skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main benefit of reproducible builds isn't security, but sanity. There is just no reason why your build process should produce different output for the same input. That just means it's broken in subtle ways and information is leaking into it that was never intended to be there.

The real benefit of reproducible builds however isn't for the individual software itself, but for the software landscape as a whole. As with reproducible builds you have the whole dependency chain specified completely from top to bottom, no more hidden dependencies. And everything is fully automated, not just on your personal machine, but in a way that others can reproduce. That in turn will dramatically improve the ease with which users can build software (and change it), as it turns an hour long hunt for dependencies into a single click.

To really see the fruits of this labor will still take some years, but it has the potential to pretty drastically reshape and improve the way FOSS software works (e.g. Nix Flakes) and actually allow users to make use of their freedom instead of giving up before they have even managed to build the software.
You tend to get this effect when there's a boom on and photo sharing websites, crypto nonsense and such like get valued at hundreds of billions. It doesn't necessarily hurt the poor and often doesn't last forever.
I don't think any of those are particularly hard to explain
It is, yes. The parent is defending them, not trying to say that they were wrong.
It’s more useful to take a sensitive detector and crank the sensitivity to maximum and put it in the dark. The randomness inherent in high iso noise on a cmos camera sensor is actually quite random. Adding actual stars to it might only decrease the randomness you might be able to see from the night sky without a telescope, in this case a radio telescope.
A horrifyingly large portion of the population believes all sorts of stupid things. The sad thing for democracy is most people don't understand policy or even civics well enough to make an informed decision on a candidate. Even then, most candidates don't either, and they end up relying on advisors and lobbyists. The fun implication of campaign finance reform is it implies elections can be bought (just ask Michael Bloomberg), and people can't sort out political messages for themselves.

Oh, the good news about two-party democracy is it mostly keeps 20% views out of politics entirely. 58%/46% is a problem, though.
Not sure about Europe, but nuclear seems to be expensive in the US because construction costs are high because of overcautious regulation[1]. It was considerably cheaper in the 50/60s here, and it seems like mostly a policy issue

[1] https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop
Reminds me of the song from Ishtar https://youtu.be/g-mQcPsPAjc
It's an opinion so I am not sure what you are hoping for. If you are actually interested in the subject, as in doing more than trolling, perhaps you could find citations of your own and post them here.
Do you believe Dr. Fauci was calling the shots last year in 2020?
Or at least the success and role of schools and the media.
The thin wire will melt appart before the power lines do.
And there has been this background ambient energy of "Big Pharma is evil, the Sacklers ..." (which I find rather scapegoaty for the Sacklers in particular) which just immediately ran afoul of "You should definitely trust in these vaccines produced by Big Pharma, the ones we have been telling you are so greedy/evil/incompetent."

Then you have some discussion of what "gain of function" means and ...

Well, the distrust the American public has in Science! has been earned over decades. The ever-changing food pyramid (according to the whims of whatever lobbying group), reefer madness scares leading cannibis to be Schedule I of all things (harmful, of no utility), cigarettes are healthy, we need to put these forever chemicals into your sofas so you don't catch on fire (oh well they don't work but we are leaving them in), thalidomide, diethylstilbesterol ...

And all of it has been sold with a pat and a don't worry your pretty head about it. COVID-19 is just another photon in the background radiation of Science We Tell You To Trust.

It's a shame, my BS was in a hard science, but when I run into skeptics, well, they've learned it and we've earned it.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830328.
Twenty years ahead of you, and still thrilled to open a new terminal. Every time.
Why so negative. I think gaming is the future. We can heat houses and have fun. If only will be able to store the heat. Why make better chips when the user do not care ?
Well too bad because closing nuclear reactors right now means reopening coal plants, as we've recently seen in Germany and France. We don't really have the luxury of having time when it comes to energy/electricity and nuclear objectively is the best stopgap measure until (if) we manage to master intermittent energy sources.
Another way of asking this question is how long will the capital investment last? And what are the upkeep costs?

Once we better understand this, governments would have the decision making expertise and an understanding of timescales involved to see if it is a worthwhile investment.
You could make a fortune selling that by itself, unless your ops cost is just yolo provisioning and never doing backups/patching/etc.
This is a bit more niche than what the answers already posted mention, but reproducible builds ensure reproducible output from said software. This is important in scientific software as — presuming you have a deterministic model — you don’t want the same inputs giving different outputs because of some weird build artefact.
Are there no audio samples in this blog post?
> I, too, often randomly stumble on nuclear waste depots 400m deep under the surface. Such a way to waste my Sunday.

When those dumps leak into your groundwater it does indeed ruin your day.
Technically, the Internet Connectivity Check on LineageOS also sends your position/IP to Google, and also avoids a VPN tunnel because it's lower down the stack.

I can recommend LineageOS, however be aware that lots of malware infected builds have made it to xda dev in the past, so you should build it yourself if possible (or use the official downloads).

Regarding the Connectivity Check: You can add all google related domains to /system/etc/hosts if you have root/sudo access.

Additionally I'd recommend everyone to use RethinkDNS as a DNS adblocker and app firewall - and AppWarden to patch out the Analytics parts of proprietary Apps.
I recommend you look at the graph I provided, which shows how massively the West has shifted to social democracy.
You can't put a price on energy independence in a free market economy. Energy independence is a military objective and a matter of national security. The costs are difficult to put in perspective.
Apple Unleashed Event
Stop using your computer, its a non trivial energy expenditure
because nuclear fusion is an endgame; it going to take centuries
I don't understand. Was it not possible to decouple the UI/events thread from whatever performance intensive things your app might be doing? We've had HTML5 games for a long time now and they've figured this out.

Is this just a batteries-included way of forcing the thread separation between logic and drawing?
There is really one reason, the population doesn't like it, so they have to pretend reasons exist to build solar or wind.

The cost of waste storage is tiny.

By far the best would to join with Canada on next generation nuclear.
Agreed, I think the effect is that there will be pockets where herd immunity is not reached that will be a source of outbreaks for years to come.
s/proficient/prolific/ ?
Thanks, and don't worry, I am antifragile :) (to a finite extent, of course!)
I’ve wondered this as well.

There is an argument that we’re dramatically underestimating the global warming impact of natural gas by underestimating/ignoring the impact of leakage.
This website appears to be content marketing. There is no indication of who put it up, or why; there are no credentials listed, and it has a singular focus on a specific quantum computing technique. `whois` gives no indication as to the actual owner of the domain.

Given that the article repeatedly references D-Wave, a company that is (last I heard -- circa 2020 in the Globe & Mail) in financial distress, I would put money on this being a D-Wave sales pamphlet with the serial numbers scratched off.
> but sometimes just because their identity is tied up in the status quo being seen as free of racism or some other reason)

As evidenced by the poster above quoting MLK as if MLK would be opposed to CRT. Also interestingly, the post on the front page the other day discussing that MIT lecturer who argued that everything in college should be based of merit and fairness instead of taking into account race and discrimination and minority status. Like you said, nothing about that is strictly racist, but it does result in race biased results. Namely that white and often east asian families are more likely to have their children be setup in early childhood to be on a path to ivy league (prep schools, private tutors, etc) than black, latino, and indigenous families. Just boiling it down to merit, or who "deserves" to be there completely ignores the circumstances and challenges faced by minorities and disadvantaged people to get to where they were at.
The time period he's talking about is 2001-2006. HN didn't even exist then. That was when Google was basically like magic and let you find stuff you never knew existed.

HN started complaining about Google being too spammy around 2008, and then about results getting too clever around 2012 or so.
Using caps in titles is a centuries-long tradition. Labeling caps as shouting has just a few decades.
Natural gas plants are cheap but they cause global warming, so soon we will not be able to use them. For example, the U.S. target is to have zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2035, and zero carbon emissions at all by 2050.
> what possible reason could there be for preventing private businesses from mandating vaccination

Medical privacy.
I created this throwaway e-mail:

trepiprara at matra dot top

Alternatively, if you have a Matrix account, we could talk there.
probably deploy infra manually (ec2+rds or vps at random provider)

Deployments can be automated

I usually work with PHP, so I already have playbooks to configure/install php/nginx and others

(just change few variables)

deployment only needs to add a few steps like git checkout ( easy to reuse since you're probably using the same framework across projects)

some examples here

https://github.com/MalpraveCorp/ansible

in specific

https://github.com/MalpraveCorp/ansible/blob/master/mal-be-p...
It'd be interesting to ponder whether such a "heat ray" would work, in terms of thermodynamics. Some kind of heat pump, the hot side of which is hot enough to radiate into space? I can't imagine that having a net cooling effect when considering the Carnot efficiency of a refrigeration cycle. Maybe a giant ice machine in space? (Then again, any ice would probably create more heating than cooling as it enters our gravity well or deorbits). Anyone have any ideas?
As expected and finally admitted. Wasn't that hard to wait a while for them to finally announce it?
Qista – Eco Frienly Mosquito Trap Concept
> – “Do we really need machine learning?” - BEST. PRACTICE. Also let me tell you about blockchain.

This one really made me smile. Nailed.
I wonder if the RPi can be set up to screen record with OBS or something. It would be great for screen recording or grabbing clips from media.
I think you conflate several ideas of understanding here. We don't have good ways of predicting chaotic systems, but we often know a lot about them. Just knowing they're highly sensitive would be hard to confirm without math.
I also never said anything about closing reactors.

I recommend you try and understand the position somebody’s trying to take before you argue against them, lest you end up embarrassing yourself arguing the wrong points, like you are now.

I added some clarity to my point above.
Nature are the ones who published the paper dismissing the lab origin of the virus. So, not much credibility there either.
I'm waiting for the day Walmart determines that they also have an ideal footprint for the nation's best low-latency edge services provider. How many Americans are more than 20ms away from their nearest supercenter? I have to imagine this is in the single-digit percentage territory.

You don't need a whole lot of racks to do damage with the density of hardware you can purchase today. Switch is doing something like this with Fedex & Dell right now.
Do you have a non-shortened/non-tracking link?
There are a a dozen and a half physicians in Congress. Their political affiliation may be surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicians_in_the_United_State...
My controls work even when I use the aux cable.
> Is Haugen a hypocrite that knew exactly how to fix Facebook’s problems and did little to sway the company during her tenure?

I haven't seen any of Haugen's testimony, but how is it hypocritical of her to have deep knowledge about this stuff, tried to make the company better from the inside, and then turn to outside means after being frustrated by lack of change?

Disclosure: I worked at WhatsApp until 2019.
> ...and have a better experience in every category than iOS, hardware and software.

Really? I tried GrapheneOS on a Pixel 4A, and without exaggerating or trying to come off sensationalist the experience was really tepid compared to iOS, and even "normal" Android. Stuttering and jerky UI (which often also wanted to take a brief nap), very poor GPU hardware acceleration support, notably worse battery life, loads of things that just didn't work well (or at all) without Gapps, and trying to get Play Services shoe-horned into GrapheneOS was still quite the bug-ridden hassle. Additionally, the Open Camera app produced rubbish results compared to Google's native Android camera app, which matters a lot to me.
tesla's service does not scale to gigawatts and gigawatt hours. Battery storage works for minutes of demand, not hours. At the moment, any battery tries to profit from arbitrage, not supplying continuous load.

You mention zero energy prices but fail to address the major problem - reliability. The power is always on and losing power is catastrophic.

The solution to the current problem is more transmission capacity. Not batteries.

Wind and solar can help but they are not the solution unto themselves.

Oh and the cost of wind and solar are not only in fuel. There's lots of costs to O&M and grid balancing, both of which are not included in their energy cost.
I agree with most people here. Definitely keep it simple.

With that said, I run a semi resource intensive operation, so I've invested a bit into dev ops to keep our costs down. My setup is currently on AWS, primarily using ECS, RDS, Elasticache. Infra is managed via Terraform.

I felt ECS was a nice balance vs K8s, as it's much simpler to manage, while getting the benefit of maximizing resource utilization.

For CI / deployment, I use Github Actions to build an image and push, then start a rolling refresh to update the containers to the new version. It was pretty easy to setup.

On DBs, RDS handles all the backups and maintenance. For migrations, I use https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate.

Happy to answer any other questions you have, as I've learned a lot through trial and error.
Whatever Republican’s views are on climate change, they’ve been consistently pro nuclear power.
Probably depends upon your job. The main challenge of being a programmer, in the sorts of projects I work on, is communication - with customers, management, and other developers.
> I think in practice any situation where you're tapping the last bits of oil in order to re-boot a technical base, then I very much doubt that the planet would remain habitable long enough for that society to boot strap a new technical base and solve the problems created by burning the last of the oil.

I feel like you're thinking about climate change there and focusing too much on it. IIRC, even a global, full-scale nuclear war wouldn't render the planet uninhabitable. Billions would die, but some people with the skills to survive would make it through. I can think of other, more speculative collapse scenarios.
Watching a Model Train
> "Off" seems to mean different things to you and me.

I don't think it is reconcilable. I'll offer: In this context "off" refers to time not spent in paid employment. Is that a fair definition?

My assertion: Spending time outside of paid employment to be able to retain paid employment or to gain improved compensation is not uncommon. My reference to a rounding error was not well written. The rounding error has to do with the difference between the effect of licensing on compensation and the natural variation in compensation between occupations. If license effect on compensation is small, then the comparison of teaching to other occupations requiring a bachelors degree without respect to licensing is valid.

Some of the difference in variability has to do with the standard compensation models different occupations chose in the early stage of the profession's development. As an example, nursing is principally compensated hourly rather than by salary. Outside of productivity improvements, when additional duties are required then there are choices of: less valuable duties are delegated to lower skilled workers, or less valuable duties are depreciated, or the amount of time budgeted increases.

For teachers on a salary any time spent on duties outside classroom hours is effectively a pay cut. Presumably this is a mechanism for less efficient teachers to realize their predicament and self-select out of the occupation.
If I'm reading the man page correctly, the following two commands are almost equivalent?

$ comm -12 file1 file2

$ fgrep -w -f file1 file2

but `comm` generalizes to accommodate lines with whitespace, instead of single words? although it requires the files to be sorted.

That's actually a super useful tool to know about
Perhaps if she is struck then the drivers were going too fast? Maybe the speed limit should be lowered. Perhaps the street could be designed in a safer way to make this less likely to happen. Calling everything an accident is ignoring the actual causes.
Censorship is not what causes large numbers of US citizens to refuse this vaccine. If the Republicans in leadership positions took this seriously from the start and did not go around casting doubt on vaccination far more people would get the vaccine. If the previous president had not politicized the response to COVID and had simply told his followers to do what the CDC says we would have many millions more people getting the vaccine (and for the matter, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive).

Don't let the Republicans off the hook. This should never have been a political issue, but Republican leaders at every level of government made this political and continue to politicize the pandemic.
I'm somehow afraid of a world in which huge amounts of energy can be wasted without having a bad conscience. Probably it would lead to some new problems.
I would love to have a reliable device for at home Neurofeedback training bit I find these products quite questionable, especially of they have dry electrodes, also they require correct usage as muscle contractions can easily kill you readings. Researching which ones are BS and which ones might be usable is also quite difficult as I have not found a reviewer who is knowledgeable in the subject, if you know one please comment, I‘d love to figure this out.
It's just a theory that explains some patterns I see in my life. It's definitely exaggerated and oversimplified (Adams is a humorist).

I try to practice rationality, and I admire people that I think do it relatively well. But I agree with Adams that I probably don't do a great job all the time, and we're all influenced by word-thinking. I don't see myself as a great persuader.
But there's a bigger risk with the virus. The selfish calculus should also be to get vaccinated.
Your first question has a simple answer: by law. New nuclear plants haven't been licensed in Germany in, like, forever. Currently, the law explicitly states that no new nuclear power plants will be licensed.

How they got the operators to agree to the early shutdown is less clear. By offering a good deal, I guess. It's only taxpayer money, after all.

Why nobody set plans in motion to replace it? I don't know. My best guess is, because politicians are unbelievably stupid. They really don't know anything about electricity. They really don't get that excess electricity in Juli doesn't help you in cold, dark January. Annalena Baerbock stated publically: "The grid is all the battery we need." At that level of incompetence, who knows why anything happened.
Does Typescript get better? I've been forced to use it for my most recent project, but haven't been given any time to read through the documentation. I've found that I'm spending about 99.9999% of my development time trying to figure out how to get my IDE to not show that their are typescript problem. At this point I hate typescript with the burning fury of a trillion suns. I wonder if this is everyone else's experience?

Edit: So I take it from the downvotes that everyone else is a genius and I'm the only one that has had a problem learning TS.
What do you mean? The core guidelines weren't an attempt to add lifetimes to C++.
> Google API is not free. It would be at least a 4-digit cost per month

On iOS and Android, google maps are free: https://developers.google.com/maps/billing/gmp-billing#mobil...

Maybe your friend was doing something that the native SDKs couldn't do but the web API could?
For practical purposes Android is not just the open source codebase but also the economic institution, where various middlemen get to do sketchy and low-rent stuff in between the trusted brand and the consumer. That is the “openness” that sets it apart from its competitor.
Narratives, popularized by the elite, like the very large and highly paid public sector bureaucracy, are irrelevant to the truth. The truth is revealed by scientific evidence, which in the social sciences, constitutes socioeconomic statistics. What are your thoughts on the statistics I provided earlier, which I'll reproduce here:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

?

>>proven by the ridiculous claim above that social spending alone constitutes social democracy, not to even mention the revisionism

You should ask yourself why you are so angry and so intent on trying to discredit my completely reasonable effort to support my position, while the evidence you yourself provided is so absurdly flimsy, like minimum wage (which only affects 4% of jobs) not rising fast enough, and social mobility decreasing (which could very plausibly be due to any number of anti-free-market developments, like 1. growing regulatory restrictions stratifying the position of incumbents in the market, 2. growing government spending creating a more nepotistic economy that favors elite interests, like public sector unions, who tend to have the strongest political connections).

I have to ask, given around 40% of the economy now consists of the state, or those funded by it: do you perhaps have a financial conflict of interest in this debate? Do you work in the public sector, or otherwise hold a unionized job, which would make you a direct beneficiary of the state growing its control over the economy?

But to your point: the share of the economy that is forcefully redistributed by the state, for the purpose of funding social welfare programs, is in fact a completely reasonable proxy for the extent to which social democracy plays a role in a society. Do you have a more direct proxy?

As an aside, trying to gaslight critics of the social democratic establishment with this kind of bad-faith response profoundly damages the public discourse, and I urge you to stop doing it.