skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are three arguments that I personally find both reasonable and convincing.

1) Nuclear fuel and waste are clearly dangerous. Your linked article makes a logical fallacy in that it claims a dangerous activity is safe because few people have died from it. But we know things are dangerous even when nobody dies from it. The level of security surrounding nuclear is beyond anything else, and it's required to keep it safe. These security measures are expensive to maintain but are dwarfed by the expenses when they fail.

2) Nuclear is much more expensive than we are led to believe.

This is quite clearly deduced from official writings from nuclear agencies, international treaties controlling who will actually pay if things go south, and also demonstrated in the market where nuclear operators are deeply in debt after selling nuclear power for unrealistic prices for decades. (See France).

Nuclear energy is most likely many times more expensive than any numbers presented to date from anyone operating nuclear power plants. This cost is covered "in blanco" by governments, meaning taxpayers now and in generations to come. I am convinced that the energy we consume from nuclear today will be paid for by our great-great-great-grandchildren and theirs too.

3) Renewables are better long-term so all efforts should be spent on inventing and implementing systems to make renewables the source of all energy. (Storage implied).

Money spent on nuclear is not available for renewables so it's reasonable to be opposed to nuclear for that reason too.

All that being said, it is of course very reasonable to keep plants running for a while longer given the current circumstances. :)
The term reflex has changed over the years.

Back in 1649, when Descartes formulated the concept of a reflex, it was used to describe lower animals, to support his notion that they were automata without a mind on their own. The word reflex originated from the "reflection" of the sensory input into a response. The physiological backgrounds were not yet known.

In the early 19th century, Hall narrowed the definition of a reflex to be a "involuntary action of a muscle or gland in response to the stimulation of a receptor neurone which does not depend on the existence of consciousness".

Sherrington, in 1904, narrowed the definition further, introducing the concept of the "reflex arc", a hardwired pathway between receptors and effector muscles.

Pavlov later did a strange thing and widened the definition, which is the source of some confusion. Nowadays, Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes are mostly called Conditioned Responses, to avoid this exact confusion. NB: there are people arguing that conditioned is a mistranslation, and that it should mean conditional, which makes more sense in the context.

Pretty much every current publication uses the term "reflex" for involuntary, inborn responses, detected by receptors, transported to the spinal cord by afferent nerve fibers, processed there, and the motor signal sent through the efferent nerve fibers to the effector muscles. I only found the term "conditioned reflex" in papers discussing Pavlov's experiment.
> How the hell did it take 20 years to finally land?

Perhaps because people working for free can decide what they want to work on?

I think merge is cool, but it also easily replicated with what most of us do now for upserts in postgres using ON CONFLICT.
>"Fun fact, they're literally backed by the Chinese government who are trying to promote open source, I assume because it can't be embargoed."

And then the feds come for you for breaking some of those US sanctions you had no idea about.
FYI: HESA Shahed 136 : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136
Yes, but the flip side is that it's much more practical for a McDonald's to have 6 or 8 or 10 ordering kiosks than a bunch of employees taking orders.

Personally I prefer having the gaggle of kiosks because while it's slower, there's a few advantages:

* Fewer/shorter lines to begin ordering, due to the advantage in numbers described above

* Can take my time looking through everything, even with a more complex order, without social pressure of knowing I'm hindering everyone behind me

* Foreign language options when traveling

Of course, it's probably a good idea to have at least one human employee who can at least optionally handle orders in cases where the kiosk doesn't work.
I drive a Chevy Suburban (6 kids), its a huge car and can be hard to see my surroundings. When I'm backing out of a parking spot, it will vibrate the left or right side of my seat if a car is coming from the appropriate direction. It'll also do the same if it senses you're drifting into another lane or if you are changing lanes purposefully (blinker on) and someone is in my blindspot. It is extremely convenient
> For example, cars have "fail open" brakes but have independent cylinders so that it is relatively hard to have all four wheels fail at the same time (older cars had single master cylinders) - and one of the tradeoffs is that people want cars to get going immediately and not wait for brake cylinders to "charge up".

And emergency brake that's wholly separate circuit.
I honestly love the McDonalds touch screens because they allow more people to order at the same time (take less space than a register), while also allowing staff to focus on making the food instead of working the register.
The biggest benefit to something like this is however that you can order in your native language basically wherever you are, even if the staff don't know English and they can't accidentally mess up your order.
What are the remaining 95 potential uncontrollable problems beyond earthquake, fire, flood, war, human incompetence?

Given appropriate attention and care, these can be accounted for through planning processes and protocols.
Foone is a them, not a him.

And yeah, you're right, it's definitely easier for the reader, but the author isn't required to make it easy for their audience -- if it was, Judith Butler wouldn't Judith...Butle and James Joyce wouldn't James Joyce. Foone writes tweets, 149k people have chosen to read their tweets. Personally, while I agree a blog'd be nice, I'm just glad foone makes their knowledge available.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
I mean 'exit voice and loyalty' right? A few paying users, getting a little loud about the product they pay for, can change priorities pret-ty quickly

Or like enterprise software -- some of these were initially built for a single client. Others have many customers but a few whales that cover most of payroll.

Harder w/ consumer stuff (google reader), there's less 'voice' and more 'exit', and 'exit' sometimes doesn't get the point across until it's too late
Individual ESGs? Not really. I'm calling BS.

It's clever framing to call these social credit scores. But these are for companies, not people.
I came here to say this exactly. There's nothing more stressful to me than when a lot of freshly-written C++ compiles without error or warning on the first try, and then seems to run without issues. I get the distinct feeling that there is a problem that I'm just not seeing yet.
It's mostly Bitcoin, actually.
It’s great! Thanks for sharing.
on the other hand, bzip2 is pretty much obsoleted now by xzip
does not seem like you were just asking out of genuine interest

i wonder how you could make that conclusion (just curious, no offense taken), but i can ensure you, i am only talking out of interest because this issue is totally new to me, so i have no preconception how this should be handled and making my own value judgement is the only thing i can go on until i learn more about this.

i agree with you, there is absolutely no problem for an employer to pay for education that i want and would otherwise have to pay for myself anyways, and to limit that with certain conditions.

i think any law against pay-back clauses should be able to limit the application of the law appropriately.

what i was trying to point out was that even if the law went to far and prevent even situations where having employees pay back for education is appropriate, workarounds can be found to still make paying for that education possible.

so while the original comment seems to suggests that such a law would be a bad idea, i am trying to explore if things can be made to work, even if such a law is in place.

the comparable situation in germany appears to be that mandatory training should be paid by the employer unconditionally, unless (grossly simplified) the training provides a clear advantage to find a new job. for training that is more like onboarding this would rather not be the case, and so a pay-back clause would be invalid.
A Chemical Hunger
Show HN: An app to split CSV into multiple files to avoid Excel's 1M row limit
Not a musician, so I don't really have the proper vocabulary, but- as a fan of industrial specifically (and electronic music in general) and as a writer, this has a really nice balance of texture and atmosphere. I could see it being incorporated with visuals and other elements of design/sensory experience for a cerebrally lush creative project. It was nice to listen to, thanks for sharing.
You’re making the classic mistake of confusing explanation for defense. It happens all the time with the Ukraine crisis as well.
Airline workers are covered under the Railway Labor Act in the US. They can’t just strike because they’re unhappy. There’s a long drawn out process before a strike can happen. See recent threats of railway workers striking in the US.
Eh, that heavily depends on language. Some have better tooling to get most of the typical errors out before the compile.

That being said I'm always suspicious and start to fiddle with them if I see test + code pass on first time
I think it depends on where you are and even what the economy is like. I experienced bad service in countries that paid low wages and tipping wasn't normal. I experienced bad service when restaurants were shortening hours open because they couldn't find enough people to work and workers could be bad servers and still not get fired. I'd prefer a consistent experience with a robot over inconsistent experience with a human server not to mention not having to tip. And regarding use cases, if 1 out of 10 instances required a human it's still faster than 10 out of 10 instances and don't get me started on "I don't have to write it down I'll remember it all". The robot will remember.
I'll give an example of molten salt reactors [1]; other designs have different but comparable safety properties. The nuclear fuel is suspended in a molten salt. If the reactor is breached, you'll have what's effectively a contained chemical spill that has a very limited spread. Current water reactors trigger a steam explosion that spews out radiation into the atmosphere, which is why it's so catastrophic.

If you get a runaway reaction, it has a fail-safe described in the article that drains the reactor into containment vessels underground.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/04/166330/meltdown-...
That is a fascinating project. We were just having a discussion about this last week, how some people seem to know intuitively what direction is which, and then there's me, where I have no freaking idea what direction I'm facing unless I have a watch and can see the sun lol.
Same software, different country: https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotti_(potilastietoj%C3%A4r...

It's been a very expensive disaster on the taxpayers' dime.

Similar problems in UK and Denmark (links in Wikipedia).
I've been to all continents except maybe Australia. Only North America has the weird white light for pedestrians and a red palm (which also blinks, which is very counter-intuitive). I can assure, most countries of the world use red and green icons of man standing/walking for pedestrians.
Ah, I see! Thanks that makes more sense.

I think you're right. Basically no user content platform that isn't (heavily) privately subsidised could survive without sec 230. Facebook would either need to charge hundreds of dollars a month per user or close accounts.

I think one of the things that limits our society is that we need complex laws (sec 230 is very misunderstood, the same is true of financial regulation though) AND laws have to be simple enough that voters cannot be misled over what they do. That's a very tight constraint, sort of like building the Apollo project but only 10 year olds are allowed to work on it...
By "pretty close" you mean with a clear and very significant increase on the average (more than doubled, if you discard all the high points), higher peaks, and more volatility?
If you add a git-daemon-export-ok file to the repo, it's accessible read-only over the git protocol. That's how all my repos on https://git.jeskin.net are setup.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...
There was a case more than 20 years ago of a similar revolt against a Canadian hospital's automated drug dispensing machine that would only let nurses withdraw the exact dose of medicine a patient needed in a short window around when patient was supposed to take each dose. It was so bad it got written up into an academic article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/016224390202700...
So nuclear was replaced by renewables+gas (EU newspeak not withstanding).
I don't understand your point. Of course at the end of the day VCs are paying for everything in the sense that they funded you, but there's a clear distinction between personal expenses (which come out of your salary) and business expenses (which you charge your business CC on).

Of course you wouldn't have fancy VC dinner on your personal dime but if you're meeting VCs to raise a round, talking to a potential customer, etc., those are legitimate business expenses.

No VC is going to be paying for your rent or your car lease, which is what you implied above. That's patently false.
GOV.UK to join-up Google Analytics across departments
Not much difference from treating modern day vampirism, long covid. In Germany you won't get long covid treatment because some neurologist stated ("proved" scientifically) that it is psychosomatic. Hence studies to accept existing treatments are not ordered, healthcare providers are fine with ordering psychotherapy and refusing to pay for blood washing and medication.

The scientific process must be followed.
Using external signals for some sort of protection isn't innovative. This is a documented feature of the Intel 8086: the S3 and S4 pins expose which memory segment is being accessed: code, data, stack or extra segment.
Project site: https://seabed2030.org. From the FAQ, they aim for something better than

Depth range Grid cell size % of world ocean floor
0– 1500 m 100 × 100 m 13.7
1500– 3000 m 200 × 200 m 11
3000– 5750 m 400 × 400 m 72.6
5750–11000 m 800 × 800 m 2.7

For comparison, https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/8333/a-decade-of-compiling-t...:

“each observation by CTX covers a swath of ground about 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) wide, at a resolution of about 20 feet (6 meters) per pixel”

Not having oceans makes this a lot easier.
I use Gitea for self hosting
Only caesium-137 is long lived, of which 85 PBq was released
There's a couple reasons I personally don't find front-end unit tests valuable:

1. (In my experience) client code is mostly integration: it's integrating local user interactions and remote data APIs into a stable experience. It's rare that bugs come from an idempotent function with a clear I/O that can be unit tested — it's much more likely that bugs come from something like an unexpected API response or a complex combination of user states.

2. TypeScript. Static typing obviates a good chunk of the low-hanging unit tests. And it addresses your point here:

> But I think the point that gets lost on people is that the value of unit tests isn't chiefly the output of running the test suite. It's that the process of writing good unit tests forces you to write well-structured code.

Strict TypeScript (+ ESLint) also does wonders to encourage well-structured code, such as making it hard to have a mystery object passed around your app, collecting new properties as it goes. That mystery object would need a type definition, and would be easier to deal with as a series of discrete states instead of an amalgamation of mutations. Types encourage clear structures and interfaces for your code.

With all that, I'd rather focus my time on type safety + integration tests.
It’s a wry and pithy comment. Sorry dang, you’re in the weeds on this one. The article simply doesn’t say that this artist had supernatural powers.

The bizarre misreading otherwise is a mixture of magical and rigid thinking, or possibly poor English comprehension. However, there’s nothing substantive about speculating upon what goes on in someone’s head.

Sometimes “no” is the correct and complete answer.
> - magnetic fields suck. Plastic gets brittle.

The chips in credit cards aren't damaged by magnetic fields. Mag stripes will eventually be discontinued. (For instance, cards from Mastercard won't have mag stripes after 2033.)
Don't you have to shift the arguments, so that `$1` does not also end in `filez`?
They also seem to hate Factorio itself, which is the reason that while they play it and tweet about it so much, they mangle its name. I don't understand it, but everyone is free to remove what they want from their own Twitter I guess.
related, people were pretty angry about covid-era remote exam proctoring / goguardian-style spyware
I think we need to remove barriers to people getting access to the technology that's needed to function in a modern society.

In the UK, we have "basic bank accounts". These are aimed at people with bad credit history, and offer no line of credit, but do provide a debit card, which may also be used at an ATM.

How are there 70 year olds today that worked throughout the 90s and 2000s without coming across a computer?

I do wonder if these problems will eventually fizzle out, as more and more people have been exposed to technology throughout their lives and will be able to use it in their old age.

While there may be some arguments against a cashless society from a privacy point of view, it's hard to argue with the convenience and cost savings that you get from going cashless.
Whole-House Circadian Lighting with Home Assistant
A slightly modified version of this would be super handy for OTB chess games!
just because good taste exists doesn't mean it exists in the luxury fashion industry or any particular location or time. Good taste exists but not there.

It's overpriced gaslighting dogfood at best, a meat market to gain access to the stupidly wealthy at worst.
Depending on the countries this website serves you might also want to get in contact with officials (i.e. https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/p...)
> This is the kind of stuff that makes robot/computer customer service bad. If you fall into the normal use case, it's fine, but if you need anything unusual or you make a mistake, the escape hatch is always to get a real human, so you've now wasted time.

The same thing happens when a computer system which is being used by a human crashes. Or a human worker needs to diverge from the happy path in a slightly complicated way.
> Courting conservatives.

Equating all conservatives with radial groups is not helpful and only further sows division.
Semaphore, Dijkstra, around 1962-1963
Not that there is a lack of rational arguments against nuclear... But climate change may overrule them all.
Trail navigation is an overlapping skillset. You learn to recognize landmarks, topography, water flow, slopes, shadows, horizons, wind direction, and the sun/stars/moon. Maintaining an internal compass relative to a fixed location is indispensable. If you can do that you should be able to crudely reorient after moving blindfolded through switchbacks.
> Where Japan is known for its precision and strict following of rules (perception!)

As compared to the Germans? Supposed rule-sticklers without earthquakes.
I chuckled at the name, since out-of-order results are a typical output of parallelization. Kudos.
fascinating idea, copilot could do the translations internally and also work torwards widening the pool of suggestions to all languages instead of the individual lamguage a user is using (bit then again, they might be writing in the "new" language already
I have never heard of a "co-working-living space", so you know things I don't!

Sounds like a different thing than just trying to deduct 100% of your apartment as a business expense because you don't have an office yet though. Which is what I thought we were talking about from the GP. Like, maybe lots of people are doing that, but maybe lots of people are committing tax fraud, the IRS instructions are not too fuzzy here.
ArriveCAN was quite stupid, but at least it was fairly simple and the mobile app was just a convenient wrapper around the web app. It could have been so much worse.
Heya, Semgrep maintainer here. Just wanted to ask you about an idea I had before, how would you feel about specifying the language parameter in the binary name, making the invocation look like this?

semgrep.py search 'myfunc(..., needle_arg=..., ...)'

And then the other subcommands would remain

semgrep scan --config auto

to scan with all recommended rules and

semgrep ci

to scan in CI jobs.
exactly. We need to go back to public discourse being carefully controlled by a select few.
> GitHub certainly could block push requests

But the commit still exists locally (since git is decentralized) so you now end up with a weird state that you have code you cannot push to origin. Definitely not a desirable feature.

> at least git itself can via hooks

I already said that:

> they can block it themselves with tools like gitleaks invoked on a pre-commit hook

The problem with git hooks is that they're not cloned with the repo. So you're reliant on the user installing those git hooks locally (sure, some repos will have helper scripts to install the hooks for you. But you're still reliant on the user running that script).
The only people I knew were crypto bros just to flaunt their crypto holdings.
If this truly is the first time I can't think of a more worthy target. As a patient I loathe MyChart and based on my conversations with friends in the healthcare industry it isn't solving any of their problems either.
Problem with a Watch is that, as your swing and twist your arm as you're walking or holding anything, its cardinal orientation can vary wildly.
Gen III+ reactors are pretty fucking close to meltdown proof.

Any reactor in use today will have a negative void coefficient. Which means, if you don't put power into it, the reaction naturally stops. Then you've got control rods and neutron moderators that will fall back upon the core if there's no power. Then Gen3+ includes a core catcher in which, should it breach its reactor, it just falls in there and cools down.
No. The available surface area is too low.
Automation is really interesting, especially how sometimes some companies are so far ahead of others. Sometimes when I check out of a hotel I still gotta stand in line and talk to a clerk -- which is intensely frustrating, because there's this sense of, "all I need to do is hand in this damn keycard" -- other times I just drop the hotel key in a box. Hell, apparently some hotels you can just check in with an app and use the app to unlock the door.

Today I dropped off a rental car and the employee just scanned a barcode on the windshield and said, "okay just put the keys on the dash, you're good to go". Such a huge improvement over what it used to be, years ago.