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The difference in deaths and severe effects on health and ecology is incomparable. Coal absolutely dwarfs nuclear. Like hundreds or thousands to one. Even if a Chernobyl happened twice a year, like it or not, the resulting pollution and death would be less than what coal mining and coal power plants do. THAT is the reality people don't want to admit because the anti-nuclear propaganda and scaremongering has worked so well.

(All of which gets kinda exposed when there's opposition also to fusion, so many nay sayers, and it won't work this, and it takes 40 years that... also, I swear, if I'm going to see one more "fusion reactor in the sky" tweet from Elon, my head's gonna explode. Dirtbag manipulator.)
42 ~= 137 / ((pi * e)/phi^2)

(phi = golden ratio)
> What is insufficient about it?

Your opinion isn’t a valid ethical premise. It has no basis beyond your whims. Someone else might believe that it’s good and how would you refute them without claiming that your opinion is somehow more authoritative?

> Even if so can the aggressor and wider society know that ahead of time?

Obviously, in general, no. You can’t know that shooting a random person in cold blood wouldn’t prevent some greater evil. You can’t know that the child of that rape won’t cure cancer. The limitations of human reasoning are one of the reasons I’m convinced a correct ethics must have a superhuman author.

> The rule to avoid harming others is the least imposing value of all.

Once again this is begging the question. You’re trying to slip in the premise that minimal imposition is moral without any basis.

> After 30y of "living by faith" I'm no longer a fan of trusting in authorities just because their rules are old or their existence is unfalsifiable.

This betrays philosophical immaturity, which is of course fine. Most religious organizations do a very poor job with that aspect of formation, likely because those teaching are themselves philosophically immature. But this discussion isn’t about religion, faith, or your subjective experiences, it’s about whether the normative science of ethics can have any nontrivial conclusions without an objective foundation. If your anti-theism clouds your reasoning, feel free to instead pretend that we live in an advanced simulation and its authors defined human life as having inherent dignity. In that scenario ethics has a firm foundation. Now imagine the same scenario but without such a definition.
I agree with a [previously] dead/deleted commented at this level:

"Doesn't matter. the point of ipfs is that when cloudflare and google shut down their gateway, the ipfs content is still available at the same address."
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I don't know about IPFS but Arweave solved the "permanent" part by asking nodes to periodically prove that they're actually storing what they're supposed to be storing: https://www.arweave.org/
What that equation doesn't tell you is that the voltage necessary to make a chip run at 4GHz is higher than the voltage it needs to run at 1GHz. So in practice with real CPUs, increasing frequency also means increasing voltage, and thus power does not increase linearly. (Unless you have a chip that's configured to idle with unnecessarily high voltage.)
This is a good question! And it’s clear youre not asking this in bad faith (the line of thinking that CO2 is good for humanity & the planet is a common climate misinformation tactic)

I’m not an expert on this stuff but from what I’ve read over the course of millennium. The Earth will achieve balance again (assuming no further human intervention)

For all practical reasons that won’t work for us. Using microbes as a carbon removal solution is a real potential solution! Specifically using microbes in place of fertilizers as a technique to improve soil health (which would increase soil organic carbon). Although it’s not 100% clear how well that carbon will be stored for the long term.

I’m oversimplifying the science no doubt but we can harness microbes to our benefit.
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Is it opt-in? If so that means ~0% of people will be using it, so all your chats will still be backed up non-e2e by the other side of every conversation.
Anyone remember StumbleUpon? You could easily edit your interests and get different types of content. It was the pinnacle.
> In 1690, one British visitor to Ireland noted that the natives ate and drank milk "above twenty several sorts of ways and what is strangest for the most part love it best when sourest." He was referring to bainne clabair, which translates as "thick milk," and was probably somewhere between just straight-up old milk and sour cream.

Today, "bainne clabair" ("soured milk" according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clabber_(food)) is called clabber. It's basically a kind of very acidic yogurt made with mesophilic (room temperature) fermentation by the lactic acid bacteria that are naturally present in raw milk. You just leave a jar of raw milk out for the night and in the morning, you enjoy your clabber.

Or get food poisoning, if you're unlucky :P

Edit - you can also make clabber, more safely, with kefir and pasteurised milk. Kefir normally makes a kind of very runny yogurt but, depending on the milk, you can get a very firm yogurt instead. In my experience, non-homogenised milk of good quality (preferrably from grass-fed cows) and, interestingly, UHT milk, clabber well. UHT milk kind of makes more sense: it's already undergone the heat treatment necessary to make yogurt and all it's missing is the acid produced by lactic acid bacteria. Normally, this is done relatively quickly by thermophilic bacteria (Lactobacilus Bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus) at 45 degrees C, but a longer fermentation at room temperature with mesophilic strains can have the same effect. I, anyway, have made plenty of kefir-clabber this way, and also a few cheeses. If you collect the clabber and drain it in a cheesecloth, you can then form it and even age it. I've aged a couple of (tiny) wheels for up to four months and they were not bad, just a bit strong.
Ask HN: What is the cost/risk for US companies hire remote outside US?
These days most companies are hiring remote (at least in some bubbles, like the “Who is hiring” thread). But most of those that are US companies are ”Remote US only”. Why?

I understand that if those companies were to hire people outside the US as FTE it would require them to establish a presence in that country. But why not hire remote outside the US as contractors?

I am lucky to be hired as a contractor by a US company living outside of US. The process is very straightforward forward. I signed a contract and I send my invoice every month, along with a US bank account where they can deposit my salary (myself I use Payoneer, as I don’t have a US bank account). It ends up being a less bureaucratic process for the company, not more.

In my case I am treated as a FTE (a permanent employee, part of team, part of the decisions, the whole thing), only happens that my contract is of a contractor. I don’t have any benefits, but, in my case, the salary arbitrage to the cost of living in my city more that compensates that.

I would like to know why those company that hire “remote US only” are not open to that. Which risks/cost I am not seeing?
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It would be extremely easy to replace storing in a db with append to a text file. (As a matter of fact it already appends everything to a text file for added security...)

However I kind of like the fact that it's hard to edit, and I (almost) never do it. It's a log -- the log of my brain.
My point about string theory is exactly what you're saying: string theory is a different matehmatical formulation of QM, that happens to permit additional phenomena that have not been observed. It being a generalization to higher-dimensional spaces is exactly my point: it is mathematically motivated, not motivated by observation.

And yes, to the extent that it's the same formulae as QM, finding counter-example would be fascinating. But (higher-dimensional) string theory could be wrong with no impact on QM/QFT.
Incentives must be created for storing content. Imagine if each request was really more like a bounty where the requester would pay the host when the file is delivered.
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No, there is this idea of a balanced perspective-- even in an editorially hostile environment like Wikipedia. So even just a passing mention of other points of view are on point. Movie reviews and summaries of scientific theories on Wikipedia-- for example-- are usually written with this in mind.
China also builds wind, solar, and electrical transmission projects faster and cheaper than Europe. China has lower wages and planners can ignore local objections to infrastructure projects more easily than in Europe. This leads to better outcomes by the numbers but it's not an unmitigated good.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it a truism that, in the 20th century st least, civilian nuclear power plants were simply a wheeze for the actual grand plan: weapons manufacturing? The two are coupled in a way that doesn’t feel comfortable.

Imagine a different timeline in which something called an Apricot bomb became the ultimate must-have weapon of mass destruction to ensure a seat at the big boys diplomatic table. E.g. you smash apricot stones together to produce annihilation.

Suddenly we have government programmes researching the health benefits of apricot juice, a system of distribution of apricot juice to all elementary schools, university departments funded specifically to produce generation after generation or stone fruit experts, oh and sure, a bomb or two, but trust our top men: that’s not the main focus, silly citizen!
I think the position that Governor Parsons and his type are coming from is the idea that it's secure because someone in authority says so. If someone does something that the authority didn't want to happen in declaring something secure, that is de jure violating security. I think it's kind of confusing security in the technical sense with security in the sense of "classified" information.

It seems Parsons is trying to claim the information exposed by the insecure website is "classified", or sensitive information, in some sense, and accessing it is restricted by law.

That argument, of course, is absolutely false, but if the data exposed was subject to some kind of information classification scheme – which it is emphatically not – then by US law it would be a crime to access and publish it.
There is a stealthy startup that at least originally was doing machine vision based on the human early visual system.

You and I don’t see anything like pixels; our vision system pulls out relatively high level features like parallel lines, motion etc and starts working with that in addition to other optical data, muscle feedback on your lens shape etc. This is why many animals, including humans, freeze when frightened or when they perceive a risk: stationary objects are simply harder for most animals to pick out. The theory is (or was — I don’t know what they are doing today) is that you can see things interesting to humans and reason about them in ways interesting to humans.

Not part of that company: there are some wild but interesting theories related to this kind of thing. We pretty clearly have face-finding hardware (though not in the early visual system I presume). Do animals have this? Cats and dogs look at human faces.

I have read a theory that reading may hijack some subsystem originally used for identifying tracks (footprints).

It does appear that recognizing 2D pictures is learnt, not innate, while 1990s/2000 ML went the other way.

Some anthropomorphically-inspired design could yield systems that are more comprehensible and more useful. I wouldn't make a fetish of it (cars don't run faster than a human does) but machines should be better adapted to humans rather than the other way around (e.g. cars need special places to move around in so can only help humans when that is possible).
I'll just point to the millions of torrent files today that will remain unseeded forever. Durability with P2P only works as a complement to centralization.
No. I tried. For weeks. Filecoin is the mechanism for this. And they do everything humanly possible to both technically keep the ecosystem open, while at the same time making it practically impossible for any non-data center vendor to take part.

The min hardware specs are absurdly large. Most of the services required are not prepackaged alum any way, the exercise is left to the implementer for almost everything.

If you don’t have 100k+ to drop in hardware, there’s no community help for you.

It’s a shame because ipfs is well structured from the other end, but it’s not really decentralized in any way other than naming.
That was painful to read. Mental illness combined with a talent for computers do not make good bedfellows. In-fact mental illness combined with anything invariably leads to a bad ending. I just learned of a word: parasocial[0]. It happens when socially withdrawn people seek friendship online and build credibility over time with their peers or 'hacker buddies'. This is not so good because it lacks the nuance and real-time feedback of proper social interaction (i.e face-to-face talking). Then you could ask: what about video chats? Well they still pale in comparison with being actually with a person IMHO. Now we have this new word: 'metaverse' endorsed by Zuckerberg and others. It makes me wonder where we're heading with all this?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

Edit: I'm aware how this may sound ironic since I'm conversing with people here on HN, but it's not to extremes as discussed in the article.
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This is not quite true. There are spontaneous collapse models [1] that are consistent with the data, like the GRW model [2]. Personally I give long odds against these being true, but you can't rule them out on the basis of current data. And if they are true then they would present a fundamental limit on how big you can make a quantum computer before it fails.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/#ContSponLoca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardi%E2%80%93Rimini%E2%80%...
This 6-part video series by Nick Milo is a great way for newbies to get introduced to Obsidian and go up the learning curve rapidly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbLb6QCK88&list=PL3NaIVgSlA...
Some folks use a remote desktop or put their files on a private github repo so they can edit them remotely, but it's not "the full experience."
Nothing really is the "best bet" in this. The correct solution is to hedge your bets by betting on just about every possible solution. The local resources available dictate just too much what is the "best" solution but even then one should not put all the eggs in one basket.

But solving the electricity problem is just solving one part (~25%) of the equation. There is still a lot of greenhouse gasses being released from cars, construction (concrete), farming and various industrial processes. But the electricity seems to be the easiest problem to solve and once we have that on track to being fixed we can move more resources into the other issues.
If you've spent any amount of time on StackOverflow around C/C++/assembly, you could probably tell within the first three paragraphs of the answer who authored it. :)
Thank you for the full explanation! I could tell that there was a difference between the noun and adjective usage, and I now have a much better understanding of what it is.
More specifically, Marvin claimed to have a brain the size of a planet.

Adams alluded elsewhere to how the march of technology had brought about galactic scale advances in miniaturisation and exponential growth in the capability of technology.

When deep mind designed the earth she probably used the state of the art for that time however many billions of years ago, but Marvin being a more modern device is far more powerful and can do the same calculations trivially.

Furthermore he always claims to be depressed because despite his eminence nobody will listen to what he says, which is indeed ”pick a number any number” which is probably what DNA said to himself when he selected it.
No. The L in GIL stands for lock. So only the thread that holds it can write or read from the object, and the behavior is well defined at the C level, because C lock acquire and release operations are defined to be memory barriers.
Not in Africa though, which will probably multiply its population by 4 to 1Ghab by the end of the century.

Also their environmental footprint will multiply by a lot more than 4.
For those interested in Linguistics, there is also Ask a Linguist

https://askaling.linguistlist.org/questions/
> With all the effort that's been put into this how many people just jumped ship to a native/more-native language?

I think Go benefited a lot from that.
Most of the recent construction of large nuclear plants is in China, and they're actually doing quite well at building them on time. The ones that are super late and over budget are the exception worldwide; they just make the news more often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
> If every release has a single breaking change, then that language is said to be unstable/not-production ready. IMHO, that's not at all an acceptable way of doing point releases.

This.

It makes absolutely no sense to claim that having to deal with a single non-backwards compatible release is somehow worse than having to deal with a sequence of non-backwards compatible releases.

Even though the migration from Python2 to Python3 faced some resistence, if anything the decision was totally vindicated.
>> You can have a stable power grid with ample supply and 0% "baseline" generation no problem (other than the usual generic ones).

Yes, if we have a future battery technology that can save a days worth of City's power consumption - something like this is phantom able.

With out sophisticated high capacity battery storage 'baseline' is a requirement.
Speculating- some modern fruits are cultivars of not nearly as nice-to-eat fruits. Maybe they took time to discover / graft / cultivate popular versions?

Another possible version is that the resolution is very low and the exact order could be wrong because it is just based on the oldest recorded evidence of the food being eaten.
Devon Zuegel is a great thinker in a large breath of subjects ->

On Urbanism:

Her podcast Order without Design [0] where she interviews the Bertaud couple

Fields note on Miami [1] (with beautiful pictures)

Metamuse interview on cities [2]

and a lot more on her blog

On tech :

She was the PM for Github sponsors (and I believe other open-source friendly projects), great interview of her by the changelog [4]

The Pioneer series (of which this interview is an episod), favorites are Louis Pouzing and roundtable about Hamming [5]

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/order-without-design-h...

[1] https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-miami

[2] https://museapp.com/podcast/33-cities/

[3] https://changelog.com/podcast/370

[4] https://www.notion.so/blog/topic/pioneers
Do you use it for security reasons or just convenience?
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At the point in time I think I am really ambivalent about nuclear Energy. Its not just Chernobyl but Fukushima incident that illustrates how minuscule error in our calculation can create a debacle. As more countries starts to enjoy nuclear energy the risk will further increas. And Imo the main problem is we can't even control the nuclear meltdown waste and whole world might have to suffer the consequence which can be problematic (One example I can remember is how China was complaining when Japan decided to release those waste nuclear water).

Is there guarantee way to construct safe nuclear plant? I am asking because I don't know the state of arts regarding nuclear power plant (I have started to hear about Thorium and don't know about safety and google is not the friend here unfortunately). If there are natural disasters etc., is nuclear plant robust against meltdown? Can we calculate the risk before hand?
Thereby no one should rightfully speculate or disagree? That's pretty fallacious.

Also, that Wikipedia page you just looked up doesn't really make a good case for your assertion.

> [...] although nobody has died or is expected to die from radiation effects [of Fukishima].

The number of deaths related to Nuclear accidents doesn't even exceed the single-digit thousands, and after Chernobyl the number of deaths related to other accidents doesn't even exceed 20.

On the other hand, virtually every globalist governmental entity (if we're gonna go by appeals to authority and majority here) believes that climate change will soon be related to hundreds of thousands of deaths per year.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...

> Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress.

So no, the migration away from nuclear doesn't close the case on why places like California moved away from nuclear.

There could be a Chernobyl every year and, if we are to believe the likes of the WHO and the UN, it still wouldn't approach the number of deaths resulting from climate change.
> Your opinion isn’t a valid ethical premise.

Then there are no valid ethical premises, because all value propositions necessarily either are directly or rest upon subjective preference.
Absolutely useless piece of text with absolutely no relation to the clickbaity title.

Don't waste your time reading this.

Tldr is: big corp are all using the same flat colorless person drawings style for their illustrations because it is neutral in emotion and interpretation.

The author just write thousand words to celebrate the genius of this...
You can link to documents and keep them online as oppose to publications with unobtainable references.
> His parents let him buy a PC that he put together himself. It had a big memory card and a lot of processing power. He set it up in his bedroom. Looking back, José thinks “that may have been our biggest mistake”.

I don’t think I like these people.

> Occasionally, his parents caught glimpses of what he was doing. Mostly, he played games, especially the kind in which people are violently killed – such as by building amusement parks and then throwing people off the rides. There were also lots of shoot ’em ups.

Ah, yes.

> Edwin’s contacts abroad gave him a confidence boost. He spent hours chatting with people from all over the world about ways to hack websites. Edwin often mocked “normal” life and western society. He denounced materialism and superficial concerns.

As if that’s a bad sign.
This is very sad, such a bright young man. The state took away his entire world, his community, friends, all in one swoop. Hopefully the authorities in western countries are not locking (fairly innocent) hackers in solitary confinement for 5 years without trial anymore....
> According to the EPA [1], electricity accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions.

As we increasingly seek to electrify everything, that number is sure to (slowly) inch up.
That's why its infuriating that vectorization was not enabled at -O2. Since x86-64 supports SSE2 as a baseline, every program has been under performing at -O2 for over 15 years. Without knowing this it turns out the recent introduction of -march=x86-64-v2 and v3 dont benefit either when both have AVX2 which goes largely unused. See pathetic test results here:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/972

Notice that v3 is no better and may even be a hair slower.
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You will be replaced internally by the same AI impersonating you. To keep the ads running.
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What I'd be afraid of is fake review brigading causing lasting damage to brand.