skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The investment analysis firm Lazards publishes detailed reports on LCOE every year. These are current costs per MWh without subsidies [1]:

Nuclear : $118 to 192
Solar with storage : $102 - 139
Gas : $44 - 68
Wind : $28 - 54
Solar PV : $32 - 42

They don't include carbon pricing which will increase solars price a bit, it should also push its carbon output from manufacture down as it will be more economical to optimize it.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019
> Question: do you know anyone who has served in prison?

Yes, but that's irrelevant to the conversation at hand. That solitary is torture and hurts people far more than it helps them. That that's what the science says.

As I've said, anecdotes are irrelevant. Data is.

> But what is the alternative? Let those inmates live in open population?

> ...

> Maximum security prisons have many of them. Where do they go with no solitary?

Maximum security prisons don't just have the two extremes of solitary and open population. Normal prisons usually have more than gen pop and solitary.

If rehabilitation is the goal, and not just punishment, then prisons tend to be less violent overall. These statistical outliers who go around attacking everyone also reduce in frequency.
I really hope that my extensions are not broken. It would kill Thunderbird. Nobody is going to come along and replace the library of amazing extensions that have been built up over the years.

Unlike a web browser, email has not changed much in the last 15 years, so I don't see why development needs to advance at a high speed.

I doubt that any UX fashion statements are going to be enough to make up for the huge loss of functionality.
When people raise those issues it’s not sincere. They’re just taking advantage of the system for their own benefit.
Nuclear risks tend not to be straight up death; the risk is that a Chernobyl type incident would contaminate a very large area of farmland with bioaccumulative fission products, eg. Cesium-137: https://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/chernobyl/c06.html

The risk can't be measured in "lives per year" because for most years it will be zero. The "long tail event" is something like: each reactor has a 1/10,000 lifetime chance of an incident of releasing cs137 which will contaminate a random area of Europe in which agriculture becomes uneconomic to make safe. It's a probabilistic judgement of the type that we're very bad at dealing with.
Coronavirus: What’s It Really Like in China?
Thanks! Yes, and our research agrees that the short-life of Li-ion is a problem, and it's one of the reasons why we believe our solution has so much more promise than Li-ion for grid scale storage.

The pump/turbine technology we use is the same that's been used for a hundred plus years for traditional pumped hydro dams, and the maintenance cost is very low. The life of a project is 40+ years. And in reality it can be 100 years with relatively low amount of maintenance. The San Diego County research posted on our website has good figures on this. thanks!
Game engines are not the only path for that kind of app. I have written apps (not games) using just OpenVR and Vulkan. The only questionable choice in that combo was Vulkan - bootstrapping that was a major time sink. OpenVR doesn't have tons of documentation, but when you start out from one of the examples, you should be fine. It is a pretty decent API.
I like the feeling of being a noob. It means I have something new to learn and discover.

Asking questions, whether it's to Google or another person is a very rewarding process when you eventually find an answer.

I would have thought most people in the tech industry would think like this since it requires so much ongoing learning and feeling like a noob every time a new library / framework comes out. Maybe not?
Yeah, called direct fulfillment. Roughly 400 vendors a couple of years ago for Amazon.de alone. Should be more by now. Quite interesting, so. Not sure why Amazon never really pushed that instead of own fulfillment centers, would have reduced fixed costs by quite a bit IMHO.
I don't know why you decided to contradict yourself. You say they don't pay taxes and then the taxes they pay don't offset the benefits they receive which are two completely different things. Clearly they are paying taxes and a redistribution scheme takes money from the top income and transfers it to lower income by definition. There is nothing surprising about this.

You're also forgetting that those workers exist. Beyond taxes the benefit of workers is also in the products and services they provide. When you're a retiree you still need someone to stock shelves in the supermarkets and sit in front of the cash register or someone to work on a farm and pick up the harvest.
That's why I did this on an external disk, knowing the reliance on me actually being able to use the machine for work.

I am dreading that 2012 finally giving up. It's a MacBookPro9,1 with 2.6GHz i7. I put a 1TB SATA3 SSD in and 16GB RAM like you - still going strong. I am impressed how I've got 8 years of life out of the thing, and it's like new other than the plastic shroud under the screen.

I don't know what I will get when it finally dies - you?

I notice that my 2017 isn't any different in daily use; in fact the 2017 battery life is worse and I can hear the fan a lot of the time compared to my 2012.
No, it's an EdgeRouter.

I'm not sure if UniFi equipment supports the run times necessary for WireGuard.

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UniFi has its own VPN type of software. Not sure what it is or how secure it is, though.
That sounds like an example of it being exactly like this (since neither Go nor C++ have had any breaking changes either AFAIA), or am I not understanding something?
- What if I want a monitor arm that's more than quadruple? (A colleague has 6 screens, stacked 3 on top of 3).

- What is a grommet mount? Maybe some images?

- Why can't I answer "no" to "do I have a color preference"?

- "What size Vesa mount", would love an illustration image here

- There doesn't seem to be any Quadruple + adjustable stands in your database

- What about accessories?

- I can't filter nor sort on price?

- When showing the list it doesn't show me a number telling me how many results there are.

- Can I filter on brand?

- Can I convert currency into Euro?

- What about shipping prices?

- What about availability?

- What about rating?

- Some monitor arms have built in USB-hubs, but I can't filter on this.

Otherwise a good site, just missing some features. The database over available stands also feels a bit small, but I'll bookmark it for later.
These mosquitos are a benefit for thousands of species, and thus the natural world in general. But they're a problem for one species so they have to go?

This is the response to the tired "but humans and therefore all their actions are natural too" argument. This is why it doesn't 'make sense'.
We should take moral advice from computers and not the other way around
Bitcoin has lost steam, but criminals still love it
>Outcomes
>All outcomes were self-reported using web-based surveys.

>Conclusion
>A routine (hot-to-) cold shower resulted in a statistical reduction of self-reported sickness absence but not illness days in adults without severe comorbidity.

I'm always a tad skeptical of self-reported data. In this case, seeing as the more objective measure shows a much smaller effect, I am inclined to think this is more a placebo effect than anything else.

Still, a placebo effect that makes you feel better seems like a good thing, so I might just start taking some cold showers now
I think this misses that the word "noob" (or at least its negative connotation) is mostly used in comparison to other people, and doesn't apply at the boundary of human knowledge. Newton wasn't a "noob" because he didn't know about relativity. He probably didn't feel like a "noob". He was just very curious.
I've heard that some major titles don't even have local multiplayer mode.
Most of the world's population does not live near the equator.
But real world nuclear plants seldomly run for years. I just posted links in another comment, nuclears capacity factor in France (the country with a high nuclear buildout) is about 72%, while that of wind is about 50%. The nuclear plants in France routinely have to be shut down / throttled during the summer heat - just at the times of high energy demands.
>Does Spotify somehow integrate with Apple Music and Netflix with Apple+? Because, if not, your counterargument is just "there's no walled garden because I'm outside it".

No, my argument is "there's no walled garden because with subscriptions there are no walls to close you in".

Apple Music is a subscription, you move to Spotify or Pandora or Youtube Music or whatever and that's that. You don't have the loss of your music or whatever locking you down to either OSX/iOS or even Apple Music alone as the parent said. That would be an argument back when music was DRM files you have bought and which would have stopped working outside Apple's ecosystem.

Ditto of course for Netflix, Mail, etc.

The closest you can get to the "walled garden" is iBooks -- Kindle wont display books you've bought there. But you can trivially just use Kindle app on macOS/iOS and problem solved. Apple's not forcing you to use iBooks.
This is off-topic but I found that the more you dive into the methods used to compare income on both sides of the Atlantic the weirder it gets.

Average tends to be skewed to America's favour because of an extremely rich top 5% or so. Median is closer to each other but also seems to favor the US. But then do you account for the fact that Americans work longer hours? Or not? In my country the average workweek is 29 hours. In the US it's 38 I think. And most Western EU countries are in between these two. And European also have more paid leave on average.

And you can also use disposable income, which is what you can actually spend, so seems like a fair comparison. Then the US wins again, but on the other hand Americans also have to use this income for stuff like out of pocket healthcare costs, education costs, emergency-unemployment fund etc, where in Europe these things are mostly covered by taxes. But that means your disposable income is lower.

But on the other hand buying stuff is usually more expensive in EU because of the VAT system.
To draw attention to it and make people think it's the thing to use.
So you want those in America + Europe (less than one billion) to significantly reduce their consumption, while allowing >7 billion to massively increase their consumption?

Think about the amount of concrete alone that would need to be used to get Africa up to 1st world standards. China used more in a few years than America did in a century. This will have to happen many times over just for the current population level, never mind a growing one!

It is like living in a house and everyone agreeing to cut their energy use by 20%.... while bringing in a new resident every few months.
Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable? (2011)
The numbers I'm using incorporate the UN UNSCEARs estimate of long term cancers due to Chernobyl. These are factored in.

In fact, building a straight-up Chernobyl reactor that runs for 5 years and then explodes is still safer than running a regular old coal plant for 5 years. Fossil is that bad.
Hey sorry for the confusion! There is a link "read a sample" that you can click on. Ill make that more prominent.
Multiple Inheritance+Class Reflection=Artificial Chemistry
> the diamondback female moth would be able to determine

I'll rephrase:

If some females for whatever reason avoid the engineered males, they will produce more offspring
Which chain?
In my state, we're implementing a cost per mile for vehicle registration purposes. I think the idea is tied to air quality concerns, but a similar model would work for road maintenance.

I just wonder what would happen if we charged trucks based on weight.
JavaScript has made breaking changes though. Strict mode was introduced for ES5, and includes breaking changes, and now all engines in use implement it (it was in at least IE9). The difference between that and the python situation is that JavaScript allowed both versions to coexist in the same codebase.
If there was a solution, there would be only One. If multiple competing suggestions are offered, then obviously none of them can be the One.
I don’t know how reliable Proton Mail is, but Fastmail has been rock solid for me.

That said, Russia banning Proton Mail is one hell of an endorsement for Proton Mail, in my estimation. I want to believe in the dream of ubiquitous end-to-end encrypted email. I don’t know if Proton is the right manifestation of that, but it certainly doesn’t hurt in terms of keeping the dream alive. So, I wouldn’t want to wave anyone off Proton, even though Fastmail is a great service.

I think the major problem with any PGP Mail system is that nobody else uses it. I have a semi-technical friend who, for ideological reasons, decided to switch to Proton Mail. I dusted off a GPG-capable email client and provided him with my public key. After some technical headaches we exchanged a couple of emails and promptly went back to organizing the occasional happy hour or movie outing via Signal.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11...

Michael Shellenberger is one of my favorite writers on this topic. The radiation around Fukushima is less than the naturally occurring radiation in Colorado.
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They're pretty ubiquitous in aviation! I started flying helicopters a couple years ago and almost every pilot I know has one loaded with ForeFlight that they use both for mission planning and then strap to their knee for the flight. The flight school I went to even includes a new Mini in their PPL course. They give a pilot a ton of functionality that would cost tens of thousands of dollars to replicate with certified avionics.
The “product defense industry” and the rise of scientists-for-sale
How to Troubleshoot Serverless API’s
The JVM's mysterious AllocatePrefetch options: what do they do?
>how about the $5k or so in media i have in googles ecosystem? their apps are literally garbage on ios

I've never seen any Google app being a problem on iOS, much less garbage. It just doesn't have the native look due to Material theming.
I found this to some degree with Vice City. I didn't end up getting very far in it and didn't enjoy it like San Andreas... Which I loved, and could probably even still play. I think it was something about the gameplay being frustrating. This wasn't exactly recent either, I played in between San Andreas and GTAIV.

Sands of time, however, was different. If memory serves, it holds up okay. I played it around the same time. It's an old game, so you have to factor that in, but I recall it being pretty decent. COD type games tend to suffer, due to their draw being state of the art shooters, vs. true "creativity". For some reason, I don't feel that way about UT2004, CS:Source, and others. Maybe that's just bias.
> Note also that China is currently building 24 GenIII nuclear plants.

Too slow. What is it? 30 GW production capacity? 40? 50?

China is going in the direction of total 1300 GW production capacity with just coal.

> Building a nuclear plant takes 10-15 years.

A single one. I was taking about scale. To replace the coal power plants of China, one would need to build 1000 reactors.
It's not that vague, if you do click to disable you are taken to page that words it quite directly.
Haskell would due to lazy evaluation.
At this point were just covering what is being spoken about, not advising any route of action. I will look into this further and see if we need to add a disclaimer. Thanks for bringing this up :)
sure, if I get to assume I'll have a steady salary indefinitely, I would prefer the 3x leverage. in reality, the stability of your job is correlated with the market. if I chose the leverage scenario, my portfolio would be valueless at the exact moment that I was most likely to lose my cashflow. without leverage, I would have taken a big hit, but still have had some money to draw on.
I'm surprised it has taken this long, TBH.
"common abundant"

> Even though 365 years of reserve supply sounds very comforting, the point of the EV and stationary storage revolutions is that current demand will shoot up, way up, if these revolutions do happen. The 100 Gigafactories scenario could come true. And if that happens, the 365-year supply would be less than a 17-year supply (13.5 million tons of reserves divided by 800,000 = 16.9 years).

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-there-enough...

Is 17 years "common and abundant" ?

> But very little recycling goes on today. In Australia, for example, only 2–3% of Li-ion batteries are collected and sent offshore for recycling, according to Naomi J. Boxall, an environmental scientist at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The recycling rates in the European Union and the US—less than 5%—aren’t much higher.

https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/time-serious-re...
For current large-scale battery projects, see the 100MW (soon 150MW) Tesla battery deployment in Australia.

It is also much easier to install something like a PowerWall in individual homes, and alternative storage forms such as good ol' potential energy storage with water dams or hoisted weights are also available.

Finally, unlike with coal/gas/nuclear where plant size and number has a direct negative environmental impact (one thing being that they all need to run idle even if unused), over-provisioning with renewable energy, especially wind, is not really a problem.
Facebook finally launched its “clear history” button but doesn’t delete anything
Help Me? Web Developers Unite
I am the newest addition to our web development team. I have been assigned the task of figuring out how to make a link from AWS that will result in a file downloading. EX. Click the link and a photo will automatically download. We are using Wagtail and Django, please help.
Yeah, sorry, native German speaker here, I got the tense wrong. Germany is in the process of phasing out coal, just as with nuclear. https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-coal-powe...
I'm also on a mission to make news better but with a different approach.

We're making sure journalists get the best tooling to make their work. By empowering them, we help them spend time on what's actually important: writing quality content.

Would love to exchange some ideas with you.
If any of you are keeping score or reading through this now, I currently use Input as my main font [0]. Non-monospace is certainly unorthodox, but they do have monospace fonts anyway (and I have to use it with the vscode internal terminal). Input plays much better with lower dpi (90-112) screens with small font sizes (12px font size with -1 zoom on vscode). It looks good too on my Retina screen.

[0]: https://input.fontbureau.com/info/
> It's up to the distro's maintainer of your package to deal with compiling and binary compatibility.

That's bullshit though. Why would you trust some random community maintainer to get between you and the user? Now when shit goes wrong there's one more person in the loop of blame to deal with. There are famous incidents of maintainers introducing problems to otherwise correct software, and ignoring the developer.

"I am constantly getting email from users reporting bugs that have been fixed for literally years who have no idea that the software they are running is years out of date." -jwz

How is this considered a sane way to distribute software!?
In the US the nuclear capacity is over 90% across 100 plants. Just because France chooses to curtail doesn't mean they have to. Wind cannot be higher than the wind itself. The characteristic of coming on and off when you want is called being dispatchable.

In the us northwest there's a fairly regular 2-week wind outage across a 4 state area each winter.
They could be associating you server-side using persistent identifiers on your phone. For example, if an app has the Facebook SDK, it could send your IMEI to Facebook. Then, if you have a first-party Facebook app like Messenger, that too can send your IMEI to Facebook and link it back to your Facebook account.
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. This is just common sense written down in a few sentences. Provides nothing new to anyone.
> The result is a system with properties that work with today's internet to give us the pleasant, simple programming environment of the '90s LAN:

> -Use the global internet identity system of your choice for authentication, and do cryptographic authorization at the IP level.

>- Keys are generated and rotated for you automatically.

>- People map directly to unspoofable IP addresses.

>- Run custom servers on your network and access is limited to only those people on the network.

>- Your data is protected by the simple yet powerful social dynamics of small groups.

This is exactly what libp2p (https://docs.libp2p.io/introduction/what-is-libp2p/) is trying to be: The network isn't defined by IPs but by cryptographic identities, routing is done directly through those identities, end-to-end security is built-in and communication is independent from transport, which can be absolutely anything.
Pretty much, but that isn’t the idea behind this block. Someone used ProtonMail to send a lot of different bomb threats to the police. Because of this block police now have some legal ground to ignore those threats.
anedoctally, my dandruff cleared up after I switched from cold showers to lukewarm
I agree that improving our energy generation is important.

But we must also get over the idea that we need mass immigration into the West.

The most environmentally friendly thing to do is accept a slow decline in absolute population numbers.

This will mean roads are not as busy, hospitals not full to bursting and the chance to improve the kids to teacher ratio.
Thanks for checking these out and fixing #4. Ill be calling them today and tomorrow, to check in.
Not really, most people that use ProtonMail "heard" it was safe but aren't using VPNs daily and would probably struggle to find out how to incorporate it into their daily routine correctly with split tunneling. The smart people host their own email, not rely on someone else.
China has reached a point of influence where they are able to effect censorship within western countries. Do you not consider that a real issue?

https://bgr.com/2019/10/09/blizzard-hong-kong-ban-china-cens...

https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/china-censorship-nba-south...!

Over 20 companies: https://mashable.com/article/china-censorship-companies-hong...
This assumes the purpose of life is to do nothing, that sitting on a beach forever is somehow heaven. Not everyone sees life that way (interestingly such views of work = hell is probably negatively correlated with success).
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“An overlooked key is ample and cheap leverage,” he added. “You get that by having consistent returns and a crazy-high Sharpe ratio. That, in turn, comes from the firm’s numerous advantages and advances — superior talent, better data, a unique management approach, a focus on mid-frequency trading, a willingness to cap the fund, and more.”

One often contemplates what "more" means. Near slavery of workers, extracting wealth from other funds, or other dubious practices. Often the success of side industries for a company take a back seat to its primary performer. Wouldn't surprise me if this was the case once again. For most trying to obtain vast wealth, the ends justify the means, which is all you have to remember.
Most (all?) Billionaires get there due to immense drive, and possibly a need to succeed. You can't really turn that off - there is always more to do, or even more success.

That said, someone like Bill Gates is probably closest to what you are describing. After making billions didn't retire, but moved from making the money to making the money work for humanity