skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does that mean nuclear is just a totally great idea? No; the issue with nuclear is cost. Historically it has been quite expensive, but subsidised in opaque ways. In a zero carbon world, it might make sense for baseline generation even if it's expensive; in the world we live in it needs to compete on price. Can it?

We are still using basically 1960 tech, that's why its expensive. As Elon Musk pointed out often, what matters is pace of innovation.

Nuclear has a pace of innovation that is almost inperceptable. The reasons are that its almost impossible for a startup to do anything, without 10s of millions or better 100s you don't even have to start. The existing reactors last for 60-100 years, so if the country built some in the 1970-1980, it might be enough for multible generations.

You don't have a large industry that can substain itself on building reactors. Industry basically makes money with the fuel dilivery, but those companies have no insentive to innovate on the reactor.

You can not even build a prototype or experimete. A university level research reactor is not enough to validate a real reactor. And the only other thing is a full commercial reactor.

This means companies are forced to develop everything on paper, long before they even get some uranium to play with. That is an insnaly difficult way to build anything, compare that to SpaceX Starship development.

I am a huge fan of nuclear, and we really did have the technology in the 1970 to basically solve climate change as France basically showed. I believe one 'gigafactory' that mass produces small or medium reactors and a appropritae fuel cycle would be by far the cheapest long term solution. Sadly I see no way how we can get to that situation, a single sighting project takes many, many years.

Also, the concept of 'baseload' is dead. If you only produce when renewables are not needed you are in a horrible market situation. Even if you wanted to be dynamic, current tech can't be. This is not an issue with nuclear in general, but the current generation. A load following nuclear reactor is possible, but even that will simply lead to an underutilized resource.

That is why companies like Moltex Energy are designing their reactor more like CSP installation. Where the nuclear reactor has a 'heat-battery' and multible CCGT so that when there is money to be made, you actually triple the output of the reactor for when prices are high. It also leads to the nuclear part of the investment being only like 30% and the rest is known cost, but of course it requries a pretty large scale of project to work.

All in all, I hope the best for nuclear, it would have been the right solution, but its unfortunate history and properties just didn't fit in socity correctly for many reasons. I hope by the end of the decade we have some advanced nuclear, but unfortunatly I now beleive the majority of 'green' energy will have to come from gathering up wind and solar power on massive scale, plus Terrafactories worth of battery production with some gas backup plants.
They have also very successfully "outsourced" part of the reprocessing to eastern Europe… there have been documented reports of storage in huge open vats of fuel officially sent for reprocessing.
It's possible women prefer that because society has systemically reinforced it by normalising that gender role as an ideal for girls to grow into, while boys are steered toward a different direction

I say this as a father who prioritised my kids over my career, with a wife who prioritised her career over our kids. I know quite a few stay-at-home-mums who would much rather the adult interaction you get from a day at the office. It's just my experience, but it leads me to think there's nothing "innate" about men or women wanting to rear children
Yes, agreed, it has become a bit too serious and dark, still good, but definitely missed Hasting, Miss Lemon and Japp.
I consider myself a Sega fan, even if my first and only Sega console was a Dreamcast. However, I never liked Sonic. Too fast. It seemed to me like there was little control on what you did on the screen. Maybe I was too slow for it? Shamelessly I preferred the mechanics of Mario.
EDIT: my mistake, I also owned a Game Gear, if only for a couple of months and then I had to sell it.
It could be seen as workers rights, that's my point.

If the company is promoting those who don't, that can be seen as retaliation against those who do.

If companies don't provide adequate pay for employees who have a child, it can be seen as punishment for those who bear the burden of children for all others.

And if you're not taking them because of social pressure, well then it's a vicious cycle, since no one takes them due to pressure, and now it invalidates the point of giving them in the first place. So possibly something needs to be done to break the cycle.

Etc.

I'm not saying any of this is reason enough to push for enforcement or anything like that. But it's also not simply a matter of "not being anyone's business". For example, it can very much be my business if I want to be able to take some time off, and not lose out to my co-workers on the next promotion just because I wanted to take some time to take care for my new born. Same could be said for sick leave or other.

So I guess we could reframe the debate in terms of:

Is it fair for a man who would like to take some time to care for his new born, that doing so could hurt his career? And off course, that asks a greater question: Do we want to promote fatherhood and give incentives for people to have kids and care for them properly? Or would we rather incentivize full time careers with little to no downtime and complete dedication to work?
Others are actually getting looser though, because they fear losing google juice.

I know of a massive European newspaper that just leaves the entire content of paywalled items simply hidden in the DOM.
Average age of first birth by country, across years.

In a place like the US you can get more granular data down to the county level and see the same thing. Economic centers having the same trends in first birth age as other developed nations.

There is an even distribution of sexual activity, you might just have to trust me on that one, but there might be some study to cross reference and show thats a constant.

Given the same result occurring in so many places, the evidence suggests people aren't interested in children until they are afraid they can't pass on their genes in a healthy way. Fix that and I would expect to see the age increasing another ten years. Fix the stamina deterioration and I would expect to see the age increasing further again.
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>Nuclear has the possibility for point-scale accidents to render large areas permanently uninhabitable

I disagree with your point, but on a tangent, didn't US(and others) explode nuclear bombs in caves,deserts, space etc so maybe there are such desert areas where you can have nuclear plants where nobody would be affected.
Looks neat, wish I had these in my office. Anyone have recommendations for something similar? Really like the lights and the "report unattended" button for potentially clearing forgotten meetings.
> Pixel-smooth vertical scrolling by poking the CRTC on timed interrupts to modify the character height dynamically, so as to squash a row at the top and expand a row at the bottom to shift the image with pixel precision (contradicting the received wisdom that the CRTC could only scroll character cells).

How frustrating that even today that is very hard for quite a few environments. I am working on something that requires a very smooth horizontal scroll of a large canvas in the browser. So far jagged edges are my lot, most tricks only work in a small subset of the cases.
There's a significant risk of that price difference expanding to two orders of magnitude. There is a lot of research around solar that is basically about potentially delivering 10x improvements potentially (cumulatively). At a 100x cost differential, things are going to be brutal for investors with sunk investments in legacy power generation. We're talking electricity prices dropping to tenths of a dollar cent per kwh. Considering solar bids are going out for 1.3 cents right now, that could happen relatively quickly.

IMHO nuclear could actually work but it will need a much more ambitious agenda than merely matching price levels of already too expensive gas plants. Fusion is the interesting thing to keep an eye on. Perpetually decades out but it at least offers the right orders of magnitude improvements we actually need; on paper.
Rich and poor country is relative, too. Compared to 50 years ago, there are almost no third world countries anymore. I believe Hans Rosling shared some data about this in his book Factfulness.
I do agree that this is about "controlling" younger / new of age voters.

However, I'm less worried about whatever correct/incorrect info they get about Trump or politics in general. And more worried about the disturbing cultural trends that this app and others like it are amplifying. Culture can have strong effects on people's political/voting behavior and that's what I think is being addressed (as opposed to the spying/privacy/CCP concerns which are secondary yet used as the main reason behind this ban).

I am pretty sure that Facebook/Youtube/Twitter will be targeted next in some way, but probably not with outright bans such as what they did with TikTok.
All three are accessible to me from ACT broadband in tier-3 city.
Also work from a VPN on AWS bombay.
That’s already been known and within US soil. Now it’s the younger generation - it doesn’t make it mutually exclusive. If anything it shows the complete onslaught on all ends to undermine the stability of a nation in a way that’s never been possible before due to mass media and the internet. Broadcast is entirely unidirectional.

You’re absolutely correct that brainwashing happens on those mediums. It’s entirely interesting on one hand and entirely alarming on another. At this rate I’m not sure what the world at large can do given the technology out there to manipulate the populace. It leads to some very critical questions on how to exist.
You beat me to it. See also this other page on StrongForth: https://www.stephan-becher.de/strongforth/

See also the Kitten programming language, which does something similar: https://kittenlang.org/
Media is one of the most complicated problems we face in this age. We have on one side a desire for information to be free, and on the other side a desire to profit for one's labor. The middle ground between that is to attract people to give you some of their money for your labor, which changes the nature of the published works. Now your published works must not only be informative, but exciting, and more so than any competition that exists.

This, left unchecked, turns into shock-journalism, or journalism sponsored by entities that may want to sway your opinion on other topics, all the while requiring more advanced modes of convincing you to subscribe - either with your attention or your money.

It's not just a problem of the mechanics of how to pay for something, it's an existential problem of news in general.
As an ISP or telecom, when large groups of men with guns and uniforms come to your offices and order you to turn off all the routers, you don't have much choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Jammu_and_Ka...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-int...
The Swedish paternity leave is caped at 1006 SEK per day (94€), while the French one is capped at 89€ per day.

That's not a very large difference, the main difference is that the Swedish one never goes over 80% of your salary while the French one goes up to 100%.
Many Google offices were really overcrowded before COVID. For example, Kirkland office literally had desks in stairwells (I have no idea how they passed fire safety). This was the new low, but desks in the hallways are typical everywhere.
People cannot be convinced of things by reading a book if that book is factually incorrect? That sounds like magical thinking.
The second hand market for decommissioned panels is now strong enough that it has gotten hard to source them by the container load.

This used to be a great way of sourcing solar panels for off grid applications where a small drop in efficiency was totally offset by the low cost.

I think we can also safely assume used lithium batteries will similarly remain in high demand.
28 days? That's barely enough to get your head off from work tbh. I just finished 133 days (at 80% pay) of paternity leave here in Norway, and the last part was def more rewarding than the start as you hit your new stride and regular work life grew ever more distant.

All the organised toddler activities shut down because of covid19. Bought one of those child carrier backpacks, and we've been exploring forests and mountains almost every day this summer/fall, it's been a great bonding experience with the now 1 year old :)
Thanks for the link! Would you mind recommending any radio stations with good online presence? I haven’t been lucky searching online
The problem is there simply are not that many batteries. On a small scale the Tesla Australia battery is making money nad its out-competing gas peakers. But we don't jet have batteries of the scale to cover the really long substained drops.

Even the most optimistic projections about battery fall short of what is needed to replace gas peakers.

Lets hope Tesla, LG, CATL can spit out insane amounts of batteries and we maybe get some dispatchable CSP.
My optimistic side says that if 60 second short videos were ideologically useful, CIA (or your favourite "They") would have weaponised them back in the 1960s[1].

My pessimistic side says they probably are, and maybe they even did.

https://www.thinkbox.tv/research/thinkbox-research/a-matter-...

[1] CIA didn't exist before 1947, so it would have to have been a different they for late 1920s, or even a different medium for "Remember the Maine!"

Bonus blog: https://joshuaspodek.com/north-korean-propaganda-our-adverti...
Australia has a tiny (on grid scale) battery used to stabilize the grid, not for long term storage like you would need for relying on solar energy in place that actually has winters.
I hadn't heard of radishes before, but I found [0], which has more information about what they are/were. There's even a demo video with the creator.

[0] https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish
This has nothing to do with payment. People work jobs in society. Even if you don't live in a society where you get paid a wage for working that job, time still needs to be taken off work to have a baby.

It's more economically efficient (it takes time and effort to replace the work that was being done by someone, regardless of how employers are remunerating employees) to extend that person's leave than to arrange for two separate leaves for two separate jobs when there was no necessity for the second person to take time off in the first place.
Also TikTok hasn't violated US laws, then where is the case for banning them?
Banning something that is perfectly legal seems absurd to do in our legal system.

Also US government hasn't made a specific claim of any imminent security threat posed by TikTok.

From a data security point of view the expert opinion seems to be that there isn't a clear cut case for singling out and banning tiktok.

The ban is therefore undoubtedly a political move, and that is problematic. Things should not be banned on political whims by using executive or administrative measures.

Even legislative has limits, even if Congress passes a legislation banning TikTok, that legislation is likely to be struck down by the court is my guess.

Ultimately banning TikTok is not a tenable democratic solution to whatever real or perceived problems it is causing.

Some of the commenters here seems to want the democratic US government to suddenly grow authoritarian powers.
Thanks to everyone in this subthread. I'm on BSNL which I find is one of the Indian ISPs that seems to implement easy to circumvent blocks (DNS based), so far. Reliance no doubt is a different beast with its financial and technical clout and increasing market share. Rather concerning that we're quickly catching up to China in terms of implementing an increasingly sophisticated firewall.

Seriously can't expect the average Joe to know about stuff like greentunnel. And that's concerning...
> Batteries are only the most of expensive of many candidates for energy storage.

Maybe. But nuclear does not require batteries.

> But, as was demonstrated in Australia, adequate.

I do don’t have the numbers from Australia at hand. Do you? Is it really cheaper than nuclear, or they heavily overpaid for them, or Telsa sold it with large discount?
Does anyone else remember the learn(1) program by Kernighan & Lesk? That's how I got started with Unix, and I sincerely think it was simpler back then.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/1...

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-4_1...
Likely any HPC application that has an FFT somewhere in its pipeline and is otherwise amenable to being run on a GPU.

Fluid flow, heat transfer, and other such physical phenomena that you might want to simulate.

Phase correlation in image processing is another example. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_correlation)

MD simulations rely on FFT but I'm not sure how much is typically (or can be) done on the GPU. For example, NAMD employs cuFFT on the GPU in some cases. (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0014475)
BBC Micro
Prices are negative because nobody expected such a scenario. Otherwise someone would have bought it off for at least $0.
Firing laws are not dependent on nationality, but the location of the employer. If you are based in France, you have to adhere to French laws, simple as that. If you hire a French in the UK, the UK rules apply.
But I guess that's clear to everyone, I was just taking issue with GP's statement that his friend does not hire the French. He probably does not hire in France.
behance was definitely blocked for the longest time. I had Jio and Airtel both and I had tried them. Things have changed now because of the uproar.
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Ask HN: What Inspired Alan Turing to Invent the Turing Machine?
Where does advertising fit into this viewpoint?
What is our target? 20 billion? Will we be still a dying breed?
Well, in the context of language it's a useful term because of the close relationship many east Asian languages have.
That's really far fetched though. Consider this: the CIA kidnaps and tortures people. They can look at Facebook activity. Therefore, all countries should ban Facebook because it might lead to their citizens being kidnapped and tortured by the CIA. That's equally far fetched and I don't think anybody is seriously arguing for it.
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> Greentunnel also breaks up your packets in such a manner that prevents SNI sniffing...

Yep, here's the code that does the trick: https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel/blob/master/src/...
Whomever wrote that needs to look over it again, there is a ton of confusing typo's and errors that will confuse people!
I believe we're heading for a very rough time if we can avoid collapse. In an unstable society, I want energy production that is simple and decentralized. Nuclear energy does not fit that bill.
I love that Australia battery, but lets be real its tiny. Comparing that to a solution that could fully balance all solar/wind energy is a gigantic strech.

I have looked into all of these storage mechanism, and not one is actually really read for the market and is mass deployable quickly.

We just have to hope Tesla can actually spit out many tera of batteries by 2030 and the other companies match them.
Countries like Sweden have many forms of welfare. A lot of people are working for cultural and pride reasons and not because they would be living under a bridge or on Howard St if they weren't working.
Yeah I dont think you'll be lazying about but also that the difficulty is much less than a linear 12x the difficulty of raising one child.
Comparing nuclear (available 24/7) with solar without storage (available only in during the day only in some seasons) seems tricky - of course the solar will be cheaper. It doesn't cover all the need though.

And storage is mostly unsolved problem at scale. Nobody in the world ever built GWh size battery.

So supporting solar means you're either suggesting going with stuff that doesn't exist (and might as well go with fusion then, right?) or you're basically supporting fossil fuels.
Exactly. However, laying off people is possible. May cost you, is more complicated and takes more time than you might expect. But German HR departments are well capable of that.

In most jobs nowadays, you have probation time, then time-limited contracts (maximum 2 x 1y) and then an unlimited contract. As a result, you can end contracts within the first 6 months, after a year and after two years w/o discussions or problems. That gives everyone enough time to sort out "bad hires" w/o any risk. Afterwards, a certain degree of protection starts, but money and reasonable rationale can end any contract.

It is just very different than the US "hire and fire" thing. In Germany and other places it is expected that as an employee I have a certain degree of stability in my life.
why the downvote?

I know of 0 incidents where terrorists did or threatened to attack a solar manufacturing plant with an aeroplane.

But we know of at least 1 incident of terrorists threatening to attack a nuclear facility with an aeroplane.
> In those times, the “free” options were the same as they are today

It was easier to circulate some of that paper though. In Europe, cafes will typically buy a bunch of newspapers for their members and leave them free to read on their premises; political parties would do the same or even staple them to bulletin-boards on the street. Same for libraries. I expect the US had some equivalent to that model.

The digital divide makes it increasingly harder to circulate content in that manner.