skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument causes some of the problems this argument tries to avoid.

> I'm opposed to the construction of new nuclear plants

The technology involved in nuclear plants has evolved tremendously, both in terms of efficiency and in terms of safety, but the technology of the new generation is fundamentally different.

> The biggest drawbacks of nuclear power (expensive and slow plant construction) are off the table with existing plants!

Old plants use outdated designs. Nobody would tolerate the 1972 Internet infrastructure nowadays, and yet Chernobyl was created that year, and is still in use.

The main reason old plants stick around instead of being replaced is that Greenpeace and Green parties influence each other into lobbying against building correct reactors.

Take Superphénix: a French Gen IV reactor started construction twelve years before the Chernobyl accident. Its design is still considered next-gen and highly favorable today.

Activists literally fired rocket-propelled grenades at it while it was being built. It got so bad that they had to shut it down.

They tried building a similar Gen IV reactor recently, ASTRID, that improved tremendously even compared to the advanced Superphénix, and it got cancelled six months ago because of lobbies.

So all that remains are old plants… designs that were essentially initial drafts meant to be replaced by better technology, but that never gets shut down because every replacement gets lobbied against.

Those old designs have awful properties, so yeah, we get Chernobyl and Fukushima. We would have had neither if people had let replace the oldest generation. But because of Greenpeace, people died, and fear rose, when all this was unnecessary.
TerraPower claims that their Traveling Wave Reactor could "sustain 80% of the world's population at U.S. per capita energy usages for over a millennium" by using the global stockpiles of depleted uranium [1]. The other upside would be that the new nuclear waste would be dangerously radioactive for a much shorter time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
Greta would still be wrong.
The Youtube channel Toy Galaxy[0] does the same thing.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjoe3Qo_DymYyBR6X9VxFjQ
> While the DBX is nice, everything but gain can be done in software later on.

Totally, but...

Doing it in software can be a pain because ideally you just want to flip your recorder on, talk and be done with it. Especially when your day to day involves recording many videos.

I know OBS has VST support but if you ever record outside of OBS everything sounds different.

Or if you want system wide software processing, it gets really complex with audio redirects / patching where it becomes a ceremony just to begin recording, and you need to worry about xruns, pops and other weird abnormalities unless the software you use is 100% amazing.

The only software I ever found to work well for that was in Windows using ASIO Link Pro to patch the real-time output of REAPER as microphone input to any app, but the author literally died and his license key server went offline (I bought it like 4-5 years ago). That is what eventually lead me to use the DBX. Now I just turn it on and never think about it, because it works the same across all apps with no ceremony, and will work on Linux too (or any OS).
Just pondering here: imagine that sites they choose are poorly written, and they spend considerable effort optimizing for these bad patterns. Could it make harder to make a truly performant website for Chrome, because switching to better patters makes your code loose due to them being less optimized in the browser?
It’s a line item call financing cost, a common trick that car sales people play at signing.
I'd go further and say there could easily be a set of outcomes where it's a big first mover advantage for anyone who develops the approach that works in any of the many niches needed to move forward. And for the first nation that systematically enables that kind of scaled climate focused development - they'll get huge payback as the effects get worse and lagging nations pony up the money to mitigate effects and go to leading nations and companies looking for solutions with any sort of track record.
One of the wild things in Smil's "Energy and Civilization, a History" is that cars generally don't do better than walking if you factor in the hours spent working to pay for the expenses of owning and operating the car. Your total miles travelled per hour spent is roughly the same!
Google positioned themselves to be in the business of saving the world from the get-go:

https://www.google.org

Founded in October 2005.
I am an avid cook. I agree with much of your assessment.

Have you tried Julia Child’s first books “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”? Her books are very in depth and start with clearly written descriptions of techniques and what to look for. This does mean that recipes can be many times longer than most other books.

Julia Child’s reputation is well earned. She may be one of the first celebrity chefs, but her status came directly from the quality of her research and writing.
So I think I deliberately trained myself out of having an internal monologue.

I don't have an internal monologue most of the time, but I can definitely turn one on and off when I choose to. I also have a distinct memory related to this. I think I was a teenager at the time, and I don't remember what I was thinking about, but my train of thought got stuck because I couldn't remember the right word for a specific concept. Then I realized--wait a minute, I know what I'm trying to think about even if I don't have the word for it, which means I don't need to use words to think about things! So I stopped using words to think about things.
No, you shouldn't.

Have you checked what the local universities are working on?
Are you tied to your area?

You should probably try to meet new people and network. Try to learn enough about their businesses, challenges, etc. As soon as you understand their challenges sufficiently, and you know of some solutions, suggest them. Eventually you will find something interesting you could do for them, and take it from there.

EDIT:
of course, you should double check if there's nothing interesting you can do in your current company.

Also, network with the purpose to be helpful / find something interesting, not with the purpose to find another job. In case of the latter, people are likely to give you an introduction than to go in depth about what they are working on.
Regarding remote locations- they usually lack water altogether.

A long time ago, as a kid i read about a experiment in a GEO-magazine harvesting water directly from air.
The used idea was a hygroscopic chemical (Silicagel) collects the moisture from the air. Sunlight heats the silica gel- which releases the moisture as steam- which then condenses in a destil.
It was very little water for a lot of effort, but the complete lack of moving parts and self-containedness of such a system deeply impressed me, being young and with Frank Herberts Dune on my mind.

To drop such a contraption into the deep dessert, where it could keep a plant alive, become a oasis with no basis ..
The medical system there is far more similar to the US system than the European system. It fails some of its citizens the same way the US system fails some of its citizens. Yet it is also similar to the US system is that it is fostering more medical innovation than socialized systems as well. Basically it is similar in both good and bad ways.

China has made more gains in medical R&D than pretty much any other country besides the US and a lot of that has to do with the fact that it allows firms to profit like the US does. It's the second biggest drug market after the United States and I believe it's also the second biggest market for clinical trials after the US.
When you consider that the elephant’s foot nearly contaminated the water table, it sort of does.
And it had a lot more redundancy and probably dealt with radiation better than a USB charger. Different designs for different applications.
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And all of the transforming robot series (Transformers, Gobots, etc.) were just attempts at repackaging existing toy lines from Japan for the US. That's why one of the Autobots (Jetfire) is a Macross fighter.
I made a comment with regards to this a while ago [1]. I'll repeat it here as I think it is relevant:

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I’ve heard on the grapevine that facilities are now being designed which work at under 100% capacity in order to soak up excess/cheap power.

I believe this is coming about because: 1) the high cost of power and presence of sporadically cheap power makes it economically viable, and 2) designing equipment with lower duty cycles can actually provide substantial cost savings. Ie a facility which only runs 50% of the time is much cheaper to build & run than once which runs 100% of the time.

Sorry I cannot cite sources right now.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929542
"for the machine will never enjoy them."

So the human brain can enjoy things because..... magic?
The graph shows 36% coal and 13% natural gas for 2016, meaning coal and gas for 2016 is 49%.

There is the question of what this would look like if they didn't shut off their nuclear plants. It's my expectation that the nuclear would have replaced coal and natural gas.

EDIT: Changed incorrect 2019 reference to 2016.
It's not exactly a matter of cost. The Vaporflys worn by top competitors are not off-the-shelf Vaporfly Next%, but rather are prototypes that aren't actually available on the market. The new regulations mandate that legal shoes must be on the market for at least six months so that all competitors have access.
> Is there any evidence that phones would crash due to less reliable battery draw?

Yes, it happened a lot. Do a quick search on Google, reddit, wherever with, say, "iphone crash", "6S crash" and there will be thousands of articles and posts about it, many from 2016 and 2017 when this problem was most pronounced. Anecdata, I know, but I also had a 6S that shut down almost as soon as I took it out in the cold, or when some power-hungry app was launched, and it all went away with the battery replacement.

I suspect those replacement batteries were some kind of "old new stock" as it didn't really last all that long, it went pretty bad within a year.
You think we get to know, or at least we can know, everything we want to know. Why? Is it faith? Or has your brain tricked you?
Ah, so this indeed looks like Open Source version of Delphix.

As for NetApp, probably the do other things but most popular is their NAS which internally uses Copy On Write filesystem similar to ZFS.
Ahh. Using speakers.
If apple was being honest they would have some interface to show the battery life. When I upgraded iOS recently I got a notification saying "hey we only charge your battery to 80% now to preserve its life." That was fine and appropriate! So it's not like Apple can't do that. But if my phone had just stopped charging to 100% with no notification I would have been annoyed. Same thing here, especially since theres a fairly obvious conflict of interest in that slowing down old hardware is very useful for continued revenue. I just want a screen that says, hey, you're running at 70% speed because your battery is now garbage.
At least 5 percent of the population is not a super rare edge case, and even if it was people who are edge cases still deserve recognition. Nobody was getting shamed either, it was just a consideration. If we had it your way we'd all be perpetually censored from bringing anything up that didn't immediately pertain to 99% of people. When someone says a wheelchair ramp should be built somewhere is your response that they should stop virtue signalling about edge cases and shaming the "normal" people, or is this response reserved for LGBT concerns?
> 1. docker/containerisation. Sure, Windows containers exist, but have you ever seen one in the wild?

I have. What is done on .NET stays on Windows, for UNIX like OSes we get to use Java.

Yes there is .NET Core, it is the future, not all MS shops are buying into it due to the current limitations, waiting to see how .NET 5 will actually look like.
So you'd need 2.13 of them is what you're saying.
If a dam fails the area below it can be unlivable for quite some time.
Ask HN: How do you find customers to validate your business idea
I am currently working on a new product for business customers. I have fairly good idea what the target market is but do not know how to reach out to them. Cold call on LinkedIn or company website? I don't mind doing that but if there is no response, I do not know if I should consider as lack of demand for my product or not!

Look for advice or ideas.
Coal pollution kills more people per day globally[1] than all nuclear disasters combined[2] ever have. Pollution kills between 7500 and 52000 annually just in USA. The range is wide because it's hard to measure.

That's 20/day dead from pollution just in USA.

Nuclear disasters are verified at about 2400 deaths over 41 years. Around 1/week.

Yeah ... crazy hard to make a safe energy source.

1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-other-reason-...

2:

0 deaths for 3 Mile Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_Nuclear_Gene...

142 deaths for chernobyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

2203 deaths for Fukushima (2202 of which were due to the evacuation itself) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

PS: the "more per day than nuclear ever" bit comes from The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace
1. Why would I care? I actually like having more relevant ads.

2. Why should I care? If they're gonna have a border we should equip them to protect it.

3. Why should I care? I haven't done anything wrong.

4. No seriously, I swear I didn't do anything wrong. I never went to those Union meetings. You can check my track!
Did the phone become fast again when put on charger? If not, then they deserve the punishment.
He makes the point that there’s no magic, but the tell is that he’s not able to explain it. His religion is that it’s explainable.
They slow down the phone after an unexpected shutdown, when the battery is unable to deliver the necessary peak power.
More generally, I'd prefer being judged by a large number of people rather than one or two managers who may or may not have any idea what's going on.

I left my previous team partly because we went through three managers in less than a year, and I rarely saw them. I assume the performance feedback for the team was effectively nonsense.
Can charcoal and dung beatles make beef better for the environment
Can't tell if you're serious or trolling, but giving you the benefit of the doubt...
No, this is like selling me the car, stealing it's radio a week later, and then telling me via email that you really didn't mean to include the radio.

The Monroney sticker is just proof that the car WAS ACTUALLY SOLD WITH THE OPTION, which contradicts Tesla's claim that the car was not sold with the option.
wish they had a GIF with higher framerate. I'm on a 120Hz monitor and wonder how pronounced the effect would be with smoother motion.
In fairness, schmoozing your manager arguably makes your manager look worse, as it makes them look like their team considers them schmooz-able while producing good code automatically helps your boss look better, as it shows they, at least in part, are managing their team effectively.
You think this thing you call "you" is conscious because your subconscious has a very good marketing department.
Building an In-Browser Rock Paper Scissors Neural Network (2018)
"Lisa, maybe if I'm part of that mob, I can help steer it in wise directions."

Whenever Homer gives out advice the odds are its bad advice.
Ubuntu did some years ago; it did cause some uproar. Just search for "Ubuntu Amazon"
It is, but userspace isn't aware of it.

For userspace what matters is ART, ISO C, ISO C++ and Android NDK APIs.
Pretty cool, seems like a modern version of what some people were doing before electricity and solar panels: http://www.solaqua.com/solwatdis1.html
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Are there good resources to help candidates hire coaches who will help them train for coding interviews?
Open source in this context would mean that the design is open for public review, not that random people get commit rights to the design data. An open source project could easier combine energineering efforts by several professional sources than a design created by a single company though.
New iOS releases usually come out with new phone launches. The SoC had only recently gotten powerful enough that it could spike past the instantaneous capacity of the battery.

We know that throttling is real, and it has been well documented and was undoubtedly a communications failure of Apple, however it's remarkable how frequently throughout this discussion people are giving vague anecdotes about performance that should be easily verified and proven.

Sometimes, though, our old phones feel slow only in a relative sense. When you experience a newer device it does often suddenly make your old device that once seemed silky smooth and magically performant now look like a piece of crap. That's just the march of technology.
https://strom-report.de/strom/

Share of electricity production in Germany in 2019:

Coal 19.5% + 9.5%

Gas 10.5%

19.8 + 9.5 + 10.5 = 39.8%
I have an iphone 7, and knowing this now I'll definitely replace the battery before I replace the phone. It probably added another year or two to its life for me.
There's another solution to the problem of the environmental cost of energy production: reduce consumption. Is there anyone who would not agree that we, humans, are over-consuming?
I have tried it actually, but thanks for the tip anyway! :o)

I'm curious about this surge in popularity though. Where I am (Sweden) most people seem to know about backgammon, but not many know how to play so can't say I recognize that surge. Regardless, people mostly seem keen to learn which is great fun for me since I love to teach, and it's a great feeling when they win without any help on strategy or moves. :o)
Mine did. It would get down around 30% or so, and then just randomly shut off with no warning.
> Air bags, anti-lock brakes, and stability control are all controlled by complex computer systems and absolutely could kill you.

They are not complex in the way I was thinking. Functioning airbags and anti-lock brakes have been around since the 1980s. Analog sensors react to inputs, sometimes send it to a computer, which performs the right actions based on those simple inputs. Traction control has been around for almost as long.

I don't know for a fact that nobody has been killed by these simple systems malfunctioning, but I would be very surprised if anyone had.

I'll take any of your book recommendations, in return for mine: "Normal Accidents" by Charles Perrow. My takeaway from that book is: once you get past a level of system complexity that no _single person_ can reason about, system accidents are inevitable.

> Out of curiosity, what do you drive now?

1987 Mazda 323 GTX (4WD turbocharged hooligan edition of the 323/Familia). I am happy owning one of my dream cars :)
I have not looked in to Typescript myself yet, but I would say that an “AirBnB style guide”-type linter ruleset could make picking it up much easier.
That's clever, can I use that? :)
Here's a high quality version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMN1QW5ByM

Also shows what it looks like in pure black & white at the end.
In Portland, Oregon, the hippies complain about single-family homes being torn down to make apartments/high-rises while simultaneously complaining about urban sprawl.

They haven't grasped the concept that you have to accept either growing upwards, laterally, or both. You can't have neither.
I suggest you put some contact information in your profile so that people can get in touch with you outside of HN. People here use aliases because they enjoy anonymity.
After having cycled between HP, Dell, and Asus, bought my first Thinkpad two months ago (T490). Was rather shocked at just how much better the keyboard is compared to the others, and for those others I'd always tested the keyboard at a store first.
And here I always thought I was the only one who basically has a permanent narrator.
However if you don't like the Dell and it's not defective, they can charge a 15% restocking fee. That could be hundreds old dollars for a top of the line xps 15. For me, this is a deal breaker. There is nowhere to test the machine in a physical store. Maybe they will fix their return policy in the future, but for now, it's not customer friendly at all.
He didn’t say anything about the keyboard. He only made a negative comment about the Touch Bar.

Who are you defending the keyboard against? No one anywhere complains about the keyboard on the new 16”. They complain(ed) about the butterfly keyboards on the older MBPs. Apple themselves implicitly agreed they were garbage by offering free replacements and abandoning the butterfly design.

Your comment and the motivation for posting it is very confusing.
> I had the unchecked belief that China claiming to be a communist country would be covering medical costs.

China is communist in name only, and has been for a very long time.
Here are numbers:

Renewables 2019: 46%

Renewables 2000: 6%

Coal + Gas 2019 40%

Coal + Gas 2000 59%
and 3.5 dies in september. hurray!
The reference links are also pretty cool: https://michaelbach.de/ot/mot-pigeonNeck/index.html
Irving Finkel's lectures are marvelous. Watching his lecture on the decipherment of cuneiform is a delight, both in subject matter and in the delivery of a well worn and thoroughly polished presentation. (If only all professors were so articulate and passionate.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBA
The Retro Pi Nixie Clock
> They give special phones to researchers that make it easier to audit them

Did this already happen? I only remember the announcement and then researchers on Twitter complaining that the first one is yet to be seen.
Accelerated Olivine weathering is my geoengineering method of choice. It's exactly how the earth brought itself back into equilibrium over millions of years after the mass extinction events. As an added bonus it fixes the acidity of the oceans.

For more info check out this project:

https://projectvesta.org
Yeah, this is important. I remember reading plenty of screeds about how awful the music industry and record labels are for artists long before streaming took over.
Switching from xinput to synaptics was a big improvement on the touchpad for me (Ubuntu 18.04 on T490)
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Elon Musk Is a SoundCloud Star Thanks to “Don't Doubt Ur Vibe”
I'm very sympathetic to this perspective. If your options are:

1. Stay at unethical job you hate.

2. Get a new job you don't hate.

Well, the answer is pretty obvious. But there is a deeper challenge, which is the choice between:

1. Stay at unethical job you don't hate.

2. Damage/destroy your career and job prospects.

This latter scenario is really a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. It forces you to pick. Would you rather be virtuous (i.e. ethical), or be paid?

> You can't just walk away from a decent income because idealism.

Sure you can. You just choose not to -- and (IMO) that's fine.
Coronavirus: Everything you need to know in a visual explainer
Not mentioned in the article: Snakes and Ladders. Was real fun to play with my son, especially coming up with new rules after while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders
Vaccine deficiencies is a scientific discussion, which is _why_ we need multiple preventions. No one single method is perfect, so the more we have the better off we are.

But just brining up "prevention" some how generates irate irrational responses.

Yes, vaccines have become a sacred cow. If you say vaccines are perfect, your are unscientific and pushing propaganda.

If you can't openly discuss the flaws of vaccines, then it's a sacred cow to you.

A challenge: discuss the imperfections of vaccines.