skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Solar power is still a tiny part of global power and even in terms of growth its not dominate. Not a single industrial country is anywhere close to use solar as their primary power source

This demonstrates how poor the humans are at reasoning about exponentials. In September 1918, the flu was still a tiny part of global mortality; not a single industrial country was anywhere close to having flu as their primary cause of death. By December it had killed several percent of the global population.

> Their[sic] are massive unsolved problem when it comes to energy distribution and storage

I think you mean transmission, not distribution, presumably because you don't know the difference. There actually aren't.

> People love to quote prices of the cells, ignoring the larger end to end cost

Nowadays people instead love to quote the prices established in power purchasing agreements won by competitive bidding; these hit a new low this week of US$15.67 per MWh in Qatar https://archive.fo/UBWWi but there are projects in many equatorial parts of the world hitting similar lows.

> Solar power will have to be replaced much, much faster then a nuclear plant

Although the most common solar modules are sold as having a 25-year lifespan, they typically continue to work after that time with modest power degradation. Solar cells made in the 1970s are still in use today. Unlike the situation with nuclear plants, there is no known danger in leaving obsolete solar panels in use. Typical nuclear plant design lifetimes are 30–40 years, though some new plants have design lifetimes of up to 60 years.

> Replacing 1000s of km² of solar is a massive problem

Yes, but it's a much cheaper massive problem to solve than replacing the 50 or more nuclear power plants that would be needed to produce the same 250 GW as 1000 km² of solar panels, assuming a typical 25% capacity factor (that's 1000 GWp). At today's prices we're talking about something like 400 billion dollars; this is comparable to the US$200B Qatar spent to prepare for the World Cup or the US$400B budget for the Siberian gas pipeline.

> This was and is the fundamental failure of environmental policy

I would rather say that the fundamental failure of environmental policy is a failure to think through possibilities and consequences using knowledge and reason, instead acting based on gut feeling. Your comment betrays a similar lack of knowledge and reasoning. I suggest you level up your game before you lose all your money in a pyramid scheme.
Extending the Smalltalk Syntax 4
Depends what you mean any rando cant just rock up and get position 1 for "car insurance" probably true.

But improve the performance for a site absolutely or get the right traffic to the right geo version of your page yep (bloody hard work I might add)

Ikea is having a bit of a problem in this area at the moment for example.
Someone on HN recently posted this link https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/

I don't have a full read on how accurately the figures backing this tool reflect reality, but one thing that really stood out to me while playing with it was how small an impact nuclear has on the overall outcomes.
Sharing a single window does not work on X11 either via Chrome screen capture, though.

We have resorted to custom tooling that uses VNC via the company VPN, which works decently with better quality.
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> Local farms aren’t much better. They often times use old pickup trucks which are way less efficient than trains to deliver food.

This doesn't really make sense to me. Trains don't deliver from foreign farms to my door. You have to drive the food from those farms to the train, and drive the food from the train to its final destination. I don't see how that can possibly be less resource-intensive than getting food from local farms. And that's not even mentioning the difference between monoculture industrial agriculture and small-scale organic farming.

In any case, if you're worried about your resource consumption, you can always make more of your diet plant-based, drive your car less, and avoid flying when possible. In every carbon impact calculator I've used [1], these things make a significant impact. And I agree with the above poster that these decisions can, far from being sacrifices, greatly improve your life.

[1] https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/#/
I haven’t been able to get any one to use Google Duo. Isn’t it still only 1 on 1? Yes, it’s cross-platform, but if the cross-platform apps aren’t that good (Hangouts feels bulky, some other apps have more hoops to go through), that’s also saying something.
Yup. I never waste time on summary blog posts, X things blablabla.
Researchers track fishing fleets by putting radar sensors on birds
Nuclear is way too expensive, it essentially has lost. It will certainly will play a part for decades, but e.g. wind turbine parks are already at the same price level and have none of the disadvantages of nuclear. Plus several wind parks in a grid work just fine as base load providers, see e.g. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.475...
Ideally the future is nuclear fission transitioning to fusion, with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Lithium battery production and recycling is still very damaging to the environment, even if it stopped relying on coal for energy[1][2].

Hydrogen vehicles also have a longer lifespan and range compared to electric vehicles, while needing less time to refuel[3]. Now if only we invested as much in hydrogen harvesting technology as we are investing in lithium batteries.

[1]https://amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/aug/24...

[2]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/battery-batteries-ele...

[3]https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/hydrogen-fu...
> And thus refuse to have any other conversation?

Where are you getting this stuff? I never said anything about refusing to have any other conversation. And you responded to the wrong comment above. You quoted another commenter and responded to it in a reply to me. That's not how threaded forums work.

Are you confusing me with other HNer again here?
This always puzzle me about SEO. Let's say you are writing an article that you want to cover in-depth. Which one is better for SEO (both options has the same content):
A. Publish all in one long article
B. Publish in a series of small articles
worldnuclearreport.org is an anti-nuclear activist organization, FYI. They are not an official body of any kind.

There are a number of flaws in the conclusions they advocate.

1. They compare raw generation costs, but always neglect storage costs for renewables - which is the MAJORITY problem with most renewables.

2. They claim that nuclear takes long and is expensive, while continuing to advocate regulations to make nuclear more expensive and take longer. I call this the "push someone off a cliff and then accuse him of being clumsy" strategy.

3. Nuclear scales better than any other solution. Storage (at least in North America) is trivial - we have a massive facility capable of storing ALL the waste from the US & Canada, just sitting closed because of politics and fearmongering.

4. Building a nuclear plant takes 10-15 years. The most ambitious "New Green Deal" plan from environmentalists has a timeline of 10 years (despite have no solution to the storage problem). Frankly, if we get to 100% nuclear and hydro in 20 years, that is very much in line with preventing climate change. Note also that China is currently building 24 GenIII nuclear plants.
Trying to get companies to give me a chance without a 4-year degree. Even my own employer won't promote without a 4-year degree.

While this sounds like a complainy pants problem, this isa very real problem for a very large percentage of the United States. Without a 4-year degree as a de facto dues card, you are severely limited on your options.

At 34 years old, I could maybe have a degree by 40 while working full time and have to take on 30-60k dollars of debt to be competing for entry level jobs against 20-22 year old applicants (many schools now have programs so students can graduate simultaneously with a high school diploma and an associates degree). At my current income, if a degree could get me an extra 15% within a year of graduation, I would be in my 50s before I paid the loans off at current rates. That means I sacrifice the last half of my 30's to break even in my 50's and maybe make some extra money in my 50's and 60's losing out on 20-30 years of compounding interest because I don't have that arbitrary degree in anything as a dues card to say I'm worth hiring/promoting.

Blah.

Last year I made about 10% less than the year before because of zero overtime, our annual merit-based increases often are break even (sometimes not even break even) once you factor in inflation and insurance cost increases, throw in the constant nagging pressure of cancer risks (father died of it, mother had it, father's mother died of it), climate change, international trade issues which could see me laid off, automation possibly replacing jobs in the near future, it can often be quite crushing. Especially when you're trying to maintain sobriety and just want to run off into the woods with a cask of high proof alcohol and try and befriend a bigfoot to help provide food and shelter for you so you can die from Lyme disease or exposure living as a refugee in Bigfootville.

Meanwhile you see people with YouTube channels buying what equate to mansions (What's Inside, Jenna Marbles) and taking international trips monthly (What's Inside, Casey Neistat used to, on aircraft with seats in the tens of thousands of dollars a flight) and even crazy domestic trips frequently (What's Inside) and you're like, "Dude, I just want to make more than 34k a year".

I truly can't imagine what it is like for people that are consigned to working fast food/retail/service jobs as their sole source of income. It has to be all but crippling.
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It definitely is, but I imagine that doesn't stop dishonest people.
Attacking Azure, Azure Ad, and Introducing PowerZure
I think the idea is that once someone figures out how to exploit it, others will soon.
Look we all know these sorts of things... most of us won't talk about them and I believe there might be quite a few of us who won't even think about them.
So it's a disappointment to people like me to see this sort of thing being posted up... what are you hoping to start an avalanche of engineering ideas for bringing society down?
isn't it well known that you make less money in academia than in business? The trade off is job security.

I'm sure he could go lead a lab at Exxon for millions but the moment he doesn't deliver he's fired.
In a sense it is a problem distinct to nuclear, at least in the energy space. Reactors need to be so big and are so complex that they're vulnerable to horrific project management failure modes. Avoiding those failure modes takes experience at a level very few people get to operate, so skills are rarer than projects.
That does not apply to Google though.

Didn’t the Homebrew creator give some huge stat number for amt of Google employees who use Homebrew (so Mac) during the drama of him not being hired?
They're cost effective when the sun is shining or wind is blowing but are strongly tied to increased high carbon fracked natural gas otherwise. When batteries are used the Energy Return on Investment drops below what's necessary to sustain industrialized civilization (around 5:1).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2019.100399
Great (great!) podcasts about nuclear fusion reactors (the second one is an interview with a physicist at ITER, being built in the South of France):

http://omegataupodcast.net/22-nuclear-fusion-at-mpi-fur-plas...

https://omegataupodcast.net/157-fusion-at-iter/
Replying myself to add reference, here:

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30354-6/pdf

This is all well understood, and studied in considerable depth.

The media overreaction is typical, but here at HN we are better than that and we should strive to rely on established science (where available). No need to throw out extreme or unreasonable numbers!
As cold as it gets. I am from Eastern Europe but now staying in south of France for couple months. When I am home it can be as cold as couple degrees above 0, especially in winter on the countryside.

Now in the south it's not so cold which bothers me, but I use the coldest possible out of the principle, as to keep the principle is the key.
Upvoted :) I'll concede that point.
1) That is why you should rely on different (renewable) complementary energy : solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, biomass, hydro

2) You don't really NEED Season long storage, but Season long thermal storage would do the job
The iPad launch stunned the Windows team and led to more failed projects at MS
I'm not disagreeing that the method is shady.

I'm saying if I'm the insurance company, why would I offer disability insurance if I can't verify the existence or absence of a preexisting? condition
It isn't just Russia. Every major country is increasing surveillance drastically. As for smaller countries, well they're probably covertly manipulated by the bigger powers to such an extent that their claim for privacy is valid only so long as you don't cross one of the big powers.

And if all else fails, it seems outright bans are being increasingly used.

The best way to pushback against this would be if all of us would choose to deliberately use anonymous services. No govt can afford to ban millions of people including businesses. But of course that won't happen, so everyone's privacy is suffering as a result. It is not inconceivable to think of a future where encryption and Internet access as a whole are regulated and licensed out. That'd be the death knell of online anonymity, which I suspect was always just a flash in the pan... it was never going to last when the masses and their govts got their hands on the technology.
Even the Grauniad article is giving far too much credit to the waste concerns; it talks a lot about the risks of cadmium leaching, for example, but the panels in current massive deployment don't contain cadmium. (By contrast, cadmium was a common anti-corrosion cladding metal for ships 50 years ago, and while it caused environmental problems, it was far from an environmental disaster. We aren't talking about PCBs or mustard gas here.)
To be clear - the state of screensharing on Wayland is fairly interesting, and integrates a handful of new components.

One of them is Pipewire, which is shaping up to be the replacement for things like Pulseaudio and JACK - it's a daemon and tooling for slinging audio and video streams around between processes.

The other is xdg-desktop-portal - designed for use with Flatpak, it has now become a set of standard dbus APIs for interacting with your desktop manager and window manager on any Linux system. Specifically, org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast[0] gives you a Pipewire handle to the screen, possibly after asking for permission. This is supported in recent Firefox versions.

There are xdg-desktop-portal implementations for GNOME, KDE, and wlroots-based compositors, although the wlroots implementation only supports screenshots so far, and does not yet implement screencasts.

[0] https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...
In my own experience, it has nothing to do with age or generation, it's simply down to one particular aspect of one's personality: curiosity. A lot of people just aren't that curious about the world around them. Ever notice that lots of tech and IT geeks are also very knowledgeable about completely unrelated fields? It's not a coincidence, I don't think. The type of people that are drawn to the tech field are often people that are simply curious about everything. Just so happens you can make a good living in tech, but not as easily in gardening or building RC planes.

I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s and was very interested in computers, dabbling in C++ and Flash ActionScript and all sorts of things. It was just because I was curious about it. Most of my other friends just weren't. When they saw something and they didn't know how it worked, they didn't even think to care. I see this with people of all ages, young and old. My mother is like that, but my father is very curious.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more curious about things and I just keep learning more and more. Some people just want to know how everything works and will take the time to figure it out.
The one thing theater can do is raise the consciousness of those around the one performing and socially normalize previously “weird” behaviors, both of which are useful groundwork for effective political action.
Unintended consequences are unintended because they weren't actively searched for. Why do you think that they will be more dangerous than random search performed in nature?
old navy is owned by gap - not sure if this counts..
Google Hangouts on Firefox used to be able to share a single window on X11 (Ubuntu). It broke or was removed at some point, and we've moved over to Zoom at work since then (so I don't know the current state).
> We can use any and all power sources that are clean.

I completely agree with you on that. Of course, the disagreement hinges on whether you can consider nuclear power "clean"...
My mind went to the same place.
With VISA and MasterCard yes, but e.g. the German girocard network on its own doesn’t sell anything, and there it depends on your bank (and most banks don’t sell that data either).

So if you have the choice between using a girocard or a credit/debit card to buy a product, the credit/debit card is significantly more likely to sell all your data.
"Ideally the future"

When, how ?

Yes ideally the future can have magical technologies that will solve humanity problems. We had this magical "nuclear" thing in the sixties. Today a huge majority of electricity worldwide is produced by coal, oil and gaz.

Hydrogen is a no go, you're loosing 70% into transforming electricity to hydrogen and back to electricity. And no you cannot simply "throw money at it" to turn 70% into 5%.
>Everything dies.

As a step in an argument, this doesn't look promising. And..?

>As long as it is ethical and not torture, I don't see an issue with fishing.

Yes, sure, people have to decide for themselves where on the scale of life from bacteria/viruses to, uh, humans, they draw the ethical "eat/not eat" line.

I couldn't parse/understand the two sentences after that, sorry. Good luck with your product... Oh, without plant deaths?! hehe. Sounds like you have something more complicated than a single dividing line.
You're just making things up. Once that child grows up it's no longer a "pet project" and contributes to the continued existence of society. Spending resources on the child is an investment into the future productivity of that child when it enters the workforce. The idea that such a logical investment is considered uneconomical is a fatal flaw in modern society.

When you consider that the type of family (highly educated) that can actually afford to have children is deciding against having children then your proposal to consider every child as a hobby is just plain stupid. Who's going to have children then? Not the upper class? not the middle class? Not the poor? Nobody?
There are no specific stats in this article about what exactly we mean by SEO and traffic. What do you want to do with 1m visitors per month? Make money from them or sit back happy that people read your content? Run a business, or a blog? What is the end goal here, have a well read blog with no specific niche/topic? In that case SEO probably can be organic.

But if you are a business dependent on some google traffic for your business, and your competitors are optimising for keywords and building links, you are probably going to have a super hard time winning. It's not impossible, but you have to a magnificent job just concentrating on content to beat out your competition.
I only shower at night before bed. Are there any benefits for cold showers at night? Seems like many of you shower in the morning.
And certain green energy opponents oppose wind energy because it causes cancer, unlike "clean coal" that they love.
Already did in fact but not long enough apparently
That rumour seems like it's false, because not only is "implemented using monads" a rather vague qualification, Linq has currently been implemented by requiring objects to implement the SelectMany function, which has signature:

MyObject<B> SelectMany(MyObject<A>, Func<A, MyObject<B>>)

or perhaps more familiar to the Haskell folks:

SelectMany :: M a -> (a -> M b) -> M b

i.e. exactly the 'bind' operator for Monads.

I think you also need to implement a 'Select :: M a -> M b' operator, rather than a 'return :: a -> M a' operator, which would be closer to a true Monad, but the 'bind' operator is the one that really matters anyway.
Largest property casualty insurance company in the United States.
I think the "we're not doing it because it adds complexity in the type system and runtime" was something most developpers have a very hard time understanding, since generic programming exists in pratically every single PL created since C++.

Plus, history has taught us that retrofitting generics to existing languages with their ecosystems can be difficult and painful (see Java and to some extend C++).
what about pumped storage hydroelectricity? It currently accounts for 95%-99% of potential energy storage capacity, is far cheaper and more efficient than current commercially available chemical battery storage methods.
Financial experts aren’t stumped. The article found one guy who’s trying to get attention, but in general, folks are both impressed and pretty sure it’s real.
ISO/ANSI would be my preference. That's still not the best model of language governance, but at least it's not down to one company. Also a decent sign of stability.
Even if you don't eat, the energy uses to keep the society you benfit from going is high
The service is working as intended.
You accuse me of propaganda, but I referenced widely-available information to support my point. The support for your point is basically, "US friend, China enemy" to which all I can say is: which of our positions sounds more like propaganda? Do the actions of the US which I referenced, which are widely known and documented, look like the actions of a friend/ally?

I think the real crux of our disagreement comes down to this: "If the NSA wants to stalk a UK citizen all they have to do is ask." You seem to view this as an acceptable outcome. I don't, because I'm not a nationalist: I'm on the side of the average people, no matter where those people are from, and I don't trust any government to spy on people.

The Chinese government is bad, yes. But let's not pretend the US/UK governments are innocent, or that we have to take the side of the US/UK governments to be against China. I'm not on the side of any government: I'm on the side of the people.
Thank you for clarifying!

Sadly, you're right. Antisemitism does not appear to respect any national boundaries in Europe [1] or anywhere else [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_antisemitism
Be the first of your ancestors to be an evolutionary dead-end! Tough sell...
If it's so easy and straightforward to return 50% YoY, why aren't there a proliferation of funds doing this?
Anyone who is still posting this nonsense has lost all credibility with those who are educated . . . green solutions must involve cost, and nuclear power is so far off the chart in cost it will never be an option when bankers are involved, only in authoritarian states, or those states wishing to use reactors to also produce weapons, will any new nuclear sites be created (like Iran). Existing nuclear plants are merely "an accident waiting to happen".
https://m.phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.h...
Reddit execs give lip service to fighting brigading. It is only enforced in rare cases.
Same at my doctor. I asked to see what I was signing and the receptionist said no one had ever asked before. She had to get the manager to figure out how to print it.