern front .
This article makes me think of an idea I heard years ago. That being make the cost of tuition zero for all students, and then take 20% of their income for the 5 years after they graduate. The thought process here is that no matter what we do, people are people and will seek degrees in what they are interested in. So, if we take that 20% from everyone it will average out so that the people going to work at Google and receiving > $100,000 out of the gate help to offset those that major in a less lucrative field.

I could have sworn that there was something like this being tested somewhere in Michigan, but I can't fully remember.
Wonderful! I love performance engineering, and its hard to shake the feeling that I'm alone with that love in the modern software world!

One note: You've got a few sections on B-Trees. BTrees may work well for on-disk data structures (eg databases, filesystems) but in my experience, skip lists work better in-memory; not to mention they're several times simpler to implement.

Eg: I got up to twice the performance moving from a b-tree to a skip list for a Rope structure, at half the code size. (And another 2x from embedding a gap buffer in each leaf):

https://crates.io/crates/jumprope
I just wandered over to Slashdot earlier today. It's sad to see what it has become. It's also sad to see UF burn out as well.

I miss Ye Olde Internets.
Samsung Says Hackers Breached Company Data, Galaxy Source Code
To be fair, he did design the file format
Pity. I used to read it regularly when I was starting in web dev in the late 90s and it was genius (even with the Metafilter thing).

I browsed the archive last year during the Christmas break for a nostalgia trip!
Thank you. It's nice to hear that you had one of those shower/bathtub Eureka moments!

> ...we wanted some kind of energy conservation/preservation mechanism from having multiple paths lead to the same state

Makes sense. FWIW, to me this looks like a Conservation Law -- as in Physics. I mean, it's not that the flows "must be" conserved, but that they are conserved (or go into sinks). Any physicists interested in AI should be all over this; it's right up their alley.
You do have a point. But those people would rather avoid answering the poll in the first place. Those answering the poll are self-selected for strong anti-war sentiment.

The methodology is a bit a of a mystery, perhaps I'm wrong to assume this poll was conducted on an unaffiliated internet property, so no connection to the opposition leader would be evident.

In any case these are the most anti-war numbers of any poll out there, and still over 50 % put the blame on Ukraine and the West.
> It is sad Ukraine felt the need to conscript teenagers to die and it’s even worse the West has encouraged this massive loss of life to continue

It's weird you don't think Ukrainians are motivated to defend their country from an invader. It's also weird that you think letting an invading army—especially one that is losing—dictate who runs your government, and what's in your constitution, is "incredibly reasonable".
I think the question needs to be asked, "What am I hoping to get from this?"

If its tools to help you solve some problem, great.
If its because you find it fun, great.

But if its because you feel you want to 'better yourself' or perhaps feel like it would somehow prove your intellectual worth, you probably won't get a lot out of it.
Of Course Journalists Should Interview Autocrats
Russia Threatens to Cut Off Flow of Nordstream 1 Pipeline
How about a textbook? At 15 mins a week, a couple of books would last a year.
Putin predicted it too. In fact he acted to ensure his predictions would come true. Don't downplay his agency in this.

> Either the people of Iraq supported Saddam, in which case the justification of liberating Iraq was BS. Or the majority did not support Saddam, in which case there is absolutely no justification for the suffering inflicted on them.

In fact it's the second one, Shia were a repressed majority. But how would the first justify their suffering? Saddam had nothing to do with 911.
I didn't know about this so thanks for the link.
I also do the same although when I need fractions, having to type all the words to import and use the fraction module is a pain
What is a mystical experience then?

I would suppose that it went something like:

1. Person sees/experiences something interesting/abnormal/rare

2. Can't figure out how to explain what happened

3. Attributes experience to god/religion

Once we started filling in that middle bit there was less around that could only be attributed to religion so it lost a lot of its draw.

Now that we are closer to a state where we can attribute most things to nature/science/etc religion does seem to be left with mostly dogma.
I've got some old e-mails in my Yahoo mailbox with Geek Code in it.
This person was talking about satellites that have nothing to do with mining. Someone who has their internet go down isn't creating an alternate history that splits them off. They stop getting updates, then start getting updates again.

These satellites are also nonsense because they are just renting time on them to broadcast. If there is no actual internet connection, you can't make transactions in the first place.
Yes because from the Russians perspective the USA is the fake democracy ruled by despots, too morally corrupt to criticize them

Obama and Biden in 1 single year dropped 26k bombs in 7 different countries
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/americ...

Obama apologises for Afghan hospital bombing - ITV News
https://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-10-07/obama-apologises-f...

So every country is the same, everyone invades for a "good" reason, and all violence is the same. Every invaded country suffers the same, and people live worse after
This can be done through a hybrid though, go off, build video chat, get some adoption and then leverage that to get consensus. “I’ve already done it this way I’m not changing it” is a dick move in an average PR request, but effective.
Was programming a 3-axis machine in early college back in 90s. After a few months I was mostly re-inventing trigonometry.
The I actually took trig later on. That would have been super handy at time.
There is nothing to be baffled about. There was a time when Russia would have gladly joined the EU and or NATO but they were rebuffed. Why? The real reason is Russia united with Europe would enable a true Eurasian competitor to the USA to arise. The subjugation of Europe by the United States seven decades after the 2nd world war is rather pathetic.

After the fall of communism there was a time when western Eurasia could have united. But some people deliberately stoked nationalism (in Yugoslavia, the Baltics, etc) so it was not to be. The war in Ukraine is a late repercussion of this path taken.

The idea that Putin is in it for the money is stupid. When you control a nation state for life money doesn't matter much.

Money is a proxy for power for those lacking real power.
The US didn't single-handedly crash the British economy during the Suez crisis, and it wasn't a pure logistical/political defeat in the field, either. In fact, it was very much a military defeat, as well. The British defeat was the sum total of all these parameters rather than any single one. By contrast, France's ability to apply military force is interdicted by precisely one parameter: logistical dependence on the USA (worsened by the US' underhanded acquisition of Alstom, I might add). As such, I don't think your point stands.
I just tried to buy iodine tablets in Prague and they were already sold out, with an unknown restock date. [0]

Nuclear power is a very complex issue. However, from a security point of view, putting dirty bomb ingredients around your country is not a genius move in a less than peaceful world.

[0] Pharmacist told me that my best bet at this point was a supplement product made from seaweed. She stressed it was not medical grade. That might be in stock later in the week.

note: but also, we are advised here on HN to not talk about getting downvoted. You get extra downvotes for that.
Did you know that coal ashes is also a bit radioactive? Contrary to the fuel of a nuclear power plant which is very radioactive but well contained, these ashes are just spread in the atmosphere during normal operation.
I guess, european leaders should have cut it first? or were they expecting them to start bombing kiev first? Is this expected to cause disruptions in europe and does it make a difference in the short term?
The study addresses this: the cases selected for analysis include multi-modal observation (e.g. visual + radar).
ah yes sorry, not only images - tough could be a (visual) start.
Hoping to get you surprised, because, libraries, I'd like more of them, more knowledge/experience sharing.
I love me some packet-sniffing fun!
That's where Nerualink comes in...
Ok, we've s/technical/coding/'d the title above.
According to this subthread, it's that the code is positively ancient: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225082909/http://ars.userfr...

"Like for the past 17+ years...

... I own the ISP hosting UF.

The biggest problem is supporting the legacy mod_perl stuff that the site is built on... you'd basically have to re-write the entire front end, or find a very bored perl monk to update the code base.

Basically to keep the ARS active, you'd need someone to take over the operations of the server & code. Maintaining it is a big deal.

Cost-wise, I could bring it down quite a bit if it was moved into a VPS (which we also offer), but again - it's a maintenance/care & feeding issue. This site is still running on Apache 1.3 here.

Someone would need to volunteer some senior technical skill for several weeks, and start... pretty much now."
Khan Academy. Finish a course, retake the course exam once a year afterwards, fill in knowledge gaps as needed. Doing this should keep all undergraduate math fresh in your mind.
I would not say there’s an abundance of farmland. Yes, it’s quite big, but most of the Russian territory actually has quite extreme climate conditions, not suitable for farming. And even good farmland is actually abandoned, which always surprised me. I was travelling by car from Saint Petersburg to Sochi every summer till 2016. Huge areas filled with nothing but weeds, or even worse — toxic and hard to eradicate hogweed. So food there usually a little bit cheaper (not much) just because it’s a lot lower quality.
I would rephrase what I said - this is one of the ways how tech companies make it affordable for us to order ‘food’ from the comfort of our home while someone is running on a bike in a snow storm to get our favorite pizza before it gets cold.

On the other hand, you always have a choice to not use UberEats(or most others) and order by phone/walk-in and save your resources.

And it would be a bit of exaggeration to say targeting doesn’t work - It’s obviously far from perfect but it generates billions everyday for a reason.
Is there archive of the comics themselves? I remember them fondly.
The soldiers on the battleship Potemkim weren't treated well either.
I hesitate to contradict someone who has gone through the whole Math PhD process, but I have to say that the best mathematicians that I know treat the problems they're working on as games, or riddles to be solved... and they've taught their kids (and others) this same method of thinking about these problems. There's a huge mental tool set, and often a lot of grinding to get to a solution, but it's just a game (and there are often more elegant solutions)!

I enjoy provoking interest in complex numbers and exponentials among precocious teens, but I've never been more humbled than having a Galois theory joyously explained to me by an 11 year old. (p.s. I'm an engineer so I follow your technique).
A fantastic silver lining of the war I suppose.
Let the other 95% of great programmers in (2014)
It's not yet done outside of a lab setting but we can extract virtually unlimited uranium from seawater https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s..., Since the uranium in seawater is naturally replenished it could be as sustainable as wind or solar and would only add fractions of a cent per kWh to the cost of energy generation.
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." - Niels Bohr.

If we're at the point in physics where string theory is the answer to "what are atoms?", it doesn't seem that woo-woo to ascribe some kind of reality to consciousness and the other abstracts that come with it. Unfortunately, as with string theory, there doesn't appear to be any empirical proof.
Anyone know when the last new comic was posted?
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful:

https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif

You have to zoom in to see the meaningful information. It can be super surprising to developers and IT people (like us) to see a lot of customers have less data than you might think.

When we started we had no idea what might come of all of this, so it was "stressful". :-) So I welcome another backup client developer to our club, and hope this can help them out.
As a fellow penn alum, I can totally vouch for Ghrist's approach to calculus. Check out his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfGhristMath
It's unclear to me, exactly how they intend to use these.
Same principle, different example.
We never read "fact X", we read "fact X from source Y".

What if source Y is biased in that its using all facts X to push an anti-bias agenda?
Great find, but I must say that I find the author of the post highlighting a quote from himself to be a bit jarring.
Two B-52s circling over Romania
When my apartment building is getting shelled to rubble, changing a few things in my constitution to make the shelling stop is 100% reasonable. I think many people eating up the media right now think resistance is great but they mostly think that because they’re thousands of miles away in their cozy condos ordering from uber eats.
So how are mobile / hardware engineering technical interviews done? This seems specific to only a subset of engineers.
I wonder how much more diversity in programming languages we would have had if BASIC wasn't pre-installed on home computers.
>No one in the government cares that you are purchasing a dildo.

I FUCKING CARE. It isn't the point if the the government cares.

The government has no business knowing what I spend my money on, who I spend my time with, or what the hell I talk about.
I went through this as well and kept throwing out "Sharper Image" as a name, one for the homage to the Simpsons' "Max Power", and two because it'd be hard not to confront that name as "not my identity". It's hardly even the identity of the products distributed by the now defunct company.

Thankfully I would never get my way on this. My first born's name fits the criteria you listed almost exactly. The idea of naming them after an older family member is growing on me for similar reasons - it's fun to say "oh you're just like Grandpa <name> in this way, but not in this other way" I guess.
>The unstated is that the core problem here (lack of USB2 on a USB3 connector) is _NOT_ standard.

It does say this at the end of the article.
Oh... I remember that. What the heck was that...
Not sure. Even if it does, it's going to be built using the APIs I already mentioned, and therefore not available in userspace. It doesn't make any sense for a process to need special privileges in order to limit a child process to strictly lesser privileges.
> But when they suddenly see smaller drone, their pilot-brain thinks it's a plane, but because it is much smaller than a plane, they think it must be far away.

I think this neglects the training and capability of the pilot to the point of being insulting. You're basically saying that a (let's say) 15 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force can't tell the difference between a small drone and a plane, doesn't understand basic physics / optics, and when uncertain, assumes that anything observed must be a plane because "all we see are planes". Preposterous.

Also, even if that were the case, it's pretty hard to explain away when the same object is being observed from multiple angles, with multiple humans, and multiple high precision sensors, with all observations confirming the same conclusions.
This is incredibly cool, thanks to Don Hopkins for open-sourcing the original (C, C++ or Java implementations) micropolis codebase [1] !

As a shameless plug, I've been for the last few years re-implementing on and off this exact same project (based on the C++ codebase) in Rust, WebAssembly and Svelte! [2] Quite a bunch of buzzwords I know, but it's specifically made for me to have fun.

The map generation is working (or at least it was properly rendered when I was using React) and about ~50% of the codebase has been ported over to Rust, but there's still a lot of work to be done if anyone wants to help!

The end goal is notably to have tons of slick data visualisations with d3.js.

[1] https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis
[2] https://github.com/pierreyoda/micropolis-rs
> Someone

Why not you?
That sounds... terrible.
Can you? Try proving the Collatz conjecture. It's a very simple program.
Ask HN: Was COMAL the best way to program the c64 for most hobbyists?
And if so, why is COMAL mostly forgotten now?
How many UWP games are there? That page lists six and the stickied post from last April say MS no longer makes UWP exclusive games.
I can't get past the paywall to find out whether they mention Chrome Flex, but this article talks about Google's policy on using Flex with old Chromebooks: https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/chrome-os-flex-isnt-th...
And if they make a mistake, there could be other people involved in the accident.
> Idealists do not force anybody.

The article says quite literally that they did -

Rajapaksa’s government made good on that promise, imposing a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic

> So, this is not a failure of idealism. It is a failure of management.

Honestly, this sounds like the 'communism didnt work the last x times because nobody did it right'. I'm not saying you or your idea are wrong, to be clear, but it's impossible to say they did it wrong until a shining example proves that you -can- do it right.
Oh I was not aware of this syntax in C, thanks for bringing it up! I still think the pattern is more common and known in Rust but I might be wrong :)

Re: your other points, "reusing a pre-allocated struct from a buffer" is basically object initialization, which is different from other times you want to write fields. In general an object initialization construct should be used in those cases, this whole thread being an argument why. Out-of-band fields such as the "private" field are a pain I agree, but they can be separated from an inner struct (in which case the inner struct is the only field that gets assigned for initialization).

Taking a step back, the true solution is probably to have a proper constructor... And that can be done in any language, so I'll stand corrected.
Nice. Let's see if I can restate this well enough to ward off further condescension from you:

Would you similarly be up in arms over the external JS were the site embedding a YouTube video? It also requires JS – as does most (all?) major video hosting platforms.
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank [pdf]
Transform is also used in data mangling to mean exactly what this tool does.

Transformation is also used in enterprise IT to mean modernising.

Transformer is also a mathematics term, a kids toy and many other things.

In short, ML doesn’t have a monopoly on it.
The EU is such an entity.
The grid is designed to deal with the loss of a power station like this. In fact it does all the time as generators go offline for maintenance etc.

Also, the land requirements for this are really modest. Our legacy power station sites are pretty big. The old coal stations needed a lot of space for coal. The nuclear sites tend to be built in rural areas surrounded by countryside. There are also quite a few that were built on massive WWII airfields and have huge areas. Finding land will not be a problem.

My guess is that the biggest issue will be finding a site with suitable geology (for the hole) and access for heavy/wide vehicles.
It would be funny if the Next button took you to clickwheeljt.com and the Previous button took you to clickwheeljr.com.

"Everything is just a few hundred clicks away." -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Authors just don't get that it's okay to be opposed to imperialism in all it's forms, simultaneously and regardless of its practitioners. They say they do, but then implore us to 'look over there'.