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It's super addictive. It's one of the most addictive things there is. [0]

I feel like in every HN thread about smoking, vaping, and nicotine these talking points about "nicotine not being that addictive" and "nicotine is in lots of foods" etc get trotted out. It's all wrong.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7724697/
Was this a hack?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijackin...
I think LDS folks have a little too much trust in other LDS folk.

“Brother So-in-so works for doTerra, Sister So-in-so sells it and says it cleared up her eczema. These people wouldn’t lie to me!”

And so they take whatever they say as truth. I don’t think it’s what I would describe as “childish gullibility”. But too much unchecked trust in members of their circles (still gullibility. But I wouldn’t call it childish). And then it compounds. Well, Bishop So-in-so wouldn’t participate in an MLM if it were immoral so it must be good!

I think this is at the root of the problem in Utah. Between that and the Utah moms wanting to make an easy buck.

Source: LDS myself living in Utah County. My wife and I often discuss why there is just so many MLMs that are clearly (to me) scams that run unchecked.
How do you resolve phase imbalances? Most generators are 3 phase. The system is othrewise well designed to use one or two phases when needed. We use one or three phass in Europe.
Well, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don't tend to view boredom like that.
I would love to be able to stop thinking just because I lay down or something.
How to Buy Monero (XMR) Anonymously
How old are your kids? Educational games have been basically dead as a genre since shovelware flooded the market in the 90s but some of the classics from companies that actually put effort into the curriculum are still the gold standard in terms of educational content to this day.

Treasure math storm[0] ages 5-9 is great if your kids can get past the graphics (in my experience most can, particularly if you make make it the only game they're allowed to play for a particular hour of the day)

I'm really sad no one's figured out a way to properly signal that their educational game took the curriculum seriously because IMO they can be one of the best ways to get kids to practice. It's a shame good educational games for kids aren't being made today :/

[0] https://www.classicgames.me/treasure-mathstorm.html
I disagree about random Wikipedia link. While I sometimes wish for more context, most times when a link to a Wikipedia page hits the front page I read the article and learn something cool and unexpected.
You actually didn't address why I said I liked cars, which is for road trips. My independence is really another. My point here, is rather than arguing for no cars, I argue for a society that balances both equally. I don't really like the idea of people making somewhere totally unwalkable or totally undrivable.

Ironically, as much as you tried to disqualify what I said, I have no problem walking or biking around San Jose. Whether it was "designed for cars" is pretty arbitrary to me. I can ride my bike to the grocery store or deli and I can walk to a c-store and anywhere else I need to go.

Maybe stop trying to dismiss me and really read what I said.
"Containers" are just a pattern, the real technology behind it is kernel namespaces (plus ordinary process boundaries). (For that matter container security is still half-baked in many ways. The kernel namespacing has been added after-the-fact and it can't really be trusted to make an effective "sandbox" on its own.)
Currently nuclear reactors take well over a decade from construction to start of operation. I think few are willing to bet that storage will still be a problem 10 years from now.

Carbon capture from gas natural gas (also an alternative that exists today) is another technology you’d have to bet won’t become economically feasible by the time your nuclear power plant finally becomes operational.

Honestly a base-load alternative is not such a strong argument in favor.
For context I'm interested in going to med school, but I'm also hesitant because of the long commitment to education.
I signed up for EVE online on a whim and got a notification email to the effect of "Captain, your mission awaits you!" when I was trying to get some digital housekeeping done and the immediate feeling I got was "hello no, I dont need more things to be sorted out - I am already exhausted!" and marked it as spam.
Yep! And to add to #1 I've seen people choose poorly and then write really bad code to make-up the velocity lost by the poor choice, and then see this as a virtue (eek!). A good choice should allow you to write fairly decent code, as it's natural to do so exactly because you chose a tech stack that fits the problem space! And if you're not quite sure what the problem space is, that means choosing a flexible tech stack and avoiding giant and costly assumptions.
I've done a fair amount of hobbiest microcontroller work, I'm comfortable with asm and c for low level systems stuff with 8 bit micros, etc...

How hard is it to get into FPGA development with that sort of background? Starting from barely knowing how to spell FPGA?
> not only can you become a victim of crime or mauled by an animal but a simple fall can kill you.

Interesting that these are the dangers you bring attention to. Forefront of my mind are the large heavy objects hurtling around.
It's not. Your work-ethic, organisational abilities, networks of people you know and the work you actually do is much more important than some theoretic decline - furthermore live-style and habits might have a much bigger influence than age. If you are stressed out and lack sleep you'll get dumb very fast.
You know, Geneva Convention can't divert a bomb.

Couple of 1000lb bombs misplaced, some confusion and you can't stop it, only watch. Has to be a very unfortunate hit, but shit happens.

Compared to that, the Zaporoshya nuclear plant will just shut down as designed even if hit in all its reactors; release maybe a week's worth radiation, completely harmless, and then sit still. And it's just upstream.

Think about it.

So-called 'green energy' bears so much more hazards.
In practice, China is highly capitalistic as an economy. It's authoritarian capitalism, not communism, even though it has a "communist party".

This phenomenon of bikes piling up is literally venture capitalists throwing money at startups (in return for equity) to deploy more and more bikes to outnumber competitors in a hopeless race to monopolize bike sharing. It's literally an exhibit of one of the failure modes of extreme capitalism.

Giving them away, as GGGP suggests, would actually be a departure from capitalism, and perhaps a good one.
> Autodiff does not work with for loops or if statements.

Is that necessarily true? Here is an incomplete automatic differentiation implementation that handles if statements just fine in a function definition. Unless you mean something else.

type Dual = {Real: float; Epsilon: float} with
static member (~-) (x: Dual) = {Real = -x.Real; Epsilon = -x.Epsilon}

static member (+) (x: Dual, y: Dual) = { Real = x.Real + y.Real
Epsilon = x.Epsilon + y.Epsilon }
static member (+) (x: Dual, c: float) = {x with Real = x.Real + c}
static member (+) (c: float, y: Dual) = {y with Real = c + y.Real}

static member (-) (x: Dual, y: Dual) = x + (-y)
static member (-) (x: Dual, c: float) = x + (-c)
static member (-) (c: float, y: Dual) = c + (-y)

static member (*) (x: Dual, y: Dual) = { Real = x.Real * y.Real
Epsilon = x.Real * y.Epsilon + x.Epsilon * y.Real }
static member (*) (c: float, y: Dual) = {Real = c; Epsilon = 0} * y
static member (*) (x: Dual, c: float) = x * {Real = c; Epsilon = 0}

let dcos (x: Dual) = {Real = cos x.Real; Epsilon = -(sin x.Real) * x.Epsilon}
let dsin (x: Dual) = {Real = sin x.Real; Epsilon = (cos x.Real) * x.Epsilon}

let differentiate (f: Dual -> Dual) a =
let x = f {Real = a; Epsilon = 1.0}
x.Epsilon

let testFunction (x: Dual) = if x.Real < 0.0 then dcos x else dsin (x*x - 3.0*x)

Using that gives:

> differentiate testFunction -1.0
0.8414709848078965

> differentiate testFunction 1.0
0.4161468365471424

> differentiate testFunction 0.0
-3.0

Now, of course, one needs to be careful interpreting the result at a = 0.0. That's because the testFunction is not differentiable at that point due to a jump discontinuity there, but we still get a value back. But as far as I know, this is simply an issue with automatic differentiation in that it only correctly tells you what the derivative is if it exists at the given point.
What about PPR? It handles freezing quite well, it's joined by thremsl fusion and there are versions with fiberglass or aluminium insertion.
It glosses over that because nuclear has received much more subsidies than wind and solar combined. This is only direct subsidies, so ignoring the cost for the covering the risk of an accident (no insurance is willing to cover that risk) for Fukushima the government covered the cleanup and evacuation bill.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy would disagree: it has an article entitled "Laws of Nature" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laws-of-nature/) and separate articles on "Natural Law Theories" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-theories/) and on "The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics/). The disagreement over the term "Laws of Nature" apparently goes back at least to Hobbes and Boyle (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-science/#HobbExpeC...).
Note that because of Linus's strict policies on userspace compatibility, A>B is basically guaranteed to always be safe, and only A<B will ever cause problems, unless distros add patches that break things.
Why doesn't anyone run PEX in CSST conduit (flexible galvanized steel, for those who don't know, as is commonly used to protect wiring) if this is such a problem? Flexible conduit is a hell of a lot cheaper than copper pipe, easier to bend and connect too.
This is the end of TFA:

> Emerson sees Sparks chiefly as an impostor, but she comes across as a true believer, both in evil and in her capacity to combat it by scaring teen-agers straight.

Imposter vs. True Believer: evil schemer or naive righteous soccer mom...

Mmm... Or maybe she was... an artist?!

I find it quite shocking and incredible that still today, she's casually dismissed as a fabricator. Every fiction is a fabrication. That's what artists do; that's the original meaning of the word "poetry": to make [0].

The fact that publishers decided to market that fiction as a true testimonial is irrelevant. (It is mentioned in the article that the "impostor"/anonymous part was the idea of the publisher, and that Sparks only reluctantly agreed.)

It's possible her ultimate motive was to save teenagers from the perils of drugs, but in the process she created works that obviously resonated with a lot of people. How hard would it be to respect her a little.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of...
One of the comments on the video:

> Randy Schnier

> 8 hours ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53H0pO2FD4&lc=Ugzs2gCWlsh1_...)

> I worked at this IBM site as an engineer for almost 30 years, leaving in 2012. Several divisions were based there besides AS/400, including IBM Software Group that was responsible for the WebSphere Application Server family of products. As the video mentions, at its peak around the year 2000, the site had about 8,000 employees. It is now down to significantly less than 1,000 and most of the site is leased out to other companies for office and warehouse space. Actually IBM sold the site several years ago to an external real estate firm and leases back the space they currently use! You might notice in the video that the AS/400 cabinets were rounded at the rear -- this was to prevent customers from pushing the unit right up against a wall and blocking the cooling vents.
I don't really see amoralists creating laws to punish moral people. Generally people who don't like morals prefer ethical frameworks. But, I do agree that a lot of speech today has moral overtones, and that itself is wrong.
Why not stick with AX.25 and packet radio instead of reinventing the wheel?
Started with the Rum Corps and never left. As an Australian I am horrified by the power our police have and the reek of corruption.
> Is this a serious concern?

Yes.

See The art of the 10,000-year warning[1] and the full Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory Across Generations report[2].

Other proposed solutions include: the breeding of so-called "radiation cats" or "ray cats". Cats have a long history of cohabitation with humans, and this approach assumes that their domestication will continue indefinitely. These radiation cats would change significantly in color when they came near radioactive emissions and serve as living indicators of danger.[3]

[1] https://www.ans.org/news/article-416/the-art-of-the-10000yea...

[2] https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_15088

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
> LPs fire them by no longer investing more money.

That I understand. I was curious if any VCs been fired by the firm for repeatedly making bad bets. But I guess since in general >1 partner signs up on a deal they share collective responsibility so can't blame a single partner.
As a hacker, boredom is a powerful motivator and creator.
No worries, I personally don’t think you should feel any shame for expressing yourself and if it means anything understand why you saw my original post and thought me framing Putin/Russia’s actions as something rational was offensive. I primarily post on this website for challenging discussions, and your comments really made me work to develop my own understanding of the issue and I thank you for that. No hard feelings, and I really respect you personally for choosing to make this comment. I hope any stress I might have caused is forgiven, and hope you continue to post on HN :)
It's interesting how nearly all these links are about the TV signal hijacking, and not the original show/character itself. I guess it goes to show what captures the imagination.
> It is a common database pattern to increment an INT column when an event happens, such as a download or page view.

> You can go far with this pattern until bursts of these types of events happen in parallel and you experience contention on a single row. When multiple transactions are trying to update the counter, you are essentially forcing these transactions to run serially, which is bad for concurrency and can cause deadlocks.

I can see how that would cause slowdowns, but not deadlocks, unless by "cause" it means "trigger one that was already present all along due to a bug in your code". Well-written code should work completely fine (other than being slow) with that pattern.
There is also https://rpgplayground.com/
Mathematician here.

> Differential programming is a term used to describe systems that let you take derivatives of your entire source code.

I think the way this is stated is incorrect. What would the derivative of a program that outputs the reverse the input string be? It would be meaningless.

It seems rather to be the case that it describes systems that let you take derivatives of your entire source code where that source code describes a numerical function. Perhaps it is obvious to state this, but I keep seeing differentiable programming being described as "taking a derivative of the source code" and it seems annoyingly imprecise.

> This lets you do things like AD through a simulation or optimization algorithm

This is also, taken literally, not a correct statement. It's not the algorithm which you want to differentiate, but a hard-to-differentiate function within the algorithm (which is always a gradient-descent type algorithm, as it otherwise makes no sense to consider derivatives; there is the entire domain of derivative-free optimization BTW). So, in case of (stochastic) gradient descent to train a neural network, that would be the neural network that you want to use AD on, not the gradient descent algorithm. Obviously.
How big of a role does React's ecosystem(libraries,plugins,developers) play than say for the aforementioned(debated) performance/stability/security etc. in a someone choosing it over Svelte?
> The U.S. produces as much as 160,000 cubic feet (4,530 cubic meters) of radioactive material from its nuclear power plants annually. [1]

> The Energy Department has a backlog of nuclear waste clean up responsibilities, with material dating back to World War II. [2]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-let...
[2] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2022/05/ener...
I e heard this before, but the only case I’ve heard of people running into issues is if you hit a kernel bug or depend on a really new feature that’s not present in the kernel yet.
I will grant that Seattle is currently investing in public transit. And that in the next 10-15 years, they have the opportunity to improve that situation greatly (providing people good/consistent transit to downtown).

There's a lot of the missing middle in Seattle for housing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o&ab_channel=NotJu... Which has been demonstrated to pay for itself (and support other businesses). Zoning for this would go a long way towards helping to alleviate the increasing cost of housing. (Also actively/readily) makes more money than it costs to maintain.

I think there's also something to be said for getting rid of cars in Downtown Seattle (still need to provide good accessible options). I originally clicked on this article in hopes that was what people were doing. Tangent: Shuffling homeless people around with cement "eco" blocks (legitimately interested in the etymology of that name) turned out to be the sad waste of resources we were going for here...

Mental Health feels a lot more difficult than this. Probably needs more of a national fix cause healthcare is too expensive and inaccessible in the US.
You will inevitably rewrite everything right if you see good growth? This type of architecture stuff is surely over engineering mostly? Im not an engineer but have developed lots of web apps < 1000 users. Maybe outsource anything that requires this type of architecture, e.g. for satellite imagery processing GEE or Sentinel hub. Even then Sentinel Hub just serves from same region as where imagery presides. People are ok with that.
and under the rest of the stuff Lisp does not have at its base, like an prototype object system.
Because there is a middleground.

Being fit or staying away from your phone doesn't require to run 20k a week or to remove the phone from your kids' perception of the world.
It's great and it has the same dictionaries as the macOS Dictionary app. I hope they add support for more languages in the future.
Thanks.

So this suggests that IBM (and maybe Oracle) have fired people for being too old.

For Google the complaints seems to be mostly about hiring, not firing.

(Just for disclosure: I expected in general to see more complaints about age discrimination in hiring than in firing.)
France currently runs its nuclear plants at 60% due to maintanance and heat. In the last years the amount of times they had to shut down a nuclear power plant due to to warm cooling water has increased. Given where global warming is going that will happen more and more.
Go to accessibility settings and make the display grayscale.
Most Australians assume they have the same rights as Americans.
NZ is legally speaking a few years behind Australia.

Just take a look at up coming legislation, I think its the MMP system that slows down these laws.

They will still happen just at a slower pace and with better timed PR.
Encryption is one of the stated goals, which is illegal for packet radio in most jurisdictions. Also requiring a licence to transmit (no matter how easy/cheap it is to obtain) is a barrier to adoption that must be considered.
I did the same but not in an app.
On a cli application. And I added a web interface too.

Work's pretty well. I use it every day. It's only in french.

https://git.ache.one/dfr/about/

The web version:

https://dico.ache.one/

(My use case was that I need pronunciation of the words)
This has been the problem at almost every company I or my friends have worked at.

At one company, the CEO was saying, “my vision is X”, while the middle managers were implementing a whole different alphabet, but the middle managers were reporting up that engineering is the problem. It took numerous leadership shakeups to even acknowledge the issues, but by that time the company was effectively dead.
Sure, though I believe the vast majority of cattle are not raised on rainfall-fed grassland.

Yes, very complicated. The issue is definitely going to come to a head when the authorities have no option but to start pulling water rights.
Ed Roberts the inventor of the Altair 8800 did just that. He was over 30 when he decided to go to medical school and become a doctor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computer_engineer)...
Carl Pei isn’t exactly an “underdog”. As for the mocking, they’re calling the Nothing design “compelling” and calling themselves “assholes”. I think Carl is probably not crying himself to sleep over this.
Same here,apart from notifications

I am now limiting time on Youtube, twitter and other limitless scrolling site.

We need a review system for this.

I check how many times I unlock my phone in a day and it ranges from 80-120.I wish to reduce this and do more deep work.
Math is something more than Pythagoras theorem and arithmetic.
Yes. It got stolen in the end but for 6 months I just left it unlocked on the sidewalks of LA under the guise that it was a Bird scooter. It might have actually been accidentally scooped up by a charging truck but I'll never know.
So after the next revolution it will all be 100V or 1000V (and a week will be 10 days)?
That was the first thing I thought of when I visited the Wikipedia page and saw the link to [[Euler spiral]]!
Not agreed. Most of mathematical universities are phys-maths or mech-math.
When I scanned the Oxford English Dictionary, that happened to me often with random dictionary entries. I probably spent as much time reading random dictionary entries as I spent actually scanning the damn thing.
Autarky ahoy!
The HyperSpec is a specific web UI to the ANSI Common Lisp Standard (actually some ANSI CL documentation version before it was officially published as a standards document). In this case the HyperSpec is based on the works of a standardization body AND is the specific HTML version (incl. more documentation from the standardization) created by a company.

There are other versions in HTML (and also other documentation formats, IIRC) of the ANSI CL standard. One example is this web version, provided by Franz, Inc.: https://franz.com/support/documentation/ansicl.94/ansicl.htm
The content is basically the same as in the HyperSpec, but the rendering to HTML is very different.
Sure thing!

NIMBY-ism is at it's worst, not when people don't want homeless people in their back yards, but when people actively work against public policy that would affect their back yard, and improve the lives of homeless people.

Overdose Prevention Centers would absolutely be something I would allow in my backyard. I think that probably hits enough of your criteria to qualify as what you're accusing me of hypocrisy for.

I would also welcome removing roads where I live in favor of public transit lines. I would also welcome people to put in low-income housing where I live.
It's a cute novelty now precisely because it's impractical and unsafe. Having good infrastructure changes that. In places with good bike infra, it's a great way to get around.
Even better, imo: Modula-3

https://github.com/modula3/cm3

There are binaries for various architectures.

https://github.com/modula3/cm3/releases/tag/d5.11.4
I thought it was a rehash of the NoPhone…

https://thenophone.com