skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BLS says:

> There were 4,764 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2020, a 10.7-percent decrease from 5,333 in 2019.

We should diligently work to reduce work injuries, especially fatal ones. It appears that LANL is a safer workplace than average and its three criticality-accident fatalities in 80 years are not a significant contributor to its overall workplace accident risk.

However, it sounds like the lab's safety staff left en masse because they felt they didn't the power to make changes to improve things. That suggests that too much power rests with management and not enough with rank-and-file workers, and that is a situation that tends to result in safety risks, because those fall disproportionately on rank-and-file workers in every workplace.`
Security is a point that hasn't been mentioned. My first job the corporate was barely attached to the internet. We could deploy applications internally with completely lax security, never had to worry about TLS or account management or often even passwords.
It's like the tech tree from the Civ games in reverse.

To develop 'Social Network' or 'Digital Currencies', you need 'Server Farm', 'Internet', and 'Power Grid', and to have those you need everything from 'Intercontintental Data Cables' to 'Semiconductor Manufacturing', and way back to extraction and refining of raw materials..
the internet is great for research though
Got to love how Bob Ross style gives everyone a huge afro.
Big +1 about composability and orthogonality. I don't want one "do it all" tool, I want a collection of small tools that interoperate nicely. Like how you can use Airflow and DBT together, but neither tool really tries to do what the other one does (not that Airflow is "small", but still).
The main one is Sutton SignWriting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting I first learned about its existence from a book by Doyald Young where he showed his design for the first font for SignWriting.

As a Hard of Hearing individual, the lack of empathy, let alone accommodation, for people with hearing loss is staggering.
It's only fissile material that behaves this way, not all radioactive material.

The supercritical state must be reached very quickly (with explosives) to get city-destroying power levels out of a few kilograms of plutonium. But getting enough power out of a few kg of supercritical plutonium to kill someone standing nearby is easy to do even accidentally.
Nope, the conventional explosive is just there to keep the chain reaction from blowing the critical mass far enough apart to stop itself. Nuclear reactors do not use conventional explosives, as you probably knew.
There is substantial unused grid capacity overnight and during the day that the most basic of smart grid logic can schedule the car to turn on charging during.

In other words, shift the demand from the 4-9PM slot that is the hot spot.

For what this doesn't cover, this is not rocket science. We will build the capacity. It's just wires and generators.
That's not a huge deal either, really. In time, more and more parking spots will have charging ports. The fact that they aren't all used all the time will actually make it easier to manage the grid loads.

Imagine you park your car and let either the car or the charger know you aren't moving the car for 2 or 3 days. It can use that knowledge to delay your charging until local demand is lower, or power is cheaper.
PSVR 2 has eye tracking, you have to calibrate it when you first try it but once its done it works really well, stuff like when characters talk to you they look at your eyes, being able to see what other people are looking at etc but the biggest advantage to eye tracking is foveated rendering where the game engine renders in higher resolution in areas where your eyes are looking so this will increase performance and graphics.
>The behaviours of the K-pop fans in my life don’t resemble anything like the fans of boy bands growing up.

My completely anecdotal experience seems to contradict this, the most "mainstream" example I have was when I saw Loona's AMA on the front page of reddit. I read through the thread, and you're going to have a hard time convincing me the average poster was not a 14-year-old girl.

I've also listened to some kpop myself and more directly I always thought, yes, this is type of music I'd go for if I had severe ADHD (not an insult to the genre, I can't say it was "bad", it just gave me that impression)
> treat certain minorities as if they’re all from single parent homes

That’s not what you should have taken from that example at all, which is specifically why I used two white coded names. The point is that people grok individual disadvantages easily and giving them a leg up feels natural, and the same reasoning should be applied to systematic disadvantages.

> regardless of whether that’s true for the individual.

What you’re describing is looking at privilege through the lense of intersectionality, which nobody disagrees with.
To make it explode you are correct, you need to bring a lot of material together very fast.

This explains the difference between the two types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_criticality
The problem is that EV cars have a finite lifespan on the most expensive component of the car... the battery. It is not modular despite being composed of several individual cells, and often you are not allowed to work on it yourself. Once the battery is dead that's it. You either pay 3k or bust.
Yes, it has increased but remains low compared to other cities in Canada. Neverthless, glad the SPVM is taking that seriously.

Homicide rate per 100,000 population in 2021 [1]:
- Montreal 1.11
- Toronto 2.08
- Vancouver 2.16

The US average hovers around 5 [2].

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=351000...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...
You can start critical chain reaction with your hands holding a bit of Pu each, by bringing them together. What you get with implosion is keeping that chain reaction going for a ~hundred generations exponentially cracking atoms so it goes all kabloey.
Commenting on the name ... technically, a muon is (like) a heavy electron ...
> In terms of facilities and their impact on biking frequency, this survey found only a small
relationship between proximity to facilities and the likelihood of cycling, within a radius
of a mile or so.

> Somewhat to the chagrin of many officials excited about the prospects of using community design to
induce—or even enable—physical activity, this analysis suggests an uphill battle lies ahead.

Anyways, perhaps you can cite your sources behind your claims that you say are obvious. Surely public policy like building bike lanes has to have some solid data behind instead of just wishful thinking.
3D Printed mini Homelab with 4 drives, and 24 hour battery backup
I thought for a second you meant that a boy band decided to be named THAAD, which would be a bit ballsy, haha.
You're absolutely right.

The idea that bringing a few bars of plutonium next to each other for a photo could result in a criticality event is completely bogus.

The real issue of course, is that you want people at a facility that handles plutonium to adhere very strictly to procedures. If you don't freak out when they take some selfies, next day they'll do something else. And one day, one of these things will be stupid and lots of people will get hurt.
Let me toss a question back at you:

How certain are both of you that your academic biologist spouse is ready for such a prodigious change in lifestyle?
the chain reaction you get this way is more like Chernobyl than a nuclear explosion
Exercise is boring. I want better bike and walking infrastructure (including places reachable from home that way) because then exercise is an incidental side effect of doing things.
Walt Disney makes the pictures look like promotional Disneyland pictures.
In TFA he says, to paraphrase, 'We aren't going all-in on EVs and lack of infrastructure is one of the reasons.' What do you think is the fastest way to get ICE cars off the road? Pretty sure what you outline in your comment isn't it. I also don't think that affordable infrastructure actually gets built without government support - but happy to consider any counterexamples.

Just to clarify, in case you misunderstand me, I can't wait to be free of ICE vehicles.
Fired or fried?
You always need to balance Precision and Recall. For something like this, you want to be exhaustive.

I've worked on search engines, and depending on who is using them, that balance gets struck differently on the ROC curve. For legal matters, for example, they want every record that might match. For ad-hoc (google style) queries, nobody reads the second page so you care more about Precision @ 20 (or really, at 3)
Oh my gosh. Talk about a flashback. When I heard the bump music following the return from the commercial break my brain went into a time-warp. I remember watching Computer Chronicles.
And that RISC IBM desktop. $10k with all of 4Megs for those hefty scientific jobs. Woo-hoo!
You don't need the conventional explosive to kickstart the reaction - you need it to bring the material close together quickly, otherwise the early stages of the reaction blow the material apart before the chain reaction really gets going. That is, if you want to build a bomb.
If by avoided you mean physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin dying from acute radiation syndrome (Demon Core), then yeah.
Tell that to all the Tesla owners that leave their cars at the airport and return to a dead battery.
Chomsky is the far left, at least in America. Of course the neoliberals (center-right) rejected him.
In 2019, Toyota also sued California to take away its EPA waiver (dating from the 1963 Clean Air Act) to set its own car mileage standards. Aggressively suing your customers to make their air quality worse goes well beyond lobbying.
The growth of language size in the past 30 years is even more stunning when you compare today's C++ to C, or Java to Pascal (or Object Pascal) from 1990. No modern language can be taught in less than a thousand page textbook. And if you include the standard templates and libraries the book size can double again.

The evolution of any language inevitably adds reams of extensions, variations, and libraries. This makes the tool not only a lot more heavyweight, but much slower and harder to master, and personally, a lot less fun to use. Give me a tiny simple language (e.g. C) any time over a giant language that requires me to navigate multiple programming paradigms and layers of abstraction (e.g. C++).

Modern languages are like having to speak in Latin. You spend all your time trying to please an nazi grammarian, rather than speaking simply and naturally, as the language was originally conceived.
This is true, but an EV that needs a battery swap is still carrying along a ton of mechanics that, compared to an ICE vehicle, are likely to be in generally better condition.

People used to do powertrain replacements on used cars, after all. (Maybe still do? The used cars I see are generally in better mechanical shape these days.)
Read “Body by Science”. That will take care of your physical body. Spending 15 min a week. I have so far doubled my muscle strength by following it.
I have never used the same nickname on multiple sites. Often when I get a new device, I just make a new account. Especially for HN and Reddit.
My wife has a firstname@gmail.com account and she gets a lot of other peoples’ emails including some rather sensitive stuff (bank statements, employment info, etc.)
A Nation of Quitters
Codes sounds wrong. Code is a collective noun.
I've spent quite a bit on WiFi in my house and I can get almost gigabit speeds over 6e. But latency is terrible. I have no idea how they'd manage that.
It really depends on the CSS rule you are using. The majority of the older/simpler properties are traditionally tied to the CPU, but things like transform, filters, or any 3D effect will push you over into the GPU.
Most electrical transmission lines are much cheaper aluminum. There are some weird rules about using that safely, but nothing a lineman can't handle.
Ory looks promising. Can you use the free tier for multiple projects as long as they are low volume?
Surviving vs. thriving.
the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser highlights many closer calls than this and is very good reading, if a bit disconcerting
> I always think it’s strange when people make the argument that it’s good for harmful tools to be out in the open because people can/will change their behavior because of them.

> 99.999999% of people will never see this repo, never know things like this exist, and don’t visit sites like HN but can, and probably will be, affected by it in some way.

Yup, I do think you're right. And honestly, the folks who'd probably most benefit from being able to run one of these tools to empower themselves with data that can help them change their behaviour/privacy settings - they're probably actually the folks least likely to be able to install and run the tool.
3k? That’s a Prius salvage battery.

EV batteries won’t get replaced in 20k cars anymore than engines are. You total it out at that point.
I think the way to look at cases like these is to recognise organisations aren't monoliths, but a mass of individuals each tugging in their own direction. Clearly, there were inventors, progressives and visionaries within these companies that correctly predicted future trends and were trying to steer the ship to capitalise on them, but for some reason, other voices drowned them out.
Why does the author write in such laughably pretentious language?

> It is the emotional register that accounts for the Pavlovian alacrity with which we attend to our devices and the digital flows for which they are a portal

Why not just say "it's the feeling of being addicted to social media"?

Another example:

> I skim the surface of each emotional experience, but rarely can I plumb its depths or sound out its meaning.

This isn't a satire but I wish it was. If the author has something to say, maybe they should actually make an effort to say it instead of larping as a philosopher
As someone that worked at a dial up ISP and had an ISDN connection at home, modem bonding was really fascinating. At the ISP side, these were all T1 lines, so every line was technically 64k capable. The analog 56k modems rarely made a true 56k connection. However, there were some customers that lived one telephone pole away from the CO, and we would see them connected at 57600. One close customer would show at some oddball speed like 58k or 59k (though we don't know what they actually got at their end).

But for ISDN, each channel was the full 64k and that would bond two channels to 128k. I had a cisco modem that would let me use either channel as an analog phone. So it would connect up both channels, and when a call came in, drop down to one 64k channel. It was incredibly reliable. Even when I got DSL, I kept the ISDN for quite a while because it had more consistent upload speed.
Watch the videos on the YouTube channel “Low Carb Down Under”. Just watch one video a week (45 min a week). It will give you all the info you know to improve your diet step by step.
Remember when KeyBase was gonna make it easy to verify users across profiles? Your KeyBase profile would link out to all of them, no magic needed.
Stable Diffusion accidentally incorporated a watermark into a generated image
I wonder how common this is. It certainly raises some questions as to copyright issues. Has anyone else had this happen? This is a KPDM_2 generation presented as-is, based on an 0.6 image-to-image (from a 3D rendering of my own which does not contain a watermark). Out of hundreds of images I've generated, this is the only one I've seen that shows a mark.

[EDIT]: A similar mark showed up in almost the same spot in another generation! https://ibb.co/ssnSDr4
It is exactly the same. Natural selection only cares about reproduction rate. It doesn't matter if we consider a trait "bad" (such as lower education or intelligence) - if it results in more offspring, it is what evolution will select. Conversely, if it results in fewer offspring, it will slowly be weeded out, even if we'd rather keep it.
Who gives a shit if he calls himself Doctor or not.

This is character assassination, leave it alone.
When Will the Pandemic Truly Be ‘Over’?
Start by being an associate/junior. Then wait about 4 years.
> Putting a profit motive anywhere near anything that is safety critical is almost never a good idea.

Why? And exactly how do you mean that?

Is the safety track record of private industry worse than that of eg non-profit or state owned industry.
The Honda Accord hybrid gas engine has 3 modes. It can power the wheels, power the generator to drive the electric motor and it can charge the battery.
There seems to be a fair amount of missing features too

https://github.com/ultralight-ux/Ultralight/issues/178
This title is interesting, because "Auth" (Authoritarian) and "Lib" (Liberal/Libertarian) are both used to denote opposite ends of the vertical axis of the "political compass."
There is a very gung ho culture in labs about safety. It slows you down to do things right and when it comes to reviews the cowboys (and girls) who do things wrong but fast get better reviews because they get more done.

Nuclear labs kill the people inside them at worst. Bio labs ... Well there's a reason why I think covid was the worst lab accident in human history.
I suppose that's a fair assessment. Thanks!
I regret to inform you that plugging your EV into a tree to charge only works in cartoons.
If it really is just a login page and some content, you can start out with an off-the-self CMS (like WordPress et al), with little to no development work. That would provide you with a quick way to test out your ideas.

You might also want to look into the burgeoning low-code/no-code space, if you need something a little more complicated. If it turns out you need to do more serious programming, however, that's when it's probably time to look for a technical co-founder.
Except it was terrible. Not only was it by a company whose profit center is pure evil, but if it would of taken off it wasn't inconceivable games could of been developed exclusively for the tech. It would make DRM, anti-cheat and a whole host of other things a lot easier.

There are many of us who do not want to see that future ever, where the only way to play game is to stream it.
The term "victimless crime" itself is an oxymoron.
'The Rock' came out in 1996. Which dossier are you talking about?
The cheapest Toyota available in the US is a bare bones Corolla for a bit over $20,000.

It somewhat remains to be seen if a used electric with a new battery can be cheaper than a used hybrid.
This is also true of some other solutions, but with regards to it as an alternative to Electron, remember to be careful with licensing. While many open source licenses are compatible in one direction, Ultralight is commercial software, and thus it is incompatible with a lot of copyleft licenses. (Disclaimer: IANAL.)
Clearly I'm trading low quality/cheaper for more time in sauna, since it does take more time to heat you up. I put a towel around the neck hole to accumulate heat, but I'm dripping with sweat in 25 minutes. I may not be Finnish, but the model I'm using really does get me going.
Ay, but there's the rub. It's challenging to do this well at the required level of reliability, and at a cheap enough cost to deploy at scale.

NYC has been moving to (theoretically automatable) CBTC signaling from mechanical signals. It's been challenging.

* The CBTC and mechanical interface has issues and constantly fails over the entire system

* The mechanical system is itself falling apart because it dates from the '30s, and is so old that the suppliers no longer exist and they source parts either from collectors on eBay or make it themselves, and this is also affecting the first bullet point

* Few modern suppliers of signaling actually sell fixed-block signaling that can handle the capacity required today, and even if they did, would it make sense to spend hundreds of millions or billions on a stopgap to CBTC, which will also cost hundreds of millions or billions?
I have never heard the term "codes". If one were to use it, I would assume that they are non native speakers
If you play with Stable Diffusion enough this behavior becomes very apparent. Changing the seeds will give different results, but even relatively significant changes in the prompt will still find similar themes or layouts.
I'm not particularly interested in talking about such things. It's clear that we don't agree on that point, which is fine. My concern was (attempting to) focus more on the effectiveness of the program in question.
Does skin effect even play a role in power delivery? We're not talking about high frequencies here, I suppose.
It's not necessary. You just need to increase the neutron density to a point where the fission reaction can take place. You can do that by:

* Reflecting neutrons (as in the demon core incidents)

* Bringing too much fissile material together in the same place (the cause of other accidents, the "little boy" nuclear weapon)

* Compressing a subcritical mass of fissile material with explosives such that the increased density makes it critical (most nuclear weapons)
I didn’t for a second believe someone working in a nuclear lab would have brought together that many high purity plutonium rods in close proximity, but apparently I was wrong.
I always found this behavior strange. Tab often doesn’t work correctly in a browser, cycling through elements that shouldn’t be focused, sometimes in a strange order. Enter submits a form. How does one cycle through “fields” then? I have also seen premature form sends when you hit enter to autocomplete etc. It also creates multiline textarea vs input inconsistency.

Desktop frameworks “committed” input on enter and most often focused the next field, so you could skip them by enter enter enter. This worked correctly since FoxPro/TurboVision/Norton times. Only Ctrl-Enter would press a “default” button out of order.

But web has its own ways as usual.
This is a super cool mission involving collaboration with lots of other space missions to do something of practical and theoretical interest. Bravo!
Compared to some other possibilities: MCMLXX or 5730 (let alone An CLXXVIII or 62 AF) I find 01970 (or even 000001970) amazingly harmless.

(there is a —very— small community which schedules working hours around ~25 hour "sols", but I doubt they reckon by 668 sol years; does anyone know?)
Here's the relevant Reddit commit on the OP (might be a better link for the post)

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xtwnvj/iran_says...

And for some more detail on what happened - plainclothes security forces (basij) surrounded students/professors at the university, have fired on them (rubber and real bullets?) have many of them trapped.

"Iranian forces shoot at protesting students, lay siege to university" - https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xtyias/iranian_f...
Super heavy electron hmmm
We used to spend more time programming.

What passed for project management before XP and Agile wasn't great. But at least it didn't impose ridiculous administrative burden onto devs.

Gods, we used to complain about doing weekly status reports. Now it sounds like heaven.
That argument would make sense if they gave consumers an option.
I know that even in the early 90's, there were still a few chat BBSs (D-Dails) using 300 baud in my area (Chicago)
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/APPLE/II/DIVERSIDIAL/
Or directed energy weapons.
plausibly both
I'm not sure about in Europe, but in the U.S. at least a substantial portion of power generation is already from renewables. That doesn't really make it free, or necessarily even cheaper depending on the circumstances.