skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big problem with nuclear driven steam turbines is that they cannot be cheaper than thermal coal driven steam turbines due to costs-- construction, operation and decommissioning. Their LCOE is just not great and not lowering quick enough.

Even thermal coal is getting out priced by solar/wind+ batteries. And the latter will always get cheaper due to economies of scale and learning rate reductions not to mention core technological advances.

Nuclear would have kept us out of the carbon free energy mess decades ago but it's not the answer in 2019.
No, local chat still just shows you names.

There are ways to target yourv search for miners and ratters, using info from the in game map or websites using the API. See e.g. [1] which shows how many rats babe been killed in an hour time period in each system. These kinds of tools were probably less common in your day.

[1] https://eveeye.com/?m=Delve&o=tag_none,con_none,etag_sig,sec...
Dev Zines – A list of zines for developers and resources to make your own
It's Small Press Day today in the UK and Ireland, so shops, activists and organisers are coming together to celebrate all things self and micropublished. It inspired me to put together this collection of development zines created by some of the smartest zinesters around. Enjoy!
> React Native didn't support Typescript as a first-class citizen

As someone that uses TypeScript to death and works on react native as my job pretty happily, please explain this?

Also JSX is absolutely not a templating language, it's an extremely thin layer over JS.
I think if you're a member, it sill show the photo under https://photos.google.com/sharing for you. So you don't need to store the link yourself to find the photo later.
Local account. If you are connected to the network it tries to download it.
If anyone who works at Facebook reads this, I am so very curious, when you're asked to build something like this, how do you approach that morally? I really want to know the opinion of someone actually working there.
Elsevier can go fuck itself into oblivion.
Well there is no part of any industry without _some_ kind of government involvement, but solar has been dropping in price for 50 years, and that spans many different kinds of administrations, some of which were decidedly more or less favorable. Much of it is simply the fact that technology tends towards exponential decline in price as volume goes up, which feeds on itself. Commodities tends to go up as volume goes up, which makes more of an oscillatory effect.

Btw I don't dislike the Left, it's most of my friends.
Hoping for localstack (https://github.com/localstack/localstack) support
Can someone explain this in terms that are slightly more, let's say, basic?

Like, does this mean React would be a good choice over other frameworks that can't do this, to reduce jankiness?

I am relatively well versed in vanilla JS, but have never made the jump to a framework, as there are just too goddamn many and I never know whether I'm really gaining anything from using one -.-
This is excellent!

Elsevier could have started by extorting smaller, less powerful institutions but foolishly went after a university they need more than it needs them.
Copyright is an wholly artificial concept and only exists so long as we allow it to, and we should only allow it to as long as it is moral.
I'm not sure arXiv is an example of doing without journals.
arXiv doesn't involve peer review, so that any result published there are to be taken with a big grain of salt.

On the other hand, there are open access journals that essentially act as a layer above arXiv, so that the main added value is review.
1) No, Netflix is fully on track to become as good or better than its competitors at producing content at a faster pace, than competitors are becoming as good as Netflix at delivering content online.

2) No. Netflix is doing quite good against youtube. Netflix are also doing quite good in animation, which is a genre that has become much cheaper to produce in the last 20-30 years thanks to technology.

3) I don't know. Maybe. Disney has apparently given up extending copyright, so at least things are moving in the right direction.
In Photos, it looks like you can choose between the two, but actually sharing to a Google account also creates a link without making it explicit.
Is it me or are those results somewhat underwhelming if anything? Dedicated hardware for a 2x speedup at best, tossup for most results, and only competes in some categories. Not to be just a NVIDIA fan here, surely there is value in dedicated training hardware, but just surprising that benefit isn't bigger!
No amount of tracking is acceptable in the same way the freedom of speech is absolute (no censorship is acceptable).

You can say it is not a slippery slope but our rights are eroded when we compromise.

If you need tracking you put the dots on your own print outs. There is no need to have dots on everyone else’s print outs.
I don't know, I think it's a good contrast to the sort of shrill voices that crop up on this topic. Like when people complain how expensive it is once they task themselves to subscribe to every streaming TV service, as if it wasn't self-inflicted or as if the point of life is to maximize TV consumption.

We take our culture of hyper-consumption for granted so much that people scoff when you suggest "well, why not consume less? What's the big deal?"

It's not like we need more posts of people vocalizing how begrudgingly they subscribe to Netflix in every Netflix thread. As if unsubscribing is never an option. It's a bit exhausting to scroll through.
Really, babies need to sleep next to parent?

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2016/05/24/health/cry-it-out-sleep...
(Molten salt reactor is a fluid fuel reactor. Fluid: liquid, gas and plasma.)

Molten salt reactor is a stepping stone for fusion reactors. We need to master liquid and gaseous reactors before going plasma. Our civilization should aim for larger goals. We need some form of nuclear power to terraform other planets and spread earth's precious life and conciousness everywhere.
I could imagine some collective action not organized by government, for example to write a "6-hour day manifesto", share it on networks, have people sign it, wear t-shirts, choose a day when you celebrate the idea... i.e. gradually introduce the idea to the general public. (Perhaps even edgy t-shirts, such as "I only work 6 hours a day, but I spend 8 hours at work to appear busy. And so do you.") So that people notice that others share their opinions.

Sometimes memes have power (but it is difficult to engineer them properly). I believe that jokes contributed to the fall of Soviet Union, so perhaps jokes could make 8-hours day go away. Just imagine if average people would start saying: "So, you also work at a company where people pretend to work 8 hours a day? Me too." Maybe if laughter became an automatic reaction to saying "8 hours", something would change.
> Whatever happened to architecture that is actually good?

Customers and economics.

A king telling an architect to build the greatest church in the world and mass-produced materials being unavailable resulted in some of the great structures of antiquity.

Now, you have a corporation asking how a structure can look distinct while being cheap, and you get the stuff we build.

Thank god at least for LEED branding, even if it's a compromise.
"Creative work destroyed" is scaremongering.
All the old versions of Inform are available, so people who have already written games can build and release a new version of their game just like they always could.

It will be great to see an open source version and maybe this will result in improvements that attract new authors, but in practice, Inform 7 being a closed-source tool has not been any trouble for existing game authors and the risk is no greater than before.
Big win for serverless, especially in price:

"There is no charge for events published by AWS services"
People say it isn’t practical because it isn’t, and that’s why we don’t do it. [1]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-cant-we-extra...
Amazing how 100 years ago they could lay 1 mile of rail to just to crash old trains. Today it costs millions of dollars to build a mile of track and we still run cars that are 50+ years old.
> It’s an economic, not moral battle.

Except when the content conglomerates corrupt our democracy by buying legislation and take away our freedoms that are incidental to protecting their profits.
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PLoS is less egregious since they "only" charge $1600 and waive it for authors who can't afford it. With Elsevier/Springer on the other hand, the author has to opt-in and pay about twice that amount or more, no waiver in sight. Of course, even $1600 is fantastic highway robbery for what you're paying for, which is essentially to store a static document on their website. (These days, most authors already prepare camera-ready copies of their submissions, and the additional edits journals make are often a net harm.)
put the phrase "opium of the masses" in its original context. Religion was the "illusory happiness of the people" for marx. 50 years later, one could say the same about Communism however. People believed in it , it made them feel good, but their belief ended up becoming a facade that masked their misery. I think this extends to politics in general, in particular Statist politics , which promise make the individual as powerful as a State, but usually end up making the State itself powerful by stepping on the individual.
As usual, TeX can help. See Tikz and PGF. If you want to represent a building you could need to draw electric circuits. See also circuitikz.

http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pressurized-water-reac...
Thanks a bunch! My, your subscription prices are really high...
Well seen! I should have said "past posts" instead
If you could harvest it with 100% efficiency you'd still save less than $2000 in electricity (assuming 5e9 joules in a lightning bolt).
Stanford team: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/31/18285824/self-driving-car...
Why the C++ standard ships every three years
I've worked with dozens of online retailers, none thought they would get more sales by intentionally creating errors than trying to put what the customer wanted in front them. It is just hard to get right.
I'm a cord cutter and have been for over a decade.

When I initially made the switch, I didnt use an antenna (my complaint is about commercials, not (just) the cable company). I discovered that I lost the ability to participate in a lot of water cooler talk. Even now, I didnt wat bird box, or game of thrones (at least not yet) and I was missing references to them all over the place.

Socially, groups use such references to indicate belonging. This is true in communities of varying sizes. Ergo, not participating DOES have repercussions.

I'm not saying it makes sense to break the bank, but I am saying there are social and therefore economic and other consequences.
Right after that $5B fine too
But that's like a "favorites" list. What's the point of showing the member list of an album if technically everyone is a member?
OxyContin Made the Sacklers Rich. Now It’s Tearing Them Apart
It's not unpaid academic labor, it's actually exploitative labor. They charge the academics ~$3000 - 5000 to publish via any of their journals.
Can Probiotics and Parasites Help Treat Autism?
I am not sure what point you are trying to make here. There a is difference between being an independent content distributor and being a member of the gang.
I think it’s probably because the benchmark isn’t optimized for TPU Pods. Check out the BERT in 76 minutes paper for how you need to rethink the training regime to take advantage of pods.
Agreed. This is exactly how I figured it would work, and how I would want it to work, and for these exact reasons.

The only thing this story reveals to me is the apparent disconnect between how things actually work and how people think they ought to work-->magic.
Cool game but I can't play it any more. So much wasted time doing nothing. It's worse than a second job.
Good question. COnsider:

First, PLoS fees are lower and as a nonprofit only have to support operation (no profit). Also as a nonprofit there is some transparency as to where those fees go, so I assume that publishing there really does cost something like $1600.

Second PLoS's fee rules include the sentence "Authors' ability to pay publication fees will never be a consideration in the decision whether to publish."

Elsevier's "unfair advantage" (something we're supposed to look for on HN) or IP is their ownership of journals that acquired renown over decades. Publication in those journals as opposed to others has, depending on your field, tremendous effect on tenure and grant opportunities. It takes a long time to transfer that repetitional benefit to other institutions like PLoS.

That's why physics (with a more fluid tradition of journal bona fides and a wider use of preprints and passing papers around) was the pioneer field for open access and the like while, say, medicinal chemistry has been a laggard in this area. Doesn't mean the researchers want it that way, but those cultural traditions take a while to change.

If UCB and some other high profile institutions (I'm looking at you, MIT!) can declare a policy away from these journals it will provide cover to allow others to do the same.
Its a Deep Mind induced messaged from the future
I bet cable maintenance in mountains costs more.
No, that's wrong, and that's the thing that's surprising here.

If you share with a Google account a globally shareable link is created and is emailed to the person.
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Ten decimal digits. 10 < log₁₀(2³⁵) < 11
Oh, I see what you mean. It looks like if the person you share to doesn't use Photos, they get a link sent by email. It takes a pretty deep understanding to avoid sending a link.
Wow, you're sure free with new procedures to impose on the banks...
Thanks for sharing your experience.

I went to a rather liberal university recently and while the community and ideology you describe did exist, it always seemed to be on the fringe a bit (if very loud). For the most part, people were focused on working hard at school or sex and partying rather than engaging in fringe politics.

Some young people need to rebel for a bit. People's views usually moderate a bit a few years out, just with life experience.
By asserting that the simulated brain is "experiencing" something, you're assuming it does have qualia.

We actually have no idea how a bunch of atoms interacting create qualia, or even whether they do. There's no math to tell us that a configuration of atoms makes qualia, or what qualia it makes. We have no way of distinguishing between a conscious being who experiences, and a philosophical zombie with the same behavior but no internal experience.

Therefore we can't know whether a simulation of atoms actually does capture what's necessary for qualia.
Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)
The Intelligence Myth – Why I cringe when someone tells me my child is smart
The model Elsevier operates on is under attack from a number of sides. In addition to UC, there is Plan S:

> The plan requires scientists and researchers who benefit from state-funded research organisations and institutions to publish their work in open repositories or in journals that are available to all by 2021.[4] The "S" stands for "shock".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S

The plan is backed by a wide range of European groups.

Elsevier may have a right to license its content as it sees fit, but the market as turned against its business model. The company now must decide whether to go down fighting or acknowledge the inevitable.

An of course, there's the ever present Sci-Hub, which presents a comprehensive selection of research papers far better than Elsevier ever did - and at no cost to the reader.
Netflix et al have no problem serving me 4K to the same device without buffering

Apples and geo-redundant and highly-available by design oranges, isn't it? Netflix has invested millions in their infrastructure, seems only logical they'd have the edge in content delivery especially to remote devices. Plex on the other hand, if it's just you on your residential copper line connection, well...there you have it.
It is literally job. I know a bunch of people in finance that say playing eve as teenagers really taught them how to graft and optimise though, so I guess it's like training for actual jobs in a way.
Solar and wind will build out until it is no longer profitable to do so. That means: when they have driven the price of electricity when they are operating, averaged over time, down to the point they can't get a return on investment. This price point is far below where new nuclear needs it to be for nuclear to earn back its construction and operating costs.

What drives all this is that the levelized cost of energy from solar and wind is much less (a factor of 3 or 4) than the levelized cost of energy from new nuclear plants.

Nuclear, or at least many existing nuclear plants, has an additional disadvantage: it cannot cut output rapidly. If power from renewables suddenly floods the market, prices can go negative. Renewables can just stop selling in that situation, but nuclear is forced to continued to run and eat the negative revenue. The low power density of the renewables sources, usually depicted as a negative, is the source of this advantage: sunlight absorbed in PV modules can just be allowed to dissipate as heat there with no negative effects.

(In fairness, I should also mention that there are subsidies in the US that encourage renewables to keep generating even at negative prices. These subsidies will have to go at some point, and perhaps that point is now.)

What will be the final death knell for nuclear will be when short term storage gets cheap enough that the times when that's discharging will also be economic death zones for nuclear plants. I expect few of the existing operating nuclear power plants to survive after that.
Dial up internet used an analog transfer domain to encode the information. DSL does not, and is an entirely different technology (and is not 'dial-up').

56kbps modems and the like relied on digital telephone lines. I'm not sure where the 30kbps number comes from though - earlier pre-digital modems did go faster than that. Although you could argue those were 'pre-internet' as well...
It doesn't matter if the person you're sharing with is using Photos or not. Either way, a link is created, and you can access it without being logged in to a Google Account at all.
I know this must be nuts, could someone ELI20?
At the bottom of the page there is this the mention of "Charlie Gordon". Who is he ?. Any place to find the works of him.
I don't really disagree with you about the criticism towards Hollywood for being profit-seeking, clichéd, fad-chasing, derivative etc. This is often fair. I'm just pushing back against the idea this this is somehow a recent development. I believe this is ingrained in the nature of Hollywood since its inception, and due to the nature of creative endeavors: 95% of everything is crap, and movies are so expensive they need (at least on average) to catch the tastes of the audience in order to be made.

For example, regarding Chernobyl, this is a dramatized retelling of historical events. Characters have been invented, dialog made up, and event changed or rearranged in order to sharpen and intensify the drama. Every "based on a true story" movie ever have done that. This is not something which can be blamed on comic books or recent trends. And compared to typical Hollywood history like "Amadeus" or "Braveheart", Chernobyl is practically a documentary.
What's in the picture? Can't figure out the scale. Are those like server racks or breadboards or ...?
Perhaps not pertinent, but the evolution of the sash window to provide air circulation has always impressed me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sash_window

By opening at the top and bottom it lets hot air out, and in doing so lets cooler air in below setting up a circulation.

I just liked how an idea that must be a few hundred years old has evolved into a useful design.
Sure. Point being it’s all gathering. No difference when you gather berries or other peoples stuff against their will.
It's too bad HTMLMediaElement seems to only be for audio and video. If it also could do photos you should be able do a photo sharing site that lets you upload encrypted photos, distribute the URLs of those uploads, and have them only be viewable to people you also distribute the key to, without those people needing any special software to decrypt the photos. Such software is already built into the major browsers, as part of the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

People mostly think of EME in the context of DRM, providing a uniform framework across browsers for proprietary DRM plugins for streaming movies from services like Netflix.

But EME can actually be used without any plugins. The spec requires implementations to support a thing called "Clear Key", where you provide the decryption key directly to EME instead of it coming from some DRM plugin. See this article for more information [1].

I've tried this with video and it works fine. I took an encrypted video, put it on my web site along with a page that had an HTMLMediaElement containing the video, and a text box that let you enter the decryption key, and could play it back when I supplied the right key.

I wonder if doing a photo as a 1 frame looping video would work?

[1] https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eme/basics/
Server racks. The colored things are all cables.
Though what's the point of linking past posts if they have no discussion? It's not like anyone would want to post in a dead submission.
How I practice at what I do
Insignificant detail.
It's disappointing there is no attempt at normalizing results. It's not perf/$, or perf/W, or perf/chip, or anything that might be useful - it seems to just be perf/(the largest machine google/nvidia could afford to put together for a given benchmark).

Seriously.

Transformer: 1024 TPUs are twice as fast as 480 GPUs.

Resnet50: 1536 GPUs are about as fast as 1024 TPUs.

SSD: 1024 TPUs are twice as fast as 240 GPUs.

Great.
Musk succeeds.
I much prefer React Native's (React) paradigm over Flutter's, but as a platform Flutter is just a lot more robust in my experience. Everything just works on it while RN has all kinds of weird quirks and issues, particularly when using libraries that have native code.

I chose to give up on RN at 0.59 and focus my efforts on getting really fluent at Flutter instead.
Netflix hasn't been a "dumb pipe" for years. They have been content co-producers since 2012 ("Lilyhammer") and producers since 2013 ("House of Cards").
Depends on what you mean by optimization standards, I guess. But a bare minimum for any compiler that wants to call itself optimizing is register allocation on whole functions. For that you need to build a representation of a whole function, do liveness analysis on it, then do the actual register assignment and spill code generation. That's at least three passes.
>Downgrade KDEWebKit from Tier 3 to Porting Aids

>Summary: QtWebKit is dead, even the "revived" version has no changes since more than a year.

https://phabricator.kde.org/D21400
The performance is impressive no doubt but that high pitched noise is really unsettling.
Why does this system have to be hard coded? Certainly you could auotmate the glass fabrication technique with a computer and robotics – I'm just imaginibg that was beyond the scope of this study.
Hahah, I was sure this was a programming story!
By the way, Cookie consent banners are a joke
Results are disappointing. 2x speed up over general purpose GPUs doesn’t justify a whole new hardware architecture.
I just really can't see RN gaining much traction outside of experimental/small apps. You very much still need experienced mobile devs to debug the multitude of Java/kotlin/XCode/Android issues that come up because of how fragile the entire workflow is. Running a business on that is non-starter.