skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the issue with nuclear is cost" the cost is the problem indeed, but the cost is something that can be lowered with sufficient amount of innovation - see how SpaceX managed to lower cost of sending satellites or people to the space.

Nuclear energy researches were stagnant for many, many years - anything "atomic" was considered to be "non-green", and green movements were fighting nuclear energy vigorously, as a result there were not much research done in this area - working on that was a dangerous career choice, people who did that were treated like Holocaust deniers, people who do researches on differences between races or try to cure homosexuality.

Another "success" of ecologist was that they've managed to scare people. As a result finding location for nuclear plant is very hard, there are protests, people do everything to stop building plants in the area, so there is huge cost associated with paying compensations.

Fun fact: in early '90 there was a plan to build nuclear plant in Poland, obviously it was heavily protested, Greenpeace and friends arrived, do their usual stuff like chaining to to whatever they could, etc. The project was abandoned (first government after fall of communism was reluctant to act heavy-handed), however, believe or not, 30 years later people leaving near the planned location still put on their houses "stop atom" banners. I would not believe that myself I hadn't seen them. So instead of having clean energy Poland keeps emitting CO2 (not that the amount is even comparable to Germany emission or other more developed countries, but still).

Cost is also a matter of scale. France, which relays on nuclear energy a lot, managed to make it feasible with a great effect for both economy and environment.
wow, this reminds me of my earlier days (also poor) but I did it with an ancient 30gbp Nvidia card that had a TV output and put another X session on that display output.

It surprises me that it works so well, but I think that the original technology was designed exactly for this.
The part i dont get - zoom also has ties to China.

Everyone focuses on tiktok which is kids making stupid videos, but zoom which almost certainly has massive amounts of highly sensitive info going through it, seems to raise very few eye brows comparatively.
It probably has to do with world war 2. It wasn't regular Germany where it was built in. It was in a Germany that was controlled by an insane lunatic.
I'm french, I've lived in France, the UK, Greece, Sweden and Belgium. Of all those countries by far France has the most self-criticizing, cynical and sarcastic press of all. We're really good at making fun of ourselves and especially criticizing our own government.

What on earth makes you write your comment?
I think Brave and Coil will hopefully lead the way to decentralised micropayments. They just need to become more popular to the every day reader.
Many people i know in Berlin know that one of the first mechanical calculators is in the technical museum Berlin, but those people don’t know about concepts like turing-equivalent, so they call it a Computer.

Many great inventions have a nationalist folklore surrounding it, often ascribing a development to some national hero, while ignoring the process of development as a whole or parallel developments in other countries (e.g. the car, the airplane, the telephone).

On the other hand, Zuse is indeed obscure in Germany overall. Maybe it had to do with the fact that he wasn’t really commercially successful, he did not build some computing Empire out of his inventions. He wasn’t a Silicon Valley style entrepreneur. Something to consider for the engineers among us: it’s not enough to build/invent a thing.
The fertility rate is about identical or even a little lower among Swedes with at least one foreign-born parent [1], although there is some difference for foreign-born Swedes [2].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-fertility-rate-by-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2019/08/09/is-sweden-our...
Role-Based Authorization in Ktor
Google search is not available to consumers, but Google Ads are, and they definitely target any eyeballs they can. Of course most Chinese websites don't use Google for their ads, but when a Chinese user visits a foreign website that does, Google controls what they'll be seeing. And to be allowed to keep doing that, Google censors the ads they show: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-vpn-ads-in-china/
I look forward to some kind of liability forcing companies to actually care.
Every couple of decades we need a new boogeyman to fight against. Right now it's China. Every one of their companies is "controlled by the CCP" hence a CCP stooge. Clearly we must destroy these companies by any means necessary, that or outright take them over.
Blackmail material gathered from it.

Various forms of location data gathered from it, e.g. the location of any member of the military that uses it.

Launching pad for zero days if China feels the need to root someones (or many someones) phones.

Massive social graph, massive amounts of behavioral data. Useful, for doing things like identifying who was likely recruited by a spy agency or identifying potential assets that can be turned.

Potential to pressure speech that China prefers, e.g. by rewarding popular creators with money only if they don't say things China likes, or by decreasing the reach of people who say things China dislikes.

Potential for foreign control of the general trends of content people see. E.g. tweaking the algorithm so "it just happens" to suppress the potential to suppress topics china would prefer we didn't talk about (e.g. their "re-education" camps) or to boost topics they would prefer we did (likely things like political infighting).

Most of these involve various levels of overtness. Many of them it probably only makes sense to start doing once you've captured the market (right now it's more important to onboard more people than to push a message). But I would view all of them as real threats if I was the US government.
As I've already said here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24614064) there are people like you that assume that their background is the only background possible.

Scala is complex, writing production grade Scala requires skill not common, it is like asking regular commuters to only drive F1 cars.

Would everyone go faster or there would be more crashes?

Would you blame drivers for the crashes?
I don't really get your point here about point 2. If the father earns considerably more, then it would certainly result in less money coming into the household overall if he then takes more leave at 65% as opposed to no leave at 100%. Why would he do that?
Yeah, sorry I was rushing and wasn’t thinking on how much time I had to investigate. Well it’s out there... Sucks but all I know is I’ve seen it. It could be buried heavily by now. There has been infosec evidence provided.

Edit: this too? Mob mentality here. Sad. Lol if this is being downvoted I have some words for you.
Don’t worry, it was not a very seriously considered idea.
Criticizing the government and the powers of the CCP are perfectly fair game - these kinds of over the top misinformed takes unfortunately plague HN.

Obviously, China silences dissenters. However, most of the comments in this thread probably wouldn't even be removed.

Take this study (cited 1600 times) from Harvard:

https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...
In fact, there is considerable concern over nuclear, precisely because it looks like it is underpriced due to underestimation of the decomissioning costs.

The economic lifetime of the first commercial installations is only now starting to end (partly because they have been extended so often). So we do not have that much data to work with, but so far it does not look good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning

"In Europe there is considerable concern over the funds necessary to finance final decommissioning"

Moreover, like the decomissioned reactors, the fuel will have to be stored for a very very long time. Most of the fuel generated since the 40's and 50s is in "temporary storage", in their original installation. We have never built installations that have to last as long as the nuclear storage sites we envision, and we have no idea how the ones we have started to build will hold up over the hundreds if not thousands of years that they have to last.

I can apreciate people taking an optimistic view on this, and saying that these problems should not preclude nuclear. But saying that nuclear is compared in an unfair light due to decomissioning is taking the issue the wrong way around.
And what you answer when asked what is the difference between a container and a virtual machine? Because calling it a lightweight VM is obviously a lie and it costed me too much time at work
> We are literally a dying breed, and on our way to extinction

Yes, of course, humanity's biggest problem is currently that we're basically going extinct because we're not reproducing enough.
If and goto is what a loop makes.
I just took parent's numbers at face value to show how they were misinterpreting them.

I haven't seen much in the way of true apples to apples comparisons. Most solar plants with storage don't have much storage. For instance I saw a link this week on HN for $30 + $15/MWh for solar + storage, but the storage was only one hour of the nameplate capacity.

Based on the falling prices of batteries, I don't think it will be long before solar + storage providing power evenly over 24h (an unrealistic worst case) becomes economical.

At a 30% capacity factor, assuming the batteries are charging for 8 hours and draining for 16, that plant would need 5x as much storage for a cost of $30 + $75/MWh.

More realistically you'd only need 3-4x as much storage as you get small amounts of sunlight later and earlier in the day, and demand curves are not flat. Halve the price of batteries, which already happened in the 2010s, and that's looking economical even with a zero price on carbon.

But most countries are pretty far from saturating solar potential, so you can still build solar without storage for a while. Once you need the battery backing, it's probably going to be cheap enough.
"Booting" takes forever on my TV. Standby definitively retains contents of RAM.
Maybe if freedom of speech on social media platforms is an issue (it is, in my opinion), there should be laws regulating it that would apply to any businesses operating in the US, not just ad-hoc executive orders of dubious objectiveness.
Every statement doesn’t need a citation. Come on. Propaganda is real. If you don’t think that all social networks are mechanisms to imprint minds you’re either idealist or compromised.

Yawn to the downvotes. Keep them coming. Your naïveté is plain.
It's not "structurally sexism", it's biology.

Practically no women ever will make it through the entirety of a pregnancy without needing (not choosing) to take some time off work if she works a full-time job. Even if this is just a single day of delivery.

Generally though, it's much more than a single day that needs to be taken off. In contrast, at no point in a woman's pregnancy does the father need to take time off.

There is nothing sexist about this. It is more efficient to extend one person's required time off than it is to give two separate people time off. An extended maternity leave generally means that one company needs to find one replacement or otherwise shuffle work. Maternity + paternity leave means you need to do that, 2x.

I fully support longer paternity leaves because I do think it is important for having equality in the workplace. But the idea that it's society that is sexist in this regard is ridiculous.

Honestly I don't think we will really have equality until babies are grown in test tubes, and that's not society's fault.
I wish there was an internet back then too, one that was fast, had a good search engine or directory ... and was only online for 2 hours a day for research purposes. A 24x7x365 internet would have gotten in the way of my tinkering which was mainly driven by boredom.
Stripe Checkout Setup and Integration
Yes, we've all used that abstraction. And it is a lousy one. For starters, the novice interpretation of a PC are peripherals (mouse, screen, keyboard, wifi) with a GUI and then down from there. Your abstraction starts without a screen, without a terminal even.

It's a bad interpretation because the abstraction level is arbitrary. GUI applications? No. Terminal, yes, but we need to automate. Wifi? No, we virtualize the network. DNS? Depends, in k8s it is used for service discovery. Tooling? Package manager: yes. Network Center? No. Firewalls? I don't think so.

So, what constitutes a 'fresh linux install'? Why are there different distros (archlinux, ubuntu, alpine)?

What are the contracts for such a Docker image? Should it be secured? How is input and output arranged on the Docker image? What if I want to use a smarter way for logging (using UDP packets to a discoverable logging provider), can I tell all my Docker images to start using that?

How about monitoring and reliability? What constitutes a failed docker image? How do I detect it?

An abstraction is only good when it covers 99% of the underlying complexity. This abstraction is so leaky, it is more of a burden. Especially to beginners, who now are tasked with understanding Docker and understanding the limits of the abstraction.

Good technologies are explainable through solid abstractions. They are not 'leaky'. For me, Docker and k8s are so complicated because they are based on leaky abstractions and not hiding the underlying complexity sufficiently.
I think he mentioned indirectly the freedom to have a good education independently on one's parents wealth.
I've inherited a massive codebase that was inefficient, however the database schema design was excellent, which let me focus on optimising stored procedures and the front end in general.

Relational database schema is the bedrock foundation of a good codebase (for business apps especially)
You can avoid a lot of storage requirements by making your grid smarter and electrifying transportation and heating. 60% renewables are possible with hardly any storage at all, certainly less than 12 hours. Shifting demand is always cheaper than storage. Once you've electrified transportation, you have hundreds of millions of car batteries that can help out with demand spikes. That distributes the high upfront cost of battery storage somewhat. Car batteries that are no longer good for transportation can than be repurposed for grid storage, hopefully much cheaper than buying new batteries.

To get to 100% renewables you most likely need chemical storage as hydrogen or methane.
I would assume the grunt developer in SV probably will suffer from it at some point, if they don't already.

Glad that it is pretty unusual where I live, apart from sales where it already is quite established. Quite the fluctuation on these positions to be honest, but I don't see it for most engineering professions or even any higher position where organizing your work is more complicated.

The only advantage is cost of space and some failure safety for hardware defects, although many have secondary devices already.
China hasn't fought a foreign war since 1979. I don't see the aggressive expansion you're claiming.
Reading the readme I don't quite get it - in a nutshell, what is it?

Is it a configuration system (a lisp library/convention on how to configure packages), emacs with curated packages, or what? They also talk about modifying packages, which even if maybe good, isn't this a lot of work? But if so, why don't they just pull-request these back to the original packages?
I take the point, but there is a lot of evidence that birth rates decline as safety increases (this includes financial safety).

Here is one study (of many): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337068662_Declined_...

Even in the UK (from where I come) it's only first generation migrants that have many children, the second generation seems to fall in line with the society. From my anecdotal experience.
When you look at the amount of data one would have to sift through to find anything valuable, it’s a pretty big difference between TikTok & Zoom. Put simply, TikTok saves & distributes short video content. Zoom streams long video chats. The potential for gathering psychological data would be far higher with TikTok, and the barrier for entry far lower.
I love my dog probably more than some parents love their kids. Its too bad you can't get doggy leave if you don't have children.
>> Have the executive block things pretty much arbitrarily undermines the rule-of-law ... If the US wants to block Chinese companies, then pass laws in congress to do so...

That's not how the rule-of-law works. The bill of attainder doesn't allow the US gov't to punish an entity (or a group of) arbitrarily by legislating.

The legislative and executive branches have already been briefed on privacy and/or security threat Tiktok poses to US. The US senate already passed a bill to ban federal employees from using Tiktok on gov't issued devices, which is exactly what the legislative is supposed to be doing without overreaching and impinging on Americans' civil liberty, and Trump in turn issued executive orders to deter national security/privacy threats from foreign entities. The judicial branch likewise appropriately exercised their power by delaying Trump's EO and challenging his authority.

That's precisely how the rule-of-law is supposed to work in the US -- there is nothing novel or arbitrary here.
Everyone of my friends (fathers) took this without exception. But it might depend on the salary level (all of them >$80k) perhaps.
I see it like Swift itself, which took at least 3 years to fully come into its own.

Apple's lack of documentation and communication doesn't help; the best resources have been from fellow developers who were groping around in the dark like the rest of us and managed to figure things out by themselves. [0,1]

But again, I've already been able to do many things in SwiftUI that I don't even want to attempt in AppKit/UIKit/other frameworks.

Right now I think it's good enough for small apps or personal convenience tools. One surprising application for it is in games, where it actually works quite well, compared to all the other alternatives for drawing scalable/animatable HUDs and text etc. [2]

In an year or two I don't think anyone would willingly choose to fumble around with legacy frameworks if they want to target phone, tablet, computer, watch, TV and glasses all with one codebase.

[0] https://swiftui-lab.com

[1] https://swiftwithmajid.com

[2] https://twitter.com/InvadingOctopus/status/12792872846265794...
Any plans to include regex support? I used to use a small offline tool (regexhibit?) but that remained unsupported, now moved to regex101.com. Yet something offline would be so much better.
Why not? It’s basically the only app China have managed to make popular in USA. And they’ve had to blow billions on ads to do so.

I do believe it would be best to block all apps owned by the Chinese, but blocking them one by one would work as well, because it’s incredibly difficult and expensive to obtain the userbase that makes the app worth blocking.
Of course it is a national security issue. CIA knows the best how to use the internet and trains others to do so. It is risky to have a platform you don't control in your home. People thinking it is privacy issue or pure business idea don't really know what's going on in this world. Look around for all the protests almost all of them organized online. Of course, kids pissing off Trump on TikTok made it easier for him to make the decision.
> Most people aren’t stupid like this so going on vacation to Thailand has a 99.99% likelihood of being ok.

You don’t need to be an idiot for you trip to go bad. I used a local transportation. When getting off a Chinese tourist had lost is wallet in it. A local just took it for himself while the tourist was still in sight. The scene went too fast for me to do anything but I felt bad for the guy who will likely get charged on credit card, lost all his cash and probably ID too.
Regarding #2 - at least in Berlin a lady from Gesundheitsamt helped us fill the paperwork and it was one of the best experiences I had with any public servant.
What Can We Learn from the Downfall of Theranos
But let's keep some realistic context. The audio output is under 1 MBps. You can push that much over original PCI (not express) and ~1ms delay on PCI was "everything must be broken, reset the whole bus". Pushing audio samples both ways on PCIe will not be an issue.

https://www.cycfi.com/2019/04/gpu-dsp-latency/

> PCI-E 3.0 standard guarantees data transfer for 4 kb data with 1-2 μsec (3-10 round trip).

Copying CPU-GPU-CPU:

> size: 8192 bytes, time: 4.72 us,

This should not be a meaningful impact in any audio workflow.
This right here is a prime example of Dunning-Kruger effect. You're completely forgetting the large scale effects on nature, for example, which nuclear does not have.
An alternative definition is that language is a set of referents to a collectively constructed "picture" of reality. Wilfrid Sellars has done work on this.

I say alternative because it shifts the focus away from person-to-person interaction and more towards impersonal social processes that construct what we think of as "objectivity". That's not to say what you're referring to isn't also an important part of the picture so to speak.
> If you have that little time after work, then that is an entirely different issue.

Little kids eat dinner super early because of bedtime. We eat dinner at 5:30 these days. I don't know anyone who gets home from work much before then.

> And what I meant was they have the freedom to go anytime.

Yeah, if you don't mind waking up your napping baby or toddler, sure you can go anytime.

I try to give comments the benefit of the doubt, but I'm done with these shape-shifting arguments. Have a good one!
also dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust
They’ve already blocked those in China, Gmail, Google, FB etc. The insidious thing with WeChat is politically sensitive items are reviewed then blocked and use of the app trains their blocking heuristics.
> I don't know about French employment law but in Germany you can fire anyone for any reason.

You don't seem to know about German employment law either because that's simply wrong. Basically in every company with more than 10 employees you can't fire anyone who has been with the company for more than 6 months, except for very few specific reasons which are listed here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCndigung_(deutsches_Arbe...
Ban all Chinese apps?
I contend that TikTok was specifically targetted because the Orange one's ego was hurt because of a prank organised on the platform.

Defenders of the trumpalump wanabee emperor are looking for ways to make this rational.
I think you're missing the point of parental leave. Parent's raising a newborn often don't even have the time to take care of themselves because it's so much work to care for the baby.
Learn how to pick fresh fruit and vegetables and learn how to cook a proper meal.
This idea, of course, is not feasible, because it is such a huge distraction from the core business, and is potentially a distraction that has the potential to cause real harm to the core business.

You say this as if it were objectively true, but it rings exceptionally hollow to me. This seems like a minor inconvenience at best, and something which could easily provided by a third-party service with no upfront cost beyond integration.
I'm glad it worked for you in a personal setting. I know having VMs with thin clients is pretty common in office settings and schools, but I'm guessing they have dedicated hard- and software for it (Citrix I believe? It's been a while)