skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear energy is the Amiga of energy sources.

Ahead of its time, it was unjustly rejected and persecuted by the
ignorant masses. Its advocates are bonded by the quiet pride that at
least they weren’t unthinkingly siding with those masses. (And they’re
right!) Meanwhile, as the Amiga stagnated for terribly unfair reasons,
other, scrappier technologies like the i386 and UMG-Si grew from being
worthless boondoggles (except in special circumstances, like
spaceflight) to being actually far better and cheaper. But the Amiga
advocates keep the faith, sharing their suffering and resentment. They
inevitably try the alternatives a little and perhaps even start to
like them. Gradually their denial recedes, decade by decade.

But they know that however much fab costs go down and leave their
beloved Amiga behind in the dust, you’ll never be able to run nuclear
submarines and Antarctic research stations on solar panels.

— ⁂ —

Not all nuclear-energy advocates are so unversed in the basics of
energy as to say incoherent things like “replacing daily energy
consumption from crude oil will require 14.5 terawatts per day” or
pants-on-head things like “renewable mandates push up electricity
prices”
(https://freopp.org/why-nuclear-power-not-renewables-is-the-p...)
but today they are all suffering from serious truth deficiencies.

— ⁂ —

Wind, where available, undercut the cost of steam power (including
nuclear and coal) a decade ago, and PV undercut it in equatorial parts
of the world about four years ago, or in even more of the world if you
don’t include storage. As a result, last year, China, whose electrical
consumption has doubled in the last decade, built 48.2 gigawatts† of
new photovoltaic capacity last year
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-energy-climatechang...
but only has, I think, something like 10 GW of nuclear plants under
construction, scheduled to come online over the next several years. PV
installed capacity in China is growing by 23% per year, the same rate
it has been growing worldwide for the last few years; with some luck
that will return to the 39%-yearly-worldwide-growth trend that has
been the fairly consistent average over the last 28 years.‡

(Previous versions of this comment were posted at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218673 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674832.)

______

† China’s PV capacity factor seems to be only about 13%, so those 48
GWp probably work out to only about 6 GW average. It would be nice if
China managed to site its new PV plants in places that could provide a
capacity factor like California’s 28%.

‡ Why 28? Because I haven’t found figures yet on what worldwide
installed capacity was in 01992 or earlier.
That's sort of my question. What's the end goal for Freenode? They're burning the network to the ground. Is there some positive outcome for them here that I'm missing?
More about the author himself: https://trueties.org/trueties.org/about-robert-bryce.html

"Robert Bryce works for the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that has received more than $6 million in donations tied to the fossil fuel industry. He has written numerous critical books and articles about renewable energy."
This gives the police the power to force folks to give their passwords to the police when there is a valid search warrant issued for the electronic device.

Not saying its great, but at least they have to have an actual search warrant for it first.
that “cost” in nuclear has more to do with regulations rather than technology.
Ok, I think we're having 2 separate conversations:

a) What's the impact of self-driving cars at what point of distribution

and b) What's the distribution of self-driving cars going to be.

Regarding the impact: modern vehicles are getting better at minimizing the impact of accidents, and are starting to avoid accidents, mostly in the form of avoiding rear-ending another vehicle. But Self-driving cars are on another level there: They can recognize someone possibly running a red light, and act accordingly (not entering the intersection, evacuating the intersection quickly, etc.). They have sensors to continuously monitor their surroundings with a focus a human can't have, and modern vehicles don't bring the sensors for it because of the actions a human-driven vehicle can take are highly limited (Maybe a warning-beep, tightening seatbelts and prepping to fire airbags - but nothing in terms of avoidance. And you need a fairly fancy new vehicle for that). Additionally, also drivers of expensive / new vehicles crash. They have phones like anyone else, drink like anyone else, get tired or distracted like anyone else.

Regarding the distribution of self-driving cars: As I said, it's not feasible to assume that by the time you can buy or rent a self-driving car in the bay area, you'll also be able to buy or rent a self-driving car in Mogadishu. Additionally, ownership is one aspect of automated vehicles. Companies also aim for a service-type of business, where you basically take a cab - just without a driver (who again can get distracted, tired, etc.)

Now, if you say "we're a century away from having 50% self-driving cars in Somalia" - I wouldn't disagree. But the comment that started this discussion (and to which you said you have more or less the same opinion) questioned their present and future existence:

> Self-driving cars do not (and will not, if you ask me) exist

Maybe we're disagreeing on a misunderstanding?
Wow this chain of comments goes in a circle.
Thanks. Now, I found a bunch of photos to delete from the Picasa days. :-)
A cousin of my was a multiple-tour forward observer for the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He spent a lot of time doing extended hiking after that.

I'm not sure if it was a result of his experience in Korea, but I get the impression he really wanted some extended alone time. I never asked because I didn't want to risk dragging him into some terrible memories.
Came here to see a google article's comments, to explicitly see if an extremely predictable comment would still be here as it always is... Alas it is.
UK to rein in online platforms’ power in effort to protect public broadcasters
Yeah, I easily make twice as much as I spend.

So I take a year of now and then, if I feel like it.
It’s not very difficult to do financially if you don’t mind moving to a lower cost of living country. You can live pretty well for 20k USD in many parts of the world.
This sounds like it makes sense but you might be forgetting that all those politicians get a lot of their excessive power through funding from wealthy donors, i.e. billioinaires. We can also take a politician's power away in a functioning democracy.

It's just very undemocratic to have the most important matters in society being largely managed by single or small groups of individuals who have grossly disproportionate levels of power and little accountability. And this is what we're dealing with when giant private companies are in control of things like our access to information, healthcare, transport, etc.
Odd...I'd guess that would just wipe out the small traders. I'd have thought the larger traders were going directly from USD to whatever (what I normally do) or BTC/whatever. Starting to do ETH/whatever too as more ETH tokens come out.
Years ago, I saw someone implemented a vector display using a powerful visible-light laser on a gimbal, instead of an electron gun with magnetic deflection.

Then they used it to play Tetris on passing clouds.
Old economy jobs in the midwest, sure. I applied to FAANG jobs after a year off and no one even brought it up.
I've never seen a company release incredible products with as high velocity as Stripe has over the last few years. Truly incredible. $1.50/user may sound outrageously expensive at first, but having seen all the engineering power it takes to build something like this at Uber...it's a totally fair price.
The problem with the defund crowd is they don't actually have a cohesive message of what they want and the branding is terrible, just a political hand grenade for the opposition.

It runs the spectrum from "we just mean re-allocate budget toward community policing" to "no, we really do mean abolish police". LOL.
The "free as in beer" software movement normalized the idea that locally run software should all be free, so the center of new software development moved to a cloud-first model. The cloud is the only DRM that works, so cloud software can never be pirated either.

"We need to liberate ourselves from closed-source software!"

Result: the software moves where it can't be liberated.

It's not some big conspiracy. It's like how a plant grows toward the sun. It's that software is very labor intensive to produce and there must be an economic model. If there's no economic model in one place, it goes somewhere else where there is.

If we want computing to be open, free, and user-centric (rather than user-exploiting), we have to restructure the industry so that that's where the money is.
Heck, I’m a poor grad student who gets a stipend from my program and is lucky enough to have parents willing and able to pay my rent. My total income including that family support is probably around $40k and I saved a ton of money this past year since I couldn’t do anything. I can only imagine how much someone in my situation with a FAANG income would have saved.
how much is a kW of solar at night?
From the article:

> "Irish police will have the power to compel people to provide passwords for electronic devices when carrying out a search warrant under new legislation."

This is not unique to Ireland, we see this here in the US as well.
I'm not the one making the claim...?

Clearly there are some issues with particular police departments. Saying "watch this video and do it yourself" is not a viable way of proving this is a universal phenomenon.

This is basic logic.
Yeah 100%. But if you give off the vibe that you work hard to get stuff done, and you are humble as to what you don't know (shows you will take your time and learn right)... I think you can get an entry job.

Credentials do help though to get your foot in the door, I will say. I was a terrible programmer but had a college degree. Foot was in teh door and now I think i'm a pretty solid distributed java dev (and enough fullstack etc).
I am not against nuclear per se, but Chernobyl and Fukushima taught me that accidents will happen, so in order to get my support, build them as far away from where I live as possible.

I prefer wind and especially solar over nuclear because:

- no megacorp and state monopolies (more price competition)

- faster innovation cycles

- faster scaling / much shorter project timeframes

- decentralization (on national and individual levels)

- romantic hopes of independence / self-reliance (on national and individual levels)

Not so much because of monetary or efficiency considerations. The nuclear lobby should address these points to get me to listen.

Also, article TLDR.
Show HN: My podcast about turning side projects into businesses
Why are schools adjudicating this? Shouldn’t the court system and police investigations?
I agree. Given we already have this in Typescript it seems of little benefit to add it as a runtime feature.
Its 87F in late-afternoon Paris right now and 83F in London. Where I'm from the humidity would make this unbearable. Perhaps Paris isn't the same, but I wouldn't want to take the chance. I'd rather be able to set my own temperature.

For the record, I'm curious as to why the attitude of wanting a high standard of living is disconcerting.
I'm sure the world will let countries freely access nuclear material, when it took the US years and a whole lot of political capital to sell nuclear raw material to a country like India.
Yeah, considering the boom of consipiracy theories / flat earther, it's indeed probably better that way.

Sorry but put it more clearly we definetely should treat non expert as children, for their own good.
I've considered going back and getting a new degree but the cost is so insane that it's just not worth it.
A book of recurring software revenue instantly wiped away an order processor
This is flawed reasoning. Electricity is not just kWh. It is kWh delivered at specific times. The way electricity markets work, this is not factored into the price. Nuclear power is more expensive per kWh. But not all kWh or energy are available at the same time, which means nuclear's kWh are worth more, even though that is not reflected in the market price.
This reads like a day time soap, but it also sounds like many other stories. The fact that they referenced Uber's start up culture made me laugh.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Researc... it's a Koch outlet.
Irish regulators are told by the Government to take a soft touch to regulating businesses. It's up to British regulators to step in when an Irish airline Ryanair breaks the law. The Irish counterpart would never do it. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/09/ba-ryanair-...
I think you're confusing a Tesla with a self-driving car.
And you’ve got a bunch of people that want one at least every week, so they can talk to their coworkers - but without all the overhead from scheduling a big event. The world is made of many different kinds of people. Hand waving a huge portion of them away on either side isn’t great.
"requiring much less copper, concrete, and ground space for the same amount of available energy"

Does this include long-term storage of the waste products?
This differs by gender. A married woman taking time off for domestic/child rearing/continuing education is very common. An adult male, it’s very uncommon unless you’re rich, which most posters here obviously are.
You're not a billionaire, why are you spending your precious time on this earth trying to lump them together with "middle class Joes" as if that absolves them of their history?

Perhaps Buffett doesn't have a singular genius for applying his wealth to charity. It's anti-democratic on its face to just surrender control of "what problems are solved" to a single person, regardless of the decision metric. Is it truly better for one person to control all of that on a whim? Even assuming the best of intentions, he may pick a disease charity based on a close association with a victim rather than any broad rational analysis. You're just hopping right on board with his unquestioned assertion "I'm better at picking," did you give that one any pause or just hopped right up to carry that water?

What are the problems that governments are 'often' poorly suited to solve? Would governments be more or less suited to deal with these issues if they hadn't been defunded to support the personal wealth and charitable whims of billionaires?
Sure if you don't have a family to provide for. It turns out that it becomes a lot harder to take a gap year when you've still got a spouse and little people depending on you.
Signal-to-noise is a serious problem - hence Google's riches. BTW My reference era is post-search, pre-SEO.

> Way more, in absolute terms, than when I started.

Is it? How can you tell? I would expect there to be more... but also it's less encouraging to do all that work, and people not be able to find it...
NFL halts 'race-norming,' review Black claims in $1B concussion settlement
How does IRC work on mobile these days?

Last time I used IRC seriously, I had to get off the train because I was chatting more on mobile than not and the mobile clients were basically un-serviceable (IIRC, protocol is too chatty and stateful for reliable connection on a device continuously changing its physical network connection).
The link doesn't define "the world supply of viable uranium." Find other sources. (The article even discusses extracting uranium from seawater.) What about finding new deposits or new mines? According to the Virginia Geologic Survey, "The largest unmined uranium deposit in the United States is Coles Hill, in Pittsylvania County." (https://www.dmme.virginia.gov/dgmr/uranium.shtml) Virginia currently has a moratorium on uranium mining.
Mario Bros. Special (NEC PC-8001) Tape Dump and Scans
You really need to compare costs on the basis of energy (kWh) produced, not power (kW) rating. It's mostly irrelevant to compare on the basis of kW/MW ratings without also considering load factors.

That said, solar and wind are still considerably cheaper than nuclear when the per-MWh prices are compared. Large (multi GW) off-shore wind farms are now being contracted in Europe for less than half the cost of new-build nuclear.
If Stripe were to get hacked who would pay the GDPR fine?
have the koch brothers invested or done anything to actually support nuclear?
You have a,very distorted knowledge of WW1 and the post war years in Germany.
Amazing how Stripe consistently executes fantastic solutions for all the very real and difficult pain points of building commercial products on the web. Fantastic work!
I think the multiple snipers each fire at separate targets. One sniper per target. All at once, everyone fires (killing any threats), then running like hell before someone else jumps up and grabs a gun.
Yeah if "I think about quitting my job" is the metric, I'd expect the result to be 70-80%.
I don't understand why the other reply to this comment is dead. Whatever it might have lacked in nuance, the reality is that the tolerant approach to crime and vagrancy has created neighborhoods and downtowns that only idiots and parents with something to prove would raise a child in. If you care about the outcome of your child more than how well that child advances your social agenda then you move to the closest place that isn't garbage which is usually a suburb.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27502993
> Detect fake IDs and spoofed photos with machine learning

> Match the ID photo with selfies of the document holder

> Validate SSN and addresses against global databases

Seems fairly clear.
I don't know Erlang but I also found Clojure's destructuring to be an extremely useful tool. For me it allowed developing useful project idioms that can be very effective in cutting a lot of boilerplate.
Absolute game changer, other actors in this market have big bulky sales processes with difficult pricing models and high commitment. If Stripe is competitive on pricing they will definitely win this market.
Efficient by what standard? The ones you listed?

One of the largest negatives of nuclear is it's cost efficiency, namely it being pretty bad and not dropping, compared to renewables

> no technology exists at scale, particularly nothing that could be massively available and producing in the next couple of decade

P2G? Hydrogen can be produced, stored and given back to the grid at scale. Do also keep in mind that it currently take decades before new nuclear power plants go from beginning the planning phase to producing energy (at least in the west), so it may be even worse for nuclear power

Regarding germany's Energiewende: A large part is that the EEG-Umlage is very expensive while not helping much in the last decade. If you look at the increase in wind & solar, it has pretty much stagnated the last few years while costs didn't. It's just not a very good instrument. Additionally, new rules (at least for wind) decimated available land and the "Ausbaukorridor" (added in 2013) also ensured that there couldn't be much growth for renewables.
> Modern (post-1990) designs keep enough water around that the reactor can stay cooled for two weeks without power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000 says 72 hours, which is much less than 2 weeks.
Amazon’s game streaming service Luna is opening access to Prime members June 21
> Also ironically ~20 years of commuting adds to almost 10k hours which supposedly would put me on a world-class expertise level in terms of being a train passenger. The problem is I'm a Software Engineer, not a professional underground train passenger.

Oh wow, that's such a good way of looking at it! I used to have a 3h20m daily roundtrip commute. Now our office is permanently closed. I work on a treadmill desk, have lunch with my wife, and after work I walk a block to my baby's daycare. I can't imagine ever going back to an office.
Their insurer?

(I'd also expect the ID photos etc. aren't stored long-term.)
looks like $2,440 if you add battery to solar.

still quite a bit below $6,000
Have you got any citations to support these claim?

Nuclear usually requires vast subsidies to operate and imposes costs that go on for decades or more in waste management. And according to this data, all the nuclear energy output reduced in Germany has already been more than made up for with non-hydro renewables, which are getting cheaper and cheaper all the time:

https://energytransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/non-...
In the "Race Conditions? Not with Javascript!" section:

> They [...] decided that no concurrency between threads is allowed, for the safety of everybody. This resolves the race conditions by removing the possibility that multiple threads ever run at the same time.

Nope! It's very easy to write a JS program with a race condition. Like this one, which sometimes outputs 0, sometimes 1:

var a = 0;
setTimeout(function() { a = 1; }, 50);
setTimeout(function() { console.log(a); }, 49);
I honestly hope some good comes out of the shortage. Like, maybe some products that never needed any electronics get made without them again, or things that have entire computers built into them just go back to a few basic controllers.

A good OLED TV that is just a panel and doesn't come with a slow horrible computer built in would be nice.
Holy shit. This is crazy if it's true.

> For example, he told-LTM employees that he wanted to hire a female candidate simply because he wanted to have sex with her. Similarly, Lee expressed his desire to set up a "modeling agency" in the Hollywood Hills that would actually be a front for illegal prostitution (i.e., the "models" would be paid escorts). To that end, Lee circulated a memo to male LTM executives advising them to make sure and wear condoms when having sex with the "models."

I really hope they have a copy of that memo. That alone would be damning.
> I know a few people who signed up for master degrees in say Germany and found that almost everyone in the program is a few years older then them.

Is that because of gap years, or an interest in actually getting industry experience before continuing academic education? I think I was about 6 years into my career before I thought I could really squeeze a lot of value out of a graduate program. (I didn't ever go back for one, though.)
> Looks insightful and gets good results most of the time though.

Yep, let me take a moment to agree fully and expand a bit:

This is why consultants and MBAs do so well. They have studied playbooks and seen so many case studies that they can quickly map situations onto known scenarios from their studies or experience, and almost immediately say, "This is called X, and the way to handle it is Y." It sounds good, comes off well in meetings, and to be fair is even often correct.

But as mentioned, it is not deep thought. It is pattern matching. In many standard business cases, it will work, but you still need the deep thought in the room to flag the situations that don't match and encourage new solutions in those cases.
> Christel "sold" Freenode to Andrew Lee (of which was not hers to sell) and never told the rest of Freenode staff the terms.

If this is the case, is anyone pursuing a way to invalidate the sale?
Wow, this is very bad.
Best to only ever use apps with self destroying messages and not saving images except where you want them to be seen.
Warrant or not, this is going very, very far.

I do not think these warrant issuing procedures will be throughout, either way, would never trust it.

Which politicians are responsible for passing this into law?
Having experienced the end-user flow for Identity when doing bot verification on Discord, this was an incredibly seamless product back then, when it was presumably in beta. Can only imagine its even cleaner and faster now its officially released.