skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying occasionally for years to recover a piece of interview where the interviewee was musing on the consequences and handling of someone inventing an atomic bomb well within reach of possession for common citizens.

The comment was roughly that it would be an outstanding technical achievement and probably worthy of major awards, but of course that's not what we'd do. More likely we'd burn the designs, lock the inventor up and throw away the key.

It seems, given this post, that it was not literally accurate, but I still find it a wonderful illustration of how much technology is not morally neutral and can lend itself more or less readily to constructive or destructive purposes.

Really wish I could find it again, or at least attribute properly.
Thermonuclear devices require complicated X-ray reflection modeling, ablation modeling, and some other very specialized stuff which barely even have open source libraries for this. There are some, still.
The former can be mostly done by comparing building costs and fall down rates 100 years ago to now and then plugging in the NICE HALY figures (they will pay for treatment that gives >=1 year per £30k IIRC) to see how many lives you could save. An order of magnitude was probably hugely understating things.

The latter is something I've seen a mountain of evidence on (from personal life, corporate life (all they needed to do was click on a link and fill out three fields... but no....) and various stats such as reduced application rates per page of forms and big changes in completion rates with extra fields) but don't have a good reference. :(

Beware Trivial Inconveniences is kinda related I guess.
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This is probably the best comment I've ever read on HN. Thank you. This is why I love this community!
This is again referring to the current state of affairs and therefore misses the point. These controls work for now because such tech is expensive and difficult. A future where that's not the case isn't so unlikely.
Then you want the Free Software Foundation.

https://www.fsf.org/
Lone wolf terrorists wouldn't result in annihilating ~every city on Earth, but state actors might.

One nuclear bombing is bad. 1,000 nuclear bombings is worse. Risk = probability × outcome.

It's not a choice between only state actors having access vs only lone wolf terrorists. The issue of nuclear disarmament is choosing between states + terrorists (the status quo) vs only terrorists.
too bad,
he could have build one for himself and drive it around on a motorcycle and become a sovereign individual
They have sometimes (in London or San Francisco I noticed that) new boarding processing where you are required to show passport and boarding pass that is automatically scanned.

However everytime I see it, it delays the boarding and they skip the procedure to the default boarding pass only.
Find the "friend" who can't look at you anymore without breaking into a fit of giggles / falling over laughing?
I was one of the folks hit by the massive cancellations in Germany this summer. I'd love this new suggestion.

My flight was canceled a month and 5 days ago. It was to the US and Canada, was canceled 22 hours in advance, and would have been my first time to see my family since the pandemic – more than 3 years.

I spent 3 hours on the phone with the airline trying to find a way to my destination. In the end they offered me nothing. I filed for a refund, and the statutory compensation on the day of my cancellation. I haven't received either. The airline has ignored my dispute filing, and the website where I booked hasn't processed the refund.

A week ago, I filed a chargeback with my credit card. I haven't received any info on that.

Two days ago, I had to spend the time hiring a legal service which processes the statutory EU compensation, but they'll take a third of what I'm due (€600 of the €1800), and say it'll take 2-3 months.

The current system does not work. Even if I do in the end get my refund and compensation, I'll come out roughly break-even on costs, lost my summer vacation, and will be down a dozen hours of effort.
that's a crazy take, consequences of a person being bumped off the plane is dramatically higher for the person than for the airline
From Wikipedia

>There are currently no known gun-type weapons in service: advanced nuclear weapon states tended to abandon the design in favor of the implosion-type weapons, boosted fission weapons, and thermonuclear weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon

It seems like clearly the inferior method, the USSR never even bothered with them.
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Just an example from, uh, 2 days ago:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/professor-fired-for-allege...
Yup. And if you think airlines are slow to give refunds, wait until you've chased the general public for payment for services they didn't use and don't want to pay for! Which simply means substantially more expensive tickets, and people with bad credit don't get to fly.

And still the airlines will slowball on mandatory compensation where it's owed
I was curious how GPT-3 would fare with a more elaborate response, so I pasted a random recruiter email and asked it to reply with more information, if the information wasn't in the email.

I am quite astonished by its performance, and this is coming from the guy who made an entirely AI-generated podcast (https://deepdreams.stavros.io)

https://www.pastery.net/zdxyvy/
Granved är ren skit. Förstör skorstenen o pannan, kåda o inge energivärde. Elda björk istället!!!
In any reasonable definition of what a median is then there is either a unique value, or the mean between the two middle elements is a median, so it's perfectly reasonable to take the average (something which you can always do and gives a unique answer).
Not OP. Gun-type assemblies use uranium and are very wasteful in terms of fissile material. State-run nuclear programs have all gone for implosion designs, even North Korea.
It doesn't matter whether or not your new big corp service is in the "takes a couple of hours to fix" category. It will still take months and will be even more unreliable than the startup service.
Here is the tweet. Unfortunately this website (1) doesn't store the video:

"""

These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

"""

As you can see on (1), that particular tweet is deleted, it cannot be further reached. Trump goes on with the "stolen election" line, nothing new there, the only new thing is: "Go home"

Wouldn't you like to that message to be transmitted to the Trump supporters at that exact time? Wasn't that precisely the message everyone needed? Who better than Trump to defuse that situation?

Why delete that tweet that day? When it was precisely the tweet that was needed? Can someone explain this?

--------

(1) https://www.thetrumparchive.com
I'd be careful with these ideas of countries being generally wealthy these days. Germany and the UK as with elsewhere has a large minority who could only dream of such temperatures in the middle of winter in their home. Many will go without heating as they have done in previous winters. Standard of comfort is highly variable within countries.

But yes, generally speaking, people have got used to setting the thermostat higher.
yeah I was raised in similar manner, but as a father of 2 right now I see - in my personal case - the biggest difference that makes me afraid about my kids:

I don't know around half of my closest neighbours

It's not that I don't want to get to know them, it's that everyone are so busy (me included) that I don't simply have time to align with them to learn more about them better.

Also, tons of people are moving in and moving out all the time.

It wasn't the case in my home village - I knew a lot of people and even more people (my parent friends that I didn't know) knew who I was. I could bet at that time that if something bad was going on for me, there would be someone who will help me without any struggle.

In my current place is different. Even my relatives who stayed in my home town can agree that even there a lot of people are moving in and out and they don't know all of the townspeople anymore.
Thank you for the very useful info!
Still a ripoff. A Samsung 980 Pro 1T is AU$209. That's not an upgrade, that's the entire new device, double the size.
>but of course that's not what we'd do. More likely we'd burn the designs, lock the inventor up and throw away the key.

Which is exactly what we should do (in fact, the inventor shouldn't be locked up, he should be "disappeared"), if we want to avoid horrible destruction.

I really think this kind of thing might be the answer to the Fermi Paradox: Just imagine if any idiot could easily construct not just any bomb, but a doomsday bomb that destroys the whole planet. The planet wouldn't last long, because sooner or later some mentally ill person is going to build one and set it off.
Quiet quitting is partly about managers, but more about working beside people who make the same money as I do, but do essentially nothing. People who were hired because they fit a profile, not because they were the most qualified.
Vm A also does copy on write. So VM B is still seeing the unmodified block.
Thank you for the very useful info! He definitely needs to be in better shape than most 45 year olds I guess!
this is like using a CPU to prop a window open - it does the job, but it is not the right tool
That number shouldn't work, right?
It's both too low temperature burning leaving resiude in the chimney that can catch fire later, AND pine/spruce having way too much sap to burn alone. You should absolutley mix it with other wood when you burn it, same as oak.
Fat Man was 20k pounds, and about the size of a large automobile.
But they would not, as terrorism isn't about making money.
Hiroshima / 1945-08-06 / Little Boy / gun type Uranium / untested

Nagasaki / 1945-08-09 / Fat Man / implosion type Plutonium / tested with Trinity 1945-07-16
Guarantee all parents affordable child care close to their work or home

Sweden has that (and generous parental leave policies) and still has both low and declining birth rates.
Cash is not always legal tender. (For example Scottish cash is not legal tender, it’s just accepted by convention.) and anyway ‘legal tender’ doesn’t mean a business has to trade with you if they don’t want to unless they’re settling a debt in court.
> Phillip’s work was confiscated by the FBI

Typical government overreach. If you live in a rural area you can't rely on the government for nuclear defense. How are they supposed to defend themselves without nukes of their own?
The author says the first example is slightly incorrect because the Green (a name) and green (a color) have a very different meaning. The example that follows is using the physical color of the building and the conceptual color of the building in some color coded system, which in both cases are arguably colors.

I think the author would probably consider 'green energy' to also be a 'slightly incorrect' example because it doesn't actually refer to the color green. I guess it would be correct if the antonym of green energy were also named after a color.
The only step that takes time and space is creating enough highly enriched uranium for the bomb. You need few hundred or thousand centrifuges running a some time.

I have a friend who is nuclear physicist working for the nuclear proliferation issues in international organization. According to him, every country would do modern boosted fission weapon as their first nuke, and it can take less than year when you have easy access to experts and modern machines. Few subcritical tests (easy to hide) are needed to verify that everything works, numerical simulations do the rest.

Boosted fission weapon is still considered a fission weapon, but it uses fusion to boost the yield. You need a breeder reactor or small particle accelerator to make the necessary tritium but basically anyone can do it. Including North Korea.
I agree and even google noticed it has become a problem and thus reduced the quality for public facing images.

Here in germany you can even have your house blurred out on google maps if you submit a request.
Have you seen this Veritasium video about the man who came up with adding tetraethyllead to gasonline and it's negative impact on humanity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA

Given how dangerous lead is in even the tiniest quantities it is really surprising that there has not been more pressure to change that.
Whilst it states that 10% of the cost of solar panels is down to the price of silver it doesn’t mention what proportion would be due to the cost of copper, far less I imagine.

Whilst copper itself is becoming more scarce it’s less scarce than copper.

Somewhat reminded of the copper shortage in the second world war needed to drive uranium isotope separators:

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/from-treasury-vaul...
Not working for me :( Only get:

Sorry, game OZQTYAJL not found or long expired!

Tried a couple of browsers but always get the same code...
To say that agendas around "gender and immigration" are unrelated to the EFF's goals is missing the point.

You can guarantee that if society moves towards criminializing trans people, or further demonising immigrants, or tracking women's fertility for the purposes of further restricting access to abortion; surveillance technology will be at the forefront of that effort and the EFF's goals of technological privacy and free speech will be important to fight against it.

To support the EFF is, in my opinion, an inherently political act and to say you support their overall aims of online privacy and free speech but also "get upset" when they support groups that directly benefit from their causes is (IMO) a contradiction.
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Germany already has a number of restrictions on contracts with regular people (corporations and certain persons are expected to look out for themselves).

For example, phone sales can't be final at that time, there has to be a 14-day grace period starting from when the purchase agreement is accessible to both parties (IIRC). Mail-order vendors have to accept returns on most kinds of goods, by law not by convention. Warranties cannot be shorter than a specified limit. Apartment rental contracts cannot ban having children, and so on and so forth.

The restrictions are real, even if most of a typical contract is still free to design and write by the parties.

This suggested change isn't larger than many of those, or groundbreaking. It's just another one like those.
Yes, but when the big guys' cheating is worth millions all while costs of living are going up and income inequality is rising, I really can't blame the commoner cheating for a few hundred bucks. I don't mind it becoming the default option - at least it'll put everyone on a level playing field.
But you can see on trumparchive that the "Go home" tweet from Jan 6th was deleted, and that Trump wasn't allowed to post until Jan 7th.
> You see people on the left constantly denigrating white men, and calling for attacks against them

Do you really face daily denigration from non-{white male} folks around you? Have you considered the possibility that you have to look for such occurences to confirm your own biases?
Correct when it comes to present day nukes, maybe not if we're talking engineered viruses or some as yet undiscovered weapon. Anyway, I think the point stands that there's significant novel risks posed if individuals of the future are capable of destroying cities if they feel like it, and there will unfortunately need to be a paradigm shift around privacy and government involvement if that day comes.
And this just makes your browser fingerprint more unique
Hmmm. Something to do with lack of state warrant of fitness in US?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688746
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But the actual results of the left are much scarier than those of the right. "Socialism works" in particular was the initial seed of some of the worst suffering humanity has ever called forth.

And I haven't seen a tally of the results but the amount of political violence could be relatively balanced. Eg, attacks on congress people [0] is roughly balanced, with arguably the Republicans have suffered more (I personally call that 1-1 since 2000, although the attack on the republican baseball game was probably trying to achieve mass slaughter - it isn't obvious the attack on Rand Paul was the normal political assassination variety).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress...
> Transport uses up so incredibly much more energy, ...

True. I never claimed otherwise.

> ...almost none of which comes from sustainable sources at the moment.

I know. The world is roughly at 80 % fossil energy right now, as far as I remember.

Trust me on this, energy is one of the topics I spend time reading and thinking about several times a day.

> Don't worry about a better USB cable if you're really concerned with the environment.

Here's the thing. It's about this mentality of: this small thing here doesn't really matter. But people in this "ever more culture" reliably put one "small thing" after the other in their basket of consumption capacity .. until it's full.

These people ask "I can have more, why shouldn't I?" rather than "I can have more, do I really want/need more?"

Do you enjoy watching your movie at 8k 4 times more than at 4k because it comes with 4x the pixels? If you do, I pity you.

I recently watched some Linus Tech Tips video where he installs their 1 PB of storage and boasts about their new camera that can record videos with a data rate of 300 MB/s ... 1 TB per 3 seconds ... yeah! ... sorry (not sorry), despite all my fascination with tech, this attitude is just so heinously wasteful and damaging.

As if these hundreds of HDDs hadn't taken any ressources and weren't consuming quite a bit of electricity.

Again ..

> Don't worry about a better USB cable if you're really concerned with the environment.

I don't worry about the cable. I worry about the f*** up culture/attitude.
The apostrophe in question is properly marking the omission of an “e”.

‹ducks and runs away to enjoy the fallout from a safe distance›
Yeah, my reaction to this isn't "oh hey about time" but more "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HOW IS THIS STILL A THING"
I suspected there would be a catch preventing me from buying a MacBook.

I damaged the screen in every laptop that I ever owned - either by creating pressure marks or - like in the most recent one - somehow stretching(either via temperature or flexing the surprisingly flimsy cover) the adhesive which kept all the LCD layers in place, creating a diagonal clouding pattern in the process.

My next laptop will be a framework because then at least I will be able to easily replace the screen once the inevitable happens.
> I have no idea what ARM's thinking at this point.

Focussing on desktop and servers.. It worked.

In a similar fashion RISC-V has things which makes little sense for "high performance" (16-bit aligned 32bit instructions with the C extension, too simple addressing mode) which shows that their main goal is embedded..
Wait until you hear how much eScooters cost
You certainly meant "run Kubernetes on Vaxen", right?
Unrelated, your Stable Diffusion image compression article was amazing, thanks for that.
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This isn't true. Many successful, profitable businesses were started by just surveying the landscape and being better/different to something pre-existing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median has this definition.

It's also the definition that I was taught at school.

Oxford Languages defines it as: "denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it", which also supports the idea of taking the midpoint between the two middle values.

Merriam Webster define it explicitly in the way OP does (arithmetic mean of the two middle values): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/median

I'm not sure why you think it's a 'completely useless definition'. It would perhaps be a logical argument that data sets of even length do not have a median, but I think this would be even more useless.

To the layperson (which Mary Jones undoubtedly is), providing the 'median' age as an age half of the employees are older than/younger than, is what would be expected. Your first bullet point makes sense here. For example here:

18, 20, 25, 30, [35, 40], 45, 50, 55, 60

Most people would expect the median to be calculated as 37.5. However, as you mention, any real number higher than 35 and lower than 40 would equally fulfill the definition of 'equal probability of falling above or below' assuming this is the full population. Would you then argue that there are infinitely many medians in this data set, or none?

There are other issues with calculating 37.5, such as the fact it implies a higher degree of precision than it ought to. But ultimately, as a practical and usable insight into data, especially data with extreme outliers or high levels of skew, I strongly disagree that this definition is completely useless.
I suppose you could explain that quite easily as I didn't state 100%.

Government employment =/= Reality

That's the weird disconnect, I've explained it in my commemt and it is verifiable information.

Your last question doesn't make sense unless you mean to say it ironically, I can't tell, but whatever. The words you have chosen do not illustrate the point you intended to make.

I'm not right wing. I'm able to see and also think critically of both conservatives and liberals.
I'm capable of self awareness.

It is clearly an uncommon trait.
Rand.org? Radio Free Asia? Two countries that will do the US's bidding? the UN? How are these reputable sources on the topic of economic enemies of the current global hegemony? Are you sure you understand what kind of can of worms you might be opening? Including one of stirring up racist hatred against 1/3 of the planet's population?
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> 2. No language server (apparently it's just impossible due to the way the language works). Tbh, I'd be happy with just "Go to definition" but alas, no-can-do!

Emacs' dumb-jump appears to have some basic support for go to definition: https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump/blob/master/dumb-jump...

But out of curiosity, what is the issue from a technical point of view?
Hmm, that 15-16 minute time seems unappetizing to me, but I haven't preferred fully cooked flaky/chalky yolks for a long time. For creamy (aka jammy) yolks, I have settled on:

- 9:30-10:?? cook time depending on size

- eggs straight from fridge (not necessary; just how I do it)

- Move the steamer basket to cold running water immediately. I think colder water will help make peeling easier, but faucet temperature water is usually fine, too.

With a gas stove, the hard part is getting the water back to the right boil after adding the basket. I know that the temperature of the water won't change, but I still feel that higher heat will cook the eggs faster since more steam will be passing over them.
I used this on the PS2. It worked too.