skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agreed. You can never prevent all issues because there's always a chance for a fire, bitrot due to cosmic rays etc and thus you can only reduce the probability as you correctly concluded.

Unfortunately the world we are in right now just makes the hardware issue even worse with APIs that are prone to introducing bugs in the programs.

Bad hardware should result in the software being extra carefully crafted to balance it out a bit but somehow we ended up with bad hardware and bad software :(
> So, your top three choices are Google (weird ties to the US state dept), Microsoft (lobbied for cloud act, acquired linkedin and github so they could join the data with mandatory windows and office telemetry) and an independent company with weird ties to the Chinese govt.

> Do you really have a strong opinion about which one is the least bad choice?

I suspect that, if you're in the US or China already (which, just to say it explicitly, I recognize does not apply to everyone on HN), then you perceive a meaningful difference in whether any improper use of data will expose that data to the US, or to the Chinese, government. Even if your personal threat assessment finds no difference in those risks, then you probably at least have a strong opinion whether it's better to have your data improperly exposed to a government of whatever country, or to a private corporation.
> These are all demonstrably false. Once a pan is seasoned, there's not much you can do to mess up the seasoning -- in my experience.

Having destroyed the seasoning on a great many cast irons, this is a remarkable sentence to me.
Indeed so. I've been following nuclear in Germany ever since those railroad protests when they tried to transport nuclear waste from somewhere to somewhere else which I thought was crazy (the protests).

The part I felt had merit is that none of Europe's lofty solutions to safely storing/disposing of the waste output ever came to anything. I believe until this day that industry is still trying to work out how to dig 30km down to safely store the waste underground.

That said I haven't kept up to date on any progress or better solutions.
BNPL is just a digital credit card. You use a credit card so BNPL would be incrementally better, more points or something like that.
I don’t like the waste but I also like bananas. Not sure what to make of your example.
How do you “lose”?

For better or for worse consumer credit fuels the economy. There’s $1T in outstanding revolving consumer debt. If that went to $0 tomorrow the economy would crumble, not the opposite.
I don't see how one follows from the other.

In either system living in an industrial zone (or on the edge of it) will cost less as it is less desirable to live there (noise, air pollution, smells, further from grocery store, no parks etc) and nobody in their right mind would pay high rent there. Nothing to do with land value taxes.

Zoning changes what people will build there (we assumed it was even legal to have housing in an industrial zone there). If you rezone a residential area industrial and make it illegal to have housing there guess what will happen (assuming there's demand for industrially zoned areas)
> It is not like Germany has vast Uranium reserves.

... actually we do, around 130.000 tonnes of it[1,2]. Of course not as vast as some other countries, but still substantial. We just don't mine and refine it anymore. I don't know if this should be an actual argument pro nuclear, but we have it.

The GDR / DDR even supplied the Soviet Union with Uranium via SDAG Wismut[2].

[1] https://infcis.iaea.org/UDEPO/Statistics/ResourceByCountryAn...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company)
> Such overwrought prose. Such "forcing everything into a Marxist framework."

One of the reasons Marx is so popular is that his writing is vague enough that people can read a very wide range of meaning into the words. Religious leaders and politicians often follow the same playbook to great success.
The answer is no, actually. Pulling carbon out of the atmosphere is way harder than you think is is. The carbon in the atmosphere is at a very low concentration. The Sabatier process is presently only done with concentrated carbon dioxide that comes from industrial byproducts. Pulling it from the atmosphere is not efficient enough to be viable.

Even producing the hydrogen is a challenge. Almost all hydrogen is produced via steam reformation, which emits carbon dioxide. Producing it through electrolysis remains difficult because electrodes corrode and lead to high maintenance costs.
Are you really equating sanctions with full on war?
“Life from birth” doesn’t exist, but we know well where that fringe theory originated.

Bodily autonomy is one of the fundamental human rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_integrity
It's not really "avoiding", it's more like 1 less program to install, configure, run, learn keys for, and troubleshoot. I like both tmux and screen, but I personally don't need them anymore.
I lived in West Africa for 5 years and experienced the same, coming from locals: prejudice against each other's tribal origins and prejudice against foreigners.

But I fail to see how my and your experience are relevant to the way OP expressed himself re: 'Asian' behaviour?
> because their anti-nuclear environmental groups were actually being funded by Russia behind the scenes.

I am German and very pro nuclear, but this is conspiracy bs. And why make such a grand claim without a single source?
Yeah, and that’s why you should drink commercially packaged water instead.
Sounds an awful lot like that kid in the group project who lies about doing their piece of the work and then throws it together at the last minute out of guilt. Tends to result in a half-assed, low-quality effort that brings the rest of the group down.

Granted you should establish hard criteria for an MVP and not try to make everything perfect, the temptation for feature creep as you further explore the problem space is real. But if I'm offering someone a shovel I at least want a competently built V1 of a shovel, not a pinky swear that I'll have an awesome shovel for them in 2 months.

Features are a little trickier. Whatever the customers say they want may or may not be what they actually want, depending on the specific context of course. Or the customers say they want X, but they aren't actually willing to pay for X. There's a lot of noise that looks like signal. You see it in startup blogs all the time "I thought customers wanted this, and they kinda did, but it was actually this other variant that we didn't discover until we analyzed data from the first year of sales" Rather than debate on what may or may not be on the other side of the hill, I'd land on the side of going and taking a look, even if that means some extra time/effort/money climbing said hill. You'll at least get a good workout and be stronger for it even if there's nothing of value on the other side. Meanwhile your day job covers the downside risk :)

I guess it comes down to your last line "if you actually want to make money". At what scale and to what end? Waiting to start selling until you have something to sell might technically be leaving money on the table, but if it makes enough money and results in a better overall product, and you have a more long-term outlook, can be worth it. Granted not every sector and objective is amenable to that strategy, but there are so many in this space who dismiss it outright as naive, as if business with physical products don't do it all the time.
Strangler: Building a Feature Flag System in ColdFusion
Agreed. I use carbon steel for eggs and similar, they retain seasoning much better than stainless steel.

I also use cast iron for other things though. They have different strengths.
>“Ninety-nine per cent of the text of the articles of association is about climate and environmental protection, but 99 per cent of the money comes directly from Nord Stream II AG, which belongs to Gazprom.”

>“It’s quite a curious foundation. It is a puppet construction,” said Sascha Müller-Kraenner, head of Environmental Action Germany, a green charity, which is challenging the legality of the organisation both in the German courts and with the European Commission.

https://archive.ph/KXgC0

and German politicians from pretty much every single party have been taking bribes from Russia for years. Their energy policy of simultaneously shutting down coal but not spinning up any nuclear made them reliant on Russian natural gas, which they've been warned about by the US for years and are now paying the price for

from 2019 - https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/06/06/how-europes-green-p...

and a video from 2018 of Germany's UN delegation quite literally laughing at the suggestion they'd be reliant on Russia for energy if they proceeded with Nordstream 2. Some good schadenfreude here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwg
More like we were being overly optimistic about where the sky starts for years.
I feel like we are talking past the sale here. Is rainwater actually unsafe to drink, or did someone just change a number in a spreadsheet? After I learned about how residential radon was determined to be the “second biggest cause of lung cancer” I stopped immediately trusting these things.
I should also say that in contrast to the common misperception (which is largely due to nuclear lobbying) the percentage of gas in electricity production has actually not increased over the last 20 years: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/En...

What we are witnessing is largely strong push by the nuclear industry to take advantage of the current situation to change sentiments to again get decades worth of guaranteed profits, largely at the cost of renewables.
You can find that stuff in the DOJ pressroom.

There’s no way the security authorities are going to reveal sources and methods for actual plots.

My beef with the Heritage foundation is they present this as clear cut factual evidence while any thinking person, including federal judges overseeing the cases, is almost compelled to call out the nonsensical nature of the cases.

You’re not going to get any type of accounting for this stuff for 20-30 years when the decision makers are dead or retired and actual information gets declassified.
> I don’t see an easy way for a hedge fund to rent out the IP space unless they are a cloud provider.

This is a solved problem these days.

I personally know of IPXO[0] and can vouch for them as being legitimate and well ran. If you have an idle /20 laying around or whatever, I highly suggest getting it on their market and making some relatively easy money leasing out your blocks.

The total interaction (short of initial setup) these days is clicking a few buttons in your favorite interface to publish ROA records every so often when an IP block sees churn. A hedge fund could hire a junior neteng to handle those requests, the very rare abuse complaint, and any hijacked routes you need to track down.

Overall this is becoming a mature market with a number of players emerging for a public market. In private it's been going on for some time on a much more informal basis.

[0] ipxo.com
Guns too with the PLCAA
You could ask the people who inherit what the person owned. They have an easier legal reason to access the gmail account.
if there is no ther way to contact the senders/reciepients of the emails, i can only think of the legal way.
Yeah but we risk “perfect” being the enemy of “progress” if we think that way, and people invested in the status quo will surely co-opt and fund this thinking too.
GJS will be next, right?
Economists know what words mean.
So less boring, if nothing else.
CND in the Uk pretty much helped set the Uk on a similar path of “nuclear bad”.
What is required of the homeless to qualify? Often there are big strings attached like you have to be sober or at least be working towards that. They often don't want to help addicts who don't want to quit using.
> I would start by making property taxes substantially higher for non-owner-occupied property.

You need to build more. Everything else is just redistributing scarcity one way or other.
I'm not going to claim that cast iron is the best at everything, it isn't. That said, most of the people who dislike cast iron do so because they don't actually know how to use it. Anyone who is an accomplished cook learns that there are different techniques appropriate to different tools, and cookware is just a kind of tool in the kitchen. You should use different techniques with cast iron than you use for stainless steel than you use for non-stick than you use for copper, simply put. There are a number of commenters in this larger thread that are describing issues with cast iron that are directly caused by using the wrong techniques.

One of the great things about the Internet though is that there is truly a wealth of information out there to learn these things. I was an okay cook before the pandemic, but I spent most of my free time during lockdown learning how to cook and even found an online culinary school I could take classes through. It made a massive massive difference both in the quality of my output and the level of frustration I experienced during the process. I went from dreading cooking to really enjoying it as a form of zen.

If you use the right techniques to match your tools, everything starts to come together easily.
Perhaps irrational? It's certainly irrational. Nuclear is among the absolute safest methods of energy production. Looking at Wikipedia one person died and sixteen were injured at Fukushima. That risk should dictate energy policy? "Irrational" is being kind.
Absolutely! commoditization of real estate is the root of the housing crisis! Soon it'll be like all those other commodities, eg wheat/coffee/sugar/tea/oil/corn/electricity. Sugar, you'll recall, was once plentiful, but is now only in reach of the most affluent sugar investors/hoarders/robber barons, since its commoditization in the 1800s.
No surprice as to why the amounts of PFAS in the enviroment are not decreasing, when more of it is pushed into it. And have for years.

https://illinoisnewsroom.org/pfas-can-still-be-incinerated-i...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/pentago...

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/department-of-defen...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/company-linked-to-toxic-forever...
How am I _operating_ it? I deployed a smart contract and walked away. If I don't leave myself a backdoor, there's literally nothing I can do to prevent anyone in the world from interacting with the contract.

Everyone that runs an Ethereum full node; they're the ones operating the laundering service. They run servers that store all the transaction records on their hard drives and do the processing of the ZK proofs allowing funds to be redeemed. Those are the people you have to stop if you want the service to go away. In this scenario, I as the contract deployer can do nothing whatsoever to stop them.
Yes

Us providing guns and trainning is not war?

Eu providing arms and guns is not war?

Economic sanctions are not war?

War is not a movie with bang.

War is happening now.

It started when they sunk the war ship russian..
The floss I use apparently has PFAS in it (Oral B Glude). Many paper straws contain it. Nonstick pans. Food wrappers designed to avoid grease. Water resistant clothing, cleaning products, candy wrappers. I used to drink out of plastic bottles and plastic glasses.

We need to do a better job of regulating what is allowed to be sold to consumers. We're likely going to see a a whole host of rare medical conditions become common when my generation gets older. Not to mention that on top of destroying human health we're destroying the planet too. I don't know what to do about any of this but I feel powerless to make an impact.
I think Visual Studio at the time could inline functions - VS 6.0 from 1998 definitely could: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/doc/optcode.htm. Especially if explicitly marked 'inline', then it would happen at lower optimization settings.

I wonder if devs at the time were skeptical of relying on automatic optimizations, when a few years earlier doing it themselves was the only option. I could definitely see myself falling into that mindset.
A datapoint of 1 is not really how I would characterize experience in a continent with literally thousands of large corporations.
Are you one of the folks that doesn't have kitchen ventilation because, after all, how harmful can a little gas be?
Many people have no kids, or no parents (passed, or in another country), or live in a city (no yard, no car). The shape of their life is much different than yours. The lack of responsibility by comparison allows for this sort of venture to be prioritized. My life is like this (minus the startup, which sounds like a terrible time sink to me)
I understand now that their march was a separate one. My intent was not and is not to refuse to admit error in understanding the full context of a thing, I certainly misunderstood and thought they had in fact marched in Charlottesville. Mea culpa.

I stand by the point that nazis and other fascists use this sort of thing to signal their beliefs to each other and to muddy the water about their meaning and intent in so doing. And after another look I still believe that’s what it was, and that it should be called out.

As far as “violent, authoritarian, illiberal threat to democracy”, I can’t claim to ever have ‘punched a nazi’ or any such thing, although I hardly consider that action illiberal or any threat to meaningful democracy. I was referring to going to places where they gather and unequivocally vocally opposing them. My point was that I don’t need to conjure imagined nazis on the internet, they’re pretty visible in public meatspace.
>Likely they do cause some harm if you have enough statistical power, but likely below the threshold that we live with (for example birth control, going to the beach, driving a car, red meat, and maybe even cooking itself).

Isn't the entire reason these things are unsafe that they bioaccumulate over long periods of small dose exposure?
"City folk encountering their country cousins" used to be a standard trope of comedy. The very fact that it's not anymore tells you all you need to know about urbanization.
Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160k years
Best link I could find mentions Russia as well as all the other countries.

See the uranium mining section.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
No, unfortunately multiple bad things can be happening at once, and FIFO isn’t a great way of dealing with that.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357470
Aren’t renewables already more cost effective than nuclear?

See for example here: https://energycentral.com/c/ec/comparing-costs-renewable-and...

Storage issues might be solved before new nuclear plants go online at the current pace of progress.

Perhaps a few years of gas until the renewable infrastructure is set up will suffice? At least the issue does not seem to be as clear cut as most people claim they are.
> Can't we just finish stopping the C8/CFC/Pesticide/whatever

Most of this comes down to figuring out what's harmful and regulating it. We can't outlaw "chemicals". And, of course, there's the whole cooperation in other jurisdictions problem, which affects the next point...

> some nebulous, all-inclusive climate change plan that mostly causes people to only focus on oil use?

Look, uh, the climate change thing is bad. Really bad. And avoiding burning stuff is really hard. We can live without PFAS and glyphosate if we decide we really should. Avoiding burning stuff for energy is really hard.

The chemical harms are complicated: there are some that are long-standing risks, but most of our concerns do not raise to the level of something that screws up climate, agriculture, etc, for centuries.
According to the Office for National Statistics between 1st Jan 21 and 31st March 22, a total of 9,891 people died with Covid-19 within 1 month of vaccination, and a total of 82,255 people died of any other cause within 1 month of vaccination.
Funny that you mention a hundred billion dollars:

> Australia's growing hydrogen sector has an investment pipeline of A$133–A$185 billion ($92-$128 billion), equating to 35% of the country's total non-renewable energy and mineral resource investment, state body Geoscience Australia said July 19.
you think lawmakers are letting their highest-paying constituents expose themselves to that accountability?
Nestle sells portable bottles. That's what differentiates their product from the tap.
I am not sure anymore if we can agree on this, but current fission implementations are an added threat - and not a small one - to any climate change that occurs. In addition: To this day, we do not have a single final depot for nuclear waste.

Now, that is the anti-nuclear side of things, however CO2 is also a problem which we also don't want and this leads to the shutdown of the other potential sources of energy and we don't have a proper replacement for them either (wind and sun are not reliable sources).

In summary, we Germans want to swim, but don't want to get wet.
You can't, Autodesk owns the software patents and massive amounts of IP. You impliment their features, you're sued to non existence. Remove software patents, we will have competition again.
I want to re-frame what you're saying slightly.

Yes, the onus is on you to learn the skills you need to show up and produce on day 1. That's 100% true and it is a lot of work. Having a math phd alone and interest is not enough.

However, there are still plenty of paths from math phd into data science and adjacent fields. Those courses you mention are things that someone with a math phd can 100% self teach, almost certainly to a level of understanding that is stronger than someone coming out of a DS masters. Learning how to interview on those concepts is important but ultimately they are very easy for a math phd once they know what the rules of the game are.

Personally, I spent the last year or so of my postdoc obsessively leetcoding and doing side projects in DS and landed a non-entry level data science position as my first job out of academia at a FANG. This is with a pure math research background totally unrelated to the position.

So it is still very possible. I think painting it like you do is a bit pessimistic and will discourage the wrong people. From personal experience, I saw comments like yours over the past year while I was job hunting and found them very discouraging.

The most important things are:

- have a network of similar people who have also made the transition (recently!) to get good advice and maybe also some referrals. These are the people you met in grad school a few years ahead of you.

- know exactly what type of position you want (or converge quickly) and focus on it relentlessly.

- understand the value you bring and the value others perceive someone like you to bring. Talking to people in hiring positions for different roles is the fastest way to learn what you have that is valuable. Do that as much as possible. Then you can line up how you value yourself with how a hiring manager values you, which will be the happiest result.

- take as many interview opportunities as possible to get that interview experience.

- Work relentlessly to interview better than those people from DS masters or whatever other sources they might come from.
Soviet workers used to say "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."