skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to hear you say that. I've played the most demanding Android games on the Pixel 3a with no issues. I've never experienced anything but a butter smooth UI on Graphine or Lineage to be honest. The battery life has been all day for me even when using GBA emulators for multiple hours a day.

I agree the default camera app of Graphine isn't great, but it's picture quality better than the iPhone I came from (iPhone SE gen1)
There has been a lot of research into this.

The main thing is actually learning effects, the second thing is 'mass production'.

If you have teams that have build reactors before, they will be much better. Once you have people on their 3rd reactor, they go fast.

Its kind of like other massive infrastructure projects like bridges.

Basically nuclear reactors are large civil engineering projects, and you need experience to do it.

The second is that some parts, like the core reactor vessel are insanely complex high pressure and the production of these needs special facilities that basically only exist in like 3 places. They managed in the 70-80s to kind of 'mass' produce these but today its totally costume.

Another things is, France totally failed by themselves to build next generation plants. Its borderline crazy that we are still building PWR type reactors. All attempts at next generation reactors have been terrible.

I am really high on what's going on in Canada, real next generation reactors are FINALLY really seriously going threw real internationally recognized nuclear validation from a first class regulator.
Do they support it in their backyards? I do, but do they?
Yes, there's a difference between a raging narcissist who can't even seem to tell the truth even if there's nothing to gain from lying and listening to a doctor.

But yeah, keep going with the whole "democrats are just as bad as republicans" thing. Seems to be working.
Go back a year and see who was saying the vaccine was not safe. Explicitly saying you don't trust the vaccine because your political opponent was president when it was created is political plain and simple.
Coinbase is launching a marketplace for NFTs
> The flip side that wasn't discussed

This has been discussed ad nauseam. Nature isn't a foreign policy magazine, so it's not really the greatest place for advising how the US should respond to a disinformation campaign. But communicating about healthcare policy seems to be reasonably in its area of expertise.

> The flip side that wasn't discussed is the belittling and censoring of voices that were skeptical of the narratives, which engendered even more distrust

The disinformation campaign was allowed to got on essentially unchecked for a long time because it was politically sensitive to speak publicly about it. As we started to get more confirmation that it was being funded by foreign governments (e.g. [0]), pushback against the disinformation became stronger.

> Their strategy of information control backfired, and they doubled down. Now we've got a huge swath of US citizens that will never take the vaccine.

I am highly skeptical there is any evidence for the causality you are implying here.

A disinformation campaign like this is an attack on Americans by a foreign military. People may reasonably disagree about how it should be handled, but at some point citizens have a right to defend their country from attacks.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-disinformation-campaign...
Of course, I'm not going to muck around with brittle webpages that can't take a webpage just to fix one blog post, though.
Try fixing the problems
Solo founder, sold my last SaaS I had set up using "spooky arcane oldhat sysadmin deploy techniques" h/t to @Fiahil for that shade.

On that it was a Django product with deploy scripts for staging and production, i.e. `./deploy_production` ran:

#!/bin/bash
ssh web@[production ip] << 'ENDSSH'
cd /home/web/
./pg.sh
ENDSSH

Where `pg.sh` pulled from `master` ran static and migration management commands and restarted the web server.

Last summer I moved away from the spookies and now do all deployment using Github Actions.

Commits to either a feature branch or `develop` run tests and all necessary deployment steps to a staging instance. (my stuff so far does not require k8s) and all containers are put up using docker compose. Commits to `main` (or `master` depending on the project)

I blended a few guides written by Michael Herman to build my GA-based CI, and it took several weeks to work on the scripts and learn Github Actions. But it was time absolutely worth investing because my DevOps is modern enough now.

No more bare metal stuff. No more scripts. Nice visual display of deployment success, "free" VMs for the deployment and CI UI integrated alongside my issues and code all on Github.

Importantly, I still use git flow. I tried moving to trunk based, but the macros inherint in git flow (including the pycharm plugin) make this production / staging // master / devops or feature/ work very well (I'm not making PRs to myself)
France isn't reducing the capacity as a targetted policy but out of necessity. They have 58 nuclear power plants, most of them quite old (before 80ies). To maintain the current level, they would have to be replaced not too far in the future, but currently only 1 or 2 new reactors are under construction and both late and way over budget. So there currently is no route in maintaining the current capacity. Consequently politics has to come up with a roadmap which relies less on nuclear power.
One nice part about this is that it slows down the real scalpers significantly – rather than just spinning up a new IP, email address, or temporary credit card number, they now can be rate-capped by requiring a new $200/yr membership for every $n Playstations sold.
You're posting this on a site where the admin encourages users to post archive links to bypass paywalls. Wrong place for arguments that content creators get their fair share.
Aside from the Wikipedia, I'm beat!
It varies like anywhere. My team at amazon is fairly low stress and there's no overtime (I've been here for a year now).
How come? Conventional electricity plants also convert heat to electricity. That doesn't sound fundamentally different from your business.

Was your input temperature too low? That would explain it. At low temperature differential, you have lower efficiency and need much bigger machinery for the same output.

That said, fusion has a chance to be competitive, because the temperature will be higher. (Obviously, the thermodynamic limit is in the billions of Kelvin, but a practical power conversion system will operate in the range of 500-1000 Celsius.) But for the foreseeable future, it won't be competitive.
>censoring of voices that were skeptical of the narratives

Much of what you describe as 'censoring' was focused on stopping the promotion of false cures eg Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, H2O2 nebulization etc. This type of speech is already highly regulated, as most people lack the capacity to 'do their own research' regarding a drug's safety or efficacy.
Facebook’s Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations”
if you don't understand objects and constructs you will hate it. if you do you will love it.
But are the third parties buying the data actually getting anything useful out of it?
That's not what I said or implied.
> But burning nearly a kilowatt on a gaming rig feels like a step too far.

How much energy does a golf cart use? Cause those golfers are using a golf-cart for miles when their legs are perfectly acceptable (and golf-carts are illegal in professional play)
> The former is a claim that I made explicitly.

I think you recognized the contradiction in your own point and corrected it so I will leave it be. It is unimportant to the broader idea of the simulation hypothesis that any individual hypothesis can be disproven. In fact there is an infinite number of trivial variants that can easily be disproven. This is still an infinitessimal fraction of the uncountable space of hypotheses.

Similary it doesn't matter if the claims of any individual religion can be falsified, there is simply another one without those claims. Just because I read something false in one book, or many books, doesn't mean all books are false. Or just because one scientfic paper turns out to not be replicable doesn't mean empiricism is fundementally useless.
You need to stop thinking these parties make sense, both are pro science, both are anti-science. They're a random set of beliefs/agendas/policies that are not coherent. For instance, before covid democrats were the party of the anti-vaxxers.

They don't represent the majority - their membership and approval has been declining. They're about power and directing money to their constituents.
Oh good. I wasn't aware they had relocated quite that far oort.
The current models basically say that if we burnt all of the oil, we’d turn our planet into Venus with runaway warming. I don’t think that’s the path we’re on now, but I think that would be the path we’d land on if we were bootstrapping another society with the oil we left behind at the end of this century.

And that’s presuming there’s enough of it left to bootstrap. We’ve wasted a lot of it to get to the point where solar and nuclear exist, whether we could replicate that with what will be left is unclear to me. There’s certainly not a lot of good coal left, for example. We burnt most of it in the 19th century, and a new industrial revolution would have to make do with the subpar stuff we’ve left behind.
This is just a symptom of a larger problem: there aren't really good ways for retailers to do "market adjustments" upwards on products without resorting to tricks like mandatory bundling. Customers love when products are discounted, but froth at the mouth when they are marked up.

Car manufactures figured out this problem by having sky-high sticker prices, then offering massive discounts. This turned out to be a smart move during the pandemic, because they could increase prices by 20% on some models by just not offering discounts. Special edition cars still suffer from ADM, which pisses people off, but in general this is a good solution.

Every gaming console released in the past 20 years has had this initial price surge at launch. I really can't believe that Sony didn't just come out with an MSRP of ~$1300 at launch, and aggressively discount it as supplies grew. But I suppose they were worried about pissing consumers off, so they let scalpers take the heat off the brand, making the lost revenue is essentially a marketing/goodwill expense.

I honestly think that people would have been fine if the initial MSRP was basically market-rate. People really, really, really seem to hate scalpers.
Is it really partisan to point out that Republicans took anti-vaxxing to be practically their identifying feature?
To compete, Apple Maps will also need to have a fully accessible web version
@dang This was reported and discussed 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704298

The important thing to know is that the NIF is about nuclear weapons design (verification of modeling software used for nuclear weapons design), not about developing fusion power plants.
You are assuming "they" trust the Republican leadership. this Gallup poll says only 12% of Americans trust congress. https://news.gallup.com/poll/352316/americans-confidence-maj... Lots of other interesting tidbits about trust in there...
It's unbelievably slow for me

I have that same problem too -- the Home Depot site is painful to use because it's so slow.

I prefer Lowes, but I can't use it while on my my work VPN because they think I'm a bot, so when my wife sends me a link to look at while on VPN, I can't see it until I log off VPN at the end of the day. So we stopped using Lowes. I complained about this to Lowes and asked them to whitelist my company's VPN endpoint, but got a generic response back about cyber security and keeping me safe.
Just think of all the personal data you could collect!
Most of the French nuclear reactors were built when they had the capacity to build many reactors and thus it was cheaper. The problem with a lot of current nuclear costs is that you have to reinvent the wheel every time. If you're mass producing then things get cheaper. We haven't mass produced reactors in decades.
There are two problems.

One is corrosion/radiation damage to the reactor vessel which is probably made with something like

http://www.haynesintl.com/alloys/alloy-portfolio_/Corrosion-...

The other is that most of these designs have a graphite moderator, and the graphite gets damaged in the reactor environment.
> So high in fact, that there is no market price for it. As a result no nuclear power plant worldwide is insured

That's a very confident and incorrect statement.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...

As for accident vs costs of cleanup, like I said, new plants are designed not only to eliminate accidents from causing failures, but also such that if a failure happened, it would be completely contained.
no disrespect but i know plenty of liberals who will not get the vaccine. the media turned it into a bi-partisan issue when in all actuality it was a government handling issue in which the rest were used as scapegoats. you remember that they gave themselves raises while the rest of us were told not to go into work. which obviously we are gonna listen if we believe that covid is as dangerous as the scientist were saying, the main issue and the reason why blockchain (primary crypto) technology took last year was because of the censorship issues. people do not want amazon to shut down a website because it disagrees with their narrative, they don’t want facebook, reddit or payment processors shutting things down for those same reasons. so the push towards even more decentralizing is going to happen. but to clear things up, this is decentralized together, not the traditional sense of decentralization.

you cannot censor someone you disagree with and expect them to be okay with it. you make them a slave to your narrative, and if they become slaves, they will push to make you a slave as well by whatever means necessary. see texas abortion bans. it’s what Gandhi said, “an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind” or a more modern version would be “that which we resist, persist”. this is common knowledge, when push comes to shove, the shoved push back. but the problem is, we end up in a loop, where both parties lose more and more of their civil liberties to PWN their perceived enemy. it’s odd that a lot of adults don’t
understand this basic concept.

down vote all you want, it doesn’t make it any less true
I think it goes beyond political party. It sounds like a basic human level misunderstanding and lack of foresight. Also the understandable choice during the heyday to pick the one kind of nuclear power that created weapons as a by product. Unless I'm missing something. Is there a world-wide acceptance of nuclear power and only the USA is outstanding in their phobia? I honestly don't know, my understanding of world politics is a bit thin.
GitLab and Dokku.

You can run almost ANYTHING inside dokku. I use it to run a private/public docker registry, minio (amazon S3 clone), analytics via matomo, and a ton of mini apps that share a bunch of databases. It's incredible.

With dokku, deploying your app is just "git push dokku main"

GitLab plus CI is amazing. And, other than hosting, I don't pay a penny for it. If you self-host, you can put it behind a wireguard VPN. It's incredible. You can run as many runners as you want on your personal laptops, or on the cloud, and bring them up and down when needed.
Is that with at least some attempt at building a CDN? Generally cloud providers don't charge for traffic between hosts in the same availability zone. One could think about putting a slave into each major availability zone of various cloud providers. The main service would then only be used to create HTTP redirects to the specific slave, or if none exists, or the package isn't replicated yet at the slave, just answer directly.

Even if such a system isn't built, with that kind of money on the table you could get a team of FANG scale developers to build it for you.
I wish it were just cartels that oppose a carbon price. The fact is it will make certain industries shrink, and almost no country in the world (certainly not the US) does much to take care of displaced workers, and the workers know it. Meanwhile the people who will have jobs in the new industries that spring up don't know it yet, so they don't fight for it.
Could you point to any good resources on this topic?
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How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...

How do opinions change? Through objective reality. Censorship and media control isn't powerful enough. "How Chinese liberals lost the young generation" https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/erCJHZVLEtnZ4wWbkgij3g
That is really flippant and cynical sounding, but you're right. Seriously. What was the last, actual, substantive piece of legislation to come out of the legislature?

I work in higher education, and a new higher education act has been just over the horizon since what, 1999? Nothing changes, except that which can be changed via executive order, or can be sued and changed in well-established and forecasted voting patterns via the judiciary.
I knew it was controversial when I posted it, and I know this comment will be too. That's not my energy at all, but I do think poor behaviors yield rightfully earned distrust and consequences.

I was 100% on board with at home testing every 3 days schemes, mask wearing (even though I doubt the efficacy of most masks), but having compulsory medical procedures with a relatively untested, proprietary technology is where I draw the line.
I know that he used directions and elevations.

He told me that his use case was definitely NOT free.

I also know that Apple Maps could not give him the specializations he was looking for. He is an experienced, rational engineer, and would not have acted in an alarmist manner. He really liked the Google API. Google has done a wonderful job with their map product, but I also know that it's a "gateway drug."

I won't link to his app, because it can get crazy, with all the anti-Apple stuff. I won't drag him into the fray.
The previous administration made this political, and the pandora's box already have been opened. People were swearing they won't take vaccine, before it was even available.

Look at countries where pandemic is not political.
Oh well, a store here in London locks the ability to buy a (second) Rolex behind a minimum spend of £45k on other things.

Things you want are getting harder and harder to get; while the hard-to-get stuff will exit via the backdoor onto the grey market
OC cites Denmark as role model.

What's their citizen's level of trust in their institutions?

Does Denmark have a thriving media ecosystem profiting from inciting distrust, outage, division?

For the US, UK, Aus, I cannot imagine any increase in collectivism, social trust, esteem for the greater good while Murdock, Koch, Zuck, Dorsey, and so many others, remain utterly opposed.
> Life has its obstacles, but maybe we’re finding there's a method to the madness, and existence isn’t completely aimless. In quantum annealing, barriers need to be overcome to reach a lower energy state, a better place — and as surely as water flows downhill, it never ends in a worse place than it began. That’s just physics, but it could mean something beautiful:

Can someone explain what it means? If it actually does mean anything at all.
My experience is that the worst part is the config file. Its documentation isn't great and it's got a lot of cruft and overlapping functionality that can be confusing. It's easy to end up following a guide that's outdated or simply wrong in some subtle way that just happened to work for the original author but was still incorrect, when it comes to the config file.

Once it's set up, though, it's wonderful. No more refreshing only to discover you typo'd something or left out a step. You can hand your code to someone else—or to your future self—and they can often just start using it without having to ask questions, read documentation, or read the code to figure out what it does, because the types convey a ton of info and their editor/IDE presents it to them as-needed.

It lets you get your ideas about how the code works out "onto the page", as it were, and in a format in which a machine can automate most of the looking-up and finding-relevant-information-for-this-context parts. It slows down some code-writing a little (mostly by making you document things that should probably be documented anyway, either with tests [yes, tests are documentation] or in a manual or whatever) but speeds up using code so much that it more than makes up for the cost.

It's an incredible communication tool.

If you rarely need to communicate with others or with your future self about code you're writing, then it may not be worth using. So, if you're on a smallish solo project that you don't intend to stop working on until you're done working on it forever, never plan to hand to anyone else, and that you spend so much time working on that the whole thing's in your head nearly all the time, it might be fine to just write JS.
That is exactly what is taking 99.99+% of the development time. Fixing the problems with typescript. My JS code has no issues.
My NYC-based startup is struggling with this from the other side right now.

Half of us are "in person people" and the other half have never been happier working remote, so we're doing it team by team. My team has decided to be in-person. We show up 3+ days a week, have in-person happy hours, grab lunch together, and optimize our meetings for in-person. I love it.

But now hiring for this team has become impossible. We have other teams that will take on remote engineers, but ours looking for someone who also prefers in-person is just filtering so many people so early in the pipeline.
Nuclear Recycling (2009)
Would love to try this sometime, as a side note, I love the scroll functionality on the left. Makes for a great code presentation.
Indeed, Fauci has the magic touch of the 'cooler', the person in a con who keeps the mark from getting angry.

Everything Fauci's said, at every phase of this pandemic, has been optimized not to save lives or be truthful, but to excuse whatever actions, or inactions, the federal government has taken as "the best possible at the time". The doctor schtick, plus the gravelly NYC accent, is a powerful combo. There's a reason he's the highest-paid employee in the whole federal government!
It would be nice if the color-coded key ("Object", etc.) linked to the detailed sections below.

When I first saw "Object" in the summary, I didn't know what it meant.
>minimizing energy use per activity

Maybe this is what feels off?

A kilowatt feels like too much for a videogame. This isn't a bitcoin mining thing, is it?
I'm not sure stating the conclusion in a premise a particularly convicing argumentative strategy.
The use of the word "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency" in this article is irritating because in the context of tech, "crypto" can also mean "cryptography" and I'm pretty sure Stripe already has lots of cryptography specialists on staff.

Or maybe Stripe is hiring a team of cryptozoologists?
To quote out of context — "… historically focused
more on creative and didactic experimentation than software
engineering and industrial use…".

"A Critical Analysis of String APIs: the Case of Pharo"
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01651250/document

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For CRUD stuff, PHP & Notepad will probably be OK.

For other stuff, local type inference does make a difference.

So does the widespread availability of free-as-in-beer source code libraries.