skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most banks in EU require phone app based confirmations for transfers and other operations (according to PDS2 directive).

Visa and Mastercard also introduced 3DSecrue system which piggybacks on the same system of confirmations. Vendors are incentivised to adopt it by lower rates.

In essence when paying with card or making a wire transfer (or using some instant transfer method, for example Blik in Poland), you get notification on you phone asking you to confirm operation, even if you initiate it from your account in the browser.

In essence Bank apps became 2FA devices.
The only way to avoid it is to opt-out of the App 2FA and use paper one-time code pad.
You regularly then get sent a list of codes by snail mail, which you have to type to confirm operations.
I think you're right. In my opinion, the republic is unraveling. Roman Empire 2.0.
Note that @dang doesn't actually notify dang, unless he happens to open this article and see it out of the corner of his eye or something. If you want to report a frontpage dupe, emailing the mods using the footer Contact link is an efficient method (or you can just flag it as I did, which has relatively the same effect if enough people do).
I have a script to automate the pain away with creating throw away VM instances based on Ubuntu/Debian. Almost every fail is not allowing the correct ingress port into the VM (51820 in my case)

https://pastebin.com/09iE1sME
You know whose wealth we could all benefit from a bit of sharing in? Billionaires. Theirs is the only wealth worth sharing
I fail to see how any force can negate the power of world economies at this point. Even Germany had to pay back its war debt and had to do so after changing its political system, therefore the power of economies is--historically--far greater than the power of political systems.
Ignition in the case of ICF means that, for the brief time while the shockwave from the initial laser burst is still keeping the plasma together, you get to fuse all of the D+T in your pellet. Once the initial velocity is lost, the high-temperature He dissipates away.

Not ahcieving ignition means that the plasma cools too rapidly and the fusion reaction stops even before the brief microseconds of inertial confinement are lost.

Perhaps if you could deliver enough energy to a large enough pellet, you could use this to build a bomb, but today it is far too small for that, and the reaction wouldn't work with a larger fuel pellet (the geometry that allows the extreme pressures needed for fusion would not be easily achieved with a larger pellet, since even the wave-length of the laser is relevant at this level).
"Fungible" is a word not appearing on this page yet. But the most important thing for future power generation is how much you can buy for the money. Energy capex is fungible.

Here are the numbers. Buy the ones at the bottom of the graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Not really. The equipment to seal wells and pipelines against leaks would cost billions.

We need more generation, but solar is already cheaper than new natural gas built on the leaky network. It makes more economic sense to just overbuild your solar at these prices.

[1] $250mn for a single state: https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-c...
Well, it's not a problem. Not that Coinbase is a monopoly (far from it), but this is what market power looks like.
My father works in Taiwan and he was aware something bad was coming down well before it hit US news. This was late January 2020, and by then most all of the masks at the stores were sold out, followed shortly by the cleaning supplies. I would say the majority of buyers were shipping these back to family in Asia or they were prepairing for the peak that hit a few weeks later.
I share the same viewpoint. I wonder if anyone has any information about what ordinary Americans can do to support SMRs? What should I ask my representatives to do? Is there proposed legislation I could petition them to support? Are there organizations I could donate to?
I like to tell people who play the lottery they should go for 1 2 3 4 5 6 as it's just as likely to come up.
Oh, this is just laser fusion. One pulse of power. That's not a power source, even potentially. It's a lab-sized H-bomb experiment. This isn't one of the magnetic containment systems achieving ignition and sustaining the reaction. Now that would be an achievement.
I oversimplified in that statement, you need more than a factor of 1 because of heat losses to the environment yes. However 5 is not much different than 1. We've gone from 0.0001 only a few years ago to close to 1 now.

And btw, you really want more than 5, 10 or 20 ideally, but again, that's not too hard as compared to how far we've come and new reactors will be beyond that soon.
I somewhat agree, but to me the semantics using unknown makes more sense as the function is attempting to answer a question of the input object.

"What is object? I don't know. Does it meet these conditions? Yes then object is Human else not."
Something tells me the alternative is going to do much more than putting people out of jobs.
You can't really win the debate anyway: if everybody had followed strict isolation from the get go there wouldn't have been a pandemic and people would have said the restrictions were completely uncalled for.
Batteries and price-aware appliances seem dramatically more practical than a superconducting electric power infrastructure
Is this what Dan talked about in react hooks origins? https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/
opening in incognito also works!
No, I don't. That's a different issue.
So do you want to correct my incorrect conclusion or are you happy to just call it a day :P

The contradiction was in saying the simulation hypothesis was fundementally unfalsifiable, and then pointing to its falsifiablity as a reason to prefer it to other belief systems. Your edit made it more clear, but there is still a contradiction there.

Given that a sibling comment is expressing very similar criticisms, I think my interpretation of your argument reflects something present in your text. If I am mistaken, please help me understand your point of view better. This is what good faith discussion is about. No shame necessary.
How does a single metric from a highly specialized runtime environment indicate a tech stack is dead?

There are things you can do right now [1] to mitigate these cold start issues.

Going forward, ahead-of-time compilation will be an option. [2]

Aside from cold starts, note that the improvements in .NET make ASP.NET Core one of the fastest web frameworks. [3]

The article:
> “.Net has almost the same performance as Golang and Rust, but only after 1k iterations(after JIT).”

Additions like async/await and nullable reference types make it easier to write bug-free code, which for a lot of folks is a better trade off than “speaking to the hardware directly”.

.NET also runs natively on a bunch of platforms now, including ARM.

I’d call all of that continuous improvement. Perhaps even reinvention?

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/ready...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/tree/feature/NativeAOT

[3] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=5...
Talking about the ones specifically working for the pharmaceuticals. I don't particularly like the companies, but I trust that the smart people working for them want to solve problems.

Don't really care about the opinions of any random PhD (I know a few, most know their field and little else).
So the testing will then also magically clean the water if it gets contaminated? Sure, if Flint MI is our baseline for acceptable living standards this is fine.
Wikipedia says radon gets into it:

"""Radon is found in some petroleum. Because radon has a similar pressure and temperature curve to propane, and oil refineries separate petrochemicals based on their boiling points, the piping carrying freshly separated propane in oil refineries can become radioactive because of decaying radon and its products.[84]

Residues from the petroleum and natural gas industry often contain radium and its daughters. The sulfate scale from an oil well can be radium rich, while the water, oil, and gas from a well often contains radon. Radon decays to form solid radioisotopes that form coatings on the inside of pipework.[84]""" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon

Unfortunately citation 84 is a dead link: "Potential for Elevated Radiation Levels In Propane" (PDF). National Energy Board. April 1994. Retrieved 2009-07-07" - http://www.neb-one.gc.ca/clf-nsi/rsftyndthnvrnmnt/sfty/sftyd...
Not every country has every resource; that's why we have global trade. Yet that isn't even relevant since nuclear storage doesn't require special geography – US plants mostly just keep it onsite.
I work at Stripe—could you email at me at edwin@stripe.com and I can look into what happened?
It is great the price has gone up. What's bad is people are buying it anyways.

The price needs to be high, sure, but also too high, in that demand is scared off and consumption/revenue goes down. Sadly, the price is not too high at the moment by that definition.

> Isn't the current gas shortage just Putin trying to ram through Nordstream 2?

I have no idea. What I noticed is not even a gas shortage, but a wind shortage driving up demand for gas.
From the end of the blog post, the LavaRand project was never actually used as a primary source of random numbers.

>Hopefully we’ll never need it. Hopefully, the primary sources of randomness used by our production servers will remain secure, and LavaRand will serve little purpose beyond adding some flair to our office. But if it turns out that we’re wrong, and that our randomness sources in production are actually flawed, then LavaRand will be our hedge, making it just a little bit harder to hack Cloudflare.

So, no, it isn't serving a purpose for millions of websites. It's 2kW of lamps running as a backup in an office nobody is going into right now to even look at.
I hope that too but for stable coins to work you need atm machines and multiple exchanges otherwise you end-up with another paypal thing.
> We still couldn't compete with conventional electricity plants, even with a $30/tonne price on carbon in Canada.

Worth noting that the current plan is for the minumum carbon tax in canada to increase by $15/tonne/yr until 2035, so the question might be more when will it reach a break even point? Seems like you'd want to be positioned for that.
Exactly. The costs are much more than economic. It's the Tragedy of the Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
The obsession with solar panels is currently driving a major ecological catastrophe. Solar panels are known to leak lead in the environment. We also have no good way to recycle them once the cells are done for good (currently, the average lifespan of a panel is about 20 years). There is already a massive buildup of solar waste full of extremely toxic components and we're not even close to seeing the worst of it considering most solar panels today were installed in the past 2 decades.

In addition to that, the amount of space it would take to have the equivalent amount of power that a modern nuclear plant would provide is a massive ecological disaster in and of itself.

And I haven't even begun to talk about batteries...

Solar is not the solution. To be honest nuclear isn't either. Coal is obviously terrible and wind is unreliable. The real solution that no one dares to talk about is degrowth. George Bush articulated it himself when he said, "“The American way of life is not up for negotiations." And to this day we would never dare to bring up the idea that we actually just need to USE LESS.
Defendant was stealing negentropy (negative entropy, or order). Good luck explaining that to a judge!

Alternatively, it could be a claim of vandalism - the defendant didn’t steal anything, but rather damaged the saline by imparting energy on the molecules which disordered them.
Tinkering with virus genetics is arguably high school level, garage lab science at this point, advantaged by mass production of almost everything you need, rna editing and crispr methodologies are well beyond published and into the "follow this tutorial to make a glowing frog/beer/bunny"and "here's how to add arbitrary sequences to rna."

It's almost certain that bad actors will make use of the available tech. We'll likely see many synthetic plagues before regulation and international controls catch up.
The reason why we still use PWR is because of pilotability. When you're able to modulate the power of a reactor of 40% in 30 minutes without damaging anything or engaging any failsafe, you can reasonably make nuclear reactor follow the consumption.
You're still a short walk from the nearest primary school, shop and pub though. Granted lots of local pubs are going under these days and local shops don't have a massive selection. But it still beats having to drive for every little thing.
i did read it. It is a mischaracterisation because the two are not comparable as time is ignored. To achieve functional parity with a fuel-powered generator such as a nuclear plant, you would need to guarantee identical operation with an array of wind generators. At the moment, this is only possible over large geographical areas.

As for battery capacity, you seem to underestimate how much electrical energy even small cities use. The limiting factor is capacity. FYI, the US consumes around 3,800 terawatt hours of electrical energy annually. Good luck powering even a fraction of that for more than a few seconds with a battery.
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The amazing thing is how many of the most egregious incidents involve drivers with suspended licenses or no licenses. At the moment, in the US, due to bail reform consequences are minimal unless someone is actual killed.
Not all of it, no; your understanding of "ignition" is incorrect. cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28842919
> 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 they say that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect#Eart...:

> Within current models of the runaway greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide (especially anthropogenic carbon dioxide) does not seem capable of providing the necessary insulation for Earth to reach the Simpson–Nakajima limit.[7][8]

> Debate remains, however, on whether carbon dioxide can push surface temperatures towards the moist greenhouse limit.[24][25] Climate scientist John Houghton has written that "[there] is no possibility of [Venus's] runaway greenhouse conditions occurring on the Earth".[26] The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has also stated that "a 'runaway greenhouse effect'—analogous to [that of] Venus—appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities."[27] However, climatologist James Hansen disagrees. In his Storms of My Grandchildren he says that burning coal and mining oil sands will result in runaway greenhouse on Earth.[28] A re-evaluation in 2013 of the effect of water vapor in the climate models showed that James Hansen's outcome would require ten times the amount of CO2 we could release from burning all the oil, coal, and natural gas in Earth's crust.[24]
It's almost like this is the event that prompted her to make her video.
It is extremely unlikely that someone will be killed by a 5 mph collision, and it is certainly less likely than a 30 mph collision.
The algorithms seem to favor popularity instead of discovering new options.

Anything where you have followers/reviews will favor established players.
France has also underestimated decommissioning costs by a multiple. The real costs are hard to know, but other nations' estimates are much higher.
> but the core beliefs of the Abrahamic relgions and even Hinudism and Buddhism have a lot in common.

The problem is not the things they have in common, the problem is the claims for which you can't figure out the truth value in any way, regardless of whether they're shared or not.

> I will take it further than this: 100% of all beliefs are at least partially wrong.

Fortunately most beliefs held by people are not considered dogmas. Even Newtonian gravity was replaced when time arose for that. You didn't get a schism in form of a Newtonian Church splitting off.
You don't think that public health professionals would recommend a vaccine provided by the Trump administration? Think a bit, why did she even bring that up at all? Why not be happy that Trump talked about getting people vaccinated and tell people that vaccination is now supported by both parties and therefore everyone should go and get vaccinated as soon as possible? You don't think that taking that approach would have changed anything?

But instead she pushed the divisiveness to its max here for no reason at all.
It's not a useful metric but illustrates how much India is actually lagging vis-a-vis PRC. The gap is widening not converging. The actual situation is even worse if you factor in things like forex trends.
It was still an extremely reckless thing for her to say to score some political points though.
ITER isn't even possible to create an economic nuclear reactor out of because it's too big. The sheer size of a ITER-sized reactor doesn't get us to economical reactors. ITER is a science experiment, not a commercial reactor design. High-field strength high temperature superconductor based allows much smaller sizes than ITER, but ITER was designed with the technology that was available in the late 1990s.
May 2020.

Yup, inner centre is pretty great for a bike.
My iPhone 13 Pro survived 26 hours at the bottom of a river
TL;DR: iPhone 13 Pro fell out of my pocket while tubing down a river. Scuba diver recovered it 26 hours later, and it's in nearly perfect condition.
I know you aren't supposed to accuse someone of "schilling", but this article repeats verbatim Facebook's criticism of the whistleblower. "We shouldn't make any rash moves to overregulate..."
I want to live in a world where we work on projects that will benefit us both 5 and 50 years in the future.
It's always nice to see Docker Compose and tools that are built around it, same way as with Swarm!

Here's a few other that occupy a similar space:

- https://caprover.com/
- https://dokku.com/

Now, if only functions as a service got a bit more love, then things would be really interesting!
Fully agree.

One of the best takes I read on this argued that the public health institutions failed the US because they were so intent on forcing outcomes ("don't buy masks") rather than, as you said, simply saying hard truths and giving guidance.

People can tell when they're being talked down to, and there's been a lot of that since this started. I don't even think anyone's doing it maliciously, they're just really, really bad at PR.

Now, I think there are plenty of people who over-corrected for this and love endlessly nursing a grudge against Evil Big Government. That's on them.
Her video multiple times tries to make fake total Q values by looking at the energy consumption of JET and ITER and then trying to say that is Q_total, which is wrong.

She doesn't even show her calculations on how she calculates some of her Q_total examples.
Shudup :-). I know the guy. I just don't want to point him out for casual semi-humorous comment. Anyways it is a known fact that average age of a Covid terminal patient is higher than average life-span.
Your analogy falls flat because we're still decades away from a functional fusion power plant.

"Why breed faster horses now when maybe my grandchildren will get to zoom around in cars?"
I’d much rather take an ICE train than a steam engine train…
Indeed! Rail and nuclear power seem to play out the exact same tragedy. Very sad.
I’ve found their reporting mechanism for incorrect directions to be very easy to use and that they are responsive to the suggestions. Please leave a marker for the next poor soul who’d get snared in that trap!
You know who doesn't try to hide this stuff from people?

Bad actors. Conspiracy theorists, scammers, straight up liars.

So you've got on one hand "the experts" who are being vague and seemingly not wanting to tell you anything, and then on the other hand you've got the crazies who will tell you whatever you want to hear.

It's something that is increasingly frustrating me about the vaccines. The vaccines have become a political battle. You've got the president saying absolutely ridiculous things like "we are losing our patience with the unvaccinated".

I got phone calls immediately after that speech from my conservative friends and family members pissed off at me (who is on a different political quadrant than they are), wanting to know if I was "losing my patience" with them, and explaining how they are NEVER going to take the vaccine. How they now see this as an important idealogical battle that they want to win.

Conservatives are sharing videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TSZMtSPX3iE&feat...

Where it's Dr. Fauci starting off saying "The vaccine is 100% safe and 100% effective!" (a lie, obviously), and as the video continues that number goes down and down and down.

It was the same last year when he said that we needed something like 70 or 80% antibody presence to reach herd immunity, but then was quoted in a more private interview saying that was basically a white lie, and that we wouldn't be in the clear until nearly 100%. THAT got shared among the conservative spaces, and basically erased ANY credibility that Fauci had going forward.

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I wish they would just say:
Covid sucks.
Yes, it almost certainly leaked out of a lab in China.

Yes it was gain of function research. Yes this is the worst industrial disaster in the history of the planet.

Yes we did say masks didn't work. It was a lie to keep the masks available for doctors.

Yes the vaccines do have dangers associated with them, but for many people that danger is probably less than the danger of covid.

Yes there are alternative treatments that show some effectiveness in cohorts, but not in RCTs.

No we don't know why.

We aren't sure if the lockdowns are actually effective, but we think it's worth it to try them.

We aren't sure if the masks are actually effective but we think it's worth it to try them.

The vaccine is available to you and free if you want it. This is a huge privilege you get because you live in the richest country in the world. Basically your access to the vaccine is an example of how kickass the USA is.

Just stop freaking lying to people. It's making the problem 100x worse!
So will your country allow my country to store our waste in Yucca Mountain, then?
Here is a better analogy: Being pro nuclear is like being anti-vaxx because monoclonal antibodies work. They just cost a large multiple of vaccination.
Another longer, but also entertaining, source for the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo
I didn't say that the hypothesis of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent creator was falsifiable, I said that some of the claims made by those who believe that hypothesis (Abrahamic religions) are demonstrably false.

I then contrasted that with the simulation hypothesis, that doesn't make such claims.

That doesn't make the core hypothesis of either one falsifiable. Rather, it (at least to me) makes me less likely to entertain the (non-falsifiable) hypotheses that surround themselves with demonstrably false claims than those that don't.
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