skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that radioactive waste volumes & activity differ based on reactor type. Light-water reactors (PWR/ BWR) only burn 3% of the fuel energy hence leaving large energies as mid- and high-level radioactive waste.

Heavy-water reactors such as CANDU can achieve greater burn-up, can avoid enrichment, and even reportedly burn waste from PWRs as fuel. There are downsides but to my mind they seem small.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor#Fuel_cycle
Yeah. The job description also says they report to the president. Its not clear to me if there are other people at Atari already with this job title or a similar one. Even though Atari is much smaller than it used to be I think the headline is not accurate.
I recommend this for everyone. I think it should be the default.

Now not everyone will be capable of doing all of this but I still think it's a good idea for everyone.

What everyone can do and should do by default because you never know and better safe than sorry: You definitely shouldn't mix personal and private on the work laptop. Nothing private is done on the work laptop. If we're at the office, use your mobile device instead. If you're at home, your own laptop/computer isn't far away, use that. It's really not so hard to type in some URL or do a quick google search to "earmark" something interesting your found during work on your personal device. And yes I'd go as far as "just a spotify account".

Network wise I agree, "guest" Wifi should be the minimum. Even regular router firmware AFAIK should all have that nowadays, so definitely put the work laptop in that one. Much of the HN crowd should go further and have something like Tomato where you can define lots of virtual wireless LANs and if you're the "wired" guy, put the work laptop onto its own VLAN on a dedicated port and never plug it in anywhere else. There is so much corporate spyware out there that you never know if you can really trust your company or its employees not to snoop around your network. It's so easy to set up that it should be a no brainer even if you fully trust both your company and all its IT employees and their boss and boss' boss etc. And they don't even have to actively snoop now, just regular operating system auto discovery stuff that ends up in logs can be enough for 'later'.

I go further w/ the wifi and actually have an automated access restriction set up that disables any network traffic from some time in the evening to my usual start time in the morning so the work laptop won't even be able to communicate w/ the internet let alone corporate headquarters during that time. It doubles as my "oh it's that late already? I should really stop working and make dinner" reminder, when network requests suddenly start failing ;) but it's easy enough to re-enable temporarily if there's an exceptional situation going on.
This post is wild - from what it sounds like you're not in "legal battle" territory. You're in "make sure I don't go to jail with my cofounder too" territory. You need lawyers for your business and a personal lawyer to be giving you advice.

The Netflix execs who took kickbacks like this got 30 months in federal prison.
Humor me - your article talks about investment companies building real estate right by the water. The articles tout large numbers, but are almost entirely vague as to what that money is used for.

The only things I see are pumps and raising roads… the Netherlands has been implementing both of those technologies for hundreds of years. I’m sure Florida, being a swamp, has has these kinds of issues before and has solved the issues similarly.

My point being - in the abstract, these sources do very little to convince one that the climate change prophecies are coming to fruition. I remember hearing cities would be flooded by 2020, not they need to raise the roads in problematic areas but real estate investment continues undeterred
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Tesla to add radar in its cars next month amid self-driving suite concerns
IMO, this is almost certainly a badly-written question with a single “correct” answer, A.

The common thread is that they all answers are related to “non-response bias.”

This is the type of Q that results from question-writers that have (1) no deep stats background/passion and (2) a list of textbook concepts to write multiple choice Qs for.

I used to go CRAZY in school, until I started thinking of these Qs not as “what’s the answer” and more “what answer is most likely to result in a question like this?”
True. I felt like they were good reasons at the time, or rather that they were basically the best you could do given that the can had been kicked down the road for far too long. As usual putting off solving tech debt ends up costing >10x in total.
The article also did not mention that Ford indeed had a breadth of corporate knowledge and technology in building cars of the Pinto's size. Rather than designing a new Pinto model, Ford HQ in the U.S.A. could have taken the most successful similar-sized model from any one of Ford's international divisions, converted it to U.S. highway standards, and retooled the North American assembly lines for it.
I haven't found that to be an issue. For small programs there's also babashka.
When someone says "a nuclear bomb releases heat and radiation", the radiation they're referring to is not thermal radiation. You're being pedantic.
> I've found with Linux distributions that aren't rolling releases, things tend to break in annoying and insidious ways, such that you generally need to, or at least it is strongly advisable to, fresh install each time.

I think this is generally not true, at least of the major distributions. Others have already commented about Debian and Ubuntu, to which I want to add that updating Fedora over many, many releases has been completely seamless for me. The dnf system-upgrade plugin Just Works.
You're looking for games for people who are already burned out from other work.

There are people who either don't work full time, don't work at all, or the games are their paid job who are completely fine to put as much effort in as a regular job. And there are people who want to watch these people play the game to a level of ability difficult for most to achieve.
Thank you. I just started reading this today. My codebase is just C99 or C11 so I’m working through how to un-C++-ify the article; I’m grateful for all the generally useful background info
Nice list! I'll add one more I enjoyed:

Struggles with the Continuum, by John Baez, https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421
Your experience may be limited to the tiny corner of the earth you frequent.
I went to a small Wisconsin state school, grad with a BS in CS in 2009. We learned C, operating systems, and had a compiler class. Definitely not useful in my day job, but it was fundamental in my understanding of programming languages and computing. Can’t believe there would be a CS program out there that would skip this.

I do know there are programs out there that focus on different aspects though, and not surprised they would be geared to make people more job ready. We actually didn’t really learn about unit testing, and such, so it’s a balance.
I do feel like video games definitely have it harder on this front in general, but tend to have loads of people focused on performance "at all costs", including generating a bunch of messy code to get something shippable.

I also think saying that a retained mode UI has inherent overhead is a bit odd. immediate mode UIs have to rebuild their entire draw graph on each frame! meanwhile retained mode UIs have a bunch of metadata letting them get nice optimization improvements. Translating an object means you might not even need to redraw it!

There is definitely a certain truth to the OS being able to just force you down to a lower priority, but I think we all know that iOS is pushing the top app to as high a priority as possible. Meanwhile the "inherent difficulties" with something like AirBnB (getting data over the wire) are definitely inherent but this is why we talk about placeholders and stuff like that yeah?

But if you're in the business of selling rentals it's hard to have so many engineers focused on the performance of the app (especially when you are in the act of being successful already)
RCE via SSTI on Spring Boot Error Page with Akamai WAF Bypass
My original message, verbatim:

“That's not an excuse for not integrating into a culture with the bare minimum amount of effort. It is not hard to learn a language with 10 years of immersion.”

Is it hard to learn a language in a year? Yes! That is not what I said. I said that not making the modicum of effort required over 10 years of practice and immersion required to achieve functional fluency is not difficult. It simply is not. The passive input alone is absolutely enormous, and it’s the least you can do to a country that’s graciously accepted you into its own borders.
Maybe you missed out on all the concentration of media assets that has happened over the past 40 years. We went from every small town having their own newspaper and small cities having their own TV stations to having moguls like Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch buying up newpapers and TV stations to form giant empires. Naturally, one of the first steps in making your empire scale is to start cutting the excess "fat" in the form of local reporters, as your media empire can use reporters in the bigger cities to cover the entire region. Then your regions start getting bigger and bigger. All the local content is now gone. This process was mostly complete by the end of the 1990s.

Then advertising on the internet took off in the 2000s, further depleting the pool of local advertising dollars available to many media organizations. Today most media organizations are a hollow shell of what they once were.

Without local news, democracy can't work, and it's sad that many places no longer have it. And quality reporting takes time and money, exactly what we don't have in today's internet. Sure, plenty of niches previously ignored are now well served, but there's a glaring gap in quality local news these days in most places.
That's a very nice just-so story, no doubt carefully constructed to fit your world view.

Now, a vague reference to "studies" and a biased just-so story might convince you but I'm far from convinced by this.
So are the scammers already using deepfakes for this, or is that still to come? A video chat is already a pretty obvious thing to do in a long distance relationship, so it will be weird if they can't do it (building an orphanage in Africa is a pretty good excuse, but it won't last forever). If it's possible, they'll definitely want to be able to deepfake video chats.
They were exactly like this just with fewer price points.
Oh, but you can. You see, there's this mechanism called price. If there's not enough of something, prices go up, and sources that were uneconomical become all of a sudden profitable.
A lot of it goes back to Reagan-era small government policies forcing things to be contracted out because the relevant government agencies don’t have people on staff. That means that things cost more but also means they don’t have people who can adequately review bids or oversee the contractors and that means accountability is some nebulous multiparty exercise in blame shifting. Getting rid of entry level positions means you don’t have a career path for getting skilled civil servants and the people hires at a senior level probably have worked for at least one of the companies they’re going to be getting bids from.

Unfortunately, people really don’t like admitting that feel-good policy made things worse so the “solution” is usually to double down on the strategy and treat the failures as unpredictable accidents.
The Amazon store is operated by Ledger themselves. Plus, the Ledger software can verify that the hardware is genuine in case you are worried about fulfillment/logistics. https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404389367057-I...
Has anyone combined Whisper with a model that can assign owners to voices yet?

For example, instead of:

Hello there!
Hi
How are you?
Good, and you?

You get something like:

Voice A: Hello there!
Voice B: Hi
Voice A: How are you?
Voice B: Good, and you?
Same for me. After my first job (3.5 years) I took a 1.5 year long sabbatical to travel around New Zealand. I even put that on my CV. I think it made me more interesting for the interviewer.
but... if he doesn't want the equivalent of a modern browser, then downloading and executing JS isn't really an issue, and thus the whole JS=BAD because you download it and execute it goes out the window.

I don't get it. Like, i don't care if we can write emacs stuff in JS or not, but i don't see how it's any more dangerous than Lisp.
Yep, turns out people of all sorts can be assholes, even to folks who are making a good faith effort to navigate a changing world.

That said, I think your Orwellian concerns might reflect your personal media consumption more than the state of our changing world. People do talk about removing gendered pronouns (see: nonbinary people), and the vast majority of transgender people are attempting to assimilate into the existing man/woman gender model rather than pushing a complex system of new words and concepts. As I'm sure you're aware, both of those approaches have proven controversial and generated quite a bit of backlash, sometimes violently so.

Not everyone is cut out for a world filled with people who don't think like them. Unfortunately that's the world we live in, so we all get to figure out what to do about it.
Redshift Auto-Copy from S3
Sounds like CR wanted to see it fail the tip test because they knew it had a tendency to do exactly that, one of their own staff members experienced it while testing. And Suzuki knew it had a tendency to roll, they documented that internally and settled a number of lawsuits about it.

Definitely not a good look for CR to try and put their finger on the scale like that. And not a good look for Suzuki to make a narrow top-heavy vehicle and then foist it on amateur drivers.
the 9 FPS I believe are because US manufacturers aren't allowed to export thermal cameras above 9 FPS
David Deutsch: How close are we to creating an artificial intelligence
Correct me if I'm wrong, but: doesn't this involve sharing your credentials with a third-party service? I have no reason to doubt Step Security's motives here, but one of the examples involves plumbing a TOTP code through their webservice, which isn't ideal.

(Manual intervention seems like a very reasonable thing to want! But perhaps it makes sense to leave the package index's secrets out of the round-trip, and limit the secret to something known by only the publisher and the "gatekeeping" service.)
Super long startup times and large binary size are what turned me off. This is clojure specifically not jvm specific. I find the JVM to be fine, but when I looked for another lisp I did want one that was compiled just because it was easier to distribute my programs.
This is the kind of thing the site guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com about instead of posting about in the threads. Can you do that instead?
I'm shocked, shocked, to find misinformation on the Discovery Channel!
Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory
Ah yes.

I've also seen NFS/ZFS on Linux have very... bizzare... issues with locking, latency, and poor handling of errors bubbled up from the block layer taking down clients or even the host.

All of these went away when we redeployed everything into a Solaris-based distro (still exporting ZFS shares to Linux clients via NFS). It does seem something specific to the interaction of these two components under load on a Linux kernel.

Unfortunately, it also only happens under real-world production load and was impossible to create reliable test-case with simulated stress tests or benchmarking :(
My suggestion, try the book "realism and reason." It's a collection of papers by Hilary Putnam. It gets into this topic in several different ways, surveys some of the other thinking on it, and so on.
There is the classic triangle of patients, providers and insurance. I think in any path you choose you have to think about which leg of the tripod you want to put forward.

There is this wealth of new pricing data but I haven't yet seen it employed in really practical ways that help patients day to day so I think there are some oppourtunities there. I think GoodRX has done a very good job in improving patients decision making around drugs as an example.

The other point I frequently make is maybe not to overshoot too far. There are a LOT of simple problems that need solving. I think I see a pitch about this or that "reimaging healthcare" every day. In practice there are huge and obvious problems in the basics of provider and patient communication. For people with serious illness making sure the patient knows and can get to the right place at the right time is very underserved.
> Killian Memos

I had never heard of that. Going out on a limb, it is one of those controversies (which still happen all the time today) which is particularly interesting depending on your partisan viewpoint.

It may be 100% valid. But these days it's tough to know what is legitimate malfeasance and what has been hyped up because it's a good way to malign one's political opponents.
You seem to have an axe to grind, and are interpreting things to suit that model you have.
I'd be down to code this up if someone if anyone's interested. contact is in profile.
I think about what I would do if I were in the situation of these men. If possible, I wouldn't engage with scam victims at all. This sounds impossible though because there are those situations where your workplace security team or relatives get involved. The scary thing is how this scam can happen anywhere there is a chat function, such as Words With Friends.
If you enjoy riffs on Russian fairy tales - I thought The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy was also really enjoyable.
Not actually a Linux Tablet.
I don’t think anyone with two gray cells to rub together doubts Stephen Wolfram’s software chops. It’s just he chose to become a billionaire instead of a social outcast like RMS. Their roles could easily have been reversed.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221207015056/https://literaryre...
It is ridiculously difficult to use native-image. The only one I know of to successfully pull this off in a broad wide-ranging program is the author of babashka, Michael Borkent. The man is a legend, and using his work I was able to get my program to run on Linux, but getting it to run Windows was a whole nother hurdle and I wasn't willing to continue. Keeping track of all of those jira issues and matching Clojure releases with native-image releases and getting all the configuration files right and writing the scripts that you need to write the configuration files, and then waiting 30 minutes for anything of value to compile, not really an ideal development cycle scenario.
> If this is really such a big deal as everyone claims it is, then people will inevitably have to find a compromise with Russia.

Why? Better to defeat them militarily and solve the problem once and for all - even if the world has to get by with slightly less advanced chips for a while.
> Spring 2022

That was last week.

(Seasons are a lousy way of describing times for anything other than local, geographically-anchored content. They’re only meaningful in a comparatively narrow band, falling apart if you head much towards the poles or equator—the four seasons model is useless in tropical areas especially—and inverting if you head to the other side of the equator.)
yes, js can be used to invade privacy, but...

a) that's not its primary use by a long shot. The VAST majority of JS written has nothing to do with tracking / privacy stuff.

b) we don't need JS to invade your privacy on the web... Does he browse without images turned on too?!

(and i recognize you're just explaining his position not arguing against JS)
Put another way, people are ignoring 85% of his talk to complain about a side distraction.
I did a project a while back with devices like these. Super rugged shell, giant battery and, in this case, a powerful IR barcode scanner. We built custom apps for warehouse workers and shut access to anything remotely fun. No mobile data or calling allowed, no internet except one hardwired wifi network that talks to shipping systems. Having an old OS is fine because they don't need to be compatible with much and security isn't a big deal because they're so locked down.
Not only can you redefine classes and functions at runtime in CL, my understanding is that all references to them will automatically be updated to the new code (I think unless it’s compiled?). It was already mentioned that Python’s classes come up short here, and I bet there are lots of cases where functions, too, miss the mark.
I've done this with Google's video transcription model, which works surprisingly well.
Great question, I've not encountered it too much as I'm looking for specific stuff in the transcript based on keywords so some loss is acceptable and I don't always need the data immediately so it has not been an issue so far but what I do to alleviate this somewhat is have "stitched passes" at set intervals.

News, betting games and some shows HAVE to happen exactly at a certain time and are very rarely late so you can use these known times as checkpoints with some bias. So say I run this command `ffmpeg -i http://someexamplesite.fm/8b0hqm93yceuv -c copy -f segment -segment_time 60 -reset_timestamps 1 zip-%03d.mp3` that automatically chunks the stream into 1 minute files and I know news gets read at 1pm, I can merge everything from 10am to 1pm into say "Segment B" and then process that, you get the idea.

I also have a step in the pipeline after on the transcript after that tries to summarize what it can so any small gaps would likely be inferred as I have not noticed anything too wonky and the summaries and text I get so far have been pretty clean and good enough for my needs. Once I bench this some more however I'm sure I will have this and other interesting problems to solve, the one I'm fighting now a bit is ads that have music and fast talking.
Color me intrigued.
I don’t really find loop complicated because the basic cases are straightforward. The advanced cases are discovered complexity when you deliberately wade into the depths to solve some weird problem.
A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
Glassy discovery offers computational windfall to researchers across disciplines
That crosses well into personal attack, which is not allowed here. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
USB Ports: Optional, sold separately

Couldn't find the price.
I showed your comment to my friend, and here's what he said:

"That’s like the texting app that makes you take a test. Basically stops you from drunk texting! Haha"
Coffee contains a large number of aromatic components that could be transferred to the semen. Just the way methyl mercaptan from asparagus can be transferred to your urine.
Some induction tops have similar functionality - measuring the temperature of the pan and keeping at that temperature. It's not as precise as a probe, of course, but it's extremely convenient and useful.
> Please read the links to RMS’s own website where he is clearly pro child abuse/paedo and pro forcible rape of women.

You may want to read the rest of his opinions on his site on the topic as well.
That's not true, and I said they are regulated to an extent. They have to get their licenses and maintain certain requirements like separating client assets which is regulated by FSA depending on the country.
Maybe there's a way to have a secret in GitHub actions that can decrypt the browser-side-encrypted code.
I asked it for examples of drugs to treat high blood pressure, and it gave me a few real drugs that can be used for that purpose, plus one drug that entirely doesn't exist. No results on Google for that word.

However, the name sounded very much like it could be a drug name for a real blood pressure medication.
So dark! Unless you change the theme of course.