skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only the radio is software, cores themselves, as I understand, are not hard macro, and I find it more surprising that such very generic synthesized chip is not an even bigger power hog.
That's a pretty weak argument. Those are once-off building requirements, not something that is repeated. If you compare the cement used by the one nuclear powerplant to the closest city it would be like a drop in the ocean.
This ^ !!!
The Guide to AWS Step Functions
Facebook is always working overtime to appease the Alex Jones of the world.

Who knew.
I think an example from the former East Germany is not generally applicable. Political enemies were forced to work there.

Unless Antifa wins and can implement the cited policies:

"People were ordered to start working in the uranium mines otherwise there would be strict sanctions for them."
Show HN: Recreatable Digital Ocean WireGuard server with a single command
Renoj Menubar Todo App – Fast Add and Accessible and More Productivty
This looks great, they have some nice properties. If you're interested in this you'll probably also be interested in Peergos [1][2] (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder), which has stronger privacy properties.

Peergos is an E2EE P2P global filesystem built on top of IPFS, and we have a built in photo/video/audio gallery/player (and other apps too). We don't expose the social graph (who is sharing with who) to the server, and we also obscure things like the number of files, number of directories, size of individual files, even whether something is a directory or file. We are also designed to be resistant to exposure by a quantum computer (mainly we don't rely on asymmetric encryption for privacy, only for sharing, and even for sharing we take measures to protect against a future quantum computer). We also don't rely on DNS or the TLS certificate authorities for security (unless you choose to use the web interface to a public server). We do fine-grained server-less access control using a structure called cryptree [3].

It's P2P so you can mirror your data as many times as you like or just self-host. It's also 100% open source, both client side and server side.

[1] https://peergos.org

[2] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

[3] https://book.peergos.org/security/cryptree.html
I have one computer which always has all originals locally available. That computer is backed up with borg to three separate borg repos (1 local, 2 remote).

I use iCloud photos for sharing with friends and family.
> The more we learn about nuclear, the more expensive it seems to get, in contrast to pretty much any good tech.

A lot of the cost of nuclear is about bringing down risk to an acceptable level. And this is why nuclear accidents have increased to cost of nuclear plant construction: They have partly confirmed, and partly uncovered, areas in which plants were not safe enough.

The Three Miles Island accident has shown that it is possible that cooling fails, with the consequence of a reactor core melting down, and having a significant aggregation of critical reactive material sitting at the bottom of the reactor vessel. As any physicist knows, an uncontrolled aggregation of fissile stuff can go boom. And this is what in fact happened in Fukushima - several times.

In addition, there has been modeling since thee eighties what happens if cooling fails, and the results have been ... not so good. The pressure vessels will not withstand heat and pressure for longer than hours. Which is too little time for wide-range evacuation in a densely populated area.

In addition, in Fukushima we've seen what happens if a plant loses electrical power from cooling systems. This is also a real danger in the US plants which are in some cases exposed to disasters like hurricanes or flooding.

We have also seen that the storage of used fuel in a nuclear plant is a mayor hazard because it needs to be continually cooled for a long time. And on top of that in plants constructed so far, it has much less protection, so an airplane falling into such a spent fuel storage can cause a significant accident.

Then, in the Japanese Monju plant we've seen that breeder reactors which are cooled with liquid sodium are difficult to keep safe in case of a fire. We also now that such breeders can become super-critical if certain things line up. And so on.

So, in short, nuclear became more expensive, because we know much more what can go wrong. Whining about "regulatory hurdles" will not cut it. What is the intention here is apparently to cut down on safety regulations, which will have the result of increased risks.
It is my understanding that nuclear isn't particularly expensive as unlike other forms of energy, all costs (including long term storage of waist) are calculated in advance.

And this is a very good thing - we have an exact number that encapsulates the entire cost of this energy for good.
I wanted a way to be able to spin up Wireguard on a VPS and be able to shut it down when I didn't need it. This repo lets you do that, reimporting the server keys and client configs so you don't need to reconfigure all your clients when you bring the server back up again. This means you could cron it to shut down when you're asleep, etc.
Why do you automatically assume that every single company have investors?
What if americans don't want to limit tech.
We should start a political movement to stop this tyranny. Like the climate change movement it will take time but at least we will make some progress.
I remember working at the drive thru for Wendy’s. I learned all about some clever orders that saved you $0.50-2.00 by ordering things a certain way. I can’t remember anything specific, but I remember one time asking, “so you want an X?” And they came back with “no, put it in exactly how I told you.”
Would guitar with a capo on fifth fret (and tuned) have bigger errors than ukulele?
The only problem with nuclear power is Government oversight, as you rightly point out: "they subsidize military use of nuclear weapons".

If Governments allow commercial development of nuclear power stations that cannot be used to produce enriched uranium (thorium being one of those), then free market forces will push the cost of design, and building them down, making the price of nuclear electricity much lower.

There's no economy of scale to the current nuclear industry. Each power station design is different in some way.

Imagine a commercial small sized, modular nuclear power plant, produced at scale. Nuclear subs, and aircraft carriers already have a version.

"Building new nuclear energy is very clearly too slow to achieve that."

I'd disagree, it is, as usual politics getting in the way of science, not the engineers or physicists. If the financial incentives are there, it would be solved very quickly. Fission isn't fusion, and the physics and engineering is well understood. Not directly comparable, but look at what SpaceX has achieved in 20 years in terms of design and engineering.
Get work done: The Pomo Way
Hey! Op here. I decided to write up about my non-conventional career path and how I have been making money online during the last few years. I'm not sure it's easy to replicate but I want to share my adventure hoping is interesting for someone else.

I would be happy to ask any question, and provide advise to anyone interested in.

Thanks!
After thinking about this for a couple of years while helping the Safe Network (a decentralisation project worth getting to know) I began my own effort to decentralise github based on Safe, just last Sunday!

Even before Friday's censorship, I was pleasantly surprised by the level of support and offers to help I received in mastodon. People there are aware, skilled and ready.

BTW I've got ideas on how to handle the issue/comment spam and other problems rightly highlighted by @cjbprime in his reply to the OP. But first I have to get git-bug (really worth of support too) compiled to WASM and running in the browser.

It's early days, but you can see what I'm up to here: https://safenetforum.org/t/safe-git-ui-discussion/32793?u=ha...

Or follow:
https://mastodon.technology/@happybeing
https://twitter.com/safepress
Why append "?hn-duplicate-disable=true" at the end of the URL?
A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64
Also should we just rely on nuclear because it’s accessible technology to us right now? We need new forms of energy creation, accepting nuclear energy as our defacto power source will be equivalent to our ancestors choosing coal when looking back at history. Don’t be naive.

You do also know that older nuclear power plants are a major headache to most governments
Have we heard anything from the youtube-dl developers yet?
Have they made some sort of statement?
Are they really going to get sued?
Is it possible to support them (other than through the EFF: https://eff.org/donate/)?

Has github made a statement yet?

(Oh and don't think for one moment that the RIAA's actions have anything to do with supporting the struggling artist.)
> Election polls are almost always right for the only ultimate answer that matters: who is going to win[0]. They also accurately predict the margin of victory.

This isn't true in the US.

Your own link shows not a single result since the 1984 where the error was under 1% for both candidates.

They are usually somewhat accurate for the overall vote, but the results on state races haven't been great. That hasn't mattered until 2016 where it was a critical issue.
I didn't mean to imply that FAANG cloud storage completely mitigates the risk of memories being lost or debate about how to minimize the likelihood through means such as owning the hard drive or inscribing the data on titanium disks stored in vacuum-sealed cannisters.

This is just about choosing a cloud storage provider that I can feel reasonably confident will still have my photos backed up on any given day for the foreseeable future.
Do you really need to know all this?

My High school taught us tax brackets, interest, how to calculate a annuity mortgage, make a plan for a business etc..

Most kids just forget after the exam or the year after.
If you're looking at the history, it's not when Unicode or UTF-8 was invented that mattered, it's when it emerged as a winner. Remember that networking people wanted variable width characters for space reasons, and data processing people wanted fixed width characters for speed reasons. There were major battles in the international standards community before Apple and Xerox decided to do their own thing and called it Unicode.
Is “risking” the right word here? It’s like saying jumping in a volcano has a risk of death.

It’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of how soon and painful it’ll be.
So, is the idea that you don't actually hear that the song is in E (or some other guitar friendly key), but recognize that it's based on open strings on guitar and because of that you just assume it's that key instead of guitar being tuned down?
https://youtube-dl.org/
I'm not sure what the point of the question is. If it's that tablets and phones are harder to service, it's a fairly well known fact. Although some non-apple laptops are fairly hard to service, too. I'm thinking of some HP Elitebook models we have at work (not sure about the model number).

However, my point was that the issue wasn't related to the devices being plugged in all day long but to the overheating. I don't think a device used as a display would be particularly taxing on the CPU to have it heat up. For example, I've used both the tablet and phone to watch videos for extended periods (>2h) and they got barely warm.
After 50 years particle physicists have finally done something of value?

Sabine Hossenfelder talks a little on graphics of the standard model here -

https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1253180545577746434

She uses this graphic visualisation - https://youtu.be/Go2TaEUQpF4?t=229

If this 3D graphic is real, it'd be nice to make 3D versions to get them into schools. We can mass produce throwout-able plastic Pokemons surely we could do a few standard models.
What features do you like of photos?

For me it seems more or less (mostly less?) than iPhoto though I'm not really an iPhoto user.

What I find frustrating is I'd like to name people (as in face recognition) but the UI for doing so is horrible. Instead of being optimized to let me tag 50 to 100 people it's design to do one person at a time in a tedious way where you pick one face from the list of faces which takes to another screen where you edit the name, then going to back to the list you've lost your place.

Further, there is no way to sort or set a priority on people so for example 8 of the top 20 people it shows are people I haven't interacted with in 10 to 15 years. I'd much rather it show people who are part of my life. Further, one of those 8 is an x. I have no ill will toward them but I don't really want them at the top of the list. And, there's no rhyme or reason who's on that top list. it's not a list by number of photos or most recent or anything that I can figure out.

Why is this important? Because if I can tag my photos I can search for photos of people. But since they make it hard to use it's like they don't want it to be used.
There are in fact concerns about the amount of nuclear fuel available.

See for example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1421

and in more length:

http://theoildrum.com/files/O_118_Michael_Dittmar.pdf

The author also notes that, as of today, nuclear energy contributes only a very small part of the delivered energy mix.
> there's nothing about the language itself that makes it slow to compile

https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity

https://pingcap.com/blog/generics-and-compile-time-in-rust

> Do you have any particular complaints?

It's same issue as in C# and many others: someone has to write and support the bindings, which adds cost.

> it's no less safe than VM-based languages

In VM-based languages which don't use unsafe code, vulnerabilities like this are impossible by design: https://medium.com/@shnatsel/how-rusts-standard-library-was-...
It's a long enough query parameter to bypass HN's duplicate detector. Previous submissions appear to have been auto-flagged.
I have no idea of this applies to all low-income people, but I certainly known people who would have trouble paying their rent during the year, but would later spend their tax refund on a trip to hawaii (from california) rather than save it for a rainy day. I went to university with a student who couldn't afford a $30 calculator for class, but would buy a $200 bottle of booze while on a night out for her friend's birthday.

Pretending that none of the poor have maladaptive behaviors is not helpful to them. There are also many other reasons for poverty, many of which are not under that person's control - but that makes it more important to control what you can

"Black rednecks and white liberals" by Thomas Sowell has a lot more details about cultural traits associated with persistent vs transient poverty
Because I was unable to add the submission - I was instead redirected to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656268.
I'm also on Android in Europe, with no YouTube Music subscription, and it lets me play music in the background, without ads, if it's either on the device or in the "Uploads" section (which is where it's put music I'd purchased on Google Play Music). So it looks like they haven't completely removed that functionality, although the interface for accessing it is significantly more annoying.
Indeed. The next iteration of the tutorial will have more info for attaching alternators/generators in various ways now that I've had more of a chance to develop options for that side of things.

The matter of what to plug it into electrically and how tho isn't really tutorialisable, at least not in a one size fits all sense, as every situation is wildly different and needs to be designed bespoke.
Hence the need for a discussion forum type approach to that bit.
Image itself in high resolution can be found here:

https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
gitlab.com is down, but are public/private instances are not. Separate failure domains is an advantage of self-hosted.

Github is great, but when it's down, it impacts developers in many places.

When we spread our eggs across many baskets, we are more resilient.
Next doesn’t support nested routes and layouts. So if you have, for example, a page that has a a sidebar for a master/detail view, when you load the nested page it blows away the whole DOM and has to render the whole page again, meaning you lose your scroll positions and anything else you want to persist across pages.

React Router on the other hand lets you render subroutes directly into an ‘outlet’, maintaining the DOM state outside of it.

This is a super common pattern when you’re building something like an admin dashboard app which I do often.
iPhone 12 comes with free EarPods in France thanks to radiation laws
Wow I might have tinnitus, I read the yesterday night and was thinking I do often have ringing in my ears at night, it usually fades away during the day (or maybe get's filtered out by my brain). Tried mapping the tone I heard, at first I thought it was F#7 but after trying a pitch higher, F#8 it was obvious that it's the tone I'm hearing.
True, and it has been a remarkable progress, but it is yet far from being a SDK language on game engines and consoles.
Thank you.

I have created the repo at Darktea, feel free to create your anonymous accounts and join the project, until we find a better/decentralized place.

For now this should be sufficient:

http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzh...

I will give the main contributors the neccessary access for reviewing/merging/etc.. or will entirely hand over the project if you can prove you are the maintainer.
I wonder if the iOS app is really "coming soon" as the last commit is from July
It's not quite free/libre, but I was positively surprised by Synology Moments.

It's basically a software package on the Synology NAS which creates a locally hosted version of Google Photos (including sharing and gallery capability). It comes with Android/iOS apps that can automatically backups all photos directly to your NAS and thus stay in your own ownership.

There is a cost of entrance though - you need to buy the NAS and harddrives... but IMO there's nothing quite like owning your own data.
> I don’t think the pollsters probing for ‘Did Trump handle coronavirus well’ is the right thing to ask, mainly because I don’t think likely right-wing voters fault him.

We have polls to test this, and while it shows Republicans generally thing Trump can do no wrong, lots of independents think the response has been bad. And some of these are right wing voters, because the 57% who disapprove given the question "Do Americans approve of Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis?" is much higher than his generall disapproval rate.

See https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/coronavirus-polls/ and scroll down
The point wasn't to discuss the macbook's heat issue, I think those are rather well known around these parts.

My point was that the beer belly wasn't caused because the laptop was plugged-in but because it got hot.

So barring issues with botched software as was the case of my macbook, I don't think some devices are better suited than others to be plugged in all the time. Especially for doing something as lightweight as being used as en external monitor. I've been using that mbp for 2.5 years all day every day, plugged in, for actual work (among which compiling stuff) and the "new" battery is still fine.
Our team uses Gitlab. I think we can do fine without Gitlab for a day. It's not like you need it constantly when developing.
Good question, see if you can figure it out from the Landauer Principle links I've posted above (QM overload fatigue has set in from too many unresolved questions for one day, I'll worry about later).

I must admit it makes sense, but ages ago when I first came across the notion that say a kilo of matter had a definite limit on the amount of information it can contain is a bit overwelming, especially so when one realises how huge that number is. That reminds me of a Feynman quote about there being 'pleanty of room at the bottom'.
Yeah that site has been cobbled together by various mates over the years. Had a lot of people offer to fix it for me, but no one's really come through. Paid a guy, who somehow made it worse...
Having a macro to convert a Rust-like DSL (with a focus on iterators to replace Futhark's higher order functions) to GPU via a Futhark-like compiler is doable and something I would love to see done.

It could be the rayon of GPU computing on Rust.
That describes thousands of SMEs and non-technical business units who use Excel to manage their accounts and business operations. For example, a small law practice might use it to manage salaries, but, in spite of being full of very smart people, employ no one who has a clue about the quirks of how Excel handles dates.

These consultants exist to serve that niche.
I agree with to you a point but how am I supposed to find new music to buy without some kind of radio/recommendation system. FM radio certainly doesn't play the type of music I like.

I'm thinking I'll buy some of the songs I had marked in Google Play Music. I'm not sure I'll buy all of them or even if I can.

Also I haven't owned a CD player that connects to a computer in 7 years. Even the gamer PC I just built 2 months ago I didn't put a drive in it.
Fan of sci-fi? Psychologists have you in their sights
A14 Bionic pwned by hacker Ben Sparkes
Please no, while I admit that was funny I come to hackernews for the intelligent discourse. Please don't let hackernews slowly turn into zingers and one-liners
Very useful for Linux people coming over to macOS.
Great, now Imagemagick will receive a DMCA takedown notice! Can someone encode Imagemagick as audio using sox?
Rev.ng is releasing decompiler and UI nighly builds
We need a rouge git server.

Like silk road but for your open source fixes...
YouTube-dlc community version with much better support plans to move from GitHub
> This is ridiculous. Python won scripting because it offers a sane way to do sequential, shell-ish things, without having to wade through "man bash" or searching stack overflow for the umpteenth time about the syntax to do something that should be trivial but is anything but.

You've inadvertently supported exactly my point.

You just advocate for the lazy way out. You know Python, so that's what you use and nothing more. God forbid you check out a reference. I mean, your lazyness leads you to believe that having docs.python.com on speed dial for a dozen different major or backwards incompatible releases is ok, but oh God forbid you check up a single man page of a tool that exists since the beginning of time.

Ridiculous, and all of this just because you believe you know Python, and that's all you have to offer.

Shell scripts are standard, omnipresent, reliable, and readily available infrastructure. There's no way around it. There's no excuse, let alone laziness and refusal to learn, which in this field is outright incompetence. The only reason someone refuses to use shell scripts for this sort of job is dereliction of duty and outright incompetence, and that is not winning in anyone's books.