skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is not feasible to construct in the modern world. France has been trying, and failing miserably.

I'm begging that anybody who believes that nuclear is possible to construct today, to look at any of the many places where it has been attempted: any of the French EPR or the AP1000s in the US. It has been abandoned by all, except for a few startups working on small modular reactors. These had been avoided in the past because it was thought they could never be as economical as the large reactors that we can't construct today.

And even before that, nuclear was abandoned in the US not because of TMI or Chernobyl, but because it had been a financial and managerial disaster:

https://blowhardwindbag.blogspot.com/2011/04/forbes-article-...

Further, if France was such a success, what are the costs of their build? And why did they stop at only about a third of the planned number of reactors?
Appreciate the thoughtful response!

Lots of web work, Google docs, Slack, Zoom. When I bought my 16" MBP it was an upgrade from MBA sucking at Zoom and just not wanting to deal with it. It was also to do video editing - but that's no longer needed. I've grown used to the big size, but have used 12"-13" screens forever so going back isn't a big hit.

Checking out the X1 Extreme now. Realizing the trackpad with buttons above and the red nub is not my style so I can take them off my list.
Long time ago.

Running Fedora on my Thinkpad after having switched away from macOS/Mac Air's. I paid €450 and it's 2x faster with 3x better SW, compared to my €2500 air.
No.

If D had unlimited access to C code at CTFE then maybe you could implement refinement types at compile time as a library but for now you are stuck with what Walter has posted. I implemented a sketch of the API for this ages ago but the actual type checking had to be done at module load time because was of aforementioned (justified) restrictions to CTFE

Dependant types are a whole other monster.
>The reason things like HTS coil winding are moving so slowly to scale up is because there is no market for it. How could anyone invest in something with no return?

This seems like an odd question. You seriously don't think people invest in businesses with no profits, or even revenue? In 2021? One of the financial trends recently has been investing in blank check companies that don't even have a business let alone revenue or profits. Also the biggest investing celebrity recently, Cathie Wood, is known for buying "innovative" companies based on their far future prospects, and has reaped spectacular returns so far.

There's a joke about two economists, where one of them sees a twenty dollar bill on the ground and says so, and the other says, "can't be, someone would've picked it up already".

Practical fusion power is like a multitrillion dollar bill on the ground and it needs some really creative explanation why it wouldn't be picked up.
Good commentary here.

Would like to read your thoughts about btc as store of value with minimal storage costs and does not corrode.
I'd look at subsidising 'desirable' small businesses for towns. Take a normal country town and prop up a little wine bar, grocery, couple of non-chain restaurants. Attract younger, remote workers and then eventually there'd be enough going on that the small businesses would survive on their own, and more would be naturally created.

Even a coordinated national program like this: https://renewadelaide.com.au/grow/
Here's one such promising project: https://lppfusion.com/technology/fusion-energy-generator/

"Dense Plasma Focus device with aneutronic hydrogen-boron (pB11) fuel"
Accept payments for what though? Considering Palantir's business model and clientele they may have some ulterior motives in their eagerness to accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment. Peter Thiele has no problem with 'black swan events' as long as it benefits him.
>> Although many Californians think that population growth is the main driver of water demand statewide, it actually is agriculture. In an average year, farmers use 80 percent of the water consumed by people and businesses — 34 million of 43 million acre-feet diverted from rivers, lakes and groundwater, according to the state Department of Water Resources

I feel that whenever people bring up that fact, there's an implicit point that water problems should be solved by reducing agriculture, but doesn't California's agriculture industry produce a huge fraction of the high-value fruit and vegetables that people eat?
I am a math major and I am learning GR by myself right now. For GR, you need tensors (among many other things), and as a result I have gone through SEVERAL tutorials, books, videos etc.

There is ONE main thing I find lacking in all of these sources: computational examples/exercises.

My idea of a "gentle introduction to tensors" would be: motivation, definition and then immediately followed by computational problems (lots of them). Only then I would be comfortable with abstract definitions and proofs (which is my goal ultimately).

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oeWX3NUhMA&list=PLFeEvEPtX_... is the most amazing lecture on Tensors I have watched so far, by far!
Just tried a switch statement, didnt desugar into functions. Maybe you haven’t been keeping up with the latest.
Why High-Tech Companies Choose to Outsource
It reminds me an old vulnerability on Mac OS X, where you could nicely ask a root deamon to execute some commands for you through the AppleScript API :

osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'
Fetching GitHub Stargazers with SQL
> It's only been a few days...

No, don't quit. This is the perfect opportunity to immediately learn a critical way to be happy in your career - develop open communications with your boss. That is the best way to make sure that your roles stay on track with your goals and desires. If you talk, and have a good boss, they will help you out. If you talk and they are unsupportive, then you quit and find a better boss. Choosing your bosses drives much more satisfaction in the long run than almost any other factor of your work.
Dr. Nashlie H. Sephus $25M Plan to Turn 12 Abandoned Acres in Mississippi
Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
Yes! This is what I wanted to do at first. VERY open to this if there's a way.

However, the 2019 16" Macbook Pro cannot run Linux well. This Github repo seems like the best attempt to make it work -- but even Wi-Fi doesn't work!

https://gist.github.com/gbrow004/096f845c8fe8d03ef9009fbb87b...

As far as I can tell that's the latest but maybe I misunderstood. Open to ideas!!

If anyone here has the 16" MBP running Linux of any sort -- please let me know! Heck I would even pay for a solution.

Edit: this seems promising? https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/lwqm19/linu...
Different poster, but I believe that freedom of speech not just does, but must come with freedom from consequences to be at all meaningful. Of course, there is nowhere that actually has that level of freedom of speech, but seen as a spectrum it makes sense.

Freedom of speech is freedom from consequences:

- of government reprisals

- of corporate reprisals

- of criminal reprisals

- of employment risks

- of relationship risks.

Pick and choose which matter to you. To me, freedom of speech applies to all, but other rights such as freedom of association sometimes override it. (And sometimes not.)
Why does that involve accepting payments in Bitcoin instead of accepting payments in fiat and converting some amount of their choosing to Bitcoin after the payment has gone through?
If he reads HackerNews and is looking at our responses, I hope he sees mine.

He needs a vacation. Right now. Like, no computer, somewhere elsewhere.

That’s the kind of response I’ve seen at work when covid is getting everyone angry and hateful.

There’s nothing helpful in it, it’s attacking, and frankly, he needs to go read it later and think about what he’s said from another person’s perspective, especially a person with any sort of disability. He claims “30 years IT experience” and yet seems to have never worked with a 70 year old and a computer. Even their mouse movement is shaken.
I don't mind Proton..
I’m inclined to agree. I think by the time destroying evidence makes sense we’re already talking about a precinct burning (in which case the fire will do it anyways), or a revolution (in which case it doesn’t matter). Maybe there are some other cases out there, but it seems a bit silly imho.

Either way, it’s pretty clear that Precinct 2 never got anywhere close to such a convoluted hypothetical. That leaves the question why they did it, to which I believe the Roman jurors said it best: cui bono?
Thanks for the solid article.

Definitely interested in understanding end user benefit of the distributed database given one of purposes of library is to hide write latency and there needs to be coordination for every write.
The argument you are addressing is a strawman. Nobody claimed that anal sex is limited only to sex between men. Anal sex is, however, far more common in frequency among homosexual men than between heterosexual couples, and significantly increases the risk of HIV transmission compared to vaginal sex, therefore it is a risk factor that is strongly correlated with sexual orientation.
Facebook Is Helping Militias Spread Vaccine Disinformation
I wish I could turn my Yahoo spam filter off.
If you want to go on more than feelings, then look at the data. Floating wind is falling cost all the time. Nuclear's cost is going up all the time.

"Feelings" are the only reason people think nuclear is possible. Those that have been trying it in the past decade have shown it to not be competitive.

Usually HN is good at thinking like engineers, but for some reason nuclear seems to get very little critical thought, and renewables get very little consideration for their actual reality.

There is not a carbon-free grid model out there that uses nuclear except as a tiny tiny fraction of grid power. Literally none!! Yet somehow comments about needing to build lots of nuclear get treated as serious statements that could hold some water. Nuclear will not be the backbone of any future grid for at least 50 years, and most likely never again in human history.
CDC.gov – No safety data available on Covid vaccines with autoimmune conditions
I can't see how you read this article that way. For example, how do you read this section?

> A quick scan of the institutions that publish most frequently and influentially about disinformation: Harvard University, the New York Times, Stanford University, MIT, NBC, the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. That the most prestigious liberal institutions of the pre-digital age are the most invested in fighting disinformation reveals a lot about what they stand to lose, or hope to regain.
[...] However well-intentioned these professionals are, they don’t have special access to the fabric of reality.

To me, the author is being clear: the "big disinfo" institutions which are claiming that disinformation is a huge problem are overwhelmingly on the left, and they are scrounging for scraps of evidence. The author seems deeply skeptical in an interesting way.
Luckily, we don't have to guess based on what is conceivable. The US government keeps statistics on this.

Even since 1985, the rate of both workplace injuries [1] and fatalities [2] have fallen significantly. (the fatality graph doesn't go all the way back to 1985, but if you look at the source data they cite, the trend continues)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/images/laborfo...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/images/laborfo...
> This doesn't sound right. The pipeline would be longer than the Alaska Pipeline, but carry a commodity that retails for 3 2-3 cents per gallon, not $3.50.

That's a gasoline price, but don't they typically pump crude through pipelines? So more like $1.50 a gallon, based on my calculations.

I suppose if they built such a pipeline, they'd have to charge a lot more than 2-3 a gallon for the water. Though as a project, it seems less ambitious than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran....

Edit: I wonder if this was the (defunct) North American plan that was being referred to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power....
Not even Musk has spent money on a 10 minutes of wasteful trip to space, why should NASA give any money to Bezos? If he wants to set up Amazon Prime on the moon, use his own money to do it.
Example, in North Dakota where you can get a union Costco job for 18$+/hr (or chick fila for 17/hr) there are plenty of places (including hospitals) offering 15$/hr and they can't find people to fill the slots. Your dog grooming is paying 11$/hr? That's just another business going bust.

Businesses who were on a shoestring fail and yuppies continue to move in. The regional+national inflation has simply left large chunks of business in the dust without very cheap (immigrant) labor. This causes the makeshift infrastructure to weaken and the communities start to come apart.
A Ton of Analysis in the Blink of an Eye
I was curious so I checked. US population grows about .5% per year and in the trailing 12 months to date new residential housing stock has increased around 1%.
If you notice the rows/columns have disappeared then you can undo the action.
Not sure - I think federation and defederation is the wrong approach. I think a network should decouple routing and moderation, and make both independently subscribable.
Seems like distributing power at low voltages, whether DC or AC will result in lower efficiency so it seems like using low voltage DC for higher efficiency distribution is a bit of a wash. It’s likely AC conversion efficiency will increase over time anyway.
> zstd has good enough compression ratio

I never understood zstd. It's basically lzma+gzip+lz4 packed together. Show me any zstd level that has significantly different speed and data size than one of the levels of those three can't match.
Thanks! That's what I would order as well if they were in stock.

Did you buy the base RAM/Hd and upgrade yourself or did you have them configure it?
Are you using an old version? Skype was good once but has gotten buggier and more bloated with each new release.

> Second, the few times I’ve used Zoom it’s been absolutely garbage, with video and sound dropping or just not there (this was a university paying for Zoom’s services).

Yeah that absolutely sounds like bizzaro world. Zoom somehow works a lot better than anything else, IME. (I wish it didn't, there are many things I don't like about it)
My property tax doubled. Good produce, meat, and fuel prices keep rising.

The 99 cent Hagen Dazs mini tiny ice cream cups in grocery freezer were 99 cents. Two weeks ago that changed to 2.49, though currently on sale for $2.29. I suppose the cups are so small they couldn't play the shrinkflation game.
No, it’s that commuting is only part of why most people need cars. But a) this only addresses commuting, and b) many people have no housing options that would allow them to eliminate commuting.

My point is that I’ve seen many highly upvoted comments on HN lately (this one included) that seem to think living near work would put a dent in the climate change problem, when the data suggests this isn’t the case.

Many people on HN either live — or if they could afford it, would live — near work allowing them to go car-less, and therefore assume most of the world is like that, when, in fact, most of the world could not go car-less in their current job/residence.
Scrum-ptious (when a scrum goes really well)
1. Russian population is smaller than US (much smaller than population of all NATO countries).

2. Most people in Russia do not speak English or do it poorly. Russian accent is very hard to hide even in writing. E.g. we don't have articles in our language, the whole concept of article is so foreign to us, that I, for example, just put them randomly, because even after years I can't understand why and where to use them. So it's easy to spot Russian comments.

3. There wasn't a single proof that Russia meddled in US elections, not even indirect evidence. It's mostly a bombardment of US media: "Russians did it" (and 100500 pages of gibberish without a single piece of evidence). Though there were no proofs, most people read only headlines and start to assume there was actual evidence. There wasn't any.

Also, I don't understand why would Russia support Trump. Any US politic hates Russia the same, be it democrat or republican. US is a fascist state waging fascist wars over resources (Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria) that hates almost all the world because it considers itself a chosen nation and all the rest are savage nations. US inherently hates Russia. Always hated - read newspapers from 19th and early 20th century - the hatred was already there. Always will hate (just read comments under any news on Reddit /r/worldnews - many commenters say that Russia should be nuked, that Russians should be killed, etc).

Why would we care to elect Trump? Did he do anything good for Russia? No.

Actually, he appears to be a sane person unlike, e.g. Biden, so in our interest would be to elect a leader with dementia instead.
Combine the advantages of a monorepo with those of multirepo
LEDs are usually current-controlled, not voltage controlled.

You might have several LEDs in series and they might very well have a voltage drop across all of them of 24V or even much higher when maintaining an operational amount of current.
Do you have a figure for price per gallon? It might be interesting to do a cost benefit analysis between desalination and the water pipeline from Canada mentioned elsewhere in the comments.
This paper is weirdly similar to one I wrote for #NeurIPS's "I Can't Believe It's Not Better!" Workshop. Had I not been constrained by the structure and rules of the workshop, I would have pretty much written this exact paper. The title is even quite close to "Pitfalls in Machine Learning Research: Reexamining the Development Cycle."

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v137/biderman20a/biderman20a.pd...
We had a horrendous experience with on-prem during my last tenure. A lot of it came from lack of support and performance improvements. Atlassian has its way to strong arm it’s biggest customers into paying more or throwing in sub processors in the mix. At some point we had IT, Dev Ops and Engineering consultants trying to get our workflows running.

Eventually we caved and pushed their account execs to support a “secure” private cloud that passed our IT teams compliance criteria. Fun times!
If we're talking about nearly anywhere else in the world, American culture dominates. If you're talking about influences on America, Japanese culture has had (and continues to have) a much bigger impact.

I just don't see Chinese media "popping up everywhere." Chinese media is poorly translated or culturally impenetrable to Western audiences. I say this as someone reading a Cixin Liu book right now and really enjoying it - even so I recognize that it's niche and the translation is rough. I don't think I've ever seen a Chinese movie and I can think of exactly one Chinese pop song that got popular in recent years (made by a Chinese-American in America, of course). America created or popularized rap, hip-hop, country, most pop music, esports, and many regular sports. American companies made Digg, Myspace, Napster, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitter, and a plethora of other popular apps and products.

But because China made TikTok/Douyin/Genshin it's suddenly "China's century"? TikTok is a Vine clone. Genshin's artstyle, stories, and game mechanics are ripped straight from Japanese games. The genre of gatcha is Japanese!
> The setup in built atop a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc 7542 processors coupled with 1TB of RAM, running Ubuntu 20.04 on top of a pair of solid-state disks (SSD) of unspecified size.

Wow.
Golden opportunity to deepen reservoirs during the drought, but instead one was closed and drained for seismic refit which could take a decade.
https://www.valleywater.org/project-updates/2012-c1-anderson...
Ask HN: Where to find other people to work on collaborative projects with you?
so I'm wondering if this is something that the HN community wonders about: If you were interested in doing a project (personal or otherwise), where do you go to find others who might be interested in discussing it together? Is this something you find difficult?

Some examples I can think of:

- you're interested in working in area X, but have little experience in it (say, edtech). Are there open projects that you can join to learn more?

- you're interested in doing a niche project (say, translating the Iliad). On the internet, there might be someone who's interested, but where do you find them?

- etc

Any personal experiences welcome :) Thanks yall
You casually and 100% evidence-free suggest “hacker news” is ground zero for pushing Russian disinformation. Nyet comrade! This is not how reasoning, evidence, and facts work. One should trivially and casually dismiss your theory as quickly as it was cast.

With respect to your other boogie men: these have been litigated extensively in the public space as de minimus. Yet you casually conjure demons from ether.

Are you surprised that few find your method of argumentation or reasoning persuasive?
Either way, you'll accomplish nothing.
Moral entrepreneurs have flooded workplaces with memes that enable petty tyrants to bully people in a way that is difficult and unrewarding to fight back against.
You're not going to put ~600W through a USB-C cable.
I'd go for 48VDC.

12V would need some fat wiring to avoid incurring voltage drops for normal amounts of loads.

48V is nice because you can use much thinner wiring, and it's about the highest "safe" voltage to accidentally touch with normal dry skin.
China certainly loves resources, but transporting them from west to east is going to be expensive. It's probably cheaper to get them elsewhere and send them by sea.

Unless they think developing the resources and transportation will keep any trouble from crossing their borders.

I think it would be beneficial for the Afghans, assuming it wasn't too exploitive, more access to trade is usually a good thing, and exporting resources would generate net income.
I'm sure there are legitimate reasons for not releasing the model, but it would've been a huge boon for the community :(.
I think the point is that API isn't just used for HTTP and your title assumes HTTP API
There are people that wire up their entire homes with Anderson Powerpoles for DC everywhere. There's also PoE. The non-nerd's option is 12V cigarette lighter plugs, 5V USB-A plugs or USB-C. Hackaday had an article on this topic a while back: https://hackaday.com/2016/12/21/so-wheres-my-low-voltage-dc-...

You can even get Anderson Powerpole wall sockets: https://powerwerx.com/powerpole-connector-outlet-box-coverpl...

I lived on a boat for a while and I used almost exclusively DC - it worked out pretty well. I used hard wiring and cigarette lighter plugs and that worked fine. The problem with wiring a house is that DC losses start to be huge over decent distances (100+ feet starts to be really tough.) I feel like that's one reason why DC is only really standard on cars/boats/motorhomes.
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28213992