skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, it's not. Uranium once used in reactor is literally changed to other elements. And the radioactive waste is sealed in container safe for 100s of 1000s of years.

Sort of. What you are talking about is a technical problem and it has a solution. (and as others pointed out is not directly related to the subject at hand)

Conventional nuclear reactors require a certain level of purity in the uranium to provide stable operation. As the uranium breaks down the fuel becomes less stable. After a while they remove the fuel and then place it into storage.

However that uranium is not used up in that process. Most of it is still there. Which is one of the reasons why it's so difficult and expensive to store safely.

Theoretically you can recover that fuel in breeder reactors. Essentially recycling it. So it can be re-used in conventional reactors. The breeder reactors will still produce usable electricity as well.

And this can be done multiple times. Up to the point were most of the fissionable material is used up and it is much less radioactive and safe to handle. At that point you would combine the waste with clay and bake it into ceramic vessels that can be safely transported and stored indefinitely.

The reason why this technology hasn't moved forward is mostly to do with a couple facts. The first one being that nobody is allowed to do anything with the 'waste' as it is Federally controlled and not owned by the power company. So the operators can't do anything with it even if they wanted to.

And the second one being that during the cold war USA and other countries created vast amounts of purified uranium as part of their nuclear programs. And they have no place to put it and no use for it other than being put through nuclear reactors.

The amount of potentially unlimited power left laying on the table because of politics, paranoia, and fear is mind boggling. If recycling is implemented we currently have many multiple generations worth of fuel stockpiled.

It could put a end to the use of fossil fuels used for energy generation within our lifetime. Which is something that is not possible with wind or solar.
_They_ didn't _do_ it per se, it was done by a third party (probably for hire) and it seems to have been the result of automation gone wrong (not an excuse IMHO). Of course they bear responsibility for the work they contract out and the third party bears responsibility for their automation being worse than ineffective. But the facts do not seem to point to an evil person in a basement initiating the takedown themselves.

> They need to be sued with the help of NumFOCUS lawyers.

This seems like it could be costly and quickly easily eat away at the small amount of revenue they take in (something like $5MM, mostly from grants and donations) compared to supporting open source projects that are desperate for support.
> Surely if it’s much cheaper volumes also go up massively…

No, that's not true. If you're making a black and white screen, and you sell it at the same price as a color screen, nobody will buy it. Volumes won't change if your product isn't better than something equivalently priced.
This is an old trope on Hacker News, as predictable as "have you tried re-writing it in Rust." But there's little evidence it's true.
Maybe the reason people are leaving are the business practices and policies emanating from the top of the hierarchy? In which case, the company will likely stay the same.
No, it's lovely as my DHCP/ DNS server running pi hole + networked VPN though
> But the contents of the article suggests that the author has a problem with Elon for some strange reason since they think it is now a problem.

Musk is a divisive individual. People who go that route consciously do so because they figure that they'll just surround themselves with those who love them and try to convert those who hate them.

The conversion part never works on a large scale but the controversial individual finds its comfort zone surrounded by those who love them and should become more moderate in time. This usually happens as they realize that those who love them are in love with the character, not the person, so they intentionally deflate the character they built to see who stays and who leaves.
We are blessed in Ontario to have the first and second longest freshwater beaches in the world.

On Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay and Lake Huron proper respectively.

Nothing recharges your batteries like a day in the sun, by the great un-briny. A few clandestine cans of beer, a fruit salad and a little bit of the sticky green stuff: heaven.
Shows just how sensitive our economy is to small interest rate fluctuations, having lived around the zero bound for over a decade. We've encouraged everyone to lever out as far as possible while at the same time making real production more and more difficult (or, during the early lock downs, impossible) and, well, the long run is here.

Keynes was right: he's dead. Unfortunately, we, and our children, are not.
>They will have better medical technology

In the US how will many be able to afford to access said technology given how expensive medical insurance is?
They don't get to impose their will on other sovereign nations. Everyone has to agree to this themselves.

Reading it, what exactly do they want to change? Is their future vision what the internet already is? No they do seem to have a couple things they want to do differently.

>Disinformation and foreign malign activity is used to sow division and conflict between individuals or groups in society, undermining respect for and protection of human rights and democratic institutions.

Lets say Russia has agents who are doing exactly this. I am 100% sure this is the case, see journalism coverage of ottawa protest. Then the appropriate counter intelligence agency would work against this. Yet they arent? Who got fired over that? Or are they doing their job and we don't see the russian op?

Also lets say they were doing this. They could purge all the russian bs and nobody would notice right? Not a single political pundit would have had any of their speech affected.

You're right, maybe there would be some free speech violations. Perhaps the political pundits accidentally believed in some disinformation, well to fight disinformation you would have to violate their rights.

Who gets to define what disinformation vs information that's perhaps damning? For example the hunter biden laptop. It's obviously russian disinformation. It's appropriate to ban the ny post.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRXxdheXIAABiaw?format=png&name=...

Clearly a russian disinformation operation to discredit biden right?

Who is this lady anyway? She's the new head at the 'disinformation governance board' at DHS.

So what does it look like to me? This isn't about disinformation, it's about silencing your political opponents right before an election that you're near certainly going to lose badly.
gonna add some of these to my list!
This looks like a brilliant low hanging fruit to go after. In BtrFS, iirc, snapshots work a bit differently than they do under ZFS in that you can only snapshot a subvolume and not a folder, but, if you make every home a subvolume, it should work. All it'd need is some advanced planning and some extra work during system installation.
Then have the money go straight to some uncontroversial charity. Facebook still benefits by the reduction in frivolous support requests, perhaps making this a feasible option.
Good review of common ground. At this point hopefully the active folks in the discussion can see that we're all describing statistical mechanics exactly the same way.

What I'm saying is pedagogical. We need to define our macro-states. We don't need to go on and talk about our definitions being information or 'knowledge.' We could just use the definitions and calculate. We can talk about 'knowledge' but we don't need to.

The exception is when we actually have some information about what macro-state some system is really in. Obviously we then have to build that information into our model, and the entropy changes. What I'm saying is this: it's not necessary to mix that into our definition of entropy. That definition is not going to help folks who don't understand entropy, and it's unnecessary.
Correct. For my team we leverage S3 for state storage and with a recent upstream change, there is no longer a need to explicitly set a lock on the state as the lock is now set for you by default.

EDIT: Should mention that enabling bucket versioning here is also a little cherry on top (to me).
I didn't realize /. was still around
It means you're an idiot if you're scared of the flu
I tried. I just wanted a machine on my workbench to run a web browser. I got the best Raspberry Pi, a case, and plugged it into an old 24" monitor. Cost me about $80-100.

It worked fine. It could even play a 1080p YouTube video. However, everything lagged. The most painful thing was that it took several seconds to render a website when it's normally instantaneous. I found it quite frustrating to use, so I ended up buying a $200 mini desktop computer that runs fantastic.
You're living a very naive reality if you don't think foreign investors buying properties that sit vacant 11 months out of the year contributes to the housing problem.
Why would a thief use Zelle to send money to his ex?

(edit) Nevermind:

> Yea and whatsapped her pretending to be me asking her to send it somewhere else. She played along and thanks to her I now have someone's name, bank account number, and CPF to take to the police.
That's not a Gundam!
GNU Nano 6.3
I've had more than one contract come back with a "you were right and the person we hired made a mess, willing to discuss this again"; I've even taken one of those contracts.

My favourite is the combination of a tight timeline/budget AND an unwillingness to discuss the project in depth. Especially since they always want some kind of fixed price guarantee in those situations.
> A look at the huge number of issues on their repo makes me question the wisdom of relying on poetry.

That can also be a good sign. Lots of people using it, lots of people complaining about it. Assuming these issues are tended to (over time), poetry can only come out better, mainly more stable.
I think in practice we select macrostates based on stuff we can easily measure. And stuff we can easily measure gets pretty close to intrinsic properties.
I grew my product management career with open source
Distilling the Real Cost of Production Garbage Collectors [pdf]
The black-white e-readers are doing a great job at a great price point. Color would have to have a similar battery life, resolution, and only an incremental price-increase to be appealing.
This article could literally be talking about hiring for the PM leadership role.
> A civil pillar like food scarcity will spark more than civil unrest. Probably will be civil war before midterms happen.

Like what happened with the Great Depression? I saw no mention of food shortages in the article.

My sense is that civil wars are when states/governments fight, not hungry people. You could have stopped at civil unrest.
What the Fitness Industry Doesn't Understand
> definition of entry and it was some mess of locks and keys floating around randomly hitting eachother?

Locks and keys does indeed sound like "entry". I thought we were discussing "entropy".
That’s basically abusing the word uranium as U235 is used up while U238 is largely not in current designs.

Reprocess spent fuel lets you extract the leftover U235, but it’s a small percentage of the original amount. What you want is something like the CANDU design which is far less dependent on U235. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
E Ink (the company) keeps improving their electrophoresis display technology. Unfortunately the technology necessarily has very low refresh rates since it it is based on moving around solid particles submerged in a liquid.

There were other passive e-paper display technologies like the one by Liquavista (based on moving colored oil droplets) or Mirasol by Qualcomm (mechanical micro-shutters create colored light via interference). These were capable of achieving high refresh rates, but unfortunately they have long been abandoned.

I believe the monochromatic electrophoresis displays by E Ink had higher reflectivity and lower price, which is what mattered for e-readers, so all the others went out of business.
Countries. The war in Europe is disrupting food production and fertilizer sourcing. There’s enough food but the logistics are screwy and many countries do not store food.
The first "recourse" is: don't put valuables like wallets in your checked bag (depending on where in the bag it was, it also could have fallen out, and not been "stolen", per se) - carry them on your person or in your carry-on

Second, if it were stolen, there's nothing saying it was TSA vs baggage handlers

Third, call all your card issuers represented in your checked wallet, report them stolen, and ask for replacements to be sent

Fourth, carry important things like your wallet on your person/in your carry-on in the future
Eh I would agree with OC. If they got flagged up on something as small as that they are going to take a massive hit when the applications really dry up later this year. That means 1 of 2 things will happen. They will decide to massively swing towards the other direction panicking and taking on loans they never should have aka 2008. 2) They keep losing out activity and market share decreasing their stock price to a point well below where she/he bought making it a bad investment currently.
Neither looks great from an investors stand point.
Most places in the US, a mortgage from 5-10+ years ago will be less than renting an equivalent place, but a recent mortgage will be higher because prices have gone up so much.

This is generally true because prices generally go up. My brother almost bought a $200K condo in SF 30 years ago but it was slightly out of reach on his $60K Sun micro income, and his $500 room for rent was cheaper. The condo has gone up about 8X and rent (assuming market rate, it was under rent control) 5X. So as expensive as it is to rent in SF, it’s relatively more expensive to buy. It’s unknown if that trend will continue. It doesn’t seem rational but the city seems intent on continuing to severely restrict supply.
I haven’t seen a $4 billion number, $9 billion is the total trade. $240 million is the estimate lost due to spoilage, and the longest waiting time looks to have been 30 hours: https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-truck-...
You'll have no problems if you just want to surf the internet, pay bills, write some small scripts.

You'll probably run into issues if you try to run a full stack with Docker + React + whatever you use.
How exactly? And how exactly would we ever get past a ‘child’s knowledge’ without learning and making mistakes?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22863967/
They're still moving though. And that's always going to be slower than turning an LED on.
I use a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a cupsd print server. It is powered by usb from the Wi-Fi router and connected directly to an old USB laser printer nearby. Works great to print wirelessly.

I also have a Raspberry Pi 4 (8gb) with an Argon One M.2 case and a Kingston SSD. I use it mainly for coding/tinkering in C, Pharo, Racket etc. Not logged into any social media or mail in the web browser, just using it to read docs etc. Fast enough to be usable but no speed demon for sure. Overclocked to around 2GHz/64-bit OS.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220428091005/https://www.nytim...
I don't think he is saying patents are bad. But the company it's self is .
> I don't think protection against human-factor scams and frauds was ever a goal, you certainly never hear it as an argument.

And there's a reason you never hear it as an argument - the lack of such fundamental protection is a massive weakness of these blockchain currencies. The extremely technical savvy early adopters do not care, because evading authorities is actually an objective and they profit regardless as long as the value of their holdings goes up, but protecting normies from scams is actually kind of important if you want to be used as a "normal" currency rather than a speculative asset.

A central authority with the ability to deal with bad actors is a fundamental aspect of making fiat currency actually work in the real world.
Toshl seems like any other modern finance tracker. The bank integrations are Plaid it seems, Which doesn’t cover everything.
Or short file names might be turned off.
I used the very first original Pi B when it first came out as a small "shadow IT"-type desktop at work around 2014. We could only use Macs or Windows, and I needed something sane running Linux.

That version is much slower than today's Pi4, and I ended up using it mostly for command line sysadmin type stuff using a terminal and SSH. I used it for 1 year, before switching jobs.

While not running a desktop, today I have 6 Pi4s running a Ceph cluster and serving CephFS in my house. It's actually quite easy to set up, and very usable. Not super fast, because I'm using SMR drives, but definitely very usable as a very reliable NAS. Definitely more reliable than any ZFS setup.
We don't know because they haven't even tried, they'd rather make excuses which conveniently also make them richer.
While the current techniques of archaeology may have started in the 1700s the concept of excavating and preserving ancient sites is much much older.

The Babylonians were extremely active in that practice and Nabonidus was famous for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus
Fascinating discussion. I see some parallel here to the Bayesian vs Frequentist view of probability.

They are perhaps both valid points of view depending on the situation.

If you take a frequentist view of an unbiased coin, then the probability that it will land heads on the next flip is objectively, by definition 50%. So the resulting calculation of entropy (log 50% = 1 bit) is also objectively defined. But if your 50% probability represents a subjective belief, the resulting entropy calculation should also be considered subjective, I would think.
This is close to my answer. Good alternatives for not much more money. Good for limiting wasteful time. The more system I have, the more I want to screw around.

I use Visual Studio Code and Obsidian on my system and they both run fine. They are probably among the better Electron apps though.
There's already a Wordpress plugin that lets your content federate. People can follow your blog from Mastodon or elsewhere in the Fediverse.
Could have been the browser? Or the network interface? Did you ever figure out why?
It looks like you missed the "old 7 colour panels" part. Like this (quoting <35s update across temperature)

https://www.waveshare.com/5.65inch-e-Paper-Module-F.htm
Seems from this article to have been a pretty standard operation, despite the unusually large scale.

The biggest thing I picked up on was their practice that they mentioned of sampling traffic and analyzing it asynchronously, to avoid latency penalties.
Maybe it would be the answer :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21138422
The concept of entropy wasn't invented so that we could calculate entropies of macrostates, it was so that we could calculate entropies of real systems and understand their behaviour. Macrostates are an accounting tool that helps us do this. You seem to be treating the calculation of macrostate entropy as an end-goal in itself, but also allowing yourself to somehow freely choose any macrostate you want. When it comes to applying thermodynamics in practice, you'll have to calculate the entropy of a real, or at least hypothetical, system.

The point of macrostates is that you ought to know which macrostate a given system is in. That's the thing that you know. You don't know which microstate it's in, but you do know which macrostate it's in.

For example, if I say "a cubic metre volume of air at room temperature and pressure", I've described a physical system. I've also described a macrostate.

If you're calculating the entropy of macrostates that are not consistent with a description of a system -- if you've defined your macrostates such that you don't know which macrostate a given system is in -- then in order to calculate that system's entropy you have to sum up over all such possible macrostates anyway, so you haven't saved yourself any work or earned any insights along the way.

So yes, you can calculate the entropy of a macrostate without knowing what macrostate a real system is in, but it kind of sounds like you're arguing that log(x) is not a function of variable x, because log(3) is a constant and log(4) is a constant, and you can divide up any x into constants of your choice.
It is not you. It is the monopolies like Gmail, Outlook.com etc that make it hard.
Will Tyler (TYL) admit Odyssey Portal leaked millions of confidential records?
And now your company you invested is worth half because they were too strict on loaning and have entered the death spiral where they aren’t bringing enough new loans in and fold or get bought out for much less then your original stock price.
In general, if you're stepping into a backfill position, negotiate $10k above asking. They'll say no and you'll both end up happy.
A lot of people argue that the Straits of Mackinac is just a very narrow section of a single large lake - in other words that Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are a single lake, not two lakes.
> But we don't want a big fat house, we try and buy a normal house, but we really want it so we pay "just a little more than it is actually worth" and drive the price up "just a little".

The problem here is really with the supply of homes. If there was a good supply, issues like this would never arise, or would rarely arise, because there is always a house just as good down the street that you don't have to overpay for.

Part of the problem is the supply chain but I bet alot can be done by the govt to get out of the way. Of course the other side of the coin is activists that scream both: "We need more housing" and "how dare you build more housing" in the same sentence.
Then you have to differentiate between accidental and intentional death. Much more robust not to make that distinction.
>How much food rotted at the Texas border after Governor Abbott's PR stunt held it up? Estimated to be over $4Billion.

https://medium.com/the-haven/texas-gov-abbotts-racist-border...

This article says $240 million and he reversed the policy? So it's not an ongoing issue?

Also if food is 'rotting' because he is sitting in a truck for perhaps a day longer? Perhaps it was rotting before?
Which companies in China?

Can they produce large format screens, like a few feet on each side?

Or do we have to buy small ones and tile them? We probably can’t tile them as they need electronics around each border.

I want to do e-paintings. So if you tell me which Chinese companies, ie their websites, I would try to reach out !
Company: "Here's some big problems, can you help?"

Senior Dev: "Yes!"

C: "How would you recommend proceeding?"

D: "I've studied the problem and my professional recommendation is to implement X, migrate away from Y and refactor Z."

C: "Oh, that seems like too much work and would disrupt the teams already working on Y and Z. Let's do it this way instead (points to Confluence page written by an intern last summer)"

D: "..."

C: "So you're not able to help us after all?"
Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky
>How much food rotted at the Texas border after Governor Abbott's PR stunt held it up? Estimated to be over $4Billion.

First, I'm skeptical about $4 billion. That's a lot of food.

Second, what is with the need to bring up something or someone irrelevant as a rebuttal every time there's even a tangential criticism of the current powers-that-be?
Not sure if you noticed but we had massive food scarcity in March and April 2020 and the most inconvenient thing about it was waiting in line to pay and my kids not having hot dogs for several months.

Not saying civil unrest isn’t a possibility, but I’m not sure economic uncertainty could do any worse than airborne-once-in-a-lifetime pandemic