skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hilarious that the intellectual person needs to have a study to accept the obvious. If you can count the number of all the little children who died of covid in your country with your fingers, you know it's a complete non-issue for them.
You hit the nail on the head. I live in rural southern Missouri in the Ozark Mountains.
DensityDesign Lab – A New Map of Europe
For some perspective, this is a nice list of many household appliances and their power usage:
https://www.daftlogic.com/information-appliance-power-consum...
It's not at all clear we need nuclear power. It's not at all clear that nuclear power will have any significant place in powering civilization on Earth going forward. It has not been cheap, and if alternatives are easier and cheaper, why bother with nuclear at all?
It alredy exists and has been used from beginning of humanity til today. its called adobe. I just built a brand new kitchen with it.
I know it's not the same thing as conventional concrete but hempcrete is "green cement" in spirit.
I find it quite refreshing that there aren't warnings not to try this at home. If people want to have a go, they will whether told to or not.
At what speed do you start to run into limits on the server side when it comes to remote file storage?
We assume from what we see that this tunnel and his shed are at his house but he is big enough of a youtuber that this whole thing could be on a sound stage somewhere.
For Texas Germans, some of A, some of B. Churches in central Texas towns with significant German-speaking populations commonly worshiped in German, and those towns had German-language newspapers up through the 1920s and 30s. The drop-off appears to have started around World War 1, and was pretty much complete by WW2. Some of my high school classmates (born ca. 1980) had German and/or Czech-speaking grandparents who grew up in the 20s and 30s, but tried raising their children as English speakers. Result: my classmates' parents could always understand Oma and Opa, but their grandchildren couldn’t, which was part of why German was an unusually popular foreign language option at my high school (the excellence of the long-time German teacher was the rest).
I don't understand why we should be so confident in this?
Wherever I've been (I hike a lot), I find that OSM is superior to both.
Some notes on renewables readiness, that I made yesterday while thinking about California’s heat wave. In California, we now serve up to 95% of grid demand from renewables at certain times of day. This is up from 85% last year. Solar peak capacity grew by 15% last year to over 13GW. Yesterday, batteries discharged 999MW over a five-minute average, a record, just missing the 1GW milestone. Utility-scale batteries have grown 10x in a single year.

None of this includes distributed solar and battery storage, which is widespread and has been lowering grid demand for years.
I think Github should support some kind of variant of robots.txt in the source code. Maybe a common line in the license file that excludes it from ML training data. That said, if you want to exclude it, that's your right, but you should consider why you are open sourcing in the first place, and what about ML feels different to you than traditional human cognition.
LinkedIn is the worst as I get emails from them even though I don't have an account. I must have "unsubscribed" from them a bunch of times (or tried to) and I still get their bloody emails every time someone tries to search for my (non-existent) LinkedIn account or some such.

I've been automatically deleting all @linked.com emails for years. Only way to deal with them. Maybe it's better managed now, but good god, just stop sending your stupid emails already.

Ironically the only time I did have a (temporary) LinkedIn account was to find the contact of every C-level exec and other person in charge of a recruiting company that kept spamming me over both email and phone and didn't stop after repeated requests.
I have been just doing some research about this for another discussion. Here's some article quotes:

From https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/7/15159034...:

"The professional energy community used to be quite convinced that wind and solar could play no serious role in the power system because of their variability. Then, for a long time, conventional wisdom was that they could provide no more than 20 percent of power before the grid started falling apart.

That number has kept creeping up. Now CW has it around 60 percent. Which direction do you suppose it will go in the next few decades?

It’s a similar story with batteries and EVs. They keep outpacing forecasts, getting cheaper and better, finding new applications. Is there any reason to think that won’t continue?"

From https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/28/2119505...:

"To some extent, sun, wind, and water balance one another out; where it is not sunny, it is often windy. With a good national transmission system, renewables could supply up to 60 percent, maybe 80 percent of electricity in the US, but after that, things get expensive and something else is needed to fill the gaps."

So here you go, we could go 60-80% renewable today, and worry about the rest when we get there. Most likely these problems are going to be solved, or the (non-intermittent) energy will simply be more expensive.
"Europe is an exception, where cement companies have to buy allowances to cover their CO2 emissions and can save money if they produce less. But in many other countries, such as the US, policies are not in place yet to encourage cement makers to pay for greener alternatives."

That seems like a no-brainer, to build the externalities into the cost of goods.
This sounds like an awesome idea, and I immediately began musing over the idea of a world in which it was globally illegal to send mass messages anywhere in the world without an initial opt-in.

Sadly, I immediately realized that if such a law was passed, the major email providers would all implement the opt-in check using a web-based system (as opposed to a fundamentally email-based one, on easily argued "convenience" and "accessibility" and "user experience" grounds), and thus achieve vendor lock-in.

In the end it would amount to another form of implicit censorship through badly managed filters and whatnot.
What is one of those fundamental problems? Fusion has unsolved problems. Batteries do not.
That is good news, especially for all the children in those countries, who are opening up with a wave of the delta variant approaching. Combine that with some reluctancy or inability to vaccinate children, it means most of them will get infected.
The Amiga doesn't have a character mode. It does what you ask it in full bitmap mode. Many games, applications and more, made better use of limited screen real estate by using 4, 5 and 6 px wide fonts.
Nothing really changed. Linux on the desktop is still pretty much relegated to people who develop for Linux. ChromeOS is probably the closest Linux will ever come to desktop success.

When a company rolls out Linux desktops it's a news story because it's unusual. There are killer apps for Windows and Mac. How about Linux? What application is going to have my uncle calling me asking which Linux machine he should buy?
>> Why not just use your development machine for development?

He said the M1 versions of MSSQL performs terribly
That he happened to be right doesn’t mean what he said had any basis
He was wrong then, and he's still wrong now.

Long Covid is a significant medical problem.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210607/Around-525-of-chi...

For those who don't know the BBC is in the middle of weekend political scandal where a senior Tory director was caught red-handed interfering in recruiting - specifically trying to prevent the recruitment of a journalist who might be critical of the government.

https://www.ft.com/content/82a54037-501d-457b-b8f4-35744c85e...

That's where the BBC is now - a government mouthpiece, and not an objective news source.
Pro-Kremlin bots are fuelling chaos and lies about the pandemic
Here in hacker news it was posted this article about the story of SQL biggest rival, QUEL, which is pretty related: https://www.holistics.io/blog/quel-vs-sql/?

It is not that we didn't try to replace it, but just as other comments have said, SQL was good enough, and already has the biggest mind share.
In the source code, it is not apparent where the size restriction comes from. It seems to me that it can be easily modified to work with any data types. Maybe I am wrong. I am more concerned with this sentence:

> Blitsort's performance is similar to that of quadsort as long as the auxiliary memory is greater or equal to the square root of the array being sorted, which comes out at 262,144 elements with the default stack of 512 elements. Performance on larger arrays degrades marginally.

I wonder what "marginally" means here. What if we sort 10 million integers?
I’m no fan of him, but I found it odd how information that came from him suddenly was branded as misinformation even if it was true.
According to my calculations and the studies I've read, it would be enough to cover some single digit percentages of Germany with solar panels to meet its energy (not electricity!) demand. Certainly less than 5% of the land. You get most of the way there just by using the agricultural area currently in use for "energy crops" (corn for ethanol, canola for diesel, etc, 2.4 million hectares in Germany).

Germany is not terribly well suited for solar either. Wind is a bit better from a kWh/m^2 point of view.
This is very much American idea of "diversity". Drink Starbucks, watch corpo rainbows all day long and sing hallelujah. But remember you have to speak our language and have our way of life, that's the diversity after all!
Trump might have guessed or it just might have been politically convenient to say so but if there is no research to base such a statement on, it's certainly not trustworthy information.
I've been exclusively using Apple Maps for 3 years, never looked back. Spending most of my time in urban-ish areas, it'll not know about some destination maybe once a year. The UX for live directions is great; it'll give you little details like "go past this stop sign and turn at the one right after it" which are really nice. The UI is generally less crowded too.
nice writeup for how the magic really works. lambdas rock!
G20 ministers set to green light global tax reform
Is Amazon’s Stock Price Justified? What It Means If It Is (2017)
Yes. It was a good call. They are not immune, and still spread the virus, they just have a lower chance of complications/death. As said in this report.

“The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low” != “children are immune”
There's a difference between scientists doing a study and a politician making something up out of thin air and being right after the fact by chance. Can you figure it out?
You could train one to recognize common patterns, and you could train one to heuristically guess that an algo running on test inputs is looping forever if it takes too long, but actually dividing the world into "loops forever" and "does not" is the Halting Problem, and our solution is guaranteed to either false-positive or false-negative.

(Anecdote: I heard a story once about a college that transitioned from free printing to metered printing, but since the printers didn't support metering, they implemented it by running print jobs in a virtual machine and tallying page count there. It took not very much time for some compsci student to cobble together a script that would augment a Postscript file with an "if my environment is virtual, print one blank page and exit, else..." prefix).
I think the ideal solution would be if it wasn't essentially free to send an email (meaning there is no incentive to not spam). If it cost $0.01 to send an email it would have no impact on normal people and businesses, but it would dramatically reduce the amount of untargeted spam.
"in 10 years, AI will drive most cars". See how that one panned out? Programmers are safe for still quite a while.
> Surely this is better than strip-mining most of the ocean and asia for rare-earth metals for circuitry and/or batteries. (Li-ion ones will be needed at a local (and hyper-local) level to store supply/demand fluctuations from renewables).

I think there's one variety of Li-ion battery that uses some rare earth element (yttrium-modified lithium-iron-phosphate batteries), but most don't, and there are many MANY other battery chemistries being investigated. Li-ion got a jump start from consumer electronics and vehicles, but it's not clear at all that it will win for diurnal grid storage, let alone longer term storage use cases.

Also, rare-earth elements are not "strip mined from the ocean".
Can’t let them go to school, or outside without a mask though. It’s dangerous, ya know.
I bet the coal and oil execs were grinning like Cheshire Cats while eco-radicals laid waste to the prospects of the US nuclear industry in the 1970s.
I use Apple Maps as my primary GPS in my vehicle. I have spent the last few years on the road driving across North America and Google Maps repeatedly made objectively incorrect decisions in rural areas that would take me in quasi-off road situations. After I got frustrated being led astray I started comparing routes on both and found that it seems to be a logic issue for Google Maps, where it would save 5 km of distance and not recognize the unpaved backroads with tons of twists and turns would add significant time. Apple Maps somehow did recognize this.

I only kept Google Maps installed for info on things along a route or opening hours but since then I’ve deleted it and just use Duck Duck Go to do searches, combined with Apple Maps for GPS.

Edit: one more thing: in the city I am from there has been a lot of development. Google is missing a ton of roads in near areas where Apple Maps is not.
Uber Eats keeps sending me a notification on my phone to use the app to order alcohol. But whenever I look at what the stores are offering, the alcohol is always unavailable.
I wasn't applying it to a UK bank.
vs OpenStreepMap
I use Apple Maps when I use maps and haven’t had any issue.

However I generally don’t use any turn by turn instructions until I’m close to a place I haven’t been before.

Haven’t used Google maps since my very first smartphone (probably late 2011) kept trying to send me the wrong way down one way streets in Atlanta.
As far as I know there are no unsolved problems, power2gas could scale to grid scale storage and we have enough room for solar and wind to cover our energy needs. The problems are purely economical right now: power2gas is pretty expensive. So I think it makes sense to ask whether nuclear can realistically beat that. Nuclear is not known to be a particularly cheap source of power either. I defer to people who do more detailed analysis than I can to answer this question.

Meanwhile I think we should just build more wind and solar and electrify as much of our energy demand as we can.
What I want to know is how he explains the skip that will inevitably be in his driveway. English people always look in skips.

Allegedly the neighbours are not to know. Maybe he times skip delivery and collection accordingly.
If he was saying kids are immune, he was wrong then and wrong now. Kids are not immune.
As the old adage says, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Nuclear is grossly uncompetitive even if waste disposal costs are ignored. So I agree waste is a red herring, in the sense that it's a strawman brought up by pro-nuclears as a diversion from nuclear's actual central problem, its economics.
As with everything...the real story more complicated than that.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34102037/
Agree, probably because it's not what people are looking for. Most devs complain they don't have enough control over how a query is executed, they want to be closer to the actual storage, as they think they can do a better job deciding how data should be retrieved than the database engine.

Adding another abstraction layer on top would only increase this frustration, as they'd have even less control.
Man this is awesome.

The music is really sweet too. Its all fuckered up but still on beat and even has a pretty nice pocket to it. Those kicks that happen about every two measure slap
Might have been Live after all. I'm getting that old :)
There are still boomer zombies who hold a weekly anti-nuclear protest in Berkeley. Boomers are notably the biggest generation ever. Public opinion is going to be anti-nuclear until they’re dead and buried. You can’t fix it!
Regarding your first footnote, IQ is assumed to be a normal distribution since that is how it is defined: Measure a factor g of general intelligence, then translate its distribution of values onto a Gaussian distribution with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. Since IQ is a relative measurement against the population, it can be distributed however one likes. That's not to say, though, that absolute intelligence (however one chooses to define it) is necessarily normally distributed.
So what?

Complaining about SQL is the easy part. Actually, it's the first skill most new SQL developers truly master.

I'm waiting for the viable alternative. There are a lot (a LOT) of solutions that handle some cases, but inevitably you need to get into the SQL anyway because that's the DBMS' native API (and now you also need to fight your way through the abstraction, oh and since there are a LOT of solutions a different one is used every chance someone gets, so you need to relearn how to fight through the abstraction all the time).

I doubt it's going to change. There's actually no significant reason. SQL (actually, the set of mutually incompatible SQL variants) is thoroughly entrenched and a small problem... that is, it's rarely the dominant reason a project/product succeeds or fails, or takes too long, or becomes unmaintainable, etc.
Only if that complex process provides any value.

So what is the value of a paper journal over a website? That the pictures look better?

I love how you compare a scientific journal to a cinema. It really brings your point home. But you're wrong: Science isn't entertainment. (I have experienced both NPG and AAAS treat it as if it was, though.)
Yes. In fact, apple’s AirPort Extreme units do that for macs in the house though their zeroconf networking. On sleep, the airport borrows the address and ARPs it. On traffic to that IP, it holds it, sends a special wake packet to the sleeping nic, and then re-sends the packet to with the real MAC, and the waking machine picks it up.
It's mostly fine. But I can't trust it to be up-to-date for business locations and opening hours. Some places (even high-traffic places like McDonalds) are missing, some closed places haven't been removed after months (years?), and opening hours are just as broken. I'll always double check with a Google search. It's been fine for public transport and driving navigation.
We already knew that the mortality rate and hospitalization rate of children was low. Low isn't zero, of course, but it's lower than that of adults and the elderly.

The real question in my mind is the prevalence of Long COVID and other longer lasting changes. Having seen the debilitating effects of post-viral fatigue syndrome (non-COVID, but still very similar) I would caution everyone to do as much as possible to avoid getting illnesses that are known to trigger extended disability like this.

A COVID infection isn't a binary outcome of live or die. There's a lot of potential for lasting damage that isn't fully studied yet, so we need to stop treating the statistics as a simple matter of life or death.

It's also misleading to consider the statistics for children in isolation because children obviously don't live alone in isolation. If kids get a contagious illness, the parents are highly likely to get it. This is especially true for younger children, as any parent will tell you.
That's true if the same mitigations often show up with the same contexts, like the simplistic one in the example. Making a general mitigation-avoiding AI would require it to understand the intention of the code.
The EuGH (European Court of Justice) is already in power to check the EZB. It could also check the software.
Microsoft GitHub Copilot regardless of legality to me is a direct attack on OSS in an EEE manner. It is an abuse of the platform. It should have been opt-in. It pushed me ahead to remove my repos from GitHub over to Gitlab (love that instant import feature), repos will be private by default. I will be deleting my Microsoft accounts too. Already off Windows.

I also think the software development community should consider poisoning the well, even if it’s already legally poisoned.
Timber buildings sequester carbon naturally. Transitioning from cement and steel to timber could take hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200127134828.h...
Why should the users be forced to do extra work in order for Github to do their commercialization "correctly"?

This is something Github/Microsoft started, something that only really benefits Github/Microsoft and that they were doing lackadaisical from the start by ignoring licenses.
I run just plex and pi hole. Money I save with plex that I don’t need a million different services and having no ads at home is well worth the price.
One day my friends went out and I couldn’t go. They got all drunk and shared how much they rely on my plex and by the time I woke up I had close to $1k in PayPal and a note that said “for an upgrade and your time” so honestly I probably making out on the deal. Went from a haswell pentium to a ninth gen i3. 8 gigs to 16. SSD for the root drive. 8 TB staging server before going to google drive.
$20 a month for unlimited google drive is way more than the power to run the server. But I have about 80TB on there. Can’t store that for less than $20 a month no matter how you slice it.
From Digital Capitalism to Acid Communism [audio]
Can be summarized by the quote they give

> Social connections are a basic human need… Being an introvert doesn't mean you don't want to socialise at all - Danièle Gubler and Katja Schlegel
Article doesn't speak for me.

You extroverts will never drag me into an office again.
It seems to me that we have two options:

1. Nuclear, an up-front expensive but proven reliable way to deliver no-carbon energy at civilization scale (cf. France).

2. Renewables, which are cheap upfront, but plans for scaling them up to deliver reliable power at civilization scale are currently dinner party ideas scrawled on the back of a napkin.

It's not clear to me that we have a blowout winner here, and we should probably be hedging our bets by developing all viable options simultaneously.
Quote from the work done to fact check if we need Nuclear:

Most experts FactCheck.org contacted, including those who think nuclear power should remain an option, said that from a technical perspective, nuclear is not needed to decarbonize the grid.

But technically possible is not the same as practically feasible, or the most cost-effective. In that regard, many, although not all, researchers say nuclear — or something like it — is likely to be necessary to some degree. And even if nuclear is ultimately not needed, they say, the safer strategy is not to exclude it.

Here is the article: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/what-does-science-say-abou...
As you point out elsewhere, there's a human in the loop. Though the Halting Problem applies to human minds as well, they likely won't have any difficulty identifying useless code the ML doesn't pick up and adding it to the training set.