skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part is that CPU sockets are very standardized and you are only cooling the CPU and not the memory and power regulators. For graphics cards the coolers need to cool the gpu along with the memory and power regulators which can be in different places depending on the manufacturer. This usually means you need a block made specifically for your model of card. You can buy those blocks and do custom water cooling but the cost of that is incredibly high. Also it finally comes down to the AIO coolers really aren't better than good air coolers. Sure AIO tend to be quieter and move the heat to a different location but on pure performance they don't crush air coolers.
Good. Go after the person who uploaded the crap, not the platform
Most of the energy created by the oven doesn't actually go into the food, it heats up the air which heats up your food (and also the walls of the oven). While a microwave pretty much only heats the water molecules in your food.

To roast a chicken to 165f you'll probably set your oven to 400f. And then when it's done, the air and interior of your oven are still very hot. When you microwave food, you can touch the side-walls of your microwave right away and they won't be hot. The only excess heat in a microwave comes from the food steaming and contact with the platter.
Ok, the comments that this is a little hard to read are fair... but this is really cool. Thanks for sharing.
I noticed k3s is snappy and responsive on a $5 DigitalOcean VM, whereas full k8s really bogs down on such a small machine
That's got real "I'm not taking the safe, free, incredibly effective vaccine to own the libs" energy.
Forget about your job, use the free time you spend not commuting going out and simply socialising. Work 'friends' often aren't really friends and don't keep in touch when you move on, friends made outside of work are generally ones you actually choose and can keep longer.
are you certain this remains true on a grid dominated by wind and solar? it is true at the moment because the grid just deals with the vagaries of these sources and other generators (and consumers) bear the cost.

Will this continue to be the case?
So effectively you're going to pay double?
> until very recently

I do not think that custom has gone away. I seem to be at war with my next-door neighbour, over rubbish-disposal; I just don't know which neighbour, what he looks like, or what his name is (but I'm not trying to seize his property by force of arms!)

People go to war with their neighbours over REAL things, like water-rights, and access to minerals and other resources. Those real things are still real. Fortunately, imperial wars don't seem to happen much these days; perhaps because great imperial powers can now transport a heavily-armed army of 200,000 across the world in a few days, squishing your imperial ambitions.

But the motivation is unchanged. Perhaps the Chinese occupation of Tibet is an example?

(Tibet used to be the imperial power, once upon a time - Chinese diplomats in the 14th C used to kow-tow to Tibetan kings)
A lot of stuff becomes feasible with free unlimited energy. For instance, carbon air capture (could even become a protein source) and green hydrogen (for applications like production of iron via direct reduction, so we can finally get rid of blast furnaces).
Call it what you want but that advice comes from experience. I worked remote for many years before pandemic and had plenty of issues with isolation.

Sometimes in life socialization comes easy and requires no work, but that's not always the case. This is a common problem people face once they leave high school/college. The truth is that real social relationships, the ones that keeps us more fulfilled take work.

I realized that to not feel lonely all the time when working at home I had to put some effort into making sure I reached out to friends, scheduled lunches and calls (which can happen during that 6 hour period, that's one of the benefits of WFH), make sure I went to local meetups etc. The end result was that from that effort I made some fantastic friendships that were much more fulfilling.

Even in the OP's current work environment a little more deliberate effort can go a long a way. I'm sure other coworkers feel the same way, if they pair programmed in the office why not reach out and schedule some pairing sessions? I've know many remote places that do this. Schedule virtual coffees during the day where two people can just chat, again something I've seen at many remote places.

Yes, for decades people could get a basic level of socialization for no effort, but like most no effort things that socialization goes as easy as it comes.

Having been in a similar situation to OP, that was the lesson I learned so that's the advice I'm giving, which I hardly think is tone deaf.
> Nuclear power has inherit risks that are not present in other forms of modern energy generation.

The risk is mostly that there's a large, high-profile accident every 20 years. Coal power has probably killed more regular people (not miners) than nuclear due to its emissions, but it's metered out slowly, so it's less scary.

People are more afraid of flying than driving for the same reason.
You're getting a lot of flack for this response. Although, it's pretty good advice, it just doesn't answer the question proposed.
It's low (100-200ms). Read my post above
Most people against the COVID EUA vaccines are not anti-vaxx, at all.
GraphineOS constantly spoofs the device's MAC so that argument is not valid (I also don't know how a website based email client is getting your MAC). It's also extremely easy to spoof the device's name. The way they are getting that is simply your browser's User Agent, or if it's an app, your phones root properties. There may be some other identifying properties about the device they can collect though, I agree with you on that.

Also, I agree with your argument about phones being tracking devices. Anything with a radio that connects to cell towers is going to be logged and tracked in perfect detail.
Golf you say?

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Not just this article, but this whole website is pop-science nonsense.
Where can you buy it?
I'm so happy powerful type systems are more popular now. TypeScript bringing a great type system to a language as popular as JS is fantastic. Rust is also a great way to get a great type system while staying in a systems programming and procedural environment. Hell, even python type annotations support union types.

I never knew the depth of type systems until the last year when I took a type theory course and a compiler course taught by a man who loved his types. So much power - I can't wait to see the future of type systems.
Just providing a non-coastal example - Pittsburgh is pretty decent for walkability and transit. It is a dense, small (in area) city. Trips by bus are often comparable to the same trip by car. I would say that most neighborhoods in Pittsburgh are walkable, but getting between neighborhoods is best done by bus, due to the big hills.

Some figures:

- 10 percent of Pittsburgh residents commute by walking [0]. 17 percent commute by public transit [1].

- "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, public transportation commuters in Pittsburgh spend an average of 32 minutes traveling to work, the 11th-fastest transit commute time of the 136 cities in our analysis. That is also just nine minutes slower that the average commute time for drivers, the fifth-smallest difference." [2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_high_...
[2]: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/best-cities-for-public-trans...

edit: formatting
Wikipedia: Cost of Electricity by Source
Is entrapment a meaningful legal concept in Australia?
...are you not counting HIV as a recent major pandemic? SARS? MERS?

It is also worth remembering that for decades we have been carefully monitoring the spread of infectious diseases to prevent major pandemics from forming. There was no political controversy surrounding those efforts prior to COVID19, not in the US or anywhere else.
> Ah yes, remind me how many windmills we would need to produce as much energey as a NPP?

Here's an infographic on that very subject :)

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/infographic-how-much-powe...
The problem with molten salt based reactors is that the high temperature radioactive molten salts destroy their containment vessels. I've yet to see a system design where the salt facing components are expected to last more that 7-10 years, which really hurts profitability.
I have reverse Dunning-Kruger
Bueno!

I've said it a million times: if you're trying to do any kind of text processing on the *nix commandline, you can be 99.999% certain someone wrote a tool for it in the 80's.
Fusion breakthroughs for sure, but I hear you about Voyager.
> the belittling and censoring of voices that were skeptical of the narratives, which engendered even more distrust

What are examples of this? Most of the U.S. was quite loose about lockdowns and mask requirements until their specific geography got hit. (For example, I summered in the Smoky Mountains June of 2020. Compared to New York, it was as if nothing had happened. The tone changed by December, after the South had its wave.)

To the extent there was belittling, it was around the promotion of treatments, a set of claims that has always been tightly regulated. (Also, the early, intentional miscommunications around the efficacy of N95 masks, which was horrible.)
Don't.

Use a PaaS like Heroku, hook it up to your GitHub and a CI platform. Get your database hosted on Heroku or somewhere similar - plenty exists for anything you might need (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Mongo...).

Don't do things that increase your operational overhead like using microservices or running unusual databases for which a good hosted solution doesn't exist. Stay away from anything k8s.

It will be a bit more expensive but well worth the extra money, compared to the time you'd spend on operations.
Keep it stupid simple.

Use tech that you understand and minimize the layers of complexity between deploying, starting and troubleshooting an instance.

For me, I like digital ocean droplet(s). Stupid simple IAM. SSH scripts for CI deployments. Everything sits behind a Cloudflare cache.

The backend sends key events like restarts and fatal errors into a dedicated Slack channel. Its my confirmation a deployment worked and first alert if something crashed.

My business partner and I are currently running a $1m/arr business with this setup on a single digital ocean instance, Python3 and Nuxtjs.
Couldn’t a quantum computer simulate a Universe that appears (to any simulated observers within) to be impossible to be simulated on a quantum computer? And doesn’t that mean that, even if we observed something in our Universe that can’t be simulated by a quantum computer, that wouldn’t provide any “evidence” or any “reason to update our priors” regarding whether our Universe is being simulated?
Renewables have zero marginal cost to generate. When the spot price goes negative, they can simply stop exporting. Other generators are paying others to take power and for the fuel they're using to generate. As renewables penetration increases, it only puts more pain on legacy generators and increases the arb opportunity for storage (which can charge when power is cheap, and discharge when demand is high). This is the entire model around Tesla's Autobidder platform [1] and their energy trading division [2], and their desire to become a virtual utility (with the value in energy orchestration between system components).

[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/tesla-software/autobidd...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tesla-plans-begin-tr...

EDIT: @eldaisfish: Energy storage growth in the US: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/electricity/batterystor...

Tesla currently orchestrates 1.2Gwh of storage, and their Megapack manufacturing facility will have the capacity to build 40Gwh of storage per year: https://electrek.co/2021/03/16/tesla-autobidder-managing-ove..., https://electrek.co/2021/10/08/tesla-megafactory-aims-40-gwh...

The Hornsdale Power Reserve (built and orchestrated by Tesla) is used for grid services (frequency and voltage response, "continuous power"), and has exceeded expectations: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/05/20/hornsdale-and-its-big...

Utility scale PV can also provide grid forming services at minimal cost (firmware upgrade to inverters): https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2020/renewables-rescue-st...
People were worried about something like a dengue fever effect before we knew much about COVID. But now we have tons of data on breakthrough infections and and reinfections and it all says that immunity acquired via vaccine or prior exposure to the virus drastically reduces the risk of hospitalization or death in the case of a new infection.
I often hear opponents of nuclear power say that it takes too long to construct, so it's interesting to look at the timelines for these reactors -- most of them took about 5-6 years from the start of construction to being hooked up to the power grid, and there was a lot of concurrent construction, so their peak throughput was several reactors per year. More recently France seems to have lost the ability to build nuclear plants quickly; their only one under construction has been under construction for the past 14 years, and is projected to finish in 2023.

France in the 1970s is existence proof that nuclear plants aren't inherently slow to build, so I have to wonder: what happened? (And what other technology are we in danger of losing?)
One of the variant ideas I was stuck on was when the government and CDC decided (pre-Delta) to tell everyone that masks weren't required in stores if you were vaccinated.

Part of the justification was that they thought it would create incentive for the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, since the carrot was that they could stop wearing masks afterward.

Regardless of whether that had the desired effect or not, it seemed to be another example of being too clever by half, rather than just sticking with what the data itself suggested.
Project Loom is both about the JVM and the language Java. Most of the work for Loom AFAICT is at the JVM level, and the benefits are that all Java code will Just Work(TM) with the new primitives underneath them at the end.

Scala’s varied async/concurrency libraries are implemented in user land, and still use threads underneath. Mechanically, you must opt in to these and have to work to interop with code that might use other primitives. Scala can handle a lot of this complexity at compile time w/ types, but it’s not perfect, and certain runtime behaviors will always be out of scope.

Loom improves this by allowing any language that runs on the JVM (Java, Scala, Clojure) to opaquely use virtual threads to run their existing synchronous, scheduler-unaware code on the new Loom concurrency primitives implemented in the JVM. That’s powerful!
Wait, Why Are Manhole Covers Round?
It was an island and I downloaded it completely as offline map, didn't help at all. Or do you mean something else?
"""

But, you might also notice a functional programmer over there. The one with a smug look and condescending smile on their face. And after bracing yourself, you ask them 'What’s so amusing?'

[...]

Now, let’s assume you manage to refrain from physical violence.

"""

Hilarious!
I disagree. Shifting the agency to the driver is important enough to my that I recommend writers use "the driver fled the scene on foot" if that's what happened. (This particular phrase is actually used.)

It seems obvious that "the vehicle" is not doing the fleeing, so even if this is standard phrasing it should be revised.
Sadly, they are not "real" numbers.

This is taken from the integration suite which Debian have been running for years. This represents checking out the code, and building twice. This is not distributed packages from Debian. This inflates the number a little bit.

Holger explains this in a thread a few years back.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/03/msg00017.html
On a ‘basic capacity price’ type basis, nuclear is dirt cheap. When you throw in endless political tarpits and their side effects (like having no economies of scale at all despite the clear opportunity for them) then yes, it is very expensive. shrug

Most nuclear projects outside of China basically turned into exercises in endless planning churn and endless delays for no rational reason to appease anti-progress political factions long ago. For an example of a similar money pit/tarpit playing out in a similar way, check out “High Speed”
Rail in California.
Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-Covid pill
> whenever i follow up with what apps they've actually side loaded they don't know what i'm talking about, never mind about whether their phone is rooted and they're running a rom.

An android phone is more open even without side-loading or rooting because Google's play store much less restrictive than Apple's app store.
Remember, though, that patents often overstate. The patent makes it look like content filtering is a solved problem (solved by the patent, in fact). In the real world, it's often not that simple. The patent matter makes some aspect of the problem better, but it's almost always not a silver bullet, no matter how the patent text makes it sound.
Coworking spaces. Not the “we work” kind, but the smaller community run ones. Being social can be with people who aren’t colleagues.

I recently moved to a new city and discovered that unlike my old city, this one has lots of small coworking spaces. Some are run by neighborhood boards to foster community. Some are run as startup business incubators.

One down the street I find particularly inspiring — It's co-working for mothers. So WFH moms can have a place to do their work, and the facility provides daycare right there. I think this brilliantly solves at least two of the modern working world's biggest problems.
Fauci ostensibly being directly involved in the creation of COVID19 via gain of function research, and not seeing him prosecuted or at least fired is also keeping trust incredibly low. Everyone knows what the guy did, said and does and stands for. Every time he goes on CNN he sows distrust.
Wow, the fact that `as const` has such a meaningful difference from a variable declared as `const` seems... not great.

Surely they could have gone with, like, `final` or `immutable` instead..? I'm sure they had their reasons. But seems rough.
Bezos owns property, therefore he is coercing others. You conflate voluntary exchange and private ownership with coercion. It is fundamentally nonsense. You'll have to forgive me for having a hard time with this, it seems to be a terrible stretch.

As for libertarianism, observing that adds no more to the conversation than me calling you a socialist, statist or authoritarian.
> continues to accrue substantial and dangerous power.

> They coddle and report to authoritarian governments.

There's an interesting tension here. One strand of complaint is "Apple is too powerful", and the other is "Apple isn't ignoring laws".

If you're worried about the accrual of power to megacorporations, maybe you'd not like for them to be picking and choosing what laws they'll obey based on their own whims?
> how can you--with a straight face--pretend that their ability to pick leaders or vote on actual issues is a correct way to run a country?"

By arguing that the other options are worse. Democracy and the separation of powers do not result in great decision making. But it also serves as a significant barrier against absolutely horrible decision making, placing it above the other choices.
It’s probably not literally the most efficient, but it is very good publicity. It is deliberately displayed behind the reception as a talking point.
Bounded Capitalism
From 2020 to October 6th 2021, there were 58,167 deaths in the age group 0-17. 499 of those deaths are related to COVID-19. That's 0.86% (or: 99.99% of deaths happened due to other causes) [1]

The leading cause of deaths in this age group are accidents [2]. A lot of these accidents are preventable [3].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/child-health.htm

[3] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/first-aid-and-safety/safe...
For instance, it is discussed in this press article [1] published in 2016 and available in French. It is mentioned that nuclear power costs 60€/MWh, compared to 80€/MWh for wind power. It is also mentioned quite often in the French press: I have seen it mentioned a few days ago. The source mentioned in the 2016 press article is an official report [2] published in 2014.

However, it is true that the maintenance cost increases as the power plants get older.

[1] https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-vrai-du-faux/le-... (in French)

[2] https://www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publications/le-cout-de-productio... (in French)
Meta-question about fusion energy -something I don't understand about the movement. I spent a few years as CTO of a company providing heat-to-electricity plants. We financed and built them off high-heat plants like natural gas turbines. The "fuel" was heat going up the stack - so it was essentially free. We still couldn't compete with conventional electricity plants, even with a $30/tonne price on carbon in Canada.

Geothermal energy is the same: sustainable, long-life electricity with no "fuel" costs, but it costs 2-3x as much to build a geothermal plant (in most areas, depends on geology) as e.g. a natural gas turbine powered plant, so the overall cost of electricity is much higher and you can't get financing.

How is fusion different? The fuel will be free and unlimited, but the "levelized cost of electricity", dominated by the capital cost of the plant, will still be much higher than other sources of electricity. I don't think there's a world -- even one where the onerous regulations go away and a market price on carbon is available -- where the LCOE of fusion power is less than that from natural gas, or even close.
Yeah, this isn't an act of god that no one could have possibly foreseen. This is system designed by humans that we have 100% control over.
The problem with using "accident" as the default term is that it preempts any evidence-finding, implying that it was nobody's fault. If someone shoots their gun randomly and someone gets hurt by just being there, nobody will call it an "accident", but somehow if the weapon is a car, the driver gets the benefit of the doubt regardless of the facts.
Ah, that's very different from what I thought you were saying.

I think in theory that makes sense, but I doubt that it's practically a concern. I think in practice any situation where you're tapping the last bits of oil in order to re-boot a technical base, then I very much doubt that the planet would remain habitable long enough for that society to boot strap a new technical base and solve the problems created by burning the last of the oil. I think in such a scenario humanity is probably doomed.
>In OpenJDK, Java threads are just thin wrappers around OS threads and OS threads are a very precious resource; a modern OS can't support more than a few thousand active threads at a time.

I don't know what you define as a few thousand active threads, but running the following C++ code let me run 70,000 threads before I got a resource error:

https://godbolt.org/z/74GsY1Kds
I love how a bunch of plants have been pushed at the border. Strategically that seems like a bad decision in an event of a war. But in an event of an accident, you push at least some of the risk to your neighbors.
Heat pollution. Green house gasses are not the only way to cook ourselves.

Though there are some people working on beaming heat into space, I suspect they haven’t fully accounted for heat absorption by atmospheric dust.
That's a common misconception, the great simulation doesn't forge articles for you, it forges the memory of having read them. Since people forget almost everything they read, we found that it was much easier to do it that way.

Disclaimer: I work at Great Simulation Metaincorporated.