skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is usable fuel in every spent fuel pool in America. The Carter admin stopped fuel reprocessing so this fuel just sits there.
Thank you! Will give it a try then!
Show HN: Second Longest Word Wins [fun social game]
Makes me wonder what the psychology and politics of anti-extraterrestrial beliefs and rules are. It's very plausible other beings exist, but what necessary axioms disintegrate if a society comes to believe in aliens, and why is it important to isolate and shame people who suspect it?

I can see how our dominant moral systems are rooted in the idea of human primacy and a single One supreme being. Recognition that we can appeal to super beings to intervene on our behalf could arrest our evolutionary intellectual development by causing our civilizations to optimize for pleasing said beings, instead of organizing ourselves to elevate human minds that enable a more natural and free evolution for our species. There may be some evolutionary rule about life where a species only evolves along degrees of freedom and our development becomes arrested when we optimize for the constraint of appealing to the discretion of super beings, sort of like domesticated animals vs. wild ones.

To adapt to co-existing with a technologically advanced species, you would need a conceptual or moral degree of freedom and agency beyond them, which made peaceful and free co-existence possible, and provided some basis for principled equality of life. (an agreement on a One god whose will has been revealed them as well would go a long way, and as an idea, could secure our ability to evolve independently of our advanced co-habitants. This may be the rational evolutionary case for monotheism, as a necessary condition for moral agency across significant differences.) The most obvious consequence of introducing a new super being species would be how we would organize ourselves and relate to each other around them, and not just find increasingly subtle ways to murder each other to secure their favoured status.

If humans forfeited our moral agency by optimizing for becoming subjects of these super beings, we would be putting responsibility on the super beings to govern us, and arrest our own evolutionary development.

Maybe the anti-extraterrestrial people have a deeper understanding of this. Or they just recognize, maybe the arrival of such a species would irreconcilably polarize us all between those who could sustain their own moral agency in the face of a superior power, and those who give it up to optimize for material animal ingroup security, and the ensuing war would wipe us all out - or the aliens would do it for us. Maybe it will take another couple hundred years for them to really arrive as we're not quite fully baked from an evolutionary perspective, and we need to be on average more intelligent than we rather obviously are now.

I'm sure they laugh at our nuclear energy use and social media as being the civilizational equivalent to trepanation though. I wonder what their jokes are like.
In my experience (which is a decade out of date for India, admittedly, although the point was more about the USA) being white makes me an obvious tourist, regardless of the situation. Any initial price will be 5-20× higher than an initial price you'd get.

Fixed price markets and services like Uber are a welcome improvement, but there are still plenty of recent articles (mainly blogs) aimed at tourists concerning bargaining in India.

("Hippies" on holiday in most of Europe don't have to bargain.)
Everyone replying in this manner is missing that I am discussing whether or not they are rent seeking. No one is questioning whether they are or should be making a profit. The person I replied to said they are not rent seeking, they are just seeking profit to fund operations. I claim they are rent seeking, which is according to wikipedia:
"the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth."
No one is questioning that they are or should be making a profit, only the purpose and result of their profit seeking.
> Jobs + Wired + Gawker + Apple made an incredibly strong conceptual gravity well that makes conversation about this difficult.

I never, ever, read the Jobs manifesto against flash. Never cared to read any article about flash back in the day and I absolutely dreaded opening a website that used flash.

It was a guaranteed loading times on my bad internet, followed and/or preceded by a notice saying that I needed to install this crapware or update it. Not to mention my numerous crashes directly related to an unresponsive flash application.

But as you clearly wrote somewhere on this thread, this was probably due to me using windows and most flash devs using macOS.

As someone who just learned about jobs hate to flash and never touched on a MacBook in his life. I’m extremely happy this technology belongs to the past.
Minsky's subsequent book called "the emotion machine" probably has some of the most complete treatments of topics like intelligence, understanding and consciousness.
From the description... "Fuel sources for electricity generation in the UK past and present, and will everyone using electric vehicles lead to a massive shortage of electricity?"

This analysis and presentation is by John Ward, a professional electrician in the UK.

(One thing which struck me is how much gas (as in ethane, propane, and butane) is now used in place of coal.)
FWIW nu shell can be used for a lot of the same use-cases:

$ echo "[1, 2, 3]" | nu -c 'cat | from json | to yaml'
---
- 1
- 2
- 3

$ echo '{"key": [1, 2, 3]}' | nu -c 'cat | from json | to yaml'
---
key:
- 1
- 2
- 3
We can already automate leetcode interviews much more easily then why don't we do it? Because people cheat. U can ask your competitive coder friend or search google to get the answers. Similarly, here also friends can give the complete solutions even more easily. Heck there are sites dedicated to these kinds of services. This leads to following consequences:

1. In both automated leetcode and automated "coding" interviews, most people get full score. This even turns into a negative bias as an actual good candidate who did not cheat has greater chance of getting rejected here than the cheaters.

2. Interviewers put both automated leetcode and in-person leetcode to first filter out candidates, then put them through actual interview hoops. If your product succeeds, this means another layer of "interviewing" and more wastage of engineer's time.

Sorry to say this isn't solving any problem but has the potential to create more harm for both sides.
This is just false; the only way you could say russia is failing badly to conquer ukraine is if you only read the ukrainian government's PR releases. It's been like a week and a half; even the Americans took a longer time to go through the extremely weakened state of Iraq in 2003. I get supporting ukraine but there's no need to fall for delusional war propaganda, just look at the map and tallies of confirmed casualties (for example we only have proof of 2 actual russian air losses, a far cry from the 35-40 claimed by the ukrainian side). It's totally counterproductive and does not help the ukrainian side to be so wildly optimistic when the situation on the ground isn't.
jportet says:

>"Is there a specific topic, concept, etc.. that no matter how many times you try to wrap your head around, you can't ever seem to get it? "<

Yes, <edit>Russian political thought patterns</edit> Make that 'Political thought patterns' or hell, maybe just "Thought."

>"If you were in this situation, what would you do?"<

Go to war? Kill the enemy?

But seriously, I'm completely flummoxed by human group behavior vs individual behavior [i.e., the crowd vs the individual]. We have no meaningful way of extrapolating from one to the other. The closest complete model is thermodynamics, which is so primitive as to be useless in this context.
Yeah. And some times one is right. You can look for the obvious examples if you need to.
This isn't something a regular person can easily decide using test results. Because vitamin D accretes over time, it's possible to overshoot.

A possible scenario: you get a test, take the supplement, take another test, see no difference, take a bigger dose, and the test after that shows the effect of the first dose. Then you decide to keep the bigger dose even though it's unnecessary.

The moderate dosages are safe according to most studies. However, I agree with what dragonwriter below wrote: people who think they need the bigger dosages better consult a doctor before making a decision.
A DJ only has a handful of channels, with only a couple feeding the speakers at any one moment. You likely moved knobs that were not live at the time.
+1, and it wasn't just for show, the arm was more ergonomic than all iMacs since.
Created this quick little game that you can play with friends.

It is quite simple: Given a letter, come up with a word. Then the person with the second longest word wins!
You dont need you my app, you can even play it at your next social gathering using pen and paper!

Very much inspired from a task on TaskMaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOUR26pLz0&t=2305s

How to play this game with friends in real life: https://sociallotion.com/game/second-longest-word_elUbYc6lZ5...

Still an MVP, but have a play and let me know any feedback.

Also any designers out there? would love for ideas on how to improve it (i am not a designer :)).

<3 Thanks!
I agree with all your individual points but I’m slow in understanding your overall message, sorry.
Trading Firm DRW Allows Crypto Investors to Hedge Risk with Bilateral Options
My first thought when I heard about Russia shelling the nuke plants: "ah, that's a good way to make sure Europe will keep buying Russia gas..."
Are you saying that you are able to read all incoming linux patches, and easily identify changes which fixes a security problem, so that you can come up with a POC by the time the security issue is announced?

If the patch was flagged as a security problem from the beginning, it would give advantage to attackers, since they would know that the particular patch is worth investigating, while the defenders would have to wait for the patch to be finalized and tested anyway.
Yes, this was my point. I don’t believe they’ve attacked anything satellite-specific and instead just pushed an intentionally-bad configuration or firmware update to terminals in the field.
I am discussing whether or not youtube is rent-seeking. The fact that I can pay money to get rid of all the ads is either orthogonal to my point or supportive of my point.
Yes. ZFS encryption and raw send.
> What’s the point of a false flag if nobody knows about it?

I agree. A false-flag attack is all about optics.

But IIUC the GP, they're saying the SATCOM failure isn't widely known, so it wouldn't make sense as a false-flag attack.

That's where GP loses me. Because we are discussing it here, as members of the general public. And the discussion isn't limited to a small nerdy site like HN; it's also being covered by Reuters [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/satellite-outage-kno...
I agree. That’s why I’d rather a torrent than Netflix today. Apologies if my message was confusing.
New blocks emerge in Russia amid war in Ukraine
How wild is it that 480 Mbit/sec is low speed and low cost?

Like, it makes sense on one level, but it's just crazy to me how fast that still is compared with PS2 (16kbps), RS232 (115kbps), CANbus (1Mbps), USB 1.1 (12Mbps), 10/100 Ethernet (100Mbps), Firewire (400Mbps).

Obviously totally inadequate once you're talking to solid state storage or if there's video/display data in the mix. But still... 480Mbps is fast.
Assuming you check it daily though, how long before you dismiss the first two?
They're useful to some people for accessibility reasons.
Would be great if this was possible. At least I see no way to do it myself.
I find most of macOS reasonably well designed (at least compared to the competition), but Finder is truly awful. I highly recommend Forklift as Finder replacement.
Many thanks for your kind feedback :).
The paper conveniently dodges a few critical items of attention.

The first one is that the CBDC is a (crypto) currency to promote or maintain the dominance of the dollar in the world, as they openly state in the paper itself. This in itself is not unexpected but violates the idea of most cryptocurrencies, they are internet money, detached from national currencies, national interests or national rules. Only in the exchange back to fiat money do local interests play a role. So this is more like a stablecoin, with better backing.

The paper self-congratulates current central bank money as the safest money in the world, which I'd say is not entirely false, but at the very least I would expect monetary expansion (inflation) to be deeply discussed, but it isn't.

It mentions the current private cryptocurrencies and their many downsides, without listing upsides. Suspicious and biased. I don't care if you're pro or anti crypto, but its assessment cannot be this simplistic or binary.

Another item that comes top of mind is anti-seizure legislation. Recent events as seen in Canada (using an emergency law to seize assets) and the Russia thing where reserves are simply frozen are raising some questions about the safety of digital money. If any emotional politician can just push a button and take your assets, people will feel unsafe. The authority question goes unanswered in the paper.

The paper correctly establishes that privacy is critical but then also goes on to say that everything needs to be reported. A contradiction, so we'll find a "balance". Elaborate on this balance, because there is none. Every single transaction ever will be on record.

Not a word on the dangers of cryptocurrencies being programmable. Under the pressure of ever-changing politics, these could make possible restrictions on money currently barely possible. For example, they can put an expiration on your money, forcing you to spend it. Or, block the buying of particular products directly from your wallet. It's a potential huge jump in authority, but it's barely mentioned.

It dances around a lot of hot and inconvenient issues.
A webcomic that started back when mid-sized US/Canadian towns really did have one-stop ISPs that employed both experienced sysadmins, the new web designers doing sites for local businesses, and students just getting started in IT - and were places where all of the above could actually advance or at
least enjoy their careers, not just languish as call center drones.

I was lucky enough to spend a couple of summers in high school then after my freshman year of college working at a similar outfit in my hometown. It had about 1500 subscribers paying about $20-30/mo for dialup around 1997-99.

Anyway, that’s where I was introduced to User Friendly, and we’d laugh together over the funnier ones.

Go to “Storylines” to find the ones you remember: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225091648/http://www.userfr...
Agree, the very first time a CBDC revokes a key, people are going to scramble for open chains like BTC.
For context: "Is Russia about to nationalize foreign aircraft?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz4gCE4ccRM
Thank you, and love that you promote great interviewing practices! What were some examples of prompts you routinely used for interviewing? And any learnings on great (or not so great) interview design?
Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: An American Heart Association Advisory
Yeah sure. Russians are bombing Ukrainian cities because Russia is the victim of NATO expansion. Same true as Germany being a victim of Treaty of Versailles and Jewish "stab in the back"....

Can't you guys moderate Russian propagit out?
Smart Deblur[1] is probably one of the best publicly available tools for debluring images like this. It supports a wide array of blur algorithms. I've used it to reverse passwords and identifying details released by security researchers.

I was unable to retrieve anything of value from the blurred areas of this image.

[1] http://smartdeblur.net/
That’s what I (not OP) needed to hear! I’ve never used a physical iPod clickwheel and I tried dragging from the center and from the buttons (not between the buttons) dozens of times before coming back here and reading this. Hope jarrenae considers clarifying this on the site.
> You must know two things to proceed: That there is a secret hotkey to allow exact path specification, and what that hotkey is. It took me years to learn that there was a hotkey -- I just assumed that it was not possible.

There's also menu item in the Finder menu - you know, that thing on the upper edge of the screen - Go | Go to folder... and it also gives away the secret hotkey.
I would expect food to be much cheaper in Russia due to the abundance of farmland. Same for energy.
Well I apologize if I came off as harsh. I don’t mean to say you specifically. I just adamantly believe that we need to work towards process that allow you to trust the developer. Every situation is unique however and I cannot speak on all but I do think screen recording proof of work is not useful. Also if people are forced to screen record there us no scalability in projects software development
> It’s amazing how different the subjects of mathematics are. It’s like the difference between a drum and flute.

I think it’s amazing how connected the fields are. It’s almost like “pick any two of analysis, algebra, geometry, number theory, topology, turn one into a adjective and you’ve got a new subject area”.

Topological algebra? Check (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_algebra)

Algebraic topology? Check (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_topology).

Geometric topology? Check (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_topology).

Geometric algebra? Check (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra)

Algebraic geometry? Check (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry)

Geometric number theory? Close (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry_of_numbers)

Mix algebra, number theory, and topology, and you may end up with arithmetic topology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_topology)

And don’t confuse that with arithmetic geometry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_geometry)
One's not a blocker to a malloc implementation since you could otherwise just cut up a static char buffer. Coordinating with the OS is a nice to have. Strict aliasing is hard blocker. Hence why that's the issue under discussion.

And I'm not sure I understand why you're using the inability to describe certain actions as the reason why you use ISO C.
With the Shopping-as-a-service going crazy during the 2020 height of Covid, the 'tips' were very much corrupted. You had to specify the tip amount when placing the order. How was that ever supposed to work? I was watching one very large order of mine where the shopper supposedly showed up to the store 7 minutes before it closed and started marking each of my items as out of stock. Trip was still completed so the tip was taken. 13 hours on hold to get that taken care of.

In the US, servers can make much more than minimum wage. Cash tips weren't reported for taxes. Reference: dated waitresses
Cool! Glad I'm not the only one who saw a need for this stuff :D
It was often hilarious if you happened to work at a local ISP in the era the comic was started (late 90s), back when $20-30/mo for dialup was a good deal, and customers could drop their computers off to have their modems and Netscape installed and Windows configured to dial in. Or for $40 extra, have some high school kid working there drop by :)
No, and that's not how the Internet works - JS is not required to access other computers in order to display videos. A video file can still be located on a CDN [1] in addition to being self-hosted. This is an extremely common operation that websites perform. You can look at the docs for any CDN. They all tell you how to do this.

[1] CDN: Content Delivery Network, i.e. youtube, cloudflare, or any one of the others. There are multiple CDNs used by this very article's webpage.
Thanks, relayed to community!
Swinging by to plug my personal favorite resource for refreshing my self on Bayesian stats: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwJRxp3blEvZ8AKMXOy0f...

I think statistics is by and large the most proportionally underrated subject proportional to its utility. A good command of stats and probability expands your power to use data to reason about answering questions. The channel author, Ben Lambert, has an alternative playlist where he uses some of the techniques taught in this playlist to solve problems in econometrics. However, a lot of what is taught here builds a great foundation for other domains, on everything from bioethics to data journalism to computer vision.

Another great channel that focuses a bit more on the machine learning side of things is StatQuest with Josh Starmer: https://www.youtube.com/c/joshstarmer
The agile aardvark arrived by airmail.
Sad to see it go, I would read it daily even the repeats.

I did buy one of the books years ago. Maybe other books were release since :) Will have to look
Except the West isn't doing anything wrong at the moment! Helping arm a non-aggressive country to defend itself from an invader, taking in refugees, pushing back non-militarily are all objectively right things to so.

This right-wing/tankie nonsense is exhausting.
I've been reading a little about epigenetics, the systems by which your body's genetic code responds to your environment.

For instance, people with scalp psoriasis can change the epigenetic structure of the skin on their scalp by using anti-psoriatic shampoos, so that the body itself, being freed of the irritance response of psoriasis stops acting like it is psoriatic.

Of course, as soon as the medication stops, the psoriasis returns, so it's not a permanent fix, nothing in epigenetics is. The fact that you can alter your genetic representation in real time is an amazing thing to me nevertheless.

I said all of that to say that there's a chance that any "chemical imbalances in the brain" might be the reaction to the underlying mental illness, and not the cause of or solution to the mental illness in the first place, and that treating the mental imbalance may give the person time away from the effects of their illness.

That, combined with therapy and validation, can conceivably result in "curing" the illness in people that had a chance to recover in the first place by giving them the boost they needed to get over the hump.

Not a one-size-fits-all solution, of course, we don't know enough about the brain to know what would be a permanent solution, but in your case, finding your own path and having uplifting experiences thanks to psychedelics might have been all that you needed to put that chapter of your life behind you.

This is all armchair conjecture but it's a thought I've been having so I figured I would share.
I completely agree with your line of reasoning - there is definitely a massive difference between cash transactions being potentially tracked by CCTV, and a centralized ledger…

I’m not sure what the other commenter is getting at, other than a weird attempt to shift the Overton window on financial privacy expectations.
Why change tactics when things are working out for NATO

The longer and more devastating the war, the better. Ukraine doesn't have to win for a NATO victory, russia just has to be damaged militarily and fanatically.
Even with numbers only, it can still be useful to know how wrong the result is. Chalk keeps track of every inaccuracy when dealing with decimal numbers.
What kind of a freaking bird travels at fighter jet speeds and rotates like that?

I'm a photographer who loves watching birds, taking photos, I watch other bird photographers. It's never anything like that.