skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to assume that it's physically impossible to make cost effective, widely popular nuclear power plant that can be built quickly.

In the USA, more than half of the carbon-free electricity comes from 100 GW if nuclear. Globally it has prevented more than 70 GT of carbon emissions. Is there any other low carbon energy source that has approached this yet? I don't think so. Maybe hydro, but it's somewhat hard to wholesale expand.
Nuclear gets pointed to because the mining companies still have a large role to play in digging material out of the ground for nuclear energy. Lobbyists gon' lobby.

As an asset, much like coal power stations, they require huge Government subsidies to be profitable to run.

Renewables are the only way forward - they've proven to be far more efficient, stable, and infinitely cheaper when mixed across multiple mediums.
Interesting. I thought they were long gone.
I don’t think everyone agrees that this is a stick. There is space between the observation (my life is finite) and the emotional response (I have anxiety about my life being finite). I think the idea of these tools is to help people identify that space, and be able to experience the observation without the emotional response.
That would require an assumption that there is something that can be done. I'm not saying we all throw up our hands and die; but any attempt to fix the situation just adds another voice to the echo chamber and doesn't really solve the problem.

As far as I can tell from reading history, it's always been like this. We just haven't had a massive mutually-destructive war in anyone's lifetime to remind us why we should work together. Old soldiers are the best anti-war advocates there are. Because I'm pretty sure that's where all this is headed.
There should be a Developers Pledge: I, [state your name], hereby agree upon pain of death to never do things like force smooth scrolling, override scroll speed, implement a header that bounces based on scroll direction, etc...
My argument that leaving your home town is costly stands regardless of what your definitions are. For a similar example, tall people tend to both be more intelligent and to come from richer families because malnutrition as a child negatively effects both height and intelligence.

You may ask if I'm not using a pedantic, irrelevant definition of correlation that captures even tiny correlations we don't care about, but when we're talking about politics (where swings of a few percent can reliably flip elections), and polarisation (which is pretty much defined to be the amplifying of small differences), I think this is very relevant.
Can you imagine when nuclear would be now without the stalls, delays, feet dragging, protests, fear mongering?
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As I keep saying, fracked gas is killing our low carbon nuclear fleet. This is a tragedy, not some benign effect.
Try not to make comments that an article is trivial and common sense when you admittedly missed 50% of the article, and of that 50% you weren't familiar with any of the concepts.

Essentially that's reading an introduction, saying you knew everything in the introduction and then claiming the article has no content.
The scale of it is what is of most interest.

If the court gave a similar order to retrive similar amounts of physical (eg paper) information from your house, and anyone you happened to correspnd with it would be extremely notable and expensive as well as creating dramatic television pictures. Some of that is a deterrant to its abuse.

"Google, fetch" the scale, ease and speed of that is worrying. How is its abuse to be stopped?
I wasn't saying that 1 page was the preferred outcome, but I think publishers push authors to a quota of words.

Its interesting how online media might get us away from this. For example, youtube videos can be 30 seconds or 10 minutes, or 8 minutes and 37 seconds.
Well if it makes you feel any better, most large corps do this, especially brand conscious ones.

If they have a public relations department, they are pitching stories like this.
I personally believe that a key switch we can try flipping is universal basic income. The reasoning is not obvious.

Basically, I think we live in a world now where almost everyone is stuck in tunnel vision for surviving today. For example, we have studies now that show significant drops in IQ when people are stressed about how they're going to be paying bills. If the vast majority is struggling financially, they literally might be made dumber and less able to think about complex problems.

If we change the rules in a way that effectively says, nobody is getting left behind and nobody is dying of poverty, then maybe, that will be enough to give the masses the breathing room to look up and see long term risks bearing down upon us.

Maybe not, but I think it's worth a shot.

That's why I'm all in on Andrew Yang. He's the only candidate who gives me a semblance of hope for waking everyone up so that we can try to solve these problems.
Their goal is not to cure you, rather keep you alive as long as possible with low quality of life and constant battles.
I would argue that there are no rights being "trampled" here at all.
Do you how many people are killed yearly mining coal vs uranium? [0] Uranium is mined in open pits, and when the radon is handled properly is safe

> Renewables are the only way forward

How do you reconcile the article that Germany is already failing their goals before they shut nuclear down in 2022?

[0] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

Edit: well, I guess that is how polarizing Nuclear is, HN is ready to ignore reality as poised in the article, and a nasa link.
My commands of this type are usually retrieved using control-r
Apparently my favourite pad see ew (I've seen at least 5+ spellings of that over the years so pick the one you like) is Chinese inspired too and wears it a bit more proudly.
I hate to say it, but that was actually a really poorly edited and produced video. It spent way too long on b-roll and did a really poor job framing the problem.

I would have strongly preferred static images in the article and an interview video buried below.
Renewables are a dead end if we want to keep evolving society. Imagine what possibilities there would be with 10x or 100x the available energy. Renewables are not even at the point where they can currently replace the existing electric grid. (Energy storage isn’t advanced enough to take traditional baseload offline.) You certainly can’t build a Star Trek world with wind mills. You’re not going to factories on Mars or asteroid belt mining operations with solar.
'The core of the reactor will be almost entirely filled with nuclear waste, which is a great way of disposing of it. Furthermore, the reactor should be able to operate for 60 years without refueling. Indeed, the spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants in the United States alone would be sufficient to cover the entire world's energy needs for centuries to come.'

I've always liked this win win way of disposing of nuclear waste. What isn't apparent in the article is the size of the 'mini' reactors and what the worst case scenario is for failures, and ways to lessen failure states.
Microsoft has something similar: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai
Not if we want to mitigate climate change.

Renewables will not get us there in time, even if they might be viable at some point.
At anytime a judge could order your information and put a secret gag order. A valid concern. The government seizes domains they deem possible copyright infringement. One judge order could open the floodgates.
The major office complex in the middle of things is almost ten minutes commute from the expensive townhouses and just over ten minutes commute from the cheap ones. Even though it's right beside the expensive homes. So in this particular case, 5 miles is not a long way.

It seemed pretty obvious to me that the difference was that the expensive ones were brand new and the cheap ones were 25 years old. But often people don't think of houses depreciating like cars.
Yes, amazingly relevant to several conversations I had at work just today and yesterday, as a matter of fact.

Hard to believe this is 10 years old.
A related thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17916456

Three smaller threads from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890213

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15749546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530813

Quite small from 2016, but nicely counters the OP's baity title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12080752

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867480

A similar article from last year: https://svrobo.org/a-history-of-ros-robot-operating-system/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490740, but no comments there)
Think about how when an announcement is made, a bunch of detailed news stories drop at the same moment. This is pre-arranged. Companies employ PR professionals (or contract with PR firms) who have relationships with news outlets and they pitch stories via those relationships. The news outlet does need to be careful about whether to take these stories at face value if it has a reputation to protect. It also goes for politicians, sports teams, all sorts of entities who care about public relations.
I really believe Bill Gates is using his money to try to improve the world. He's a smart guy, almost all of his decisions are well-grounded.

I think Gates is right again on this one. Nuclear power is efficient and reliable, day and night, windy or not, rain or shine.
That's the first concession of my comment at the top of this thread. Coal and oil kills today (~6 million/yr). Gas kills tomorrow via climate change.
While unfortunate, this is sort of irrelevant in terms of actual climate effects.
I imagine they have a lot of more serious crimes to pursue. This just seems to be high publicity so it is getting more resources. That means other crimes with high impact victims get de-prioritized. Plus it is Chicago, it is still rather corrupt there. I would mistrust anything with publicity involved until it is proven to be valid.
I don't have to imagine it, none of those things are relevant in China, they've discovered a different problem - the economics don't work and so China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...
I think the point is that it's not worth celebrating as a win, because the shift wasn't driven by a desire to reduce emissions. It was driven by the fact that gas is cheaper. It's just a nice coincidence that it's lower emissions.

Sure, this is better than nothing, and every little bit counts, but it shouldn't give anyone hope that the tides are changing.
Without the theory, how well do you think the funding submission for the experiment would have gone? Two laser interferometers a couple of kilometres long in specially built tunnels, with super sensitive custom equipment costing millions of dollars running for years just on the off chance? Sure, here’s the cheque!
What part of facetious did you not understand?
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My local Whole Foods (in the SF Bay Area) uses E ink shelf labels in the produce section.
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Perhaps in some circles.

I'm not in the US and had never heard of him. I did a Facebook search restricted to "Your Friends" and another restricted to "Your Groups and Pages" and there is zero coverage.

I think people are overestimating how well known this guy is.
Use the existing svn/cvs workflow with the trivial changes for git/mercurial. Central repo, push when you're done to master. Branches are all but unusable on cvs/svn anyway - if you do use them, feel the win and laugh with glee. When everyone is on top of that basic workflo then you do something incrementally better. Really it's day 2, really. I've seen this more than once now. The fight to get to that point where the changeover happens is getting easier but I'm sure it still sucks.
Hi. I'm one of the founders of OneSignal.

To provide some context on this, we provide clients with 4 built-in prompting options and we do our best to encourage them to use the one that is best for their user experience.

We definitely want to discourage people from asking for notification permission in an obtrusive way. It's not good for anyone when that happens. We wrote a blog post with some recommendations here: https://onesignal.com/blog/web-push-permission-prompting-cha...
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This is an interesting way of framing the idea, but it's not a question of traveling in DNA space from some point (eukaryotic cell) to another specific point (mushroom): that would be very difficult in the way that you're talking about.

Imagine flipping a fair coin 256 times. The particular outcome ('HTTTTHHTTTTTTTTHTHHHTHHTHTHHHHH...') is extremely difficult to replicate, but getting any outcome is very easy: just flip the coins again. In this case we also have a lot of selection bias: all the paths through DNA space that don't result in intelligent life don't result in anyone having this conversation.

Regarding the curse of dimensionality: it's a statement about the available data rapidly becoming sparse in high dimensional spaces. It doesn't really say that high dimensional spaces are necessarily sparse, it's just hard to "fill" them in with the amount of data available.
And for regular jobs (permanent or a long 6-12m contract), you might get referred by your network, but the company needs to whiteboard you all the same (it's policy!). The referral probably prevents your CV getting binned at least.
Renewables also requires digging stuff out of the ground
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I think Lambda is all online
Apparently some concern he might accidentally click delete instead of duplicate. Non technical user and all. Google staff have more training.
Hello - the IDE focus looks very attractive from an indie-engine developer's perspective(small scale development always gains the most from having unified, consistent tooling). Will this be a customizable environment to e.g. assist working with asset dependencies?

At a glance I don't have any other major remarks. It looks very much like it's on the same general trajectory as Zig, which is probably a good sign that that design space is in the right ballpark for low-level real-time systems. There is some attraction in having automatic memory available for application-level tasks with more indefinite boundaries(editing tools tend to develop compiler-like qualities which in turn creates a need for more introspective style), though it's probably outside the scope of this language and might be suitable for a scripting-layer approach instead.
What’s the tldr; on this concept?

Ironically this post explaining the concept of legibility is pretty opaque itself
Any details on how they made this work? How much power does it draw? This could have a tremendous impact. You can basically replace every surface with the programmable display, assuming mass-manufactured cost savings. Walls on your home or office, dining table, the exterior of the car!
What still scares me about nuclear power is the black swan events. If we have 100,000 reactors spread across the world, what’s the likelihood that over 100 years one of them, I don’t know, gets hit by a meteor and contaminates half a continent? With enough reactor over enough time there is bound to be one or two that fail catastrophically, right?
Hopefully much like how renewables went from being unprofitable, inefficient, and requiring subsidies to where they are now over the last decade and a half thanks to R&D, subsidies, and a market that has scaled up, nuclear could become a more desirable solution if we incentivize it and start pursuing it seriously again.

The thing about most renewables is still that you can schedule and control output easily to meet demand so you have a storage problem unless you can pair it with another production method to cover the gaps. Maybe nuclear is a good option to lean on for that.
Oceans will rise a few mm/year at worst.

The vast majority of land is eternally safe
I had cataract surgery. I can see the Pleiades at nighttime while most others cannot. Use that constellation as your test if you can.
I do wonder why transflective displays went out of style. My PDAs from 2003-2007 were all perfectly viewable in direct sunlight in color.
If you add all those records together you get a fraction of the information you get from someone's Google history. We're talking records like search history, live GPS data and emails. That is a completely different level of scrutiny.

So the difference is seeing something through a window with curtains vs. having a camera installed in the room. In principle, not so different. In practice there really is no comparison. It is basically a warrant to ruffle through someone's life.
Correction: that was simulated testing, using scraped channel data and a LNBig blog post (about traffic statistics) to validate the results.
A couple of points to make before I give my answer. You want to check out the Mir project linked in the other comment. It's a well-designed library (though maybe lacking documentation). The other thing is that you can #include C headers directly in a D file using https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp so you can always costlessly add a C library to your project.

For optimization, I was referring to calling into the R API, which exposes the optimization routines in base R (Nelder-Mead, BFGS, Conjugate Gradient, and simple bounds constrainted BFGS). In terms of what it can handle, I guess that's entirely up to what R can handle. Here's the project page, but it looks like I haven't committed to that repo in three years: https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdoptim/src/master/

If you do try it and have problems with anything, please create an issue so I can fix it or add proper documentation.

I've also used this binding of the nlopt library:
http://code.dlang.org/packages/libnlopt

For linear algebra, I built a wrapper on top of the Gretl library http://gretl.sourceforge.net/

There were two reasons for that. First, it offered a really simple LAPACK interface when I was starting out with D, and second, it offers a lot more than just linear algebra.

Is this something I'd recommend to others? I don't know. I built my infrastructure over a period of several years while waiting for my son at his many practices and activities. I also optimize for programmer convenience rather than performance at all costs. The time it takes to write correct, performant code is far more valuable than having code that runs 15% faster.

This has a lot of potential, but ultimately I'm paid to do other things, meaning those things become the priority...
> you might want to image them using a low-level magnetic flux reader - the devices are actually quite inexpensive

Link? Googling that term shows at most probes that register a single scalar value, not something that can image a diskette. (Nor were those "quite inexpensive")
Depending on the jurisdiction, price tags also have to be correct as well.

In certain areas, the consumer laws are such that the lowest of the register price and the displayed price must be used, and in other even friendlier jurisdictions, a discount of $10 has to be applied to the shelf price if the shelf price is lower than the register price (including giving away the item for free if the item is worth less than $10).

In those jurisdictions, ensuring that the price is correctly synchronized between displays and the registers is significantly more important than in jurisdictions with weaker consumer laws.
How is computer programming different than 20 years ago?
This is pretty darn cool. Nice to see a step by step: this will be a good teaching resource in the future.
I'm enjoying developing Django apps with Wagtail CMS:

https://wagtail.io

I have had a great development experience. The Wagtail core team are very active and helpful.
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Let's farm Azolla on a massive scale, trigger another Azolla event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

Also make it a law for buildings in urban environments to have white roofs. Heat islanding is a very real problem and just painting stuff white seems to help.
Energy storage isn’t advanced enough to take traditional baseload offline.

Right now reliable baseload can be provided by renewables plus gas fired turbines for intermittent supply much cheaper than nuclear.

http://www.energyscience.org.au/BP16%20BaseLoad.pdf

If the argument is that we want nuclear power on Mars, then sure, that seems a reasonable position to take.
But are those one or two catastrophies worse than the alternative. We know coal kills thousands each year and harms the planet. Would the net impact of Nuclear be better than running the current course.

Ideally we'd use renewables but there are limits to the current tech that need to be solved before we can go 100%.
Outside my circle, but it just strikes me odd that Teen Vogue would have an article of this type.

Shouldn't Teen Vogue be about teenage fashion stuff? Isn't Facebook the 'old people' platform? Would real teens care?
Thanks for the replies. I'll take a look at ur stuff.
Spread fear and despair to everyone you're connected to.

Yes, we need to move rationally and carefully, but we're only going to do that when a tipping point of people start believing this is an existential threat akin to an incoming asteroid that they or their children will be destroyed by.

This is what's driving increasing movements like the Green New Deal. The closer we get to the impact, the more people notice, start freaking out, and demand action. The faster we can make the majority panic and demand change, the more likely we'll have time to do something effective.

Realistically though, it's probably already too late to save our civilization.
The signatures on trusted root certs do not matter and are ignored; it’s the public key you’re trusting.

Many public trusted CA certain are self-signed with SHA-1. These keys sign using SHA-256
Humans are ridiculous. Coal, solar, wind are all stone age compared to nuclear power. If humans went full bore nuclear, they'd have so much energy it would be nothing to move spent fuel to space. It's sort of depressing how this technology that can be used to colonize space gathers dust, so little progress.
If you wanna help hack the kindle: http://fread.ink/
Reminds me that my Kindle has been going strong for 7 years.
The most insightful vision of the future at CES came from HBO's 'Westworld'
I agree with what you said about XML. But in its stead we have a lot of JSON which is several respects is even worse.

The worst part of it is that it doesn't have a stable definition for numbers, making it impossible to guarantee you're getting the same value back if you encode and then decode a number. Reliably preserving the data you serialise using it should be a primary feature for an encoding format. JSON can't even do that.
The tutorials on Digital Ocean got me started as a system administrator. I started around the same time Digital Ocean started. It was easily one of the most reliable sources around with up to date and easy to follow tutorials!

Big shoutout to Digital Ocean for being a reliable source for tutorials and hosting!
Comparing evolution to a random walk with selection doesn’t quite sit right with me. In practice much of evolution occurs via gene duplication and recombination. At that point you can evolve complex changes very quickly. Evolving novel phenotypes is much easier if your starting material is an existing functional gene. Many motifs can be reused and reapplied.

Comparing a mule with it’s parents shows how much novelty can be produced in a single generation (in this case an evolutionary dead-end of course)
Arduino launches a new modular platform for IoT development
There is no upside to transparency