skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing consumption at this point is not a good option, rather wee need to find ways how to produce more energy in a clean manner, as that's how most of our current problems can be solved.

Carbon capture, polluted water/air filtering, land recultivation, waste recycling, desalination, electricity powered transport, carbon neutral fuel production and even spaceflight - all these can fix our environmental problems if we have enough clean & cheap power.

Just reducing consumption means we reduce our options while still using our current old, expensive and dirty power sources.

And as for global footprint being bigger than the one of Earth at some time in the future - well, Earth and it's resources are just a very tiny part of our Solar System, not to mention it's wider neighborhood.

Only limiting ourselves to the resources our our single planet is a very bad thing to do as that will indeed lead to strife, but using the wider resources of the Solar System should enable us to avoid this pressure for quite a while to come.
I think this is roughly equivalent to "you'll learn more outside of your comfort zone [even though you'll feel like you know less]"
Yeah, the iPad mini 4 has an A8 processor, and the mini 5 came out several years later, with an A12 processor.
I am using both Proton Mail and VPN and am quite happy with it.

In your case deeper problem is that so much of you digital life depends on a single point of failure - your Gmail account and it can go in a blink of an eye.

Trick for a switch is to do one a time. Next time you visit a site, go to setting and set email to your new provider, like timpy+nytimes@protonmail.com or whatever.

Also can advise you password manager, like 1Password, that will make switch and maintenance much easier.
> Germany's choice to phase nuclear out and leave coal on straight up

Often repeated, but still wrong: Germany also phased out coal.
LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD (CVE-2020-7247)
IPsec also supports this - give certs signed by a mutually tusted CA to all nodes and they can all communicate host-to-host in a full mesh without needing to reconfigure when adding a host etc.
I've mentioned this before on HN [1]. I strongly hope 1.15 will finally address the math/big.addMulVVW issues that really slow down RSA computations, directly affecting PGP and TLS.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968913

Edit: I screwed up some initialisms.
> Is it even possible to do this on an iOS device that's on 4G

No.

> Is it even possible to do this on an iOS device that's on [...] someone else's wifi

Yes, since you can do it on your device, and do not have to do it on the router. Drawback is you have to do it for each Wifi network anew.

> Do iOS devices have the same "leak"

Yes, there is nothing that prevents apps from phoning home (or phoning every one of a dozen data collection "partners")
The intermittency is the one thing nuclear does better than wind. Nuclear can run 24/7 for multiple years on one fuel load on a tiny land footprint with very few raw materials. No other low-carbon source can do that.
> many of those same people were fundamental in the formation of the environmental movement including the anti-nuke, pro-eugenics crowd

Who prominently?

There definitely was a pro-eugenics movement in much of the West before WW2, but the anti-GMO fight is a very different one occuring 50 years later! I'd be surprised if there were very many people involved in both.
Depends on your credit score if you get no interest on laptops, unlike with phones (where they approve you or don’t, but details remain the same). Also, there’s no trade up program on the laptop financing, so to go back to OP’s point, there isn’t an equivalent offering for laptops to what exists for phones.
The plant is coming online next year - I would not characterize that as "not working out".

But ask yourself "why". What causes delays in nuclear projects? Was it because the technology is somehow flawed, or is it because of the fearmongering and politics around nuclear power that make it a frequent target for the uneducated masses.

The Finish reactor projects have faced steep opposition from the Green Party in the government. They have delayed and blocked construction where-ever possible.

It is like pushing someone off a cliff and then accusing them of being clumsy.
there is no technology that exists or is contemplated that can provide storage at the required scale. renewables are very cheap when they are a smaller percentage of the power, but as the percentage increases you need to massively over provision them to deal with the variability.
Buy a domain and use an email provider which supports custom domains (and maybe catch alls) and use this domain from now on. Makes switching providers way more easy as you don't use their domain in your email everywhere.
You are right. only 4 1/3 so far. got it in sep or oct 2015, the first week it became available (and had the bad battery ...).
One "downside" is having to run the local bridge application that proxies / decrypts your emails if you want a regular desktop client (say thunderbird) connect to it. Other than that haven't had any problems. Also the android app is really nice and so is the web client.

Been running gmail and proton side by side for over a year, slowly moving all accounts and redirecting contacts to my proton address. Really suggest getting a custom domain so moving providers is as easy as changing MX records in the future.
It solves the problem that Chromebooks can't run good games.

It is only a problem if you work for Google.
Not really, it just more pleasant to take a shower with less of an impact after. Summer is easy, it's the cold winter that counts :)
It doesn't have to be like this. Clojure is over 10 years old and has more or less achieved its vision of never having a breaking change in the core language. This comes at a cost (many rejected proposals, very very slow acceptance of them) but it's still proof that you can avoid breaking changes if you are sufficiently cautious. (It probably also helps that Clojure has a full-fledged macro system that lets users write libraries that would have had to be compiler plugins or language proposals in other languages.)
The author is a "Freelance writer" and has 0 history relating to the energy sector or nuclear power or anything relating to the topic.

The bulk of the article borders on urban myth and views that are thoroughly debunked by actual industry experts.

There are 0 cited sources. The whole thing reads like a high school essay of poor enough quality to get an F.

Why is this on HN?
Clearly they’ve come to the realization that they either do this voluntarily or future regulation will force them to do it. The beginning of the end of hyper-targeted online advertising has started.
If the demo animation fails to play:

https://m.imgur.com/atQnWj6
I had deactivated my account about a year ago. I tried logging in to view this page, and it reactivated everything immediately. Also, it has clearly been linking a vast quantity of off-facebook activity despite my account being deactivated.
According to him C# sucks too, so something tells me he's not the primary audience of a port from C# to TS
Same here, you'd be amazed what can be done with smart searches
Are solar panel and wind turbines clean ?

They need to be changed often, they use lots of concrete (especially for wind turbines), they need lots of materials and have a quite low power factor (10-20%).
> I am talking about power plant ; one nuclear power plant has generally multiple reactors

Thanks for the correction, I wasn't aware of the distinction.
You should check out "The Real Martian" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8t8Dq8oZeAjGDx_87azBw/abo...

and Beanstalk (a YC company) https://www.beanstalk.farm/
JSON Lines: Record-Style JSON
This is an almost* solved problem, depending on how low-friction solution you consider solved. Just use X509 PKI.

Have your real world identity issuing agency (whatever that is in a specific country) become a CA, issue personal cert and store it in crypto-hardware. Smart-card interface is rarely present (generally requires specific hardware), USB requires drivers.

Heck, the key can even live inside your SIM card if you prove your identity to mobile provider, which you have to if it is a contract anyway. Works well and is easy to use. Can be an attack vector for scams, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_signature
can't say we didn't see this coming. unfortunately this a pattern that google has exhibited again and again with consumer based products. you think that people would have learned after the google glass fiasco, but i guess not.
Thanks for expressing this johnmorrison and for being very uninflammatory about it :) Here is my white paper that sites ample research. https://www.terramenthq.com/underground-pumped-hydroelectric...

If you want to send me research supporting some of your thoughts here then I'd love to see it. I do know for example that it's a very valid debate whether or not nuclear has a place in our climate fight.

I'll try to re-work the language in my materials to make sure I'm not excluding other valid viewpoints. Thanks!
We should stop recycling our politicians, and throw away the old ones in a landfill.
I use ProtonMail as my primary email address, I kept my Gmail account (auto-forwarding to Proton), and little by little I've been updating all my newsletters and accounts. Very little mail now passes through my Gmail, but I probably won't ever delete the account just in case.
Even with a tap and hold? It should make the letters go away. Works juyst fine on 13.3 on my Pro 10.5
Depending on your location, but you could do a GDPR Data Subject Request (DSR)
"Attribution" in this sense is always going to be the enemy of privacy, because it boils down to the question of "what was on your screen when you decided to make this purchase".
This article is full of lie.
Biggest modern plants supply 6 GW, not 0.9
Currently existing plants supply 10% of the world energy consumption.
Last generation of plants lasts for 100 year.
Seems to me it is paid article.
I see, I misread the comment I was responding to. For some reason I got the opposite: "C++ is missing a standard", instead of "Go is missing a standard".

Makes sense then.
I had the same experience. I find it hard to believe literally ever other patient was fine with signing sight-unseen. I don’t care if I’m being “difficult” signing without reading is not wise.
Wait, how can wind energy possibly cause cancer?

Also, there must be a name for the fallacy where you oppose one thing for some reason, without considering that the only alternative is much worse.
I wasn't giving C++ as an example of a language that maintains backwards compatibility through breaking changes using source upgrades, I was actually thinking of Go when I said that. Obviously C++ does have a preprocessor, which means upgrades cannot be done automatically in general because e.g. how do you know which macros in an #ifdef are "supposed" to be defined and which are "supposed" to be undefined etc? Instead they have to maintain backwards compatibility in the spec.
There's still Tor, and they have a hidden service as well

https://protonirockerxow.onion
Pompous title. I'll happily do it, but not because you made me. Rather, it sounds quite tasty and nutritious! The 'capacity' concept is a lie. Don't forget to look at the drastically slowing worldwide population growth. I'll continue to kill and eat venison and grow my garden.
If you draw a 50x50km square on a map of France, you'll quickly realize that's an area the size of Luxembourg - not exactly negligible.
> Only if you think you can't be wrong, other people can't be right and the issue you're discussing is so absolutely more important than any other consideration, like truth.

This is an example of exactly what I mean when I say "the complete ends aren't being considered". Perhaps your ends are "I want everyone to be fed" but if part of your means to get there is lying to everyone, then part of the ends that results from that is disfranchisement and a lack of informed participation by everyone (to use your terminology: a lack of truth).

> When I hear "consequentialism", I think in discarding absolutes and favouring frank discusion about practical measures. So exactly the opposite.

I think ultimately it's pretty hard to avoid absolutes. Consequentialism at some level requires you to have some target consequence. Look at your own post: you're concerned with "truth"--that's certainly an absolute value that you're targeting. I'm sure there are situations where you'd be okay with lying, but I'd venture that's only because there's some other absolute you value more. Consequentialism doesn't avoid absolutes, it just constrains the absolutes within a framework of result-oriented actions within reality, rather than actions for their own sake.
Amazon’s Ring app shares loads of your personal info, report finds
Sure, but isn't this as much an argument for efficient markets as anything.

Literally hundreds of thousands of folks have died on the very hill Medallion is holding.

The fact that there is just one firm with this track record is evidence that markets are pretty hard and relatively efficient.

Whether markets are so perfectly efficient that no firm can really beat the market, well that just seems like a pretty academic and unhelpful question.

You don't need some grand perfect market hypothesis to say 'man those returns look a bit too good to be true, what's really going on in there?"
I did use an operating system that required you to dismount floppies before taking them out (HDOS) but no popular OS or monitor program had such a requirement. HDOS was targeted at hobbyists and may have had some design features strongly selected against by the market.
SEO is an effort made by people to get in front without really offering much.
If they'd be oriented on quality more, maybe their success would come more.
How far has it come to replace any of the production ready filesystems?

It says it's feature complete in 2015 and was trying to put itself into kernel mainline in 2018 but I don't see much about anyone using it in production.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/18/the-first-b...

> “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”

> That wasn’t Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking. That was George Meany -- the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O -- in 1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor movement once thought the idea absurd.

> The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”

People make Reagan out to be some sort of extremist for firing the striking Air Traffic Controllers. The strike, however, was illegal. Federal employees are not allowed to strike. Such bans on public employee strikes are not unique to the US. For example, Germany’s constitutional court recently reaffirmed the country’s ban on strikes by public employees: https://www.dw.com/en/german-teachers-cannot-strike-says-con....
I wonder if Thorium based reactors suffer the same issues at scale.
> People say that Git does not work well for binary files

it doesn't, but in your case of using Git as storage it doesn't really matter. A few extra seconds in cloning the repo are meaningless.

Having said that, have you tried Git LFS ? Shallow clones ?
To offer a counterpoint, I found Android on a tablet to be a UX disaster. To be fair, I last tried it a few years ago, but it REALLY put me off. The iPad has confusing and unnecessary limitations, but Android on a tablet was inscrutable and inconsistent. It gave me so many ways to shoot myself in the foot, and burn up a battery doing nothing at all.
The hedge fund business is and has always been based on insider trading. Ockham’s razor looms large over this conversation.
> If you've been to China...

Yes, I have, and my conclusion is it’s nothing like what fear mongers tell us what it’s like (btw you got a nice single-purpose account there so the credibility is low in my books). Construction workers’ living conditions are on the lower end for sure, but often an improvement over rural life (which is why they’re drawn to cities in the first place), and even rural living conditions isn’t that bad from what I’ve seen. Of course there are huge gaps between “the third world” or even different regions in China so what I’ve seen is far from the worst possible.

> whose families were kicked out of their homes to make room for shopping malls.

I heard these people are usually compensated very well by local standards. In fact, I heard there’s a whole class of people in Beijing, Shanghai, etc. who became multi-millionaires because their old family homes were bought up for new development projects.

> There are plenty of empty buildings that they could turn into temporary hospitals instead.

Citation needed.

And none of your arguments justified the snail pace of taking a year to build a tiny little building, when even by U.S. standards it could have gone a lot faster (otherwise an apartment building would easily take a decade), unless your human rights include dragging projects out in order to be paid more for the same amount of work.
I'm moving away from gmail in favour of protonmail, so far I've experienced no issues.

I've emailed my contacts informing of the switch, and I'm passively migrating important accounts/services; in fact, this forced me to consider which services are actually important and worth receiving e-mail from. If I go a couple of months without getting e-mails from some service and nothing bad comes from it, then I probably won't ever read it anyway and it's not important.

As soon as their mobile app is better, I'll likely switch to their paid service, although a private calendar and a corresponding quality app would make the 5€/month seem like better value for money.
I think this speaks to that time-old trade-off between expertise and generality. I can only speak for myself when I say that empirically expertise seems to pay off in job prospects, exercise, and love. Perhaps my risk heuristic function needs adjusting to focus on exploration?
As the article hints at, Medallion isn't really an investment fund so much as a pool of capital which is employed in the business of providing tactical liquidity to markets. This is a business where one's competitive advantage rests upon their technological advantage, and Renaissance has been exceptionally adept at building and maintaining that advantage.

The EMH is a theoretical concept that must be tempered to account for the frictions inherent in reality. As my PhD advisor likes to say, "all models are wrong; some are useful." Liquidity is a major friction in real-world markets, and providing liquidity (i.e. a means of moving capital into and out of specific assets) is a service that is compensated accordingly.

In other words, I think Renaissance is simply better than anyone in the world at finding the markets where traders are willing to pay the highest premiums for liquidity, and providing it in a timely and measured dose that ensures they skim the cream off the profit opportunity. There are a limited amount of such opportunities, so they must limit the amount of capital employed to maintain the high rate of return.
There should be an extension to automatically filter the reCAPTCHA-using sites out of the results of the search engines.
I use my 6 year old OnePlus One as a smart phone.

It runs LineageOS just fine and I can barely tell it from a new phone. The drawback is the camera is not as good as current flagships but I can live with that as photos are still pretty good.
Just as an interesting historical note, during the Nixon-Humphrey election Nixon made back-channel communications with various foreign players to sabotage ongoing negotiations with North Vietnam by the current administration, so that his electoral chances would not be damaged by any peace which might arise.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opin...
> how they might expect Facebook to have a better handle on what sort of food I would order and how often as opposed to Deliveroo themselves

That's not really the idea - they're just trying to serve you ads wherever they think you might see them. Retargeting (whether it's through Facebook ads or AdWords or what have you) is one more engagement lever alongside push notifications, emails, etc.
Just in time to try it on the global game jam next weekend!
1. This doesn't address my point at all.

2. Of course you do. Power needs to be 99.95% reliable. We cannot have entire winters without power just because the sun wasn't out enough in one particular June. ..."thermal storage" is incredibly inefficient and entirely theoretical.
INAL but will guess it is to make facebook GDPR-compliant. They show the data they have about us, but don't know if the apps that send the data to fb have used opt-in to enable sending data to fb. Maybe time to start writing emails to the companies who have uploaded our information without consent?
"Is in the process of phasing out", maybe, but it's absolutely not phased out yet. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51133534
KDE developers and contributors are (or were) mainly interested in features and not looks or how to remove things, I submitted fixes and patches to add things and most of the time this were welcomed(the only issue I and the community had was with a former maintaqiner of Plasma that did not want to add option to remove the Cachew thing because he had a vision and similar GNOME like bullshit, I am happy he is gone),

so I think KDE attracts this more advanced contributors and users and also GNOME people when asked to add X they will tell you to use KDE if you don't like the GNOME way, but ont he other hand you have other GNOME people demanding KDE be like GNOME,

There is an effort in KDE to fix usability issues and improve things but it is all or mainly non paid people, but if more similar contributors would be attracted we will probably get some more polish but int he end the KDE will always have all the features it's developers and current users want.
> It’s the only way to be sure.

Why ? for example what's wrong with triple digital backups on different vendors and locations ?
It lets you play a selection of current games without buying & maintaining expensive on-prem gaming systems, and works on the go as well.

It also promises to have longevity while following latest hardware developments, without having to upgrade your pc or replace your console with this year's hw generation. Of course the uncertainty about the longevity of the Stadia service counters this somewhat.. but the model technically solves longevity which is cool.
Total FUD arguments that crumble immediately.

Nuclear Waste is fully contained and tiny and there are zero peer reviewed articles suggesting that stored commercial waste has ever hurt anyone anywhere. No other energy source can say this. Fossil waste kills 4 million/yr and renewable waste is recycled in poor areas exposing people to heavy metals.

Accidents are not good and we shouldn't put tornado proof plants in tsunami zones. But nuclear is among the safest form of energy we know.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

Cost is fine when you standardize a plant and build lots. See France and Korea. We built 20 GW/yr before and we can do it again. It's extremely fast low-carbon energy.
I have started to write "this form was blank when I was asked to sign" with the date and my initials diagonally across the page over the fields that would be later filled.
Look at the decimal type; it's less performant, but you'll avoid floating point issues.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.decimal?v...
Of course, that's the point. The offspring doesn't grow to adulthood.

New self-limiting moths need to be released each season.