skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It also estimates the cost would climb from $4.2 billion to $6.1 billion.

The history of every new nuclear project includes promises of cost reduction followed by massive 50% overruns, sometimes multiple times.

> The deal protects UAMPS customers by specifying a maximum cost for electricity from the plant of $55 per MWh

This is good, though. Cheaper than Hinkley Point C.

> Bradford questions how reliable that reassurance can be. He notes that in the 1980s, Washington Public Power Supply System agreed to build several nuclear reactors in Washington that ran far overbudget and were never completed, leading to the biggest default on municipal bonds in U.S. history.

Possibly the only nuclear reactor to have caused a city-wrecking disaster without even being built.
it's like dropbox all over again
This isn't hypothetical and it isn't some silly correlation, there are plenty of successful programs doing exactly this, commonly called "housing first". Real estate magically reduces your need for whatever substance you can find to feel relaxed enough to sleep on concrete. Being in the same place every day magically cures your ability to have your medication available every morning. Living in a house magically stops you from needing to wear the same wet socks until your feet peel off. Sleeping in a bed, staying warm and fed and hydrated - all of these make a huge difference to physical and mental health. Do they fix everything? No, that's why I mentioned the supports that need to be added. But they're significant improvements anyway.
Climb a hill and take a photo of the floor with your telephone. If there are no planes/spatial stations nearby, then you'll have the same thing.
From the lengthy blog post under the images, it'd seem he used those archives. I have the impression that I've seen these pictures as TIF files instead of JPGs somewhere (the Internet Archive perhaps?), but I can't remember precisely now. Maybe the author used those, as I imagine they'd give a bit more leeway and flexibility in a restoration effort.
A car oasis that used to be along my commute has a Sbarro that serves breakfast, and it's pretty great. Scrambled eggs, sausage links, potatoes, and several different breakfast calzones. I often stopped there in the mornings.
What the heck is going on in western North Dakota?
I take it you've not been in this situation.
I live in Europe, with no possibility of home charging. My closest charger is 20 minutes away. My wife charges when she goes to work, rarely these days. Otherwise, we combine a shopping trip and charging, or a walk and charging. The first 50-80% of the charge goes fast, so you can easily pick up 100 km of range in the time it takes to go to the garden center.

If you want an electric car, get it. Charging is not the problem with them: affordability, availability, and matching the range to your lifestyle are.
> globally public, decentralised identity system.

Zooko's triangle says no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
What I don't see is that people join the institution with that market as an intention.

There is an old fashioned term that "She's just there to get her MRS." that used to be said about women attending college so they could marry a better class of man.

I don't know how intentional that was on the part of women and how much it was simply expected that wives deferred to their husband's career. I've read/heard a fair number of true stories where a woman had trouble pursuing her career because she married a man with similar career interests and this made her largely unemployable. His employer wouldn't hire her and competitors of his employer also wouldn't hire her.

Edits:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MRS%20Degree

https://thoughtcatalog.com/isla-sofia/2014/03/7-definitive-w...

I believe it was Madeleine Albright who said in an interview she wanted to be a journalist but couldn't get a job as a reporter because her husband was a reporter. The paper he worked for wouldn't hire her and neither would other papers.

Wikipedia doesn't mention that but does say:

In January 1960, the couple moved to her husband's hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Joseph worked at the Chicago Sun-Times as a journalist, and Albright worked as a picture editor for Encyclopædia Britannica.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright
Why do they need to put these containers together? Why not create a 30 MW box and drop it in suburbia?
Putting a lid on propaganda isn't "controlling people". When propaganda is thrown at you from foreign states, those states are the ones attempting to control your population. Fighting that is defending your citizens.

How you fight is tricky and i don't agree that censorship is the right fix in the long run, but i don't think the person you are replying to thinks that either, it's just one easy way to combat some of it.
The story misses the actually interesting part: how did they establish contact and initiate the call in the first place? It’s not like you or I can simply call up <country>’s parliament on Zoom. There’s gotta be some channel of authentication other than “dude in video call looks like some politician” (or some politician’s staff of whom they can find some photos on Google Images), too.
I’ve gotten jobs and moved. I’ve lost jobs and moved.

What’s your point?
It's happened a couple of times that pranksters have managed to make calls to government figures.
>>> My response was in the context of someone who didn't do any of that.

I did and you ignored all of it -_-

* To store 10+ PB of data.

* You need 15 PB of storage (running at 66% capacity)

* You need 30 PB of raw disks (twice for redundancy).

>>> At retail, 625 16TB drives is $400000.

That's only 10 PB of disks. That's about one third of the actual need.

Please triple your number and we will start talking. That's about 2000 disks and well above a million dollar.

You can't just call a supplier and get for a thousand 16 TB disks (or even a hundred). They don't have that in stock now. The lead time might be 6 months to get a few hundreds. They might not have 16 TB disks for sale at all, the closest might be a 12 or 14TB.

Handling large amount of hardware is a logistic problem. Not a cost problem.
Nope, the definition of OS would have to cover at least the window manager and the equivalent of win32/cocoa libs, so that developers can build first-class “windowed applications”. I know it wouldn’t be a trivial effort to define it in legal terms, but even in imprecise terms it would lay the foundation for a body of law that could keep OS developers honest.
I like the core concept of a "missing connections" type of thing where people can reveal interest LATER and then it's either reciprocated or ignored.

Even more interesting would be to only reveal interest if both people are interested..
I first came across this a while ago and after digging I found the way it worked (and possibly still works) behind the scenes is pretty cool: https://groups.google.com/g/emscripten-discuss/c/4Qw8OOgTvu0...

> A while ago I was pondering getting emscripten working under Wine, but realised that it's not quite as simple as a typical program (because Wine relies on being able to just provide a compatibility layer for syscalls, so the compatibility layer for x86 would have to be provided by the port to emscripten).

> Seeing this post, I wondered if you'd found some cunning way around this so downloaded the project. No, you've just gone straight ahead and implemented an x86 emulator! Ok, but how is wine able to run on bare metal? Oh right, you've actually implemented parts of linux, including most of the syscall interface, your own executable loader, parts of procfs and assorted special devices! Alright, but (as Alon asks) how does this actually render things? Ah I see, you've implemented your own display driver in Wine which, when methods are invoked, dispatches interrupts to the emulated CPU which then forwards and translates the interrupt to an equivalent sdl call (with opengl working a similar way, but with a dll)!

> Wow!
> I have never in my life seen such widespread and illogical fear of vaccines.

It's interesting, in the UK we had ridiculous reaction to the MMR jab after a fraudulent claim, fired up by the media - from the ever populist Daily Mail to Private Eye [0], which led to a collapse in MMR takeup and a resurgence in measles.

But we haven't seen that with covid, perhaps because the printed press is (mostly) on the side of the current government (flag waving populists), and the vaccine rollout has been branded aprt of the generational "battle" between the UK, standing alone against Europe (many in the UK don't realise WW2 ended 76 years ago).

I wonder if we'd had a Corbyn or Starmer led coalition in charge if things would be different.

Or imagine if the lib dems had held on to 20-30 seats that the tories gained in 2015 -- likely another coalition, with a 5 year fixed term, no brexit referendum, and then the GE having to be delayed (it would have been set for May 2020)

[0] https://behavioralscientist.org/how-fraud-and-a-broken-publi...
There is a supermarket in Boston over an interstate highway. The store is nothing special so I never thought much of it but now I'm really wondering what kind of political gymnastics had to occur to make that happen. At this point it's such a landmark that traffic reports refer to it as "the supermarket."
Upon further reflection, I think what I wrote regarding anonymity specifically was in error. I don't think removing it would serve much (if any) practical purpose from a security standpoint.

However, I don't agree that what happened was abuse or that it should be deterred. Responding in a hostile manner to an isolated demonstration of a vulnerability isn't constructive. People rightfully get angry when large companies try to bully security researchers.

You question if this vulnerability is worth worrying about due to the logistics of exploiting it in practice. Regardless of whether it's worth the effort to exploit I'd still rather it wasn't there (that goes for all vulnerabilities).

I think it would be much easier to exploit than you're letting on though. Modern attacks frequently chain many subtle bugs together. Being able to land a single, seemingly inconsequential bug in a key location could enable an otherwise impossible approach.

It seems unlikely to me that the immutable record you mention would ever lead back to a competent entity that didn't want to be found. There's no need for anything more than an ephemeral identity that successfully lands one or two patches and then disappears. The patches also seem unlikely to draw suspicion in the first place, even after the exploit itself becomes known.

In fact it occurs to me that a skilled and amoral developer could likely land multiple patches with strategic (and very subtle) bugs from different identities. These could then be "discovered" and sold on the black market. I see no convincing reason to discount the possibility of this already being a common occurrence.

The only sensible response I can think of is a focus on static analysis coupled with CTF challenges to beat those analysis methods.
Could they make it a space elevator?
When I work in Jira or ServiceNow I never have that issue. I SSO in one tab and then refresh the other ones. Our sso must be different because I don’t see the splash page until the app realizes I need to sign in again.
This is a list of software tools and libraries related to audio, it is not about hardware.
> A handful of my best friends even became Catholic priests, so I guess if their parents sent them there to marry, it didn't work out very well.

Assuming the parents are authentic Catholics, they would send them there to find their vocation, whether that is marriage or holy orders. Seen through that lens, it worked out very well indeed.
I hear a lot of people say that there's too much welfare and support for homeless people and it makes them want to get in on it, but none of them have ever gone to live in a park to get on that list so I think they're not being honest. Generally I think there is a path pretty far away from your silly picture, and also pretty far away from making them all die outside.
Ask HN: Blog post about Stanford bad for undergrad entrepreneurs?
Saw a HN post a while back with an article on why attending Stanford for undergrad isn't what it is made out to be for students interested in tech startups. Anyone have a link to it pls?
Using it since around 2006. Boring old tech that works.
I don't want to discard the fact that this is a real problem right now but in an efficient remote economy, employees are more likely to move to lower cost of living locations, possibly with better life quality and away from crazy overpriced urban centers that optimise for high salary in exchange for very little space. I think a world where people are more evenly distributed and have larger dwellings than a single room is more positive than keeping everyone clustered and have them working in malls.
>cold world studies

Sorry, I Googled this but had no luck; what exactly are cold world studies?
Were they addicted or mentally ill before they became homeless?
It's still there: "In July 2019, an engineering assessment certified BEAM's ability to remain attached to the station until 2028, as it has exceeded performance expectations and become a core cargo storage module on the volume-constrained station."
You may want to look up the works of Dr. Josef Mengele and then re-evaluate your first sentence.
I'm pretty sure that some images have had the blue color enhanced. The oceans look a dullish gray from space, not blue.
Missing the point of domain modeling? I think you’re projecting a scenario or past experience forward on this because there is nothing about this that goes against “classical domain modeling”

At the end of the day, as far as computers go what is actually the difference between (TRUE, FALSE) and (MMDDYYTTTTTT/Null) - assuming your environment and storage engine support it.

You’re encoding far more meaning by using a date than using TRUE. Instead of two columns you now have one.

You can have a rock solid system without any room for misinterpretation and confusion while also using this approach. I do it all the time.
> In our unfortunately light polluted night sky we can barely see the stars, but shouldn't the astronauts see the earth within a shimmer of billion stars?

No, you have to be in the night side, or looking into the void (no Earth surface visible, definitely not the Sun in sight, not any part of your spacecraft being shined upon) for your eyes to adjust to the darkness and then you get to see the stars. Being near the Moon, I'd add "no moon surface" to that list.

> Or is the source material not showing stars due to a lack of exposure?

I'm not sure there... Film behaves differently than image sensors. Maybe if we had access to the negatives you could do some chemical magic to bring in detail. I don't know how hard/destructive that could be on the negatives, as film isn't a medium I've ever really used. Grew up in the 90's with a few film cameras, but digital took over before I had the chance to seriously get into photography and was also far cheaper (so, easier to pick up as a hobby for a teenager). Now I'm into digital image processing and that's a totally different beast on its own.
Surprise. I bought the rose... theory. Sigh.
Safari about to release support for JavaScript modules inside the worker scope
> There are many laws which are unjust, what is right and what is legal does not always align

What is considered right highly varies by country and culture, when you say "right" to what country/culture do you refer to?

> To me what this person did looked about as illegal as someone breaking an entry into a burning house to aid the people inside.

I am not commenting on the moral side of this persons actions, only the legal side.
I will not say that it is nice for homeless, but who want a slum to be created in the middle of a clean modern city?

Think about all the other problems that this create for the other inhabitants related to hygiene, trash, ...

Similarly parks are parks, and woods are woods, if you setup slum houses there, they are not parks and become towns...
It's essentially an old meme; the exact details had been lost, since the technology was not in continuous use and no written record survived, but the footnote on Wikipedia details its reconstruction. This great paper: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/98/10/166...

Essentially it relied on volcanic ash from specific locations, and they forensically traced those locations.
Ask HN: Adversarial System Administration?
Hi folks,

I enjoy developing and maintaining the RecipeRadar[1] project's infrastructure in a truly open fashion.

Since the project itself is AGPL-licensed, that means I like to -- ideally -- push infrastructure documentation and changes before the associated administrative commands are run. As a result, code to the system itself is already published and available (in a chronological sense) to anyone using the service over the network at any given point in time.

However, it does introduce a set of strange risks: what if, for example, planned changes will expose security vulnerabilities that have _not yet_ been introduced, but will be when the commands are run?

In a typical system administration scenario, generally the 'home team' acts carefully and is primarily only aware of their own actions - aside from monitoring for any externally-initiated or unexpected system behaviour during maintenance.

If a mistake is made, sometimes they'll backtrack and clean up, but for some kinds of system change, it's hard to know whether an exposed vulnerability was exploited, because the exposure window may have been very brief.

I have a sense that the best overall solution to this kind of problem (in this kind of open environment) would be an 'adversarial' system administration approach; perhaps involving some kind of mirroring.

Two (or more) systems would walk through the same series of administration steps, each with one (or more) red teams attempting to exploit the process -- already armed with the knowledge of the steps to be applied in advance.

The red teams would then report back on their achievements during the operation, and those findings could be used to improve the tooling and processes using during open system administration.

Does that make sense to anybody, and/or can anyone provide thoughts or reading material about research into this kind of area?

[1] - https://www.reciperadar.com/

[2] - https://github.com/openculinary/infrastructure/
I thought of Nix while reading this thread and I'm wondering what makes it unique here? As a daily NixOS user I get that it is better but I don't know the specifics. the nixpkgs rpeo is superficially similar to homebrew (lots of people submitting packages, running on github, automation around commits).

What are the differences wrt to security?

1. It's language, Nix, is limited in scope?

2. No automated PR merge workflows (yet)?

3. Better community/engineering/security?
I’ve always been surprised that there is no product wind turbine with a guaranteed power output, that is, a turbine with an embedded battery. Sure it would cost much more, but in some applications steady power is worth it.
New Tetris Technique
By what mechanism would homelessness disappear? What would happen to the existing and newly homeless? Because it sounds like the answer is "starvation to death".

Most people would regard that as pretty inhumane.
I Earned a Moo
I dont believe I spoke about nor said anything about Teamspeak. What are you referring to?
yes, it does, but you need to include “cross chain yield farming aggregator” in the pitch now

or like just don’t do a pitch at all and just launch that

the email is in the bio you know what to do
> No windows, no natural light, never going outside in the real, natural world.

I think it's a US thing. Many malls have significant sun-light, though not for the stores (I think this is done on purpose so that you are not distracted and focus on the goods). This could be re-purposed, however. Concrete walls get removed and replaced by glass.
My high level view is that if you are storing that much content, most of it is bad, so the solution for me would be to delete it!

As for my own storage I use 1TB SanDisc SD cards in a raspberry 2 cluster for write once data (user) and 8x64GB 50nm SATA drives from 2011 on 2xAtom 8-core for data that changes all the time! Xo

People say that content is king, I think that final technology (systems that don't need rewriting ever) is king and content has peaked! ;)
In my opinion git-ps provides a much nicer patch workflow similar to Phabricator while still supporting GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab for peer reviews.

* https://github.com/uptech/git-ps
* a detailed walkthrough https://upte.ch/blog/how-we-should-be-using-git/
Do you mind sharing some links? I’d love to see the most recent versions
But these are two very different use cases and just using one for another won't work in many scenarios or will make thing less efficient. It is much, much better to leave the boolean intact for the reasons other people explained and just add another column with the date if you actually need it. This will give you more flexibility while keeping things in order.
I’m not necessarily disagreeing, but have you ever been to the open air mall in Waikiki, Hawaii? It’s pretty great
4 is not less than 5?
> since modern sky scrapers are not expected to "survive" for thousands of years anyway

And maybe that’s a problem! Why exactly are we not building beautiful landmarks that will survive eons like the Romans did?

We have a throwaway culture, and nobody ever dares question it.
Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II
Quite a few politicians have been caught out by phone call pranksters in the past too.

I guess this is getting more attention because it’s not just a prank.

Makes you wonder though, if pranksters could do it, how often spies have just used fake phone calls before now!
There's often a difference between why people do things, and why they say they do things. Often they themselves aren't aware of why they really do things.
What you describe calls for an Enum, not a nullable boolean which is just another way of passing a hardcoded magic value carrying an implicit meaning.

> a boolean column actually has 3 states, a timestamp only has 2.

Going with your logic a timestamp has billions of states, you just have to arbitrarily assign special meanings to certain dates that won't ever be used. Just like using null as another state I wouldn't call it a good idea, though.
That, plus I’d like to know what they discussed!
Get_words_from_a_number_which_is_passed_as_a_perimeter_into_this_function
I haven't used SVN but you can do this with git by using git add --patch. I do it every day!
It's housing costs entertwined with mental problems and drug use.

In many countries you can afford a shack with US equivalent of $100 a month. In rich countries such shacks are illegal and all the regulation and land cost raises minimum rent far above that.

At least 2/3 of homeless are addicted or mentally ill. The fraction that isn't typically doesn't live on the streets for more than a few months.

In my experience you don't see many homeless in poorer countries because housing is cheap relatively speaking.
These might be shitty websites which employ black hat seo techniques of serving the pdf to google and a paywall to users.
> and it's non-trivial for them to share files.

My approach is to have a separate dropbox and GitHub account for sharing, that both machines have access to.
Not m1; but unplug and plug it back helps a lot