skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fatality rates of other source of electricity are much higher, and they seem to be accepted:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

* https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

So why is there an insistence on potentially over-engineering nuclear? Why the insistence on lower rates of nuclear compared to other type of generation?

If we don't want to reduce nuclear safety—which is completely reasonable—then to be consistent, other forms of generation should be made safer—which may drive their costs up.

Pick a rate that is acceptable, and have design goals around that. Either by making things less onerous for nuclear or more onerous for others.

There are all sorts of gas generators coming online (because of fracking), and while they may be better than coal, but that's hardly a useful way to eliminate emissions. Pushker Kharecha and James Hansen:

> Our findings also have important implications for large-scale "fuel switching" to natural gas from coal or from nuclear. Although natural gas burning emits less fatal pollutants and GHGs than coal burning, it is far deadlier than nuclear power, causing about 40 times more deaths per unit electric energy produced (ref. 2).

* https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/
> I can't tell you how many times I hear my wife say "I need to get off Facebook" but never does. There's very much an addiction.

My wife says that too. Then while watching this, she said wasn't that interested, got bored, and decided to use Facebook and Instagram next to me instead. It was surreal and disturbing to watch it in that situation. :/
> “ Where did $8 billion go? Feeney gave $3.7 billion to education, including nearly $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell, which he attended on the G.I. Bill. More than $870 million went to human rights and social change, like $62 million in grants to abolish the death penalty in the U.S. and $76 million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare. He gave more than $700 million in gifts to health ranging from a $270 million grant to improve public healthcare in Vietnam to a $176 million gift to the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.”

What an absolute gut-punch of deeply sickening waste.

I feel extremely outraged reading. It’s a absolutely shocking waste of money. I can’t believe this is celebrated or held up as good. This is a form of basically negligent homicide.

$3.7 billion on education? $76 million to lobby for Obamacare.

How can you not instead fund known, effective charities like Against Malaria or SCI. $1 billion to a wealthy Ivy League credential mill - that’s astronomical waste.

This is the charity equivalent of seeing a lottery winner blow their money on sports cars or Vegas. This is appalling.

I mean this so sincerely. People should be sick and outraged over this degree of negligent waste.
TikTok Will Become Independent, US-Based Company Under Modified Oracle Deal
I mostly don't work on web stuff, so maybe this is a dumb question, but can you give an example of what benefits that gives you? What code do you want to run in both places?

In my limited experience writing web code, the client side concerns itself with rendering and user interaction, the server side concerns itself with efficiently supplying dynamic data to the client, and other than request payload definitions the two have no logic in common.
How does the radioactivity from coal compare with the radioactivity from bananas?
I'm unsure what the pricing scheme is if you purchase through the Mixpose website or Android app, but it's $20/mo or $200/yr through iOS in-app purchase.
They already don't apply this equally.

As a White man, why should I care if racists' free speech is respected? Anti-White racists already enjoy almost total freedom to threaten, insult, denigrate, humiliate and ostracize us. So what have I got to lose?

At the moment, it's open season against people like me while if someone as pale as I am says something that could even be deliberately misinterpreted as slightly offensive to another group, they're made out as the latest earthly incarnation of Lucifer himself.

If the purpose of 230 is to protect this dynamic, to hell with it.
This isn't a nationwide shortage. Everyone in Seattle has been calling every Home Depot, Lowe's, and they've been sold out for a while. My local one in Bellevue was cleared out of all filters on Sunday, not even just the FPR10's. Ace's seems to be the most annoying. It lists a bunch of HEPA filters, then the product pages shows all of them are unavailable for pickup.
I guess I'm more cynical than you. I see it as subtracting props to insist that your name be inscribed on the side of every structure you fund. Bill Gates and others like him are not "giving away" money, since there's practically nothing material they could buy with it in the traditional sense. Gates is trading useless wealth for social prestige. Compare to Sergey Brin, who also spends money on humanitarian efforts such as disaster relief, but takes pains to avoid headlines.
They no longer make networking devices. The one in your link discontinued for a few years.

And the Apple TV isn't actually a TV :/
I think top two reasons to make charitable donations known is to bring attention to those charities and influence others to do the same.
I see it as graveyard for all my videos. It takes 3 minutes to download 30 second video as it's capped at something like 32 mbps. No streaming. macOs app crashes just about every time I use it and lacks tons of features from iOS. Probably worst decision I've ever made. Google Photos works 10x better.
Personally, I'll always feel exceptionally proud of working on Panama Papers. My work was in no way particularly important to the project (just implementing some frontend), but it set such a high bar on meaningfulness so early in the career that it's going to be very difficult to top it.

Over all, I feel like EDRi (https://edri.org/) is doing exceptional work over here in Europe. Think of EFF, but instead of being one organisation on a federal level, it's made of a bunch of smaller organisations that work in different nations on intertwining issues, be it net neutrality, reverse engineering Big Tech's algorithms, or helping the citizens exercise their GDPR rights. It's a small front against the Big Tech, and they need as much help as they can get in order to put up a fight.
I use uBlock Origin on Firefox and it seems to work fine for blocking YouTube ads (to the point where I frequently forget YouTube has ads until I make the mistake of trying to access it on a browser lacking an ad-blocker, lol).
The last time I checked Youtube music was terrible and didnt handle playlists well. I was on Google play (bundled with youtube premium) for the longest time and then when they stopped support for Google music in favor of youtube music, I wanted to give spotify a try.

Now that you mentioned it I looked at youtube music again and it looks much better. I might want to try it out and cancel spotify (although I dont know if my wife would come away from spotify).
This is so commonplace as to have a name: when Apple does this, we say that the app or apps got "Sherlocked".

https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...
> Solutions. I have a number of ideas. I think we should move away from ideas such as ballot initiatives and direct democracy and embrace the fact we are a Republic. We need professionals to determine policy not the twitter mob.

Congress people and senators are professional policy makers. The problem is that if they acted solely in the best interest of the nation then they wouldn't get reelected. So what, is not having elections a better solution? Should there be no parties so that actual conversations happen and require a consensus? Should terms be limited? No clue. I'm not sure we as a society can fix ourselves without a major kick in the butt.
You "concede" that (a) is false? That's quite a strong claim. At least with "the government" managing it, there's at least some degree of democratic control, accountability, scrutiny, and influence. When that management is left to private enterprise, that's not the case.
EVs still have tires, and though regenerative braking is far better than using brake pads, at low speeds and frequent braking that occurs in congestion and city driving forces EVs to use brake pads.

This is the source of fine particulate matter, reported as PM2.5 in air quality, that results in ~50k premature US deaths per year [1] [2].

Tire particulates are the major source of oceanic microplastics off the CA coast [3]. Tire manufacturers produce tires that produce fewer particulates and last longer and are more expensive upfront, but which have a lower total cost of ownership. [4]

Sorry for the big leap, I accumulate all these news bits by trawling deeply in a few narrow topics, and forget that they are not common knowledge and often obscure.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...

[2] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/10/22/mit-study-vehicle-emi...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/califor...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tyres-plastic-environment...
Max Headroom is somewhat special, since it's a crossover of digital and video. The later has always been signaled by glitches and artifacts (as in color, unstable vertical and/or horizontal hold, overly expressed scanlines, lately also by exaggerated cushion distortion, etc).
I could see a combination of iPhone cameras and sensors + Apple Watch sensors offering a fairly good picture for an AI program to base form critique off.
I recently just hand rolled my initial antlr grammar to a hand coded recursive descent version. Beyond better error handling, there is preserving comments to auto format and indexing types on tokens for auto complete.
It’s ludicrous to suggest celebrating this. It should make you sick and outraged, not be celebrated.

Please read my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24487517
Sometimes "whataboutism" is just a comparison to something more common that a broader audience can relate to.

Fwiw, I find the canned responses like "appeal to authority", "whataboutism", etc, kind of lazy. I'd prefer you tell me why I'm veering off in your own words.
Australian Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s high-tech plan to extinguish bushfires
All of the downsides you mention are not that bad in my opinion.

I don't feel bad that people buy a legacy. I believe that a legacy of being a massive philanthropist is a legacy worth having.

I don't feel bad that they "erase their past", because all people can still be judged by the totality of their actions.

The recognition does benefit the people that make the donations. Doesn't seem to be a problem to me.

Charitable organizations are dependent upon the whim of their donors regardless of whether the donors get any recognition.

The fraction of non-profit budgets that are spent on awareness seems to be a tangential point that I do not understand.
I'm very sceptical about the claim that the incentive to earn staggering amounts of money goes away if your great-great-grandchildren cannot profit from it. Caring about your own children and grandchildren makes sense because you actually get to meet them, but at some point most people probably don't care about their far-far relatives.

Also, is this really your main motivation if you're Jeff Bezos? To make even more money? Doesn't the money stop mattering after the first 100 million and you're simply staying at Amazon because that's what you actually like doing? (Including having influence, shaping the future of commerce, etc etc)
As I said in the other post of mine that you commented on, you're welcome to not agree with me (or anyone, I don't care), that's totally fine with me.
Does this include JRE? I've noticed that the OpenJDK Docker Hub images and variants have a hard time releasing the latest JRE.
Scala 3 – A community powered release
It’s an argument that pulls in a bunch of political baggage and just isn’t relevant to the source article. If Google does indeed have a double standard - if they demonetize other websites for hosting nasty comments while defending their right to host nasty comments themselves - that’s bad regardless of what Section 230 permits.
I think that Berkley's Diversity Oath is not excluding people based on ideology, but rather based on their ability to do the job.

Berkley seems to have taken the stance that part of being employed at the university means making contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The self-authored vow is the way they choose to evaluate candidates on their ability to perform these tasks.

You could argue that making contributions to diversity shouldn't be part of the job description, but this seems like a much harder angle to argue. Then again, maybe in the 1950's the same seemed true of being anti-communist...
Is the prostitution on their resume?
> Offering a language playground to the general public and not sufficiently preventing that playground from compromising the very server on which it runs is a pretty glaring problem

How it is a problem for anyone except project owners?

Project owners were notified. There was no need to disclose it publicly. I say it's childish.

> banning people from contributing to a project entirely merely because they pointed out glaring security issues

Banning them because they:

* don't do any good (in particular, zero code contributions in a year)

* disrupt the work by telling the internet how to break their service

* call the project "vaporware"

I'd call it is enough reasons to ban them.

And some personal argument.

I have a service I'm running, for the random people in the internet. I implemented it long time ago, and I spend like 10 minutes a year supporting it. It is not protected seriously, because I don't have enough time to do so. I think any kid with basic knowledge of how internet works, can easily break it, or even can DOS it causing me to pay big bucks to the hoster for the consumed CPU.

And I have full-time job. So if some person would notify me about the vulnerability, and give me one (!) day to fix it, I would probably give up what ever I'm doing, my work, my personal plans, and fix the issue, but I would be very unhappy about it, and I will probably be angry at that person, and I'll try to avoid that person like fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...
US politics has always been interesting. There have been numerous energetic elections, contentious presidents, assassinations, and even a civil war. I suspect what we are seeing has nothing to do with politics, specifically, but rather is an artifact of global communications and modern information systems. Advances in technology give increasingly greater power to individuals.
It maybe had some validity where there were big social changes post-WW2 and a baby boom. I think of it like a diffusing wave, becoming less relevant over time.
A description of the plan is available as a PDF at :

https://cdn.minderoo.org/content/uploads/2020/09/14223039/MF...

The TLDR is to use satellites, IoT, ML, drones and aerial fire suppression.
The ancient Egyptians with their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_light powered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
I was watching The Boys (rewatching series 1) and Karl Urban goes to the Superhero AA meeting. And halfway through he loses it, calls them all c#nts (of course) and shouts "where is your rage".

This is a pretty good (if not perfect) allegory for working classes / middle classes and upper classes. Those with power want to hold on to it - so entry to power is gatewayed through things like birth obviously but also a series of educational and life choices that prove you are not here to burn it all down.

Social hierarchies exist to both keep the powerful
in power, but also as a contract against anarchy. After Brutus murdered caesar he expected to be greeted as a saviour of the republic by the populace of Rome. Instead they all shut their doors and withdrew from the streets for days as they knew what was coming - the chaos and destruction of anarchy and power fighting for a vacuum.

But we should still have our rage. even in the face of anarchy. I think.
It's kind of sad how it's framed in those passages - Give in secret, or God will notice and hold back some of those heavenly rewards.

As if the whole thing is just a karmic ponzi scheme.
I've heard everyone complain about drivers for amd, and (though I realize anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all) in my experience those people are full of crap.

I used the Fury(Fiji) and the VII(Vega 20) on linux and windows, and haven't expereinced any of the crazy shit people have claimed. Such as....

>(Navi's H264 encoder is still broken entirely as far as I know, it provides less than realtime encoding speed and extremely poor quality), so if you want to stream with AMD you have to use your CPU and crush your framerate

Where did you hear that? Not even slightly true. I used GPU encoding on both cards (@1080p, 60fps, 5500kbps, 1 second keyframe interval, 'quality' preset, full deblocking filters, and pre-pass turned off because I'm not insane) with zero issues. I would have liked to see more of an improvement in the VII's quality vs the Fury, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it non-functional.

I don't know who managed to get any of those to encode at less than realtime. I've done 1440 at 15500kbps to another machine for re-encoding and I can still play star citizen on High@60 fps with the same pc that's encoding.

And for the record, I also have a GTX 1660, 1080, and had a 770 before the Fury. I'm not fanboying, just relaying my experience.

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not saying Navi is good to go. I'm refuting the general statement "if you want to stream with AMD you have to use your CPU and crush your framerate"

edit2: Full config for reference

{"CodingType": 0,
"DeblockingFilter": 1,
"Debug": false,
"EnforceHRD": 0,
"FillerData": 1,
"FrameSkipping": 1,
"Interval.Keyframe": 1.0,
"MaximumReferenceFrames": 1,
"MotionEstimation": 3,
"MultiThreading": 1,
"OpenCL.Conversion": 1,
"OpenCL.Transfer": 0,
"PrePassMode": 0,
"Profile": 77,
"ProfileLevel": 51,
"QP.Maximum": 42,
"QP.Minimum": 12,
"QualityPreset": 2,
"QueueSize": 16,
"VBAQ": 1,
"VBVBuffer": 0,
"Version": 562967133290498,
"Video.API": "Direct3D 11",
"Video.Adapter": 63990,
"View": 3,
"bitrate": 18000,
"lastBFrame.Pattern": 0,
"lastBFrame.Reference": 0,
"lastRateControlMethod": 3,
"lastVBVBuffer": 0,
"lastVideo.API": "Direct3D 11",
"lastVideo.Adapter": 63990,
"lastView": 3}

edit3 (lol): I 100% have no way to refute anything navi related. Looks like they completely changed the encoding engine in navi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine#GPUs. Equally so, that chart incorrectly lists the VII as having version 4.0 instead of 4.1, so it may not be that trustworthy. I can't say until I have a Navi card to play with.
Honestly, a cyberpunk representation of the future from a present-day lens doesn't interest me very much. We are living that reality. It's the cyberpunk interpretations from the 90s, back when computers and technology still felt promising, that I want to play in.
Paying someone to run something you can and in the future could run yourself could in theory be wholly compatible with the ideals of free software and user freedom.
In that argument you assume that the net effect to society of their winning billions of dollars is zero, which is obviously nonsense. For instance the net effect to society of somebody like Charles Koch is, undeniably, absurdly negative. He has (not even being hyperbolic here) the blood of thousands on his hands, with his pushing of climate change denialism. We could even argue about the net impact of Bill Gates (is Microsoft a net positive to society or negative? it's at least not obvious, and one can argue).
I have nightmares of the error sounds from Matlab, not sure if I need this in my python anytime soon.
Congratulations on your multi-millon dollar startup.

Are you hiring?
Related:>When doctors become patients

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/opinion/when-doctors-beco...
I use these guys to have them shipped. Comes in a few days, but this is going to last a while
https://www.secondnature.com/
> If the companies are paying X amount, they have to be getting at least that much value back, or they wouldn't have that position.

Tech companies are in the business of creating new products. Hell its practically the name. All companies use technology, technology companies are ones that create new technology as a core aspect of what they do.

Predicting what new thing will be valued by the market and what won’t is a very hard and unsolved problem.

So just like the VCs that funded them, tech companies adopt a throw shit at the wall and see what sticks approach.

They can do that because the scale of users that can use your work is enormous. Getting it right in software can make up for a lot more of getting it wrong than in most industries.
Is it really anonymous if everyone knows he did it?
Remembering My Father
Or use a webcam which only records if there is movement (a lot of free software exists to do this).
College Students Here?
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Give this episode of planet money a listen: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land

It discusses extensively the knowledge the petro chemical lobby knew about the ability to recycle plastic and how little could really be recycled.
Or

"He who gives charity to the poor without knowing to who, and the poor knows not from who was taken, this is a true Mitzva"

The 2nd ranked charity level.
[pls excuse my poor translation]
Do any Android phones use Panfrost?
That’s a great way to put it.
Oh, I didn't know that "billionaires as a class" digged roads, erected buildings, manned trains, stores, telephones, farms, factories... "The low income households didn't build it", you have a very twisted definition of what that means.
If people don’t “enjoy” wearing particle masks they are free to breathe smoke and filter the indoor air with their lungs instead. I have worn one for eight hours many times when walking around cities with awful AQI scores and by far the most annoying thing about it is the condensation. You also don’t need “perfect” insulation for there to be a benefit to filtering indoor air, the simple fact that it moves around less means that it will clean up in a way outdoor air can’t. The “air purifiers” you can buy with filters built in are easy to use but at the end of the day they’re nothing more than a fan and a filter with air being forced through it.

And as a final point, you seem to just fall back on the fact that there are shortages as an indication that there’s nothing to be done, and this will soon be “over” anyway. First of all, you don’t know that, and secondly, if you live in an area where this is happening, it will happen again sooner or later. If you have nothing at home to help you filter the air you’re breathing, at least prepare for next time. Disposable particle masks are not a waste of money, they’re cheap and last forever.
A lot of people in the US think "morality" also includes eg opposition to abortion. Do you welcome that sort of morality-based hiring as well, or just the morals that appeal to you?