skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing to do with reprocessing.

Fast neutron reactors just use fast neutrons, neutrons that are thousands of times faster than the neutrons used in the current generation of reactors (called thermal neutrons). A thermal neutron is much more likely to hit a nucleus of Uranium. If it hits U-235, it generally makes it undergo fission, but 18% of the time it is just absorbed and becomes the nasty U-236, which is a very long lived radioactive element. If it hits U-238, it's absorbed, eventually becomes Plutonium-239, which in turns may absorb further neutrons, so a bunch of transuranic elements are produced.

That's bad on two counts. The transuranic elements are radioactive and tend to be very long lived so the nuclear waste is long lived. And whenever a nucleus just absorbs a neutron and does not undergo fission, it's a shame, it's energy that's not being produced.

Fast neutrons solve both problems. They are about 1000 times less likely to hit a nucleus, but when they do they almost invariably trigger fission for U-235 and very often for U-238 as well. That results in a massively higher burnup, and massively lower amount of transuranic elements in the waste.

So, not only will a fast reactor produce much less waste for each GWh of electricity, it will be a much nicer type of waste, one that decays to the background radiation level in a few hundreds of years, rather than millions of years.

Again, there is no reprocessing. The TRISO particle are not broken or milled at the end. They become nuclear waste as they are, but after they gave a huge amount of energy.
tRPC is more than schemas, though - in tRPC schemas are actually supplied by Zod. tRPC is more of a framework that abstracts away building an API and makes removes the perception of a serialization barrier between client and server. It feels like it's all one codebase. It also carries types across, so that changing (eg) the shape of a database response will immediately throw up type errors in client-side code.
Cars yes, but with diesel over $5.00+/gallon there are very few trucking companies that will allow their drivers to go over 65 mph. It's simply too expensive.

The ones you see driving around at 70+mph are usually owner-operators who don't have their trucks governed.
I set up my static site generator to pre-process text and insert soft hyphens (& shy ; ). That was based on Ruby Text::Hyphen which uses TeX hyphenation patterns.
It is one thing to choose to deny payment processing of your own free will, and entirely another to be extorted by the courts into doing so. If Pornhub is acting illegally, it should be shut down. If it isn't, neither payment processors nor anyone else should face legal jeopardy for doing business with a legally operating company.
Maybe it's the value of the ongoing coral harvesting? /s

https://cairnsnews.org/2022/07/22/coral-harvesting-on-the-gr...

At least it seems they've stopped wholesale grinding it up for fertilizer.
Friends was funny, but I'm sure they also had a big Laugh sign to tell people when to laugh
Not that it’s a random sample of the wealthy, but go look at r/FATFire if you want to see how unhappy the ultra-wealthy can be.
Agree.

Google Meet (the current one) is a pretty decent app. Not as good as Zoom but much better than Teams or any other alternative.

And the number of meeting requests mirrors that. First Zoom, then Meet, then Teams, and then random other things which basically barely work long enough for us to switch to Zoom.
It started as C. It’s interesting to watch people post comments, as though C vs C++ makes the distinction in “safety” in a code base.

The take away I’m getting is most have programmed in neither.
I'm honestly confused as to what your gripe is. I've done it all, OpenAPI, graphql, gRPC -- what exactly is difficult observability wise? Can you provide some specifics as to what is problematic?

HTTP is broad, and some things are easier to observe than others. Something like streaming or websockets is by definition more complex than the most basic possible HTTP request/response. Your complaint boils down to "using features makes observability difficult", which is obviously true in some sense, but you're dismissive of what those features unlock.

You must despise graphql.
You have to wonder why they didn't just jack into their local instance of the Matrix to eat lunch, while the goop goes in through a food tube or whatever.
Indeed. Thankfully there are governments trying to head off the energy crisis before the blackouts hit. Rather than leaving it to individuals to make their own choices in a game of prisoners dilemma where some of the losers will literally die.
> One of the great frustrations with Google is that they never ever face consequences for their gross mismanagement

They started having consequences.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

Not to mention that the Eu's new GDPR and gatekeepers regulations are the results of Google and various major US tech corps. turning the Internet into a monopolized spying machine...
They probably know they can’t realistically drive it off the net, so they are likely well aware that it would end up in those corners… and with my cynicism hat firmly on I think that the organised puritanical groups know this and are hoping they can then use the association with more unpleasant things in those corners of the internet to push even harder on their puritanical agendas.
Isn't math-uml (math-ml?) markup supposed to create something like an AST for equations?
Well, this is timely! I've been looking into porting one of my favorite classic games, VGA Civil War Strategy, from QBasic to JS – just reached out to the current maintainer today about it.

I remember doing a lot of QBasic on the computers in high school and having a blast – first time I ever felt like I really knew what I was doing, and somehow it even made learning by trial and error feel especially rewarding.

https://github.com/Hutsell-Games/civil-war-strategy

https://classicreload.com/civil-war-strategy.html

https://hutsellgames.com/civil-war-strategy/

[EDIT] Here's the 5k lines of code comprising the game, for anyone interested in seeing a formerly-commercial, stand-the-test-of-time example:

https://github.com/Hutsell-Games/civil-war-strategy/blob/mai...
> That being said, I do have a (largely dormant) MBNA account if anyone has specific checks they want to do.

You mean... if anyone has specific checks they want to have you do?

Not my practice area, but letting someone circumvent anti-terrorism banking laws seems like something you'd definitely want to seek legal advice about before acting.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with how Google tends to follow Apple's better ideas, but Apple has usually been the leader in privacy innovations.

It's frustrating. They make fantastic hardware, but their software leaves a lot to be desired, and they are extremely insistent on maintaining control over the devices that they sell. The M1s look like a small step in the right direction, but they have a lot of lost trust to rebuild.
Another thing to consider in that credit and debit card processing fees, which in the US are substantial, especially for small merchants that can't use large volume to negotiate a discount. This amounts to a ~3% hidden "tax" on all transactions, the bulk of which goes to one of four enormous corporations.
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This is a cliche, but it’s true; we live on through the ripples of our actions. Some part of reality remembers every subtle thing we were through cause and effect, no matter how scattered those effects.

Consciousness is also extremely strange. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of not just experiencing the totality of your father, but also the entire conscious universe in some bizarre and unfathomable way in the end. The fact that this idea is so common cross culturally and throughout history is quite strange. As are the similarities in near death experiences.

Our minds play all kinds of tricks on us. Who knows how deep that goes. Our science is a powerful means of bypassing our ability to deceive ourselves, but it is forever limited by that same deceptive perception it attempts to bypass. What lies outside our perception is a great mystery, and I think it’s arrogant to rule out an angle of reality not accessible to the materialist conscious angle we perceive so sharply. The fact that it is far more prudent to walk where we can see instead of where we can’t doesn’t mean there is no world beyond our vision.
QBasic and QuickBasic were my intro to real programming. Before that I had written some batch files but there wasn't much you could do with them. Maybe make some menus to launch your apps. QBasic was fun to mess around with but I ended up pirating QuickBasic from my school's computers. Being able to compile to an .EXE was a revelation!
Anecdotally Apple Pay on vending machines in the U.S. is amazing and I've only encountered one within the past few years that was erroring whenever you tried to tap, and any debit/credit transaction on that machine didn't work.
Some good tips in here, I've find myself reaching for JSON/excel methods often.

Despite using it for years, I still haven't decided if pandas is poorly architected or if the clunkiness (for lack of better of term) is a result of the inherent difficulty of the tasks.
> and yet people usually diffuse the blame among "Google" or "the incentives".

People are not wrong to do so. Those two are not causing the problems. They can carry some blame for inaction, sure, but not that much of the blame.
> There is an open niche for a real-restaurants-only delivery service

... but not at a sustainable price for workers and consumers. The trajectory of this industry is birthing crazy illogical things like ghost kitchens, weird liminal areas of food service that's not quite restaurant, not quite food-delivery, shaping bad human behaviors and creating dark patterns due to excess capital and perverse incentives.

Food costs. Making it, serving it, cleaning up. It costs more than people are willing to pay, maybe there's a strata of the market for whom the value is worth it, but not for the majority. Pizza delivery within a radius is successful but not everything can scale.
Everybody who talks about how they never use cash and love the convenience of never having to use cash, they all sound just like all the people who loved Google just before their account was terminated for undisclosed reasons.
That's not a real choice because governments will abuse it. If you don't have private, permissionless payments, you face the risk that the government will stop you from buying bread.

Don't believe it? Here are some other programs governments have abused: The US put people on the no fly list for refusing to become FBI informants [1]. Canada froze bank accounts of protestors. China abused their COVID tracking app to stop protests. [2]

It's important to remember past government abuses so we don't give them more tools for future abuses.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/supreme-court-case-no-...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/business/china-code-prote...
Can you share the questions you asked? I want to do this with my parents.
Probably just a coincidence!

We probably shouldn't inconvenience ourselves in the slightest amount to mitigate these coincidences.

Anything that might damage profits, impact billionaires, or hurt shareholders of our best gigantic businesses isn't something we should consider.

Hopefully my seething sarcasm came through all of that bullshit.
I was the primary caregiver for my dad before he died. I learned a lot from close contact with him and came to see him as a person with his striving, achievements and path in life. When I went through his things after he passed away, many things he mentioned in passing began to make more sense - legal documents, receipts, letters, pictures.

(Interestingly, my siblings resent me for this perhaps because they realize they have huge gaps in their knowledge about their father, and spent too little time they with him. It has ruptured whatever relationship we had.)

You did a good thing. Your efforts will sustain the memory of him and give you solace in years to come.
Back in the day, I remember doing tech work for the central bank in my country (Jamaica, circa 1991) and these English dudes were writing code in Quickbasic to help with some Foreign Exchange stuff for the bank.

We sat down together for a short while as they showed me thousands of lines of incredibly complex QuickBasic code.

It probably only lasted a short while as the bank upgraded their systems soon after that, but it was impressive to see what could be done with Basic for this time of corporate financial systems.

To this day those guys impressed the heck out of me, and that really caused me to switch from just doing computer repairs to programming.

So to those two English dudes out there, Thanks.
Quick note here: the original comment mentioned that our pricing page was hard to find, that's what Sarup's reply was addressing. Looks like it was later amended to talk about subscription payments.

Re: subscription payments, only our Monthly plan is a recurring subscription, the 3 Months / 1 Year plans are one-time payments. A "lifetime access" plan isn't sustainable for us at the moment since we need to keep servers (including test runners) up and running.
I'm sad that platforms like Windows (or more importantly phones, iOS and Android) don't come with something similar to QBasic. If you didn't grow up with it it's hard to realize just how magical it was to turn on your family's brand new 486 and instantly have qbasic.exe installed and available from the get go. Even better, when you started it the program had an extensive help system that popped up and walked you through the basics. It even had a full reference of all the syntax, etc.--you didn't have to go hunting around on the internet to learn how to use it (because no one had access to the internet!). It was all right there and ready to go, just waiting for you to stumble on it. I wish every kid with a phone, tablet or computer today had a similar experience and tools available, not buried in app stores and downloads.
> I sometimes wonder how so many intelligent people in one company can't figure out their chat app strategy.

Lack of social empathy in understanding their user base. Over-emphasis in engineering and treating it as if it was a religion causing omission of human-factor inherent in the Internet product and user ecosystems. Resulting in them not giving a zit about their users.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
Facts by themselves are not copyrightable, but certain arrangements of facts may be.

https://sco.library.emory.edu/research-data-management/publi...
I always took it as a list....

It has A, B, C, D... (Without the "and" before D, it is arguable -- especially for those that like clarity of language -- but people do sometimes drop the "and" in casual speech)
I am deeply sorry for your loss. Your Mom sounds really awesome, and this sort of passphrase is really smart.

But, "proof" of God's existence in this way would eliminate the need for faith. Conversely, you also cannot prove that God does not exist, making it a faith, of a sort, in both directions.

Truly, faith is a choice: you choose if you are going to have it (or try to have it), or not.

And thus not having faith is also a choice -- it's an implicit, and sometimes explicit, rejection of faith; and, thus, God.

So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that message from your Ma, as awesome as she sounds; if she is wrong, and there is no heaven, then you will never receive that message; and, if she is right, as I deeply and humbly believe, you will also never receive the message because that would eliminate the need for you to make a decision, personally, to have faith or not.
Bilingual Beowulf [pdf]
Apple has made their own music app horrific to use -- every month it bricks when I open it and become unresponsive until it loads a fullscreen ad for their streaming service.

Even when I'm in low or no-data modes (like on a plane).

Every time that screen pops up I lose a little more sanity.
The "coding puzzle of the day" which asks for a "quack" data structure. It's essentially a double ended queue, but the twist is you're supposed to write an O(1) implementation with 3 stacks.

Turns out this is asked for all over, in interviews, CS exams, etc. But it also turns out to be currently unknown or maybe even impossible. Apparently there's a 6 stack implementation known, but not a 3 stack.

https://www.cnblogs.com/lz87/p/11955184.html is the common phrasing.
> There is no exchange of ideas, its just the guest being able to say whatever they want without any pushback.

This is precisely why I listen to his podcast. I am not interested in Lex's ideas (beyond maybe AI), I am interested in the guest's idea. The back-to-back Oliver Stone and Stephen Kotkin episodes where really interesting to that effect. Here are two people with diametrically opposite points of views on Russia and Ukraine, and both had ample time to explain their positions in depth, without a host trying to trick or confront them. Let the listener make up his own mind.

And when I'm not interested in a guest (Joe Rogan recently), I just skip that episode.

There are many small things that irritate me when listening to his podcast, but his ability to let his guest speak in depth about his ideas trumps them all.
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Please stop posting these links. You've done it a ton lately and I'm afraid it's crossing into a kind of spamming.
So you're saying "bilingual professional translators" are doing a better job when they translate the Dragon Maid common yuri trope line "But we're both girls..." into a strong statement the human protagonist is straight and as I recall would never be interested in dragons? When Jamie Marchi who made that change for the dub admits to it: https://archive.ph/0XeRq This was a major change to the entire tone of the relationship that was going to develop between the two main characters of the work.

You really think "sus" will stand the test of time, be intelligible to viewers years and decades from now? It's at least a debatable point although you're comparing it to Japanese that by your own admission has survived a quarter century. But claiming our complaints about major and minor changes to works by Crunchyroll, the entity which officially bought Right Stuff Inc. are bogus do not stand up to examination.

And needless to say there's a lot more where the above came from. For another major corporate example see Seven Seas which just can't stop censoring and altering the work of the "bilingual professional translators" who are native Japanese speakers they hire and credit who are not at all happy about it, for doing that silently and without consulting them reflects on their professionalism.
That's what used to be said about GR itself, long ago.
One to watch: Open-source code that measures your exposure to CCTV
Right. But the amount of money that could be paid in regular wages and salaries has continued on up, since the '70s, at the same rate. It just isn't, anymore. Instead, the extreme rich contrive to skim it off.

Then they hire PR experts to trick people. Very, very successfully, as you can see in this thread.

People really cling to the idea that they are doing well, and always compare their status to those further down, as they have been trained to do. Most cannot conceive of how life is for the actual upper class, or even what it would be for somebody truly middle class, if there still were any.
I'd want to, but not at the expense of people's freedoms, same as how I wouldn't censor things I didn't like if I were a bookseller or an ISP. If I thought they were involved in something illegal I'd turn the info over to the cops to investigate (I'm not HSBC!), but I'd just have to accept that people are going to do things I don't care for. There are plenty of companies I don't do business with now because I can't support them or what they stand for, but I have that luxury because I don't run a company that is (for some reason) allowed to insert itself in between people's private lawful transactions. I've got no business dictating what other people can or can't spend their money on.
but you missed a crucial part -- the post says "pitchforks" but is made by a ninety-nine percent civilized person with manners and education, who is unlikely to actually do the physical act mentioned -- but in the modern day, will Very Likely remember this topic at voting time. Take-no-prisoners politics means that the losing candidate, really actually loses and is therefore out of a job right now. So these are high stakes for political types and they do know it.

Sadly most American politicians on both sides of the aisle would probably vote for cashless right now, but, not all of them... and things do change.
An interesting conclusion.
I’m a guy who wears a sleeveless t shirt sometimes for the sole purpose of concealing my nipples. Are we in the same boat? We’re mammals for goodness sake!
The problem with rogan is that he always advocates the same 5 ifestyle choices over and over.
I've found the opposite, but maybe I'm typically using what you define as a 'systems language' - usually .NET/C#.

I really like Protobuf as a pure serializer (not interchange format) to bytes for caching (Redis/Memcached). I had to prove it, again, recently to myself after all the performance improvements made to Json serialization in .NET.

Using some collections of real-world objects, with a serialized size ranging between 50-500K, PB was 2x faster than Json, and had payloads about 1/2 the size. Applying GZIP in the serialization brought the JSON size down significantly, but still not as small as PB. PB only compressed slightly, as expected. However, the time for compression made JSON(gzip) almost 3X slower.

Now, depending on your network speeds and payload size, maybe the time for compression makes sense for remote/distributed caches, but in that case, why wouldn't I use the smaller PB to begin with.
To piggyback: most berries, and fruits in general, are grown from clones.
defend and expand the taxation, fines and supervision -- bingo
In case you thought this was just changing the behavior of the spam filter, nope, he wants it gone:

> In a May meeting, Grassley told Google representatives that Gmail should operate like a post office and suggested that sending emails to spam was equivalent to a post office refusing to deliver the mail

This guy should not be allowed near any kind of legislation, yet here we are.
A lot of those books are free to see online now: https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books I absolutely love the aesthetic and contents of these things.
There was a moment in time where quotes and negeation hyphens were completely ignored. I have no idea why they ever thought that was a good idea.
... yeah, but it's more than good enough for actual use, and moving away from internal combustion is important. Internal combustion cars can't go 500 miles on a tank of gas either, and trips longer than 300 miles are a tiny, tiny, tiny minority for most people.
Let's say you're building a robot tennis player. Ignoring the physical engineering for a second, let's assume it can move around and swing a racket with roughly the same speed as a human.

It doesn't have anything other than a camera to track the ball.

So in terms of it's control, we have two options:
1: track the ball in 3d, work out the velocity, trajectory, ballistics, etc and then calculate the optimal position and swing to return.
2: use some form of ML that recognises patterns and applies patterned responses.

I'm willing to bet that 2 will significantly outperform 1, for a fraction of the compute power (once the training data is done).

Because that's what humans do. No one is working out equations in real time.

Human brains aren't bad at this, but I'd bet large sums of money that machines will out perform us at this within a decade.
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