skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The vote result was so lopsided that there's no way the library board didn't see it coming.

I tend to trust librarians (mostly) to know what they are doing. I think we have to be careful listening to the mob which I speculate the majority don't have library cards, have read a book in the last year or even have taken their kids to the library.

I worry that the mob will start saying we need to remove books based on religious beliefs (e.g. evolution) or climate change or pretty anything they don't fully understand or want to understand. "Maybe my son/daughter wouldn't have been X if they hadn't read Y".

>But as the letter in the article pointed out, there were other similar books that were in the kids' section

I think it's worth knowing exactly what those books are before painting it with the same brush as that graphic novel.

Teenage years are kinda hard for a lot of kids especially if they have non-majority sexual viewpoints. If they are going to the library to understand 'stuff' about themselves, it's worth considering that librarians may have more experience in books (and where to put them) and it might actually be helping them.
Yes, the case you've mentioned is quite unfortunate, it's basically high level corruption.
> It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries.

I don't understand this point. Is this talking about implementing GraphQL on the backend? Because consuming GraphQL you get a map, you get JSON! Do you mean a more specific data structures like a Set or Stack?
There are definitively a number of artists that say they work better with alcohol. "impairment" would be defined as something that increase risk of reduce performance, as in, people who drink alcohol has a higher risk of having their driving skill reduced compared to those who don't have alcohol in their blood. Such statement doesn't exclude the possibility that alcohol may increase driving ability compared to base line, only that the variance is higher and thus risk.
You haven't explained how my argument discounts his theories. You're just unhappy that I used the term "Lizard People". Ok: I retract "Lizard People". Where does that leave your argument?
Well, I'd have expected that most suburban homeowners are planning to stay put for a while (i.e. they're not renters). So I'd expect them to value the health of the neighbourhood over property values.

Where I live, property is expensive, and I live in a neighbourhood that seems to be dominated by investment property; many empty properties or short-let properties. There are no kids here, even though the neighbourhood would be fine for kids.

Anyway, that's apparently not the way the cookie crumbles; owning property so you can live in it seems to have become unfashionable. I hope the fashion changes, because I have no plans to sell.
Yeah I can find the armv7 and v8 build options under Android APK export, but not under generic Linux. At least none I can find under presets.

I suppose you could run Android on the Pi instead though, which might be what they did.
Beyond the terror factor, the book is a fantastic history of technological development, and how a system of systems evolved to cope with additional failure states. I think it's worth reading and thinking about for anyone working in a technical field.
It's also not necessary and is probably already outdated and won't be funded if was achieved today.

See fusion this way: it's like a coal power plant with infinite free coal (because the rest of it is the same - turbines, water treatment, condensers, generators, power transformation and transmission - and thermonuclear reactor will for sure never be cheaper than a coal-fired steam boiler). Which means, electricity cost will be same as of a coal plant minus the price of coal. Which will already be above cost of most renewable sources and, once electrolyzers for green hydrogen will start coming online, remembering that barely 15% of renewable electricity will need to be passed through them (rest can simply be balanced by different renewables), will still be sort of competitive.

And we don't have fusion yet, while renewables will keep getting cheaper.
I argue the opposite, a steam turbine maxes out at about 37% efficiency.

The inefficiency and massive capital costs of of steam turbines is a major reason why natural gas is so much cheaper than coal or fission -- natgas uses a combined cycle turbine rather than a steam turbine.
I thought it was supposed to do this, but then discovered that it has no way to express joins.

Has this been addressed? I don't see how you can decouple the back-end data from front-end queries without that.
Disabling all notifications where possible. Turning my phone off when I'm not expecting important calls. Books. Walks in nature. Cycling. Allowing for a small window of time at night for social media, then I move the phone into another room so I'm not tempted to refresh my feeds.
Turbines are a great, mature technology. The SMR alone is new enough.

Imagine writing a piece of software that needs to parse XML. It is probably better just to use an existing library for that, instead of reinventing the wheel.
>And the US has terrible problems in building anything new or big.

What are the reasons for this do you think?
Some libraries offer enterprise features for versioning.

Like you said it makes sense in larger companies. As a consumer of a well documented API it’s great, as someone who had to stitch together 2 microservices to provide the required data it sucks.
> microdosing

> half a gram doses of cubes.

I don't think the studies designers really thought this one through.
Again this story.

Ok, sure maybe it's smaller than a PWR behemoth. It's still solid fuel rod crap.

If you have solid fuel rods, you have meltdown danger, you can't use up all the fissile material, there's no breeding, extraction of fission products. It's under a lot of pressure, so besides meltdown you have other dangers. Solid fuel rods can only use the very tiny percentage of uranium that is naturally fissile.

This is simply not a good design for a nuclear reactor. The LFTR design has meltdown proof operation, no pressurized water, near 100% use of fuel, can burn/breed old solid fuel waste, can breed more fuel from plentiful thorium, and can scale down to closet-sized reactors.

Pebble bed also shares some of these aspects, and I assume there are other new generation designs with advantages.

But this is just more of the same bad design reactors. Oh great, it got spitshined and scaled down and passed approvals.

What nuclear needs to be relevant is to tackle meltdown danger and nuclear waste. LFTR addresses both and any future reactor needs to address both. Perhaps LFTR could be a "waste processor" if LFTR isn't economical enough, while other meltdown proof designs do more economical generation in a sort of large scale web.
Afternoon delight?...
Everyone I’ve ever met who thinks they don’t stink, does.
It's quite hard to get a nuclear bomb to go boom. A lot of things have to happen in a carefully controlled and timed sequence. A big part of that is indeed forcing bits of fuel to stay together for long enough to allow the chain reaction to work its way through a significant proportion of the fuel.

Without the force you get various intensities of fizzle explosions and radiation bursts.

Hitting the ground with a "doink" after falling out of a plane is more likely to break something than trigger a full-scale explosion.
I don't think the basic Pu-239 / U-235 cores themselves degrade, those isotopes have extremely long half lives, but other components of the bombs certainly do.

Particularly, the tritium used in boosted nuclear weapons has a half life of just over 12 years. Furthermore all Pu-239 cores have some Pu-240 contamination that undergoes spontaneous fission, the neutron flux from which probably degrades other components of the bomb over time.
The FAANGs have definitely inflated prices, but in those companies the average revenue per employee is just orders of magnitude larger than anything a physical product company can produce. Giving a software engineer 2x or 5x salary compared to embedded is literally noise on the balance sheet.
Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (July 24, 1997)
I'm not terribly interested in podcasts but I do love seeing what people create, so I gave it a click... and then couldn't back out to HN.

Why is your site back-button trapped?
+1

Clickable link: https://pixelfed.social/
Did you try reading the thread? What do you mean by data?

> Or is it a completely subjective opinion dictated by frustration likely caused by the lack of understanding of it?

You can ask this this very same question when people say graphql is an amazing piece of software/paradigm, except s/frustration/hype/
Sounds amazing, would love for something like this for racing sims (CPUs these days have more cores than good uses for those cores...)

For the gotchas - I'd guess that the exhaust manifolds would make a huge difference in terms of sound, and they seem hard to simulate. For example, engineers tune the individual per-cylinder exhaust distance - this way, the exhaust fumes from each individual cylinder align nicely once the exhaust from each cylinder merge into the final exhaust pipe. Otherwise, if, for example, the firing pattern is 1-5-..., then the air from cylinder 1 might arrive to the exhaust pipe at the same time as air from cylinder 5, given high RPMs and limited speed of sound.

And the fluid dynamics of the cylinders are something that is extremely critical to modern cars, too. And I'd guess that this is where things like misfires can be simulated.

Disclaimer - this is all based on my highly unsophisticated mental model,
Now you see! NASA is a conspiracy! This is proof the earth is flat like a chorizo slice!

/s
Isn't that a 'does the refrigerator light go out when i close the door' thing?

But i guess you mean when the doors are closed and there are people in the elevator.

....how to know, how to know...
Nuclear torpedoes where also a thing. :)
There are non-turbine fusion options, like Helion.
As far as I can tell, this appears to be confusing Ctrl+C (SIGINT, which terminates a process, and is usually not restartable), with Ctrl+Z (SIGTSTP, which pauses a process, and is thus restartable).

The only software I can think of that could "restart" after a Ctrl+C is usually daemons or other long-lived processes (which already need to be able to "restart" after any kind of shutdown and thus have significant amounts of code dedicated to serializing and unserializing their internal state).

TFA even goes so far as to talk about memory leaks - which are completely irrelevant when your process is about to exit anyway!
Yes, those drugs can't replace SSRI
What do you mean, "how" the decision about Dual EC was made? It's an NSA-designed backdoor. NIST standardized it because NSA told them to. I'm sure NSA told NIST a story about why it was important to standardize it. The Kremlinology isn't interesting: it is NSA's chartered job to break cryptography, and nobody should ever trust them; the only thing NSA can do to improve cryptography is to literally publish secret attacks, and they're not going to do that.
MoonRay will be open source later in 2022 [pdf]
This is only a study of raw meat consumption, which is comparatively rare among humans. If it turns out — and this study acknowledges this limitation — that the predominant causal agent here is cancer-casing viruses, that would have pretty irrelevant impact for humans.

There are so many confounds here that it’s hard to draw conclusions for humans except maybe what’s worth future study.

FWIW, I have no horse in this race either.
That's great news!

It'll be a long time before one can use it in portable SQLite queries, for those cases where that matters. I'll continue to eschew the right join for the clarity of only thinking about that relation in one way, but we statically link SQLite for several good reasons, including being able to use new features as they arrive.

Full join is certainly a welcome addition.
Sharing our experience with Facebook, as developers.

On top of log in by email / password, we also offered "Facebook Login" on our website (we are a transgender dating site), and around 20% of our users opted for it.

For about a year, Facebook has been requesting a crazy number of confidential information about our business, company, employees, processes, etc... Always threatening to cut our API access if we did not provide promptly.

This is a cautionary tale for developers / entrepreneurs: don't put yourself in a situation where you depend entirely on a third party (especially a GAFAM with no customer support). You can offer Facebook Login to your users, but better also ask them to register another verified log in method in parallel (eg email, phone number).
https://techgage.com/news/gogcom_is_not_shutting_down_after_...

It was a marketing prank. Someone, high up in their company, thought it would be HIGH HUMOR to pretend their site went down before users could download their drm free games. They relaunched a completely new redesigned site a few days later, but this was a mistkae.

I still haven't forgotten or forgiven about this, but I still buy from them because the alternative is much worst.
> under-18s

> children

There’s a major difference between those terms. 16-year-olds are definitely not children anymore. They can get tattoos, piercings, get a driving license, drink alcohol, enter into contracts, and get jail time if they commit a crime.

And cis and inter children at that age can also commit to bodily changing surgeries, e.g. mastectomy for children with gynecomastia is common and legal.

The only legal form of body modification for children below that age are circumcision, which should absolutely not be legal, and surgeries for inter children, which shouldn’t be legal either.

How come you consider teenagers making decisions for themselves a risk, but parents letting doctors mutilate the genitals of newborn children is something you entirely ignore? That’s what we should worry about.

Then there’s the argument regarding puberty blockers, where you’re citing the cass review, which has to be seen in critical light in general. Puberty blockers, when used for cis children, have been well reviewed and approved in wide studies, with lots of evidence proving their safety. There is no evidence gap there – if they’re safe to delay puberty in cis children, they’re just as safe for the same purpose in trans children.
Alright, but I don't really care about any of that at all. Do you see any flaws in the actual math or logic of the paper?
You are exaggerating, I develop it for 6-7 years, and not every day is coding.
>Be careful with anyone with a take that says some technology is 100% bad always. Given enough experience / skill you can make any technology fairly enjoyable so I've only ever seen mixed reactions at worst from people giving things a fair try.

So what does this mean?

You're saying that in the universe we live in there is absolutely nothing that is 100% bad always. Everything is good for something? There is no concept of bad or obsolete things because it's all good for something?

Let's restrict this to programming languages and frameworks and apis.

Are you saying that in the universe of ALL programming languages, ALL frameworks and all APIs, None of them are at all bad and they are all good for something?

I don't agree with this sentiment at all. In fact I think it's a sign of two possibilities:

1. that the person saying it is highly biased and unable to detect things that are genuinely bad.

2. The person saying it is just being temporarily illogical, there are clearly things in the programming world that are bad. He knows this but is so biased that he's incapable of processing this concept while promoting his favorite language/api/framework.

Scenario 2 is the most likely scenario here. Not saying graphQL is bad. But to love graphQL so much as to say Nothing in the universe is actually bad?

Let's be real, I am not against graphQL. However you cannot actually say that people against graphQL have invalid opinions because there is nothing in the programming universe that is definitively bad. This argument does not make any sense at all.
Well, I did say I wasn't familiar with it, but it's correct for `coalesce` and I don't think `cube` is different: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/cube.html

In the context of `group by` it's treated as grouping sets, but that's not its only use. (Though that does seem to be special cased in terms of parsing, since afaict - I can't find the full query BNF on mobile - `grouping sets` is not optional.)
Gog pranked people by saying they were going offline and you would lose your games. I guess it was to highlight that they're the only service where you can back up your games and don't need to worry about DRM, but there was a lot of confusion and people didn't find it that funny at the time.
In my country, Angst is the name of a sausage manufacturer.
I believe the highest risk is that some unplanned external influence sets off the trigger mechanism. As you said, the nuclear core itself will not spontaneously explode from an impact, but there are surrounding explosives designed to mke the core achieve criticality - can we be sure they don't accomplish their goal unintentionally?
Troy Hunt points out that HTTP traffic is sometimes MITMed in a way that clients and servers do not like, and HTTPS sometimes prevents that. I never said otherwise. I am saying for certain kinds of pages, it's not a major concern. Like for djb website.

Why not use HTTPS for everything? Because it also has costs, not just benefits.
Hey, this is all incredibly helpful!

LET alone will be very helpful for all the empirical fluid mechanics formulas I have to deal with.

Thanks a lot friend!

Also, just out of curiosity, why do you recommend that particular bracket style?
>> Tellingly, some utilities have already backed out of NuScale’s first project over cost concerns.
> Anyone could chime in here? Was it because NuScale is too expensive?

The NuScale VOYAGR, in particular, is a really big SMR in terms of [plant size]/[megawatt]. The economies of SMR come when you can reduce that footprint by making smaller safety systems or eliminating active safety features (because the plant is small enough not to need them) AND factory-build them with on-site assembly. Other SMR designs seem to have more promising ideas for doing both, but NuScale's is just too big. (There are also micro-reactors that optimize for replacing diesel engines and gas turbines with a very small footprint at the tradeoff of cost.)

>I was expecting SMRs, once approved could be built much more quickly. I was thinking in terms of 3 years with perfect project planning. But right now even the earliest ( and likely optimistic ) first SMRs site is 2030. Why does it take so long?

There's a lot going between "approved today" and "SMR online": particularly that factory infrastructure needs to come on line and site licensing need to happen, and then the plant needs to get commissioned after it is built (which takes longer for the first). It's very conceivable to me that the Nth SMR could be a ~3ish year project, but longer for the FOAK unit is almost inevitable.
Yep. I worked at a place that fired almost its entire programming staff because they insisted on using Visual C++ to build a CRUD app, while a team of contractors built a prototype in Visual Basic.

Needless to say, the VB app worked fine and became the product.
Yes, thank you, I was in fact primarily (but not exclusively) thinking of economic incentives! I will use your phrasing from now on.
Out of curiosity, how many "conspiracy people" do you have exposure to/hang out with?
Just wonder if author is aware of SIGSTOP/SIGCONT that allows to pause/resume any process gracefully ? Both signals can be caught and handled.

Crtl-C (SIGINT), as far as I know, was used to "gracefully terminate" interactive process from day zero of Unix. I cannot find any use in that of what author proposes: suspend execution by sending SIGINT, but then what ? Get to some process built-in debugging shell ? Isn't that what GDB was made for ?
Disclaimer: I know way too little about history of present-day India, I'm not looking to argue with anyone.

But is what you're linking what GP is talking of? Because this is over 2k years old, while it's interesting it doesn't validate or invalidate living conditions of pre-colonial India. Wouldn't it be like linking to an article on propsperity from peak Roman empire when discussing much more recent feudalist Europe? Roman influence on Europe (and beyond) abound, but some early positive characteristics of it's statehood have been long gone by medieval times. And I thought the thread was on recent(ish) history.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macro
A lot of people don't have kids but yet think it's a good idea to fund public schools for the general good.

I have libertarian leanings like the next HN'r, but come on, you're talking about stopping kids wanting to read books.
If that field isn’t populated aren’t you in the exact same spot?
If it's not obvious, I quoted the wrong part of your reply in my second quote.
Are LFTRs actually viable though?
It: "powered by Rust + Apache Iceberg"

Me: Oh cool, can I run it in my k8s cluster? <clicks link>

It: "designed specifically for AWS"

Me: disappointed and annoyed by title

Looking at that service diagram, "Powered by AWS services" seems more accurate.
Okay but you're can surely realise that someone in possession of child pornography images that were taken, say, 20 years ago is no longer accessory to the original crime in any way. In fact, it might very well be possible for that person to not have even been born back then. Of course, that's not really how law works because some crimes don't have a deadline.

But whatever the legal reasoning behind it is, the consequence is that you are pretty much forbidden from distributing this material on the internet and so your right to show something to others is being restricted. I would consider that a limitation of free speech. But of course, I can totally see why you'd have the need to justify it in some other way, because we don't want our freedom of speech to be limited in any way. The law is always open to interpretation after all.

What's the reasoning behind restricting people from sharing copies of copyrighted material? Obviously it is also an illegal action. My point being, there are many ways in which our speech is monitored and restricted already.
Coal plants are comprehensively more expensive than solar/wind, as are current design nuclear plants, perhaps that's because of coal prices.

The other aspects of fusion get swept under the rug: high speed neutrons from sustained fusion energy production will degrade the equipment, so you build this HUGE EXPENSIVE facility and it will have a shelf life, and be somewhat radioactive, in ... well, I don't know the timeline, but I'll assume decades.

Even without that, fusion costs even with "free" fuel (I mean, it will probably be deuterium and separation will cost some money) will probably be quite high for operation, maintenance, to say nothing of the massive installation cost.

I think it is still worth the current investment in research though, it's not like I want the book closed on fusion power. But I wouldn't count on it getting us out of the global warming hole we are in.
Thanks. The comments seemed specific to this front-end, but maybe.
ITT we have OP complaining that people don't say hi, and another poster complaining that they do say hi. On cultural internet norms, y'all are going to have to accept that there's a wide range of opinions.
As much as I don't like a company taking something away that you paid for, where is the line when it comes to online games? Most of the games on that list are from 2009-2013 which makes them all 9-12 years old at this point. At what point can you say the company has done enough, because keeping the servers running indefinitely is clearly unsustainable.
The article is about a guy who was a university professor for decades.