skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how people who think the earth overpopulated always think is other people who are overpopulating it, and not themselves.

Wealth can be created. There's no limit to how much wealth can be created. Focusing on deleting the population is immoral.
not true - I'd rather skip a meal than eat garbage.
> Larry Page's grandfather, who walked around his factory during a sit-down strike with a hammer to bash scabs and cops

People who violently assault others for taking jobs are unspeakably evil, and I have only contempt for those who admire or defend them.
Except for OpenGL deprecation on Mac and forcing devs to use their proprietary Metal instead of cross-platform Vulkan...
Or we adapt to the variability, charge our laptops and routers during the day, live in earthships.
Adobe Indesign would be one answer. Or Emacs Org-Mode. Affinity Publisher. Apple Pages.
We could save everyone a lot of time commenting on HN just by auto categorizing by XKCD.
The case for slacking off at work
> do we have any idea about how long Nuclear power will last, If we produce lets say, 50 percent of all our energy needs from it ?

This is hard to estimate precisely, since we don't know how much uranium is yet to be discovered. At the low-end, using current estimates for mineable Uranium, and today's light water reactors, about 460 years. At the high end, using newer breeder reactors and extracting uranium from seawater, as much as 240,000 years. Using a reasonable estimate for mineable uranium, and newer breeder reactors, about 120,000 years.

Let's be conservative and say "at least a few thousand years".

Personally, I'd say if we can't get off Earth and find some new fuel sources in a few thousand years, we deserve whatever happens. And frankly, if it takes us more than 200 years to get useful fusion reactors, something has probably gone wrong, and we're back to burning wood in caves anyway.

Here's a source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...
So the "Cow Tools" school of narrative-building? Great minds think alike.

TVTROPES WARNING!

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowTools
> changing the objective function to optimise for health, wellbeing and happiness.

Whose? Individual or group wellbeing? Optimizing for one can lead to very suboptimal outcomes for the other.
And probably no products support those ciphers with IPSec anyway.
No what news, please share.
There is a path to upgrading library functions to generics, it will come in a later release. Looked like default generic type of the empty interface for those functions. See the other issues linked from the original.
I hear this as “allow yourself to see the other’s humanity and acknowledge their needs”.

I get it. The thing is, in some cases their humanity, their needs and beliefs have been carefully weaponized to support a certain ideology and hardened against change.

The ideologies using mass manipulation in this way are objectively exploitative and destructive on a large scale.

To the point of threatening our biosphere, our basic freedoms, our lives.

I do acknowledge the value of the inner practice.

The propaganda machines however work at scale.

If we are to survive, we need healing at scale, too.

We need self-awareness at scale. Seeing each other’s humanity at scale - to contradict the mass dehumanization efforts aiming to divide and conquer us.

Any thoughts on this?
Of course, and probably 50% or more of those landowners are going to fight you tooth and nail in court in that proceeding. Some so you’ll pay them more to settle/go away, some because they just hate you on an ideological level or refuse to budge [https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...]

If you’re covering significant distances that people live in, you can expect to spend a decade or sometimes more in court before being able to build - if ever.

Because of course there are the environmental reviews, the impact assessments, etc. and each of those will be hundreds to thousands of pages long, and you’ll likely have to fight over each page, also in court, with folks who don’t like that you’re going to dig up that random patch of flowers to install your power line or whatever.

And that is assuming you’re lucky enough to not have any endangered species in the way, in which case you might literally not be able to build at all if it is in an area you have no choice to go through.

So far no one is staking out patches of ocean floor, and generally even if they did, the topography is usually more forgiving there. So all you need is landing approval, which means one government and one compliant landowner on each side somewhere along each coast that is close enough to an existing grid that you can interconnect to it. Much more solvable. Still not easy or straightforward.

In California it took me 4 years and $18k worth of professional help to get approval to do completely standard fuel reduction work on a completely uninteresting plot of land that was super overgrown with brush and dead trees - with no one objecting to it - in the middle of a historic wildfire crisis in California that actually expedited the process.

I had to notify 10 something local native tribes (in case they maybe were somehow attached to the land, which they weren’t), had to do a detailed archeological survey, had to have a licensed biologist do a detailed walkthrough to look for endangered species (there were none).

Meanwhile the 3 largest fires in the states recorded history burned nearby, and they wouldn’t let me clear brush and remove dead trees from a clear fire hazard area and it’s a miracle the place didn’t burn to the ground.
Maybe FileCoin is what you're looking for? https://filecoin.io
You can't ship solar power to remote places that need power in the way you would a barrel of oil, or coal. We also don't have batteries that are up to the job of storing power.
Citadel Securities sues SEC over approval of new stock-order type
I think the main objection, which is mentioned briefly in the article, is that the infrastructure for nuclear energy generation is largely identical with that required for nuclear weapons production and maintenance. It is difficult to envision nuclear energy as a global solution without also envisioning new nuclear weapons proliferation problems.

One position that seems attractive is keeping some nuclear plants online where they exist, but not building any new capacity. On a long enough time scale, we can engineer around base load requirements.
The CLI tool nb is excellent for taking notes in an editor of your own choice, and for making bookmarks (if readability CLI is installed it will make a local text copy of the page you're bookmarking): https://github.com/xwmx/nb

It's AGPL'ed.
Don’t you still have to worry about this since OS threads can be arbitrarily preempted?
I think baseline means power plant that is always available, except for outages planned well in advance, and runs 24x7 at a given output. Generally baseline power doesn’t depend on the weather.

You could have a stable reliable grid consisting solely of wind and solar but it would also require a lot of storage, which would be insanely expensive in order to achieve the level of reliability we take for granted today.

I am sure we will find the limit of penetration for wind and solar, and already people are willing to give up and accept blackouts like in California instead of brushing under the power lines and cutting down trees which might fall on them proactively, which is expensive, they just have a blackout on hot windy days.
To me it's always about the lack of control.

A nuclear plant failure, I'm faced with something I can do nothing about. Coal .. well unless our case of whole-plane-pollution .. you can mitigate.

Same for cars vs planes. In a plane, I delegate my life to stats. Anything happens, I can do nothing about. My car.. I can always use slower, lighter roads, keep larger safety distance. Even if the odds of car crash are higher. (also if I were to drive alone in the midwest, my crash stats would probably be as high as planes.. density is a factor it seems)
Where I come from neo-nazis often try to refute allegations of spreading totalitarian ideology (punishable by a fine or up to two years in prison) by saying that they were actually referring to the original meaning.

Of course nobody is buying it, but such cases are nevertheless often dismissed.
The percentage of visitors with extensions like Plopdown likely doesn't make it worth for Netflix to spend time handling this nonstandard. ;)
Yes, -O3 tends to include a lot of features that increase code size, like aggressive loop unrolling. If you are jumping around a large amount of code, -O3 generally performs more poorly than -O2, but if you are running a tight loop (like HPC code), -O3 is better.

In the past, at a time when I worked on a very performance sensitive codebase that was also limited in scope, we compiled with -Osize and did all the loop optimizations we wanted manually (and with pragmas). That produced faster code than -O2 or -O3.
The comment you are replying to mentions storage and transmission.

It doesn't take much storage to operate solar in a "baseload" manner. Already, most new utility scale deployments are shipping with storage.

For a long long time, the DC electricity side of a solar installation has been cheap enough that the design of a system will have an 20% extra DC over the capacity of the inverters change the DC to AC electricity for the grid. As panels have gotten cheaper, this loading factor has creeped up to 1.5 and 1.6 in many installations.

Since battery storage is also on the DC side of the installation, adding storage of the doesn't even require adding more panels, it can just use the existing clipped solar energy. And when we start adding more panels to get the loading factor up to 2 or 3, the solar power installation becomes nearly completed dispatchable to meet grid needs. This is simple and straightforward changes of parameters in existing designs.
This hilarity is written by the same person/team that writes IPFire. This is a Linux firewall that supports a Maximum of 4 interfaces. Yup. 4.
You want a 5th Interface? Sorry. Doesn't support that.

That alone should tell you everything you need to know here.
Thanks!
Chart.js is an excellent charting library and much more mature than Vizzu currently. The key advantage of Vizzu is the embedded animation capability. You set up two charts, and you can morph from one to the other and vice versa out-of-the-box. The automatic data aggregation & data filtering feature is pretty unique as well.
Fortunately Tailscale is the non-hipster (but still modern and secure) version of Wireguard.
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I like to explain it by comparing Amazon warehouses to the post office.

Post office send black-box data point to to point. Amazon gets you thinggy matching SKU from arbitrary location.
I agree we should help curb down our fertility rate worldwide. However this would take at least 50 years before it starts showing effect. It's too long a time when facing an environmental emergency.
i would hope that spotify has an experiments system that they can canary
Ok cool, I love decentralized content distribution frameworks too. But what do I have to install to use it? As with most of these attempts to decentralization, it fails because of the mostly absent effort spent on ease of use.
> What's particularly different about these compared to the thousands of miles of existing power and pipeline infrastructure?

Don't know; it just seems as though the greater the interdependency between geographically-separated modules in a system, the greater the chances that damage to one module can take down remote modules and perhaps even the entire system.

Example: Oceangoing vessels are generally designed with watertight compartments, so that damage and flooding in one compartment won't necessarily doom the whole ship — as happened to the Titanic, which sank in part because its transverse internal bulkheads didn't extend high enough to prevent seawater spillover from the iceberg-damaged sections to undamaged sections as the ship started to sink by the bow.[0]

Example: The Great Texas Blackout in February 2021 resulted in part from electrical power being knocked offline for some natural-gas compression facilities, which resulted in still-other electrical-generation facilities, powered by natural gas, failing for lack of fuel. [1]

[0] http://writing.engr.psu.edu/uer/bassett.html#:~:text=The%20r....

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/2021_Texas_power_crisis#/Causes
What thread safe code can I write with the GIL that will have a race without it?

I already have to be careful to only write to a shared object from one thread, since I have no guarantees on order of execution.

The main benefit of the GIL, from my recent reading is that it makes ref counting fast and thread safe. The meat of the proposal is changing ref counting so that it's almost as fast and atomic without the GIL.
What tiny fraction of world energy use is that, however? And of existing world use of energy like that, most of it is used to extract fossil fuels. There's not much reason to be out in remote areas except for resource extraction.
Work-obsessed lunatics are like that even without 'unreasonable' amounts of profits.

Greed-obsessed lunatics is a different subset ( with overlap ) but play a very different role in societies.

Your view of innovation on The Continent is likely 10% true and 90% PR. You just don't think about innovations as European because we don't put faces on companies.
The author claims that IPFS enables a "permanent web" and eliminates 404-like experiences. How does IPFS guarantee that all published content will be available forever? (In my beginner-level knowledge of IPFS, this is the first I've heard that claim. It seems absurd.)
You don't need a climate chamber; you can just measure energy consumption. Most modern battery management ICs should have a joule counter (or equivalent).
I was actually considering something known to be a relatively weak pRNG....card shuffling in a casino setting.
> do you recognise how successful it is becoming as an asset, like gold?

And why would anyone want to own gold? It's certainly not to protect against inflation, which seems to be what everyone talks about:

> While gold objects have existed for thousands of years, gold's role in diversified portfolios is not well understood. We critically examine popular stories such as 'gold is an inflation hedge'. We show that gold may be an effective hedge if the investment horizon is measured in centuries. Over practical investment horizons, gold is an unreliable inflation hedge. […]

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w18706
I literally quoted the article.
Fly.io (YC W20) is hiring technical writers
Meanwhile Californians will tell us to manage power and power cuts.

I can’t get behind this agenda. It’s infuriating to see the west considering itself done. It’s in the name “Developed”, past tense. No need to develop anymore. We’ve thrown in the towel, large swaths of people are against population growth and against progress.
They might do that as a much cheaper option, but whatever streaming service forces their users to watch ads will just see most of their users leave.

I haven't seen ads that can work around my hand covering them up (but I am sure I will eventually), but if I am forced to see ads, I won't consider paying for the service.
But if you're writing to the same object from two different threads you're going to have undefined behavior regardless of the GIL, yes?
It's really more like "forward emulating a NES cart", and it's been done in things like Wolfenstein 3D for Game Boy Color, and even since the dawn of the console: The Mega Man developers discussed using an ICE attached to an HP 9000 workstation to develop the game with.

But that demo/presentation is cool, and definitely an interesting medium in which to present with lots of hack value.
Internationalize the Gid (which is also good for amortizing renewables), and then invest more in thorium research.

Ideally, if we do the small nuclear reactors, we can switch assembly lines from one to the other with relative ease.
Internationalize the grid (which is also good for amortizing renewables), and then invest more in thorium research.

Ideally, if we do the small nuclear reactors, we can switch assembly lines from one to the other with relative ease.
But nuclear meltdowns would have killed a lot of people and made a lot of land uninhabitable.
Reaktor 6: no-code synthesizer (2015)
Better than nothing but it's kind of thing people who would appreciate it would find out anyway, I feel i.e. I'm fairly well read culturally/historically but I've never really studied it formally, and I think I wouldn't be as interested if I did.

I'm curious what sticks if you are led to rather than spontaneously learning.
Your point 1 and 2 are simply untrue, and I wish people would stop repeating them.

Breeder reactors will consume all of those waste products leaving only short term waste. Right now we use barely 1% of the energy in Uranium - all the rest is that terrible waste.

With a breeder reactors we can consume substantially all of it.
In countries of the former USSR, the 90s were a period or rapid decline, with the 2000s being a slow return.
This is correct. But every 4 years, there is a halving.

If the price of Bitcoin were to stay the same after each halving, then mining would be half as profitable so the amount of energy used by Bitcoin miners would drop by half.

In 2012, the amount of new bitcoins issued every 10 minutes dropped from 50 bitcoins to 25. In 2016, it dropped from 25 to 12.5. In the most recent May 11, 2020 halving, the reward dropped from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC per block.

In the 2024 halving, the reward will drop from 6.25 BTC per block to 3.125 BTC.

An unsolved problem with Bitcoin is that in 15-20 years, Bitcoin may no longer be profitable to mine. People speculate that fees will increase. If people have already invested in solar panels, windmills, hydro electric, volcanic energy and already bought their Bitcoin miners, they might just leave them all on. Even if it only earns them a few dollars a day, the opportunity cost could very well be zero.
FB has gotten roasted for doing emotional manipulation in the past: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook.... Not confident that the company trying to specifically target emotions (even ostensibly happiness) would be taken that well.
1. We aren't

2. Everything after the first sentence doesn't make sense. Any system that implements a restricted class of unitaries and features local measurement as described by Born's rule can efficiently solve problems in BQP. We have no reason this should apply to 10 qubits and not 1000.

The theory of quantum mechanics has been completely predictive in materials and has resulted in the most accurate predictions in nature (Anomalous magnetic dipole moment to a part in a trillion.) It doesn't matter if the theory is "Macroscopic" or whatever, it's predictive and within the constraints of its predictions you have known computational power up to problems in BQP. Whether BQP=P is an open question, but as is P=NP.

Known problems are things like wiring, materials science/sources of noise -- eventually including things like cosmic rays. It should work and we have no reason to think it shouldn't due to fundamental limitations of the natural world. It is, however, one of the hardest scientific things humans have ever tried to do so far. To say it'll definitely work is hubristic.
How many hours of storage at nameplate capacity do new solar farms have? 4? 8? 12?

It does sometimes get cloudy for days on end which reduces solar output to about 10-20%.
Yes. This is the discussion we had yesterday, but with more hype.
A large share of the other GHG emitting sectors could also shift to electricity. For example various heating processes in industry and commercial sectors burn fuels such as natural gas and could switch to electricity.

And the externalities of providing energy to electric transportation is very much what we are talking about: where are we getting the power from.
The popcorn and soda are valueadds for both - it’s not like a restaurant gets you to “subscribe” and then tries to convince you to not eat anything.

The buffets may be the closest and they don’t really seem to care at all, because the price differential is so high.

So Spotify is likely undercharging by 50% or more.
I expect the w appeared only in English, as the w is rare in French (that’s why it’s a special case in braille. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille#Derivation).

And indeed, Google gives me ’voyelle’ as the French for vowel.
This is the rub. the compiler is flying completely blind without PGO.

I turned on PGO for the D compiler recently and it compiled it's tests 15% faster. Boom.
> I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

This is my biggest concern as well. However it needs to be balanced against the alternative, which is trusting governments and corporations to deal with climate change in other ways.

A reality check tells us:

1. Governments and corporations have not responded to climate change adequately so far and there is no evidence that this is about to change.

2. Even with the high profile accidents, nuclear power is something we know we can actually do, and has produced fewer excess deaths than coal.

It’s far from ideal, but it is here and it works.
> I wonder how it works with the private banks. […] Did this create $100k?

Central banks do not create money, contrary to popular opinion. Money is created in two ways: by the Treasury/Mint via bills and coins, and via private banks with credit.

See Roche:

> This paper provides a general understanding of the workings of the modern fiat monetary system in the United States within the context of the global economy. The work is primarily descriptive in nature and takes an operational perspective of the monetary system using the understandings of Monetary Realism.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625
More than coal has? Honestly, I kinda doubt it.
Ask the pro-depopulation who should not be allowed to have X+ children. I not those people, how many they maybe, pollute less all together than those blaming population growth.

The issue is not with the population but the few who ruin everything for everyone.
It's more cpython than the GIL, but it lets you get away with using += and certain dict operations without locks.
Can't wait for the nuclear version of Western Europe facing gas shortages because of Russian disputes with Eastern European states their gas pipelines run through, then.
At that point why not give him a considerable raise or company stock and outright tell him how valuable on the grand scale of things his work is?

I just despise how companies expect strategically important workers to stay on the company without raises when it is clear for both parties just how much value they as workers bring to the table, it is insulting
MySQL comes to mind. Unlike Postgres where connections are expensive MySQL encourages loading up the server with hundreds of simultaneous connections per server.

Like anything, it’s possible to split this work out to a separate process but the IPC overhead is a lot.
Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020)
Waste heat from nuclear can also be used for industrial processes. And it’s waste heat. It’s free.
I think it’s more of an illusion of control… you can control your car to some extent like choosing flights that might have better weather that day or something but ultimately nobody thinks they’ll be a statistic until they are. Plenty of people die choosing lower traffic roads too.
Nobody asked to delete population. The challenge is to allow people to access familial planning, make contraception and abortions more widespread in developing countries, and stop or at least reduce pro-natal fiscal policies in the West.

Besides, morality is highly subjective.