skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some underground hydrogen storage (used to smooth output to ammonia synthesis, for example), and some hydrogen pipelines (about 1000 miles in the US), and combustion turbines have been available for 30 or more years that will burn hydrogen. So all the parts are available. Electrolyzers need to be sufficiently cheap to work well with intermittent renewables, but their cost is dropping rapidly.

Integrating preexisting technologies is the easiest and surest kind of innovation, even if they haven't all been brought together yet.

There are cost estimates at the reference link at https://model.energy/ , along with projections of future costs.
Of course if there is evidence that the driver deliberately tried to kill someone, nobody will call it an accident. I would imagine that the vast majority of car deaths are indeed accidental, not murders. This seems to contrast with the situation of gun deaths. No?
> Reducing nuclear power in France seems to be one of the worst decisions you could make in a time when the rest of the world has its head in the sand.

When people claim to have goal A but do things that run counter to A, you must conclude that their real goal is not goal A but instead some other goal B.

When environmentalist types rail against nuclear power, they reveal their true preferences. They care more about dismantling technological civilization than they do about reducing emissions. If they really cared about emissions as much as they claim to care, they'd support nuclear power out of necessity. They don't, so it's fair to conclude they have unstated goals.
No mention of GOAL, Naughty Dog's Lisp dialect used for game scripting?
> One can find custom LineageOS builds that include MicroG

Why bother? Just use Calyx.
if you want a PS so badly, why not get a used one or older new one on ebay or amazon: like maybe one of the previous versions PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1 or maybe another game system? it'll probably be whole lot cheaper too and you don't have to pay extra.
Caprover on a decent VPS like
Hetzner.

p.s. previously did quite a bit of AWS, Google, firebase; but the above had been working the best for about a year
> Your second paragraph... what is that in response to? How is saying that forcing other developers to follow the tech whims of some wannabe 10X is a bad thing "propaganda in the class war?"

The article, mainly, which reads very much like it's from the perspective of a project manager or engineering manager or something like that—as in "This morning you found out to your surprise that one of your senior developers" (emphasis mine), which seemingly-not-a-developer voice and POV it continues throughout. The (inevitable) infantilizing is here:

"Magpie Driven Development is when you have developers who want to use something new for no better reason than it’s shiny and fun."

Sure—except when developers do it because it's how you get ahead in this career. But that's something a rational person, not a toddler, might do, so we can't allow that that might be the reason. This sneering "oh, those childlike developers" tone is typical of management most places, when they talk/write about developers. I've even seen it in places that are pretty damn developer-friendly and tech-driven—it's subtle, but "oh, you know how software developers are" is deeply ingrained in management vernacular. I think it's a defense mechanism, mainly—and a very successful one, from what I've seen—because devs are paid like we're upper-middle-class but managers are, unconsciously or otherwise, very uncomfortable with us being in the same (or higher, maybe) social class as them, so take care that we do not rise in status on that front. I think that's how you end up with that kind of language being the norm, when managers treat of developers. "Well OK they make a lot of money but aren't they so immature and flighty and distractible? And god knows they can't be good at talking to people, or understanding how business works, or anything else that's our job. Now hold on, I've got really strong bad opinions about how this button should look and I expect to have my thoughts treated with deference and close attention. Why? Well, look at the org chart! That's why."

Anticipation and avoidance of this dynamic is why lawyers and doctors tend to resist having non-doctor and non-lawyer managers—and it's part of why those professions still, on average, carry significantly more social value than "software engineer". Pay's only part of the equation.
What were you expecting exactly.
>That Trump's motivation for literally anything is anything but pure, raw self-interest.

You do realize that this is unprovable speculation shaped entirely by the filter of media coverage, which is clearly much more favorable to the biden administration?

If our institutions are willing to mislead regarding covid, why would you trust them about any other politically charged subject?
Well, I think we can all agree that the FSM is not demonstrably false - to be demonstrably false is to be falsifiable, and unless they made a mistake somewhere in coming up with their parody canon there's no reason why it should have to be. In fact I think the entire point of the FSM is to illustrate that creation myths are not falsifiable.
It took time to find a pro-solar source which touched upon the subject (other were Forbes and shady websites): https://news.energysage.com/solar-panels-toxic-environment/

Basically, what i've heard before (i only skimmed the source), all solar panel are toxic, because the production create use a lot of chemical and create byproducts. We ignore this, it mostly hit poor areas in China and Africa, and this pollution will disapear in less than a century. The end-of-life is OK for old-style PV. Most "new" type of solar panels however, especially those you put on your own roof, are extremely toxic at their end-of-life, and what's worse is that their toxicity are not due to a chemical compound but to elements. What's even worse is that those elements are heavy metals, so bury even one of those PV panels in the ground and it become cancer-land a few year after.
Then "Bitcoin makes banks obsolete" is not true; banks provide safe, interest-yielding accounts.

You're arguing that we should not keep coins on exchanges because they could be taken advantage by criminals who are "restrict[ing] your ability to lead your [interest-earning financial] life." This is in direct contrast to your previous statements.
Yucca mountain is absolutely safe and geologically stable. That was why it was chosen. Don't spread FUD.
Can you explain how natural gas is radioactive?
Its always been that way, you read about how scientists in Germany and the Uk and France secretly wrote to each other during WW1 sharing their latest thoughts and discoveries.
> to be anti-nuclear is to be anti-climate, and pro-coal.

While this was true even 10 years ago, not so much now. While nuclear is still cheaper than the batteries which would otherwise be the main[0] worldwide alternative to backing up PV/wind, it is close, and probable future development curves for renewables and batteries make it not completely insane to reject nuclear.

Personally I would still support new reactors, firstly because I don’t want to keep all my eggs in one basket if my expectations for future battery factories are falsified, and secondly because I think diverse solutions are likely to be cheaper and faster overall than monoculture solutions.

[0] Scandinavia in general might be amazing for hydro, which is much cheaper than batteries, but IIRC most places aren’t so fortunate.
One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

If you don't like how the current parsers work, feel free to go write your own, because frankly "doesn't work as it should" is presumptuous bullshit. They work exactly as their current authors like, if that happens to not be correct for you... either put up or shut up.
Is the problem the lack of discussion or the spread of fake news, disinformation and fear mongering in the US?

Most/all western countries have higher vax rate than the US (and survey says that vaccine usage is lower among republicans in the US), why is that?

You really think it’s due to lack of discussion on natural immunity?
_If_ you can live with having larger text in other apps, too, you can do that in the accessibility settings.
The neighbor was stealing the coolness of the solution. Coolness was the desired/useful property, and it was taken for use in the neighbors cellar
My post had nothing to do with any party affiliation. I was simply pointing out the data regarding where trust in our institutions is. Please ratchet the "they"/"other" stuff back a bit. I don't think it is helping us trust each other.
>I think you recognized the contradiction in your own point and corrected it so I will leave it be.

I didn't "correct" anything. And there's no contradiction, AFAICT.

You either chose to misinterpret my points or I was unclear in expressing them. Either way, you drew an incorrect conclusion from my statements.

If the reason for that was the former, shame on you! If it was the latter, shame on me!
In some countries Covid-19 has raised life expectancy. When the terminal patient is diagnosed with this recognizable disease, doctors keep him alive little bit longer in the respirator, just to clear the legal responsibilities. Source: casual remarks by somekind of medical professional in Youtube.
> Finland is a hero on nuclear energy development

Finland is also a country that just spent almost 20 years building one new nuclear reactor, and its still not in commercial operation
Does anyone have experience moving into sales around their 40s?
Can't we just set up an orbital solar panel array beyond the space debris field, have it always rotate to point at the sun 24/7, and just get a really big extension cord to connect back to earth, and call it a day?

Look, if we're gonna spend a gorgillion dollars we don't have, let's at least be efficient with it. We're engineers, damnit!
> I can think about anything when I drive a car.

The rest of the world would prefer you to think about driving a car when you drive a car.

When you're walking, OTOH, thinking about anything is OK. (The only person you'll kill by doing that unthinkingly is you.)

God, Americans are weird.
Yeah you're getting downvoted because your championing Limbaugh and Fox News, known liars. Probably in your reality they're champions of truth, but seriously, your reality has some blind spots. Big ones.

Your citing quotes from the beginning of the pandemic. Hah, ever noticed how situations evolve and grow? Dubya didn't react when he heard about a plane hitting the first WTC tower because like everyone else, his aides probably evaluated it as an accident and not the start of an attack.

And sure, Limbaugh got awarded "the highest civilian award", but from a president who's a scumbag to a lot of other human beings. Biden also has this award, in your reality is Biden as honourable as Limbaugh? Or maybe Biden's medal wasn't worthy of him because it was "scumbag" Obama who awarded it to him?
Hopefully one day we have transparent governments like this. In many respects the Danish government did a great job in dealing with the pandemic compared to the blunder it was in the UK.

If it's the public's trust you require...

Rule 1 - don't lie to them
Rule 2 - don't lie to them
Rule 3 - don't go against the very rules you set out for the public
One of these is called MapLibre for the curious.

https://maplibre.org/

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js

I've used it on a smaller project, it worked well for me.
That's more of a process than simply selecting text on the task manager tile.
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill
> Barely typed languages like C made rigorously typed languages like C++ and Java seem appealing. The boilerplatiness of those languages made duck typing seem appealing.

Eh, I consider Java to be barely typed too. If you have a variable of type Foo, the type system doesn't even guarantee that you have a Foo in there (it might be null). The whole point of a type system, in my mind, is to guarantee that I have that Foo!

> Writing anything nontrivial with duck typing made more elaborate type systems seem appealing.

In my mind, this makes type inference seem appealing, not duck typing (which is not well-defined, but most people associate it with dynamic typing).

> Needing a PhD in category theory to produce a side effect will no doubt make some other paradigm seem appealing in the future.

This oft-repeated exaggeration needs to stop. Using monads does not require a PhD in category theory. If you can understand Promises in JavaScript, then you can grasp how IO works in Haskell.
That's fairly subjective and I can see arguments for both sides, in the above example I've gone with the approach the Typescript documentation itself gives which uses any. Given the parameter is only used as an input, using any and unknown are interchangeable and there is no difference in this specific case.
C++ tools evolution: static code analyzers
It's amazing right now how in this market so many companies are simply ghosting on rejections. They seem so desperate in their recruiting but then can't bother to at least call with a rejection out of the usual courtesy that used to be a standard part of the process?
Yeah the iOS multitasking view tracks all the way back to windows in OS X 10.5 Exposé being actual windows instead of snapshots, and the parlor trick of QuickTime player windows continuing to play video when minimized to the dock all the way back in 10.0 (and perhaps the 10.0 public beta, I forget). It’s the kind of thing that family of operating systems has handled well for a long time.
If the collapse is shielded from view until the last instant, but still possible, there's an engineer somewhere who designed a road irresponsibly.
This is a complete mischaracterization, and bordering on a lie at this point.

She was very specific about not taking it because President Trump said so (rightly, given Trump's history of promoting improving treatments). But you don't have to take my work for it, read her's:

"If Dr. Fauci, the doctors, tell us that we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it. But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I'm not going to take it."

Only by omitting the first line can you argue that she was going to refuse the vaccine. And that is exactly what many Right-wing outlets have been doing, and that is a lie.
In a multi party system sowing distrust in an opposing party doesn't help your party, it mostly helps parties adjacent to that party. So then the goal becomes to be as trustworthy as possible to the public rather than make the public hate the enemy. It really solves many of these issues.
Because to achieve 1MW of energy from fusion, you put 200MW of power into the lasers. And, you have to fire these lasers with unfathomable precision at a tiny piece of gold, in order to heat up an even tinier pellet of hydrogen, which then heats up enormously for a few milliseconds before fizzing out.

ICF is a good way of studying what happens inside a hydrogen bomb, but it is in no way imaginable how you could use it as a weapon in itself. At this point, you'd be much, much better off just firing the lasers at your target (though even that wouldn't achieve much, unless you target is kind enough to step in front of a highly sensitive, gigantic laser).

Edit: corrected a typo graciously pointed out by GP.
> would rather have one extra tank than available supply for every citizen

I think the problem here is that the Big Tank industry is paying kickbacks, but the Big Mask industry is not.
I guess that's fair, I'm probably coming into this having only seen it done a certain way and blind to other possibilities.

That being said, it would take a lot to convince me a standard CI/CD pipeline is not worth the investment. My only experience with non CI/CD deployment process was a very manual process at a startup, then when I saw my first CI/CD it felt like magic.
From this 2017 article: https://energypost.eu/how-much-will-it-really-cost-to-decomm...

Whereas Germany has set aside €38 billion to decommission 17 nuclear reactors, and the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority estimates that clean-up of UK’s 17 nuclear sites will cost between €109‒250 billion over the next 120 years, France has set aside only €23 billion to decommissioning its 58 reactors. To put this in context, according to the European Commission

That's an impressive range of estimates. Who thinks the lower estimates are realistic?
> Here in California we've regulated nuclear out of existence

That sounds weird to me in light of the regulatory capture of US nuclear industry. I remember the incident with the thinning piping being "fixed" by adjusting (downwards) the thickness required by the regulations, until the pipe burst. If anything the regulators seem to be bending over backwards for the utility operators.
Right now the CDC continues on its crusade against natural immunity, despite the dozens of studies proving otherwise. It’s understandable how public health policy has it pitfalls, but completely dismissing elementary biology is another shot in the foot.
> Does one have to "defend" and "explain" that every time?

That's not my point. If your colleague is building Splunk infrastructure on Windows, and you tell him: "best practice is not to do it on Windows", they learned nothing. If you tell them "it's fine, but fine-grained control, observability, permission and logging framework, tooling, they're all minus compared to being on +nix", at least they know why, and they learned how to make an informed decision in the future, as well as how to push back against their managers when they'll insist to do it.

> There is such a thing as best practice (no capitalization) whether one admits it or not.

I admit it. My main problem is that a large portion of the time I'll see people not get why it's a best practice. And that is a problem.
And my post is about the reality of our politics today.

People distrust masks but trust ivermectin. Why? Because certain leaders in certain political thoughts are pushing anti-mask and pro-ivermectin messages.

Its that simple. There's no need to mince words. People trust their leaders. If it helps, its the same reason why some liberals are all "Screw the rich", because they trust Bernie Sanders.

No one likes __Congress__ as an institution, but everyone likes their particular Senator/House rep. If not, those people would be immediately voted out. Its all the _OTHER_ reps that people don't like in Congress. Just as the institution was designed. That's how its supposed to work: you don't like the reps who push for stuff in their state/interests (but not your state and/or interests)... but you like the guy who represents your state/interests.

Perhaps I'm being too brutalistic or simple. But its really how I see things.
The creator economy is failing to spread the wealth
> - Nuclear power has inherit risks that are not present in other forms of modern energy generation. You can claim that todays designs are 99.9999999% safe, but there is no such thing as 100%. If humans build it, it will fail, and a single catastrophic nuclear plant failure isn’t acceptable.

We've already seen what the worst-case catastrophic failure of a bad plant design yields and it's…

Not that bad frankly, especially from an ecological standpoint.

> - Nuclear waste is difficult to deal with. Our current strategies include finding a secret underground cave, and hoping no one accidentally stumbles onto it. Not to mention we have no plan for dealing with widespread use of nuclear power and the waste that would produce.

The amount of nuclear waste is ridiculously small, the entirety of highly radioactive nuclear waste produced to date fits on a football field 3 stories tall. There are thousands of terrils bigger than that out there.

As for "hoping no one accidentally stumbles onto it", Oklo was pretty hard to find.

> - Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive.

Nuclear plants are like anything else, if you get in the groove they can be built fast and for good prices. At the height of its construction, France completed plants in something like 5 years and had half a dozen going on at any one time.

> They also require massive amounts of concrete (bad for the environment, locally and globally)

So do wind turbines?

> and absurd amounts of space.

Compared to what? Millions of square miles of solar panels? The Paluel Nuclear Plant is 1.6 sq km total, and has the same nameplate capacity as 35 sq km of solar panels. We're talking 35 square kilometers covered entirely in solar cells, once you add access and maintenance you're at 40 or 50.

And that's before accounting for the dismal capacity factor of solar, which increase the surface 2 to 5 folds depending on the location. Or the variability and seasonal unreliability of solar panels.

> - Nuclear is centralized, and vulnerable to attack. In a national defense situation, nuclear power plants are large, easily identifiable, delicate targets that can take an entire area’s grid offline with a single hit to a cooling tower.

You don't seem to realise renewable power plants have centralised collector stations you can hit all the same and take the entire thing offline. And unlike nukes, protection against this sort of events is not part of a substation's usual brief.

> edit: A large number of replies seem to think I am pro-shutdown of plants or pro-coal, but that was never stated. My argument is against further investment into nuclear when there are other more known technologies available, like solar and wind.

All of which have massive drawbacks, and are not incompatible with nuclear plants.
Just be glad it's not the 40ft long "terror crocodile".
(speaking generally here at those I've seen share the same rage, not accusing you directly)

I just cannot wrap my head around being so upset that a public official lied you're willing to sever friendships, familial ties, and sacrifice your career because you refuse to follow sane and frankly manageable guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It's not even that the messaging is currently or has been conflicting now. It's like carrying a grudge for years over the smallest of infractions. Are people so bored, they have nothing going on other than to get in a big tizzy about having to wear a mask?

My life has been far more impacted by university security towing my car back when I was 19 and me using a credit card to get it back. Leaving me with debt I couldn't afford for the next year or so. I clearly remember my parents, and all adults in my life, telling me to "suck it up" when I complained how unfair it was. I believe I was far more justified using the parking space at a place I paid 6 grand a semester to attend than any of those adults are now to enter private property for free without wearing a mask.

Why is it only during a global pandemic, with millions of lives on the line, do these same people all of a sudden care about the tiniest bits of hypocrisy and unfairness of our society? Of all the things to be upset about, they choose the one thing that has been proven since mid-2020 to SAVE lives? I literally cannot wrap my head around it. Just wear the fucking mask! Not wearing a mask is such a weird hill to die on...
It is actually quite sustainable. The reactor core is not a large cost for a GW over 15 years.

The US navy swaps out reactor cores for 100-200 million dollars, and those are in submarines and ships. There is basically no maintenance outside of those.

For comparison, a GW of wind capacity is 1.6 billion every 20 years. For solar panels for 1GW of average generation you'll be paying 10 billion dollars or so every 25-30 years.
That sort of aquatic ambush predator niche has always been very successful, so I think we'd end up with a similar animal with a similar body plan that would fill the niche; it's evolved many times before.

https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-...