skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanical container solution is top notch, but 99% of the safety is just geological stability and selecting right place. Over 2 billion year old granite with very few cracks far from any fault lines.

The worst possible scenario they calculated:

1) the nuclear canister would corrode in a thousand years instead of the calculated hundred thousand years,

2) and at the same time installed clay buffer surrounding canisters would inexplicably disappear.

3) In addition, the groundwater would magically flow upwards and

4) a city would be built on the site. A person who would live on the most polluted square meter from cradle to grave and would only eat food grown there and drink the most polluted water

Result: people would only receive three times the radiation dose compared to people currently living in a city of Tampere.
Personally I'm rooting for the future where a fleet of falcon 9's launch escape velocity stage 2's that head straight for the sun.

Underground is nice until you get radioactive groundwater. The time cost of 100k years of maintaining safety seems more than the financial cost of maintaining a F9 fleet and disposing of second stages.
Welcome to the new era of micro saas! Our company has established itself as the leading digital micro saas platform in France.
Since when? Since 2020, we've been supporting individuals and businesses who want to create their own saas easily, with just a few clicks, and in just a few seconds.

But what's exactly Saashup ?

Saashup is a simple solution for saasifying your application. We assist you in promoting your application and simplifying its management. Build and develop your software, and let us deploy it to your customers through your own customized SaaS. Our services remain flexible and scalable, adapting to your business needs.
I'll guess that the official app is in totally perfect shape with all their metrics. Which aren't the same metrics we measure with.
I'm a father and very concerned about climate change. I talk to my son about greenhouse gases, fossil fuels and their unique role in our economy, and the current impacts to extreme weather. Importantly its all about observations of today's bio-geophysical-economic reality. Not speculation about tomorrow's. Building a solid foundation in the scientific method is far more important than scaring him with worst-case-scenarios.

Don't get me wrong, climate models and predictions of their impacts are important for planning our future. I keep up on the literature but I don't expect an elementary school child to. Until he has the foundation to understand the models and a framework for how to do risk assessment with them, we'll be working on the fundamentals.

Also important to emphasize that climate in not the only issue. There is a "polycrisis" of other environmental, economic, and social problems that threaten our civilization; climate change has to be dealt with (or adapted to) alongside these concerns, not with blinders on.
I know a fair number of HN participants in person, and a much larger number online but out-of-band. As a rule they're pretty knowledgeable within their field, and nice people in line with their HN persona. I've seen all kinds of beautiful stuff here, projects that get off the ground friendships, altruism and extreme effort to clarify things sometimes in the face of unreasonable assumptions and worse. HN really is special. But it is also very fragile and the degree to which this is the case is probably not much appreciated.

It would be good if people realized that HN can't go the way of Reddit because it doesn't have a financial goal other than to attract the best in the industry to generate the next batch of founders. But if HN were a profit motivated institution, if it had to compete for funding and if it had to do ad sales, broaden the offering and maintain a thousand and one relationships with other businesses I have absolutely no doubt the character would be destroyed before the week is out and you'd have another Reddit on your hand the week after.

Doing this as a niche site is relatively easy and relatively efficient on a manpower level. To operate the #18 website in the world (which is where Reddit is) whilst everybody is second guessing your every move isn't easy. I've ran a large forum myself (1M+ users) and it was always a balancing act, groups of users that hate each other, power trips by individuals who believe the site is about them and so on. I've seen all of that and then some, so I don't envy the people running Reddit.
The publication ends with "Interview Myths", so I think this is geared to potential job applicants at Jane Street...
Your uncle should definitely not be in prison, but he should get his car confiscated and get a bike, legs-powered
You probably never worked on a complex system to think that
“Stop being a doomer!” sounds even better, especially after two years of Covid-related doomer mandates that have brought us (and especially our kids) more harm than good.
It is disgusting to see such a brilliant article unnoticed.
> Distinction without difference

Not at all.

Not being able to send bills means potential financial trouble days/weeks/months down the line.

Not being able to perform surgeries means that people will die. Today.
Like birds in cages. Birds are meant to fly, toys are meant to be played with by children, and musical instruments are meant to be played.
None, because the absolute last thing I need is more email and I’m really not sure who ever though that trying to get people to sign up to get more email was a good idea.
I teach university biochemistry. After eight or ten years, I began to feel that I was no longer a novice.

“Move fast and break things” is a monument to an aberrant culture of arrogance and dismissive impatience. Based on hypercompetitive greed. (That for a generation was funded by cheap money chasing itself around I search of a drain.)

It’s no coincidence that importing this culture to education produces experiences that are superficial and brittle. It’s difficult to think of a counterexample.
Most people don't run 14+ year-old laptops. The market share of those people is too small to care about. You are just lucky somebody still writes drivers for your outdated tech. I wouldn't use a laptop older than 5 years if you paid me.

Why the hell would I torture myself with a laptop from before 2010? The screen quality must be horrendeous. Speakers absolute trash. Battery life also garbage. What is the point of doing this to yourself? Just to be able to show off on HN and other nerd sites where everybody still uses cassette players because they were "tOtAllY cOoL BrO".
I see it a good bit with less technical users on Android. They'll get apps which put full screen ads on their phone popping up all the time, they'll get ads on their lock screen, they'll get their default browser swapped out and not understand what happened, all kinds of things.
This is the result of shamelessness seeping into business. That contrarian business thinking that does away with any pretense of putting anything other than money first.

Also, this idea of charging for API access is lazy and unimaginative.
I'm not a lawyer, so I might be wrong, but I think one thing that lawyers do is they learn that in a legal sense, documents (and laws) are more about intent and how the various parties understand them. They are not computer code where there is only one correct way to interpret them and where nothing is open to debate. That's why it's hard for computer programmers to read contracts and legal documents, because we try to parse and interpret them like code and very quickly get caught up in minutia that really doesn't matter in the bigger picture that lawyers operate within.
>Lens

Other way around: they're pushing Lens over reverse image search now.
Until one of them fails to launch or reach orbit
I read Adam Tooze's Chart Book[1] and it's become the only source of information I really need to understand general macroeconomics and how it relates to the events of the world.

1: https://adamtooze.substack.com/
You're whitewashing the past eco movements. They've been alarmist since the beginning with claims that everyone would be starving by the late 70s or that the air would be unbreathable due to smog or that the global temperature would drop drastically and on and on. It was the same alarmist bullshit that got us into this mess by advocating against nuclear power.
I'd argue that the overwhelming amount of people would choose to work on something, even if they didn't have to. they would choose the arts, or work on inventing some new thing they want, etc. most people work stupid jobs because they can't afford there risk of doing what they actually want
Tbf I imagine mass meth production pays a lot better than even the best industry jobs when it comes to chemistry.
This does make me wonder if having covid and h1n1 circulating at the same time wasn't much more of the problem than either one in isolation.

Specifically, something was different about that first wave of covid. Yes, it stayed deadly. Early waves that were overwhelming hospitals, though, were tiny compared to what came later.

I also still can't but think covid was far more widespread than we understand, even today. By the time that folks acknowledged that schools could be spreading it, it is hard not to think basically every kid hadn't been exposed.
It's not the color of the message bubble, that's just a shorthand for the actual problem: it's that iMessage has more functionality than SMS, and inviting a SMS user to a iMessage chat works but degrades the experience for all participants.

It is both awkward (for instance, using a reaction generates a "so and so liked your thing" message) and insecure (now every word in a chat gets blasted out over the known-insecure medium).
Perfect for connecting directly to your neighborhood cold fusion plant

(it would be nice if both things happened, but I view them as ~equally likely)
Not at all. They never are subject to an enforceable court decision. Your citizens, on the other hand, are.
Maybe Baby by Haley Nahman!

https://haleynahman.substack.com/
I've been using it for years. It has its issues, but also has its strengths. The biggest issue these days is that Apple has built a walled garden around their messaging system. I can't fault Android for that.
> Rehabilitation should happen on your own recognizance

I agree. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. There is still legitimate debate on how much role society has to play in making sure it's as nice as possible for the horse to get to water.

Obviously in GP's uncle's case an injustice was done to him (by his father, it sounds like), but it is still up to him as an adult to become a productive member of society. I like the way some put it, when talking about people from troubled backgrounds (whether from abusive parents, mental issues, what have you): it wasn't your fault, but it's still your responsibility to deal with it, once you are an adult.
The problem is that I'm not talking to managers when seeing the term open source, most of the time I'm talking to programmers. Literally all techies.

Many of them can use, modify, and distribute my SAS free of charge, like every other OSS license they know, so it actually won't get them into legal trouble. My SAS is open source to them, because the ELv2 only has a single usage restriction and that's not their use-case. For most, it's more permissive than GPL/AGPL!

I'm not going to correct them.
I go a step beyond. When I’m interacting with “non-IT” folks, I say just I’m “in IT”.

It isn’t a problem for my ego to do that, and it’s something that’s both relatable and typically stops the conversation from revealing anymore about my work (not that there’s really anything to hide, I just enjoy my privacy and no, I don’t want to meet your “computer genius” nephew or fix your phone).

If I’m in a clearly technical group, I’ll go into more detail. I don’t identify myself with the DevOps term though, or sysadmin, or developer. I don’t clearly fit into any of the -currently assumed- definitions of those.
This has always been the case. That's why you'll sometimes see posts from [deleted].
"The Skillful Teacher", by Saphier, Haley-Speca, and Gower, is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the craft of teaching. Like the commenter says, there's a lot going on, and so potentially a lot to juggle.

https://www.rbteach.com/resources/skillful-teacher-7th-editi...
Which they will promptly ignore or stonewall with endless back & forth until you give up.
Related: I go out of my way not to receive articles in my inbox. I keep my bills (which do reach my inbox) in "interruptions" mode while my entertainment operates in "poll" mode.
Show HN: Giskard – Testing framework dedicated to LLMs and Tabular ML models
I disagree with those who claim that only people from a certain social setting can comment on certain issues, but I have to admit that it provokes my ire a bit seeing HN commentators who likely have pretty much no experience with inner-city cycles of schooling/imprisonment/poverty suggesting more penal labor as some sort of solution and drawing on their experience of how 'beating Zelda' is akin to work.
Sure, and that's fine, as long as you expect red hat (and not third party software developers) to support your continued use of that version.
Slightly lower than one of MIT's alumni doing the same.

It's telling that Jane Street stayed away from the whole mess despite the connection.
I’m kinda indifferent to most of this battle—I am fine with the subs I frequent going black—but man. Reddit encouraging the blacked out subs to vote out the protesting mods will be like pouring gasoline on a small fire. This whole thing is a deliberate unforced error, and that would be icing on the cake.
Same here, but with high school math. Despite my efforts it was almost impossible to pay attention because I had no practical applications at hand, and the teachers didn't really care to change that. They stopped right at teaching the abstract concepts and let the students sink or swim.

As a 30-something adult, I think I'd do much better at these classes now simply because of greatly improved self-discipline, but uptake and internalization of information I have immediate use for is still vastly faster than it is for abstract bits and bobs.
>This has come to be known as principal-agent theory (or incentives theory), and is the foundational structure that most corporations are built upon today. Pay people more, and motivation should follow naturally.

This is where the article breaks down for me. This is definitely not what corporations do outside of the executive class.

The norm is attempting to drive pay and wages down as much as possible, sans a few exceptions. I think this is actually how it used to be until sometime in the mid 1980s when financialization took off in earnest and union power started to significantly decline.

EDIT: Here's an anecdote I experienced. When I was younger in college I got a job working nights at a FedEx Office. I did really well there, working full time and it accommodated my hours, and leadership took notice. One day, they pull me aside, and ask how they can help incentivize things. Before I could answer they said "The only rule is it can't be about money. Money is off the table". I told them that if money is off the table, then what are we talking about exactly? They didn't give me a straight answer, only they couldn't increase my wage. This to me is further evidence of how untrue this statement is.

FWIW, to complete the story, I left a short while later, and started working at Apple which lead to one of the most amazing lucky breaks I've ever had in my career
No, print is the default action. However if you use some other action such as -delete or -exec, if you want to print also, you must include the print option.
Code reviews ?

This goes directly in production, force pushed by spez.
The Silicon Valley Outsider Building a Tech Disruptor – Michelle Zatlyn [video]
Show HN: MailEd – Email editor for the modern web
There are three issues with trying to get more energy out of hot 'spent' fuel rods

(1) the radiation levels increase, making it more dangerous for workers to do maintenance and safety operations (so overall reactor design would need to take this into account),

(2) some fission products and transuranics (plutonium etc.) act as neutron poisons (absorbing neutrons rather than generating energy-productive fission events), resulting in reduced reactor output and instability issues as the accumulate in the fuel rods.

(3) since you are actually transmuting elements, physical and chemical changes take place resulting in fuel rod corrosion and degradation, swelling and structural changes, etc. which could lead to catastrophic failure by clogging the reactor core and preventing coolant circulation.

[edit] note that reprocessing the spent fuel (plutonium recovery) for use in MOX reactors is possible, but since this is also how you run a nuclear weapons program, there are additional concerns and the costs are really high:

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
Or honest people who live in countries that have a lot of criminals and/or have a corrupt government.

Life is extremely tough for legitimate businesses in countries such as Nigeria, due to the government's incompetence (some say active collusion) in dealing with fraud. Banks generally won't touch them, and even if they do, transactions are often delayed for weeks.
It's true, you basically have to take any wikipedia article on any remotely controversial topic with a heavy grain of salt.
There are people who never worked as teachers who have created education startups. Salman Khan was informally tutoring relatives before starting Khan Academy.
It is surely helpful to have a "mechanism of action" so that you're not just blindly AB testing and falling victim to coincidences like in https://xkcd.com/882/ .

Not sure if people do this, but with a mechanism of action in place you can state a prior belief and turn your AB testing results into actual posteriors instead of frequentist metrics like p-values which are kind of useless.
These are genius. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely be sharing w/ my kids when they get old enough. What's your take on the lower bound where kids are generally capable of figuring these out?
Good! I'm tired of drama from 3% of the Reddit population (or less) impacting the other 97% negatively.
I just don't think either side has the moral high ground. The mods like the convenience of 3rd party apps. I get it. It's not a real moral issue.

Reddit has both said moderator-specific as well as disability related APIs will still be free.
Phrases like "the new normal" are clues that what you are reading is propaganda. The author has an agenda, and is not just relaying information.

If you find yourself using such phrases, stop. It's cliche, and weakens the message. Stick to facts, or if you are writing persuasively, make a proper argument instead of falling back on stock phrases.
I love Letters of Note. Each post features reflection on letters that were sent/written at some point in time, often but not always by notable people. They are whimsical, short, and have introduced me to many interesting facts and rabbit holes.

https://news.lettersofnote.com/

P.s. My favourite one so far, where among other things, I learned about the infamous and hilarious “please advise” CBS memo surrounding Miles Davis :
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/this-is-my-favorite-memo-ev...
in Holland, you get a bicycle and never regret it
Maybe it could have be profitable if Reddit didn't feel the need the add useless features. Poorly done video and chat, NFTs, etc.

Not the mention overhiring the past 3 years.

Reddit could have been a lean text based forum, it doesn't need to host images and video.
He doesn't have a car, that's part of the problem
My point wasn't about the specific companies that "survived" chat, but that any new chat products got huge after 2008 at all. From my perspective back then, I thought the whole category looked run out. But it had actually barely even gotten started, if you compare the number of users of chat apps back then to the number now.
There is not much dignity in being forced to work while you are only allowed to keep 20% of what you earn.
You will need to be more specific, benefit from whose standpoint?
TFA:

A ransomware attack hit SMP Health in 2021. The attack halted the hospital’s ability to submit claims to insurers, Medicare or Medicaid for months, sending it into a financial spiral, Burt said.

So, they struggled to handle this for two years before they finally shut down.
>Reddit CEO Steve Huffman thinks the site's mods are too powerful.
He said he plans to change the rules so users can vote them out.
He said the current system is "not democratic" and compared it to a "landed gentry."

I agree with that. I've seen mods drop posts which should not have been dropped
Right... so how do they acquire cryptocurrency?
Should Apple be allowed to kneecap competitors products (e.g smartwatches?)? They pretty clearly keep APIs to themselves to make their own products seem better. It's one thing to keep an unpolished rapidly changing API out of view and another to prevent competitors from doing the same thing on your platform that your 8th generation product does.
Sounds like you're just working for the wrong companies, then.
Can a LiveView process migrate to a different machine/VM? For example, there's a scheduled maintenance and I need to shut down one of the machines/containers. The main advantage of stateless architectures for me is that state is not bound to a specific machine -- so you can easily add/remove machines, state is not lost if application dies, etc.
I do think the borehole plan (3km deep, rather than 400m deep) is better, although it is more speculative and this proposal has the overwhelming advantage that it’s being enacted.
https://questingbeast.substack.com/

It’s the best OSR news.
May the Myth of Castelessness Die
There's one called Technically Food by Larissa Zimberoff, where she talks about food and food technology. I'm not involved in the space anymore, but I used to sell CPG food and it's fun to read about what's happening in that space.

Money Stuff by Matt Levine - he's great at explaining what's going on in the financial industry.

Ridgeline by Craig Mod - Guy walks around Japan and takes beautiful pictures and writes about it.
in light of this and the previous mod revolt at stack overflow, I really find myself wondering why people bother volunteering to mod, donating enormous sums of their time to large for-profit companies. I understand wanting to create a great community. but I’m wondering if maybe we have, for the better, I think, arrived at a point where those generous people realize that they should not donate their time when they have zero stake in that business, as well as zero ultimate control, when the business chooses to make decisions against the interests of their communities.
When I studied electrical engineering, we first had the usual intro to programming and a C class, for many students - that was the first time they had ever coded. There must have been a 40/40/20 split between hate/tolerate/love.

But the next semester we had a microcontroller class, which was almost universally loved. We wrote C for AVR microcontrollers, and the projects were varied. I remember when we were learning about signal modulation, some of the students hacked together a very rudimentary mono synth. Fun stuff all around, maybe my favorite class in undergrad.

On the other hand, I also had programming in HS - it was a Java class, focusing on OOP. The teacher was a retired programmer who had worked on "enterprise" style code, and so we learned Java that way.

While he was a very good teacher, the material was just...quite boring. No fun projects, lots and lots of design patterns.