skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As have all western countries. Building a new nuclear power plant at the safety level one would expect today is hugely expensive.
Countries, sadly, don't get to pick their geology.
This looks like a really interesting project! I'm going to check it out.
Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
An advantage of crypto is that you can accept it directly. If you choose a centralized option, you're intentionally moving away from what you're suggesting the crypto space was set up for.

As for "companies like this", pretty much every company in the crypto space has terms and conditions. There's no reason why a "crypto native" company will have a more generous interpretation than a company like Stripe.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/other/doe...

https://www.gemini.com/legal/user-agreement#section-account-...
Also check out `paste`!
I think in the US our situation was pretty dire from the start in regards to misinformation: the president and his staff were saying a ton of crazy crap from day one, from denial, to downplaying to telling people to effectively drink bleach. Pretty clear cut why we have trust issues right now and people denying any information about Covid at all. I mean the article raises great points, but the US hasn't had that problem, because its' been blatant misinformation with no attempt to tether it to any reality from the start. The trust was never there and I'd love to read more articles about how to repair that.

But it has been interesting to see these dynamics described in the article in play out in other Western countries. I have to agree that we have to trust the public, but its conclusion -- that the people will not trust the government otherwise -- is sage. US currently is struggling to claw back any trust. We're in very dire straits.

EDIT: formatting.
> what are some of those headwinds?

The one child policy was a resounding success and a total disaster as now they have the fastest aging population on the planet. This has lead to massively increasing labor costs and a hollowing out of their consumer base which then makes their economy export-dependent right when the consumer base of the developed world is hollowing out. They are reliant on energy imports to keep the lights on and those imports go through the first island chain full of their most vicious and ancient geopolitical enemies. They are reliant on food imports to feed their population that rely on the same global trade routes that are or are about to go completely to hell. Their historically unprecedented growth over the last couple of decades was fueled by the most irrationally exuberant money printing and debt driven bender that makes the USA look like a miserly spend-thrift.
Unfortunately any human empistemic framework is going to be circular or undecideable
I'm not sure how your examples counter what the gp is saying. Are you suggesting that the government didn't need to lie about mask effectiveness because some people weren't taking COVID seriously? Because obviously enough people took it seriously to cause a mask shortage anyway.
Yes, I've read "The Bitter Lesson". Have you read "A better lesson", by Rodney Brooks?

Edit:

>> A key related question -- to which no one has the answer today -- is whether we must scale computation to match or exceed that of the human brain to be able to replicate or surpass its cognitive abilities.

What "computation" is that? Are you talking about scaling up neural networks, which is more in the context of the conversation, but requires some very big assumptions about (artificial) neural networks? Do you mean a different kind of computation?

(Note: my comment, plus the above edit, is a series of questions and I recognise that commens like that can come across as standoffish. This is not my intention, so please accept the questions above as having been asked in the most neutral tone as possible and in the interest of promoting conversation, rather than confrontation.)
Ubuntu Frame
Valid point. On the other hand, these kinds of advanced types can prevent lots of bugs and maintenance work, and may therefore be worth the day of debugging when it breaks after two or three years of usage.

I've used types like this in a pretty advanced TypeScript UI project consuming lots of services to enforce compile time errors. We were using generated TS clients for all of the APIs we consumed, and the compiler would automatically throw readable errors wherever we were missing form fields or types became incompatible. I committed the advanced type once, documented its usage, and I don't think anyone has had to deal with it since, whilst the types have steadily prevented errors.

And even then: it's just type definitions. If it really becomes a maintenance burden or someone has no clue what it does, you can simply replace the type with "any" or something similar and all of your problems are gone and typescript won't complain anymore (at the expense of less type error checking).

EDIT: improved wording
I think he's probably being a bit overdramatic here, but I do seriously struggle with the fact that the political reality in the US makes most tech workers oppose aiding the military; whereas this attitude is non-existent in mainland China.
> Well, things shouldn't be like that.

Ain't that the story of this planet.

That said - I'm not really sure you can call it bad engineering. It turns out that people will use whatever is available to suit their needs (and god help you if you try to predetermine all the strange edge-cases they'll use it for... https://xkcd.com/1172/). For every one developer that's had to debug a json parser compatibility issue, there are probably a million other developers happily solving real world problems with JSON with no issues at all.
This seems reasonable. I wonder why it is not the prevailing approach?
> If someone collapses into the street, the driver should be able to stop in time, unless they are going to fast.

Even 5 mph is too fast if the collapse is shielded from view until the last instant.

In other words your statement boils down to "driver can stop unless they can't".
Plane Made Out of Water
While disagreement is often violent, I think if you look closely most of these disagreements are actually politically motivated rather than reflecting deep divisions in core beliefs. Prior to the advent of nationalism this was simply a good way to rally the troops for whichever geopolitical objective.

In terms of core beliefs, I think your estimate is rather low. Obviously it depends on how you weight it, but the core beliefs of the Abrahamic relgions and even Hinudism and Buddhism have a lot in common.

> At the very least N-1 of N religions are wrong

I will take it further than this: 100% of all beliefs are at least partially wrong. Ultimately, one has to ascribe weight to something.
To put it simply: No, working at an office is not intrinsically bad or evil, BUT everything around it is sufficiently broken to the point where people really don’t want to deal with it. This includes commutes, housing, healthcare in some(!) countries, proximity of schools, logistics when raising a family, car dependence, low balling from HR and many many others.
Is it really that limiting though? I know lots of people in and out of tech who have heard the word bitcoin or cryptocurrency and at most 2 people who have ever made or been interested in making a transaction. Obviously anecdata, but it doesnt seem to me like the amount of engineering effort vs actual users doesnt seem like an actually good tradeoff to me.
I hope this gets read by more that the cadre of people who already program in Perl. As I am writing this there are no other comments. I hope someone beats me for first comment.
(Just checked I am first and alone)

I first used Perl in 1991ish to Parse a Command and Control Language for Military Naval ships,based I what I learned out of the Programming Perl 1st Ed.

Documentation matters. Really good training materiel can
elevate a language.

In spite of Perl's loss of attention to Python et al. it remains in my tool box and used when appropriate.
Where feasible I’m using cloudflare workers (and KV) instead to be honest. Less versatile but no tangible cold start time
From the subtitle of the article:

Prices are dropping, but not enough to make this is a reality—yet.

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What is the enough point? Anyone know?
No, the US is not cohesive on this subject partly because of dishonest rhetorical tricks, like deliberately conflating hesitancy about this specific vaccine with the "anti-vax movement". And implying that trump disparaged his own Operation Warp Speed. And ignoring that under Trump media was releasing surveys and implying that most people were hesitant about an emergency vaccine approval from the Trump administration, looking for any opportunity to disparage the orange man.

This country is not cohesive because of such rabid, top down left leaning bias in our media, industry, and academia, which stereotypes, belittles, and alienates about 50% of the population.
Your input parameter type should be unknown, not any.
Well, if we'd have gone down that road, plus strong environmental awareness, maybe the Earth wouldn't be warming up so badly right now, and the oceans wouldn't have islands of plastic (= oil) waste. Now, sure, we wouldn't have enjoyed some of the benefits of car technology, but - public transport (esp. trains) makes up for a lot of that. OTOH, public transport pollutes too.
Astra explains previous failure, sets October date for next launch attempt
Guy Kawasaki: Why Social Media Is Overrated
Here is one particular but typical example - enterprise backend server written by yours truly, PostgreSQL and single page frontend application in Javascript. I do it for my own company and also develop in a same manner for my clients.

1) Server is high performance native C++ application running on rented native hardware on Linux. It processes thousands of requests/s in sustained manner hence no real need to use any of that k8s / docker / etc. There is also separate rented standby server.

2) I maintain a reusable single script that can rebuild complete system from the scratch with a single command. I periodically test it on local VM. It installs all needed compilers, tools, PostgreSQL, restores database from the latest backup, checks out from VCS and builds that C++ server, registers it as a daemon and refreshes Javascript Frontend.

3) I also wrote small server that subscribes to webhooks from VCS and can build artifacts. I only use it to pull and build Javascript part. It could do main server as well but being super cautious I trigger that step manually fingers crossed.

3) for DB I use automatic scheduled backups.

All in all after I've debugged and tested new version locally the release takes seconds. Script is written years ago and does not require much maintenance other then updating artifacts to new versions (replace apt-get install XXX-31 with apt-get install XXX-32) and register and build ZZZ server instead of YYY server. Compared to insanity I saw in some orgs my setups are piece of cake.
Oracle Still Hanging in There with Exadata Engineered Systems
Comparing non-dispatchable sources with dispatchable sources is comparing apples to oranges. Solar is cheap, until you saturate daytime consumption and have to start building storage. Similar with wind.
You can expect a dedicated team to start working on it once they're able to get their hands on some Pixel 6 devices. They don't get them early from Google you know, there's no cooperation there. They buy them when they're released just like we do, and it hasn't been released yet so work hasn't started.

The general attitude towards GCam seems to be... Calyx isn't going to ship it but it's generally understood most people will be using it. The recommendation I got when I switched was to install the apk and disable all network access via Datura before I launched it for the first time. That works well, the pictures look great too. A recommendation I heard after I did that which I will be following next time is to extract the gcam apk from your new phone before you flash calyx and install that one (to avoid apkmirror or whatever).
it should be zero f*ing percent
The judge's notion that the saline solution acquiring heat from the defendant's cellar equates to production/transportation of energy seems wrong to me.

Heat is not a desirable form of energy in this context, it's either a waste product created by the cooling system, or a naturally occurring element that is counteracted by the saline solution.

Maybe the judge isn't technically wrong, he just got it backwards. The energy here is expended to eliminate heat, while creating it would be the opposite endeavor.

Is this the reason why?
Petition for publication of Facebook critical article
I really think this will go down as The Big Mistake that lost the public's trust in the US and made compliance for every subsequent measure difficult to sell, and opened the door to nutters.
It's stand up to Facebook week, people!
AMD 4700S Review: Defective Playstation 5 Chips Resurrected
> Period life expectancy reflects the risk of death a population faced within a year. If the risk of dying in a year increases, such as from a heat wave or from COVID-19 infection, life expectancy decreases; if the risk of dying decreases, life expectancy increases.

If I am interpreting this correctly, the study is not claiming that being infected with COVID-19 reduces life expectancy, but rather that the observed life expectancy has gone down by some amount due to fatalities attributable to COVID-19.
There's some forks of pre-closed source Mapbox
Why do you think fusion would provide free unlimited energy? With any design even slightly visible on the horizon right now, a single plant will cost billions of dollars and barely produce a few MW of energy. This is much worse than any equivalent investment in solar power, which similarly requires 0 fuel.
Rover’s pictures show long history of rivers flowing into Martian crater
Fortunately, blockchain is permission less and this move will mainly help to introduce companies processing payments with Stripe to the reality of crypto payments.

I expect that most power users and big players will opt for a Stripe-free crypto payment method.
Yeah nobody wants to live in these big cities anymore, it’s far too busy!
I've idly been considering ducting my desktop's exhaust outside like a clothes dryer vent.

My previous computer didn't run very hot at all so the exhaust fan on the top blew onto the underside of my desk and then at me, it was actually uncomfortably cold in the winter. This new one is something else, though.
If I see a cyclist one of the things I do is slow down and give them space specifically because bicyclists do occasionally fall. A good chunk of my awareness is also assigned to evaluating how they're riding in order to anticipate any kind of problem. The fact that most motorists don't believe there's any kind of responsibility for everyone to behave similarly is a problem.
> i) a concern about the disposal of nuclear wastes and the long-term cost of their storage

I don't understand this concern. If you already have several decades worth of nuclear waste to manage/dispose, is it really more expensive to manage/dispose another several decades? For example, if you're disposing in a deep geologic repository, is it really much more expensive to put a little bit of waste in a big hole versus a little more waste?

> Overall, I believe this is not a bad idea because i) renewable electricity is bound to get better thanks to worldwide research, and ii) it is smart not to put all your eggs in the same basket.

I don't think anyone is advocating 100% nuclear energy, but nuclear is the only clean base load energy source. Without nuclear, we're putting all of our eggs in the "renewable energy" basket (assuming the goal is to move off of fossil fuels) and praying for a miracle breakthrough for base load. Considering that it takes decades to bring a new nuclear plant online, decommissioning a nuclear plant is the height of folly. It necessarily means more dependence on fossil fuels and the countries who provide them (in Europe, this largely means Russia).
I definitely like the flexibility – and I can do 5 days in the office if I want to. Although full disclosure my contract did come with 2 days remote included pre-pandemic so I did in fact sign up for it :-)
>You can't disprove creationism, only young-earth or otherwise Tolkienesque creationism.

His noodly goodness[0][1] will reward you for your faith!

Arrrh!

[0] https://www.spaghettimonster.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
The article is discussing the Stripe job offers, which explicitly use the full term "cryptocurrency" at the beginning

https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/staff-engineer-crypto/349540...
It's never been cheap. It's previously been heavily subsidized, often as a means to maintaining a domestic nuclear economy as a means of maintaining nuclear arsenals.
Amazon Will ‘Bomb’ (1999)
High up front costs, for Nuclear fusion/fission, geothermal and solar but cheap fuel, you can run then all day long and sell the power you generate at any price to cover the fixed costs and pay off the capital costs and of course you're not generating carbon. With carbon burning generation, the cost of the fuel is volatile, sometimes its cheap sometimes it not, so you have to be clever in buying the fuel and not get stuck just buying spot and going bankrupt because its suddenly spiked in price.
Humio Log Aggregator Community Edition
"Not competitive" for a software developer is still a pretty high paying job by most peoples' standards.
I think the counterargument is basically that trying to apply ethics to the royal family is like trying to apply orbital dynamics to a whale. Everything about how the whale lives and looks references its formative environment, and I guess you could put it in a rocket and see how it works as a satellite, but it would probably just turn red, bloat, then explode into a cloud of gore.
I would urge you to compare this to Docker Desktop - https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop

> Docker Desktop is an application for MacOS and Windows machines for the building and sharing of containerized applications and microservices.

The "desktop" part of each refers to "systems other than linux."

You can run rancher on a linux machine just as you can run docker on a linux machine - without the "desktop" part of it. As I understand it, the "desktop" nature of it is the glue between running a virtual machine on a non-linux system and the underlying virtual magic.
It seems that is not experimental anymore, https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr....
The cryptocurrency space looks a lot different than it did 3 years ago... I hope they focus on supporting stablecoins. All the benefits of cryptocurrency (censorship resistance, etc) without having to hold on to a volatile asset.
Seriously, the run on toilet paper was a strong counter-argument.
The Univ. of CA lab that operates NIF has an entire public relations department, paid for by US taxpayers, whose purpose is to generate this hype in order to influence Congress (they are the ultimate audience for all of this) to keep spending more US taxpayer money on NIF. NIF's real purpose is stockpile stewardship, so the funding is not really in jeopardy; but they always want more.
Our heat sources were typically in the 500-600C range, with plant exhaust flows containing about 80-150MW of energy. Current tech can convert that with about 20% efficiency.

Not at all like conventional electricity plants, the heat is already being created in industrial processes and is a waste product.

We're familiar with delta-T and thermodynamics. Current off the shelf technology can easily hit half of the Carnot limit at most delta-Ts. That's not the point, the point is the "fuel" was free, and the price was "close" to existing sources as these things go (about 2x the price of natural gas) and even with a carbon market and climate mandates, it's impossible to get investment.
I've noticed the same thing. I do use Apple Maps in Carplay, but have learned to anticipate what's shown on-screen in-relation to where I'm actually located. Seems like it's certainly fixable, but I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed already given that two random strangers on the internet highlight that as one of the service's primary weaknesses.
Well, of course that's always been true in the past, but isn't "ignition" precisely the point at which it becomes self-sustaining? Isn't that the distinction between "ignition" and not "ignition"? I mean, you're not the right person to ask (you apparently think plutonium is a brand name), but maybe somebody reading this understands the issues.

You don't even need explosives to get a self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction if you don't want a bomb; Harry Daghlian did it accidentally, Fermi did it underneath Stagg Field in Chicago in 01942, we do it routinely to generate electricity, and 16 fossil natural nuclear fission reactors have been discovered in Oklo. The explosives are only there to keep a rapid chain reaction from driving the pieces apart before you get enough yield for a weapon.

It's true that the NIF would not make a very useful bomb, being difficult to deliver to enemy territory even by ship, and probably inflicting more damage on the funding agency than the destroyed enemy city. But a significant part of that is non-recurring engineering costs, and it's probably possible to miniaturize it to a significant degree.

I read Freeman Dyson's autobiography recently, and he claims (contrary to the report of continuing DOE research in the Wikipedia article) one of the things they stopped working on in the 01960s due to the arms treaties was specifically hydrogen bombs that didn't require fission igniters.
As mainly C# programmer I am getting quite jealous of TypeScript. Seems there is a lot of really interesting stuff going on there.
Customer feedback: Pulley for cap table?
A current Carta customer, not happy for a number of reasons and contemplating Pulley. Looks great from the outside but would like to speak with customers who (ideally) have raised a round on Carta then moved to Pulley and raised another round.

Would like to pick your brain for 5-10 mins. I know Pulley is a YC alumn, so hoping lots of customers lurking! ian[at]getkoffie.com
> People think of bad driving tickets (mostly speeding) as just a price you pay to drive.

Furthermore, we literally use the phrase, "never got so much as a speeding ticket" to suggest that speeding is the epitome of a minor, inconsequential infraction, when the reality is that we know speeding is a significant cause of and contributor to death, destruction, and injury in automobile crashes.
Flamanville and Olkiluoto are the lead ships in that class. They pay for the loss of institutional knowledge since building the previous generation in France. Now with that experience the new EPR design (EPR 2) improves for the coming series.
I think you’re probably right. I’d bet that most of the survey respondents are relatively new, or frequent and established contributors. The data are likely skewed towards these individuals and not representative.

I may end up on the site if I’m googling something, but I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve asked a question, posted a reply, or voted on an answer in the past 5-6 years.

SO is still a valuable resource, but, and I realize this is selfish, community participation stopped being interesting or useful a long time ago.
America is like that from foundation! Distrust in the government is in this nation’s DNA! Right now Gov. Abbott is taking a major stand against Biden’s vaccine mandates.