skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this in the mid-2000s, but the landscape has changed drastically since then in two ways: 1) solar wind and storage are decreasing in cost exponentially, and have crossed the inflection point where solar+storage is a firm energy source cheaper than building new fossil fuel infrastructure, and definitely cheaper than nuclear. 2) Attempts at building nuclear in the West over the past decade have revealed that our economic strengths no longer mean that nuclear construction is efficient or even reliably able to be completed. Since the 1970s, economic productivity overall has soared, but our construction productivity has barely improved. So, large construction projects that might have made sense in the 1970s are no longer economically efficient.

Nuclear has proven to be very unreliable to build due to massive complexity compounded by the need for extreme accuracy in construction, since we don't want to need to go in to fix core components after they've been turned on. This is precisely what advanced economies are not good at.
For Go, we get compilation error

./prog.go:8:129: invalid operation: 167.864 % 3 (operator % not defined on untyped float)
More importantly, water does not diffuse through metal vessels.
And at the same time the US enters deal with the Taliban for them to protect an oil pipeline.

Everyone, including the US, assumes the Taliban will rule all of Afghanistan within months.
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> this boy
> The company says the weapon is “capable of accelerating any ferromagnetic projectile (under 1/2″ in diameter) to 200+ fps [feet per second]” and can produce up to 100 Joules of force, or 75 foot-pounds, similar to the muzzle energy of some .22 rifles,

This is cool but its not up to proper potato gun standards of dangerous unless you lick the capacitor terminals, is it? do they have a "shock stick" adapter kit?
Aren't they in the process of recalling some of that money?
Oh wow, cool! Thanks for the lead.
America's withdrawal is, in my view, an inevitable conclusion and the best out of many bad options. However, let's not pretend that the Taliban represent many or most Afghans. Their return to power is a tragedy. The atrocities they have committed before and are sure to commit again do not deserve applause.

>But in 2019, a response to the same survey found that only 13.4 percent of Afghans had sympathy for the Taliban [PDF]. As intra-Afghan peace talks stalled in early 2021, an overwhelming majority surveyed said it was important to protect [PDF] women’s rights, freedom of speech, and the current constitution. Around 44 percent of Afghans surveyed said they believed that Afghanistan could achieve peace in the next two years.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/taliban-afghanistan
You can pretty much auto-repost that in every thread that mentions renewables.
Those companies can definitely be challenged in courts. But they also have rights, including things like freedom of speech and freedom of association, which is why they win when challenged on this. Why do you think a former president and claimed billionaire should have special rights to their property?
Yes, however, there is little practical advantage in this, if nobody knows about it and so nobody turns it off.
Maybe it'll make for good television in 10 years?
> We just were keeping them out of a few urban areas.

How is that not containment if they can’t take major areas?
Maybe it is by design.

Leave an unstable nation filled with weapons at the doorstep of China and Russia.
Easy one uses an external Assembler like in the good old days when inline Assembly wasn't a feature one could rely on.
This bug only affects HTTPS basic auth, given that the issue is with SNI (and, of course, that basic auth over HTTP doesn’t have any encryption to leak around).
I recently inherited an R codebase at work. It was not fun understanding it, and trying to hunt down docs to explain some of the functions was a much worse experience than it is with Pandas[1]. So I did the sane thing: I figured it all out and rewrote it in Pandas.

[1] I have never failed to find an answer for Pandas on SO for even the most convoluted manipulations I'm attempting. The first hit I look at usually has my answer.
Cheap fossil fuels tend to create demand in the form of less efficient energy use. After all, energy efficiency costs money.

If you look at periods of cheap gas they typically lead to more use of flights, bigger and less efficient cars, and a reduction in alternative investments.

Compare the cars from the 70s oil shock like the VW Golf with the SUVs of the 90s.
Because no “static” site is really static these days?
Speaking of George Carlin, he also made a bit on homelessness and came to the same conclusion the article did: https://youtu.be/lncLOEqc9Rw?t=202
"The tool, called mediKanren, scanned millions of biomedical abstracts hunting for relationships between existing compounds and the gene involved in the disease."

Is this AI or someone put the effort into compiling a database and added automatic search function?
it might be a weight constrain?
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> I submit the utility of crypto in coins is zero but the blockchain might be marginally above zero.

I disagree. If blockchain had such amazing utility we'd be seeing it successfully applied in different technology sectors, but it isn't despite how long it's been around. It's just a glorified database. In fact, I don't think a blockchain is worthy of any praise without crypto which allows individuals to transact on new basis of trust. This is the innovation, not blockchain.
https://www.ventusky.com/ is another cool visualization of temperature, wind, smoke, etc.
Pandas is great.

One funny thing, it's only in the Python world that C is a defined speed. When we implement libraries in actual C, C++, Rust etc, we benchmark and compare different libraries, they can have wildly different performance - depending on you know, work put into them. But Python is just a two-speed world: Python or C ;-)
> I believe that lack of habit formation is a big part of at least some ADHD cases.

Definitely a significant part of my case. Until I started using a smart watch to walk me through morning and night routines, I had no routines. I generally don’t have regular habits which makes maintaining basic life stuff difficult at times.
At least one person here is exploring an idea and trying to learn. I don’t get how that makes a person “full of shit”
I recently read a really good book about habits[1]. I really liked how he described the benefit of habits, where essentially your brain can fully offload the effort of thinking when you're performing one like tying your shoes.

One of the big takeaways from it for me was how its more difficult to break a habit than to "reprogram it". He does this by describing the three steps of the habit loop, the cue, action, and reward. To save you having to read the whole book I think this article does a good job of distilling the essentials[2], though the book was still a really interesting read if you have the time.

[1] https://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/

[2] https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/habit-loop
And - and this is often underestimated - it's fast. Hydro can spin up in an extremely short time, dealing with fluctuating demand in on the order of seconds. A typical example is everybody hitting the kettle/coffeemaker during rest time in an international soccer match. That is a noticeable increase in load and hydro can cover that without even trying hard, whereas for nuclear or coal there is no way that they could compensate for such a surge so quickly so unless you have some hydro to back you up you'd need to run those plants at well above the current load to be able to catch the spike without a problem.
I believe that scenario totally depends upon OPEC's ability to keep prices artificially high by limiting production of its vast supplies of oil.

I remember a few short years ago when fracking was dominating the news about oil supply all the talk from the Middle East producers were about just that...limiting production in order to "break the backs" of all the American wildcat frackers,

I guess with a President in office who seems to want prices to go through the roof, its much easier for them to do just that.
How to be a core blockchain developer
I would like to become a core blockchain developer. I have been learning Go to build a simple blockchain. However i want to know if there are any resources that i could use to improve my skills.

I hope to be able to code a protocol out and deploy it onto a network.
Even when it wins the benchmark games, it isn't relevant for many businesses.

There is a budget to be fulfilled for project delivery acceptance, going beyond that is wasted money.
Web's responsive design doesn't make it unique. Desktop has always had it
you misspelled 14 https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-350_super_duty?engineconfi...

and 2x worse https://www.fuelly.com/car/subaru/wrx
Thousands flee as Dixie Fire becomes third-largest blaze in California’s history
It's also very easy to write Nim, the syntax has been compared to Python.
This is an awesome resource for anyone who finds and wants to fix up a classic Macintosh.
If wikipedia is to be believed, there are something like 60K Taliban. Out of a country of over 30 million. It's pretty easy to recruit that small of a force from that large of a population. What seems more noteworthy is that the Afghan military can't seem to defend effectively against them even with 3x the personnel.
You have to follow the petro playbook and also destroy the supply chain. Buy infra and repurpose it or cause unrecoverable shocks in their operations.

http://www.verdant.net/natlcity.htm
I'm with you. I've been saying "gas is too cheap", half joking, for years. That's just based off of watching people's use of their vehicles, having not the slightest concern for gasoline cost. It's not even considered in the list of tradeoffs when making plans.

I think it should be expensive enough so that at least a median income person making a completely frivolous trip stops for half a second to consider the cost.

I'm sure it's more complicated than that. Lower income folks who have less of a choice, for example. A real policy would take some work.
Some of the HTTP/2 and HTTP3 design choices are seen as trying to solve this problem another way.

If a round trip to New York is too long, then twenty of them is way worse. So I can either do 20 round trips to Nevada, which does <20 round trips to Chicago, which does <<20 round trips to New York. Or, I can do some more cleverness with transport and session bootstrapping and end up with 14 round trips to New York.
Our government put more effort into stopping poor people from having affordable vehicles than preventing the Taliban from getting military vehicles[1]. See engine disablement section, basically just replace oil with salt water.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
If you live in a truly walkable city you don't need a yard because there's parks. You also don't feel crammed because it's walkable and spend time walking around as opposed to a small yard or no yard where your options are to be inside or drive somewhere. And you don't need a larger house if there's a more appealing outside. Ayooooo these issues go away for most people when you introduce real walkable cities
European and Asian prices, from the chart in the article. Seems like US is cheaper.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy/natural-gas/dutch-tt...
To get prices low, you need to have demand lower than supply. If you want actual consumption to be low also, that means absolute demand has to go down to a tiny fraction of what it is now. It seems to me the only to achieve that is actual regulation - prohibit the use of fossil fuel.
pay wall, where are they fleeing from?
Reminds me of minikanren and I think this may be related
Go to Utah sometime.
I’d like to have a comparison of workspace ambience as decades flow by. The difference between 1970s office and 1990s and now. That kind of thing. Would make a nice movie.
Sure it does, @import expects a text file that is then parsed into a struct like data structure.

I expect a proper binary module, with native code and symbol table.
We started construction of the next generation of nuclear around ~2008, and it was a gamble that has failed miserably. In the US, VC Summer was a disaster that was abandoned after many billions were wasted. Vogtle chugs along, with continual cost increases and delays, with no end in sight. At $30B estimated for Vogtle's two reactors, it is clear that no US utility will be foolish enough to embark down this path again. Europe is in the same boat with the EPR's construction failures, and it is quite clear that their gamble did not pay off.

Which is why people are talking about modular nuclear reactors now, rather than large GW reactors. The industry had rejected modular reactors in the past as inherently more expensive than large GW reactors, but the difficult of constructing GW scale reactors has led them to try something smaller.

Will modular reactors succeed? Who knows! We will see. But it is definitely a gamble.
That's how good doctors have done it as far back as I can remember. If the person you're seeing isn't involving you in the process and trying to get the whole picture, you should try a different doctor. You don't have to stick with a doctor just because they're the closest or the one you happened to choose first.
I'm a heavy LaTeX user, but LaTeX manages to be simultaneously amazing and completely insane.

Let's get started with some negatives (the positive are well known):

- Recompilations needed. Can be mitigated by latexmk, but still.

- Choice of latex, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex ... and documents compiled with one may or may not compile with another

- packages that are incompatible with each other in odd ways

- when you encounter an error you have to enter "X". if you're using latexmk, you have to enter "X" multiple times

- math commands are not structure-based but presentation based, despite LaTeX's (otherwise well executed) posturing of separating content from styling. If you want to change the alignment of your equations or the size of the integrals sign or just slightly tweak the appearance of the | sign in {x^2 | x € R }, be prepared for a lot of rewriting (some of this can be alleviated by defining new commands, but I don't know how many people actually do that)

- Math LaTeX input is basically unparseable in the sense that it is not really possible to take some latex math code and convert it into some actual meaningful structure (this is a corollary of the above point). Given the ubiquity of LaTeX-style math even in a range of other contexts (e.g. KaTeX), this is a bit of an issue. It's possible to do a best effort implementation that sort-of works, but it's always gonna come up short

- Error messages: "Missing $", thanks

- Outdated defaults. Unicode should just work by default.

I think I could go on, but you get the point.
This question is answered in the article and I guarantee you, most STEM specialities will never discuss this particular problem.

Anyways, the TL;DR is all those cables weigh a lot, so launching them in to space isn’t cheap.
Fair, in those situations I think FOSS / darknet solutions increasingly will be the only way to have true privacy.
I didn't think that was what it's about... Because that didn't even occur to me. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Well I think there are cultural differences and that Europe is not the only acceptable model.

Both america and Canada are bigger and wilder than Europe. Cars are nice and a necessity to live in both countries. The neighborhood here is a good example of a walkable neighborhood that is also uniquely north American. That's okay. We don't need to replicate Europe when we have perfectly good, culturally appropriate models here.

The neighborhood here is exactly like my neighborhoods. It's lovely. I don't need to have old town Prague levels of walkability to be happy. Quite the opposite, where I am is perfect
The article doesn’t mention flooding or extra rainfall.

Edit: blah sorry it mentions flooding. not rainfall, but flooding.
How does that stop existing CSAM from circulating?
In particular, in the era before SNI support was widespread, your bulk host would charge extra to give you a dedicated IP address so that your HTTPS site worked. It's still an option at some bulk hosts today, you can have free HTTPS that works fine in every browser anybody actually uses or you can pay a few bucks extra so that it also works with the archaic system that one customer never updates.
While the entry price for luxury watches is lower than it is for luxury cars, I see a fair amount of Pateks and APs that go for at least $100,000. There are many more exclusive models and companies that I know next to nothing about that are significantly more expensive, but you can get a sense of the wider market here: https://www.hodinkee.com/packages/all-the-new-watches-of-202.... And yes, I agree that the utility of a car far outweighs that of a mechanical watch. It's also why I believe that paying $150,000 for a fancy master's degree at a world-famous school is a pretty sweet deal for the wealthy and vain.
So is it regulatory capture, trying to squeeze out competition?
Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Apple have scanned data stored on their servers for CSAM for over a decade already. The difference is that Apple is moving the scan on-device. Has there been any report of even a single person who's been a victim of a PhotoDNA false positive in those ten years? I'm not trying to wave away the concerns about on-device privacy, but I'd want evidence that a such significant scale of wrongful conviction is plausible as a result of Apple's change.

I can believe that a couple of false positives would inevitably occur assuming Apple has good intentions (which is not a given), but I'm not seeing how thousands could be wrongfully prosecuted unless Apple weren't using the system like they state they will. At least in the US, I'm not seeing how a conviction can be made on the basis of a perceptual hash alone without the actual CSAM. The courts would still need the actual evidence to prosecute people. Getting people arrested on a doctored meme that causes a hash collision would at most waste the court's time, and it would only damage the credibility of perceptual hashing systems in future cases. Also, thousands of PhotoDNA false positives being reported in public court cases would only cause Apple's reputation to collapse. They seem to have enough confidence that such an extreme false positive rate is not possible to the point of implementing this change. And I don't see how just moving the hashing workload to the device fundamentally changes the actual hashing mechanism and increases the chance of wrongful conviction over the current status quo of serverside scanning (assuming that it only applies to images uploaded to iCloud, which could change of course). The proper time to be outraged at the wrongful conviction problem was ten years ago, when the major tech companies started to adopt PhotoDNA.

On the other hand, if we're talking about what the CCP might do, I would completely agree.
Same in the us
Well, cables are going to be cheaper at some distance and power beaming will be cheaper at a greater distance, and the question is, where's the crossover.
That picture wouldn't already be in the CSAM database...
I’d venture that there are plenty of conservative folks who want to help the poor, at least in the Christian communities. Maybe not so much in the libertarian contingent.
You should do a little research, we're taking about natural gas not gasoline. The supply, demand and price are only loosely connected and nobody drives an F350 powered by natural gas.

Natural gas predominately displaces coal, so you must really hate the earth.
The article mentioned why very quickly while discussing building multiple solar farms so that at least some aren't in shadow at the same time: sending enough cable up on rockets to connect all of them would be more expensive than the "expensive, complicated and inefficient solutions".
Remember when oil futures went negative? I wonder what kind of clickbait they can use:

"US oil prices have surged more than <infinity>% from a record low in April 2020 due to the pandemic".
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Personally, I think the most viable long term option would be to build solar farms with 120 degrees separation on the moon's circumference so you'd always have a fairly constant amount of solar power generation & run a HVDC grid. From what I can make out, a 1000 Amps capable Aluminum Composite core power cable seems to weigh about 500kg per km [1](I may be mistaken here, happy to be corrected). Moon's circumference is about 10000 km & so you'd need about 7000km of cabling or about 3500 tons. That's only about 20-40 Starship trips to transport the cables itself. Maybe with some minimal cladding (no rain/ice etc on moon), it could possibly even be laid or
buried on the ground vs. requiring pylons. Once the solar panels are installed, there's little maintenance needed compared to earth (dust) and you could progressively add over time.

[1] https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/480556O/3mtm-accr-techni...
But instead of having X ways of using the [] operator, it would be almost just as convenient if that were actual named functions. Then the editor could understand whats going on, one could jump to definitions, look up stuff, more easily actually learn that it's possible to do etc.

I feel Notebooks aren't used as much because they're a great tool, but that they are used so much as a necessity since you need to look at live data to have any hopes of understanding what's going on. Why couldn't a compiler instead tell me what I'm trying to do will fail?
Eh - I knew Arab students who couldn't get their visa renewed for some years after Sep 11. They were involved in antiwar protests, etc. The fact that the US put many of its own anti-war activists on no-fly lists despite not having any evidence they were threats makes this pretty easy to believe.
The better solution would be to perform that job from home rather than to drive something smaller or use public transport. Our addiction to insane levels of mobility is one of our biggest problems.
It still feels like I have to read between the lines.

What are you trying to say when you claim that (climate) models produce what you are comfortable with?
It's desirable only because they don't build the outer burbs this way. As you drive out of the city, the time of building gets later and later. When you hit some point where the homes were built in the 60s, suddenly the walkable neighborhoods, which were the standard before then, make way for huge, sidewalkless developments.

If they just built more of the commenters neighborhood, and my neighborhood, there would be more desirable land.

Portland is not running out of land...
So my takeaway from this is that the trade in LNG is going to expand. Good news for US natural gas producers. This price differential is not sustainable given the ability to ship LNG.
The alternatives aren't ready yet though, except maybe nuclear. And in the US, natural gas is still the only readily available means of heating and other buildings. And even when alternatives appear, even with subsidies most people won't replace their existing systems until the old ones wear out, unless prices increase so dramatically that people can't afford to pay the gas bill. And if that happens, we could see more poor people freezing to death in the winter because they can't afford to heat their homes.

And then there is the wider impact on the economy, if this causes sustained high inflation that could further increase wealth inequality.

My hope is that this leads to harvesting more methane (natural gas) from cattle waste and similar sources.