skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about when the phone locks? My phone is set to autolock after 1 minute. Leaving an app open just to receive notifications seems like a waste of battery.
The main idea is that many developers (and not only) often opt for a high salary without paying attention to such factors as the development potential within the team, the level of tasks and the quality of the product/project. By making such a choice at the beginning of a career, without much experience and skills to back up a high salary, a person risks falling into the trap.
Of the things you've listed, I think the costs are really the only argument against nuclear.

The inherit risks are supremely low and the catastrophic failure mode for nuclear plants isn't a nuclear winter, in the absolutely worst case it's a contamination of the area where the plant was built (Modern nukes are all about containing failures. So even while they've optimized for not failing, they've also optimized for what happens when failure happens).

Nuclear waste isn't nearly as difficult to deal with as NIMBYs are. It's pretty easy to find enough room and locations to store nuclear waste, the harder part is convincing people that's a good place to store it. For example, a single abandoned mine could house decades worth of nuclear waste. Nuclear plants produce almost no waste and the waste they do produce is entirely self contained. Further, more modern breeder reactors produce even less waste and the waste they produce ends up having a low level or radioactivity at the end of it.

For the national defense argument, Every single power generation method has an output line to tie to the grid. Why would you attack a cooling tower (which would take a bunch of heavy duty explosives) when cutting a few MW transmission lines would have the same effect and require bolt cutters?

The only reason not to build new nuclear is because it's more expensive than the current crop of green tech and it will take longer to bring online. Existing nuclear should keep operating until the grid is decarbonized.
Lambda@Edge helps with latency, definitely not with cold start times. You also can't buy provisioned Lambda@Edge, so for low traffic scenarios it's even worse than typical Lambda (where you can easily provision capacity, or keep on-demand capacity warm, which is not so cheap or easy when that must be done across every CloudFront cache region). For a low traffic environment, running e.g. 3-5 regular provisioned Lambda functions in different regions will produce a much more sensible latency distribution for end users than Edge would.

CloudFront Functions have no cold start, but their execution time is sorely restricted (1ms IIRC). You can't do much with them except origin selection, header tweaks or generating redirects, and there is no network or filesystem IO whatsoever.
> Covid lesson: tell the truth.

Thanks for sharing this novel concept, in a scientific journal no less.
the general public are not the one that decide who get a Phd or MD the expert are the one doing it.

It make sense that the expert don't trust the general public with health decision.
If you are not convinced just head over to https://www.youtube.com/c/ChubbyemuGames/videos
>It has automatic scaling, so it can scale up and down with traffic (all of which is configured in ECS)

Doesn't scaling take time, though? Doesn't downloading a new docker container definition and starting it take at least as long as initializing a new lambda function?

Also with lambda there's no configuring to do for scaling. If anything lambda gives you tools to limit the concurrency.
Yes, even assuming curtailment, renewables + storage are cheaper than nuclear.

EDIT (sources): https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/06/28/los-angeles-seeks-rec...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/07/01/new-sola...

https://twitter.com/mzjacobson/status/1144654725901504512

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/08/09/solar-challenging-nuc...

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/minnesota-study-finds-it-ch...
> a single catastrophic nuclear plant failure isn’t acceptable.

We've already detonated hundreds of nuclear bombs. The effects are ecologically catastrophic, but negligible compared to the damage of fossil fuels. As long as there is a single coal plant in the world, or a city whose transportation is based on burning fossil fuels, worrying too much about nuclear plants is stupid (unless you live just next to one of them).
Do you have sources for that?
that reminds me of "Summa technologiae" by Stanislaw Lem, and how he juxtaposes the evolutions: biological, technological, social... How all grows and grows and then dies out, giving way to smaller-and-mobiler forms (lizards...dinosaurs -> mammals; baloons...dirigibles -> airplanes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae
I know you will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you're just stating that the world operates on quantum fields. I'm not questioning that. It is just that the fact that our universe harbors intelligent life, and perhaps organization in general, seems to be dependent on the fact that quantum fields behave "particle-like" in interactions.

The fact that the bottom seems to be quantum fields instead of either particles or waves doesn't in any way exclude the possibility that this was a deliberate design choice to compute random outcomes from continuous possibilities at interactions.
> The voltage arriving at the building is kind of irrelevant to the discussion.

My post talked about voltages arriving at appliances in US homes. Many appliances are designed and in fact receive 220 V. There's even a common (i.e. near every home) plug/wiring/breaker standard for 220 V.

You're the one trying to steer the discussion towards "arriving Vs. using" whereas the first line of my post was expressly about the active use of 220 V in near every US home today (tumble dryers, ovens, central heating, EV chargers, shop equipment, etc).

> The question is whether a connection could even sustain the house network at double the voltage with larger appliances than it was designed for.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. A full end-to-end circuit has to be built for a specific voltage and amperage. If you want to turn a 110 V into a 220 V, you have to re-wire from the breaker otherwise the wiring will overheat and catch fire.
Assuming anything else would happen is ignoring human nature.

The only way to get significant reduction of consumption is via catastrophe. There's a good chance that'll happen, but there's no feasible different way that I can see. Take away large levels of comfort from large amounts of people, and you will inevitably see bloodshed. (Yes, I know that unsustainable consumption will also lead to catastrophe. Welcome to the 21st century, where the path forward is narrow and uncertain, while the stakes are higher than ever)
This feels like considerable cognitive load for any developer that needs to work in more than one language.
>Nuclear power has inherit risks that are not present in other forms of modern energy generation.

Hydro power has greater risks.
Fauci (and the CDC) lying about masks out of fear it would cause a shortage for healthcare providers burnt a lot of trust quickly. It probably helped the US get into the polarized situation it's in now.
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None of this seems actionable to me. I also show many of these traits/concepts, yet they usually hurt more than help. Maybe I'm just dumb.
One Japanese technician died due to not following safety protocols. That’s it.

Thousands a year die in coal mines
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You may also be surprised how many owners thinks their food are great.

We had a recent discussions on HN, how many people just couldn’t tell the difference between better speakers headphones, food, wine etc…. Or they just don’t care about it enough. I have only learnt this very very late in my life I wish I knew this earlier.
every time someone mentions the cost of wind and solar, i remind them of the same point - there are lots of costs that are not borne by wind and solar. The “low” cost is primarily due to their fuel cost being zero and that’s not inherently a bad thing.

The problem is in assuming that the current “cost” scales linearly. it does not.

Some examples of these costs are balancing, standby, frequency support and so on. At the moment, no “cost” metric for renewables includes these costs. They assume that all energy generated is consumed by the grid and this is increasingly not the case.
There's also a superfluous claim baggage. Even assuming that some divine entity existed, based on the fact that at least 70% of believers are wrong about all the superfluous claims (30% is the largest somewhat-cohesive group of claims, i.e., Christianity), it's clear that this is wonky epistemology at work, so the common claim of mere existence of a divine entity is probably wonky as well.
> cost of nuclear power has only been rising and the price per kWh is much higher compared to wind or solar

Do we have numbers from China? They're actually pursuing this technology. The West, largely, is not. I'd thus be hesitant about comparing numbers from a stagnated industry from one with active R&D.
Neither Apple nor Google check to ensure that roads actually exist. Both have imported USGS maps that include non-public roads which are gated shut to the public.

Example: 37.475,-121.753

Both Google Maps and Apple Maps will cheerfully give you directions to this location which is less than 15 miles from their respective headquarters. You can't get there.
I personally think we should stop labeling a whole diverse group under the most stupid categorization we can think of. Media is also guilty of this, for example when some outlet posted something like “anti-vaxxers are now drinking betadine” despite being an isolated act of stupidity. This type of confrontation will only yield more division and therefore enhance distrust.
To the people collecting the data that can sell it, it is useful only in that someone will buy it. Once it is sold, they don't care one bit about how/where/why it is used.
It helps save on the winter heating bill if you live in Wisconsin.
fascinating :)
The guy behind this has a Ph.D. - fusion energy - and is clearly a brilliant engineer. He is building on our current systems and generations that came before.

He is just making a choice to not turn it into a product to be sold but a skill to be shared. Teaching us to fish.

I say awesome and we need more of these open source, go your own way, people in this world!

Has anyone here become a donor? How is the project doing?
And yet, people have been able to do that for a whole lot longer than Facebook, or even the internet itself, has existed.
Wow, what a patronizing response. Some people work better alone, some work better with others around. I'm in the later category - I prefer working with people who I would never consider friends over working alone. It has nothing to do with using work for my social life and everything to do with how I work best.

What if you answer the question instead of telling other people how to exist?
I personally find these principles coming from CDC, against the backdrop of their actions lately, very hypocritical.
Fun fact I learned from a guy from the team: the team that built the Pepper robot [0] was originally employed by the French nuclear comission to build and operate robots to remotely work inside nuclear plants in the case of an accident (or when doing cleanups).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(robot)
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many others do too. bank is Boursorama
Hire a consultant. It doesn't scale and is expensive. So, it ain't for everyone, obviously, of course.

Like Wikipedia, StackOverflow mostly does what it must do to be a better alternative than anything else.

If StackOverflow did not close questions the way it does, pages would be (more) full of answers that call the person asking stupid, lazy, etc.

StackOverflow is not designed to protect itself from the people asking questions. It is designed to protect itself from the people answering them. It is designed to discourage social dominance. Discourage an insider versus outsider culture.

Yes it has rules and norms. Like all rules and norms, they are not for everyone. Unlike most rules and norms, they are not established to further entrench entrenched power (yes, there's a first mover points advantage to answering a regular problem but there's a low cap on the maximum required points for trust advantages).

To put it another way, StackOverflow is designed to minimize the effects of the bad ways people behave. It cannot eliminate them. Good luck.
> I have never understood this meme of "without oil we'll return to pre-industrial society", it seems like a pretty self serving narrative created by the oil and gas industry.

That's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is fossil fuels may be required for the transition from a pre-industrial society to an industrial society that can do everything with renewable energy. We're towards the tail end of that transition, but it took a hundred+ years of fossil fuel use to get there. If there aren't any fossil fuels left, it may be impossible to make that transition again (say after a nuclear war that destroys the power grid and battery manufacturing/supply chains).
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> They also require ... absurd amounts of space.

I'd have thought that nuclear requires the least amount of space of all energy sources.
Where have you seen nuclear is the cheapest solution for electrity production? Nuclear has some benefits, but price does seem to be one of them (and actually one of the reasons for preferring renewable)
I hope you can look past the negative responses here. I think this is very well intentioned and well done. It would be nice to see more rationale on the website like what you've written here
I'm really glad proptypes are not used anymore, ts is simply better. It's more flexible, gives stronger guarantees in some cases (PropTypes.func does zero checks for signature, for example), better support in editors, better integration with other libraries, allows typing hooks/context. If you need runtime checks, use io-ts or runtypes.
> My company ran into this issue using lambdas to process some data where the 99% of requests were fine running in 256mb but a few required more.

Well, you could have deployed 2 lambdas: one as a coordinator with 256MB and another worker with the Ram you need called in those 1% of cases.

And remember that if you had to do that on a server with a virtual machine you still needed all the ram deployed 24/7.
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People are not stupid when their immediate interest is threatened. Now, we could argue that people as a whole have problems with estimating risk ( they do ) and predicting long term consequences ( they do ), but they can usually notice when a politician is telling them its raining, when said politician is directly pissing at them.

Then again, I am from the old country, where parents ingrain in you distrust for the government. By comparison, US population really does trust its decision-makers. Or maybe trusted, if the article is to be believed.
Joe Rogan occasionally has some super interesting podcasts where he invites an academic/expert or two out to talk about their specialisation. He listens, occasionally asking a question.

That's how I first encountered him - he was interviewing John Carmack. The later episodes were disappointing, but I spent a year keeping an eye on the guest list. There were maybe 4-5 really good interviews in that year.

In Our Time is like those good episodes but with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio and generally better.
Are there any ways to look for tech jobs which are more social and have more in person time?

If you're interested in in person time with the general public along with office people, consider healthcare.

Some of the mid-sized and smaller-sized healthcare companies offer technical people lots of opportunities to interface with the actual people who benefit from their work.

For example, my company does healthcare largely for the poor and underserved. Every person in the company from C-level down to button pushers like myself is required to attend public-facing events a certain amount of time each year.

In my case, while I'm helping these people in other ways, I also get to actually ask them face-to-face "What kind of computer do you have?" and to look at the actual phones they carry with them and to experience the kind of internet service they have in their neighborhoods. This hand-on intelligence is invaluable. Server logs are great in theory, but they are no substitute for actual field work.

Even with the 'rona scattering a lot of us behind-the-scenes people to the four winds, remote workers are still required to put in a certain amount of face time with the clients, whether that means flying back to the mother ship or driving to work regional events.

If general public isn't your thing, get into internal IT support. Walking around a call center watching people doing their jobs helps you think about the systems you build in ways that plowing through trouble tickets doesn't.
If your phone is locked you will most likely not get the notifications, it just depends on the app. I do agree it can waste battery.

It's important to remember this is only a concern on non-free apps. The FOSS apps have very low power background services that check for notifications without the app running.
I don't know what has happened more, nuclear fusion "breakthroughs", or Voyager "leaving the solar system"...
But the upside is that hopefully the govt/health authorities will learn a lesson and be better in the future. Id say in these situations any fallout is always the govt's fault since it is there to serve the people- a case of the customer is always right.
Trust me. Not just Faucci and not just the UK. As for dates I think the UK one was in Jan or Feb when we refused to attend an EU meeting on the situation as it was developing in Italy
Online purchases with UK bank accounts often require this. Some banks use an OAuth-style redirect instead. I think the merchants get lower rates if they enable this feature (called "3D secure") because it lowers the risk of fraud.

It's basically 2FA for online transactions, which seems very sensible to me.
I think the other hard truth that citizens don't get entrusted with, is that we don't really know how to deal with a pandemic in the modern globalized world.

Sure, some countries had plans and scenarios made before, but nonetheless got caught with their pants down. E.g Switzerland doing a nationwide epidemic simulation back in 2013, identifying serious flaws in preparedness, but not acting on it at all.

And even if, it would most likely not have panned out as neatly as predicted.

We haven't dealt with a situation like this before, so things are going to be messy. Opinions changing as more information comes in, not necessary the most effective measure being taken, coordination among countries not working, people fighting for attention etc. I reckon it's going to take a couple years of analysis to be able to look back and with more certainty say what would have been the optimal way to deal with it for different regions and what the right tradeoffs might have been.
I wonder, do we expect the rate of pandemics to increase or decrease over time?

On the one hand, you might assume the rate of pandemics is proportional to the size of the human population; more people, more hosts for mutating viruses, greater odds of one mutating to a pandemic-causing disease. There have been roughly 400 billion person-years lived since the last pandemic, but given the larger populations, we'd expect to accumulate another 400 billion person-years by around 2070.

On the other hand, you might assume the rate of pandemics is proportional to the size of the animal populations humans interact with. More animals to breed the viruses, more interactions to pass along the next candidate pandemic. In this case, we might expect more than a century for the next pandemic, since the next century isn't expected to be nearly as kind to animal populations.

(Obviously the situation is more complicated than an either-or, and has many contributing factors, and is stochastic in any case.)
the problem with cheaper and safer is that you are assuming there will come a point in the future where carbon-based generation will be eliminated. That date is indeterminate and isn’t guaranteed.

On the other hand is nuclear, a technology that’s well understood, expensive, over-regulated but which does not have ongoing carbon emissions.

Climate change is a problem today. It was a problem yesterday and needs a solution ASAP, not at some indeterminate point in the future.
As someone using k3s on a single node right now, could you clarify/expand on "it doesn't have handling for clusters in the config"?
(Speaking to the information we got in the US)

This is wrong and way too charitable. They were worried that hospitals would run out of masks, and that was why the Surgeon General lied [0], and said masks weren't necessary. Fauci and everyone else did the same thing.

It's unfortunate that so much trust was wasted on this, but revising history that we all lived through isn't helping.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-fa...
It's trivially easy to understand that getting a vaccine that benefits you, as well as the people around you, is good for the people around you, much more so than it is good for someone you're protesting against.

And not getting the vaccine is potentially bad for you, and those around you, much more so than it is bad for anyone you're protesting against.

The vaccine helps your body fight the virus, and reduce the spread of the virus in your local community. That should be the key point in deciding if you get a vaccine.
As another data point for achievability:

"bookworm [the next Debian stable release] on amd64 is 95.6% reproducible right now! "

https://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/
For me the ideal commute(pre Covid) was an under 20 mins walk/bike ride. That is still nearly 3.5 hours a week not counting dressing up / getting ready for the commute.
Is this something more popular outside of the US where credit/debit cards are not as ubiquitous?
I'd be also very interested to know more about your experience and ideas, and also, I would take the occasion to try to better understand what is exactly meant by "consultant", in this context (for some reason I would always want to distinguish between the sense where it's you working solo and independently for a company, and the other, where there's you, a company "hiring" you and their client).
> They also require massive amounts of concrete (bad for the environment, locally and globally) and absurd amounts of space.

All the other types of power plants use massive amount of concrete too and space (except solar panel installed on roofs)
> There is no way, even in principle, to tell if we are in a simulation, unless the runners of the simulation decide to tell us.

Some people have different ideas.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2012/12/10/do-we-live-in-a-c...
thanks for the suggestion, will look into it.
Hybrid remote, or part time... just isn't great. You end up in the office, in a conference room... each on your own Zoom call because half your team is remote still.

Better is full time wfh with an occasional visit in person, with an agenda. I'd much prefer to go to an "office" once every two weeks and have basically all meetings, then be able to go home and get stuff done for the rest of the time. Will there be other meetings other times, of course! But you can push bigger things, brainstorming type meetings, to be in person.
Isn’t WalMart and Lowe’s related to the same family /investors? This seems like a strange partnership