skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowledgeable nuclear folks:

Is there a way of designing safe nuclear plants in safe places in the world and efficiently exporting that energy to other parts within that same region?

Thank you for your answers. I know v little on the subject but am a big believer in the inherent power that nuclear generates and its’ cost effectiveness.
That actually happened to my car once, due to some defect it got stuck to 30km/h.
Where are these tweets? I can't find them.
The sticker refers to the first sale of the car, not to the sale of the then used car by Tesla to the dealer.
I ski, kayak, and do a lot of hiking. The trend towards more waterproof phones has been a godsend to me.
I've been using Kobo ereaders for years, and a big attraction is the Pocket sync functionality. (Mind you, I think overall Instapaper does a better job than Pocket, if and ereader integrated with them I would jump.)

Currently using the 7" Libra H20. Had considered the 8" Forma, but the power button is very mushy, and it is bordering on too big.

> Reading long form articles on an offline device with no incoming notifications, no games, no podcasts etc has been a great boon

The biggest boon for me is the e-ink display. No light being emitted directly from my reading device into my eyes. I don't think I could ever read a full length book off an iPad or similar.
I agree with what everyone is saying.. it makes complete sense and I'm fully aware I should be doing these things.

The problem is I don't remember to, or it slips my mind throughout the day. Any quick hacks you know of to help? I heard of one where you just keep a post-it on your computer to remind you..
> The problem is they didn't tell anyone they were doing it.

That’s called design.

You have to make the decisions yourself. Customers are paying you to do that, not present them with a million checkboxes.

Apple deserves a lot of criticism but this is a complete non issue.

Having your phone slow down instead of shutting randomly down when the battery can’t supply the proper current is the best choice for the customer in pretty much every conceivable situation.

There are a lot of other decisions they are making on your behalf without warning you. And that’s how it should be.
yes. I'm sitting here amused because a coworker is borrowing my 4 year old iPhone SE because her 3 year old ZTE is too slow and is not getting updates from Verizon...
They didn't want to acknowledge the shut down issue because people might then have asked - Hey! why is my 2 year old phone randomly shutting itself down? That doesn't seem like it should be happening to a 2 year old phone - maybe you guys should fix that, by, say, replacing the battery.
I upgraded an iPhone 6S for this reason.

I wouldn't so arrogantly claim to know how consumers spend their money on technology.
There is also no evidence that consciousness can be emulated on machines. Before we don’t even understand how the brain functions and creates consciousness, we aren’t really smarter than fifty years ago. Until then we just created machines that can find optimized patterns in highly abstracted actions of humans. Yes, Stockfisch can beat you at chess, but you can’t ask it what the difference between poker and backgammon is. Currently there doesn’t exist a general artificial intelligence.
> Now it's one of the mainstream OSes

...on servers. It's still far, far from "mainstream" for desktops.

Still, that's a really big deal. I work for what is firmly a Microsoft shop, and nobody bat's an eyelid now if we use Linux VMs (as long as they're cloud-based).

I think 3 things in particular have driven the rise of Linux as a mainstream server OS:

1. docker/containerisation. Sure, Windows containers exist, but have you ever seen one in the wild?

2. The shift to the cloud, in conjunction with (3)

3. The rise of DevOps, in tandem with (2)
Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure
Provided that there will be future generations.
That is one of few pieces of him that is comfortable to read. No feeling of an angry old man shouting at you. Quite a statesman like talking his way of life in fact. Enjoyable read.

And good to hear it is just keyboard causing his hand problem. Feel sorry when a hacker have pain in using keyboard. Good article.
Pretty much just this.

Tidal is another exception, and geothermal is both radioactive heat and latent heat of gravitational formation (about half each).

But fossil fuels? That's burning buried sunshine. At a rate of about 5 million times faster than it formed. 23 tonnes of ancient biomass per litre of petrol -- nearly 100 tonnes per gallon.

See Jeffrey S. Dukes (2003):

https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange1....
My TI Chronos "development kit" watch (AKA my normal watch) contains a CC430F6137 mcu, which has 32 kB flash and 4 kB RAM. It contains a MSP430(X) core and a CC1101 RF front-end for communicating with other accessories or a computer.

It's running the (custom/not from TI) open-source firmware openchronos-ng-elf, which is on github. When I get around to it, there are a few features I'd like to add, but it's nice just to know that I can.
>There's no evidence that anything about the way human minds work is fundamentally unexplainable.

Agreed. What I'm implying here is if we come circle to fully explaining how the brain works, then in theory we could predict how someone will function if given all input conditions (whether this is practical is another matter). If this is true, then wouldn't we just be biomechanical robots operating on stimuli? Would we be any more intelligent than say a rock, that similarly just reacts to physical stimuli? Or are we just a more complex rock?
Whereas my yearly out of pocket on my top up private plan in the UK is £100, the entire plan (me + family) costs the company £1600.

Yes, I pay a lot more tax, but then again, public transport, healthcare free at the point of need etc. etc. are worth it to me.
They're supposed to be coming to market "soon", but 32GB is the largest you can generally get right now as far as I can tell.

However, what I really care about right now is higher speed ECC UDIMMs. It's really hard to get ECC UDIMMs at speeds higher than the JEDEC standard.
This restricts your choices in the US to cars sold before 1998 when air bags became mandatory. Air bags, anti-lock brakes, and stability control are all controlled by complex computer systems and absolutely could kill you. Electronic fuel injection and engine management are also complex computer controlled systems, but less obviously lethal.

Out of curiosity, what do you drive now?
i7-8550U paired with a 1TB 5400rpm? that's not a bottleneck, that's a bottle cap with a pinhole.
I think some do, some don't. I think some of the more complex models used in animations can't be easily parallelised.
FORTH was pretty widely used on 6502-based machines.
>Firstly, they only slowed down older phones to prevent them from crashing as they had less and less reliable battery draw

If you put aside any fanboys and think the reasons why Apple did this behind the user backs:

- maybe the user won't notice and ask for a free battery replacement

- maybe the user feels that the phone is slow and buys a new one and Apple makes more money

- fixes the PR issues that phones close unexpectedly

Tell me any other reason Apple hid this from the users and from power users and the press(the issue is this thing was hidden and users did not know they had the right or option to get a new battery).
I would very gladly take you up on this bet. You name the stakes.

What do you think the average user thinks when their older phone performs worse after an OS update? "Aha, I bet the vendor is throttling the performance to preserve battery life, which I can fix by replacing with a new battery, a repair process which the vendor makes clear and easy!"

This has not been my experience. I'm a technical iPhone user and I don't even research it this much, I just think "%#&* they updated the OS again and now my phone is slow again"
> I think one of the biggest impacts of AI is that it will force us to confront this.

I think it's already being confronted but behind corporate greed instead of public need.
Yeah you're right. Just did a quick google for profit and can see it's actually revenue I got back.

OK, so it's 2 and a half hours.
Don’t want to drag down the enthusiasm, but we really should distinct between data analytics, actor systems, etc. and of course „artificial intelligence“.
> Pretty sure windows 98 was about the same speed as windows 95.

A base install of Windows 98 was a hell of a lot slower than a base install of Windows 95. But that was mostly down to the IE4 integration. Once you installed IE4 on Win95 the two platforms were pretty similar.
Baader-Meinhof Dunning-Kruger?
Also, the first "remote" job listing I clicked on is explicitly onsite-only (as you can verify from their posting in this thread): https://www.factual.com/company/careers/?gh_jid=106190
Sorry. I don’t buy this.
I had an iPhone 6S+ that slowed down massively when I upgraded to iOS (can’t remember the major version).
I had no battery issues prior to the upgrade. Then when they brought out the fix to reverse the issue, my phone was back to normal.
They definitely throttled the CPU so consumers would upgrade.
Yes, and the firmware for the USB-C wasn't sewn by hand into the plug (core rope memory). They did this for reliability purposes. It's amazing the craftsmanship that went into much of that rocket by people of all walks of life.

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-...

Here's another great article on the hand-welds on the F1. In only a short amount of time we've outsourced so much of these production tasks to other software/machines. But it's really amazing to contemplate and appreciate what a work of human hands Apollo was.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/f-1-moon-rocket

It's hard for me to grasp it, but I can't help but think it beautiful when I meditate on all the _people_ involved in the moon landing, each person playing a small part in a very complex symphony.
Or, you know, the OS could have displayed a prompt screen to the user telling them that the battery needed to be replaced.
A Reality Check on 5G in Rural America
Strange. Deviceplane now only has 56 stars.
Before corporations were people, in the US at least? http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history... Not at all going to claim it as ideal, but it's a starting point for considering other possible alternatives to today's giant, faceless corporations where nobody within the corporation is easily held accountable, etc.
Doom on a StorageTek SL3000 Tape Library
That drive would’ve been 1.5 hours probably.
Why should an instance created by an ASG have a host name? These are cattle not pets. I use Serilog for logging with an EC2 enricher that automatically adds the instance Id and the IP address.

Since Serilog does structured logging, I can use either an ElasticSearch or Mongo sink and do complex queries.

If I routinely need to log into an instance to troubleshoot, I need to be capturing data and sending it to a central logging system.
All the laptops I've had over the years (HP, Dell, 2 Asus, now a Thinkpad, plus like 3 Dells at work) have idled at about 50 C. Is that not supposed to be normal?
Impressively relevant link. OP may be able to include this in his messages to Google.

OP: Is google at least providing you with the ability to "Take Out"[0] your data from that account , or are the messages truly lost for now?

0: https://takeout.google.com/
Can you be honest, did this actually make the game more fun to you? And why should a pilot, whether in a game or in real space, need to think about conservation of angular momentum when computers can very easily handle that themselves and perform the calculations necessary to emulate simple steering instead?
Refuse to develop what you don’t understand
The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz
And here's a picture of the solution. https://xkcd.com/832/

Could fit on a sheet of paper indeed.
This is the most naive nonsense I've ever heard.

"Only"?

Of course a company doing good by its customers will try to hide the good PR for years - that it was just helping people by slowing their phones - nothing secretive there /s.

Nothing weird about releasing slowdown patches the week before a new phone release.

Nothing to do with pushing people to get the latest "faster" phone for $$$ when they only really needed to spend $ on a new battery if they'd known...
> This is because most of the people doing those activities aren't actively trying to get to get better.

This is true. Most people put the absolute minimum amount of effort in every aspect of their lives – often times even in things they actually care about. Once you realize this and pay attention to people you'll start to notice this everywhere. Some attention to detail and you instantly jump ahead – may be not to 95%, but considerably ahead. The rest tends to be practice, as you point out.
Personally, I'd like to know when I can just fix something instead of getting an entirely new one.

"This thing is mysteriously slow, so I guess I'll get a new one" is much more profitable for apple, and more user hostile than "You're phone is slow because the battery is old. It' x% slower now than at purchase".

So in my view, it's a dark pattern.
I was surprised by the delay though, 500 ms for swapping nodes?
> maintain the existing nuclear plants

In Japan and wait for the next major earthquakes?

> Hardening existing plants against possible future catastrophe is probably far cheaper

Probably not. That's the case in Japan where several reactors will never be restarted again.
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38029698/why-do-we-use-c... from a few years ago. The gist is CPUs are more versatile in the work they can do, support larger scenes, and the render doesn't have to be in real-time so it's not a make-or-break comparison as video games would be.
No need for checkboxes. Or offloading decisions on the customer.

It's simple. Don't hide what you're doing. Either a notice in the UI, or even a press release at minimum. Something.
... And to Russian natural gas. [1]

For every MW of nuclear that was turned down, a MW of natgas was turned up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...
> Also the story was corrected and the sticker applied to the original sale of the car (the car was returned to Tesla), not to the sale of the then used car by Tesla to the dealer.

I'm reading the story now and don't see that in there anywhere.

That said, it's clear that the sticker describes the car and the price from the original sale. It's not clear whether that sticker was also displayed at the auction, and now that you mention it, the story doesn't say.

But I've bought cars at auction before and they were always sold as-is. I'd be livid if the seller broke in a few days later and sabotaged a feature on a car I bought as-is, with the excuse "we didn't mean to include that feature".
At the bare minimum, products should be engineered so they can function at a reasonable level "manually" independent of software systems. These devices should also allow owners to take themselves off the network any time they want in order to ensure REAL OWNERSHIP. That maybe is the happy medium that can get you home if the network goes down?
Tor is actually a lot faster than it used to be. I remember when I first tried it several years ago (maybe ~2010?), and it was literally like going back to dialup - just horrible to use.

I tried it again more recently, and was very pleasantly surprised - it's not as fast at the web, but at least for web pages (as opposed to downloading files) the difference was much less noticeable.
> Hardware now (storage, memory, and processing power) are finite in devices like most mobile phones, eventually due to storage, and processing power, they slow down and eventually need to be retired.

Pet peeve. Hardware if ever slows down. It's the software that gets worse.
2 years for a mile of line is not very encouraging for the future of this city
I'm on my second Spark EV and when it came time to go all electric replacing my Honda Fit I looked hard at the Bolt because I like small hatchbacks. Now every time I pass one in my Model 3 I'm glad not to have made that mistake. The Bolt isn't a bad car, but it's not at all comparable to a Model 3.
Uranium mined on earth is a finite quantity - but I think the carve-outs you included in your statement are quite wide. We may find a way to artificially produce a high energy substance to use in place of Uranium, and other high number elements may provide alternatives for the primary fuel - additionally space may be an option to find new sources of Uranium if we really want to stick with it.

"Peak oil" has been a vague concern for a great many years, with the deadline around the corner but that goalpost was repeatedly moved back as previously uneconomic sources became viable - like tar sand extraction. Similarly the available volume of natural gas was increased drastically with refined fracking techniques. All of these things are finite in quantity, but, if we're reliant on it, then efficiency of extraction and conversion will go up - it's actually an interesting contrast to fission, there really isn't that much research going on since the economic investment of each plant is so heavy.
Because that’s a small fraction of law jobs, and as I said, the expectation with these jobs is that you basically work 1.5 times normal full time hours. I have friends who are senior associates at magic circle law firms and their idea of quiet is leaving at 8. Heavy is after midnight. It’s a different world - I don’t know anyone doing that in tech outside early stage founders.

Outside magic circle et al, salaries are lower and hours are more normal.

Also, before they become a grad but after university they spend 2 years doing what’s known as a “training contract” while they do their professional quals. and the pay is much lower during this time. Graduate in law is after this period.
These electronics are marketed to perform better than the one before. They shows big numbers flaunting how the thing zips, has more cores, whatever.

Therefore, it makes sense that patches curving or throttle performance are made transparent to the consumer. If anything, these patches should ask for permission from the user and toggle-able via settings. Performance was promised.

If the "wear and tear" argument of batteries aging is true, they should be made replaceable. If an item is subject to wear and tear - it should be serviceable, not soldered.

It would be pretty ridiculous to have a firmware update for a car that makes it use more gas, in hopes they'll buy a new one. Especially if it was snuck in.

Maybe we need a regulatory bureaucracy to audit software patches and wire refunds when performance advertised degrades.

Perhaps the cost of the electronic should be held in escrow by the regulatory authority, made into a security for the model of the unit, and only vest to Apple/Lenovo/etc based on a timespan. That escrow can subsidize the cost of a $1000 soldered logic board replacement on their own balance/tab.

Or they could just make the units serviceable from the outset. The path of least resistance.

That way, it incentivizes honesty and success for businesses like Apple by tying their products to sustainability. Them being all about the environment: https://www.apple.com/environment/.
> I'm certainly on the climate change team (if that's what you call it). But are articles like this good or bad?

> When confronting climate change deniers...

The article doesn't give me the impression that it's aimed at those wishing to support their arguments with climate-change deniers.

I don't want to make assumptions about where in the world you're from, and I do acknowledge that climate-change denial is a serious problem we need to combat, but in Norway and most other developed European countries, climate-change denial isn't really a thing* anymore. Most people in this field have moved on and are just trying to get to grips with impact and timelines (like this article).

* That's not to say climate-change deniers don't exist, just that they're not mainstream and are often either ridiculed or ignored.
This. I've begun to realize that part of the reason you see so much pontification from journalists on the Chinese government's supposed failings is that you don't have to be in danger to write such articles. Real objective reporting like this takes personal courage.
Glossier Used 'Real People' to Build a $3.2B Beauty Brand
Sony literally bricked my PS1&2 compatible PS3 with an update and offered me something like a $20 gift certificate for Sony products for my troubles. I haven't bought anything Sony since.

The real issue is that courts hesitate to turn the screws on the companies that get caught doing this. If Sony was forced to pay 5x original cost in penalties, the cost-benefit analysis wouldn't have been in their favor.

I am today about to replace my Android because I can no longer update because the install gets bigger every year and I have run out of space. I am seriously considering going to a flip phone and using a small laptop or something else linux powered for my previous smart phone usage.
Is it only me, but on this page I can never see the videos in Firefox which are supposed to start "immersive" as I scroll down? I always see just pictures? (independently, I can confirm that the Reader mode works).
They expect you to front it with a load balancer.
Minimalists and anti-materialists are fond of pointing out that your possessions can end up owning you instead of the other way around.

What they tend to neglect is that when your possessions begin to own you, so too does your boss.

Kids, medical problems and bad luck can all contribute, but we generally have a very low degree of control over those situations.
Linux it is, then.
Those skyscrapers teem with occupants, each with a bladder, each one a source of saline. The spare water and power we use for growing cucumbers in the hydroponic gardens. The waste brine we use for picking those gherkins, which makes the ideal beer-time snack for those occupants as they re-fill their bladders...
Ask HN: What should our nutrition/food be like in space?
Hypothetical..say a spaceship for 60 days. 1. What can be carried wrt nutrition 2. What if we can’t carry food and we should be prepared to grow our own.
But how much money did they save by not notifying users, who would then demand a new battery?

You're view is right if the only reason they didn't inform people was the engineering demand. I personally don't think that was the only cause.
Brain-neural interfaces or other high bandwidth sensory tools (like VR) seem to be a good path to start answering the falsifiable hypotheses around consciousness. It seems imminently possible to link minds, either physical minds or a physical-virtual duality, and start experimenting with the qualia that emerge. I’d conjecture that a highly dedicated individual today, with clever hacking, could actually perform crude experiments using available hardware to deduce if they can shift their consciousness to a form of duality with a virtual agent by sufficient sensory override.
It's not a "silly design", but a well-established storytelling format known as photo-essay. It's unfortunate that you cannot enjoy it to the fullest, but there is no reason to deny everyone else that experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo-essay
As someone who actually works on the IT-side of this, your statement is technically correct but my experience suggests a vanishingly-small number of employers actually monitor this data in any rigorous way. The only time I've ever seen an org reviewing web logs was in response to a specific formal HR complaint.
looks perfect on mobile.