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But if you release the O2 and convert it into diamond, then by my highy-suspect back of the envelope calculations, it'd be a diamond that would fit into one square kilometer, 87 meters high. It would make quite the tourist attraction.


My number is without the O2.

It's a literal mountain chain of plastic. We do have uses for it, but it's a lot.


If you do speak Hebrew, you would know that Netanyahu and Gallant have been heavily attacked by the extreme right specifically because they have been refusing to cut off food.


Not to pick on you, but every time this discussion happens on HN, someone argues that the nuclear power industry is burdened by far more red tape than other industries (probably true) and that if we simply reduce the red tape, we could profitably build new nuclear plants (probably true) and they would still be safe (probably not true). This isn't an engineering problem. This is a social problem. Suppose you offer to let people build with minimal regulation - the most profitable plants are going to be the ones that cut the most corners on safety. The great engineering team that made a safe but slightly more expensive reactor than the minimum allowed by regulation will be out of the market.

And unsafe nuclear is really unsafe in a politically terrible way. You are doomed to either have Chernobyls or a lot of non-optimal regulation, or excellent regulation in the world of spherical cows and frictionless planes.

Perhaps one of the new nuclear startups can find a solution to this, but it'll have to be by finding a way to mass produce nuclear within the existing heavy red tape regime. And in the real world, that's not a bad thing.


> And in the real world, that's not a bad thing

It is a bad thing if the increased cost / pollution kills more people either directly or indirectly.


My argument is that is not the choice we are given. We are given only the choice between too much regulation and too little.


> and they would still be safe (probably not true)

Why do you think it's not true? Just look at the existing statistics that includes old designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant#/media/Fil...


I am sure that new designs would be better on paper. I am also sure that a regulatory regime in which nuclear plants are allowed to be exactly as unsafe as fossil fuel power plants would somehow turn out in the real world of money and politics to actually be worse than fossil fuel plants.

I don't think we as humans know how to create a regulatory structure for nuclear that would keep away people who are willing to sacrifice principles for money, and at the same time allows new designs to easily be built.


Complete anecdata, but a few months ago a neighbor of mine successfully resuscitated another neighbor with CPR. There was an AED present, but from what I heard, it did not recommend a shock. The person who collapsed is around 70 years old. Sometimes, it does work! There clearly are some cases where it would be crazy not to try it.


CPR alone is very, very unlikely to reverse cardiac arrest. It's possible your neighbor lost consciousness, but wasn't actually without a pulse, and CPR just woke them up.


Maybe it knows the answer, but since it was trained on the internet, it's trolling you.


Is there any way to know if the model is "holding back" knowledge? Could it have knowledge that it doesn't reveal to any prompt, and if so, is there any other way to find out? Or can we always assume it will reveal all it's knowledge at some point?


The real story in Israel is more complicated; the courts have taken power from the other branches; it's about time for there to be some kind of correction, and is often the case, the rebound might very well go too far in the other direction, ruining the possibility of a real system of checks and balances. Netanyahu himself may be going along with it to penalize the courts, but it's unlikely to help his court cases directly. The idea that it's supposed to somehow magically help him is a talking point for some of the political parties, but he would probably need some kind of new legislation to grant him immunity.


Quick turnaround!

July 14, 2022: Reported vulnerability to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center.

July 15, 2022: CERT/CC reported vulnerability to SQLite maintainers.

July 18, 2022: SQLite maintainers confirmed the vulnerability and fixed it in source code.

July 21, 2022: SQLite maintainers released SQLite version 3.39.2 with fix.


To hijack the thread a bit, if you are still with Dropbox, could you get them to implement what you did in #2 in the official Dropbox JS SDK? Right now it still does a pre-flight request for everything.


No, I left Dropbox 5 years ago.

But it might be easy to add? https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js/blob/main/src/drop...

Make sure to always set the URL parameter "reject_cors_preflight=true", which will make sure you're not inadvertently triggering pre-flight requests.


I'm having trouble reconciling the rest of the article with this:

> If a death occurred either on the 18 hottest or the 18 coldest days that each city experienced in a typical year, they linked it to extreme temperatures. Using a statistical model, the researchers compared the risk of dying on very hot and cold days, and this risk with the risk of dying on temperate days. They found that in Latin American metropolises, nearly 6%—almost 1 million—of all deaths between those years happened on days of extreme heat and cold.

So the 36 most extreme days out of 365 only account for 6% of all deaths? Meaning those days are safer than average?


The study did model excess deaths, not total deaths.

But to your point (from the study): > The excess death fraction of total deaths was 0.67% (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.58–0.74%) for heat-related deaths and 5.09% (95% CI 4.64–5.47%) for cold-related deaths. The relative risk of death was 1.057 (95% CI 1.046–1.067%) per 1 °C higher temperature during extreme heat and 1.034 (95% CI 1.028–1.040%) per 1 °C lower temperature during extreme cold.

So of those 1M, it looks like 90%ish were cold-related (though more extreme temps are equally dangerous in both directions).


And can someone explain how I'm supposed to implement SSO? We have a bunch of subdomains that support SSO by communicating with an iframe that has the logon status stored, but it appears that the iframe wouldn't have access to its own data anymore. Is that right?


Subdomains shouldn't be a problem unless your base domain is in the Public Suffix List.

According to MDN:

> More specifically, Firefox double-keys all client-side state by the origin of the resource being loaded and by the top-level site. [1]

They linked the definition of a "site" to the HTML5 spec, which says this:

> To obtain a site, given an origin origin, run these steps: [2]

> 1. If origin is an opaque origin, then return origin.

> 2. If origin's host's registrable domain is null, then return (origin's scheme, origin's host).

> 3. Return (origin's scheme, origin's host's registrable domain).

The HTML5 spec refers to the site's registrable domain according to the URL spec:

> A host’s registrable domain is a domain formed by the most specific public suffix, along with the domain label immediately preceding it, if any. [3]

Public Suffixes are defined according to a database that you have to explicitly register in [4]. If you aren't sure whether your base domain is registered as a public suffix, then it probably isn't.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...

[2]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/origin.html#site

[3]: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#host-registrable-domain

[4]: https://publicsuffix.org/


Thanks! I actually got as far as your [1], but incorrectly assumed that 'site' meant 'origin', so thank you for explaining.


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