skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been known since fast breeder reactors were initially designed to be able to do this, idk when 2-3 decades ago? The problem here is the reason only conventional fission reactors have been built is that they are the least expensive designs to build. And the problem today is that even the cheaper fission reactors are too expensive to be profitable, even with all the government subsidies and not burdening investors with decommissioning, and especially storage and security of the nuclear waste, which is a significant cost left to be paid for by tax payers. And the expense is not because of regulations. It may cost $10B-$15B to build and bring a new fission plant online, but regulatory costs would only account for about $10M/yr, thus the effect of regulations on the nuclear industry is insignificant compared to the bulk of the costs, such as uranium, construction, waste storage and security, and decommissioning, and the costs of waste storage and security and decommissioning are never included in the cost of a fission plant. Once you include those costs, the real price of a fission plant is revealed to be $50B and much more.

So as it is, this idea is a non-starter, because fast breeder reactors are far more expensive to bring online than conventional fission reactors, and those are already too expensive as it is.

But I have an idea. Make cheaper fast breeder reactors! Scale them up or down, idk which, until the economics makes sense enough that they can attract investors and actually be built. Just make them economically feasible without burdening the tax payer, and we can shut the pro-nuke crowd up for good.
Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs
There's a ton of minor pundits writing this lazy take. It's not a particularly compelling argument.

We've known tanks in open terrain and without infantry screening are very vulnerable to ATGMs since the Yom Kippur war. We've also seen recent examples of the same in Syria and Yemen.

A tank's utility doesn't rely upon it being somehow uncountable. We know tons of things counter tanks. But the combination of mobility, protection against shrapnel and heavy machine gun fire, and a big gun that can cheaply hit fortifications, while utterly obliterating any other armored vehicle around that's not an MBT, isn't going away any time soon.

What we're seeing is instead an increment in a long standing race between offense and defense. Reactive armor swung things towards the defense for a bit. Tandem charges and top attack munitions swung it back. Now Active Protection Systems are dragging it back the defense direction.
I find the distinction between step debugging and runtime debugging to be more useful.

Someone who steps through every line of code will probably take longer to find the bug, and will spin cycles on rabbit holes and false paths.

Someone who uses “runtime debugging”, or rather has a hypothesis on the bug or what a piece of code is doing and uses a debugger or print statement to verify that will find the bug much quicker.

With this mental model, you can see how print statements can be as effective as a debugger in many scenarios.
Plenty of SMB/middle market companies out there. Which is honestly the most common outcome for a YC company, other than failure.

Not sure how many are growing at >40% CAGR with minimal capital requirements...

Fine if you wanted to fund HVAC, plumbing, construction, etc. businesses that are generally ignored by YC. Wouldn't count on startupy growth from companies YC screens against
Wow this is cool
Most cars have this starting in 2016. Later this year every single car will be mandated to have automatic emergency braking. At least Tesla will have millions of miles of practice. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/most-new-cars-hav...
I find it hard to believe that a fellow who holds a PHd could write such an utterly trash piece of garbage.

Do better, Peter.

Or maybe you can’t, since apparently Atwood “stirs something violent” in you. Is it the same urge for violence that resulted in your arrest for assaulting a border patrol officer? You fucking goof, Peter.
Lack of 'async' in Go has been a great design choice (aka, an absolute blessing).

People complain a lot about Go's missing features, and they did end up adding generics, but their conservative approach I think has been a net benefit for Go.

Rejecting language feature is something that's hard to do, and it takes a lot of experience, and I dare say wisdom to stick to it.
Like like: a tool for wandering through Twitter
I worked on a rust project that had one thread with a httpserver all async, and another thread with some mqtt client all sync. Communicate over channel. No big deal.
I wrap my meats in plastic-wrap and then ziplock bag and they don't get freezer burned for quite a long time...
Yes, once you were up and running and knew what you were doing and what you needed, but the default install meant there was very little friction to first time programmers dipping their toes in the water.
> ...a Dalit rights activist was not allowed to give a presentation on caste following emails by employees calling her "anti-Hindu."

I must be the last person still alive that keeps their opinions to themselves while on the job.
https://archive.org/details/Scramble_20180830

yes!!! best free dos game ever!
I guess they will not be able to open the "Howard Johnson's Earthlight Room" on an orbiting space station as predicted by 2001: A Space Odyssey, after all.

https://georgehahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2001-space...

(The "Bell System Picturephone" is also looking pretty unlikely.)
Could someone steel man the protest against the lecture? (Anonymously if you prefer.)

Particularly, the most I've been able to hunt down are vague claims that her organization is Hinduphobic. If that's indeed the issue, what are the concrete examples of this?
> why do you care?

Why wouldn't I care? What kind of person wouldn't like to make the world a better place for everybody? Free software makes this world better for everybody.

> Why does it bother you that some people do not care about that, whatever their reason is?

It doesn't bother me, I support personal freedom to use proprietary software. What I don't support is proprietary software itself.

> Do you? People who can do that are the lucky ones.

Right now, they are. But it doesn't have to be that way. This might sound idealistic, and it is, because free software is about freedom, which is in itself an ideal. I am quite aware that proprietary software is still widespread. That doesn't mean I can't believe in a future without it.

> I wasn't even trying.

Then, what's the point of us communicating in the first place?
Well, yeah, because cash is legal tender, so allowing companies to not accept cash subverts the whole system.

I get it that cards are cash equivalent, but it's terribly anti-consumer for companies to not accept cash. That removes poor people's ability to acquire goods and services as well.
According to the WP article it was a Dalit soeaker who was invited to talk about Caste-based discrimination. The talk was canceled after severe backlash against the topic, internal backlash.

So I'd say it was both.
And to kind of tie several things together at once:

The podcaster Simon Majumdar recently did an interview with Jacques Pepin.

https://www.eatmyglobe.com/season-8/jacquespepin

During that interview, he mentioned that, as a special event, with Paul Freedman (author of "10 Restaurants that Changed America", they cooked one dish from each of the 10 restaurants for about 100 people.

Some of these dishes were from really high-end restaurants like Le Pavillon (where Pepin also worked).

"But the dish that everybody loved was the fried clams from Howard Johnson’s."
That's like saying typing a book on a keyboard or dictating a book is not writing a book.
> I think that's just a reflection of how terrible the Euro-vans are in general. in North America they're not held in high regard by anyone other than the highfalutin taxi/airport shuttle/mobility van fleets that buy new and depreciate over the warranty period.

I’m sorry, but this statement is so utterly and totally opposed to the facts, that I’m beginning to think you’re doing PR for Ford. The demand for Euro-Vans in North America is so high, there’s a 1-2 year waiting list. It’s literally the most wanted vehicle in its class.
>No, 0%. They have _NO_ vote on how industry does what it does. Industry is not a democracy. They cannot just not buy food and electricity. That's stupid. They have to buy the things they can afford. The working class doesn't just have extra cash laying around, they buy what they can afford..

There are options to buy low carbon, and nobody does. People can vote with their wallets or they can vote at the ballot box. They will pay the increased cost either way.

I think you are in error if you think that somehow making the change with regulations means the cost wont be passed to consumers.
Check out those jobs, Ocaml in Singapore? Intriguing.
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Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him a Billionaire
> it’s literally radicalizing very young kids.

Do you have a source for that claim?

I think 4chan is a cesspool, but I don't think it should be banned. Young kids should be supervised by their parents, rather than turning the whole web into a child-friendly zone. There are without a doubt many websites that are much worse for children.
>Now, I look for companies whose leaders communicate well. Writing is thinking and executives who are clear in their words are likely to be clear in their thoughts.

This one simple trick is real.
How does this not belong here if it could potentially have this big of an impact? This is exactly the type of thing hackers would be curious about. We want to know how a system would react to a change in the parameters and figure out if it is useful and how so. Why would we not be curious about something like this?
> so does skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitchens.

This probably remains almost unchanged for a kitchen with the same capacity. The food creates a ton of vaporized oils, smoke, and steam regardless of how it's heated.
Yes, this document has not a rigourous math setup: for instance rule 9.

I don't think there is an accuracy proof document of SLEEF approximants.
One person’s “centrally planned economy” is another person’s “managing negative externalities”

A lot of the “electric is better” posts have an implied “gas stoves are bad for people and the environment so we should get rid of them but it’s fine because electric is better anyway”.
Did it make the credit scores better or worse?
Boy have you got cause and effect backwards. Hell, you've even got simple temporal event ordering backwards!
"needles"
Nah, it's just raising the barrier of entry slightly for newcomers.

For the real coffin nails, I look to the gradually-increasing difficulty of installing software that isn't signed by a developer registered with Apple. Fellow frogs, is it not warm in here?
It is most likely in the "Additional Use Grant" which is tricky - because this additional use grant is distinct to each product licensed under the BSL. This additional use grant is also not that easy to find, since some licenses display it prominently, and others hide it under some additional legal fineprint[1,2].

From mariadb site:
https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/#limits

"Q: What are the usage limitations under BSL?

A: The usage is limited to non-production use, or production use within the limits of the “Additional Use Grant” defined by the vendor using BSL and specific to each BSL product."

[1] obvious Additional Use Grant for Couchbase, included clearly in https://blog.couchbase.com/couchbase-adopts-bsl-license/

[2] it is extremely difficult to find the Additional Use Grant for Mariadb products themselves. For MaxScale, which is their proxy product, it is buried in a file within the source code (which on the surface level might be a good place for it, but it's not very easy to find and I had to go through lots of legal print to get to it) : https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/2.5/LIC... or https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/6.3/LIC... depending on which version you are trying to use, etc.
Switching between high and low on my induction cooktop is immediate.

If you can see red coils on your mom's stove under the glass, it's not induction.
You can spawn a simple Tokio I/O runtime with Builder::new_current_thread().with_io().build().

The catch is that it’s not really “simple”, and idk the performance penalty.
Serious question: For Indians who live in America or Europe now, why do you even care about caste?
I like driving, so I don't mind not using Autopilot as frequently as I have the opportunity to. And it's the most fun and best car I've driven.

But honestly I hesitate to recommend it. Not because it isn't a great car, because it is, but because I'm growing more skeptical of Tesla as a whole in the past year:

- extremely delayed timelines (Roadster, Semi, Cybertruck, etc)

- focus on some robot thing

- FSD vaporware/false promises

- Elon's general immaturity

- frequent price changes

- supply chain shortages

- etc

It all adds up and I can't help but wonder if Tesla's initial market advantage is waning. I'm not sure there's another competitor that's caught up to them, but it isn't as clear cut as it was just a couple years ago.
Two Factor Authentication.
I'm torn between thinking it's dumb to give talks on caste at work and thinking Google is weak for giving in to people who were complaining about this talk for whatever reason. I suppose I hold both opinions.
If we're being pedantic then the Rust version is not an abstraction at all. It explicitly states how exactly the object is de-allocated and how it is accessed.

In the Java version, which is definitely not just an Arc<Mutex> but something more opaque and powerful, you let the runtime handle and optimize these things for you, because you really don't want to know. It would only get in the way of the essence of your program, because your program is decidedly not about expressing these things. Well at least the Arc, the Mutex part is not necessarily much better.

So it's not '100' vs 'C' but more like '100 apples' vs 'enough apples'. Both have their upsides and downsides. It certainly is a good thing that both expressions exist.
I also recommend NestJS. I can build something quickly that is modular and well structured.
Can biotech fix memory loss? New breakthroughs look promising
I don't think "steel man" has entered the common vernacular yet. At first I thought it was a typo.
Or perhaps the solution should be to make it a high skilled job. Require all police to have advanced degrees in criminology and/or social work. Cultivate a guardian mindset and drive out anyone with a warrior mindset.

This really needs to come with gun control, though. Police can't truly escape the warrior mindset until they can stop worrying that every person they encounter might be carrying a gun.
I really dislike when headlines use weasel words to imply causation when there is none, but I'm not really seeing it here. No one is saying they were denied because they were a Dalit. Some view it as being cancelled from the nature of the talk making those in power uncomfortable, others view it as being cancelled because the activist said anti-hindu things.
I think _because_ of their intimate knowledge of the craft, Chef's are going to give you a wider variety of answers with less certainty than anyone else.
Polish language and Polish culture, heavily influenced by French Enlightenment, also accepts use of word rationalism from empirical perspective.

Rationalism ( https://sjp.pwn.pl/sjp/racjonalizm;2573228.html ):

3. "a position requiring the observance of restrictive standards of the scientificity of knowledge"

I personally prefer that meaning of the word.
That she dares to be critical of the Hindu caste system. Twice bad because she is a woman and a Dalit. Not that any of that should matter, but we live in the world we live in.
Never worked at Google. Are such talks about social issues a regular occurrence at Google or other big tech firms? Who would be the intended audience and what would be the goals for the speaker, the hosting employee or the host company?
Electric pollutes less. Electric induction has a faster response. Electric is more energy efficient. Electric doesn't require a separate line and utility run to the house. Electric boils water faster. Electric produces less greenhouse gasses.

I mean, there's subjectively better ("I prefer to cook with it") but there are objectively better traits too.
This accurately captures the feeling of not being able to get anything productive done on a Mac quite well.

Nice job though :)
And the amiga was Motorola 68000 based which is a 32 bit processor by any coherent definition.
I’m so used to the idea of electronic shifting now that it no longer seems an outlandish idea.

Other oddities include bike radar (to warn about cars approaching at speed), electronic pedals (power, pedal stroke and cadence) and electrically heated socks and gloves.

All this stuff is useful and not that expensive if you ride regularly in all weather.
Another thing which helps is to not just automatically have an opinion on everything, even if somewhat informed.

It's ok to say "I don't know, this is very complex, even if I spent many hours reading about this matter". Too many rationalists just go with the option which seems a bit more plausible and then behave as if they have near certainty.
I've read various stories over the years about Oracle extremely aggressively pushing high bills because they think you're using the "free" version of MySQL or VirtualBox in a way that you're supposed to pay for it. I'd be very wary running anything "free" from Oracle (as in: I wouldn't).
The real real hardware - sure, but emulated on a FPGA… not so much. But that’s just me.

Emulation in software (and the virtual space in general), on the other hand, is close to perfect these days. In fact, material things get boring pretty fast (and tend to end up in the attic) whereas virtual reality (like games) remain a source of perpetual joy.
See French approach on the topic. They refuse to acknowledge identity politics (except between labor and capital)
Ya see, that page is the exact reason why I don't use MusicBrainz: I don't really care about the label, country, format, codes etc. I want the artist, album, year and song title (all of which I have). If a data source could tag the instruments used on each track, I'd pay good money for that. But that doesn't seem to exist, which is why I just tag my own tracks.
They also had the hellish experiences in Grozny. They aren't unaware of the vulnerabilities of tanks, but a combination of lack of material resources, operational incompetence, and apparently political interference in military planning is keeping them from really fighting according to their own doctrine.
It's an interface issue. Instead of a knob, it's usually a touch interface, with +/- control, and slowish.
Not a chef, but an avid eater and obsessive home cook:

I eat at a lot of high end restaurants (and usually a couple Michelin starred places per year), many with open kitchens, and in the last 5 years I've noticed a trend towards induction. From the high end cookery blogs that I've read, it's mostly about reducing heat in the kitchen. I have worked in kitchens in the past, and it's difficult to understate the quality of life improvement by a significant reduction in kitchen temperature.

At home I've also switched to induction, and it's been in general great.

Charcoal is actually the trickier one to replace in high end cookery since it's very difficult to simulate the amount of radiant energy with electricity.
I see where the GP is coming from. The old system installations of Perl, Python, and Ruby could be thought of as the 2000s equivalent of the ROM BASIC on early microcomputers -- an easy way for anyone with access to such a computer, even a child, to start dabbling with programming. But I suppose today's equivalent is the browser dev tools, or maybe Swift Playgrounds on current Apple computers.
Have you not worked the last five years? Tech companies are chock full of "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" talks
It will be interesting to see. If for example there were somewhat relevant fire or electrical regulations that weren't properly enforced by local government, I guess the owner or builder is still the only one liable?
I don't care about caste, and I haven't met anyone who does for the decade I've lived in the US. It doesn't mean there aren't any Indians in the US that care about it; there surely must be given that such Indians existed back in India. I'm just making it clear that it's not 100% of Indians in the US that care about caste, as your question seems to imply.
Zoom is a 10 year old public company with a 30 billion dollar market cap and over 7000 employees. It is not a "startup" by any meaningful definition of the word.
Not everyone values this the same and this is where a lot of preference wars start in PL communities. Some people enjoy keeping the problem space small and having opinionated decisions at the cost of limited expressiveness. Others value expressiveness maximally. This [1] article goes into a lot of the tradeoffs involved with expressivity and cognitive load (with the background of how being a PL enthusiast tends to color one's thoughts).

[1]: https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/
What about induction? The choice isn't gas vs electric anymore. Induction cooktops are night and day different from the old glowing rings style electric cooktops (which are terrible, agreed.)
Induction burners are extremely efficient (>80%) vs something like 40% for gas burners, so the induction would come ahead in your example (1400W vs 1100W).

The cooktops you can buy here in Europe are limited to 3.7kW, and you can bridge two burners for up to 7.4kW. I rarely use one burner beyond ~70% power, anything above gets scorching hot (= burns everything) when using a good iron/steel pan. I heard the US has the infrastructure to deliver 240V so that should be possible.
Can you give some reqs on what your monitoring system looks like?

I've been wanting to monitor our house's air quality for a while, but usually get put off looking at how poorly most affordable air quality monitors are reviewed.

Also, what metrics are most important? There's monitoring out there for pm2.5, pm10, HCHO, CO2, AQI, TVOC, etc, it's a bit of an alphabet soup.
> Some poor people have smartphones. I guess some will get to eat.

I have no idea how you got from "smartphone apps will affect how people shop for food" to "anyone without a smartphone will be starved."
People from lower castes care because they face discrimination, obviously.

People from higher castes, even if they're open-minded on the topic of caste, likely have relatives who aren't -- especially if they're the only member of a large family who has left India. Children have been disowned or even murdered by their relatives for marrying a member of a lower caste; it's really hard to escape that sort of prejudice.
It’s not broken, it’s just heavily manipulated to filter for technical interest topics rather than popular news. The words “Elon musk” in the title probably auto filtered this down.
Ahh, so more or less what I'm doing. Design the Rust code as if it's going to be a generic C library with bindings for multiple languages and then write a PyO3 binding layer that just clones however much is necessary to convert until it's proven that more optimization is needed.
These are serious social issues that affect the functioning of tech companies in the Bay Area:

https://www.wired.com/story/trapped-in-silicon-valleys-hidde...
Caste is apparently as much a reason for discrimination as sex, sexual orientation, race or religion. Those topics need to be addressed at workplaces. Refusing to so is actually part of the problem.
I have never had one in 9 years of working at tech startups. It's a fair question to ask.